"Gurgle, gurgle~!"
As the three talked, bubbles suddenly began rising across the Life God's lake, its surface as calm as a mirror.
Fist-sized bubbles floated up from the bottom of the lake and burst when they reached the surface.
Rich life energy and violent power rippled out from the bursting bubbles.
Noticing the change in the lake before them, Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo abruptly stopped speaking.
The two fell silent together.
Their gazes fixed on the lake before them, where bubbles kept rising.
Chu Feng also stopped talking with Ghost Douluo and Chrysanthemum Douluo, his gaze fixed on the center of the lake.
As bubbles rose one after another in the Life God's lake, waves began to spread across its center. Ripples radiated outward from the middle, spreading all the way to the shores.
A small shadow began to appear in the center of the lake. It grew larger and larger beneath the water, turning into a massive, elongated silhouette.
It was a snake-shaped shadow.
Even from deep underwater, it was clearly visible.
Chu Feng watched the shadow growing larger in the middle of the lake, his gaze deepening as a note of seriousness entered his eyes.
At present, only one creature lived in the Life God's lake.
The Forest Emperor—the Sky Azure Bull Python.
So that snake-shaped shadow had to be the Sky Azure Bull Python.
As expected of a Spirit Beast.
Its awareness of its territory was extraordinarily keen.
They had only just entered the lake's vicinity; they hadn't even released their auras, yet the Sky Azure Bull Python had already detected them.
"Moo~!"
Just as Chu Feng was about to summon his Martial Soul and unleash a Soul Skill, a deep bellow rang out from the center of the lake.
The sound waves carried terrifying penetrating force as they swept in every direction. The earth trembled beneath the rumbling call.
At the sound of the bellow, countless powerful auras in the forest stirred and reached toward the lake from every direction.
None of these auras was as powerful as the shadow about to emerge from the water before them.
But they were still close to the hundred-thousand-year mark.
They were only one final step away from reaching a hundred thousand years.
If the Star Dou Forest's life energy were rich enough, and the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape didn't restrain the Spirit Beasts or forbid them from devouring one another, then the Spirit Beasts nearing a hundred thousand years would surely break through soon.
Chu Feng sensed that three of the auras were identical. Their quality and strength were exactly the same.
If he hadn't known there were three Spirit Beasts, or what kind they were, he might have thought they had all come from the same mold.
Those three auras belonged to the three nine-hundred-year-old Thousand-Jun Ant Emperors.
Chu Feng had no intention of hunting them.
There was no need for that just yet.
For now, his targets were only the Sky Azure Bull Python or the Titan Giant Ape.
"Whoosh!"
As Chu Feng's thoughts turned to the three Thousand-Jun Ant Emperors, a whirlpool formed in the center of the lake before him.
The whirlpool spun, and a towering column of water erupted from the lake.
The next moment, a terrifying giant beast as large as a small mountain slowly rose from the water.
It stood in the middle of the lake like a mountain, countless streams cascading from its body like waterfalls.
The water crashed back into the Life God's lake.
At once, Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo went on alert. They both released their Martial Souls and fixed their gazes on the creature before them.
If the Sky Azure Bull Python showed even the slightest sign of attacking them, Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo would immediately unleash their Martial Soul Fusion Skill: the Polar Static Domain, and restrain it.
Against a Spirit Beast as powerful as the Sky Azure Bull Python, the Martial Soul Fusion Skill was Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo's only option.
Besides, Chu Feng had just said that as soon as either the Sky Azure Bull Python or Titan Giant Ape appeared, they were to immediately unleash their Martial Soul Fusion Skill and restrain both beasts.
Now that the Sky Azure Bull Python had appeared, Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo should have used their Martial Soul Fusion Skill to restrain it.
But the Titan Giant Ape still hadn't appeared. If they used their Martial Soul Fusion Skill to restrain the Sky Azure Bull Python now, and the Titan Giant Ape suddenly showed up and entered their domain to attack them, they would be doomed.
Under the three pairs of watchful eyes, the mountain rising from the center of the Life God's lake quickly shed the water streaming from its body.
It all flowed back into the Life God's lake.
Once the water had drained away, the mountain revealed its true form.
It was a gigantic Spirit Beast more than a hundred meters long. It had the body of a serpent and the head of a bull. Its entire body was sky-blue, and every scale looked as if it had been cast from metal.
Beneath the sunlight, the scales gleamed brilliantly.
Its bull horns were enormous, made of a strange material that resembled dragon horns. Two tufts of blue flame hung above them, and its eyes were as large as lanterns.
Only part of the Sky Azure Bull Python's body had emerged from the water, yet that section alone already stood a hundred meters high.
If its entire body surfaced, it would likely be several hundred meters long.
Facing it, Chu Feng felt the sheer scale of Spirit Beasts for the first time—and the smallness of humanity.
It was like an ant standing before an elephant.
Right now, he was that tiny ant.
The Sky Azure Bull Python was not only terrifyingly huge; its aura was even more frighteningly powerful.
The sheer pressure of its aura was enough to instill fear in a Titled Douluo.
The Sky Azure Bull Python truly was the Emperor of the Spirit Beasts in the Star Dou Forest in Douluo I.
Its strength was extraordinary.
Before seeing the Sky Azure Bull Python, Chu Feng hadn't had a clear idea of how strong it was.
But based on its underwhelming performance in the original story, Chu Feng had been absolutely confident in himself. He'd thought he could kill the Sky Azure Bull Python with a single strike.
Now, however, Chu Feng could only feel relieved.
Fortunately, he was cautious by nature and had brought Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo along.
The Sky Azure Bull Python's defenses were unknown, and it had an endless supply of life energy from the Life God's lake. One strike from his spear might not be enough to kill it.
"Humans, this is no place for you. Leave at once, and I'll pretend none of this ever happened!"
The Sky Azure Bull Python emerged from the Life God's lake. Blue light gleamed in its eyes, and the two tufts of flame beside its horns blazed brightly.
The Sky Azure Bull Python's gaze swept over Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo in turn before settling on Chu Feng, who led the group.
With its keen eyesight and Chu Feng's aura, it could tell at a glance that he had just broken through Level 90 and become a Quasi-Title Douluo.
A Level 90 Quasi-Title Douluo bringing two Level 95 Titled Douluo powerhouses here—what they wanted was obvious.
They had come for it.
Even so, the Sky Azure Bull Python showed no anger at the three people before it, despite knowing they had come for it.
The Spirit Beast Emperor's emotions were as calm as water. It merely issued them a mild warning.
It warned them to leave.
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