The Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign's Gaze

"What's going on?"

Mu Baobao was dumbfounded as well.

Why had the Evil Soul Masters stopped chasing them? By all rights, this should have been their paradise too, yet they had actually retreated.

"Could it be?" A terrifying thought surfaced in his mind, only to be confirmed the next moment by a sigh that echoed through the endless void. "Haha, I never expected to encounter someone with three martial souls."

"These three martial souls had originally been one entity, and each one possesses two ultimate attributes."

"Don't you want to obtain Soul Rings?"

"Then come in!"

The invisible pressure had practically sealed off the entire Evil Demon Forest, and Mu Baobao quickly realized who it was.

"The Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign!"

He was terrified. If Di Tian ranked first among soul beasts in Soul Power, then the Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign ranked first in spiritual power. It had once gone alone to the Star Dou Forest to challenge the Beast God Di Tian over the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.

Though it had retreated after losing, it had still severely injured Di Tian. When Huo Yuhao first came to the Evil Demon Forest, he killed a Hundred-Thousand-Year Evil Eye Tyrant, provoking the Evil Emperor's fury.

Fortunately, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion's sacrifice had granted Huo Yuhao a Destiny Soul Bone in his head, along with a spiritual attack immunity skill that helped him escape safely. When he came to the Evil Demon Forest a second time, he wiped out the Evil Emperor's ally, the Holy Spirit Cult, and killed the Evil Emperor as well.

The Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign was also the Sun Moon Empire's totem and had cooperated with the Holy Spirit Cult.

Mu Baobao was truly afraid. It really did have the ability to spread its spiritual power across the entire Evil Demon Forest, and it usually could not be bothered with ordinary soul beast killings.

After all, soul beasts could eat humans to increase their strength too. As long as it was not some ancient monster, it was considered within the rules.

But it had directly revealed his secret. Mu Baobao wanted to turn and run, since he did not have the Three-Eyed Golden Lion's skull bone, and his Soul Power was only in the sixties. Yet the Holy Spirit Cult was likely waiting for him outside.

"Dying is dying!" He made up his mind in an instant. A newly advanced Title Douluo Evil Soul Master—

Could he possibly be more terrifying than a 790,000-year Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign? Besides, it could only cover the entire Evil Demon Forest with its spiritual power. It would still need time to personally arrive.

"Don't panic. I won't attack you. Your three martial souls all carry divinity..."

When the Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign said this, it sounded somewhat fearful. Mu Baobao's eyes darted about. Had this thing mistaken him for someone like Tang Wutong?

One of those people who descended from the God Realm to gain experience?

When Huo Yuhao and Tang Wutong went to the Mermaid Clan to obtain Soul Rings, the moment the Sea God martial soul appeared, the Sea Princess went from trying to kill them to treating them as honored guests.

Soul beasts at their level could already vaguely sense the God Realm, yet they could only live for a million years because they could not become gods. Unless they took human form at a hundred thousand years and gambled on that nearly nonexistent chance of godhood.

But that was ultimately just a cover, because although one could change into human form, one's spirit and soul would still be those of a soul beast.

Still, even the God Kings had failed to notice that second-generation Evil Ji Dong and Tang Buddha Ancestor were transmigrators, right? This thing had no morals whatsoever. Trusting it would be sheer evil.

"This is my gift to you."

"What is this?" Mu Baobao asked in confusion.

The next moment, he understood. A gigantic tiger emerged from the black forest, its entire body pure black without a trace of any other color. Its red eyes were filled with a sinister aura, and its body was more than eight meters long.

Its muscles bulged all over, and it probably weighed over a thousand jin. The king character on its forehead was black as well, but unlike the black of its fur, it was a gloomy black like drifting mist.

Most peculiar was its tail, composed of countless joints. At its tip was a massive hook that glimmered with a cold, eerie light, making it exceptionally frightening.

"A Dark Demon Evil God Tiger!"

Mu Baobao sucked in a cold breath. Its tail had six joints, which meant it was already sixty thousand years old.

Are you fucking trying to get me killed? He cursed the Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign inwardly. Both the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger and the Thunder Prison Vine possessed divine bloodlines. At fifty or sixty thousand years, they were already no weaker than ordinary Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts.

Evil, darkness, space, time, wind, lightning... six attributes. What he feared most was its rejuvenation skill, which could turn enemies into six-year-olds. Wouldn't that leave them completely at its mercy?

If Tang Buddha Ancestor had not relied on protagonist luck to break that skill, both man and beast would have become six-year-olds. And at six, he had already been skilled with hidden weapons.

Anyone else, even another protagonist, would have been finished. Even Tang Buddha Ancestor, who had used a Golden Trident at sixty thousand years to defeat level ninety-nine Bibi Dong, had not dared provoke it... Wasn't this simply taking his life?

And its inner core had even helped Zhou Weiqing become the God of Destruction. But what surprised him was—

The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger stopped before him and looked at him with longing... Had it given up resisting and come seeking death? Mu Baobao did not stand on ceremony.

He raised his right hand, and the eighth-grade Soul Tool, the Judgment Sword, appeared. A flash of light cut down the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger. After all, this soul beast possessed both lightning and evil attributes, making it an excellent match for Zekrom.

