At sunrise, the red sun rose in the east.
Light and darkness alternated across heaven and earth.
A streak of golden light came from the sea, tearing through the sky as it flew eastward at supersonic speed.
Douluo Continent.
After hunting down and reclaiming the Evil Orca King, Qian Xunji flew back to Douluo Continent without stopping for even a moment.
Not bad luck. I even ran into a Hundred-Thousand-Year Sea Soul Beast like the Evil Orca King on my way back to Douluo Continent, he thought happily.
He had killed the Demon Soul Great White Shark King Xiaobai and the Evil Orca King, two Hundred-Thousand-Year Sea Soul Beasts.
His goal of killing nine Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts had now been completed by two.
But even though he had progressed through the mission so quickly, Qian Xunji did not dare let down his guard.
The sooner he completed the God Trial, the better.
As for getting a proper rest, that could wait until he had completed every God Trial, inherited the Asura God Position, and no longer had to fear for his life.
Otherwise, he would spend every day on edge, unable to sleep peacefully for fear that some ungrateful wretch would kill him and even devour his soul.
During his flight, he passed Spirit City.
Qian Xunji merely glanced sideways at it, with no intention of returning.
"I only want to become a god now. I don't have time to deal with those foolish people and foolish affairs."
Passing over Spirit City, he plunged headlong into the densely vegetated Star Dou Forest.
Deep within the Star Dou Forest, the Lake of Life lay quietly amid the mountains.
The lake water was as clear as a whole piece of deep-green jade, crystalline and bright. A hazy layer of pale golden mist floated over its surface, formed from pure life energy slowly circulating.
Exotic flowers and strange herbs surrounded the shore, brimming with vitality. In the center of the lake, the Ancient Tree of Life let down branches and leaves that shimmered with light, its gentle radiance spilling across the water.
The entire hidden realm was tranquil and ancient, permeated everywhere by a rich, warm aura of life, like an immortal paradise beyond the mortal world.
Xiao Wu's family of four had originally lived here.
However, because Xiao Wu's mother was nearing her tribulation, she had taken human form and left the Star Dou Forest for the human world.
The only Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts living here now were Xiao Wu and her two younger brothers, three beasts in all.
It was feeding time.
The Hundred-Thousand-Year Soft Bone Rabbit Xiao Wu had a body as sturdy as a yak.
Leading her countless rabbit descendants, she opened her mouth wide, bared her rabbit teeth, and continuously gnawed on Blue Silver Grass.
Soft Bone Rabbits did not merely enjoy eating Blue Silver Grass leaves. They preferred digging into the soil for its roots and eating those.
Blue Silver Grass roots were crisp, delicious, and good for grinding their teeth. They were the Soft Bone Rabbits' favorite food.
Thus, under Xiao Wu's leadership, wherever the Soft Bone Rabbit army passed, the Blue Silver Grass there suffered utter devastation and met its end in rabbit mouths.
If not for the Star Dou Forest's extraordinary nature and abundant life energy, which made plants grow far faster than normal,
the Blue Silver Grass growing here would never have been enough for Xiao Wu and the others to ravage.
The grasslands would have become wastelands.
The reason Xiao Wu's Soft Bone Rabbit army could feast contentedly without outside interference was entirely because Er Ming, the Hundred-Thousand-Year Titan Giant Ape, stood guard and intimidated the carnivorous Soul Beasts that preyed on Soft Bone Rabbits.
For a simp beast like Er Ming, being able to stay by Sister Xiao Wu's side and live with her was enough.
He watched Sister Xiao Wu eat happily, relieve herself, sleep, and beat up Soul Beasts.
Er Ming: This was a happy, blissful life.
Unfortunately, different species could not reproduce. Otherwise, he truly wanted to have a crystallization of love with Sister Xiao Wu.
Er Ming fantasized inside his head.
Perhaps in the future, he and Sister Xiao Wu could take human form together, unite in human bodies, and give birth to the crystallization of their love.
Er Ming put a finger into his mouth. As he kept imagining, copious liquid secreted in his mouth and began to flow out.
Just as Er Ming drifted off in his fantasies, Qian Xunji arrived.
He was flying about three hundred meters above the ground.
His Ninth Soul Skill, Mental Detection, spread out.
"Why are there only three?" he murmured in confusion.
Xiao Wu's parents were absent. There were only the three sibling beasts.
For Qian Xunji, this was not good news.
