The Three-Year Period Has Ended, Prepare for a Night Raid on the Pope's Bedchamber

"Is your mother really that beautiful? For real? Could she possibly be prettier than our Skywater Academy headmistress, Teacher Liu Ruyan?"

Shui Bing'er looked utterly bewildered when she heard Lin Tian say this.

She had heard of Teacher Liu Ruyan's beauty long ago but had never seen it with her own eyes. Now that Lin Tian was praising his mother so highly, she couldn't help but feel a competitive spark.

"Our headmistress, Liu Ruyan, is known by soul masters across the Douluo Continent as the Water Beauty. Compared to your mother, who do you think is more beautiful?"

Shui Bing'er sat by the campfire, looking unconvinced.

"My mother is known as a Douluo Peerless Beauty. Every smile and every glance is heart-stirring and soul-captivating! She is incredibly beautiful!"

By the campfire, Lin Tian and Shui Bing'er traded barbs.

Shui Lanlan sat to the side, condensing her Soul Power; hunting the Extreme Cold Ice Eagle today had consumed most of her energy.

Hearing the two youngsters debating whose elder was more beautiful, she couldn't help but reveal a faint smile.

"I think Teacher Shui is quite beautiful too—fair skin, lovely features, long legs, and she's so strong."

Lin Tian blinked and cast his gaze toward Shui Lanlan.

Hearing this, Shui Lanlan blushed and was just about to retort.

Then, Shui Bing'er chimed in from the other side:

"At least you have some taste, kid. As one of the ten beauties of Skywater Academy, Teacher Shui Lanlan is not only beautiful but also very powerful."

"I agree."

By the campfire, the two children went back and forth, leaving Teacher Shui Lanlan, who was trying to focus on her cultivation, blushing repeatedly.

"Teacher Shui is the prettiest; she's all legs from the neck down, and she has a natural sway when she walks."

"My mother has fair skin, a beautiful face, and a great figure. She can soar through the skies and dive into the depths, and she can even cultivate in secret chambers."

"Can Teacher Shui eat shit? Does your mom dare to?"

"Well, I wouldn't dare!"

Listening to the increasingly outrageous conversation between Shui Bing'er and Lin Tian, Shui Lanlan finally reached her limit.

She slammed her staff into the ground and said with a cold tone:

"I don't dare eat shit, and I'm not as formidable as you two claim! Go to sleep, now!"

Hearing this, Shui Bing'er made a face at Lin Tian before leaning against a large tree and drifting off to sleep.

Lin Tian, already exhausted from the day's events, stopped his debate with Shui Bing'er and leaned against a pile of grass to rest his eyes.

Deep within the Star Dou Forest, the roars of high-level soul beasts echoed one after another; the nightly slaughter had officially begun.

The next morning, at the first light of dawn.

Lin Tian, who was fast asleep, was woken up by Shui Bing'er.

"Little brother, we have to go. Are you coming back with us? Even though our Skywater Academy doesn't recruit boys, I can beg our headmistress to make an exception for you. After all, you're a genius!"

Shui Bing'er's face was flushed, and she looked reluctant to part.

To her, meeting such a handsome little guy while hunting for soul rings in the Star Dou Forest must have been a decree from the gods.

Besides, she had even held hands with this little guy. Her mother had said that after holding hands with a boy, one would get pregnant...

If... if she ended up having a baby, she didn't want the child to grow up without a father...

Faced with Shui Bing'er's invitation, Lin Tian ultimately refused.

After all, he had made a promise to his mother, the Pope, when he came to the Star Dou Forest for training.

Wait three years, raise his Soul Power to level 50, then sleep on the mahogany bed and ambush the Pope.

Since he hadn't completed his mission objectives yet, he couldn't leave.

After a brief farewell, Lin Tian remained in the Star Dou Forest to continue his training.

Spring departed and autumn arrived, time flowed like a white horse galloping past a crevice, and soon the three-year promise made to the Pope had arrived.

At this moment, in the Star Dou Mountain Range, over seven hundred miles away from Spirit Hall, the endless mountain peaks stretched out like a giant dragon crawling upon the earth, magnificent and imposing.

The range spanned hundreds of miles, with mountains of every shape and form, each harboring its own unique beasts.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Deafening roars echoed through the mountains, and the sound of the storm shook the heavens, causing the surrounding trees to tremble and leaves to scatter across the ground.

The massive explosions sent the surrounding soul beasts fleeing in all directions.

Looking closely, one could see a large patch of forest devastated beyond recognition; trees were snapped and broken, rocks were shattered, and deep craters pockmarked the area. Cracks in the ground spread like spiderwebs, and blood splattered everywhere.

An Armored Black Bear with a cultivation of over thirty thousand years was being pinned to the ground and pummeled by a handsome youth.

The Armored Black Bear's prideful defense was as fragile as thin paper under the boy's fists.

Its massive body, once used to intimidate other soul beasts, had become a living target. The boy's fists were wreathed in black light, as if burning with some unknown black flame; every time they struck, they left indelible wounds on the Armored Black Bear's body.

"Roar!"

As the apex overlord of this region, the Armored Black Bear had never felt as stifled as it did today. It opened its massive maw and let out a thunderous roar at the youth, its enormous canines glinting with a cold, sharp light under the sun.

Following this, it violently raised a paw as large as a palm-leaf fan and swiped it directly toward the youth's head.

This strike contained the full extent of the Armored Black Bear's fury; the momentum of the blow was like a mountain collapsing or a sea overturning, perfectly embodying the essence of a thousand-jun force.

As the paw descended, the handsome youth did not dodge, evade, or retreat. A look of excitement appeared on his youthful face as he curled the fingers of his right hand into a fist. Black flames coalesced upon his knuckles, and he threw a punch—a strike like a long spear, piercing through everything in its path.

"Boom!"

A dull, explosive sound rang out. The immense pressure from the collision of fist and paw swept in all directions, kicking up clouds of dust and sending ripples through the air. Debris rained down like a storm, snapping all the surrounding trees in two.

"Roar!"

What followed was a desperate, agonizing howl. The Armored Black Bear's palm-leaf-sized paw had been punched clean through by the handsome youth, and the black flames seared the wound, emitting the faint scent of roasted meat.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

The youth did not want to waste time and chose to end the Armored Black Bear's life right then and there. He clenched his fists again, coated them in black flames, and began to pummel the beast relentlessly.

Every punch landed true with the force of a thousand jun. With each strike, he left a gruesome, mangled wound on the Armored Black Bear's chest, leaving it in a wretched state.

The sinister power of the Soul-Eater Spider Emperor seeped into the Armored Black Bear's body with every punch, beginning to erode its internal organs and scorch its flesh, roasting it from the inside out.

Under such violent and scorching attacks, the Armored Black Bear had no power to parry. After being struck dozens of times, the armor on its chest was finally shattered, and its flame of life was extinguished in that very moment. It collapsed to the ground with a thunderous crash, filled with extreme unwillingness.

Even in death, it could not understand why it had been pinned to the ground and beaten by a human youth. It clearly possessed the ultimate defense, yet it still couldn't withstand the opponent's frantic bombardment!

Could this kid be a hundred-thousand-year-old transformed spirit beast?

Thinking of this, the expression on Lin Tian's face shifted again and again.