Yu Xiaogang Gets an Angry Rebuke: What the Hell Do You Know About Soul Beasts? (Two-in-One) Please Request More Updates!

Xiang Bei and the Soul Beasts, including the Scarlet King, remained locked in a standoff in the Star Dou Great Forest. Xiang Bei looked completely relaxed, as though he hadn't a care in the world.

From what I know of Di Tian, he won't allow a human to destroy the Star Dou Great Forest, especially when his opponent is a Soul King like me.

Xiang Bei thought to himself, gazing toward the Lake of Life deep within the forest.

After all... the Silver Dragon King is sleeping in there.

Xiong Jun panted with fury. He felt that he could send the ant before him to a death without a burial place with a mere flick of his finger, yet the threat of the Fixed Soul Cannon Shell kept him from moving.

Unable to kill him and unwilling to let him go, Xiong Jun felt utterly miserable.

Rumble!!

Peals of thunder sounded as half the sky over the Star Dou Great Forest darkened. Black clouds blanketed one side of the sky, and a savage black dragon's head with golden eyes rose and fell among them.

The terrifying pressure forced nearby Shrek City to activate its Soul Tool defensive barrier at full strength, and beeping alarms sounded everywhere.

A golden Radiant Sacred Dragon flew out of Shrek City and transformed into Mu En in midair.

"Di Tian, what are you planning?"

Di Tian lowered his eyes and glanced casually at Xiang Bei on the ground before looking away.

"Nothing much. Shrek has enjoyed peace and quiet for too long. Xiong Jun, unleash a beast tide and attack the city."

"Hahaha! It's long past time, Di Tian." Xiong Jun rubbed his hands together, eager to get started.

On the ground.

The Three-Eyed Golden Lion looked at Xiang Bei and shouted, "Kid, why aren't you leaving? Are you waiting to stay for dinner?"

As the embodiment of the Star Dou Great Forest's destiny, she couldn't wait for this fellow to leave.

Xiang Bei said nothing. He put away the Soul Cannon Shell, turned, and fled at flying speed, using seven or eight Soul Tool Thrusters alone.

"Holy crap!!!"

Tian Meng's startled cry rang out in his mind. "Bro! You're my bro."

"Boo-hoo-hoo, Di Tian and those other fellows used me as a blood bag every day for so many years. I never thought I'd live to see the day Di Tian got the worst of it."

"Ahahaha, thirty thousand years east of the river, thirty thousand years west of the river. I, Tian Meng, will be back!"

"Whew!" Xiang Bei stopped in Shrek City, panting heavily as he looked at Xuan Zi, Xian Lin'er, Jiang Nannan, Ma Xiaotao, and the others who had come to meet him.

Facing the pressure of three of the Star Dou Great Forest's Ferocious Beasts head-on had been an immense burden on him too. If Tian Meng hadn't opened up his Sea of Consciousness, he might well have been unable to withstand it on the spot.

Douluo Continent.

Spirit City.

Worship Hall.

"A Million-Year Soul Beast!!!" Golden Crocodile Douluo cried out in the Worship Hall. "A Million-Year Soul Beast has never appeared on the continent before. This is the first million-year Ice Silkworm I've ever seen. I wonder how powerful a Million-Year Soul Ring would be?"

"I don't know, but for a Soul Beast to cultivate for a million years must be extraordinarily difficult." Qian Daoliu shook his head to himself.

"However..."

"Xiao Xue is in the Heaven Dou Empire right now, not far from the Star Dou Great Forest. Judging by what's on the sky screen, this million-year Ice Silkworm is in a weakened state. Although it has the Mental Attribute,

"at a million years old, its attribute no longer matters. We must have Xiao Xue obtain this Soul Beast, to lay another brick on her path to the angel godhood."

Golden light shot from Qian Daoliu's eyes.