As a Limit Douluo, even if he faced five opponents at once, he could swiftly end the battle and kill five Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts working together against him.
Yet only three Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts had gathered here.
The actual number did not even reach his initial estimate of four.
Even if he killed Xiao Wu and her two younger brothers, he would have only killed five Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts.
Even if he went to the Blue Silver Forest and killed Blue Silver Empress A Yin, it would still only make five.
What was he supposed to do about the four Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts he still lacked?
The whereabouts of the Death Spider Emperor were unknown.
No one knew where Ah Rou had run off to after taking human form.
Qian Xunji's eyes shifted as he swept his gaze across the Lake of Life, then withdrew it.
There was another world beneath the Lake of Life, where several Ferocious Beasts older than two hundred thousand years resided.
Killing them would indeed be enough to complete the second Asura God Trial: killing nine Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts within one month.
Leaving aside the Silver Dragon King, there was Di Tian alone, who possessed the Dragon God Claw and Yin-Yang Complementary Dual Soul Cores.
Qian Xunji rubbed his chin, feeling that his current self might not be able to defeat that foreign dragon.
Not to mention Lord Bear and Ten Thousand Demon King, two Ferocious Beasts whose combat strength had reached the level of Limit Douluo.
There was also Bi Ji, the continent's number-one healer.
Together with Ferocious Beasts such as Scarlet King, Zi Ji, and Yao Ling,
their strength was even more formidable than Spirit Hall combined with the Upper Three Sects.
Before inheriting the Asura God Position, he had better not go looking for trouble by provoking the Ferocious Beasts in the Great Beast Area of the Star Dou Forest.
Qian Xunji, who preferred killing enemies without taking damage, still used his Fourth Soul Skill, Angel Light Blade, condensing dozens of golden short swords to kill his enemies through sword control.
Against thick-skinned Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, this thousand-year soul skill alone was not enough.
His Sixth Soul Skill, Angel Holy Sword, activated. A golden vortex appeared before his palm, and a golden light sword gradually emerged from its center.
Angel Holy Sword was a long-range single-target attack skill.
After being released, this light sword could remain for a long time, until the Soul Power within it dissipated.
Qian Xunji could remotely control the light sword to attack his opponent.
A soul skill nearing thirty thousand years in age was powerful enough to break through the defenses of Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts and inflict effective damage upon them.
If it struck a part of the body with weak defenses, it could even kill a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
Qian Xunji had relied on remotely controlling the Angel Holy Sword to make the Evil Orca King swallow the blade, destroying its internal organs from within and successfully killing it.
Of course, the main reason he used this move so often, controlling swords to kill enemies, was because it looked cool and was effortless.
The dozens of golden short swords in front drew all of Xiao Wu's attention.
The golden light sword circled behind her, spun at high speed, and launched a sneak attack. Like a Thousand Years of Death, it stabbed into her rear.
"Ah!" Xiao Wu cried out in pain, spitting out the spinning golden sword.
Her internal organs were destroyed. Blood gushed from both openings. Xiao Wu died, and a scarlet Spirit Ring floated into the air.
"Sister Xiao Wu!"
Seeing Xiao Wu collapse and die, Er Ming's eyes turned bloodshot as he panted like a bull.
She was dead. Sister Xiao Wu, whom he loved, was dead.
Er Ming beat his chest and threw back his head with a furious roar.
His gaping ape mouth exposed a weakness. Qian Xunji seized the opportunity, controlled the sword into his mouth, shredded his internal organs, and made a bloody flower bloom from his rear.
At that moment, Da Ming, the Azure Bull Python in the Lake of Life, heard his siblings' screams and poked his bull head out.
The instant his head emerged from the water, before he could observe his surroundings, he was struck by a 990,000-year Sky Dream Ice Silkworm Spirit Bone skill: Soul Shock.
"Ah!" Da Ming had only just opened his mouth to scream when the golden light sword entered it and violently attacked his internal organs.
After killing the three beasts, Qian Xunji swiftly collected their bodies, Spirit Rings, and Spirit Bones before leaving the Lake of Life.
From the Lake of Life, he sensed an aura of dragon might.
This indescribable dragon might gave him a highly dangerous feeling.
It put him on alert. Decisively following Senior Han's example, he joined the running-away club.
He quickly fled this dangerous place.
Heaven and earth were vast, but nothing was more important than his own life.
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