As the eldest prince of the Star Luo Empire, Dai Weisi had the finest cultivation talent in the Star Luo Imperial Family, with the exception of Dai Mubai.
Recently, his Soul Power had also broken through to level forty, reaching the Soul Elder realm.
His good-for-nothing younger brother Dai Mubai had fled the Star Luo Empire three years ago, so as long as the Holy King appeared in these ruins, Dai Weisi would have the best chance of inheriting his legacy.
"Heh, as long as I obtain the Holy King's legacy, the throne of the Star Luo Empire will surely be mine."
Thinking this, he continued following the guidance of the Holy King's aura, heading deeper into the ruins.
But he failed to notice that the gaunt young man at the back of the group was watching him with eyes full of jealousy and frenzy.
Elsewhere, Ye Xuan was stealthily making his way toward Hu Liena and Ning Rongrong.
What puzzled him was that no matter how hard he hurried in their direction, he still couldn't sense any decrease in the distance between them.
"What on earth is going on? Could there be something wrong with the seeds Ah Yin gave us?"
Ye Xuan sensed that something was amiss. He had been traveling at full speed for over an hour, and the seeds had indeed sensed the two women's exact location.
Yet according to the seeds, the distance between him and them hadn't decreased in the slightest.
Just as he was about to quiet his mind and think it over, the forest not far away rang with the roars of Soul Beasts and the agonized screams of Soul Masters.
"Hm? Has someone run into trouble?"
Ye Xuan couldn't have cared less whether anyone else lived or died, but he did want to see just how powerful the Soul Beasts living in the Holy King Ruins were.
"I'll go take a look. It'll give me a chance to observe the dangers lurking in the Holy King Ruins."
With that thought, he vanished from the spot.
A dozen seconds later, he was concealed atop a towering tree tower. Below the ancient tree lay a horrific scene of blood and flesh strewn everywhere.
Only three people remained in the group below, two men and one woman. Three Soul Beasts stood before them: two Evil Eye Tigers with cultivation ages of fifteen hundred years, and one with a cultivation age of just a hundred years.
"Those are... Evil Eye Tigers? I thought this Soul Beast had been hunted to extinction by the Star Luo Imperial Family a hundred years ago?"
On the way here, Ye Xuan had encountered only Nether Shadow Cats with cultivation ages of around a hundred years.
He hadn't expected to find a Soul Beast here that had supposedly gone extinct.
According to the history books—or rather, what could be called unofficial histories—the ancestor of the Star Luo Imperial Family had actually been a mutated hundred-thousand-year-old Evil Eye Tiger who took human form.
His skin had been white from the moment he was born, so after taking human form, he named his Martial Soul the Evil Eye White Tiger.
Those unofficial histories said nothing of what became of him afterward. But a hundred years later, a beam of holy light descended from the sky.
The title of Evil Eye Holy King wouldn't emerge among descendants with the Evil Eye White Tiger Martial Soul until yet another hundred years had passed.
Looking at the Evil Eye Tiger below, with its mismatched red and blue eyes and an absurdly flashy appearance, Ye Xuan felt an urge to dig out its eyeballs and use them as ornaments.
But as someone well-versed in Soul Beasts, he knew that the Evil Eye Tiger's mismatched eyes could unleash a Spirit Shock. Even a Soul King might end up as fertilizer if caught off guard.
The standoff below didn't last long. The two men and one woman soon found themselves at a disadvantage.
But Ye Xuan quickly noticed the two high-ranked Soul Elders exchange a glance. Then, without hesitation, one of them kicked the girl standing in front of them toward the three Evil Eye Tigers.
A complex look flickered in Ye Xuan's eyes as he watched.
What the two men had done was despicable, but the girl was only a Two-Ring Soul Grandmaster. They were already powerless against three thousand-year-old beasts, and if they wanted to live, they had no choice but to use someone else's life to "fill the hole."
The girl, completely unprepared for an attack from behind, stumbled from the kick and crashed heavily to the ground. The two men merely glanced at her coldly before turning tail and fleeing.
What Ye Xuan hadn't expected was that the two thousand-year-old Evil Eye Tigers only gave the girl a sidelong glance before charging after the fleeing men.
"Tsk... I didn't expect them to divide up the hunt. Interesting."
As the two thousand-year-old "big cats" ran off, Ye Xuan quietly approached the hundred-year-old "kitten."
Of course, he only wanted a closer look at this supposedly extinct Soul Beast. It wasn't as though he had any designs on the unconscious girl lying on the ground.
Just as the little tiger was about to enjoy its meal, Ye Xuan suddenly appeared before it. Right after that...
Squish!
A blue-green vine pierced straight through it from above. Before it could even react, it breathed its last.
"Just as I thought, the chrysanthemum is every Soul Beast's weak point. Even this supposedly extinct species is no exception."
Fortunately, no one else had seen what Ye Xuan had done. Otherwise, they would have looked at him strangely.
Yet even after Ye Xuan had chopped the hundred-year-old Evil Eye Tiger into pieces, the yellow hundred-year Soul Ring that should have appeared was nowhere to be seen.
"Hm? Don't the Soul Beasts in the Holy King Ruins produce Soul Rings?"
Ye Xuan's expression darkened. He could tell that there was something strange about this place, but Douluo Continent had its own laws of cultivation.
Unless he had already left Douluo behind, killing a Soul Beast should inevitably produce a Soul Ring.
But that was impossible. The Evil Eye Holy King, whose power capped out at the Third-Level God rank, could never have opened up an independent pocket world like this.
"Forget it. I'd better figure out how to reach the center of this pocket world. If nothing unexpected happened, the gaze that watched me at the beginning must have belonged to the Evil Eye Holy King."
Ye Xuan knew the original story inside and out. The Evil Eye Holy King's will had awakened inside Dai Mubai during the Continental Advanced Soul Master Tournament.
Clearly, this time around, the Star Luo Imperial Family, with its Evil Eye White Tiger Martial Soul, was destined to return from the Holy King Ruins empty-handed.
After the ruins closed, the Evil Eye Holy King would leave and seek out Dai Mubai, whose bloodline was even purer.
Ye Xuan was deeply worried about his senior sister, Hu Liena, and Ning Rongrong's safety. But since he'd already confirmed that he couldn't find them, all he could do was search for the exit to the Holy King Ruins first.
Besides, he believed that his senior sister's mature and steady nature meant she wouldn't get into trouble here.
Before leaving, Ye Xuan lowered his eyes to the girl lying on the ground.
Seeing her covered in blood and barely clinging to life, he ultimately couldn't bring himself to leave her there to die.
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