"But, Great Enshrined, according to Jiang Mo, Di Tian, the Soul Beast at the heart of the Star Dou Great Forest, is extremely powerful, and he has other Ferocious Beasts helping him. Even if we marshaled all the strength of Spirit Hall, capturing him would be no easy matter.

"Besides..." Golden Crocodile Douluo surreptitiously looked up to study Qian Daoliu's expression.

He knew full well that the Great Enshrined guarded the Angel Temple and would never take a step outside it in this lifetime. Without the Great Enshrined's help, who could deal with that Golden-Eyed Black Dragon?

"Xiao Xue has been clever and patient since childhood, and her talent is exceptional: level-twenty Innate Full Soul Power. She is surely the most likely candidate to receive that Million-Year Soul Beast's sacrifice!"

Shrek Academy.

"A million years!? It's actually a million years old? What kind of dogshit luck is that!"

Yu Xiaogang muttered to himself as he walked along the road.

At that moment, the various factions were discussing the scene on the sky screen.

Ning Fengzhi: "So this Ice Silkworm is actually a Million-Year Soul Beast? Grandmaster was mistaken."

Dugu Bo: "What Grandmaster? How dare he make pronouncements about things he's never seen? He was nothing more than a pretty face in his younger days. I saw his true colors long ago. He's nothing but a petty man."

Yu Xiaogang was furious when he saw that. I respectfully call you Poison Douluo when we meet in person, but why the hell should I give you face on the sky screen?

"Who but a sage is without fault? Dugu Bo, have you never made a mistake?"

"Besides, a Million-Year Soul Beast has never appeared on the continent. I'm the only one who's even read a few scattered references to them in ancient texts."

Qian Daoliu: "You actually know something about Million-Year Soul Beasts? But you're only a Soul Grandmaster. I'd be afraid of blowing you to death with a breath."

Yu Xiaogang had been gloating over Qian Daoliu's surprise, but when he saw the rest of the message, he nearly spat out a mouthful of old blood.

He argued, "As I understand it, Soul Beasts must undergo a heavenly tribulation every hundred thousand years. After ten tribulations, they reach a million years. Their bodies attain the realm of gods, and they can become gods directly. Their Soul Rings come with four Soul Skills, and their strength generally exceeds that of a Limit Douluo! A million years is the end of a Soul Beast's cultivation. Once one appears, no one on the continent can match it!"

Di Tian: "Nonsense. There's a heavenly tribulation every hundred thousand years, and after nine comes the threshold of a million years. Even if a Soul Beast truly reaches a million years, it still can't become a god! By my reckoning, even at a million years, it would be no more than a demigod."

"I'm a master of Martial Soul Theory, and you dare question me?"

Yu Xiaogang furiously posted the question on the sky screen.

In the Star Dou Great Forest, Di Tian was so angry he laughed.

What an ignorant, foolish human. If he hadn't wanted to keep them from looking down on the million-year level and losing their reverence for it, he wouldn't have bothered responding.

His lord had once said that humans were foremost among all living things, and that the future path for Soul Beasts lay among humans.

"Hah! If all humans are like this Yu Xiaogang, I really can't see where that path is."

Tang San: "This Ice Silkworm looks rather weak, which doesn't match its cultivation. Also, if it really is a million years old, how was it captured alive? How did it even end up sacrificing itself to a Soul King?"

Dugu Bo: "Little Poison has a point. He's a lot better than that teacher of yours."

Yu Xiaogang ground his teeth in hatred. "Xiao San, you don't believe me?"

"Teacher, I'm only speaking the truth. There really are many suspicious things about it."

Tang San countered helplessly. Under Yu Xiaogang's instruction, he had successfully broken through the level-thirty barrier and obtained a top-grade, three-thousand-year Soul Ring.

But apart from cultivating, all he did was cultivate. He had become a good-for-nothing with nothing but cultivation. He had no life-and-death trials, no danger, and even when it came to obtaining Soul Rings, people brought dying Soul Beasts right to his door.

