Ye Lei had not known it himself, but the concerns in his heart had become reality.
Within Huaxia's borders.
Kunlun Mountains Valley, Dark Forbidden Zone.
In the vast Dark Forest, three humans who were utterly out of place had appeared openly.
If Ye Lei and the others had been there, they would have recognized two of the three humans as old acquaintances: Puppet Second Elder and Demon Qin Eighth Elder. The one those two elders followed was the Muscular White-Bearded Old Man.
The true identity of this white-bearded old man was the Great Elder, someone Ye Lei and the others had never dealt with over all these years.
The reason these three elders had come to the Dark Forbidden Zone today was to hunt a 400,000-year Dark Attribute soul beast.
As for who would absorb the Soul Ring and Soul Bone produced by this 400,000-year soul beast, there was only one answer: the Great Elder, whose Soul Power Level was the highest among the three.
At that moment, the Great Elder sat cross-legged atop the head of a dragon-type soul beast. Eight Soul Rings—one yellow, one purple, three black, and three red—silently circled his waist, while a blood-colored Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast ring rose and fell in the air.
Puppet Elder and Magic Qin Elder sat cross-legged to the Great Elder's left and right, guarding him. Yet despite being Soul Douluo-level powerhouses, they could not endure for long the terrifying power of corruption radiating from him.
The Great Elder's martial soul was a supreme dark martial soul known as the Fallen Demon King. It was exceptionally domineering and powerful; to cultivate it, one had to devour the lives of vast numbers of soul beasts in order to increase one's cultivation.
Though the Great Elder appeared kind and amiable, the methods he