Martial Soul Hall Also Has an Agreement with the Star Dou Great Forest

An earthy-yellow radiance spread out, drawing in stones of varying sizes that rose from the ground and surged toward Qian Daoliu, intent on crushing him. Soon, a spherical stone construct roughly the size of the Titan Giant Ape appeared in the sky.

The Sky Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape breathed a slight sigh of relief. Their combined ultimate technique, once landed, could fell even a 200,000-year-old fierce beast. This human should at least be heavily injured, if not dead.

The massive stone sphere hung in the air, clearly visible to the Death Spider Emperor, Ah Rou, and Xiao Wu. The Death Spider Emperor was not worried about Qian Daoliu; having been slapped into a heavy injury by him without even activating his martial soul, it estimated that Qian Daoliu's strength was at least that of a 400,000-year-level fierce beast, and one with an exceptionally top-tier bloodline at that.

A purple-black radiance erupted, and eight scythe-like appendages emerged from behind the Death Spider Emperor, resembling its spider legs. These scythes shot out like eight purple meteors, lashing against Ah Rou, who had already exhausted her three daily uses of the Invincible Golden Body.

Capable of exerting only the strength of a low-level Soul Douluo, Ah Rou faced the Death Spider Emperor's targeted onslaught by using her Invincible Golden Body every three seconds—essentially activating it the moment its cooldown ended.

"Mother!"

Seeing her mother in crisis, Xiao Wu, who had been darting about to avoid the Blood-Sucking Spider Thorns, attempted to protect Ah Rou, but the Death Spider Emperor spat out several large webs to obstruct her movements.

"Ahhh—"

A sharp, shrill scream rang out. Ah Rou's flesh was shredded by the eight spider legs, leaving her drenched in blood. Her rosy face turned pale at an alarming speed, as white as a sheet of paper.

Damn Soft Bone Rabbit, you have your day today, don't you.

The Death Spider Emperor's face was full of satisfaction, yet it remembered Qian Daoliu's instructions. It did not kill Ah Rou, merely inflicting deep, bone-reaching wounds without severing any major arteries.

"Mother!!"

"Aunt Rou!!"

Sincerity is a good thing.

Inside the Titan Giant Star, Qian Daoliu saw that the Death Spider Emperor had not killed Ah Rou without authorization. Feeling much more at ease with the Death Spider Emperor's role as a babysitter, he stopped wasting time.

With a thunderous boom, a brilliant golden light illuminated the sky of the Star Dou Great Forest. The Titan Giant Star exploded completely, and Qian Daoliu reappeared before the Titan Giant Ape and the Sky Azure Bull Python, unscathed.

Qian Daoliu raised his hand, and the golden light converged into a Holy Sword ten meters long and three meters wide. The sword's chilling aura locked onto the Titan Giant Ape. The Titan Giant Ape forgot to breathe as it stared at the blade; it couldn't even muster the will to resist, feeling as if its great-grandmother was beckoning it from the afterlife.

"Second Brother!"

At the critical moment, the Sky Azure Bull Python used its massive bovine head to knock the Titan Giant Ape aside. The Holy Sword sliced through the Sky Azure Bull Python's massive head as if it were tofu, piercing deep into the earth for unknown meters and leaving a hundred-meter-long trench in the ground.

"Big Brother!"

The Titan Giant Ape's pupils dilated as it watched the Sky Azure Bull Python, which had taken the blow for it. The Sky Azure Bull Python stood frozen in place, its eyes wide and vacant, as if in a daze.

Suddenly, a wound appeared across the Sky Azure Bull Python's head, from which cyan blood sprayed. Its head split in two. As its massive body crashed to the ground, a soul ring with a diameter of over a hundred meters, shimmering with a scarlet glow, emerged from its remains.

The Sky Azure Bull Python had perished.

"Big Brother!!!"

The Titan Giant Ape roared, and Xiao Wu shrieked.

"Ahhhhhhh—"

The Death Spider Emperor acted like a meat grinder, its eight spider legs repeatedly stabbing, slicing, cutting, and hacking at Xiao Wu's plump rabbit body. Xiao Wu was like a piece of raw meat, being continuously ravaged by the Death Spider Emperor.

Xiao Wu was soon bleeding from every part of her body, her white, soft, and thick fur soaked in blood.

The Death Spider Emperor opened its blood-stained maw and bit down on Xiao Wu, tearing off her two long rabbit ears and swallowing them whole.

"Delicious, delicious! The flesh and blood of a hundred-thousand-year Soft Bone Rabbit is truly exquisite; it cannot be compared to those ten-thousand-year ones."

With blood on its mandibles, the Death Spider Emperor greedily observed the mangled Xiao Wu, calculating which piece of meat it could carve off next while still keeping her alive. The taste of a hundred-thousand-year soul beast's flesh, especially the essence of soul power contained within, was far superior to that of ten-thousand-year soul beasts.

Watching Xiao Wu being virtually tortured to death by the Death Spider Emperor, Qian Daoliu couldn't help but feel a sense of disgust. He finally understood why the blackened Bibi Dong was so psychologically twisted and insane.

A martial soul affects the soul master themselves. If the Death Spider Emperor was this cruel and perverted, the blackened Bibi Dong would only be worse—after all, she possessed dual spider martial souls. The Soul-Eater Spider Emperor, capable of devouring souls, was likely even more depraved than the Death Spider Emperor.

Little Ji should be fine, right?

Qian Daoliu held the Divine Holy Sword and prepared to strike again to execute the Titan Giant Ape, but the space above the Titan Giant Ape's head tore open. A massive dragon claw reached out, every scale on it a gleaming black.

The dragon claw grabbed the golden sword energy and crushed it!

"High Priest of the Angel God, you dare to step into the core area of the Star Dou Great Forest and openly violate the agreement between Martial Soul Hall and the Star Dou Great Forest!"

From the rift above the claw, a massive dragon head emerged; its size alone was several times larger than the Titan Giant Ape. The scales on the head were the same gleaming black as the claw, but the pupils were golden.

"Lord Beast God!"

Seeing this black dragon head, the Titan Giant Ape looked as if it had found a savior. The master of this head was the true emperor of the Star Dou Great Forest, the strongest soul beast: the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King, Beast God Di Tian.

Pitch-black soul power surged into the sky, turning a portion of the heavens—which had been dyed gold by Qian Daoliu's Angelic soul power—into black.

All the soul beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest prostrated themselves. Even the Death Spider Emperor dared not act rashly, its fur bristling as it gazed at the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon, praying that Qian Daoliu wouldn't abandon it to its fate.

"Agreement? What agreement?" Qian Daoliu raised an eyebrow. Martial Soul Hall had an agreement with the Star Dou Great Forest?

Di Tian was incensed, his voice resounding across the horizon, "You humans are truly despicable, shameless, and treacherous! The High Priest of the Angel God is forbidden from entering the core area of the Star Dou Great Forest, and in return, This Seat shall not launch beast tides against human cities other than Martial Soul Hall. This is the agreement your ancestors signed with This Seat!"

"Oh, that era is too distant. Martial Soul Hall has undergone many changes recently, and the agreement was poorly kept. I haven't seen it, my apologies. If you want to blame someone, blame the previous High Priest of the Angel God who is already in the grave."

Qian Daoliu remarked. Hearing of this agreement, he finally understood why, despite Martial Soul Hall having been passed down for countless years and always having a level 99 Limit Douluo in command, their stock of hundred-thousand-year soul bones remained so low, and why Qian Xunji's ninth soul ring was only ten-thousand-year level.