Such treatment

was beyond the imagination of the Tang San who had once lived in Holy Soul Village with his drunkard father, who had been no better than a beggar.

He had been treated entirely as a tool, a tool to prove that Yu Xiaogang could teach a god.

"You... even you..." Seeing the disappointment in his disciple's eyes, Yu Xiaogang took a deep breath. "Xiao San, has your teacher done something wrong? Tell me, and I'll correct it."

"Teacher!" Tang San raised his voice.

"The truth is..."

"I understand. From now on, cultivate as you see fit. I've been too strict with you."

That was what Yu Xiaogang said to his face, but once he reached a place where Tang San couldn't see him, his expression suddenly turned savage. "Even you question me? Has your cultivation as a Soul Grandmaster made you think you no longer need to respect me as your teacher?"

"Damn it! If only there were a way to raise my Soul Master level, I'd pay any price!"

On the sky screen.

Di Tian: "I've lived for hundreds of thousands of years and seen countless Soul Beasts. The difference in strength between million-year Soul Beasts of different bloodlines can be as vast as heaven and earth. Don't judge Soul Beasts through human eyes.

"Besides, you're a human who's barely even seen a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast a few times, yet you dare use your so-called theories to spout nonsense about the million-year level here. Utterly laughable."

Yu Xiaogang was so furious that he stamped his feet, itching to curse him out on the sky screen.

But when he thought of who his opponent was, he couldn't help holding back for fear of the consequences, so he pressured Tang San instead.

"Xiao San, when you become a god in the future, you must kill this Golden-Eyed Black Dragon and take his Soul Ring, to help your teacher vent this bitter anger."

On the sky screen,

Xiang Bei returned safely to Shrek City with the Million-Year Soul Ring.

Afterward,

the beast tide erupted. Four of the ten great Ferocious Beasts came out, while Di Tian and Mu En kept watch on each other, neither side making a move.

"Xiao Meng, Nannan, the beast tide is coming. Stay behind me in a moment, and be careful."

Xiang Bei spoke to the two women. As for Ma Xiaotao, her strength was comparable to an Eight-Ring Soul Douluo's; it wasn't his place to worry about her.

Xu Sanshi spoke up. "I... I have an ultimate defense Martial Soul. I can be of more help to you."

"Didn't your teacher tell you? The best defense is a good offense." Xiang Bei shot him a sidelong glance.

"Follow me. We're going outside the city to meet the enemy."

Outside the city.

Soul Beasts of every description formed a tide of flesh that threatened to engulf the entire city.

In the sky, the teachers faced the powerful Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts.

Xuan Zi sought out Xiong Jun, and the Godly Taotie Bull and Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear grappled madly in midair.

"Xiao Yu, take over access to the Storage Soul Tool and establish a Soul Tool defensive position. Connect to the Soul Tool Satellite, build a model based on the density of the Soul Beast distribution and the likelihood of them crossing the artillery blockade, and work out the optimal fire deployment plan."

Xiang Bei spoke without looking back. His words left both Meng Hongchen and Jiang Nannan utterly bewildered.

They wondered if they had secretly fallen asleep in class.

"Yes, Master."

Clack, clack!

With the grating sound of metal unfolding and locking into place, a Soul Tool position spanning a full thousand square meters spread out beyond the city. The sheer variety of Defensive Soul Tools was dazzling.

Among them,

the most numerous were Level 5 Fixed Soul Tool Turrets. Ordinary Level 5 Soul Engineers were limited by their mental power and could control no more than a hundred Soul Tool Turrets at most.

But there were more than a thousand here!

With the terrifying production capacity of assembly lines and lithography machines, plus fully automated assembly and manufacturing by an intelligent AI system, even Xiang Bei himself didn't know how many weapons were packed into his Storage Soul Tool.

Ten simple assembly lines were set up, feeding batches of Level 5 Fixed Soul Cannon Shells continuously into the turrets.

