Forced Transformation

"I don't know." Gu Yue shook her head. "I don't know which aspect of him the Plane Master intends to suppress. We'll only know once the suppression ends."

At that moment, Di Tian's enormous body slowly shrank, and he transformed back into human form, landing behind Gu Yue once more.

"Lord, I'm sorry. I couldn't save him." Di Tian's dragon eyes were filled with unwillingness, but the gap in strength was simply too great. He could do nothing against the Plane Master.

"Don't blame yourself. I know you did your best." After comforting Di Tian, Gu Yue suddenly raised her head and looked coldly at the towering pillar of light suppressing Xia Yi. Her eyes turned purple in an instant, and killing intent immediately spread throughout the entire Star Dou Forest.

"Once I recover, I will slay you to avenge today's grievance."

Seeing Gu Yue's icy gaze, the several Beasts were initially stunned, but soon became excited.

The Plane Master was indeed powerful enough that even Di Tian was helpless against him, but Gu Yue was not weak either. If she recovered to her peak, killing a Plane Master would truly be no problem at all.

Just as all the Beasts were imagining how Gu Yue would kill the Plane Master in a single move, Bi Ji suddenly pointed at Xia Yi and screamed, "Lord, look! He's transforming?"

Gu Yue looked up and saw Xia Yi's body, pinned beneath the towering pillar of light, transforming into human form at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Forced transformation... What exactly does the Plane Master want?" Di Tian's voice was low and filled with killing intent. He had never liked transformed Soul Beasts and had always been the most opposed to Soul Beasts taking human form.

In his memories, not a single transformed Soul Beast had remembered its identity after becoming human.

Ten thousand years ago, even the Emperor Auspicious Beast, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, whom they had painstakingly raised, had betrayed the Star Dou Forest after transforming. →

Even the current Plane Master, who suppressed Soul Beasts at every turn, had a transformed Soul Beast as his wife.

Once Xia Yi transformed, Di Tian truly feared that he would be unable to resist the temptations of the human world's splendor and follow the old path of other transformed Soul Beasts.

"I'm afraid this is the true suppression." Gu Yue spoke in a low voice, instantly seeing through the Plane Master's scheme.

Xia Yi was merely a ten-year Soul Beast. No matter how extraordinary he was, his knowledge and experience were extremely limited. Once he entered the human world, he would inevitably be drawn to it.

At that time, Xia Yi would no longer be Xia Yi, a Soul Beast of the Star Dou Forest, but Xia Yi, a human.

The Plane Master was extremely confident in the human world's allure to transformed Soul Beasts. In his memories, no Soul Beast that had transformed had ever been able to resist the temptations of the human world's splendor.

Even the Master of Soul Beasts before him had been unable to resist the human world's temptations. One half of her had already been completely assimilated by humans, while this half was also gradually being assimilated.

One had to know that the Master of Soul Beasts had seen the world. Even she could not resist the human world's temptations, so how could Xia Yi, a ten-year Soul Beast who had never seen the world, possibly withstand them?

The current Plane Master did not yet know that Xia Yi would soon make him understand just how foolish it had been to force Xia Yi to transform.

As the towering pillar of light vanished, Xia Yi finally rose from the ground. He looked over his body, then scratched his head with a bewildered expression.

"You heard our conversation just now?" Gu Yue glanced at him. She had to admit that fox blood truly held an innate advantage when it came to looks. →

After transforming, Xia Yi had a head of loose black hair that gleamed brilliantly. His face was so handsome it was almost unreal. At first glance, he was even more beautiful than Zi Ji and Bi Ji.

What puzzled Gu Yue was that she could actually sense a heavy, solid aura from Xia Yi.

Gu Yue furrowed her brows again. Logically, such a heavy aura should not appear on a child.

After transforming, Xia Yi looked about the same age as her. In other words, the Plane Master had not transformed Xia Yi into a six-year-old, but had directly made him around nine or ten years old.

She could sense that Xia Yi's Soul Power was the same as that of ordinary transformed Soul Beasts: level ten Innate Full Soul Power.

However, compared with other transformed Soul Beasts, Xia Yi had lost a full three to four years of cultivation time.

And those were three to four years spent laying his foundation.

They were also the most important three to four years in a Soul Master's cultivation.

