Intercepting Illex, The Silver Dragon King of Astonishing Wisdom Awakens~

The Skydream Iceworm snarled viciously, "Get the hell out already! I was clearly here first!!!"

It had thought this little gray bead would fight him for territory and drive him out. Unexpectedly, it shot away in a flash, leaving Huo Yuhao's sea of consciousness.

"What... is going on?" the Skydream Iceworm wondered in confusion.

Following the aura of life energy, the little gray bead arrived at the mixed zone.

"Roar!"

A bear's roar filled with bitter hatred exploded through Zhuang Minghui's sea of consciousness.

The Crystal Bear's twisted soul phantom carried a bone-chilling cold as it opened its bloody maw and lunged madly at Zhuang Minghui.

Soul shock.

This was a soul shock formed only after a soul beast of at least the ten-thousand-year level was killed by a soul master. Under normal circumstances, a ten-thousand-year soul ring for a soul master began with the fifth soul ring at rank fifty.

By that point, the body's constitution had already fully matured, so the effects of soul shock were minimal. But Zhuang Minghui was different.

He was only eleven years old. The soul shock he encountered while absorbing a ten-thousand-year soul ring at rank forty and age eleven was several times more violent than what an ordinary soul master would face.

Looking at that savage soul, Zhuang Minghui merely raised an eyebrow.

"You dare show off such petty tricks before an expert? Take my Great Might Heavenly Dragon!"

A life energy beyond words abruptly erupted, and an incomparably noble emerald radiance shot into the sky within his sea of consciousness.

Immediately afterward, the phantom of an ancient giant tree radiating boundless vitality towered up from the center of the green sea.

Its luxuriant branches and leaves spread open, every leaf like a flawless piece of jade, blooming with overwhelming, vigorous life force.

The Life Ancient Tree. This was Zhuang Minghui's second martial soul.

In an instant, the life energy of the entire Star Dou Great Forest seemed to receive a summons from its sovereign, emerging one by one from the waters of the Lake of Life.

Looking at the soul shock rushing straight toward him, that unparalleled life energy gave Zhuang Minghui the courage to face it head-on.

A raging emerald tide of life instantly submerged the Crystal Bear's soul phantom.

The violent resentment could not contend at all against this endlessly renewing mighty force. The brutality within its soul was instantly purified, broken down, and finally dissolved into the purest nourishment.

A short while later.

Zhuang Minghui slowly opened his eyes. Looking at the four soul rings beneath his feet—yellow, purple, purple, and black—the smile at the corners of his mouth could not be suppressed.

"Beautiful. A ten-thousand-year fourth soul ring. Who else!"

Just as he was feeling smug, the black little bead followed the aura of life into his sea of consciousness.

"This feeling... Could it be!"

Sensing the abnormality coming from his sea of consciousness, Zhuang Minghui's expression shifted. He immediately closed his eyes, and his mind entered his sea of consciousness.

His sea of consciousness was an emerald ocean formed from pure life energy. The sacred Life Ancient Tree stood in the center of the sea, radiating a gentle halo.

And high in the air not far from the ancient tree, a little gray bead that seemed utterly out of place with its surroundings, giving off an aura of deathly stillness and ancient vicissitudes, was quietly floating there.

"It really is Electrolux."

The instant he saw Electrolux, Zhuang Minghui's suspended heart relaxed.

In other words, Huo Yuhao had already completed the grand undertaking of absorbing a million-year soul ring. The extreme life energy of the Life Ancient Tree and the Living Gold had attracted Electrolux, and he had decisively abandoned Huo Yuhao and come here to him.

Zhuang Minghui rubbed his chin and briefly considered his next course. "How about... we leave it at that."

After thinking it over, he settled it with one punch.

After leaving his sea of consciousness, Zhuang Minghui checked the Crystal Bear's body before him.

"Nothing, nothing, still nothing!"

"Why? Why exactly is this happening!"

So anxious that he scratched his ears and cheeks, he turned the Crystal Bear's corpse in front of him over and over. From inside to outside, from head to tail, Zhuang Minghui did not find the slightest trace of a ten-thousand-year soul bone.

Six years. A full six years had passed, and he had not gotten a single soul bone.

If this were any other transmigrator, after hunting down this ten-thousand-year Crystal Bear in front of him, a soul bone would have dropped long ago.

It might even have been an external soul bone from the bear paw.

Could it be that his choice was wrong, and he should have picked a ten-thousand-year Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear instead?

Yes, that had to be it. It was one hundred percent the Crystal Bear's problem. It absolutely was not his problem.

Zhuang Minghui comforted himself for a moment, then resigned himself to processing the ten-thousand-year Crystal Bear's corpse before him. "Forget it. Let's just leave it at that. Crystal Bear meat is still very nutritious."

"When the time comes, I'll have Grandpa make it into steamed bear paws. The taste will be ridiculously good."

A little disappointed, Zhuang Minghui finished processing the Crystal Bear's corpse before him, separating the fur and the meat before storing them in his storage soul tool.

In the shadows, a graceful emerald figure quietly watched all of this.

At this moment, at the Lake of Life in the Star Dou Great Forest.

The calm surface of the lake now rippled with violent waves. The life energy here was draining away at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the surrounding vegetation had even begun to show faint signs of withering yellow from being overdrawn of vitality.

A middle-aged man in a pitch-black cloak, his face firm and resolute, was kneeling on one knee at the shore of the Lake of Life.

Di Tian, the Beast God of the Star Dou Forest, the number one soul beast in the soul beast world beneath the Gold and Silver Dragon Kings.

From within the lake came a clear, resounding dragon roar. The moment that voice appeared, Di Tian did not dare to so much as breathe.

"Di Tian, have you still not found the one stealing the life energy?"

Di Tian lowered his head in panic and gritted his teeth as he replied, "Reporting to my lord, no."

"Useless!"

"I gave you five years, and you still haven't found the target!" The furious dragon roar exploded outward, piercing Di Tian's eardrums and striking straight at his illusory dragon bloodline.

Di Tian hurriedly tried to soothe the Silver Dragon King, who was on the verge of going berserk. "My lord, please calm your anger. For the past five years, we ferocious beasts have been searching for the target. Today, we finally have some information. That person appeared in the core region."

"The life energy began draining away again, so we immediately sent Bi Ji to investigate. No word has come back yet."

Hearing this, the Silver Dragon King's irritable voice finally eased slightly. "Then wait for Bi Ji to return."

A long while later.

An emerald-green, graceful figure arrived beside Di Tian, transforming into an incomparably beautiful woman with a gentle and elegant air.

Emerald Swan Bi Ji knelt devoutly at the shore of the Lake of Life and said:

"My lord, the person has been found. An eleven-year-old Soul Ancestor, with twin martial souls: Living Gold and Life Ancient Tree. Elder Zhuang of Shrek is protecting him from the shadows."

The moment those words fell, the entire Lake of Life fell silent for a brief moment.

From within the lake came the Silver Dragon King's incredulous voice:

"You're saying his martial souls are Life Ancient Tree and Living Gold?"

Bi Ji's gentle face was filled with certainty, emerald-green light flickering in her eyes.

"Yes, my lord. This subordinate is absolutely certain I did not see wrong."