Golza Emerges, Shocking Bibi Dong
As soon as the system's notification sounded, Qian Lingye felt a beam of light fly into his body.
In an instant, a picture appeared suspended deep within his soul. In it, a monster radiating brutality and scorching heat floated silently.
The wildly raging pressure made Qian Lingye's heart pound.
It was too powerful. Golza's presence surpassed that of every Soul Beast he had ever seen.
Let alone thousand-year Soul Beasts-even ten-thousand-year Soul Beasts, perhaps even hundred-thousand-year Soul Beasts, couldn't compare!
What was more, Qian Lingye could feel that a deep connection had formed between him and Golza.
Though Golza had a mind of his own, he obeyed Qian Lingye's will completely.
Such a badass Soul Beast belonged entirely to me now? He would follow my every command?
Qian Lingye felt a sudden sense of unreality.
He was a level-zero Soul Master, yet he could control a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast. Nobody would believe him if he told them.
This lottery function was fucking heaven-defying.
"System, will the rewards from every future draw be this powerful?"
[Yes, host. Golza is only the beginning. As your strength increases and you make more draws, the rewards will become more and more generous.] [Ultra-ancient monsters, space monsters, dimensional monsters... a vast number of super-powerful monsters are waiting for you to unlock them.]
Qian Lingye's breathing grew heavy. The more he heard, the more excited and exhilarated he became.
The names of all kinds of powerful monsters began to surface in his mind unbidden.
Silvergon, Yapool, Gatanothor, Hyper Zetton, Juda, Dark Zagi...
If I could bring all those things to the Douluo Continent...
Hundred-thousand-year Soul Beasts would be all over the continent.
That scene would be utterly insane.
But after giving it some thought, Qian Lingye decided to keep a low profile for now. He couldn't tell anyone, and he couldn't expose himself.
Although he could control Golza, his own body was still weak as a chicken. That was a fatal weakness.
His current role was more like that of a beast tamer: the puppet stood in the open, while he controlled it from the shadows.
Keep a low profile and control the board from behind the scenes.
That was the way to go.
There was another reason.
At present, Soul Beasts and humans were still broadly at odds with one another.
If others learned he could control Soul Beasts, there was no telling what they would think.
Especially since he was in Spirit Hall...
So Qian Lingye laid down a rule for himself: until he had grown strong, he absolutely could not reveal his identity to anyone.
"OK, now I can do the first mission."
Qian Lingye stirred his thoughts.
He looked north and focused his attention. A dark, gloomy light flowed through his eyes.
The next moment, Golza vanished from his sea of consciousness.
At the same time, a spatial rift dozens of meters long suddenly split open out of thin air above the Star Dou Great Forest.
A claw reached out and gripped the edge of the rift. Immediately afterward, a massive dark-red figure crawled through and landed heavily on the ground, crushing it into a depression.
"Roar!"
Golza roared thunderously and unleashed his full power.
A terrifying presence swept out in every direction. Soul Beasts for dozens of miles around scattered like birds and beasts, fleeing in terror.
And it wasn't just the Star Dou Forest that was affected.
The entire north was shrouded by that terrifying presence.
Every Soul Beast felt that strange and terrifying power.
That undisguised, domineering presence was like a provocation, and also like a show of force, leaving every Soul Beast in the north on edge.
The experts in every major human city also sensed the strange and powerful presence of a Soul Beast at the same time.
In an instant, the cities across the north sounded a level-one alert!
Scouts from all the major sects and factions set out together, while the sects fell into chaos from top to bottom.
Spirit Hall, the Pope's Hall.
Bibi Dong sat high upon her throne, her perfect figure wrapped in a splendid purple gown. The heels of her golden shoes tapped out a gentle rhythm on the red carpet.
Beneath her purple-gold crown, her breathtakingly beautiful face was turned toward the reports submitted to her, which she read with an absent air.
She looked somewhat languid, yet she radiated dignity and composure at every moment.
Inside the hall, dozens of Spirit Hall's high-ranking members stood with their heads lowered and backs straight, perfectly motionless. None dared make a careless movement, and Bibi Dong's languid manner did not inspire the slightest disrespect in them.
For the woman seated before them was the Pope of Spirit Hall, the supreme leader of humanity's Soul Masters, and the only level-99 Limit Douluo alive today—the strongest combatant of the age.
"Report!"
Just then, a hurried voice rang out.
A Spirit Hall deacon came running in, panic-stricken.
Bibi Dong frowned slightly. "What is it? Why are you in such a hurry?"
The deacon said urgently, "Your Holiness, an urgent report has come from Black Iron City. The presence of an unfamiliar hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast has been detected deep in the Star Dou Great Forest! It's on the move!"
The hall erupted into an uproar at his words.
"A hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast? Could the Sky Azure Bull Python have come out to stir up trouble?"
"You dumbass, weren't you listening? He said it was an unfamiliar hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast. Unfamiliar, newly appeared."
"Oh, come on. How could that be? How many years has it been since a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast appeared? The ones on the continent are basically all on record."
Bibi Dong idly twirled a strand of hair around her slender finger, a hint of curiosity appearing on her face.
The birth of a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast was exceedingly rare.
At present, Spirit Hall had only a few dozen on record.
Every one of them was immensely powerful, difficult even for an ordinary Titled Douluo to handle.
They either lurked in their own territories, where no one could find them, or were so powerful that no one dared provoke them.
There were some among them that even she regarded with considerable wariness.
All the same, the allure of a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast was deadly to Soul Masters.
A Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring alone was something any Soul Master could encounter only by chance, never obtain by seeking.
Besides the Soul Ring, there was the Soul Bone of a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast, which was several times more precious than the ring!
For that reason, whenever news of a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast surfaced, it drew the attention of every faction on the Douluo Continent.
Bibi Dong asked mildly, "Is there any information about that Soul Beast?"
The deacon replied respectfully, "There are no details at present, but we can confirm that it is a fire-attribute Soul Beast that has never appeared before."
Chrysanthemum Douluo gave a wicked smile and cupped his hands. "Your Holiness the Pope, I suggest we send someone to investigate at once. A hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast is a matter of great importance and is bound to attract the attention of many factions."
Ghost Douluo also stepped forward. "I agree. We have patrol teams and a youth training team stationed near the Star Dou Forest. Miss Hu Liena is there as well. If we let that Soul Beast wreak havoc unchecked, it might well cause unnecessary casualties."
Bibi Dong considered it, then nodded. "Very well. Prepare a boat. This time, I intend to go personally!"
A hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast alone would not have been enough to make Bibi Dong set out in person.
But with Hu Liena there, Bibi Dong had no choice but to make the trip herself. It would also be a good opportunity to assess the results of her disciple's cultivation.