Mu Baobao roughly understood that the Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign had probably deceived it with the promise of godhood, which was why it had not resisted at all. In that case, he would not be polite. Its earlier Soul Rings could not possibly be tampered with anyway.

Mu Baobao began absorbing the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's Soul Ring. He had not expected a second one to appear in the Evil Demon Forest, so this was a huge profit.

Since there had been no resistance, the absorption was completely effortless. His Soul Power rapidly rose to... level sixty-six. Not much time passed, and the Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign was quite pleased to see this.

"The third one: a seventy-thousand-year Emerald Demon Bird."

A shrill cry rang through the sky. It was a bird-type soul beast with a completely emerald-green body. It looked no larger than a palm, but its small green eyes gleamed with vicious light.

Mu Baobao's eyes widened. The Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign truly was not treating him like an outsider at all!

Emerald Demon Birds, Green Jade Phoenixes, Yin-Yang Chaos Birds... They were all bird-type soul beasts that had left a deep impression on him. Only one Yin-Yang Chaos Bird could appear on each planet, representing the planet's yin and yang. It had evolved Tang Yuge's Five Elements Qilin—

Into a Heavenly Stem Qilin. A Green Jade Bird would turn to jade at one hundred thousand years, which was why it became known as a Green Jade Phoenix. The Emerald Swan, meanwhile, was one of the Ten Great Beast Kings.

Emerald Demon Birds were exceptionally cruel soul beasts. They grew by sucking out the brain marrow of all kinds of creatures, whether soul beasts or human soul masters. And unlike the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, they were incredibly fast.

Whenever a flock of Emerald Demon Birds flew by, every creature would be left without brain marrow. Later, the soul beast world had carried out a campaign to exterminate Emerald Demon Birds. Under the leadership of several soul beast kings, they slaughtered the species until almost none remained, greatly reducing its threat to the continent's lifeforms.

It was said that an Emerald Demon Bird King had once sucked the brain marrow of a true dragon, continuously evolved, and become the most terrifying killer of that era.

It was precisely because a true dragon had been killed that the dragon race, rulers of the continent in that age, gathered their strength and launched a mad retaliatory slaughter against the Emerald Demon Bird clan.

The Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign truly was trying to get Mu Baobao killed. If he had not been certain these were being sent to give him Soul Rings, he would likely have died several times already...

The Emerald Demon Bird flew swiftly toward him. Seeing this, Mu Baobao covered himself in lightning and rapidly retreated.

Bang! The result was utterly unexpected.

The Emerald Demon Bird slammed headfirst to its death several meters in front of him, and another black Soul Ring emerged.

Mu Baobao understood perfectly well, but who knew what the Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign was plotting? This was clearly taking the chance to get closer to the Evil Demon Forest.

"I told you not to be afraid. I won't hurt you!" The Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign tried to make its voice gentler, but Mu Baobao knew what kind of creature it was. He was not going to believe that nonsense.

The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King had wanted to possess Tang Buddha Ancestor and become the Sea God, while the Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign had also tried to possess Huo Yuhao. Neither was anything good.

Still, why refuse free gains? Once Zekrom hatched, he would use Overdrive to fly far away and leave it staring in stunned disbelief.

Sixty-seven... He had risen another level. As expected of a seventy-thousand-year Emerald Demon Bird. The Soul Skills granted by these two Soul Rings were also absurdly powerful.

Dark Demon Evil Thunder condensed a ball of Ultimate Lightning carrying evil and lightning attributes. Its explosive power was not only astonishing, but it also possessed terrifying corrosive adhesion.

Once it stuck to someone, it clung like a stubborn plaster. Detonating it would be even more explosively devastating.

Emerald Demon Thrust was one of the Emerald Demon Bird's few skills, but precisely because of that, it was exceptionally terrifying... Any soul master with even slightly slow reactions—

Would be instantly killed. Mu Baobao was overjoyed when he saw this Soul Skill. The Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign was practically giving him a chance to escape!

With Emerald Demon Thrust combined with Overdrive, his chance of escape had already reached eighty or ninety percent. But when he saw the fourth soul beast, Mu Baobao was stunned. The Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign was really paying a huge price.

A massive eyeball a hundred meters across appeared, its eyelash-like tentacles each over a hundred meters long. Was this an Evil Eye Tyrant King? Or one at the hundred-thousand-year level!

Huo Yuhao's seventh Soul Ring had been an Evil Eye Tyrant King, while his ninth Soul Ring had been the Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign.

Because of their unusual bodies, even at a hundred thousand years, they did not possess Soul Bones. Only the Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign had something akin to an eye-shaped External Soul Bone, and it could only be absorbed by Huo Yuhao. It was truly infuriating.

Before Mu Baobao could even finish staring, the Evil Eye Tyrant King's entire body ignited with dazzling red light... forming a domain where time and space stood still.

"A sacrifice?" He had not expected the Evil Eye Tyrant King to be so desperate, and a sense of foreboding flashed through his heart.

