Amethyst Imperial Epiphyllum

Mu Qian truly hadn't expected his luck to be this rotten.

The Star Forest was vast, and soul beasts didn't just stay in one place; searching in a straight line meant there was no guarantee he would encounter a soul beast suitable for him.

There was no helping bad luck, so he had no choice but to retreat a distance and begin searching laterally.

Yet this time, the Goddess of Luck seemed to have finished playing with him.

Not long after returning to the middle region, Mu Qian suddenly halted his steps, gazing toward the dense, secluded forest to his side.

An abnormal gust of wind interrupted his progress, and accompanied by a dense fluctuation of soul power, a sharp roar echoed from the distance.

During his years in the Far North, even if his knowledge regarding martial souls was lacking, Mu Qian knew everything there was to know about soul beasts.

In an instant, he had a judgment in his heart.

A ten-thousand-year soul beast... and the rarest type, a mental-attribute one at that.

His experience in the Far North told Mu Qian that the age of that soul beast was definitely no less than thirty thousand years.

With his physical constitution, he could fully withstand a thirty-thousand-year soul ring, but his current strength...

Even if his Yinglong martial soul was heaven-defying, it wasn't enough to support him in hunting a soul beast over thirty thousand years old on his own.

If it were a ten-thousand-year soul beast, he might have been able to give it a try.

Mu Qian clenched his fists; his own martial soul had extremely strong adaptability. Aside from the ice and fire attribute soul beasts he had already absorbed, he could fuse with any soul beast as long as the age was appropriate.

As for soul skills, he didn't know what the situation was with hundred-thousand-year soul rings, but the two soul skills he currently possessed had nothing to do with the soul beasts the rings came from; they were unique soul skills belonging to the Yinglong martial soul.

Similar to inherited martial souls like the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon, no matter what kind of soul beast the fused soul ring came from, the soul skills obtained were related to the martial soul itself.

After much deliberation, Mu Qian finally sighed, unwilling to gamble with his own life.

"Forget it, Little Flower, let's go." Mu Qian rubbed Little Flower's warm fur.

Little Flower had been following closely by his side, nodding obediently as if it could understand Mu Qian's words.

This actually surprised him a bit; no matter how fast he moved along the way, the little creature always seemed able to keep up with his pace.

However, Little Flower only had a cultivation age of a dozen years!

It seemed its bloodline was not simple either.

Mu Qian shook his head, preparing to leave.

But suddenly, a change occurred once more.

"Ying~"

From almost the same direction as that beast roar, a sharp bird cry rang out.

The bird cry carried an unparalleled penetrating power, and even with Mu Qian's mental cultivation, he actually experienced a momentary trance.

"This is... there is a ten-thousand-year soul beast, also a mental-attribute one, and its cultivation is also over thirty thousand years!"

Mu Qian could no longer remain calm. Since when were mental-attribute soul beasts so common?

Two appeared at once, and judging by their aura, both belonged to the top of the food chain.

Were they clustering together?

"Little Flower, let's go take a look!"

Mu Qian could no longer suppress the curiosity in his heart; before his words had even faded, he had already vanished from his spot.

The process of cultivation was a struggle for destiny against all things in heaven and earth.

The so-called wealth was sought within danger; if it were a single thirty-thousand-year soul beast, he might not have had a shred of a chance, but if there were two...

He might just be able to fish in troubled waters.

Looking at the situation, the two soul beasts seemed to have started a dispute for some reason, which was an opportunity Mu Qian couldn't afford to miss.

If he gave up this time, would he have to give up the next time he encountered the same situation?

Being timid and shrinking back was not Mu Qian's character.

A thousand-year soul ring could no longer satisfy him...

At the edge of the core area of the Star Forest.

In a corner of the otherwise unremarkable dense forest, a strange plant two people tall swayed in the breeze, blooming with a peculiar amethyst light.

The plant's stems and leaves were not particularly lush, but the silver-white leaves at the center clustered around a cluster of exquisite stamens, which were dotted with countless slender, amethyst-colored petals. Each petal was like a pure gemstone, carrying a warm, moist texture.

Looking at the shape alone, it was somewhat like an ordinary epiphyllum, but the noble feeling of a king among flowers was something an epiphyllum could not compare to.

The range covered by the strange light emitted from the petals was not large, only about a hundred meters in radius with the plant at its center.

For the vast Star Forest, this small patch of land was but a drop in the ocean, yet within this small area, two powerful soul beasts had gathered.

They watched each other with vigilance, their gazes occasionally focusing on the strange plant, revealing expressions of covetous desire.

One of them looked like a bird of prey; every feather on its body was like a sharp, barbed blade, presenting a dark red color like congealed blood.

The ratio of its eyes to its body was much larger than that of a normal avian soul beast, looking quite uncoordinated, and at this moment, it was emitting a cold, chilling glint.

As for the other one, its appearance could only be described as bizarre.

The reason it was so bizarre was that it actually possessed four identical heads!

And... they were human faces!

The two soul beasts did not know how long they had been locked in battle here, but the avian soul beast eventually collapsed first, its blade-like feathers reduced to less than a tenth of their original count, its body covered in gruesome wounds.

The human-faced, snake-bodied monster was in a similar state, one of its heads having been sliced through by a blade, leaving nothing but a clean, severed stump.

It hissed toward the sky, as if venting the joy of a victor.

"That is the Amethyst Imperial Epiphyllum!"

Not long after, the figure of Mu Qian quietly appeared in the vicinity.

He controlled his distance, doing his best to remain within a range where he would not be discovered by the other party.

The dense jungle beside him shielded the figure of Mu Qian, and coupled with the fact that the light emitted by that strange plant seemed to isolate all spiritual fluctuations, he was not discovered by the victorious soul beast.

He recognized the species of that strange plant.

The Amethyst Imperial Epiphyllum, a plant-type soul beast that resembled an epiphyllum in shape, was also a rare spiritual-attribute soul beast among plant-type soul beasts.

The Amethyst Imperial Epiphyllum was extremely rare and was once even considered extinct by the soul master world, but that was not what surprised Mu Qian the most.

The reason he was so startled that he made a sound, nearly drawing the attention of that soul beast, was the age of this Amethyst Imperial Epiphyllum.

One hundred thousand years!

That's right, one hundred thousand years.

Having spent so much time in the Far North, it was impossible for Mu Qian not to be able to distinguish the cultivation of a soul beast.

Over these past few years, Mu Qian had learned a vast amount of knowledge regarding soul beasts from the Snow Maiden.

Because a spiritual barrier shrouded the area ahead, he could not sense the condition of the Amethyst Imperial Epiphyllum.

However, the cultivation of plant-type soul beasts, including the Amethyst Imperial Epiphyllum, was easy to distinguish; one could tell by the size of their physical form.

The reason it was rare was due to its own attributes.

Due to a special reason, it possessed an extremely strong auxiliary effect, yet unfortunately, it lacked any means of defense or attack, and it was generally devoured by herbivorous soul beasts while it was still very weak.

Under normal circumstances, during the most prosperous period for this species, even thousand-year-level Amethyst Imperial Epiphyllums were rare in the natural world, let alone ten-thousand-year ones.

As for a hundred-thousand-year-level Amethyst Imperial Epiphyllum... one had never appeared before!

Even the Snow Maiden had never heard any news of a hundred-thousand-year Amethyst Imperial Epiphyllum appearing in the world!