Before long, a whole crowd of Body Sect experts were eating themselves to tears.
"You..." Yu Mengdi's eyes widened as she stared at the skewer in her hand. Her heart stirred, and tears welled in her eyes as she turned to the young sect master. "Young Sect Master, did you put something in the barbecue? Why does my heart feel so sour?"
Ye Que's mouth twitched. He hadn't expected this bunch of old men to be such drama queens, turning a meal into a whole story.
What, did your families all grow corn?
Without another word, he took a bottle of red wine from his Storage Soul Tool. XO was printed clearly on the label, proclaiming its distinguished status.
He opened the bottle and poured everyone a glass.
Yu Mengdi looked at the red wine in her hand and asked, "Young Sect Master, what kind of wine is this?"
"Why doesn't this wine have any alcohol in it?" Du Busi took a sip, looking puzzled.
Ye Que took a sip and smiled. "This is premium imported liquor from the Star Luo Empire. A bottle usually sells for ten Gold Soul Coins, but I got it at an auction for one Copper Soul Coin. As for why it doesn't have any alcohol in it, that must have something to do with the supply chain. If it really had alcohol, wouldn't that cause trouble?"
"From now on, if you're ever homesick, come buy some wine from me. This imported liquor won't get you drunk, and the cops can't even catch you driving under the influence."
Everyone gasped at the news. What a good thing!
Damn, why hadn't he sold them such good wine sooner?
Jin Peng and the others took a sip and found it burned their throats. It didn't have any alcohol in it at all.
Good wine. Truly, good wine!
Watching this scene, Ye Que silently buried his head in Yu Mengdi's arms, laughing so hard that tears nearly streamed down his face.
Yu Mengdi was utterly bewildered.
After thinking it over, she decided not to drink the fake wine the young sect master had given her.
If it had no alcohol in it, could you even call it wine?
The young sect master was a black-hearted maggot.
They had to crack down hard on unscrupulous merchants selling fake wine!
"All right!"
A dozen minutes later, Du Busi put down his skewer and rebuked them. "You're all grown men, and all you do is cry, cry, cry! You're making this old man lose face. Pack everything up and get ready to enter the Star Dou Core Circle to hunt Soul Beasts."
The Titled Douluos wiped their tears and quickly composed themselves.
In less than two minutes, the Soul Beast hunting teams streaked into the Star Dou Forest, sweeping the area in a thorough search.
In under an hour, all the Titled Douluos had reached the Core Circle, where Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts roamed everywhere.
Hovering in midair, Du Busi said gravely, "We'll make this quick. Search the Soul Beast gathering grounds I told you about. The moment you find a Soul Beast over 150,000 years old, notify me. Dragon Subduing Douluo and I will be there shortly."
"Remember, no one is to attack first, or we might alarm the Beast God. Our goal is to make this quick and clean."
Jin Peng nodded. "We won't disappoint you, Sect Master."
With Golden Body Douluo leading them, all the Titled Douluos scattered like arrows loosed from a bow, shooting off in every direction.
Du Busi turned to Ye Que. "I'm heading out too."
With a whoosh, Du Busi vanished in a streak of green light.
If you took the money, you had to do the job. That was Du Busi's rule for himself. Besides, Ye Que had paid in advance, and the Body Sect couldn't let such an honored guest down.
They were professionals when it came to hunting Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts.
Ye Que stood where he was, watching them disappear into the distance. "I wonder how long it'll take them to find one. The attributes I need are just too hard to come by."
"I feel like I'm getting carried," Yu Mengdi said, pouting as she realized she was completely useless.
All she could do was wait for the Body Sect experts to capture a Soul Beast and bring it to her.
But, thinking about it carefully, wasn't this a blessing in its own way?
Back when they hunted for Soul Rings, they were always in mortal danger, with death hanging over them at every turn. Now that they had so many friends, everything was moving in a better direction.
Nearby, Guangyu Douluo, who had stayed behind to protect the young sect master, smiled. "Young Sect Master, you have to trust the Body Sect's expertise. Their predecessors' predecessors had already mapped out the Star Dou Forest. They'll be even more efficient than Shrek."
Ye Que nodded in agreement, then sat cross-legged and began meditating while he waited for the Body Sect's elders to bring good news.
After absorbing so many Immortal Herbs and so much Heaven and Earth Energy, he had no idea what his Soul Power Level was now. Perhaps after obtaining two Soul Rings, he would be close to reaching Soul Saint.
Elsewhere, Shrek's Soul Hunting team reached the mixed zone. Xuan Zi was leading the inner-court students as they hunted for Soul Rings.
Ma Xiaotao, Dai Yueheng, and the others were there too, clearing a path up ahead.
Xuan Zi took a drink from his gourd, bit into a chicken leg, and said to them, "You lot go on ahead and clear the way. I'm going to find a cool spot to lie down. Don't bother me unless something happens."
Ma Xiaotao asked, confused, "Elder Xuan, what if we run into a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast?"
Xuan Zi waved his hand. "There can't be that many Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts in the Star Dou Forest. Just focus on leading the way. If anything goes wrong, I'll take full responsibility."
Ma Xiaotao sighed and continued clearing the path.
It seemed Elder Xuan's habit of getting sleepy the moment he entered the Star Dou Forest was incurable.
He was better suited to being a guard at the academy gates, eating and sleeping all day.
Sigh...
The members of Shrek's Soul Hunting team were unhappy, but they didn't dare challenge a senior elder. They could only pray that the hunt went smoothly and they found suitable Soul Rings.
Before long, Xuan Zi left to find a quiet spot to sleep.
An hour later.
The Star Dou Core Circle suddenly trembled. Golden Body Douluo shouted, "Sect Master, we've finally found a suitable Soul Beast!"
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
A dozen streaks of light shot toward a cliff in the Star Dou Forest. Their Soul Skills nearly sealed off every escape route for their target.
Ye Que and Yu Mengdi had come too.
Looking up, they saw a super Soul Beast with a cultivation of 180,000 years, radiating sacred majesty.
Ye Que exclaimed, "It's an 180,000-year-old Angel Beast!"
This Soul Beast had a form much like an angel's—or a human's. More precisely, it was a close relative of angels, and possessed the rare attributes of holiness, fire, and light, all of them extreme attributes.
Angel Beasts were also the most suitable Soul Beasts for Angel Soul Masters, but they were incredibly rare, as rare as Golden Behemoth Beasts of the same era.
The Angel Beast's motto was: "The sky is our domain; we are invincible in the heavens."
Ye Que hadn't expected to find an Angel Beast, almost extinct, in the Core Circle. What a stroke of fate!
"Attack!"
Du Busi waved his hand, and in almost the same instant, he unleashed his Martial Soul Avatar, transforming into a thousand-meter-tall green giant.
The Body Sect experts wasted no time. They all unleashed their own Martial Soul Avatars at once, starting their attacks without the slightest delay.
"Arm Avatar."
"Skeleton Avatar."
"Hair Avatar."
One Martial Soul Avatar after another appeared, surrounding the Angel Beast as they attacked all at once.
In an instant, the Core Circle shook, and the ground quaked.
Du Busi roared as his Body Sect poison erupted in full force. With one punch, he knocked the Angel Beast out of the sky.
"Ah!"
The Angel Beast let out a delicate cry and shot downward like a meteor of flame.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
After a series of deafening explosions, the earth cracked and the mountains collapsed.
The Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts and the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts of other attributes nearby fled in every direction.
With so many Titled Douluos, even a Ferocious Beast wouldn't be able to escape.
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