Douluo Continent: Newcomer Yuhao, thank you Lan Xuanyu

Chapter 54 Auspicious Beasts and the Silver Dragon King

The three-eyed golden lion stomped its foot angrily, "Emperor... Heaven!"

Since her cultivation level surged a few years ago, breaking through to become a 150,000-year-old soul beast, the Star Dou ferocious beasts, who were already exceptionally fond of the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, now love her even more.

She used to be able to wander around the mixed zone and find some food, but now she's not even allowed to leave the core zone. Moreover, she's always accompanied by the two ferocious beasts, Xiong Jun and Chi Wang, who protect her. This has made the already restless Three-Eyed Golden Lion even more irritable.

In her opinion, it was completely unnecessary; how could she possibly be in danger...?

Originally, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion was only a ten-thousand-year-old soul beast, yet it could rival a one-hundred-thousand-year-old soul beast. Now, it has a cultivation of one hundred and fifty thousand years and has mastered the three ultimate attributes of ultimate light, ultimate fire, and ultimate power. In the Star Dou Great Forest, only Di Tian can reliably defeat it, and even Xiong Jun cannot beat it.

A tall, middle-aged man dressed in black appeared in the black mist surrounding the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, his stern gaze fixed on it.

"Our lord has already spoken. Now is not the time for you to go out. For the future of the entire Soul Beast race, you should stay in this perilous land and cultivate. It won't be too late to go out and play after we have conquered the human world."

"Now, go back to your place obediently!"

The Three-Eyed Golden Lion immediately deflated. Even Di Tian, ​​who had always doted on it, was speaking so harshly, as if there really was no other way.

Forcing our way in? Definitely not, it would cause a conflict with Di Tian.

Just as the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and Di Tian were staring at each other, neither willing to back down, a clear and melodious voice rang out, but it also carried a hint of helplessness.

A peerless, ethereal silver figure suddenly appeared before the two. "Never mind, I'll take you there."

Upon hearing this sound, the three-eyed golden lion's eyes lit up, and its tail swept excitedly across the ground.

The three-eyed golden lion winked defiantly at Di Tian, ​​then excitedly nuzzled against the silver-haired woman, saying, "Thank you, Master!"

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At this moment, Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan were holding hands and carefully moving forward near the mixed zone.

After carefully dodging several soul beasts using his mental detection abilities, Huo Yuhao exclaimed from the bottom of his heart, "...I haven't seen a single soul beast with a cultivation level below a thousand years along the way. The Star Dou Great Forest has become so powerful!"

Zhang Lexuan replied using her mental power: "About four years ago, for some unknown reason, the cultivation level of all the soul beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest suddenly increased several times over."

"This is naturally a good thing for us Soul Masters, because it also means that Soul Beasts with higher cultivation levels can provide Soul Masters with higher-level Soul Rings for advancement."

At this point, Zhang Lexuan gave a wry smile, "We, the so-called top students of Shrek Academy, naturally thought so too. About three years ago, twelve inner court disciples, led by Elder Xuan, entered the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain spirit rings, but soon we lost track of where Elder Xuan went and encountered a 12-year-old spirit beast..."

Huo Yuhao felt a chill run down his spine and pursed his lips. He only knew a little bit about this from Ma Xiaotao and didn't know the whole story.

Then, with a heartbroken voice, Zhang Lexuan told Huo Yuhao the whole story of the source of her pain over the past three years, including why she left the inner courtyard to become a homeroom teacher in the outer courtyard.

"Do you know, Yuhao? This whole thing was indeed caused by Elder Xuan's inaction as the team leader, but in my opinion, the problem lies more with ourselves." As she spoke, Zhang Lexuan gripped Huo Yuhao's hand even tighter. "We, the top students of Shrek Academy, were too naive and arrogant... We thought the Star Dou Great Forest was just a place to provide Soul Rings for Soul Masters to advance, that we were invincible among our peers, and that we had lost the most basic respect for this ancient forest..."

"..."

Huo Yuhao didn't know how to comfort Zhang Lexuan, so he could only hold her hand back with the same force, and at the same time ask the question he had always wanted to ask in his mind.

"Brother Tianmeng, and Old Turtle, what are your thoughts on Soul Masters and Soul Beasts?"

The first sound was Tianmeng's lazy voice, "This should be decided by you humans yourselves."

After a brief pause, the golden hawksbill turtle added:

"Although that sounds a bit too abstract... in my opinion, the battles between soul beasts and you humans might be proof of our existence."

"Proof of existence?"

"Yes..." The golden tortoiseshell had clearly thought about this question long ago. Its voice was deep but exceptionally fluent. "The soul rings and soul bones left after a soul beast dies are proof that we once existed."

"Although I still don't understand why soul beasts seem to be programmed to become the most important part of a soul master's advancement, in my opinion, becoming a soul ring or soul bone is better than just being a corpse after death, letting time rot you away, and then no one remembering you... This is another way of prolonging life."

Tianmeng interrupted Golden Tortoiseshell in time, "Let's not talk about this. Yuhao, fate chose you, perhaps hoping you could make some changes to all of this..."

To be honest, Huo Yuhao couldn't understand what the golden tortoise shell was saying, or rather, the way soul beasts think is fundamentally different from that of humans.

Currently, Huo Yuhao has not killed any soul beasts to obtain soul rings. At most, he has only practiced by fighting virtual soul beasts in the [Douluo World]. Moreover, he has a very deep bond with soul spirit partners such as Tianmeng and the Golden Tortoise.

When Baili Du taught him the Soul Spirit Technique, he excitedly asked, "Can this ability resolve the conflict between humans and Soul Beasts?" Baili Du's expression turned very ugly.

That was the first time he had seen Baili Du's face look so bad... He didn't give himself a clear answer, he just said this.

Nothing in this world is without flaws. No matter how well you do, there will always be someone who criticizes you.

He was too young to understand back then, and now that he's a bit older, he can only understand it with some difficulty.

Let's not reveal the Soul Spirit technology yet... I don't have the ability to resolve the conflict between humans and Soul Beasts right now.

Thinking this, Zhang Lexuan suddenly stopped and her grip on Huo Yuhao's hand turned ice-cold.

Huo Yuhao instinctively looked ahead, and there it was...

A fragment of a red garment, a turquoise Shrek Academy badge, and a storage soul guide belt that was broken in half.

Beside it lay a long knife, split in the middle, lying limply on the ground.

This...this is...