Douluo: Transforming Xiao Wu into a Zerg Queen Was Just the Beginning-Chapter 17: Battle with the 90,000-Year Python – A Mutated Soul Skill

Hisss—!

The ninety-thousand-year python flicked its tongue, its cold vertical pupils narrowing sharply.

Its enormous serpentine body writhed uneasily across the forest floor.

Though only newly sentient, it instinctively understood what the crimson rings behind Xiao Wu represented.

They were the marks of a hundred-thousand-year soul beast!

And there were six of them, glowing behind her like six suns, stacked one above the other—radiating a terrifying aura and a dense killing intent that choked the very air.

Hisssss!

The python roared and opened its mouth wide, unleashing a wave of pressure that rivaled Xiao Wu's.

With tens of thousands of years of survival experience, it knew one thing: when faced with a stronger soul beast, never show weakness.

The greater your intimidation, the more hesitant a powerful enemy might become to make a move. This was how it had survived to nearly one hundred thousand years.

Survival of the fittest. Natural selection.

Unfortunately for it, today... it met Xiao Wu.

No longer the soft and gentle girl—she was now the restructured, apex queen of the Swarm.

The Blade Queen.

Xiao Wu covered her mouth with a sweet, chilling giggle.

"You naughty little snake~ Do I really have to skin you alive?"

Ordinary Soul Emperors with six rings could barely handle soul beasts above the ten-thousand-year level. Only prodigies could just barely manage it.

Of course, that bugged-out protagonist Tang San was an exception.

At level 61, Xiao Wu was indeed a Soul Emperor—but her six soul rings were all hundred-thousand-year class.

Deep within the Hive, Lin Fan watched without blinking, observing the fight between Xiao Wu and the 90,000-year python.

This would be the perfect test of the Blade Queen's combat power.

A 61st-level Soul Emperor versus a 90,000-year soul beast.

If he had to use only regular Zerg units to bring down that python, he'd have to rely on a sneak attack from multiple Spine Crawlers—at least five or more to guarantee a kill.

Suddenly, Xiao Wu's eyes gleamed red—and she made the first move.

Her third soul ring flared:

"Shadow Ambush!"

Originally the teleportation skill "Blink," this soul technique had mutated after her transformation into a Zerg hero.

She vanished from the python's sight.

The python didn't panic. Its crimson tongue flicked rhythmically in the air—searching, tasting vibrations.

There!

It sensed her appear behind it.

Without turning its head, the python lashed its tail like a whip toward her position.

But something felt... off.

A flicker of surprise appeared in its vertical pupils.

"Hehe~ You fell for it~"

Its tail sliced through the air with explosive force—

But hit nothing.

The figure behind it turned into a cloud of black mist and vanished.

Xiao Wu reappeared right in front of the python, her piercing gaze locked onto its eyes like blades.

Shadow Ambush allowed her to send a clone behind the enemy while simultaneously teleporting her true body elsewhere. Her next attack would strike with 200% enhanced power.

Seizing the brief moment of shock, Xiao Wu's second soul ring lit up:

"Queen's Gaze!"

Twin beams of crimson energy shot from her eyes, piercing straight into the python's own.

SCREEEEEEE—!!

The ground shook violently beneath them.

The enormous python slammed its body against the earth in agony, shattering the soil with its armored scales.

Its massive head writhed and flailed. A shockwave of air tore through the nearby forest.

Its once-proud vertical pupils were now shredded—bloody craters leaking crimson.

The beast was blind.

Lin Fan was stunned. Only two skills, and Xiao Wu had left this 90,000-year beast in shambles!

Clearly, he had underestimated the full potential of the Blade Queen.

But even Xiao Wu frowned, her chest heaving slightly as she panted.

Queen's Gaze infused a blast of spiritual energy through her eyes to attack her opponent's soul and vision—disrupting mental focus. And this one had been amplified 200% by the effect of Shadow Ambush.

It had drained nearly half of her soul power.

And still, it had only blinded the python—there was no sign it had taken lasting spiritual damage.

The python roared again, shaken but not defeated. Though blind, it could still perceive its surroundings through its tongue and other senses.

It glared toward Xiao Wu with its ruined sockets, dripping with malice.

A dark aura surged from its body as it slammed its tail into the ground—

A devastating energy shockwave launched toward her. A spectral phantom of the python's head roared forward with the strike.

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Its signature soul skill: Rampaging Earthshock Fang!

Xiao Wu's smile faded into a cold sneer.

Her bone wings folded in front of her like a shield.

BOOOM—!

The shockwave collided with a thunderous crash, shaking the very forest.

Xiao Wu prepared to counterattack, but suddenly clutched her head in pain. A strange look appeared in her eyes.

The python's hidden soul skill — Mind Spike!

This was the key to the python's survival through all these years.

It could condense its vast spiritual energy into a spear and inject it into its opponent's mind, attempting to tear them apart from within. If the opponent's spiritual force was weaker, it would succeed.

The python, proud of its mental prowess, believed itself to have the strongest spiritual power of any soul beast beneath the hundred-thousand-year level.

Its spiritual form surged toward Xiao Wu's mind with confidence.

But Lin Fan, watching from afar, laughed aloud.

"You picked the wrong target, you dumb snake!"

Inside Xiao Wu's mind, the python's spirit was stunned to find itself floating in the midst of a galactic sea.

She stood calmly in the center of this astral maelstrom, staring at it coldly.

Silent. Boundless. Destructive.

"HISSSSSSS—!"

The python shrieked one last time before its spiritual form was swallowed whole by the starlit void.

Its massive body collapsed with a thunderous crash.

A soul ring—black as ink and overflowing with power—slowly rose from its corpse.

Xiao Wu blinked in surprise. She hadn't expected the fight to end this way.

But something else caught her eye.

Beneath the soul ring, a faint blue glow shone through the scattered debris.

She walked over gracefully and picked it up.

It was a head-type soul bone, sparkling with crystalline brilliance and releasing a cool, comforting energy in her palm.

"My Lord, it's a head-type soul bone," Xiao Wu reported through the Zerg mental network.

Lin Fan's voice echoed back: "I see. Good work, Xiao Wu. Bring the body and the soul bone back."

"As you command, my Lord."

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