Evil Demon Forest

"Come with me and help me hunt my sixth spirit ring," Xiao Jinchen said slowly.

"Hunt a soul beast? Help you?" Ice Empress paused, and retorted, "Why don't you find that human powerhouse of yours?"

"Find Du Busi? How could that big brute Du Busi possibly look as good as the little green-haired loli Ice Empress?"

Xiao Jinchen chuckled and said, "If I look for the old man, you won't get to eat the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow."

Hearing this, Ice Empress's small face changed abruptly, and she said, "Let's go! Right now! Whatever spirit ring you want, this empress will catch it for you!" Ice Empress hurriedly agreed, terrified that Xiao Jinchen would go back on his word.

Watching Ice Empress look like this, Xiao Jinchen couldn't help but chuckle as he rubbed her little head of emerald-green hair, and said softly, "Alright, whether you can get the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow depends on how you perform."

"Don't touch my head!" Ice Empress violently jerked her head away, her emerald-green strands brushing past Xiao Jinchen's fingertips, her amber eyes wide with anger, though the tips of her ears quietly turned red.

Ice Empress hopped back half a step, clutching the corner of her clothes with puffed cheeks. The chill around her body clamored along with her, freezing a thin layer of white frost onto the ground by her feet.

Xiao Jinchen withdrew his hand, gave a low chuckle, and said, "I won't touch it, then. Don't get worked up; if you get angry again, the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow is going to fly away."

"You!" Ice Empress was at a loss for words. It was clearly Xiao Jinchen who had acted like a hooligan, yet now she was the one being blackmailed. She angrily stamped her foot, and the ground instantly became covered in a layer of frost.

Sun Moon Empire.

Evil Demon Forest—this was where the strongest soul beast population of the Sun Moon Empire lived.

In the Evil Demon Forest, there was an extremely powerful soul beast population—the Evil Eyes! They were the rulers of the Evil Demon Forest, led by the Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign known as the Evil Emperor!

Long ago, Xiao Jinchen had set his sights on the Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign. The Evil Eye race itself was a powerful soul beast group with mental attributes, and his target this time was the Evil Emperor's son, Huo Yuhao's seventh spirit ring in the original story.

Soon, the two of them had already passed through the outer perimeter of the Evil Demon Forest. The strength of the surrounding soul beasts also began to grow; hundred-year soul beasts could be seen everywhere, and thousand-year soul beasts occasionally appeared as well.

However, in the face of Ice Empress's terrifying beastly pressure, these soul beasts stayed as far away as possible.

"Hey, keep up with me, don't get eaten by soul beasts later!" Ice Empress walked in front, her tone cold. Evidently, she had recovered from the state of being teased by Xiao Jinchen and had reverted to being that aloof one of the Three Great Kings of the Far North.

"I'm not called 'hey', I have a name." Xiao Jinchen casually dropped a mental imprint on the ground, curled his lip, and said, "Can't you just call me by my name?"

Ice Empress's cheeks caught the cold forest mist, and she paused for half a second before saying coldly, "Xiao Jinchen, satisfied now?"

With that, she turned around first and stepped into the thick fog of the Evil Demon Forest. Only from extremely close up could one notice that the tips of her ears were flushed with a very faint red, entirely masked by the chill surrounding her body.

Xiao Jinchen watched Ice Empress's back, quickened his pace to catch up, and deliberately leaned close to her ear, saying softly, "You say it so nicely; it would've been great if you'd just called me that earlier."

"Hmph!" A blush instantly bloomed across Ice Empress's cheeks. She let out a cold snort, ignored Xiao Jinchen's banter, and walked on by herself.

"Well, well, the little loli is so aloof. I hope she can keep this attitude up later when she comes asking me for the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow." Watching the icy-looking Ice Empress, the corners of Xiao Jinchen's mouth couldn't help but curl into a mischievous smile.

Time slowly passed, and the two of them had already entered the core area of the Evil Demon Forest.

