First Entry Star Dou Forest

After Zhao Wuji's analysis, all the blame was pinned on Shi Nian.

Then they returned to the hotel and rested after hastily eating a meal.

Early the next morning, the group left the town and continued toward Star Dou Forest.

Jiang Yi also left the hotel, following a soul hunting team toward Star Dou Forest.

Otherwise, if he followed Shrek Academy alone and Tang Hao noticed something unusual, it would be troublesome.

As they neared Star Dou Forest, Jiang Yi quietly left the team and hurried toward the forest by himself.

Not Long After, a breath of fresh air washed over him. A vast forest appeared not far ahead.

Every tree within it, even those at the very edge, stood at least twenty meters tall. Surging world yuanqi filled the forest.

Jiang Yi found a place where the trees were relatively sparse and entered Star Dou Forest directly.

After walking roughly a thousand meters forward, the massive trees around him had almost completely blocked out the sunlight.

He immediately spread out his Spiritual Perception, enveloping everything around him.

"Next, I'll head straight for the mixed zone." Jiang Yi cautiously walked forward.

His target this time was a Spirit Attribute Soul Beast with at least ten thousand years of cultivation.

In this era, spirit masters had explored Star Dou Forest only to a limited extent, and there were not many detailed records regarding the distribution of soul beasts.

Back when he was still at Nuoding Academy, Jiang Yi had been too physically weak to cultivate for long periods, so he often went to the library to find books to read.

He had read quite a few books about soul beasts as well, perhaps because Nuoding Academy was too low-level.

They had not given him much useful knowledge.

Thus, this time, as he searched for a ten-thousand-year Spirit Attribute Soul Beast, he could only proceed cautiously and take it one step at a time.

After moving at full speed for nearly two hours, Jiang Yi had reached the edge of the Star Dou Forest Outskirts, about three thousand meters from the mixed zone.

Jiang Yi leaned against a tree and sat down, taking the waterskin at his waist and gulping down some water.

"Spirit-Type Soul Beasts really are hard to find." After a brief rest, Jiang Yi could not help but sigh.

Along the way, he had encountered quite a few soul beasts, most of them hundred-year and thousand-year soul beasts, yet not one had been a Spirit-Type Soul Beast.

He felt that finding a ten-thousand-year spirit soul beast would probably take quite some time.

After resting for three minutes, Jiang Yi stood up, about to continue onward.

Suddenly, he stopped. Golden Light Flashed in Eyes as powerful spiritual power surged out and shot directly ahead.

"Spiritual Shock."

A shriek immediately came from the bushes ahead. Then, a soul beast resembling a rat rushed out, its body covered in earthy yellow fur, its eyes blood red and even somewhat bulging.

"A Burrowing Rat, roughly four meters long. Its cultivation should be around two thousand years."

Jiang Yi immediately recalled the information on this soul beast.

"But something seems off?" Jiang Yi noticed something unusual about the Burrowing Rat.

Normally, a Burrowing Rat's eyes should have been brownish yellow, but this one's were blood red.

Moreover, this type of soul beast loved staying underground.

Other than coming out to forage, they rarely left the earth. They would not actively lie in wait for, much less attack, humans.

Yet this Burrowing Rat had just tried to launch an attack on him, and it seemed extremely violent.

"Screech!" Even after being struck by his Spiritual Shock, the Burrowing Rat still let out an enraged roar.

Unfortunately, at this moment, blood seeped from its blood-red eyes. It had no strength left to launch an attack and could only collapse onto the ground, helplessly feeling its life drain away.

Jiang Yi walked to the Burrowing Rat's corpse and began examining its condition.

Golden light lit up in his eyes as he used spiritual power to sense what exactly had happened to the Burrowing Rat to cause such a drastic change.

"Spiritual power? It isn't my spiritual power. It should belong to another person or soul beast."

After reaching his conclusion, Jiang Yi's eyes immediately lit up.

Spirit Attribute Spirit Masters were extremely rare in any era.

So he did not think he could coincidentally encounter a soul beast that had been attacked by a Spirit Attribute Spirit Master.

"Then it was most likely a Spirit Attribute Soul Beast that made the Burrowing Rat become violent and actively attack humans."

"That was most likely a soul skill like Mental Confusion."

Jiang Yi walked toward the bushes ahead and soon found the hole the Burrowing Rat had crawled out of.

"It came through this tunnel. If I follow it forward, I might be able to find that Spirit Attribute Soul Beast."

The possibility was quite high, so Jiang Yi immediately began trying.

He had to enter the mixed zone anyway. Following this tunnel forward would give him an even greater chance of encountering a Spirit Attribute Soul Beast.

Following the direction of the tunnel, Jiang Yi headed toward the mixed zone.

While he worked hard to find a soul ring, the group from Shrek Academy was currently arguing with Chao Tianxiang over the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent's soul ring.

Because they had entered later this time, Chao Tianxiang arrived with Meng Yiran before Oscar could kill the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent.

"Since both sides contributed during the hunt for the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent, let strength decide who gets this snake."

"Let the spirit master who needs to fuse with the soul ring fight my granddaughter. Whoever wins gets the snake." Chao Tianxiang proposed a reasonable method.

Zhao Wuji showed a troubled expression. "The one who needs to fuse with the soul ring is a Food-Type Spirit Master. He doesn't have much combat power."

At this moment, Oscar also stepped forward to display his soul power and Martial Soul.

Chao Tianxiang's eyes lit up, but she then said, "Then find someone with similar soul power."

As soon as she said this, the seven members of Shrek Academy all looked around.

Ning Rongrong was a Support Spirit Master, so she was certainly unsuitable. As for Ma Hongjun, Zhu Zhuqing, and Dai Mubai, their soul power was either too high or too low.

Only Tang San and Xiao Wu remained.

But Tang San's pale face made it obvious that he definitely could not fight.

"Me go." Xiao Wu stepped forward.

"Pfft." Her strange accent immediately made Meng Yiran laugh out loud.

Tang San looked at Meng Yiran with hostility, but with Chao Tianxiang beside her, he did not make any move.

Xiao Wu also glared at Meng Yiran with an annoyed expression. Ever since she had lost her teeth, she hated people who mocked her accent the most.

After the two introduced their ranks and Martial Souls, battle was on the verge of breaking out.

Holding back her anger, Xiao Wu charged forward with a single step. As she moved, the Second Spirit Ring behind her lit up.

Pink, bewitching light glowed in her eyes. When Meng Yiran saw it, her movements instantly slowed just after summoning her Serpent Cane.