"Let's start with the humans and Soul Beasts outside Dragon Valley."
Having made up his mind, Xia Ming narrowed his eyes slightly.
Spreading faith was like conquering territory; one had to find the most crucial point of entry.
For this still relatively primitive Star Luo Continent, he decided to continue using a top-down approach.
The next moment, Xia Ming steadily extended his vast, sea-like mental power in every direction.
In an instant, everything within a thousand kilometers entered his perception.
Among the humans, the strongest aura still belonged to the elderly Soul Douluo he had sensed earlier.
His energy fluctuations were like a candle guttering in the wind.
Though still bright, they already carried the air of twilight. He was also isolated, with no other powerful human auras at the Soul Douluo level nearby.
A few scattered Soul Saint-level human auras were gathered around small villages or camps, all limited in scale.
The Soul Beasts, however, were entirely different.
Several conspicuous and immense auras, like torches in the night, were spread across several different regions.
Although their aura intensity had not reached the qualitative threshold of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, they were undoubtedly infinitely close to it.
Every one of them was a top-tier Soul Beast with over ninety thousand years of cultivation!
"It seems the powerful Soul Beasts in this region are all stuck before the life-or-death hurdle of the hundred-thousand-year Heavenly Tribulation."
Xia Ming understood.
Logically speaking, with so many Soul Beasts over ninety thousand years old, there should have been some Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts among them.
Yet after reaching one hundred thousand years, they had to undergo a tribulation every thousand years. Failure meant being reduced to ashes.
The Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts that had once lived in this region had likely all perished because of that.
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