On the other side.
Ye Wen was ready to get serious too. "Sky Azure Bull Python, Titan Giant Ape, I'll give you two choices: submit to me, or let me beat you up and then submit to me."
"???"
Da Ming, Er Ming: What's the difference?!
Clearly, just like Evil Tiger and Xiao Bai, they chose the latter: get beaten up and then submit.
Why were all these hundred-thousand-year Soul Beasts so stubborn until they saw the coffin?
Did they really have to be beaten up first?
"You don't know what's good for you!"
Seeing their response, Ye Wen charged straight at them. His enormous body shot forward, while the Titan Giant Ape tried to use gravity to hold him back.
But was he, the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, someone a Titan Giant Ape could just casually pin down?
Ye Wen whipped his whale tail into the Titan Giant Ape, sending him flying.
Then he immediately swam over to help Evil Tiger and Xiao Bai. From behind, he clamped his jaws around the Sky Azure Bull Python's tail and spun wildly, swinging the nearly fifty-meter-long python around in circles.
Bam! Bam! Bam!
"Roar!!"
The Sky Azure Bull Python howled in pain.
Ye Wen then slammed the python back and forth from one side to the other before hurling him into the Ice Crystal Cage.
Da Ming and Er Ming were like beasts trapped in a cage. They couldn't win, and they couldn't escape, so Ye Wen chased them down and gave them a thorough beating.
Bam! Bam!
Before long, the Sky Azure Bull Python, known as the Forest Emperor, and the Titan Giant Ape, known as the King of the Forest, were both sprawled on the ground, looking utterly defeated.
This Sea Soul Beast was too strong!!
Throughout the entire beating, only Gu Yuena watched from the sidelines.
At that moment, on a mountain far from the Lake of Life, another Soul Beast of terrifying strength had witnessed everything.
It was a gigantic tiger, black from head to toe and radiating an intensely evil aura. It was a being that terrified countless Ten Thousand Year Level Soul Beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest. Even Da Ming and Er Ming were wary of it.
It was the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger!
The fear it inspired in Soul Beasts across the Star Dou Great Forest was much like the fear the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King inspired in Sea Soul Beasts.
The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger had originally come to challenge Da Ming and Er Ming again, but then it saw them being brutally beaten by an utterly terrifying Sea Soul Beast.
The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger had always been arrogant and fearless in the forest. Yet now, it felt terror. It was afraid!
Run!
The moment it saw Da Ming and Er Ming beaten down, its first thought was to make a run for it. Damn, I can't afford to mess with that thing!
Just then, Da Ming and Er Ming lay sprawled on the ground.
"Big brother! He's just too strong."
"Yeah! We're no match for him at all. I never thought Soul Beasts from the sea would be so strong. We land-dwelling Soul Beasts really..."
Da Ming and Er Ming looked utterly hopeless. This wasn't just a battle between them and Ye Wen. They couldn't help thinking about the contest between Sea Soul Beasts and land-dwelling Soul Beasts, between the creatures of the land and those of the sea.
But the ridiculous thing was that Da Ming and Er Ming actually thought they could represent all land-dwelling Soul Beasts.
"The winner takes all, and the loser is at their mercy. If you want to occupy the Lake of Life, we'll leave. But we will never submit to you!"
But Da Ming and Er Ming were soon forced to eat their words.
Ye Wen released the Soul Beast Master-Servant Contract Power and successfully subdued Da Ming and Er Ming.
"Master!"
Da Ming and Er Ming, who had just sworn they would never submit, dropped to their knees on the spot and called him Master.
"???????"
Gu Yuena, who had been watching with her Spiritual Power, was completely dumbfounded.
They'd just been so adamant that they would never submit. How had they gone from that to kneeling and calling him Master in an instant?
That turnaround was way too fast!
Ye Wen had no idea that Gu Yuena was monitoring his every move with her terrifying Spiritual Power.
He said, "Just like Evil Tiger and Xiao Bai, you can call me Boss from now on."
"Yes, Boss!"
Da Ming and Er Ming were utterly respectful.
Now that Da Ming and Er Ming had been dealt with, Ye Wen had four Ten Thousand Year Level Soul Beasts under his command.
With himself included, Ye Wen and his four Soul Beasts could nearly sweep the entire continent—except for Spirit Hall. Oh, and the Clear Sky Hammer might be a bit of a tough opponent.
But Spirit Hall was truly powerful. It had two Level 99 Peerless Douluo, Qian Daoliu and Bibi Dong; Level 98 Golden Crocodile Douluo; four Worship Elders with Soul Power of Level 96 or higher; and nearly ten Elders with the strength of Titled Douluo.
That added up to more than a dozen Titled Douluo!
Ye Wen's Soul Beast forces were still no match for Spirit Hall.
But Spirit Hall was currently focused on its Infiltration Plan and Soul Hunting Operation, and on how to take over the Two Great Empires, Heaven Dou and Star Luo, and rule the continent.
Spirit Hall had no idea that a terrifying Soul Beast Force was quietly rising.
"Da Ming, Er Ming, use the Power of Transformation I bestowed upon you to take human form," Ye Wen said.
"Yes, Boss!"
Da Ming and Er Ming did as they were told.
A while later,
They had both transformed into six-year-old human children. Da Ming had a head of green hair and green eyes. He was cute, yet rather delicate-looking too. Once grown, he was bound to be a handsome young man with refined features.
The Titan Giant Ape was the complete opposite. He had a crew cut, and though cute, he had a rugged air about him. His looks were unremarkable—not handsome, but not ugly either—and his skin was dark as soot. Once he grew up, there was no doubt he'd be a brawny man.
Gu Yuena was slightly surprised. "They transformed?"
Da Ming and Er Ming looked over their bodies but didn't seem particularly happy. They had never liked being human or going to the human world. The only thing that pleased them was being able to switch back to their Soul Beast forms at any time.
So they immediately changed back into their Soul Beast forms.
Gu Yuena was dumbfounded again. "???????"
"What's going on? What's going on?!"
They could change back into their Soul Beast forms after transforming? Even Di Tian couldn't do that!
Di Tian could only switch into a Semi-human Form, like Sea Soul Beasts!
"This Deep Sea Demonic Whale King seems to have some kind of mysterious power!" Gu Yuena immediately realized that Ye Wen must be the reason Da Ming and Er Ming could do this.
She also understood, in an instant, how Ye Wen and the other two Sea Soul Beasts had traveled all the way from the distant sea to the continent.
How interesting. If these Sea Soul Beasts—and that Deep Sea Demonic Whale—could be brought into the Soul Beast Clan's service, they would surely provide powerful support for our cause of restoring the Soul Beast Clan!
Meanwhile, Ye Wen had already begun checking Da Ming and Er Ming's status panels.
[Sky Azure Bull Python Da Ming — Soul Beast Form] [Age: 180,000 years] [Strength: Peak Level 96, infinitely close to Level 97] [Skills: 1. Ranged attack Soul Skill, Azure Dragon Soul; 2. Area-of-effect group attack Soul Skill, Azure Dance.] [Domain: Azure Slowness Domain.] ... [Sky Azure Bull Python Da Ming — Human Form] [Age: Six years old] [Martial Soul: Top-grade Beast Martial Soul, Sky Azure Bull Python] [Soul Power: Level 10] [Soul Rings: None. (Can currently condense the First Soul Ring)] [Soul Bone: Sky Azure Bull Python's Hundred-Thousand-Year-Old Right Arm Bone. Skill 1: Group attack Soul Skill, Azure Annihilation Thunder. Skill 2: Control-type Soul Skill, Azure Slowness Divine Claw.] [External Soul Bone: None.]
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