Is This Thing a Starry Sky Giant Beast?

Would he die?

He didn't know.

But he understood one thing: the most important thing for a man was to take responsibility for himself.

At the very least, he couldn't run away from something that had happened because of him.

The Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear, violent as it had been, should have been easily suppressed by the soul beasts. But because of his check-in reward, it had brought such enormous casualties to the soul beasts.

As for the soul beasts, Lin Yuan could still comfort himself with the thought that they had already been dealing with the berserk Terror Claw Bear.

But this girl was truly an innocent victim of an unforeseen disaster. At the very least, he couldn't accept standing by unmoved while an innocent person was driven into a dead end because of him.

Just as the girl closed her eyes in despair, she suddenly felt something soft against her body, and then she began rolling over and over.

The heart-rending pain she had imagined, of having her bones smashed by the falling tree, never came.

Not only that, she also smelled a lavender scent—extremely faint, yet impossible to ignore.

"Where did a little kid like you come from, entering the Soul Beast Forest all alone? Do you have a death wish?"

Lin Yuan felt a searing pain across his back. In his urgency, he let out a roar completely at odds with his age.

Although the shattered tree hadn't struck him directly, it had still grazed him after all. Even rolling to disperse the force hadn't fully neutralized it.

Needless to say, the wound had to be very deep.

"You, you... I... I..."

The elven girl's eyes instantly reddened. Only then did Lin Yuan notice.

Her left eye was a bewitching violet, while her right eye was a seductive purplish red. And when the girl saw Lin Yuan's eyes as well, she fell into a momentary daze.

Lin Yuan looked back and saw that the Millennium Tree Demon seemed to have recovered its spirit. It was desperately pulling at its branches, obstructing the Starry Terror Claw Bear's next attack. But how could the Starry Terror Claw Bear's strength possibly be something it could compare with?

"Roar!"

With another furious roar, it actually broke free of its restraints and charged toward Lin Yuan on all fours!

That savage bear head even showed a somewhat human-like fury.

It was him!

It was definitely him!

Just now, this human had used mental power to destroy its spiritual awareness. Otherwise, how could it possibly have fallen into that brief state of weakness?!

This human cub had successfully enraged it!

Just as it was about to pounce, the tree demon exerted its strength again, and hundreds of branches spread out once more. The Starry Terror Claw Bear, which was just about to lunge forward, paused and was restrained again!

"Little girl, hurry up and go!"

"I..."

The elven girl clenched both fists as a surge of unwillingness filled her mind.

Not long ago, she had just been mocked by that bad woman, and now she was even holding someone else back.

"There's no time. Go!"

Lin Yuan was in so much pain that cold sweat poured from him.

He didn't know what exactly the girl was thinking. Using all his strength, he shoved the elven girl backward.

Then he clutched his shoulder, where blood was gushing out, and stood up.

Lin Yuan looked at the Starry Terror Claw Bear, which was still bound yet still hadn't forgotten to swing its sharp claws at him, trying to tear him apart.

Low growls rumbled again from the Starry Terror Claw Bear's chest.

It hurt. It hurt like hell.

But the pain instead made Lin Yuan's mind clearer, and he rapidly reviewed what had just happened.

That bear had used a mental attack just now, only to suffer backlash from my Voice of the Stars. What did that mean?

Lin Yuan gasped for breath, and his heart gradually calmed.

Lin Yuan's mind suddenly became clear and empty. He raised his head and looked toward the starry sky.

With the Voice of the Stars, he could still sense the rumbling from the stars.

He recalled what it had been like when he first awakened the Voice of the Stars.

Back then, he really had almost died.

Wasn't that the difference between Soul Power and mental power?

It was the instinctive collapse of an individual facing the celestial bodies of the universe!

Did they think anyone could hear the voices of the stars?

I'll risk it!

At that thought, Lin Yuan made a bold decision!

He endured the pain and strode quickly forward.

