Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, a New Unit of Measurement!

After speaking with the Cangming Thunder Dragon Emperor for a while, Qiangu Yunche had changed the way he addressed her from "Senior" to "Aunt Ming."

However, the Cangming Thunder Dragon Emperor had only just awakened. After a brief conversation, she began focusing on stabilizing the source of her soul.

Qiangu Yunche sighed as he looked at the room, which was a complete mess. Then he got up, left his room, and knocked on the door opposite his.

A moment later, the door was pulled open from the inside.

Qiangu Yunmei seemed to have just finished bathing. She wore a white bathrobe, her hair still dripping wet. When she saw Qiangu Yunche, she frowned and asked in confusion,

"Why do you... give me such a strange feeling?"

"Let me in first, and then I'll explain it to you, Sis." Qiangu Yunche squeezed past his sister and entered the room. Without another word, he took out a teardrop-sized piece of Life Gold that he had already divided off.

Though this drop of Life Gold was only the size of a tear, the life energy it contained was equivalent to that of the Million-Year Soul Beast, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.

In other words, Qiangu Yunche had directly given Qiangu Yunmei a Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.

In fact, the small piece of Life Gold Qiangu Yunche had kept could at most be divided into four Sky Dream Ice Silkworms.

Yes, a new unit of measurement had been born.

His plan was simple: one drop for his sister, one each for his parents, and one for his great-grandfather, Qiangu Qing, in the hope that it would help him break through and become a Limit Douluo.

At first, Qiangu Yunmei did not understand why Qiangu Yunche had taken out a teardrop-sized piece of "jade." Then Qiangu Yunche pressed it against her glabella, and she instantly shuddered as her pupils contracted sharply.

"Sis, focus your mind and use your Spiritual Power to guide the Life Gold into your Sea of Spirit."

Qiangu Yunche spoke in a low voice. The life aura contained within the Life Gold was simply too powerful. If it were swallowed directly or absorbed mentally without sufficient physical strength, it could easily trigger a backlash, causing it to absorb one's life force in reverse or even result in immediate death.

The Golden Hawksbill Turtle in the Star Dou Great Forest was undoubtedly the best example of this.

At Qiangu Yunche's reminder, Qiangu Yunmei had no time to remain shocked. She hurriedly focused and guided the Life Gold into her body.

About half an hour later, all the Life Gold had turned into jade-green liquid and flowed into Qiangu Yunmei's glabella. Only then did Qiangu Yunche let out a sigh of relief.

After fusing with that drop of Life Gold, Qiangu Yunmei immediately rushed into the bathroom again.

A moment later, she emerged from the bathroom and stared at Qiangu Yunche with a face full of shock and disbelief.

"Life Gold? What exactly is this thing, Yunche? Where did you find it?"

"We bought it together yesterday. You forgot already?" Qiangu Yunche smiled and took a sip of the tea on the table.

"Then you knew what it could do all along? And where did you learn about it? How much of it do you still have?"

Qiangu Yunmei's gaze became somewhat dangerous. She stepped closer, determined to dig out the secrets her younger brother was hiding.

Qiangu Yunche had expected this. He brought out the explanation he had prepared long ago...

Ancient trees that blotted out the sky stretched as far as the eye could see. Their branches and leaves intertwined and overlapped, preventing sunlight from fully passing through their canopies and casting only mottled patches of light across the ground.

Fresh air carrying the fragrance of plants washed over them, soothing their hearts and minds. Unlike the extreme humidity and heat of the Southern Dense Forest, the Star Dou Great Forest was remarkably cool. If it were not the continent's largest gathering place for Soul Beasts, it might have become the most famous tourist destination on the continent.

As they walked through the lush forest, thorns and vegetation occupied nearly every patch of open ground. There were no roads here. To advance, they had to carve out a path by hand.

Qiangu Yunmei walked at the front with her Coiling Dragon Staff in hand. The main body of her Coiling Dragon Staff Martial Soul was still silver, but the Break Evil Dragon coiled around it was black. Its dragon eyes in particular were an uncommon red, making it look exceptionally fierce.

Every swing of her staff was accompanied by a faint dragon roar. The staff shadows interwove, thoroughly clearing away every obstacle before her.

Whenever an ignorant thousand-year Soul Beast blocked their path, Qiangu Yunmei showed no mercy, brutally smashing those Soul Beasts directly into pulp.

