Wu Sidu

"Whoosh—!"

A brief sound of something tearing through the air exploded outward, and a figure trailing a dazzling, scorching tail flame swept across the sky, vanishing into the distance in an instant.

"They're all too weak. Aren't there any thousand-year soul beasts?"

In midair, Gu You observed his surroundings, feeling a helpless sense that he simply couldn't find a worthy opponent.

Forget running into thousand-year soul beasts along the way—he had barely even encountered any hundred-year ones.

But that was understandable. The entry requirement for the Primary Riot Spirit Ascension Platform was below four rings. Even if the refresh rate of hundred-year and thousand-year soul beasts had been increased, they still had to consider soul masters at this level.

After all, soul elders like him who could slaughter thousand-year soul beasts were the minority. If an ordinary soul elder ran into a thousand-year soul beast without a team, death was the only outcome.

"I'll expand the range and look for colleagues. If that really doesn't work, the guardian of the primary Spirit Ascension Platform... I remember it's the Dark-Gold Terrorclaw Bear, right? Challenging it wouldn't be a bad idea."

As he pondered what to do next, Gu You decided to continue deeper into the Spirit Ascension Platform. If he encountered any colleagues who had entered, he would fight them; if not, he would first kill the Dark-Gold Terrorclaw Bear and obtain its right arm palm bone.

That palm bone's quality was far from low. He couldn't let Tang Wulin get his hands on it. Snatching opportunities—this was what he was best at.

Although in the original work, Tang Wulin's group encountered the Dark-Gold Terrorclaw Bear inside the Spirit Ascension Platform of the East Sea Spirit Transmission Pagoda, the Spirit Ascension Platforms within the Spirit Transmission Pagoda's eighteen great "Heavenly Towers" were not separate virtual worlds.

They were a shared virtual world, connected together.

In other words, the Dark-Gold Terrorclaw Bear, the guardian of the primary Spirit Ascension Platform, existed in the primary Spirit Ascension Platforms of all eighteen great Heavenly Towers.

After continuing to fly for about five minutes, Gu You discovered a group of ten-year Wind Baboons leaping between the treetops below.

"To think they're the existence that nearly solo-killed the peerless prodigy Ice Spirit Douluo back then? I have to use you all for practice."

Creation Conversion, fire!

His first soul ring lit up, and the phoenix wings behind him turned pure crimson. A ball of fire condensed in Gu You's palm.

He compressed the fireball to the size of a fist, then threw it.

"Boom!"

The fireball struck a Wind Baboon that had been about to jump from a treetop with perfect accuracy. After an explosion, the tree was blasted apart, and the Wind Baboon's corpse was sent flying off somewhere unknown.

The other Wind Baboons immediately scattered in panic, letting out piercing shrieks.

Gu You did not pursue them. He looked in a certain direction far away in puzzlement.

"Ah—!"

A scream rang out, extremely loud, shaking the birds above the entire forest into chaotic flight.

"A colleague's in danger? What kind of soul beast could make someone scream that loudly?"

Curious, Gu You set off and flew over, wanting to watch the show.

"Roar—!"

"Why are you screaming so loudly?"

A massive bear paw swatted toward a short-haired girl.

The girl was agile and had two yellow soul rings. At this moment, her first soul ring was flashing.

Her footwork was strange, with afterimages constantly trailing behind her. In the end, she actually avoided the bear paw in an illusory state and flashed six meters away.

During her dodge, she looked angrily at a three-ring female soul master whose face had gone pale from being startled by the Blood Bear's sudden attack.

"M-Miss, I'm sorry. I got a little excited just now. Leave it to me!" The female soul master came back to her senses, her expression flustered, and the second soul ring beneath her feet lit up. Her speed was nimble, like a cat, as she charged toward the nearby Blood Bear.

"And us! Young Miss, just wait to absorb the spirit energy."

At the same time, there was more than one soul master following the girl.

Two more youths released their martial souls. Their bodies swelled, and two tiger silhouettes appeared behind them.

Their martial souls were both tiger-type.

"Fight!"

The two youths roared and charged toward the Blood Bear together with the female soul master.

Seeing this, the short-haired girl let out a breath of relief. This time, for the sake of upgrading her soul spirit, the family had wasted a full four chances to enter the Riot Spirit Ascension Platform. Aside from her own quota, they had also given spots to three soul masters in the family with decent talent.

According to the family higher-ups, these three soul masters were meant to help her obtain spirit energy.

At the same time, in actual combat, they could also better improve themselves. It could be said to kill two birds with one stone.

Thinking that her hundred-year soul spirit had hope of advancing to a thousand-year one, the two fluffy curls on top of Wu Sidu's head twitched. It was clear she was in a good mood.

At nine years old, she was already a rank twenty-four soul master. She had also inherited her ancestors' top-tier twin martial souls, the Hell Civet and the White Tiger, and was considered a genius rarely seen in a hundred years in Star Luo City.

From a young age, her father and mother had instilled in her the idea of becoming strong. She would revive the once-great Star Luo Wu Family. She would become powerful, surpass every prodigy of this era, and recast the former glory of Star Luo's inherited martial souls!

"Ah!"

Before she could be happy for long, Wu Sidu saw one of the youths get swatted flying by the Blood Bear.

"How can this be? How can a thousand-year soul beast be this powerful?"

"Oh no, this Blood Bear has an innate mutated Berserk skill."

"Miss, run! You have to survive! Don't waste the clan's chance at the riot Spirit Ascension Platform!"

Wu Sidu was stunned. In the blink of an eye, three screams rang out beside her in succession.

The three soul masters from just now all turned into specks of white light and vanished from the world of the Spirit Ascension Platform.

Wu Sidu covered her face.

How are you all this useless? Even a bear eating three pigs wouldn't be that fast!

The more she thought about it, the angrier she became. The sharp aura Wu Sidu had been giving off changed, and the two soul rings beneath her feet vanished.

What followed was a layer of white fur covering her entire body. Her delicate frame swelled slightly, golden claws protruded from her fingertips, and a fierce light shone in her eyes.

Martial soul switch—White Tiger martial soul!

"Hell Civet, White Tiger?"

Gu You had already been watching the battle from the sky for quite some time. As he looked at Wu Sidu, he was a little surprised.

They were all familiar faces from the original story. Last time it was Luo Guixing, and this time, in the riot Spirit Ascension Platform, he had run into Wu Sidu.

The future ninth place on the Youth Genius Ranking, nicknamed Hell!

Gu You considered whether he should give Wu Sidu a hand.

Forget it. I'll watch a little longer.

She's the future ninth-ranked prodigy, after all. Facing a thousand-year soul beast, she should be able to hold on for a bit, right?

If he did save her, it would be no trouble. Killing this Blood Bear would be far too easy for him.

"I refuse to believe you're really that strong!"

Below, Wu Sidu gave a light snort and swung her tiger claw at the Blood Bear.

The Blood Bear's eyes were bloodthirsty. It was in a state of fury, terrifying blood-colored patterns flickering constantly across the surface of its skin.

"Roar—!" Seeing that Wu Sidu did not run and instead slapped a claw toward it, the Blood Bear roared and met her tiger claw with its bear paw.

As their strength collided, Wu Sidu was blasted away in an instant. She looked down and saw that she was over a hundred meters up, almost entering the clouds.

It's over!

This is the strength of a thousand-year soul beast?

In midair, Wu Sidu was on the verge of tears.

Compared to the pain in her arm, what truly made her unwilling to accept it was that the clan had spent a huge price to obtain four chances at the riot Spirit Ascension Platform, yet they had wasted them like this, gaining almost nothing of value.