The Immortal Herbs Were Also Taken in One Go

At the same moment Ah Yin was resurrected.

Sunset Forest, the blessed land of the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.

Dugu Bo slowly withdrew from his meditative state, habitually unfurling his spiritual power, which cascaded like liquid mercury to cover the entire valley of the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.

However, the moment his spiritual power swept across the herb garden, the composure on Dugu Bo's face instantly froze.

"Hm?!"

He snapped his eyes open, a flash of incredulous brilliance erupting from his murky green pupils, and his body shot toward the herb garden he treasured like his own life, moving like an arrow released from a bowstring.

What he saw before him struck him like a bolt of lightning!

Empty!

An unprecedented emptiness!

The herb garden that had been lush and shimmering with radiant light just yesterday was now a scene of dead, desolate ruin!

Those rare flowers and exotic grasses he had painstakingly guarded for decades... were all gone!

That Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, which shared the same martial soul as his old rival Chrysanthemum Douluo, was gone, as if it had never existed at all.

Those two powerful exotic grasses that radiated extreme heat and extreme cold were also gone, leaving behind not even a wisp of heat or a shard of ice.

Those rare flowers and grasses whose names he knew, and those whose names he didn't but whose immense value was obvious at a glance... all had vanished without a trace!

"No... impossible!!" Dugu Bo let out a low, guttural roar, his voice distorted by extreme shock and panic.

Dugu Bo's heart plummeted to the depths of his chest, and a cold chill instantly surged from the soles of his feet to the top of his head.

Who on earth could have silently wiped out his entire herb garden while he was cultivating, without even alerting him?

"Who?! Who did this!!" Dugu Bo jerked his head up, his terrifying Title Douluo-level soul power erupting uncontrollably as emerald-green poisonous mist instantly permeated the valley.

"Seventh Soul Skill: Avatar of the Martial Soul!"

Whoosh!

Dugu Bo unleashed his Martial Soul Avatar, transforming into a colossal Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor before soaring into the sky to begin his search.

Raging with fury, he wanted nothing more than to find out who had stolen his rare flowers and grasses.

Yet, no matter how frantically his senses swept the area, he found no presence of other powerhouses in the outside world, nor did he detect a single trace of residual enemy soul power.

This could only mean that the culprit had truly already fled the area.

"Damn it..."

Dugu Bo was so angry his eyes turned bloodshot, yet he could only vent his impotent rage.

He had no way of finding out who had stolen his rare flowers and grasses.

Having flown a distance over the Sunset Forest, he had yet to realize that throughout the entire soul beast forest, not only were there no people to be found, but not even a single soul beast remained.

"What is going on here!?"

However, Dugu Bo was a Title Douluo after all, possessing keen perception.

His figure quickly came to a halt as he looked around in confusion: "It's too quiet. How can there not be a single soul beast in sight?"

Whoosh!

Suppressing his anger for the moment, Dugu Bo's figure darted rapidly through the Sunset Forest.

The more he searched, the more an indescribable fear took root in Dugu Bo's heart.

Because he discovered that in the Sunset Forest, it seemed as if every single soul beast was gone.

They had all vanished.

"This... what on earth is happening?"

Dugu Bo was utterly dumbfounded; such a thing was simply impossible for human power to achieve.

Still unable to believe it, he continued to search the Sunset Forest like a madman.

"Gone..."

"Except for that Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent..."

"All the other soul beasts are gone too..."

"What exactly has happened?"

While Dugu Bo was frantically searching for traces of soul beasts, the Shrek group, who had witnessed the disappearance of the soul beasts firsthand, were even more bewildered and at a loss.

Dugu Bo had at least woken from meditation to discover the soul beasts missing.

Tang San and the others, however, were right in the heart of the soul beasts, in the Star Dou Great Forest where they were most abundant. Just a moment ago, they could still see the shadows of other soul beasts, but now, they were nowhere to be seen.

It was as if they had vanished into thin air, just like that Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent.

Whoosh!

Just then, a figure suddenly appeared before them.

"Old man!"

"Grandfather!"

Upon seeing the newcomer, both Chao Tianxiang and Meng Yiran cried out in pleasant surprise.

"It's Dragon Duke Meng Shu!"

When Zhao Wuji saw the man, his expression instantly turned grave.

He did not fear the Serpent Matriarch Chao Tianxiang; the only reason he had been wary of her previously was entirely because of the Dragon Duke Meng Shu standing behind her.

Chao Tianxiang was merely a Spirit Emperor, but Meng Shu was a formidable Spirit Douluo.

Now that Meng Shu himself had arrived, he was naturally on edge.

"Junior Zhao Wuji pays his respects to Senior Dragon Duke!"

Zhao Wuji immediately lowered his posture and greeted him respectfully.

"We are students of Shrek, and we pay our respects to Senior Dragon Duke!"

Tang San, Dai Mubai, and the others were also quick-witted; knowing the extent of Meng Shu's power, they all bowed in succession.

"My good granddaughter, have you absorbed your third spirit ring yet?"

The stern-faced Meng Shu ignored Zhao Wuji and the others entirely, pulling Meng Yiran over to ask her directly.

He had been helping Meng Yiran search for a suitable spirit beast earlier, and he had seen a spirit beast vanish into thin air right before his eyes.

Since then, he had not been able to find a single trace of any spirit beast.

"No, Grandfather."

"That injured Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent suddenly just disappeared!"

Meng Yiran shook her head in frustration.

Then, she hurriedly asked, "Also, Grandfather, did you see any other spirit beasts? Ever since a moment ago, we've noticed that the spirit beasts in the surrounding area have all vanished. Do you know what happened?"

"That's right, old man, did you see any other spirit beasts?"

Chao Tianxiang followed up with her own question.

Her tone carried a hint of trembling, as if she were afraid of something.

At this moment, Zhao Wuji and the others no longer cared about being ignored by Meng Shu; they all turned their gazes toward him.

The matter they were most concerned about right now was also the disappearance of the spirit beasts.

"No, I have already searched the area. The spirit beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest have all vanished..."

As Meng Shu said this, his expression was not only unsightly but also filled with deep shock and fear.

"Ah..."

"How is that possible?"

"All the spirit beasts have disappeared?"

"The entire Star Dou Great Forest?"

"..."

Hearing Meng Shu's words, Meng Yiran gasped in alarm.

The Shrek group also cried out in succession.

"Indeed, those spirit beasts didn't just run away; they simply vanished..."

"Did you not notice on your way here? Even those plant-type spirit beasts that never move have all disappeared!"

"Something major has happened!"

Meng Shu's voice could not help but carry a trace of a tremor.

He knew very well what this signified.

Behind Tang San, Xiao Wu's delicate body trembled slightly upon hearing Meng Shu's words.

All the spirit beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest had disappeared?

Then what about her two younger brothers, Daming and Erming?