Starry Terror Claw Bear

So they were seriously telling a little Soul Master with rank-ten soul power like me to go fight a savage soul beast?

And since it was already a savage soul beast, would it really be willing to become my soul spirit?

"Forget it. I'll take it one step at a time."

Lin Yuan sighed. The reward had already been issued. He really couldn't bring himself to just let it go. Besides, this was Douluo Continent. Even if he had a system, there would definitely be countless hardships and dangers in the future. If he wanted to avoid disaster, his only option was to become an ordinary person.

But was he really willing to accept that?

Lin Yuan looked at the locator strapped to his wrist and let out a breath of relief. Good thing I didn't act cool earlier and refuse the soul guidance locator. This counts as a blessing in misfortune.

At that thought, the conflict in Lin Yuan's mind was instantly swept away. He exhaled hard, gathered himself, and walked firmly toward the forest where soul beasts lived.

His Gravity martial soul sensed that the soul beast he hoped for had to be there.

He walked through the dense branches and leaves, among towering trees that were easily dozens or even hundreds of meters tall. Countless soul beasts roamed and rested there, and quite a few were even slaughtering each other. When a human little boy walked in, all the soul beasts curiously sized up this human cub.

The soul beasts of Elf Star were not allowed to harm humans at will. This was the rule the Beast God had established after arriving on Elf Star.

"Ah, sorry. You're not suitable for me."

In the afternoon soul beast forest, a huge wolfdog, a full 1.8 meters tall and three meters long, was sitting obediently in front of Lin Yuan, barking from time to time.

But when it heard Lin Yuan's merciless rejection, it actually shed a few tears in an eerily human way, then let out an awooo and ran off.

"That wolf just now should've been around nine hundred years old. It specialized in speed. If it were a normal agility-type soul master, they definitely would've taken it."

Lin Yuan shook his head. This was already the seventh soul beast he had encountered today that wanted to form a contract with him, and also the seventh he had rejected.

This was rather beyond Lin Yuan's expectations. The moment he revealed his martial soul, almost every soul beast looked at him with sparkling eyes.

It left Lin Yuan utterly puzzled.

I don't have any Dragon King or Dragon God bloodline, so do you all really need to act like this?

After that, Lin Yuan walked and stopped along the way. When he got thirsty, he took a few gulps from his thermos. When that ran out, he fetched some water from a stream. When he got hungry, he casually caught a few fat fish from the brook that weren't soul beasts, roasted them, and ate them. The taste was unexpectedly good.

At least Lin Yuan personally felt that, since transmigrating, none of the meals he had eaten were as delicious as the food he made himself. Mm, grilled fish counted as a dish too.

Just like that, by evening, Lin Yuan arrived at the deepest part of the forest's outer region. Any farther in would be the mixed zone, where he would encounter true danger.

Lin Yuan suddenly stopped. Little Black Hole abruptly emerged from his hand, and his heart began pounding as if it had sensed some great terror ahead in advance.

And that was exactly the case. Not far ahead, he seemed to hear a beast's roar filled with savagery. In an instant, all the weaker, lower-aged soul beasts trembled. Some even fell prostrate on the ground, while the locator on Lin Yuan's wrist kept flashing red, as if warning of the ominousness ahead.

"That sound... no mistake!"

Lin Yuan's body trembled slightly, fear and excitement running parallel through him. Adrenaline surged. He suppressed the turmoil in his heart and quickly ran forward. The closer he got, the clearer the sound became. An indescribable pressure filled the area, but Lin Yuan didn't meet it head-on.

Instead, he used gravity to slightly cancel out the force binding his own body. His body lightened, and he swiftly climbed up a large tree before barely withdrawing the effect.

Not far ahead stood a giant bear seven meters tall, its entire body covered in pitch-black fur. Its eyes held no emotion, only coldness and cruelty. At the ends of its two thick arms were incomparably sharp giant claws. As its talons sliced through the air, they brought out faint whistling sounds!

Every soul beast in its path, without exception, was injured by those giant claws!

And some soul beasts, their limbs trembling as they tried to leave, discovered that their bodies were floating uncontrollably.

Lin Yuan sucked in a breath of cold air.