"I heard it." Xia Yi nodded. His head was spinning. Before this, he never would have imagined that this "human" girl, who had nearly died by his hand, was the Lord of several Beasts.

"Since you didn't know my identity before, I won't hold your offense against me. Just don't let it happen again. Come back to the Star Dou Forest Core with us." Gu Yue spoke in a deep voice. Since Xia Yi had already transformed, it was no longer suitable for him to remain here.

At the mention of the Star Dou Forest Core, Gu Yue and the several Beasts all looked uncomfortable. Ten thousand years ago, this place had also been the Star Dou Forest Core.

But with the rise of the Spirit Pagoda, the Star Dou Forest's territory had drastically shrunk. What had once been the Star Dou Forest Core had become the present-day Star Dou Forest Outskirts.

Gu Yue said nothing more. After speaking, she turned and left. Xia Yi knew that, in his current human appearance, he would be torn to pieces by Soul Beasts if he stayed here. He could only follow them.

"Ah..." Bi Ji looked at the completely naked Xia Yi and sighed helplessly. She could tell that Gu Yue still resented Xia Yi and was deliberately making him embarrass himself. "Since you've taken human form, you should at least wear some clothes."

Bi Ji patted Xia Yi's shoulder. Pure Soul Power condensed into solid form, creating a set of emerald-green fitted clothes over his body.

"That's a little plain." Zi Ji covered her mouth and laughed, then patted Xia Yi's other shoulder. In an instant, the fitted clothes on his body split vertically down the middle. The side closest to Zi Ji directly turned into a purple dress.

Although Xia Yi had no idea what they were doing, seeing the several Beasts struggling to suppress their laughter, he could tell that these two female Beasts were completely using him for amusement.

But there was nothing he could do. He could only follow the several Beasts to the Star Dou Forest Core in that ridiculous outfit.

It was not until they reached the Lake of Life that Di Tian found the sight too painful to bear and changed him into a set of long black robes.

"You have one month to learn the history of Soul Beasts and familiarize yourself with your current body and martial soul. In one month, leave the Star Dou Forest with me. I will take you to cultivate in the human world." Gu Yue spoke. On Douluo Continent, transformed Soul Beasts had to absorb human vitality to cultivate during their early stages. In other words, they had to integrate into the human world to cultivate.

To ensure that Xia Yi would not forget his identity as a Soul Beast after entering the human world, over the next month, the several Beasts began telling him the history of Soul Beasts and how humans slaughtered and imprisoned them.

Zi Ji also told him Gu Yue's identity. As a member of the Dragon Clan, Zi Ji's eyes were filled with pride whenever she spoke of Gu Yue. "Lord once led many Divine Beasts into the God Realm and battled the Five Greats God Kings. Whether in knowledge or understanding, she stands far beyond anything we can hope to reach. So after you enter the human world, you only need to follow Lord's arrangements. Although you lost those most precious years of cultivation, with Lord here, she will certainly lead you to the pinnacle of this continent."

Zi Ji praised Gu Yue to the skies, and Xia Yi grew drowsy as he listened. He muttered softly, "But she couldn't even beat me."

"You still have the nerve to say that? If Lord hadn't let her guard down around you, do you think you could have injured her?" Zi Ji shot him a fierce glare, though she was not angry. Xia Yi was merely a ten-year Soul Beast. He had never even heard of Gu Yue before, so it was indeed difficult for him to accept this all at once.

"Forget it. Once you've followed Lord for a while, you'll discover her greatness." Zi Ji shook her head, then continued, "Next, you need to familiarize yourself with your body and soul skills. As Lord ordered, Di Tian and I will help you."

"Can I switch people?" Xia Yi's mouth twitched. Gu Yue was clearly doing this on purpose. Zi Ji and Di Tian were both members of the Dragon Clan and the most loyal to Gu Yue. Xia Yi had nearly killed Gu Yue before. If anyone said they would not take this chance to vent their anger, he would never believe it.

"This is Lord's order. It cannot be changed. Hurry up and make your move. Don't worry, with Elder Sister Bi Ji here, you won't die." Zi Ji looked at Xia Yi with a cheerful smile, but in his eyes, her exquisite smile was more terrifying than a demon.

Xia Yi's eyes twitched wildly. What did she mean, he would not die?

Were they really going to beat him half to death, have Bi Ji save him, and then keep beating him?