radicalducati Chapter 81 Star Dou Great Forest
Chapter 81 Star Dou Great Forest
Chapter 81 Star Dou Great Forest
And so, the two rode in a carriage to Sunset Forest.
This was the second time the two had visited Sunset Forest, so they seemed quite familiar with the place.
But I wonder if I was just having particularly bad luck this time? I spent seven or eight days in Sunset Forest and still couldn't find a suitable soul beast.
It's either that the age limit is too low, or the quality of the soul beast is too poor. According to Yang Podi's own estimation, he can absorb soul beasts within 10,000 years old, especially since his third soul ring is already 4000 years old. Moreover, he also consumed a piece of top-grade whale glue to enhance his physique. According to the original novel, just a piece of thousand-year whale glue can increase the body's tolerance for 500-year soul rings.
What he absorbed was whale glue that had been stored for 5 years, the finest of whale glue.
After discussing it for a while, the two finally decided to go to the Star Dou Great Forest.
However, the Star Dou Great Forest was quite far away, and it took the two of them about six or seven days to arrive by carriage.
When the two entered the Star Dou Great Forest, Yang Podi felt that the atmosphere of the Star Dou Great Forest was completely different from that of the Sunset Forest. The life force here was much stronger, and there were significantly more trees and various kinds of animals and spirit beasts.
Even the simple trees, many of them are hundreds of meters tall, with trunks several meters in diameter or even larger. They are much more beautiful than those popular tourist attractions from my previous life.
The father, Yang Zhentian, also emphasized: "Son, in terms of the number and types of soul beasts, the Star Dou Great Forest far surpasses other soul beast forests. However, it is also far more dangerous than other soul beast forests. You must know that the Star Dou Great Forest spans the two great empires of the Heaven Dou Empire and the Star Luo Empire. No force in the world can conquer the Star Dou Great Forest."
"Especially the core area of the Star Dou Great Forest, which is known as the forbidden zone of life. Even titled Douluo dare not go too deep, so we must be especially careful."
Upon entering the Star Dou Great Forest, Yang Zhentian, the father, produced a map of the forest from who-knows-where. The map roughly divided the forest into several areas, including a 200-kilometer outer area, a 500-kilometer mixed area, and a 200-kilometer core area. The 50-kilometer area in the center of the core area was known as the forbidden zone for life.
The outer area generally contains soul beasts under ten thousand years old, while the mixed area contains soul beasts of one hundred, one thousand, and ten thousand years old, but not many of very high age. The core area is dominated by soul beasts over thirty thousand years old. The forbidden zone of life has never been explored; it is estimated to be the Lake of Life. (The original work does not specify the exact size of the Star Dou Great Forest, only the size of the Barak Kingdom. After all, it is a fantasy world; a kingdom is roughly 1000 kilometers long and wide, about one-tenth the size of China.)
"Break the enemy, this time we are going to the mixed area of the Star Dou Great Forest. All kinds of soul beasts are widely distributed there. There are hundreds, thousands, and tens of thousands of years old soul beasts. And there are many of them. Occasionally, even very high-age soul beasts will run out. So you must stay by my side at all times and don't run around."
Yang Podi, after looking at the map, couldn't help but ask, "Dad, why is one-third of the Star Dou Great Forest in the Heaven Dou Empire and two-thirds in the Star Luo Empire?"
"That's because neither the Heaven Dou Empire nor the Star Luo Empire can completely conquer the Star Dou Great Forest. Even the strongest experts are prone to dying in the Great Forest. As far as I know, in the last hundred years, six or seven Title Douluo have died in the Star Dou Great Forest. Even the Haotian Sect lost an elder in the Star Dou Great Forest."
"As for other forces, the number of deaths, both overt and covert, is likely to be even greater."
Just as Dad said, the Star Dou Great Forest was indeed full of endless dangers. It took the two of them almost three days to travel just the two hundred kilometers of the outer area. During the journey, they were attacked by soul beasts many times, and some of these soul beasts were extremely rare, even top-grade soul beasts, but unfortunately, they were too young.
After entering the mixed zone, the two became even more cautious, since they could encounter ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts at any time.
That night, Yang Zhentian, the father, found an open space and scattered some powerful soul beast droppings around it before the two of them went to rest.
"Dad, why don't we pitch a tent?"
"Po Di, remember this: in the Star Dou Great Forest, tents will block our view, which will cause great danger, especially at night when many powerful soul beasts will come out to roam."
The two sat down to rest, but did not sleep, as no one dared to sleep in the Star Dou Great Forest.
As the night wore on, Yang Podi sensed something was amiss. The sounds of insects chirping and animals roaring had diminished considerably, which seemed rather unusual.
"Dad, don't you think something's off? It's much quieter than before, isn't it?"
"It's definitely much quieter now that we've broken through the enemy lines. I'm afraid some kind of soul beast is eyeing us."
The two of them stayed in the same spot when they weren't moving.
Suddenly, the scene before Yang Podi changed drastically. He should have been in the Star Dou Great Forest, but now he had returned to the era of Blue Star in his previous life. What came into view were some of his past events, including how he came to Douluo Continent, and even the time he spent with Ye Lingling that night...
As I delved deeper and thought more, I found myself in a dazed state, as if in a dream.
At that moment, the scene changed rapidly, and what came into view was a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, with bodies everywhere. The location at this time was Qingyuan Mountain, the residence of the Po clan.
His father and two grandfathers were fighting bloody battles, but there were many more enemies. Countless enemies surrounded the entire Po clan, led by several titled Douluo. Two of them looked familiar, namely the Serpent Spear Douluo and the Spirit Phoenix Douluo who destroyed the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School.
Judging from the situation, it seemed that the Spirit Hall had dispatched a large army to besiege the Broken Clan, and countless people he knew were already lying in pools of blood, including his sister and mother.
Suddenly, it seemed as if a powerful Soul-Shattering Spear pierced his mind, shattering the scene before him and turning it into fragments, plunging him into endless darkness.
Immediately afterwards, Yang Podi spat out a mouthful of blood and then fainted.
Yang Zhentian hugged his son tightly and quickly left the place, while he seemed to be holding something in his other hand.
When Yang Podi woke up again, it was already noon the next day, and the sunlight was particularly dazzling on him.
Moreover, his whole body seemed to be very sore, as if he had been tortured, and his mental state was extremely poor, as if he had gone through a life-or-death struggle.
(End of this chapter)