Two days had passed since Qiangu Yunmei fused with that drop of Life Gold, and the three of them were now outside the Core Area of the Star Dou Great Forest.

"This is really strange. Normally, there should be plenty of ten-thousand-year Soul Beasts around the outskirts of the Core Area. Why have we only run into trash today?"

Qiangu Yunmei smashed the head of a thousand-year Shadow Demon Spider that was not very bright with one swing of her staff, then spoke in confusion.

The Star Dou Great Forest was divided into the outer region, the Mixed Zone, the Core Area, and the Land of Great Omen at its very center.

The outer region was the main gathering place for hundred-year and thousand-year Soul Beasts, while ten-thousand-year Soul Beasts were extremely rare.

In the Mixed Zone, one could encounter Soul Beasts ranging from hundred-year ones all the way to ten-thousand-year ones.

As the vast region second only to the Mixed Zone, thousand-year Soul Beasts were merely at the bottom of the food chain in the Core Area. For a Soul Beast to possess even a small fixed territory here, it needed at least around thirty thousand years of cultivation.

Yet after Qiangu Yunche's group had spent more than half a day in the Core Area, they had encountered only one ten-thousand-year Soul Beast. It was as though they were in the Mixed Zone rather than the Core Area.

Qiangu Liting was also puzzled. His gaze passed through the gaps between the treetops toward the gradually darkening sky before he said,

"Don't think too much about it. Let's find a place to rest and recover our strength first. Nighttime is when Soul Beasts are active. We might gain something then."

Though he said that, Qiangu Liting also felt that today was far too unusual, as though something major was about to happen.

A moment later, Qiangu Yunche and Qiangu Yunmei had cleared out an open space.

Since Qiangu Liting was accompanying them, the siblings started a fire and caught several Soul Beasts nearby to roast.

They had not found a suitable Soul Beast, but that did not mean they had to mistreat their stomachs.

After all, no matter how great heaven and earth were, eating came first.

Night fell much faster in the forest than it did outside. They had only done some simple cooking over the fire, yet everything around them had already become pitch-black apart from the glow of the campfire.

As night descended, the forest finally revealed its truest appearance. Beast roars echoed through the darkness, sometimes near and sometimes far, making their nerves tense uncontrollably.

At that moment, Qiangu Yunche spoke.

"Sis, do you have a Soul Beast in mind for your seventh Soul Ring?"

Qiangu Yunmei poked at the fire.

Under the firelight, her exquisite face flickered between light and shadow, while her voice seemed to blend with the crackling of the burning wood.

"If possible, I'd like a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast. Of course, I'm not picky about its species or attributes."

After fusing with that teardrop-sized drop of Life Gold, both her Spiritual Power and body had received an enormous boost. Boundless life force constantly nourished her body, allowing her to see hope of absorbing a hundred-thousand-year seventh Soul Ring, when her original limit had been around eighty or ninety thousand years.

Of course, she was only thinking about it.

Ever since the beast tide back then, humans and the Fierce Beasts of the Star Dou Great Forest had signed an agreement that humans were not allowed to actively hunt the hundred-thousand-year Soul Beasts within the Star Dou Great Forest.

Besides, even if they wanted to hunt a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast, Qiangu Liting alone would struggle greatly, and the risks would be immense.

Therefore, Qiangu Yunmei planned to find a powerful Soul Beast around ninety thousand years old, preferably an exceptionally powerful one like a Diamond Baboon or Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear.

When she reached her eighth ring, she would have an elder take her into the ocean to hunt a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast.

Thus, after a brief pause, Qiangu Yunmei added half-jokingly,

"Of course, if a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast were to deliver itself to me for absorption right now, I certainly wouldn't refuse."

"But something like that would probably only happen in a dream."

Clearly, Qiangu Yunmei did not hold much hope for such a windfall.

However, before Qiangu Yunche could speak, Qiangu Liting, who had been sitting with his eyes closed in meditation since they sat down, suddenly opened his eyes.

Those eyes appeared incomparably bright in the night.

At almost the same moment, Qiangu Yunche and Qiangu Yunmei heard a deafening explosion in the distance.

Qiangu Liting stood up, took a deep breath, then turned to Qiangu Yunmei and said,

"Yunmei, sometimes, perhaps pies really do fall from the sky."

Qiangu Yunmei was somewhat stunned, clearly not yet understanding what was happening. She opened her mouth to speak, but an even more violent explosion rang out in the distance, making her swallow the words she had been about to say...