Huo Yuhao had merely killed one king, yet that had driven the Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign mad. After all, it was extraordinarily difficult for their lineage to grow stronger. Yet now it was willing to use a sacrifice at any cost. The first two soul beasts had completely lowered his guard, because he could sense the Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign... approaching him.

It was not offering a fifth and sixth Soul Ring. The Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign was likely afraid he would flee. They had both been making the same plans, but now he could not escape either. The red light on the Evil Eye Tyrant King had already reached its limit, and he could not move an inch.

The Evil Eye Tyrant King's figure completely vanished, transforming into a brilliant scarlet Soul Ring that enveloped the Dark Stone. Both Soul Power and spiritual power surged madly, rising at a visible rate.

The Dark Stone changed. It, too, began to shine, but with the white glow of Pokémon evolution, along with a dark shadow.

Boundless evil and lightning spread forth in their ultimate forms, and a dragon's roar echoed across the entire Evil Demon Forest.

Zekrom... had been born.

Its entire body was grayish-black, resembling a combination of a dinosaur and a robust bipedal Western dragon. Its pupils were pure white while its sclerae were bright red. Small horn-like protrusions rose from the tip of its nose, and a gray lightning-shaped horn crown sat atop its head. Its neck was covered in black wall-like plates.

The four pitch-black shoulder plates on its shoulders, the black knee guards on its legs, and its black abdomen brought to mind Western armor, shoulder guards, and knee guards. Zekrom's upper body formed an inverted triangle resembling a human's muscular build, and it possessed four sturdy upper arms.

Its fan-shaped wings spread outward, while its arms connected to powerful clawed forelimbs. Its feet were even thicker, rounder, and broader, allowing its soles to press fully against the ground. Its tail was a giant spiked cone.

Its tail resembled a generator or a jet engine. Its ultimate evil and lightning, along with that terrifying Dragon Might, left even the Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign briefly stunned. Mu Baobao finally saw the Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign's true form.

Its eyeball was three hundred meters wide, its eyelash tentacles five hundred meters long. Even from thousands of meters away, he could estimate the terror of its immense body and spiritual pressure.

It was as if heaven itself favored Mu Baobao. The instant Zekrom appeared, it frantically absorbed the evil attribute from the Evil Eye Tyrant King. It was precisely because of this that the Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign had not expected Zekrom to absorb an evil-attribute Soul Ring so quickly.

It could only continuously order soul beasts to die, even sending a king of its own race to sacrifice itself.

This accelerated the absorption speed... Although even a Soul Douluo could not stop a soul beast sacrifice, Zekrom was a legendary first-tier divine beast of the Unova Region.

Zekrom accompanied heroes who possessed ideals. It believed in ideals and guided the world toward hope. It was willing to aid those determined to pursue their ideals, but if someone abandoned ideals, forgot righteousness, and fell into corruption, Zekrom would mercilessly destroy everything with lightning.

Ideals were intangible things... yet they were extremely noble. Mu Baobao had not known beforehand whether it was Goodness or Evil, because reality could be far too cruel for some people...

But now he understood. Intangible ideals could instead be cruel, while real and tangible reality could spare people the trouble of striving desperately to pursue them.

But Mu Baobao had no time to think further. By the time the sacrifice was complete, the Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign was already right before him. Its electric-engine-like tail immediately emitted an intensely bright blue glow, while its crown and various tiny parts of its body began giving off blue fluorescence as well. This was Overdrive mode.

Like a Martial Soul Avatar, it could enhance every aspect of Zekrom's strength. Its tail could generate immense power, which could be used to attack or create an anti-gravity field, allowing Zekrom to fly while being almost unaffected by air resistance and the planet's gravity.

Zekrom could learn Bolt Strike and Thunderbolt. When its power erupted or it used Bolt Strike or Thunderbolt, its engine-like tail would operate with a cyan-blue glow and generate powerful energy. This state of releasing powerful electricity was called Overdrive mode, and thunderstorms would often appear wherever it was.

That was the case now as well. Dark clouds blanketed the entire sky, and violent lightning raged... Yet Mu Baobao still felt it was not enough. His third Soul Ring flashed.

The Emerald Demon Bird's figure appeared. Emerald Demon Thrust and Overdrive accelerated together. Just as the Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign closed in and countless tentacles descended like a cage, the roar of lightning and wind erupted.

Like a god-tier Soul Tool cannon, Zekrom vanished in an instant. Even the Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign was knocked backward by the sudden explosive impact, its enormous body crashing to the ground... crushing an unknown number of soul beasts, flowers, grass, and trees.

"Ah!" It went mad. It had sacrificed a hundred-thousand-year member of its race, yet that person had still escaped.

And it had gotten a mouthful of exhaust, or perhaps it could be called a fart... As the second-ranked among the Ten Great Beast Kings, when had it ever suffered such humiliation? Its spiritual domain furiously pressed down upon the entire Evil Demon Forest. Countless weak soul beasts died instantly, while powerful soul beasts—

Used every kind of life-saving method they had. They had no doubt at all that the Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign, emperor of the Evil Demon Forest—

Was capable of doing this. Who could remain rational in anger? Naturally, it would vent however it pleased.

When a tyrant raged, a thousand miles became scorched earth.