Tingen City.
It was a small city in the north of the Heaven Dou Empire.
Yu Mingxiao and Bi Ji sat across from each other in a modest little restaurant, chatting idly.
"Bi Ji, I know the Star Dou Great Forest has quite a few Ferocious Beasts, but why have I only met Di Tian? Where are the others?"
Bi Ji considered for a moment. "The others are cultivating by devouring the energy of an Ice Silkworm."
"That Ice Silkworm must be close to a million years old, isn't he?" Yu Mingxiao asked with a faint smile.
Surprise flickered through Bi Ji's eyes before she concealed it. "You're right."
"The Ice Silkworm Clan usually lives only in the Far North. I don't know what stroke of fortune that one encountered, but his cultivation has reached nine hundred and ninety thousand years. He's just a step away from becoming the first million-year Soul Beast in history."
"Stranger still, that Ice Silkworm seems to have little fighting strength, yet he turned up in the Star Dou Great Forest. After Di Tian found him, he imprisoned him beneath the Lake of Life so the Ferocious Beasts could draw on his energy to cultivate."
Yu Mingxiao nodded. It was much as he had guessed. At this point, Di Tian and the others were hiding in the Lake of Life, leaving only the Sky Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape to guard the entrance, because they were absorbing the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's Soul Power.
Of course, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm probably did not go by that name yet.
Bi Ji asked softly, "Mingxiao, how long until you break through to level seventy?"
"Soon. I feel like I'm one step away. Another two days of cultivation should do it," Yu Mingxiao said.