Blue Silver Forest

"What's wrong, Xiao Yu?" Yue Guan had naturally noticed the expression on Lin Yu's face and looked at him with some concern.

"It's nothing. Let's head back." Lin Yu shook his head and said nothing more.

It had been twelve years since he arrived in this world. Throughout those twelve years, Lin Yu hadn't dared to slack off for even a moment, seizing every opportunity to grow stronger.

He had joined the Spirit Hall, gone to Sunset Forest to claim the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, visited Holy Soul Village to claim Blue Silver Emperor Ah Yin, and ventured into Star Dou Forest to seize Tang San's External Soul Bone.

Every one of these things had only been possible because Lin Yu knew the plot.

But not long ago, they had just dealt Tang Hao a severe blow.

That meant Lin Yu could no longer predict how Douluo Continent would develop from here on. From this moment onward, the world of Douluo Continent had become an unpredictable, real world to him.

So what if I don't know what's about to happen? Even without relying on the plot, Tang San won't be my match. Even if the Asura God stands behind the Tang family, I won't be afraid in the slightest. With that thought, Lin Yu stopped agonizing over it.

There was no point in worrying about it now. It would only leave him on edge.

"Let's go. There's no need to hurry back to Spirit City this time. We can take our time." Lin Yu led the way out of Star Dou Forest.

Lin Yu had already snatched up nearly all the opportunities Tang San would have had early on. Even Shrek Academy was gone, so what was there for Lin Yu to hurry for?

"That's true. After all, you're the first Soul King in the history of Douluo Continent to reach that rank at twelve. You really don't need to hurry." Yue Guan teased him in response.

"Uncle Yue, what's so surprising about that? It's all because of the Immortal Herbs. Without them, how could I have achieved this at my age?" Lin Yu was rather modest.

"By the way, Uncle Yue, do you know what this place is?" Lin Yu asked, looking at the forest before them in surprise.

Several days had passed since they left Star Dou Forest. After wandering without any particular destination, they had now arrived somewhere unfamiliar.

A strange-looking forest lay before them. Even Lin Yu, now a Soul King, could feel a powerful sense of danger coming from it.

"Xiao Yu, I don't know either." Yue Guan watched the forest ahead with a solemn expression.

"Spirit Hall has no records of this forest." Even Yue Guan, a Titled Douluo, had no idea what forest lay ahead.

"Still, although I don't know what kind of forest it is, I can sense that it's extremely dangerous. Even I might not make it back out if I went in." Yue Guan's senses were sharper than Lin Yu's. Lin Yu's mental power was formidable, but he was still somewhat behind a Titled Douluo.

"I think we'd better ask around in a nearby village first. If we go in without knowing anything, we could run into danger." Dugu Bo frowned as he looked at the forest ahead.

The whole place seemed strange. It would be best not to enter before they knew more.

"Fine. Let's find a nearby village and ask around. It's almost evening anyway." The group then moved away from the forest.

Although they had already put some distance between themselves and the forest, Lin Yu had a guess about it.

The vegetation around the forest's outskirts was very uniform. It was almost entirely Blue Silver Grass, so the forest's name was easy to guess.

It was likely the forest where Tang San had obtained a growth-type Soul Ring at level fifty and awakened his Blue Silver Emperor Bloodline.

The strongest Soul Beast in the forest was an approximately eighty-thousand-year-old Blue Silver King. However, the Blue Silver King could control all the Blue Silver Grass in the forest, making the place extremely dangerous.

Even Tang Hao hadn't dared to venture deep into the forest back then; he had let Tang San go in alone. If Tang San hadn't possessed the Blue Silver Emperor Bloodline, he likely wouldn't have made it out alive.

Before long, the group found a village.

"Elder, we're passing through. Would it be possible for us to stay the night?" After reaching the village, Lin Yu and the others found the village chief and asked.

"Of course. It's our honor to have distinguished guests like you visit our village." The chief greeted Lin Yu and the others warmly.

In a small village like theirs, apart from the Spirit Hall officials who came each year to help children awaken their Martial Souls, it was rare to see Soul Masters.

"Elder, do you know anything about the forest nearby?" Once they had settled in, Lin Yu asked directly.

At Lin Yu's question, the village chief's smiling expression froze, then turned solemn.

"Do you mean the forest that's entirely covered in Blue Silver Grass?" the chief asked uncertainly.

"Yes. Is there something unusual about it?" Seeing the change in the chief's expression, Lin Yu pressed him for an answer.

"Ah, that takes us back more than ten years." The chief sighed before continuing.

"Because it's full of Blue Silver Grass, we call that forest Blue Silver Forest. It used to be like any other forest. Soul Masters often went there to hunt for Soul Rings, and it was practically a paradise for plant-type Soul Masters.

"But things changed more than ten years ago. That forest became forbidden to all humans. Anyone who went in never came back out. Gradually, no one dared to enter it anymore. As time went by, it was almost forgotten." The chief told them what he knew about the forest.

When the chief mentioned that it had happened more than ten years ago, Lin Yu's expression tightened. Wasn't that when the Blue Silver Emperor had sacrificed herself?

It seemed that this really was the forest where Tang San had awakened his bloodline.

"Elder, you said that the Soul Masters who entered never came back out. Do you know what the strongest Soul Master was capable of?" Yue Guan asked the chief with a slight frown.

"I'm not entirely sure. I'm just an ordinary person, after all. But our village is the closest one to that forest, so most Soul Masters stop here. The strongest Soul Master I ever saw seemed to have reached the rank of Soul Saint. I don't know about anyone stronger than that." The chief furrowed his brow, thought for a moment, and answered uncertainly.

"A Soul Saint?" Zhu Zhuqing exclaimed in surprise.

A Soul Saint was already considered a high-ranking Soul Master, capable of taking on an entire army alone. The fact that even a Soul Saint had died there showed just how dangerous the forest was.

"Xiao Yu, I don't think we should take the risk. We may be Titled Douluo, but we don't know what's inside. Besides, you don't need a Soul Ring right now, so there's no benefit to going in." Yue Guan thought it over and decided he didn't want Lin Yu to enter.

Lin Yu nodded at Yue Guan's suggestion. Now wasn't the time to go in.

The Blue Silver Emperor hadn't yet been successfully revived. She was still planted in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. They would have to wait until she had been revived before deciding what to do.