Second Exploration of the Star Dou Forest

Seeing this, Cen Yu flashed forward and arrived before Hu Liena, grabbing her hand: "Wuwuwu... Senior Sister, it's alright..."

The next moment, the four of them stared at the tightly shut doors of the Pope Palace, blinking in confusion.

Yan's mouth twitched: "Little Junior Brother, your acting just now was so good, I almost believed it."

Hearing this, Cen Yu curled his lips helplessly: "It's not easy for an average Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast to drop a soul ring, do you expect me to go out and hack three Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts to death?"

Little White is really something, saving a group of irrelevant people and actually dropping four Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone pieces—so stupid.

Those were four Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone pieces, you know? How many cultivation resources could they have been traded for?

("I have to speak up here, Little Black. How can dead objects compare to life?")

"Tch, in my opinion, it's just plain stupid. What can those people give you?"

"It would be better to... hehe~ let them all turn into vengeful ghosts, strengthening my power!"

Hearing this, Little White kicked Little Black hard in the sea of consciousness.

"Hey, what are you doing?"

"Oi?! Damn it!"

No matter how Little Black called out, Little White ignored him completely.

Hu Liena looked at the frowning Cen Yu and asked in confusion: "What's wrong, Little Junior Brother?"

Hearing this, Cen Yu snapped back to reality and coughed lightly: "Nothing."

"Do you want to accompany me to hunt for a soul ring? If the four of us join forces, we can definitely take down a soul beast that has just surpassed ten thousand years. Shall we give it a try?"

Hearing this, Xie Yue and Yan looked at each other: "A soul beast just over ten thousand years? If I remember correctly, Little Junior Brother, you're only level thirty, right?"

Are all monsters this perverted? Absorbing a ten-thousand-year soul ring as a third soul ring? Why doesn't he have that kind of talent?

"Woohoo! Take this shot!" Cen Yu spun in mid-air, his long spear carving a deep gash directly into the Rainbow Dragon's back.

In an instant, seven-colored dragon blood gushed out from the wound.

Suffering a heavy blow, the Rainbow Dragon roared and glared fiercely at Cen Yu.

The next second, seven-colored energy gathered in its mouth, and in a flash, a terrifying beam of light blasted toward Cen Yu.

Seeing this, the youth chuckled and immediately raised his spear to block the attack.

Just then—

"Second Soul Skill—Granite Rock!"

Yan flashed in front of Cen Yu, followed by layers upon layers of rock armor.

"Boom—!"

With a loud explosion, a violent shockwave rippled outward.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Cen Yu and Demon Charm flashed and arrived atop the Rainbow Dragon's head.

"Do it!"

Before it could react, the two figures unleashed their full strength simultaneously, stabbing their weapons down hard.

"Bang—!"

The Rainbow Dragon couldn't react in time; its massive body instantly lost balance and crashed heavily toward the ground!

"Hmm, not bad." Cen Yu clapped the dust off his hands, looking with satisfaction at the Rainbow Dragon, which was now bound like a rice dumpling.

"I didn't expect an unexpected harvest while hunting for a soul ring. To think such a rare soul beast could be encountered in the Star Dou Forest."

"It's perfect to take back and raise, to serve as Gongyang Zhao's fifth soul ring."

Hu Liena sat slumped to the side, looking at Cen Yu in a daze.

Does this Little Junior Brother have such a massive reserve of soul power? He's been fighting for so long and is still perfectly fine.

"But how are we going to take it back? We can't just drag this ten-thousand-year soul beast back, can we?"

She glanced at the Rainbow Dragon beside them, which was larger than the gates of Martial Soul City, and her mouth twitched.

Xie Yue and Yan were thinking the same thing. Although the soul beast had been beaten into a coma, it would still be a handful once it woke up.

"What's the problem with that?" Cen Yu smiled and clapped his hands toward the sky: "Uncle Yue Guan~ Uncle Gui Mei~"

"Sigh..."

As the words fell, the two men jumped down from the trees with expressions like they had been constipated.

Seeing them, Hu Liena and the others were stunned and quickly bowed: "Lord Chrysanthemum Douluo! Lord Ghost Douluo!"

Yue Guan waved his hand and looked at Cen Yu helplessly: "You really are a devilish brat. You never think of me for the good stuff, but you call me for all the dirty work."

And the Pope, too—he's been working for half his life and hasn't even managed to get a single soul bone.

Hearing this, Cen Yu chuckled: "How could that be? Look at what this is..."

As he spoke, a red and white flower radiating a powerful aura appeared in his hand.

"What?! This, this, this!!!"

Upon seeing it, Yue Guan's eyes widened, staring at the flower in Cen Yu's hand with stars in his eyes.

"This is! The finest of the immortal herbs! The King of Flowers! Lovesick Heartbreak Red!"

"Mhm!" Cen Yu nodded: "I obtained this from that Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast. It took quite a bit of effort to erase its previous bond."

"I know you like it, take it!"

He had no use for this flower anyway, and the thought that it was a token of love Tang San gave to that rabbit made him feel rather disgusted.

Sigh~ Speaking of which, Qian Xunji and Bibi Dong really don't know how to handle things~

If you want a horse to run, how can you not let it graze?

If they had treated Yue Guan a little better, he wouldn't have returned in defeat every time he went on a mission, right?

In the original records of the few missions Yue Guan went on, one resulted in the death of a Pope, and another saw him let Tang San escape; it was truly something else.

Hearing this, Yue Guan carefully took the Lovesick Heartbreak Red, deeply inhaling its scent with a face full of intoxication.

"Ah~ Lovesick Heartbreak Red~"

Seeing this, Cen Yu, Hu Liena, and the others were stunned, quietly retreating to the side to put some distance between themselves and this man.

Clearly, Gui Mei noticed the four's movements and gave a helpless cough: "Hey, look at it when we get back, let's attend to business first."

This guy didn't know how to restrain himself, actually letting a group of juniors watch him make a spectacle of himself.

"Bang--!"

After another hearty battle, they successfully hunted a fourteen-thousand-year-old Seven-Colored Spirit Deer through the combined efforts of the four.

Cen Yu looked at his hands and exclaimed in amazement: "Wow, my soul power has reached level thirty-eight."

"What?!"

Hearing this, Hu Liena and the other two shouted in disbelief.

"How did you go from level thirty to level thirty-eight just like that? Didn't this soul beast only have a little over ten thousand years of cultivation?"

No way, right? Even a monster shouldn't be this monstrous?!

Yue Guan, clutching the flower to his chest, glanced at them speechlessly: "That is because he absorbed a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone."

Envy... jealousy... this kid really has good fortune, having a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone at such a young age.

Hearing this, the three fell silent.

Fine.

They couldn't compete; they really couldn't compete. They hadn't even seen a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast... no, wait, they had seen that rabbit.

They had only seen a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast in human form; they didn't even dare to dream of soul bones or soul rings.

Cen Yu rolled his eyes at Yue Guan and patted Hu Liena and the others on the shoulders: "Oh, don't worry, hang out with me, and you'll have soul rings and soul bones in the future!"

"For now though~ why don't you try out my soul skill?"

Gui Mei nodded and summoned his martial soul directly.

"I'll test it this time."

Unlike the last time in the Star Dou Forest, having witnessed Cen Yu's terror, even for a practice session, Gui Mei dared not underestimate him.