With every step he ran, the pressure from that Soul Beast infinitely close to ten thousand years old crashed down on him, and his shoulders felt as if they were being torn apart all over again.

The moment he finally drew close—

Lin Yuan used his Gravity martial soul to temporarily offset Elf Star's gravity on himself and leaped high into the air.

Under the shocked gazes of the tree demon, the awakened Soul Beast, and the elf girl, Lin Yuan soared up and drove his own head hard against the Starry Terror Claw Bear's head!

The girl collapsed to the ground.

Her mismatched violet-red eyes reflected that small figure.

He was pressing his forehead against the savage skull of the giant bear.

Thinking back to how he had thrown himself forward without regard for his own life to save her, an indescribable sapling quietly sprouted in her heart.

"Come on, let's see who hits their limit first!"

Lin Yuan's gaze gradually turned wild.

"Roar!"

The Starry Terror Claw Bear let out another roar!

The giant bear's figure appeared once more in Lin Yuan's sea of spirit.

Unlike the illusory shadow from before, this time it seemed almost solid, a true starry behemoth blotting out the sky and sun within his sea of spirit!

Lin Yuan sank his spiritual power into the singularity of his Gravity martial soul.

"Voice of the Stars!"

All at once, his sea of spirit transformed into the universe.

A pitch-black little sphere slowly rose into the air, releasing dazzling light that spread outward without end.

At that moment, the stars were drawn over by gravity, rumbling with thunderous booms.

Asteroids, planets, stars, and even the supernova on the verge of eruption—every celestial body's orbital frequency resonated as one in that instant!

Buzz!

Rumble!

Crack, crack!

For the first time, a terrified roar burst from the Starry Terror Claw Bear's brutal face.

It only felt as though it had been cast into boundless outer space, with planets, stars, and a supernova about to erupt revolving endlessly around it.

At last, in its slightly dazed beast eyes, a supernova exploded.

An unbelievable, unbearably blazing light surged out.

Its terrified roar lost all sound in that instant, until the entire spiritual world was swallowed into blazing daylight.

The Starry Terror Claw Bear, which had still been struggling a moment ago, completely lost all vitality in that instant.

Its arms drooped stiffly, it swayed a few times, then fell backward with a boom.

And as it fell, a silver little sprite about the size of a palm hurriedly darted out.

It had just tried to flee when a hand seized it.

"You're the one behind this, aren't you?"

"But is this thing really a Soul Spirit?"

Lin Yuan looked at the starry behemoth in his hand and sighed inwardly.

His spiritual power of over 300 might be exaggerated, but before a Soul Beast infinitely close to ten thousand years old, it was honestly no different from nothing.

In the end, he had still relied on the celestial resonance brought by Voice of the Stars.

Lin Yuan was just about to say something when his gaze suddenly sharpened, and he looked back.

Hundreds of branches were spreading toward him. Everyone knew that plant-type Soul Beasts had life forces more heaven-defying than the last.

"You want to attack me?"

Lin Yuan's voice held neither joy nor sorrow as he stared at the tree demon.

Unexpectedly, after hearing this, the tree demon waved its branches, then one branch pointed at the starry behemoth with humanlike intent.

"You mean, you want me to rest for now, and you'll help me trap it?"

Lin Yuan looked at the tree demon in surprise, and that branch nodded downward again.

"Then thank you."

Lin Yuan did not hesitate and directly released the starry behemoth in his hand.

If that tree demon truly wanted to attack him, never mind that he was injured right now—even at full health, he would not be a match for a single branch from this eight-thousand-year tree demon.

As for tricking him, there was even less need for that.

Sure enough, after those branches trapped the starry behemoth, there were no further movements.

Lin Yuan did not hesitate any longer either and prepared to enter meditation at once.

Voice of the Stars repaired his damaged spiritual power.

When he saw his somewhat shattered sea of spirit, as well as his scarred body with several wounds so deep that bone was visible, Lin Yuan sighed inwardly.