On the morning of the third day, the sky had only just begun to brighten.
Du Busi woke Lu Xiao and Xiao Wu early.
Xiao Wu rubbed her eyes and climbed off Lu Xiao.
It couldn't be helped—Lu Xiao smelled far too good.
Even when she deliberately kept her distance at night, she would always unconsciously snuggle closer to him in her sleep.
Du Busi looked at the two of them, their clothes in disarray, his eyes full of regret!
He now truly doubted whether Lu Xiao could persist in cultivating to become a Golden Body Arhat!
Lu Xiao stretched lazily. Just as he was about to speak, Du Busi grabbed one of them in each hand and flew toward the nearest Soul Hunting Forest.
Along the way, Du Busi sent a thread of Soul Power into Lu Xiao's body.
As his Soul Power delved deeper, Du Busi's expression suddenly changed, and a sharp gleam flashed through his eyes.
The calmness on his face vanished completely, replaced by uncontrollable ecstasy and shock.
He could clearly sense that Lu Xiao's physique now lay somewhere between that of a Soul Elder and a Soul Ancestor!
By his calculations, the limit of the first Soul Ring Lu Xiao could withstand was actually around three thousand years!
Such talent was enough to crush every Soul Master of the same age across the entire continent!
Joy surged wildly through Du Busi's heart. What a fine seedling! An unparalleled prodigy, one seen only once in ten thousand years!
"Hahaha! Good! Excellent!"
Du Busi could no longer maintain his usual detached, aloof demeanor. His hearty laughter rang through the sky, and even the air currents around him churned and roiled.
Lu Xiao and Xiao Wu exchanged a puzzled glance.
"Master, what's wrong?" Lu Xiao asked cautiously.
He was terrified that Du Busi might "accidentally" let him experience high-altitude skydiving without any safety measures!
Hearing this, Du Busi restrained his laughter, but the ecstasy in his eyes remained intense.
He lowered his head to look at Lu Xiao, whom he held in his hand, with the gaze of someone examining an incomparably precious treasure.
"What's wrong? Hahaha!"
Du Busi's voice was sonorous, filled with irrepressible excitement. Even his flying speed increased a little. "Good disciple, the limit of your first Soul Ring is at least three thousand years!"
A storm surged through Lu Xiao's heart, but he quickly calmed down, followed by overwhelming joy.
Others started with a Hundred-Year Soul Ring, while he would begin directly with a three-thousand-year one. What an invincible start!
As they spoke, a vast, lush sea of forest had already entered their view ahead.
The forest stretched endlessly, shrouded in mist. Its vegetation was verdant and dense, while waves of beastly roars echoed from deep within the woods.
At the forest's perimeter stood a massive iron fence, with countless spikes protruding toward the forest.
The fence stood over ten meters tall and looked exceptionally sturdy.
Outside the fence, a hundred soldiers patrolled back and forth. They all wore full suits of refined iron armor and carried long spears. Their formation was orderly, and the sight of a hundred steel-clad warriors standing together gave off a grim, murderous air.
This was the Soul Hunting Forest.
Not just anyone could enter this forest.
Only Soul Masters with permits issued by Spirit Hall could enter the Soul Hunting Forest to hunt Soul Beasts.
These soldiers were merely the outer defense. Inside the Soul Hunting Forest, Spirit Hall had a dedicated Enforcement Corps that inspected permits at any time.
Of course, let alone whether Du Busi knew these rules, even if he did, he probably would not care in the slightest!
On Douluo Continent, rules were merely circles drawn by the strong for the weak. The strong had never needed to obey rules!
Du Busi sped through the air above the forest with Lu Xiao and Xiao Wu, fully unleashing the spiritual power and pressure of a rank ninety-eight Super Douluo.
His invisible spiritual power swept downward like a tide, instantly covering the entire outer region of the Soul Hunting Forest and meticulously scanning every inch of woodland.
The location and cultivation of every Soul Beast appeared clearly within his perception.
At the same time, the terrifying pressure belonging to a Super Douluo blanketed the surroundings like a mountain pressing down from above.
The next moment, the entire outer layer of the Soul Hunting Forest fell deathly silent.
The Soul Beasts' roars, which had been rising and falling moments ago, abruptly stopped. All kinds of Soul Beasts that had been prowling and darting through the woods froze where they stood.
The weaker Soul Beasts went limp in all four limbs and trembled as they lay prone on the ground, not even daring to lift their heads.
Even those ferocious Soul Beasts with cultivation nearing a thousand years curled tightly inside their nests at this moment.