"Hiss... This seems to be a Darkgolden Terror Claw Bear. No, covered by the Starry Beast buff, it should have sublimated into a Starry Terror Claw Bear... Seven meters... Its age is probably infinitely close to ten thousand years, right?"

Lin Yuan thought to himself.

Then, the Starry Terror Claw Bear swiped a paw down and actually smashed two five-hundred-year-level giant snakes apart!

That was right. Smashed apart!

Blood stained the ground!

Lin Yuan saw this, and his eyes instantly widened.

The Starry Terror Claw Bear's brutality and frenzied slaughter had clearly provoked the nerves of every soul beast present. Since they couldn't run, then they would fight!

All the soul beasts charged at the Starry Terror Claw Bear with the resolve to die, launching fearless attacks!

And as the commotion grew louder and louder, more and more thousand-year soul beasts joined the battlefield.

Even the eight-thousand-year tree demon that had always occupied this place was alarmed and burst out of the ground. It was dozens of meters tall, and hundreds of branches of varying thickness and length spread out in a posture that blotted out the sky, carrying deadly poison as they swept toward the Starry Terror Claw Bear!

With so many soul beasts and the help of the eight-thousand-year tree demon, the previously domineering Starry Terror Claw Bear's offensive was instantly halted!

Just as Lin Yuan still wanted to keep observing the situation, a tree dozens of meters tall was suddenly snapped in half during the fierce battle. The next second, a shrill cry tinged with sobs rang out:

"Help!"

"What's going on? Why is there still a child here?"

Lin Yuan froze. Following the sound, he looked downward and saw a pretty, delicate-looking little girl with skin at her neck as fair and translucent as snow. She was holding a soul guidance wooden bow made from special wood and running out of a tree hollow, helplessly reaching out as she fled in the opposite direction of the beast tide.

Lin Yuan took a brief look and immediately relaxed.

"It's fine. She's already over a hundred meters away."

Suddenly, the Starry Terror Claw Bear, which had originally been beaten back again and again, stopped swinging its claws. Its feet stomped hard into the ground, its bloodied fangs bared, and a continuous hum sounded from deep within its chest. Its beastly eyes suddenly transformed; its pupils vanished, replaced by a pair of pitch-black voids.

Immediately afterward, it abruptly raised its head, opened its mouth, and a song of indescribable, obscure frequency burst forth!

Thump, thump, thump!

Pfft!

Crack!

Within a hundred-meter radius, every soul beast's movements instantly froze. Soul beasts with less than five thousand years of cultivation fainted on the spot, while century-old soul beasts were directly shaken until they foamed at the mouth, their lives hanging by a thread!

The branches of the eight-thousand-year tree demon kept snapping.

This was an extremely rare soul skill focused on mental impact!

Lin Yuan was a full ninety meters away from the Terror Claw Bear. Logically, by the time a mental impact reached this distance, it should already have been spent—but that was an eight-thousand-year Starry Terror Claw Bear!

Lin Yuan let out a muffled groan. Blood instantly poured from his nostrils, and his entire body seemed to start falling apart.

He only felt as if a giant bear had appeared in his sea of consciousness, ramming into it again and again.

"Am I... going to die?"

Lin Yuan bit down hard on the tip of his tongue. The taste of rust and blood instantly filled his mouth. In that instant, a black singularity appeared in his sea of consciousness and devoured the giant bear in the blink of an eye. The sensation made Lin Yuan jolt violently, and his mind immediately cleared a little.

"Roar!"

"Roar, roar!!" The Starry Terror Claw Bear, suffering from the backlash of its own mental attack, grew inexplicably agitated. The thousand-year tree demon seized the chance and immediately stretched out its branches to bind it. But the Starry Terror Claw Bear struggled so fiercely that with a casual swing, it actually smashed through a massive tree—and by sheer coincidence, that tree went flying straight toward the young girl!

"Ah!" The young girl paled in fright and immediately shut her eyes.

"Cough, cough!" Blood spilled from the corner of Lin Yuan's mouth. Looking at the young girl who was about to be crushed, no more than twenty meters away, he wiped his mouth, forced himself to stay conscious, and charged down.