The welcome gifts had been given, and everyone had become acquainted. The ferocious beasts went their separate ways. They had known each other for who knew how many years already; none of them had the leisure or refinement to gather around and play mahjong.
Unless Lin Yun or Di Tian took the initiative to summon them, they each lived their own lives.
"Honored One, I need to return to the Extreme North," Ice Empress suddenly said to Lin Yun after the other ferocious beasts had left.
"Hm? Why?" Lin Yun looked at Ice Empress in confusion.
"Because this little one is about to reach a hundred thousand years." Ice Empress lifted the Qing'er hanging from her tail, her face carrying a smile of both helplessness and delight. "The hundred-thousand-year threshold is extremely important for soul beasts. Passing it will bring earth-shaking changes to a soul beast."
"To put it more concretely, it is a bloodline evolution. Even among soul beasts of the same race, those above and below a hundred thousand years can practically be considered two entirely different kinds of soul beast. While the Star Dou Great Forest is indeed relatively safe, the environment most suited to the evolution of our Ice Jade Scorpion clan is still the extreme cold of the Extreme North. Only there can Qing'er's ice attribute undergo its greatest transformation."
"A hundred thousand years... so soon?" Lin Yun barely registered Ice Empress's other words. He knew that soul beasts underwent changes upon reaching the hundred-thousand-year level.
A weakling like the Soft Bone Rabbit could stand alongside the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape in the world setting of the first Douluo after breaking through to the hundred-thousand-year level. Although that undoubtedly had something to do with some bastard forcibly turning on cheats and