Xu Nian had once been the leader of a Mercenary Group, a level seventy-nine assault-type battle Soul Saint. By a stroke of great luck, he had obtained a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone during a soul hunt.
After absorbing the Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone, he broke through his bottleneck and reached level eighty. With just one more soul ring, he could become a Soul Douluo-level powerhouse, enough to be considered a formidable figure on the Douluo Continent.
So, he began gathering people for a soul hunt. Soul Douluo powerhouses could not be bothered with him, while Soul Masters below Soul Douluo were wary because his former Mercenary Group had been completely wiped out.
After a long time, however, he achieved very little. Apart from himself, the entire team consisted of only one low-level Soul Saint lured in by a hefty reward.
He had thought that a team of two Soul Saints, four Soul Emperors, and six Soul Kings would be enough to hunt a forty- or fifty-thousand-year Soul Beast for his eighth soul ring.
But unexpectedly, before they even encountered a suitable Soul Beast, a sixty-thousand-year Bald Vulture came looking for them.
Relying on its advantage in flight, the other Soul Masters could barely contribute anything besides Xu Nian. They could only huddle together to guard against the Bald Vulture's attacks while watching Xu Nian take a beating.
Seeing that Xu Nian was at a disadvantage, the low-level Soul Saint immediately led the team in retreat and fled the Star Dou Great Forest. Xu Nian, however, remained tightly entangled with the Bald Vulture. It sensed that if it devoured this human before it, it would soon become an eighty-thousand-year Soul Beast.
Xu Nian was driven to desperation as well. The bloodline of the Giant Wing Vulture stood above that