The Spirit Hall Enforcement Corps patrolling below shuddered. Everyone's faces instantly turned pale, and their legs went weak.
They could not sense the specific source of that power.
They only felt an irresistible, terrifying pressure suddenly descend between heaven and earth, as though the entire sky were about to collapse and pin their bodies in place, making even breathing difficult.
As Du Busi continued his search, two beast roars suddenly rang out from deep within the forest.
The two roars were entirely different, yet they intertwined with one another.
One was hoarse and chilling, carrying an eerie howling wind;
The other was violent and explosive, accompanied by the crackling boom of thunder.
Du Busi's previously indifferent eyes narrowed sharply. His vast, ocean-like spiritual power instantly focused on one spot, firmly locking onto a shadowy valley more than a thousand meters deep in the forest.
"It's a Wind-Thunder Demon Dragon!"
Du Busi spoke rapidly, his voice brimming with excitement!
The bodies of this kind of Soul Beast carried the True Dragon Bloodline of the Wind Dragon and Thunder Dragon, although that bloodline was extremely thin!
As he spoke, he flashed forward with the two of them, instantly crossing a thousand meters and hovering steadily above the secluded valley.
Within the valley, all vegetation had withered. The rocks on the ground were covered in fine blackened cracks, and there was not the slightest trace of life within a hundred-meter radius.
At the center of the valley floor, a gigantic beast with a lithe body slowly raised its head, revealing its full form.
It was a two-headed dragon nearly fifteen zhang long. Its body was covered in dense, ink-black scales, each one gleaming with a dim metallic luster.
Its dragon body was lithe and powerful, its sturdy limbs like dragon claws gripping the rock walls tightly. Its long, powerful tail swept lightly, stirring up gusts of fierce wind.
Its most remarkable feature was its head: two entirely different dragon heads stood side by side, both savage in appearance and vastly different in presence.
The left dragon head was gray-black all over, with curved, dull horns and deep, hollow eyes. A strange gray wind constantly billowed from its nostrils and mouth.
The right dragon head was wrapped in strands of purple-black lightning. Its horns were crystalline and gleaming, its eyes blazing and violent, and every breath it took came with the explosive rumble of thunder.
One wind, one lightning; one stillness, one violence. Two attributes coexisted perfectly within this two-headed dragon.
Sensing the terrifying aura of a Super Douluo above, the Wind-Thunder Demon Dragon at the bottom of the valley raised both heads at once and let out an earth-shaking roar.
The two dragon mouths respectively spewed a gray whirlwind and purple-black lightning!
For a moment, fierce winds howled and thunder exploded!
Du Busi remained calm. With a thought, dense poisonous green mist suddenly surged around him!
The next second, a massive, deep-green hand formed from Soul Power condensed into existence. Carrying an immense might capable of suppressing everything, it slowly descended from the sky!
The howling winds and violent lightning dissipated completely the instant they touched the green hand.
Du Busi looked at the Wind-Thunder Demon Dragon in surprise. "I didn't expect it to be a mutated Soul Beast!"
Lu Xiao and Xiao Wu looked at Du Busi with puzzled expressions.
Soul Power surged around Du Busi as the pressure of a Super Douluo firmly suppressed the Wind-Thunder Demon Dragon!
At the same time, the poisonous gas around him continuously eroded the Wind-Thunder Demon Dragon's body!
"This is no ordinary Wind-Thunder Demon Dragon. If I'm not mistaken, its wind attribute is also mixed with the Annihilation Attribute. This attribute is extremely powerful—it can break down an opponent's attribute abilities after striking them, thereby achieving a destructive effect."
He paused, then continued, "Its lightning is mixed with the Destruction Attribute! Only in this way can these two powers coexist in balance within its body!"
As his words fell, the massive green hand pressed directly onto the Wind-Thunder Demon Dragon!
The Wind-Thunder Demon Dragon's enormous body shook violently, and both dragon heads let out pained howls.
It could clearly feel its body being corroded by poisonous Soul Power!
"Three thousand eight hundred years of cultivation. Annihilation, wind, destruction, and lightning—four attributes."
Du Busi's voice was calm, but his eyes were full of satisfaction. "A perfect fit!"
The restrained Wind-Thunder Demon Dragon's eyes turned blood-red, and the scales on its body transformed into wisps of black vapor that rose away!
Its agonized roars continued to echo through the secluded valley.
Watching this scene, Xiao Wu felt not the slightest bit of sadness. Instead, she was happy that Lu Xiao had found a suitable Soul Ring.
In her eyes, it was this Wind-Thunder Demon Dragon's honor to become Lu Xiao's Soul Ring!
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