Yet the encounter with a lone eighty-thousand-year soul beast had proved even more perilous than facing an eighty-thousand-year soul beast and a sixty-thousand-year soul beast together.
That was because the lone eighty-thousand-year soul beast had a far nobler bloodline.
It was much like how a ten-thousand-year Titan Giant Ape could rival an ordinary hundred-thousand-year soul beast.
The eighty-thousand-year soul beast they encountered had felt scarcely different from a hundred-thousand-year soul beast.
Even though none of the three had ever actually seen a hundred-thousand-year soul beast or truly experienced its aura and oppressive might.
After those two encounters with eighty-thousand-year soul beasts, however, they never encountered another soul beast with more than sixty thousand years of cultivation.
And so, deep within the exceedingly dangerous Core Circle of the Evil Demon Forest, they fought soul beasts almost nonstop for half a month.
High-intensity combat was also a way to squeeze out their latent potential and rapidly improve their strength.
Although Lu Qiufeng and Ye Lingling had already reached the Soul Saint rank, their Soul Power still rose rapidly by two to three levels over that half month of battle.
Of course, during that half month, they encountered no soul beasts with more than sixty thousand years of cultivation, and their encounters were relatively infrequent. With plenty of Milk Bottles to replenish their Soul Power as well, they managed to keep going.
But their good fortune seemed to have finally run its course.
A powerful soul beast with roughly ninety thousand years of cultivation came looking for them.
It was a Devouring Dragon.
It was known as a miniature Tyrant Dragon.
A lesser dragon of the earth dragon variety.
It possessed an exceptionally domineering innate Soul Skill, Devour Heaven and Earth, which could devour all the energy within a certain range and turn