Rest and Recuperation

After Rus Wang liberated thousands of Soul Beasts from his massive storage-type Soul Tool, he paused his expedition to the Old Continent. Using his cultivation as a 600,000-year Soul Beast, he commanded the entire herd to follow him back to the Folded Ear Continent.

As the Soul Beasts arrived on the Folded Ear Continent under his protection and enveloped in his Soul Power, the dozen or so ten-thousand-year Soul Beasts in the group roared with joy. Rus Wang immediately began setting rules for these ten-thousand-year Soul Beasts. The indigenous Elves of this continent were not humans; they did not require Soul Beast Spirit Bones and were capable of coexisting with them. If any beast dared to treat an Elf like a human and retaliate, Rus Wang would not care if they were a Soul Beast or not—he would kill them to pay for the life taken.

As for the hundred-year and thousand-year Soul Beasts? He explained the rules to those with intelligence, and for those without, he had them taken directly to the Nanshan Rainforest. The environment there was lush, and if any mindless beasts wandered into the Elf Village or towns, the Elves, who were now widely practicing the way of the Soul Master, could handle them on their own.

With Rus Wang leading the Soul Beasts into the Nanshan Rainforest, the territories of the thousand-year and hundred-year Soul Beasts were suddenly plunged into a state of brief, intense conflict.

However, after bringing the Soul Beasts back, Rus Wang didn't have much time to worry about such things; he left it all to the laws of nature. Now, he needed to properly discuss the trip to the Old Continent with his ten-thousand-year Soul Beasts—or rather, his wives.

"So, you're saying that those people from the Douluo Continent have already reached out toward the path that Soul Beasts must take to escape?"

Thalassa looked at the human diary Rus Wang had brought back, a look of gravity appearing on her face as she took on a human form.

The Star Luo Empire spoke the Star Luo language, the indigenous humans spoke the indigenous language, and Rus Wang had simply applied Chinese to the Elves.

In reality, Rus Wang had no knowledge of the Star Luo language at all, so after seizing the human diary, it was like reading a heavenly book. He simply brought it all back for Thalassa and the others to see. After all, over 3,000 years ago, they had fought the indigenous people many times and understood their language to some extent. As for the Star Luo language, although it had only existed for less than 80 years, they could at least translate it through the indigenous language.

But the response from Thalassa and the others was within Rus Wang's expectations.

"So, they are Star Luo people?"

"Yes, but we cannot translate many of the Star Luo characters using the indigenous human script."

"So we still can't fully understand the information in these diaries?"

Xingyue (Dark Night Dragon) and Zichen (Purple Gold Radiant Dragon) nodded. They had been trying their best to translate, but they had left in such a hurry back then due to a sense of crisis.

Furthermore, in the eighty years since Huo Yuhao ascended to godhood, the Star Luo Empire's step-by-step encroachment had been a process of building from nothing. Thus, the local indigenous human kingdom, which could not yet be called the Star Luo Continent, had not done much to translate the language of the Star Luo people.

However, some information was successfully translated by his wives.

The Star Luo people were suspected of investigating the spatial rifts that led into the Dragon Valley World.

In the Legend of the Dragon King, a tool character named Bai Qi (Dai Yun'er) had once revealed this information to Tang Wulin. The small world of the Dragon Valley naturally suppressed the use of Soul Power. When humans entered, aside from retaining the physical fitness corresponding to their cultivation level, those above the five-ring level were restricted.

Rus Wang had not yet been to the Dragon Valley World. This place, where Tang Wulin had used the Golden Dragon King bloodline to scam his way into Long Yun (what a strange name for a fortuitous encounter) and raise his VIP level, undoubtedly piqued Rus Wang's interest. Inside the Dragon Valley World lay the Dragon Tomb, where all the most powerful dragon souls resided. Those True Dragon Souls guarded the Dragon Tomb, protecting their ancestors and their own remains. True Dragon Spirit Bones were of no use to Rus Wang, but he was very interested in the dragon souls themselves. What if he appeared before them with the cultivation of a million-year Soul Beast after evolving into the Lord of Blades Rus Wang?

The system guaranteed that he would be seen as a member of the dragon race by the dragons themselves. Furthermore, evolving into the form of the Lord of Blades Rus Wang would inevitably grant him million-year cultivation, allowing him to avoid being stolen by Three Candies in the God Realm. Entering the Dragon Valley in the form of the Lord of Blades Rus Wang would also be a silent message to these ancient dragon souls: if the Silver Dragon King was unreliable, the dragon race still had other successors capable of inheriting the dragon legacy and the status of Master of Soul Beasts.

At the same time, Rus Wang felt anxious about the predicament of his wives being unable to understand the Star Luo language.

It is said that to defeat an enemy, you must first understand them. With them unable to even understand the language, the idea of leading the Soul Beasts and Elves to clash head-on with humans after the protective measures of the Folded Ear Continent faded in over a thousand years was a fatal flaw.

However, fortunately, it wasn't as if there were no ways to learn the Star Luo language and further understand the other two nations on the Douluo Continent.

Thalassa and the others fully understood the language of the indigenous human kingdom. When the time came, he would have them teach it to the Elves, and then Rus Wang could take the Elves to live in the cities of the indigenous human kingdom. After all, the Sun Moon Empire was too powerful; if the Star Luo Empire's royal family didn't want to be completely swept into the river of history, they would inevitably continue to sail the seas to find new continents and deal with the indigenous humans, which would certainly lead to linguistic communication and translation.

From the results, they had succeeded in defeating the indigenous humans. But this would take time, and this window of opportunity was something Rus Wang could exploit. Moreover, once a Soul Beast transformed, as long as they restrained their aura, most humans—even Title Douluo—were as blind as bats, unable to detect that these human-looking beings were actually ten-thousand-year Soul Beasts in disguise. Plus, since humans themselves grew all sorts of strange organs due to their Martial Souls, such as extra ears or tails, the Elves would have no problem blending in among them.

"Alright, since this trip to the continent was interrupted by the human observation station and the need to rescue the Soul Beasts, I'll just go again next year. From now on, I'll bring along any Soul Beasts I can."

Rus Wang thought for a moment and decided to leave it for next year. After all, the energy consumption for a flight of several thousand kilometers was no joke; even with his Soul Power and the stamina bar of a Seer Elf shared, he was starting to feel the strain.

"Um, Rus?"

"Yes?"

Rus Wang looked at Ximing (Heavenly Sun Dragon), feeling puzzled by his wife's sudden request.

Ever since Thalassa had tricked him into the house to see "cats" with Xingyue and the others, the other female dragons had stopped pretending and began to breed with Rus Wang, so he now had a total of nine wives.

"Next time you go to the continent on the other side of the fog, will you take me with you?"

"Are you sure? Ximing, you were the last among us to pass the ten-thousand-year Heavenly Tribulation."

"I just want to go back and see. I know quite a few of my dragon kin; I want to see if I can get more of them to come to the Folded Ear Continent to escape human hunting."

"Fine."