Beast Descends

Gu Yue was furious. As the dignified Master of Soul Beasts, she had actually been injured by a mere Ten-Year Soul Beast. If Di Tian and the others found out, how would she have the face to command them in the future?

As the Master of Soul Beasts, Gu Yue was undoubtedly at the absolute peak in both combat awareness and combat techniques. Xia Yi had only managed to hurt her because she had been distracted by thoughts of Tang Wulin, and because she had not been on guard against Xia Yi before.

Now that she was prepared, her First Soul Ring lit up, and Fire Element instantly covered both her hands. She reached back to grab Xia Yi, who was still clinging to her back.

"This human is terrifying. She only has two rings, yet she's more than twice as strong as that Three-Ring human from a year ago!" Xia Yi was shocked. He had never expected Gu Yue to evade his fatal strike just now despite being completely unprepared.

He knew exactly what he was capable of. The instant Gu Yue's First Soul Ring lit up, he leaped off her back, sprang into the nearby bushes, and fled, causing her palm strike to miss.

"Trying to run now? Too late! I'll skin you and make you into a scarf." Gu Yue ground her silver teeth. Wind swirled beneath her feet, and she was several levels faster than Xia Yi. In an instant, she caught up to him.

Fireballs condensed from Fire Element shot from her palms. Under her exquisite control, no matter how Xia Yi dodged, the fireballs seemed to have tracking on them and remained close behind him.

"Humans really are terrifying. Only two rings, and she's already this powerful. I've run into an iron plate this time!" Xia Yi cursed inwardly. He could tell that this woman was toying with him. If she had truly intended to kill him, those fireballs would have already landed on him.

Before Gu Yue could use her full strength, Xia Yi accelerated, grabbed a vine, and swung away.

"Are you a monkey?" Gu Yue froze for a moment, then quickly smiled. "I'll play along with you!"

The fireballs continued pursuing Xia Yi, but Gu Yue herself grabbed a vine and swung out, copying his movements. Not only was she incredibly fast, her body also seemed even more nimble than Xia Yi's.

She drifted through the air like an Elf and quickly caught up with Xia Yi again.

But Gu Yue soon tasted the consequences of imitating Xia Yi. As she switched vines with both hands in midair, a massive log more than a person thick suddenly appeared in front of her and slammed straight toward her.

"I've fallen into a trap!" Gu Yue cried out in alarm. The timing of the log was perfect. At the exact moment when her front hand was about to grab the vine ahead while her back hand was preparing to release the vine behind, both hands were caught between exerting and withdrawing force. It was difficult for her to free a hand to block the incoming log.

Left with no choice, Gu Yue released both hands and let herself fall. At the same time, she leaned backward, flattening herself in midair, barely avoiding the oncoming log.

Watching the enormous log whistle past directly over her head, Gu Yue let out a heavy sigh of relief. If that had hit her face, disfigurement would have been the least of her worries.

"That didn't work either!" Xia Yi was stunned as well. He had not expected Gu Yue to evade his trap even without anything to push off from in midair.

"I'm going for it!" Xia Yi made his decision without hesitation. He grabbed a vine and swung backward, then leaped down at the flat-lying Gu Yue. His two front claws immediately locked tightly around her right ankle.

"Ah!" Gu Yue screamed again. Xia Yi's sharp claws had pierced the skin around her ankle and embedded themselves in her flesh.

This time, it was not Xia Yi's fault. His claws were too small; otherwise, he would not have been able to hold onto Gu Yue's foot at all.

The intense pain made Gu Yue lose focus once again. In that instant of distraction—

Xia Yi grabbed her right foot and began spinning. After accelerating through one turn, utterly lacking any tenderness toward women, he viciously smashed her head into a nearby tree.

With a bang, the tree shook violently, its leaves rustling down in a shower.

"This strength—it isn't inferior to Tang Wulin's!" Gu Yue was instantly dazed by the impact. The only thing she could feel was the immense force coming from Xia Yi's claws. She was not making a fuss over nothing; Xia Yi's strength was truly terrifying. Gu Yue knew very well what it meant for him to be no weaker than Tang Wulin.

Tang Wulin possessed the pure Golden Dragon King Bloodline.

And Tang Wulin's cultivation was far higher than Xia Yi's.

In other words, if their cultivation levels were equal, Xia Yi's strength could completely crush Tang Wulin, even with his Golden Dragon King Bloodline.

As the Silver Dragon King, Gu Yue would never believe that any Soul Beast could possess strength surpassing the Golden Dragon King.

Yet the force coming from below forced her to believe it.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

A rapid series of impacts rang out like rain striking plantain leaves. After landing a successful blow, Xia Yi pressed his advantage without mercy.

While Gu Yue's head was still slightly muddled, he grabbed her ankle again and swung her around, smashing her violently against the ground from side to side.

Anyone who saw this scene would be too shocked for words.

A White Fox roughly the size of a house cat was actually holding a human and smashing her against the ground, making even the dust on the earth tremble.

It was hard to imagine how much terrifying power was hidden within his tiny body. He was so strong that swinging a person around was as easy as swinging a straw dummy.

Xia Yi's strength was indeed terrifyingly great, but Gu Yue's Spiritual Power was just as terrifying. Even with strength surpassing the Golden Dragon King's, Xia Yi had to smash her more than twenty times before knocking her unconscious. A huge crater had been smashed into the ground.

By then, Gu Yue's head was already split open and bleeding, with not a patch of intact skin left on it. Yet Xia Yi showed no mercy at all. After setting her down, he jumped onto her chest, opened his mouth, and bit toward her neck.

"Huh! It smells so good!" Only when the blood entered his mouth did Xia Yi realize that Gu Yue's blood carried none of the usual bloody stench. Instead, it had a rich, fragrant aroma and an incomparably delicious taste.

It surpassed every delicacy he had tasted in his ten years as a fox.

It was countless times tastier than roasted Soft Bone Rabbit.

Xia Yi instantly became intoxicated by it and began greedily sucking. He even forgot to take the chance to bite through Gu Yue's throat.

"You dare harm Lord? You're seeking death!" Just as Xia Yi greedily sucked her blood, a tremendous voice exploded in the sky like heavenly thunder. The sound alone instantly darkened the previously clear and cloudless sky.

Xia Yi, who was lying on Gu Yue's chest and greedily feeding, was knocked unconscious by the enormous voice before he could even react.

One terrifying figure after another descended from the sky. Seeing Xia Yi still sprawled across Gu Yue's chest, killing intent burst from all their eyes.

If Xia Yi had still been awake, he would have been utterly shocked. The people before him were precisely the Beasts that an old turtle had depicted for him with Spiritual Power a year ago—the Beasts of the Star Dou Forest Core.

To most Soul Beasts, they existed only in legend.

Legend said that they were the guardians of the Star Dou Forest, all possessing cultivation beyond a hundred thousand years. Every one of them wielded power great enough to turn clouds into rain with a mere wave of a hand.

At this moment, all these Beasts were enraged. The instant they sensed Gu Yue's aura from the Star Dou Forest Core, they had come out to welcome her.

Yet in just that brief instant, their Lord had been bullied into such a state by a Ten-Year Soul Beast. Had they arrived even a moment later, their Lord might already have died at the hands of Xia Yi, this Ten-Year Soul Beast.