Six Years Later

Xiao Yi told his great-uncle, Xiao Zhan, that he had Twin Martial Souls and said he wanted to prioritize cultivating the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.

After learning this, Xiao Zhan naturally agreed and was overjoyed. He immediately ran out to contact an old friend.

The reason Xiao Yi wanted to cultivate the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils first was that they had mutated when they fused with the laws of Douluo, making their effects completely different from before.

Controlling the corresponding Soul Beast was equivalent to absorbing a Soul Ring. After all, simply absorbing Soul Beasts' Soul Power to cultivate was of limited use, and there weren't that many high-ranked snake Soul Beasts here.

So the ability to tightly control Soul Beasts had been retained, and the Soul Beasts controlled by Xiao Yi could also grow stronger.

The advantage was that Xiao Yi could not only gain powerful fighters, but even possess them. Moreover, as his Soul Power increased and the Soul Beasts evolved, the age of his Soul Rings could increase as well.

The downside was that he could no longer control a whole bunch of Soul Beasts to supply him with cultivation. Each Soul Ring slot could correspond to only one Soul Beast, since that seemed to be the proper way to use the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.

But cultivating this way in the current era of Douluo Continent would probably get him branded an Evil Soul Master and hunted down.

Time flew by. Six years later, in the Star Dou Great Forest.

A faint mist of ice lingered in the air, accompanied by intermittent hisses. A five-thousand-year-old Nether Cold Ice Python, radiating a terrifying aura, stared at the young man before it.

The youth had a fresh, handsome face and a pair of bright, peach-blossom eyes, their outer corners turned slightly upward. Most striking was the smile that no matter what he did, he couldn't quite suppress, giving him a somewhat wicked air.

Looking into the young man's calm eyes, the Nether Cold Ice Python felt a trace of fear, as if it were etched into its instincts.

He was clearly a human with a feeble aura. He wasn't even taking an attacking stance. His entire body was full of openings. And yet the Nether Cold Ice Python couldn't shake the feeling that—

The moment it struck, it would be killed!

Its instincts kept warning it, and a shiver from the depths of its soul made its enormous serpentine body tremble uncontrollably.

It had to escape!

The Nether Cold Ice Python didn't hesitate any longer. It twisted around and tried to flee.

Of course, Xiao Yi wasn't about to give it the chance. Two eerily purple Soul Rings lit up beneath his feet. With two roars, a red figure and a purple figure shot out like lightning, instantly pinning the fleeing Nether Cold Ice Python in place and binding it tight.

The Nether Cold Ice Python hissed again and again. As it watched the three flower petals in Xiao Yi's eyes spin, it let out a despairing wail. Terrifying Spiritual Power erupted, instantly locking onto the Nether Cold Ice Python's soul. An invisible connection formed between man and beast.

Alongside the two Soul Rings beneath Xiao Yi's feet, another purple Soul Ring began to revolve. As it stabilized, the other two Soul Rings deepened in color.

Xiao Yi looked at the three Soul Rings beneath his feet and nodded with satisfaction. Yet he still couldn't suppress the grin. His Soul Power had reached level 38, even though he had deliberately slowed his cultivation. With a cultivation cheat at his disposal, he could theoretically advance one level every two months.

Besides, he hadn't found a suitable Soul Beast. It had taken him at least two months to track down this Nether Cold Ice Python.

"Being able to forcibly control something two whole major realms above you is just unfair." Xiao Yi chuckled as he recalled the red and purple figures into the space that came with the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, then looked at the Nether Cold Ice Python before him and nodded in satisfaction.

The Nether Cold Ice Python didn't have an Ultimate Attribute, but it was one of the few attribute-bearing snake Soul Beasts whose attributes came close to one.

As for why Xiao Yi didn't simply find a Dragon Soul Beast and control and absorb it—

First, the Soul Beasts absorbed into his Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils would grow stronger and evolve alongside his cultivation.

Under those circumstances, Xiao Yi naturally prioritized attributes. Whether a Soul Beast was a dragon didn't matter as much to him. They could all become dragons eventually.

Second, there were too few Dragon Soul Beasts, and the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils couldn't tell which Soul Beasts were lesser dragons or carried Dragon Race bloodlines.

For example, those so-called lesser dragons that were really just oversized lizards. He also had no idea what Di Tian's true dragon form looked like.

The Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils seemed able to absorb only three types of Soul Beasts: snakes, flood dragons, and dragons. Other kinds of lesser dragons couldn't be directly controlled and absorbed; he would have to kill them and then absorb their Soul Rings.

Xiao Yi would have to be out of his mind to do that.

At a thought from Xiao Yi, the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils shimmered faintly. The Nether Cold Ice Python slowly disappeared, and at the same time, a blue-white diamond-shaped scale appeared on Xiao Yi's forehead. Scales also emerged around his eyes and on his arms.

He was in the Nether Cold Ice Python's possession state.

He had no Soul Skills, which was one of his current weaknesses. Xiao Yi clenched his fist. He was still in the normal Beast Martial Soul possession state, along with what seemed like an instinctive command of the elements.

A faint mist of ice gathered in Xiao Yi's hand. With a casual wave, it condensed into dazzling ice crystals that shot forward, their killing power immense. A nearby tree was riddled with holes.

"Not bad. I'll have to explore more techniques later." Xiao Yi slowly lowered his raised hand. Though his ice hadn't reached Ultimate Ice, it wasn't far off. Still, the gulf between them probably wouldn't be easy to cross.

The Second Soul Ring beneath him flashed. The scales on his body vanished, transforming into a giant ice-blue python that coiled around him. Then, in the same places as before, purple scales began to grow, crackling with faint arcs of electricity.

Purple Lightning Snake—now it could also be called a Purple Lightning Flood Dragon—was the only one of Xiao Yi's three Soul Beasts that had begun transforming into a dragon. It had originally been called an electric python. Not long after Xiao Yi absorbed it, it began transforming into a flood dragon. Now, its possession boost and the strength of its attributes were both the greatest of the three.

The Nether Cold Ice Python's ice was merely close to Ultimate Ice, but the Purple Lightning Python's lightning was truly only a step away. Once it began transforming into a dragon, its attributes would undergo a metamorphosis.

A flash of lightning streaked past, leaving behind nothing but scorched earth and the faint crackle of electricity sizzling through the air.

With Soul Hunting complete, Xiao Yi prepared to head straight to Shrek Academy.

Meanwhile, elsewhere, a thin figure with blue hair gripped the White Tiger Dagger and walked resolutely toward the Star Dou Great Forest,

Mom, I'll become a Soul Master, and make the White Tiger Duke Mansion pay for its blood debt!

Two days later

Xiao Yi traveled along a narrow path through the woods. For the past few days, he had followed the edge of the Star Dou Great Forest, making a huge detour.

Sin City lay on the other side of the Star Dou Great Forest, around the section bordering the Star Dou Great Forest and the Star Luo Empire. He had covered about half the distance.

As if he had sensed something, Xiao Yi abruptly stopped. A sweet, pungent scent hung in the air. Combined with the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils' keen perception of snake Soul Beasts, he guessed what it was in an instant.

Before long, a pink Mandala Snake burst out of the grass, its body covered in thick pink scales and its poison sac bulging prominently.

Xiao Yi activated the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils. Feeling three auras approaching behind the Mandala Snake, he grumbled inwardly.

It can't be this much of a coincidence...