Twin Cyclops

After pondering for a long time, Leng Yaozhu took a deep breath, and her gaze became sharp and resolute once more.

She turned and walked back to her desk, picked up her private Soul Guidance Communicator, and dialed a number.

"Hello."

The call was answered quickly.

A somewhat aged yet vigorous voice came through.

"It's me, Yao Ju."

Leng Yaozhu's voice was calm and unruffled, yet it carried unquestionable authority.

The tone on the other end instantly became incomparably respectful, even with a trace of excitement:

"Family Head! What are your orders?"

Leng Yaozhu continued:

"Immediately contact the other elders of the family in my name."

"Inform them that an emergency elders' meeting will be held at the family estate in one hour. I have an important matter to discuss, one concerning the prosperity and decline of the family over the next century. No one is permitted to be absent."

"Yes, ma'am!"

Setting down the communicator, Leng Yaozhu lightly tapped her fingers against the polished desktop.

The Leng Family she came from was not as sprawling and deeply rooted as some old-established Soul Master clans.

Yet with her status as a Rank 98 Super Douluo and Vice Pagoda Master of the Spirit Pagoda, it possessed considerable influence and the ability to protect itself among the Federation's upper ranks.

Now, the potential Wang Chuan had displayed as her disciple was no longer merely a matter of her personal inheritance. It could very well concern the rise and fall of the entire Leng Family.

She had to make arrangements in advance and mobilize the family's strength, paving a safer and broader path for this disciple destined for greatness.

As Wang Chuan ventured deeper.

Roar—!!!

A roar rang out from the depths of the forest.

What followed immediately was a terrifying shockwave, visible to the naked eye as it spread outward in a fan-shaped arc!

Wherever the shockwave passed, ancient trees as thick as embraced trunks toppled and shattered in unison like fragile stalks of wheat.

The ground was plowed into deep trenches, rocks crumbled into powder, and the scene resembled the end of the world.

Wang Chuan's pupils contracted slightly. His body instantly drifted backward dozens of meters as Soul Power enveloped him, resisting the horrifying aftershock.

He could clearly "see" that the vast, dense forest to his front left had been flattened as if by an invisible giant hand, abruptly opening up his field of vision.

An enormous, exceptionally robust figure radiating a savage aura leaped through the smoke and dust amid the fallen trees. Every rise and fall made the earth tremble violently.

"Finally, something worthwhile."

A flash of delight also passed through Wang Chuan's eyes.

The powerful aura bearing down on him was as heavy as a mountain and as violent as thunder, far surpassing every thousand-year Soul Beast he had encountered before. It even carried a qualitative sense of oppression.

It was the unique pressure of a ten-thousand-year Soul Beast!

As the smoke and dust gradually dispersed, the massive figure crashed to the ground less than a hundred meters from Wang Chuan.

Wang Chuan finally saw its full appearance clearly.

It was unmistakably a giant!

Over ten meters tall, its entire body was covered in thick, coarse fur. Strangely, the colors of that fur were sharply divided: the left side of its body was black as ink, while the right side was white as snow.

Two heads sat atop its shoulders, each possessing only one eye. One released a dim black glow, while the other emitted a blazing white light. The lights flickered unpredictably, shaking the soul.

Chaotic light, a mingling of black and white, continuously poured from its enormous body. The devastating shockwave from before had originated from it.

"Twin Cyclops!"

Detailed information about this rare Soul Beast immediately surfaced in Wang Chuan's mind.

Twin Cyclopes were an exceptionally rare variant among the Cyclops race.

Cyclopes were a relatively unusual existence among Soul Beasts.

Other than having only one eye on their foreheads, they looked no different from humans in every other respect.

They would even weave clothing from branches and vines to cover their lower bodies.

It was simply that Cyclopes were far larger than humans.

They stood two meters tall from birth. Once their cultivation reached a hundred years, they could grow beyond five meters tall, at which point they were considered adult Cyclopes.

Only then would the rate of their growth in height slow somewhat.

Once their cultivation reached a thousand years, Cyclopes could exceed eight meters in height. If their cultivation reached ten thousand years, they could even grow beyond fifteen meters.

However, because their bodies were so huge and conspicuous.

They easily became prey for certain powerful Soul Beasts.

Therefore, hundred-thousand-year Cyclopes were practically nonexistent.

Moreover, their brain matter was an enormous tonic for certain Soul Beasts, and every one of those Soul Beasts possessed top-tier bloodline inheritances.

Although the Cyclops before him stood only around ten meters tall, Wang Chuan could be completely certain that its cultivation exceeded ten thousand years.

Because in the cultivation of Soul Beasts, ten thousand years was an enormous threshold. Once they crossed it, a Soul Beast's strength would surge dramatically.

Some Soul Beasts would mutate when breaking through the ten-thousand-year mark.

However, mutations in Cyclopes were not inevitable, merely possible.

Furthermore, there was more than one direction such mutations could take.

But the strongest among them was the Twin Cyclops Wang Chuan saw before him.

The Twin Cyclops' innate attribute was the rare attribute of Chaos. Its attribute was not fixed and could change at any moment.

After mutating into a Twin Cyclops, however, its attributes underwent a fundamental transformation. Even its body would shrink somewhat, and it would grow a second head.

This Twin Cyclops was an exceedingly rare union of light and darkness.

Its strength had already placed it among the ranks of top-tier Soul Beasts.

"Looks like this should be the guardian of Eastsea City's Intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform."

Wang Chuan muttered to himself, a gleam of delight flashing through his eyes.

Spirit Ascension Platform guardians differed from the other Soul Beasts created there.

After dying, they would not turn into Spirit Power Halos for others to absorb. Instead, they would directly become Soul Bones.

That was because they themselves had been created from Soul Bones by the Spirit Pagoda through Artificial Soul Spirit technology.

Moreover, with the strength of this Twin Cyclops, it was indeed powerful enough to serve as the guardian of an Intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform.

After all, with its overall strength, even a Seven-Ring Soul Saint might not necessarily be able to defeat it.

And the Intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform happened to restrict the highest cultivation level to that of a Six-Ring Soul Emperor.

Furthermore, all Spirit Ascension Platforms were actually one whole, and that whole had been divided into the current Primary, Intermediate, and Advanced levels.

This both ensured that Soul Masters could not reach a higher-level Spirit Ascension Platform and prevented Soul Bones from being obtained by others.

It was simply killing two birds with one stone.

But to Wang Chuan now, it was a windfall from heaven.

Before sharing Abyss Wang Chuan's power, he might have needed to go through some trouble against this Twin Cyclops, perhaps even use one of his trump cards.

But now...

Roar!

Before Wang Chuan could think further, the Twin Cyclops' pitch-black head launched the first attack.

The eerie glow in its single eye surged as vast dark elements frantically gathered before it.

In the blink of an eye, they formed a pitch-black beam as thick as a water barrel and shot violently toward Wang Chuan!