Ten-thousand-year soul beasts were already common sights here, but with Ice Empress as his loli bodyguard, Xiao Jinchen wasn't panicked in the least. He simply kept using his formidable spiritual power to scan the surrounding miles. His spiritual power had already reached the level of a Titled Douluo outright, and once he hunted his sixth spirit ring, he might be able to reach the level of a Super Douluo directly.

Huh? Suddenly, Xiao Jinchen's gaze sharpened as he looked toward the west, the corners of his mouth lifting slightly.

"Let's go," Xiao Jinchen whispered to Ice Empress. Three Thousand Lightning Movement quietly activated, and his figure transformed into a streak of lightning as he violently rushed toward the west.

Ice Empress arched a delicate brow, kicked off with her slender legs, and kept pace with Xiao Jinchen.

As the distance closed, a soul beast with a very bizarre appearance also came into view.

That soul beast hovered in midair, looking somewhat like a balloon. Unfortunately, what floated there was not a balloon, but a gigantic eye—fully a meter in diameter, and presented in a blood-red color.

Around this giant eye were some brown markings. Six soft tentacles hung down toward the ground, dragging long behind it. One could see that wherever it was dragged, it left behind a trail of corroded gullies.

Among these six tentacles, three were green and three were red, distinct and clearly separated.

The Evil Emperor's son's favored concubine—the Fire Evil Tyrant.

Finding the Evil Emperor's son directly would be rather difficult, so it was better to just slaughter the favored concubine of the Evil Emperor's son and wait for the delivery to come straight to them.

The Fire Evil Tyrant also sensed Xiao Jinchen's arrival, turning its gigantic eye to look at him.

The Fire Evil Tyrant let out a sharp screech, and a fierce red light shot toward Xiao Jinchen like lightning from its gigantic eye.

This beam of red light was as thick as a water vat, with a cross-section at least a meter in diameter. Wherever it passed, every obstacle instantly turned to fine ash.

"Oh?" Xiao Jinchen let out a disdainful, cold laugh, lightly swiped his finger across his Storage Ring, and a ruler landed in his hand.

This ruler was gigantic in size, as thick as a door panel overall, and presented an archaic, pitch-black color. The surface of the ruler was covered with blurry, wondrous patterns, giving off a rather mysterious aura.

It was none other than—the Heavy Profound Ruler!

Of course, this Heavy Profound Ruler had also been obtained within the Exotic Flame Space, and converted to the Douluo Continent, it was at least an artifact-grade existence.

In an instant, a scorching, violent aura swept outward with Xiao Jinchen at its center.

"Flame Split—Wave Devouring Ruler!"

Xiao Jinchen let out a low shout, and the wildly surging energy between heaven and earth poured into the Heavy Profound Ruler in his hand like a hundred rivers returning to the sea.

Accompanied by the influx of worldly origin Qi, the body of the ruler grew increasingly scorching hot, and the wondrous patterns erupted with a dazzling, fiery-red radiance.

When the very last trace of worldly origin Qi within his body was injected into it, a crescent-shaped red blade-light half a zhang long violently shot out from the tip of the ruler.

The ruler-light radiated rolling spirit power fluctuations, wrapped in terrifying high temperatures, and viciously slashed down toward the red light shot by the oncoming Fire Evil Tyrant. The half-zhang-long crescent red light directly collided with the one-meter-wide crimson pillar of light.

"Boom!"

A piercing, explosive roar tore the air apart. A terrifying spirit power shockwave swept outward from the point of collision, and that terrifying spirit power fluctuation shattered the surrounding boulders, baking the vegetation within a radius of several miles into charred black cinders.

The crimson pillar of light split apart from the middle with a crash. The red light of the Heavy Profound Ruler maintained its momentum undiminished, slashing directly into the chest of the Fire Evil Tyrant.

"Roar!"

The Fire Evil Tyrant let out a heart-rending roar of agony. Its massive body violently tumbled backward for hundreds of meters, a bone-deep wound splitting open on its chest. Black-red blood mixed with violent spirit power fluctuations spewed out, scorching dense pits into the ground where it landed.