Under normal circumstances, only a Level 5 Soul Engineer could independently make a Level 5 Fixed Soul Cannon Shell. Production was slow and costs were high, while its power was comparable to a full-strength strike from a Soul Saint.

Xiang Bei's factory in Mingde Hall had already achieved mass production!

"Oh, right, Xiang Bei. According to Shrek's rules, Soul Beasts killed during a beast tide can be exchanged for rewards within the academy. Mingde Hall's students should be eligible too."

Jiang Nannan reminded him.

Xiang Bei didn't respond. He simply activated Spiritual Detection Sharing, connecting invisible mental threads to Jiang Nannan and Meng Hongchen and sharing the information detected by the Soul Tool Satellite with them.

"Ten o'clock! A Mandala Snake with eight thousand years of cultivation has broken through the defensive line!"

Xiao Yu called out a warning.

The next second.

As though her words had made it happen, the Mandala Snake swung its body into the position, opened its jaws, and swallowed an outer-court student whole.

Boom!

Several shells fired in a volley, blasting the Mandala Snake into chunks of flesh across the ground. A Soul Ring rose slowly from the remains, laden with such extreme resentment that its fury could be felt from far away.

Boom, boom, boom!!!

More than a thousand Soul Tool Turrets fired continuously. Not a single Soul Beast could break through the defensive line Xiang Bei had established.

Xian Lin'er stood on the city wall in support. She glanced over at Xiang Bei and was instantly astounded.

"Th-this is a person?"

"At least dozens of Soul Tools are working together, yet there's no sense of delay. It's as though he's controlling his own limbs. And have you noticed? His Soul Tool Turrets seem to have eyes. They always lock onto the Soul Beasts that escape the blockade immediately."

Elder Song, a Super Douluo, had come to stand beside her wife Xian Lin'er without her noticing. She spoke in a grave tone.

"That's right. With him there, the inner-court students and teachers have a lot less pressure rushing around to put out fires. Mingde Hall's Soul Tool development..." Even as she rejoiced, Xian Lin'er quickly realized a terrifying fact.

Xiang Bei was currently an exchange student, and the Soul Tool capabilities he had displayed alone were enough to make people shudder. Heaven only knew how much Soul Tool research remained unknown within Mingde Hall.

"That level of observation has already surpassed human limits."

Elder Song shook her head inwardly. Her title was Divine Eagle, and her eyesight was exceptional, yet even she couldn't match Xiang Bei.

"It's said he has an intelligent AI system called Xiao Yu, and that it also involves things like lithography machines, chips, and computer rooms. The Soul Tool Department has never encountered any of them. It's as though... as though they're products that don't belong to this world."

Xian Lin'er felt a profound sense of alienation.

On the battlefield below,

Ma Xiaotao was unstoppable. Phoenix Flame covered her body, burning so fiercely that Soul Beasts fled far from her. Some had even begun actively avoiding her.

"Phoenix Meteor Shower!!"

With a shout, dozens of enormous fireballs wreathed in black Qi formed around her and hurtled toward the Soul Beasts below amid the howling wind.

Bang!

The fireballs slammed into the tide of Soul Beasts below. The flames were so hot that the beasts struck by them were reduced to ash before they could even scream.

The flames continued to burn, carving dozens of holes three meters across in the beast tide. The ground shimmered with a glassy sheen.

Huff!

Huff!

Ma Xiaotao's chest heaved violently as she panted, fragrant sweat trickling down her neck. After fighting battle after battle, using her sixth Soul Skill was a considerable burden even for her.

The crisis here is more or less over. I wonder how that fellow Xiang Bei is doing. Soul Engineers have always been physically fragile. He'd better not die.

Ma Xiaotao thought, If he dies, where am I supposed to find another person with Ultimate Ice?

With that thought,

she flew toward Xiang Bei. From a distance, she saw a vast scene that left her dumbstruck.

"Wait, what?"