Collective Soul Hunt, Part One

Collective Soul Hunt, Part One

Moreover, based on Ye Wen's knowledge of the Soul Beasts in the nearby forests, he felt that some of them were no longer worthy of his disciples. Thus, Ye Wen planned to organize a large-scale soul hunt, personally leading the seven disciples to the outskirts of the Great Star Dou Forest to obtain Soul Rings.

Mere hundred-year and thousand-year Soul Beasts? Easy enough.

Ah Yin also wanted to join such a group event, but Ye Wen refused outright, saying that the Great Star Dou Forest was a dangerous mix of all sorts.

But Ah Yin had one good quality: she listened to advice and did not like causing trouble for others.

If it had been Xiao Wu, heh. She clearly knew what she was, yet still ran around recklessly. Her sacrifice was entirely her own doing.

Even Da Ming and Er Ming's deaths had been inseparable from her. If they had not been buying time for her to escape, then with the strength of those two simps, even if they could not have killed Spirit Hall's soul-hunting team, they could at least have fled back to the Lake of Life and sought shelter.

Unfortunately, there were no ifs. Those two brothers had both become Buddha Tang's Soul Rings and Soul Bones, contributing their share to Buddha Tang's cheat-powered rise.

"Master, we've arrived at Bite City," Huo Quan, who was driving the carriage, said.

Although Ye Wen had wanted to run to the Great Star Dou Forest himself, considering that the five little ones were still too physically immature, he ultimately chose to buy a carriage to take everyone there.

After all, he was already a Quasi Soul King.

Bite City was the closest city on the Notting side to the Great Star Dou Forest. However, traveling back and forth was ultimately troublesome, so Ye Wen planned to settle his disciples in this small city first, then go obtain his Fifth Soul Ring himself.

He would also take the opportunity to let these children, who had lived their whole lives in small villages, see just how vast the world was.

"Leave the arrangements for those five to you two siblings. With your cultivation as Quasi Soul Elders, as long as you don't cause trouble in Bite City or go to any shady places, there shouldn't be any problems. Wait for me. I'll be back in half a month."

With that, Ye Wen vanished in a flash.

The seven people in the carriage exchanged glances before silently entering the bustling Bite City. Under Ye Wen's guidance, they had learned more or less about the dangers of the human world, so caution in both speech and conduct had become the principle guiding all seven of them.

Meanwhile, Ye Wen had already entered the Great Star Dou Forest. This time, his targets were some very common Soul Beasts of the Great Star Dou Forest.

Ant-type or bee-type Soul Beasts.

Individually, Soul Beasts of these types were not particularly strong, but they possessed a unique racial gift: building nests.

The reason Ye Wen wanted to hunt one of these Soul Beasts was that he believed the spatial mutation of the Nabu Martial Soul might allow him to create a defensive barrier capable of blocking enemy attacks.

He might even be able to use this trait to achieve aerial flight.

After long-term physical training, Ye Wen felt that his body could already withstand a Soul Ring from a Soul Beast under thirty thousand years old. However, considering the spiritual shock of a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, Ye Wen intended to proceed cautiously.

Although these two types of Soul Beasts were widely distributed, once they surpassed a thousand years, they would be besieged and killed out of fear from the queen bee or ant queen. Therefore, finding one of these types of Soul Beasts above ten thousand years was truly difficult, let alone one above twenty thousand years and close to thirty thousand.

Ye Wen wandered around for an entire week without finding one.

In the end, Ye Wen decided to search the Mixed Zone. With the soul skill Between Mimicry, as long as he did not encounter the king of a clan above fifty thousand years, they generally would not be able to discover him.

Honestly, the Great Star Dou Forest in Douluo Continent I had been truly low-key, and the ferocious beasts hidden within the Lake of Life had also been exceptionally good at hiding.

At last, heaven did not disappoint the determined. After another five days of searching in the Mixed Zone, Ye Wen finally found a ten-thousand-year ant-type Soul Beast.

It was nearly a meter long, covered in black armor, with two large eyes and four smaller ones. Wasn't this a Thousand Jin Ant King?

It seemed the deeds of the Thousand Jin Ant Emperor Trio had influenced some lower-level Soul Beasts, causing certain rebellious members of the ant race, which had originally acted as one body, to leave their colony. Otherwise, it would not have grown this large.

A faint smile curled across Ye Wen's lips.

Although it could not compare to the Thousand Jin Ant Emperor Trio that Buddha Tang had hunted, this Thousand Jin Ant King before him should have a cultivation close to thirty thousand years.

"You'll do."

With that thought, Ye Wen raised his hand and fired an arrow.

Clang—!

A crisp metallic impact rang through the desolate forest. Ye Wen's confident gaze froze, then turned solemn.

The arrow that had always been unstoppable now lay on the grass. Its refined iron arrowhead had bent and warped, while the Thousand Jin Ant King's head only bore a tiny dent, with no real damage done.

"As expected of a ten-thousand-year insect-type Soul Beast. Its exoskeleton is already comparable to refined iron. No wonder my arrow couldn't pierce it."

The suddenly attacked Thousand Jin Ant King froze at first, swaying as it shook off the dizziness caused by the powerful impact. Then it looked around. Though it could not be considered a dominant presence in the Mixed Zone, few Soul Beasts were willing to provoke it due to its hard shell and brutal bite force.

Although ants in the Previous Life were blind, Soul Beasts in this world were not. Its six eyes granted the Thousand Jin Ant King exceptional vision, enough to describe it as three hundred and sixty degrees.

It looked toward the direction from which the arrow had come, yet saw only empty trees and not a single figure, leaving it somewhat puzzled.

What the hell was that? That hurt like hell.

However, an ant's brain capacity was ultimately limited. After a brief moment of confusion, seeing no further attack, it resumed wandering about freely.

Meanwhile, Ye Wen watched the Thousand Jin Ant King for a while with an unreadable gaze.

"I didn't expect the first time my Self-Created Soul Skill saw the light of day would be against a fellow like you. There may be no audience, but I'll let you witness the power of gravity, one of the universe's four fundamental forces."

Ye Wen summoned two sheets of Nabu, overlapped them, and then opened them.

He took out ten sharp swords and released them toward one of the Nabu sheets, allowing them to fall inside.

The might of nature emerged, and swords shot out from the Nabu above.

Ye Wen did not interfere further, yet the swords grew faster and faster until, in the end, they seemed to transform into a silver curtain of light.

This Self-Created Soul Skill was difficult and simple at the same time. It merely used the spatial gate properties of Nabu to form a spatial passage, harnessing the world's gravity and the mass of the swords to generate immense inertia.

Its name—Creation of Gravity!

With no restrictions, the swords had already reached supersonic speed.

"Farewell~" Ye Wen said leisurely, then changed the direction of the Nabu spatial gate.

Bzz—

A harsh, piercing shriek tore through the air as the meteor-like sword slammed into the oblivious Thousand Jin Ant King that had been wandering about.