Star Dou Great Forest (Please Follow and Vote)

"Two thousand jin of strength..."

In the courtyard on Douluo Continent, Gu Yi slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air, and a sharp glint flashed through his eyes.

Gu Yi clenched his fist and threw a fierce punch forward, producing a dull boom.

He felt as though his entire body was brimming with strength, as if he could kill a cow with a single punch.

In fact, Gu Yi really could do that.

Ordinary cows weighed anywhere from three hundred to two thousand jin. He could even punch one into a pulp.

"This Whale Rubber is truly effective for low-level Qi Martial Realm warriors. My two thousand-plus Gold Soul Coins weren't wasted."

The only drawback was that Whale Rubber became less effective the more one consumed.

This time, Gu Yi could clearly feel that the hundred-year Whale Rubber was far less effective than it had been the first time.

Of the two pieces of thousand-year Whale Rubber, the first had also been much more effective than the second.

Gu Yi also discovered that aside from his physical cultivation improving, his Soul Power cultivation had risen by one level as well, breaking through to level thirteen.

However, because he did not have a soul ring, the crystal ball used to measure Soul Power still displayed him as level ten.

"Now that my physical cultivation has broken through, my physique has risen to another level. I should be able to withstand a three- or four-thousand-year soul ring." Gu Yi smiled.

Absorbing higher-level soul rings not only gave one stronger soul skills, but also allowed one to absorb the energy left behind by dead soul beasts, thereby improving Gu Yi's cultivation.

"It's time to hunt a soul beast and obtain my first soul ring..."

Nearly four months had passed since his martial soul awakening. Tang San and Xiao Wu, who both possessed Innate Full Soul Power, had long since obtained their first soul rings.

Now that Gu Yi had broken through to the second level of the Qi Martial Realm, it was time for him to obtain his first soul ring as well.

As for what soul beast to hunt, Gu Yi, who had read countless books, had long since made his choice.

His target was not the Soul Hunting Forest, where soul beasts were artificially raised and the strongest were only thousand-year soul beasts.

It was the largest soul beast habitat on Douluo Continent—the Star Dou Great Forest!!

The Star Dou Great Forest covered an enormous area, spanning the borders of the Heaven Dou Empire and the Star Luo Empire. It was a vast primeval forest.

The terrain within the forest was complex, with wetlands, swamps, lakes, mountain ranges, and more.

It contained countless varieties of soul beasts, far beyond what the Soul Hunting Forest could compare to.

This time, when he set out to hunt soul beasts and obtain a soul ring, Gu Yi did not tell Xiao Wu that he was heading for the Star Dou Great Forest. He only told her to wait for his return at the academy.

Nuoding City was located in Fasno Province in the southwest of the Heaven Dou Empire, while the Star Dou Great Forest lay in the center of Douluo Continent, directly south of the Heaven Dou Empire.

The Balak Kingdom lay between Fasno Province and the Star Dou Great Forest.

Nuoding City was nearly a thousand li away from the Star Dou Great Forest.

To reach the Star Dou Great Forest as quickly as possible, Gu Yi used the Myriad Worlds Gate to bring over a fine horse called Thousand-Mile Snow from the Nine Heavens Continent.

—After this incident, Gu Yi understood that he could bring other living beings through the Myriad Worlds Gate and freely travel between worlds that had already been connected.

The condition, however, was that each person required 100 points of Source Power per trip, ten times what it cost for him to travel alone.

And Gu Yi had to be willing.

Thousand-Mile Snow possessed demon beast bloodline and was an excellent steed capable of traveling a thousand li a day.

Riding Thousand-Mile Snow, Gu Yi reached the Star Dou Great Forest in just one day.

This made Gu Yi sigh at how small Douluo Continent was.

On the Nine Heavens Continent, the distance between Yangzhou City and the Cloud Sea Mountain Range, where the Cloud Sea Sect was located, was a full ten thousand li! Riding Thousand-Mile Snow took ten days.

