Successful Resurrection

Thinking of this, Xiao Wu grew anxious to the point of tears.

If the timing hadn't been so poor, she would have wanted to return to her home deep within the Star Dou Great Forest immediately to take a look.

"Ah..." Meng Yiran exclaimed again, then said urgently, "Grandfather, have all the soul beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest disappeared? What about other places? It couldn't be that all soul beasts have vanished, right? I won't be left without a soul ring to absorb, will I?"

Meng Yiran's words touched upon the deepest fear in everyone's hearts; upon hearing this, the faces of Tang San and the others turned pale.

"That's impossible, such a thing could never happen..."

"If the soul beasts were all gone, wouldn't that mean we soul masters would have no way to cultivate?"

"Exactly, such a thing is absolutely impossible..."

"..."

Dai Mubai and the others subconsciously began to deny it.

Because they absolutely, under no circumstances, wanted to see such a thing happen.

"Don't cry, my good granddaughter. Grandfather has only scouted the surrounding area for now; perhaps this phenomenon is localized, and it isn't necessarily the same elsewhere!"

"No one could possibly achieve such a feat."

Long Gong Meng Shu spoke up quickly to soothe his granddaughter, who was on the verge of tears.

"Right, right, your grandfather is correct. Let's keep looking!"

She Po Chao Tianxiang followed up with words of comfort.

Shortly after, Long Gong and She Po took Meng Yiran and departed, no longer having the heart to bicker with the Shrek group over the ownership of that Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent.

"Teacher Zhao, what should we do now?"

"The soul beasts couldn't have really all disappeared, could they?"

After Long Gong and She Po left, Oscar hurriedly asked Zhao Wuji.

He was the most anxious, as he had already reached level 30 and was ready to attach his soul ring!

Coming to the Star Dou Great Forest this time was specifically to hunt for his soul ring!

"Keep looking. I refuse to believe that the soul beasts have truly vanished!"

With Long Gong and She Po gone, Zhao Wuji also relaxed his posture.

"Teacher Zhao, why don't we split up to search? That way, we can cover a larger area!"

"Since we can't see any soul beasts anyway, there's no danger. If anyone actually finds one, just come back immediately."

Xiao Wu stepped forward to suggest this.

Her suggestion was, of course, a pretext to find an opportunity to slip away and check if Daming and Erming were still there.

Xiao Wu's proposal quickly gained everyone's approval.

However, they did not act alone, but rather in pairs.

In the end, Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing formed a group, Oscar and Ma Hongjun formed a group, Tang San and Xiao Wu formed a group, and Zhao Wuji and Ning Rongrong formed a group.

Soon, the Shrek group split into four teams and headed in four different directions to search for traces of soul beasts.

Rustle~

After they had left, a rugged and disheveled figure slowly stepped out from behind a large tree: it was Tang Hao.

He had been secretly protecting Tang San all along.

How could he possibly be at ease with Tang San entering a soul beast forest?

Only by keeping a personal watch could he feel secure.

However, he only followed from the shadows and would only intervene the moment Tang San truly faced a life-threatening danger.

Six years ago, when Tang San was hunting for his first soul ring, he had almost been unable to restrain himself from intervening, but because Tang San had dealt with that Datura Serpent on his own, he had not revealed himself.

"Have the soul beasts of the Star Dou Great Forest really all disappeared?"

At this moment, Tang Hao's expression was equally grave.

He had also witnessed the disappearance of the soul beasts in the vicinity.

He was just as worried as Tang San and the others about the implications.

"Such a thing should be impossible."

"That's right, the disappearance of the surrounding soul beasts must be caused by other reasons; it doesn't mean all soul beasts have vanished together. At the very least, Xiao Wu is still here..."

Tang Hao shook his head and quickly regained his composure.

Especially since he knew that Xiao Wu was also a soul beast; if Xiao Wu was still here, then it couldn't be that all soul beasts had disappeared, and his Ah Yin must still be there.

"Ah Yin!"

"Wait for me. Once Little San and the others return to the academy, I will come to see you immediately!"

After silently swearing this to himself, Tang Hao concealed his figure once more and continued to follow Tang San and Xiao Wu.

"System, Xiao Wu is a soul beast too, right?"

"Why hasn't she been contained?"

At this moment, Lin Yue was waiting for Ah Yin to resurrect, and he had also remembered about Xiao Wu.

[Ding~ Xiao Wu has already transformed into human form.]

The system provided the answer quickly.

"...Even if Xiao Wu has transformed into a human, isn't she still a soul beast in essence?"

"She can be sacrificed, and she can even drop soul rings and soul bones!"

There was a hint of regret in Lin Yue's tone.

He liked Ah Yin, but he liked Xiao Wu just as much!

That waist, those long legs—he could play with them for two and a half years.

However, since the system hadn't contained her, he would just have to collect her himself.

Doing it personally would actually add a bit of extra fun.

"System, what about those immortal herbs? Do they count as soul beasts?"

Lin Yue continued to inquire.

He knew full well that ten thousand years later, those immortal herbs would all become soul beasts.

In other words, those immortal herbs were plant-type soul beasts themselves; it was just that on this current timeline, he didn't know why they hadn't developed soul beast consciousness.

[Ding~ All immortal herb-type soul beasts have been contained. Coordinates...]

The system did not disappoint Lin Yue this time, notifying him that all the immortal herbs had already been contained.

Lin Yue hurriedly closed his eyes and, through the coordinates provided by the system, perceived the location precisely. Sure enough, in a hidden valley similar to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, he saw those immortal herbs.

There were also some immortal herbs that the system had placed in other locations.

Those immortal herbs had been contained by the system from places outside the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.

Through his perception, Lin Yue discovered that those immortal herbs actually possessed soul beast consciousness, unlike the immortal herbs in the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well which lacked self-awareness.

He guessed that the system didn't put them all together for fear that those self-aware immortal herb soul beasts would devour the ones in the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.

The Demon Eye Demon Tree under Di Tian had once devoured an Immortal Spirit Grass that was also a plant-type soul beast; that devoured Immortal Spirit Grass must certainly have been an immortal herb as well.

Therefore, if those self-aware immortal herbs saw the soulless immortal herbs in the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, there was no telling if they would devour them.

"Hahaha..."

"Good, good, good..."

Seeing so many immortal herbs, Lin Yue burst into loud laughter.

Without these immortal herbs, the Shrek Seven Devils were effectively crippled.

Even Tang San and Oscar, those monsters with top-tier talent, would not be as brilliant as they were in the original story.

Hum--!

While Lin Yue was laughing wildly, the Blue Silver Grass cocoon in front of him began to emit a powerful wave of soul power.

Lin Yue opened his eyes and saw the Blue Silver Grass vines peeling away one by one, revealing the resurrected Blue Silver Empress, Ah Yin!

The newly resurrected Ah Yin was not in her soul beast form, but in her human form.

She wore no equipment, with only her long blue hair draped over both sides, just enough to cover her vital parts.

Yet, that glimpse of what was hidden was undoubtedly even more alluring.