Bibi Dong: Protect That Year-Old Blue Silver Grass

Pope Palace.

"Teacher, have all the soul beasts on the continent truly vanished?"

"This can't be real, can it?"

Hu Liena stared at Bibi Dong in disbelief, her eyes wide, unwilling to accept that what her teacher had told her was actually happening.

She had heard rumors about the disappearance of soul beasts before, but she never imagined the situation was this severe.

"Mm, it is not just the soul beasts on the continent; even the sea soul beasts in the ocean have all vanished."

Bibi Dong nodded, her face revealing no particular expression.

The gravity of the situation had exceeded even her own expectations.

At first, she thought only the dozen or so Soul Hunting Forest reserves managed by Martial Soul Hall had been affected, but she never expected that every single soul beast had disappeared.

Now that things had reached this point, she actually felt less anxious.

If only the Soul Hunting Forest reserves managed by Martial Soul Hall had been affected, she would have had a mountain of problems to deal with.

She would have needed to find the culprit behind the scenes, mitigate the blow to Martial Soul Hall's reputation, and pacify the internal factions...

In short, she would have had endless headaches.

But now, it was different.

Since all soul beasts had vanished, it meant every sect and power had to face this crisis; everyone was suffering, not just Martial Soul Hall.

The only thing that annoyed her was that she could no longer rapidly level up by absorbing soul rings.

She was currently at level 98, just one level away from breaking through to become a Peerless Douluo.

The gap between level 98 and 99 was not easily bridged.

Her second martial soul still had two empty soul ring slots, yet even if she absorbed two hundred-thousand-year soul rings for the remaining spots, she wasn't entirely confident it would guarantee a breakthrough to level 99.

Now, forget about hundred-thousand-year soul rings; even ten-thousand-year soul rings were gone.

If she had known, she would have just absorbed two high-quality ten-thousand-year soul rings and spent another ten or twenty years cultivating; she probably would have broken through by now anyway.

She had only wanted to reach the breakthrough faster and have a few more hundred-thousand-year soul rings to show off.

Who doesn't want to look impressive?

Alas, regret was useless now.

"How could this happen..."

"My brother and Yan are about to reach level 50, and I should be able to break through next year..."

"Does this mean we won't be able to become Soul Kings?"

After receiving confirmation from Bibi Dong, Hu Liena's eyes turned red, filled with grievance and unwillingness.

"Rest assured, you will still be able to become Soul Kings."

Seeing Hu Liena on the verge of tears, Bibi Dong stepped forward to comfort her.

"Really? Teacher!"

Hearing this, Hu Liena immediately stopped crying, looking at her teacher with pleasant surprise.

"Mm. Although the soul beasts have vanished overnight, as long as the power of soul power still exists on the continent, and as long as animals and plants remain alive, soul beasts cannot truly go extinct."

"Like humans, soul beasts also come into being through awakening. Some powerful soul beast species are born with soul power, so their entire population consists of soul beasts."

"However, most soul beasts actually awaken from ordinary animals and plants."

"These soul beasts are the lowest-tier ten-year soul beasts—one might even call them one-year soul beasts!"

"In the past, no one would ever absorb such soul beasts; they provide no evolution to a soul master's martial soul, nor do they grant any soul skills!"

"Their only purpose is to allow a soul master who has reached a bottleneck to attach a soul ring, thereby breaking through to the next soul master realm!"

"While the powerful soul beasts of Douluo Continent are gone, these lowest-tier one-year soul beasts can awaken at any time."

"Currently, in one of the Soul Hunting Forests within the Heaven Dou Empire, we have already discovered a stalk of Blue Silver Grass that just awakened soul power."

"That Blue Silver Grass has already been placed under protection."

"Since we can find one awakened soul beast, there will certainly be more to follow."

"With the resources of our Martial Soul Hall, searching for a few one-year soul beasts is not a problem; you will certainly have no trouble breaking through your realms."

"It is just that, in doing so, your future path may not go very far!"

Only when facing Hu Liena was Bibi Dong willing to be patient and share the latest findings of Martial Soul Hall.

"Really?"

"That's good then! As long as I can break through my realm, that's enough!"

After hearing her teacher's words, Hu Liena felt no sadness over the low tier of the Blue Silver Grass; instead, she felt a sense of relief.

There was no helping it—compared to being unable to advance as a soul master, a one-year soul beast was better than nothing!

Yet, even amidst her relief, Hu Liena could not help but feel a sense of absurdity.

Since when did the spirit master world become so obsessed with a one-year-quality Blue Silver Grass?

She believed that if Martial Soul Hall dared to reveal the location of that Blue Silver Grass, countless spirit masters would surely rush to fight over it.

Thinking of that scene, Hu Liena could not help but want to laugh.

But when she remembered that she was also one of those people, she could not laugh at all.

"Nana, it is good that you think this way."

Bibi Dong felt very gratified to hear that Hu Liena was not unwilling.

"Teacher, didn't our Martial Soul Hall just promote a new elder?"

Receiving praise from her teacher, Hu Liena's eyes suddenly lit up; she had thought of Lin Yue.

Others in Martial Soul Hall might not know Lin Yue's spirit skills, but as Bibi Dong's disciple, she was well aware of them.

This was because Bibi Dong had once told her about it as an amusing anecdote.

"Isn't his martial soul capable of containing spirit beasts? Are the spirit beasts that elder previously contained still there?"

The more Hu Liena spoke, the more excited she became.

And after hearing Hu Liena's words, Bibi Dong's eyes also lit up in an instant.

Before this, because of the disappearance of the spirit beasts, she had too many matters to handle, to the point that she had completely forgotten they even had someone like Lin Yue in Martial Soul Hall.

When all the spirit beasts vanished collectively, her first subconscious thought was that the ones Lin Yue had contained had also disappeared, and she had not given it much further thought.

But thinking about it carefully now, the spirit beasts Lin Yue contained were placed inside his Martial Soul Space; they should not have vanished inexplicably like the others.

"Nana, go to the Elder Hall and help me invite Elder Lin Yue over."

Realizing this, Bibi Dong immediately instructed Hu Liena to go and fetch Lin Yue.

"Yes, Teacher!"

"I will go right away!"

Hearing Bibi Dong's words, Hu Liena responded with immediate excitement, then turned and headed toward the direction of the Elder Hall.

"Soul Collector Douluo... Lin Yue..."

"Your space should contain quite a few spirit beasts, right?"

"It seems my spirit ring has a solution."

Watching Hu Liena's disappearing back, a smile appeared on Bibi Dong's face.

It was the pleasant surprise of recovering something lost.

Now, it all depended on whether those spirit beasts were still in Lin Yue's space, and what the highest cultivation level of the ten-thousand-year spirit beasts within might be.