Yet Yangzhou City, the Cloud Sea Sect, and the Cloud Sea Mountain Range were merely one part of Snow Moon Kingdom.

The Cloud Sea Mountain Range, where the Cloud Sea Sect was located, and the nearby Black Wind Ridge were each larger than the Star Dou Great Forest.

In other words, the area of an ordinary nation like Snow Moon Kingdom alone was far larger than Douluo Continent, perhaps even comparable to the entire Douluo Star!!

Yet Snow Moon Kingdom was merely a tiny, insignificant country within the Nine Nether Eight Desolations Small World.

Above it were countless lower-, middle-, and upper-rank empires, the vast and boundless Eight Desolations Realm and Nine Nether Realm.

And... the entire Nine Heavens Continent!

The disparity between them was plain to see.

"Forget it, why think about so much? I'm only a minor Qi Martial Realm warrior and a level-ten-plus soul master. For now, things beyond Snow Moon Kingdom are beyond my reach." Gu Yi shrugged.

"Even in this 'tiny' Star Dou Great Forest, I can't act recklessly."

The plot of the Nine Heavens Continent had yet to begin, and none of the upheavals had appeared.

Gu Yi's top priority over the next few years was to rapidly improve his own cultivation. Only then would he be qualified to take part in the magnificent events to come.

Looking at the endless green sea before him, Gu Yi casually sent Thousand-Mile Snow back to his home in Qingshan Town, then entered the dense Star Dou Great Forest alone.

Massive trees twenty or thirty meters tall could be seen everywhere. Their dense canopies blocked out most of the sunlight, leaving only a few rays shining down.

Gu Yi gripped his spear tightly, with an iron bow slung across his back, and carefully made his way deeper into the forest.

The outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest were mostly inhabited by ten-year and hundred-year soul beasts, but Gu Yi remained on guard.

That was because the dangers in the Star Dou Great Forest came not only from soul beasts, but also from human soul masters and all sorts of strange, peculiar environments!

Any moment of carelessness could result in injury or even death.

Over the next few days, Gu Yi cautiously crossed the outermost region of the Star Dou Great Forest and entered an area where hundred-year and thousand-year soul beasts gathered.

During that time, Gu Yi encountered quite a few soul beasts. Although he deliberately avoided them, several battles still took place.

Naturally, Gu Yi emerged victorious.

With his second-level Qi Martial Realm strength, Gu Yi feared no ordinary hundred-year soul beast.

Not to mention that he carried both a spear and an iron bow.

Gu Yi's iron bow was a ten-stone heavy bow. When he used it to perform archery, each arrow could carry the force of a thousand jin! Piercing forests and shattering stone was no challenge at all!

Combined with Gu Yi's own strength of over two thousand jin, he was confident he could fight an ordinary third-level Qi Martial Realm warrior.

On Douluo Continent, Gu Yi could contend against Soul Elders of level thirty-four or thirty-five and face soul beasts one or two thousand years old.

After all, the Soul Ring System soul masters of Douluo Continent had weak combat power and were naturally several minor realms weaker than martial artists of the Nine Heavens Martial Dao.

Back to the point.

Having reached the deeper parts of the Star Dou Great Forest, Gu Yi carefully identified the terrain according to the information recorded in the books and began searching for traces of several soul beasts suitable to serve as the first soul ring for his Blood Martial Soul.

"It would be best to absorb a buff-type soul skill that can enhance me in every aspect..."

After searching the Star Dou Great Forest for four or five days, Gu Yi finally discovered traces of one of his target soul beasts.

Gu Yi's spirits rose, and he hurriedly followed the trail.

Before long, Gu Yi arrived beneath a mountain several hundred meters tall. At its waist, he saw a dark cave concealed by many towering trees.

"Found it..." Gu Yi smiled faintly. "Blood Crystal Bats!"