Big Cat Cat! Want a Luckin Coffee?

Bai Ran, who had no idea where he had been taken, felt sore all over the moment he woke up, as if his whole body was about to fall apart.

Compared with the pain in his body, the unfamiliar surroundings around him filled Bai Ran with even greater despair.

Bai Ran: Was this still Douluo Continent? Where the hell had he ended up!

A powerful instinct to survive drove Bai Ran to start searching the area for a way out.

Although he might encounter a powerful soul beast at any moment and end up buried in its stomach, staying where he was meant waiting for death too. If that was the case, why not look for that slim chance of survival?

After walking for who knew how long, Bai Ran suddenly felt the view before him brighten. Immediately after, he saw a vast pool of green lake water.

The Lake of Life!

The words that surfaced in his mind made Bai Ran feel as if he had plunged into an ice cellar.

What kind of luck was this?

If he said his luck was bad, he had gone straight from the edge of the core region into the forbidden zone of the Star Dou Great Forest, yet along the way, he had not encountered a single powerful soul beast.

If he said his luck was good, then now that he had arrived before the Lake of Life, barring any surprises, Bai Ran's aura would soon be locked onto by the ruler of the Star Dou Great Forest—that Beast God, Di Tian.

Di Tian: Where did this little brat come from? Seems like one of those little brats from Shrek just now. Mm, I'll pretend I didn't see him.

"Strange. Could this place not be the Lake of Life?"

Bai Ran mustered his courage and walked in, only to discover that the place was terrifyingly quiet. Forget ferocious beasts—even a hundred-thousand-year soul beast was nowhere to be seen.

Could it be that he had guessed wrong?

Because of the Sky Dream Iceworm's disappearance, in the current forbidden zone of life, aside from the Beast God Di Tian, who was guarding his lord, the "Silver Dragon King Gu Yuena," the remaining great ferocious beasts had all returned to their own clans to see how their clans had developed during the years they had been away.

However, there was another special existence in the forbidden zone of life.

It was none other than the Emperor Auspicious Beast, the "Three-Eyed Golden Lion," which bore the power of destiny of the entire Star Dou Great Forest. At the same time, it was also the most noble existence in the Star Dou Great Forest aside from the Silver Dragon King Gu Yuena.

"A human?"

Seeing a human appear in the forbidden zone of life, and one who was still a young child at that...

The Three-Eyed Golden Lion, suddenly seized by a playful mood, leaped straight out of the Lake of Life and landed steadily in front of the human child. At the same time, she shook her body, splashing all the water clinging to her fur toward him.

Di Tian, who saw this scene, did not stop her. Leaving aside the question of how much combat strength a human cub could possibly have, if the Three-Eyed Golden Lion could still be injured right under the eyes of him, the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King, then he might as well smash his head into something and die.

"Ugh..."

Seeing a soul beast three meters long, shaped like a lion, suddenly appear in front of him...

Bai Ran, who had never experienced any real storms, was so frightened that he could not even say a word.

As for resisting?

He had no soul tool on him with destructive power like a fixed soul cannon shell, and he himself was also a food-type soul master with no means of attack.

All he could do was close his eyes and pray in his heart that he could die quickly.

"Human, with guts that small, how did you barge into the forbidden zone of life?"

The Three-Eyed Golden Lion completely failed to understand, especially after sensing Bai Ran's faint aura. It was actually even weaker than the aura emitted by a hundred-year soul beast.

"You... you're a hundred-thousand-year soul beast..."

It was not that Bai Ran failed to recognize the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, but under the current circumstances, there was simply no room for him to think too much.

He only remembered that if a soul beast wanted to speak, it had to break through a hundred thousand years. And to speak so fluently, even among hundred-thousand-year soul beasts, it had to be one of the stronger ones.

"Didn't expect someone as small as you to know quite a bit. But I'm not a hundred-thousand-year soul beast."

The Three-Eyed Golden Lion shook her head.

At the same time, a trace of disappointment appeared in her eyes.

Although the other party acted very afraid on the surface, there was not much fear in his eyes at all. It was nothing like the emotions a normal human cub should show.

Originally, according to the Three-Eyed Golden Lion's plan, after jumping out of the lake and hissing at this child, even if she could not scare him into wetting himself, she at least wanted him to fall on his butt and show an embarrassed expression.

In the end, she had achieved nothing, aside from making the tone of his voice change slightly.

"Oh, I know. You're a big kitty."

Bai Ran: If she could speak despite not being a hundred-thousand-year soul beast, and she lived in the Lake of Life, then in the entire Star Dou Great Forest, the only one who fit those traits was probably the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.

"Big kitty?"

The moment she heard this form of address, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion's fur instantly bristled.

She was the noble Emperor Auspicious Beast, yet this brat before her actually dared to call her that. Was he really not afraid of death?

Bai Ran: Who wouldn't be afraid of death? But ever since I found out I'd accidentally stumbled into the forbidden zone of life in the Star Dou Great Forest, I stopped thinking I could survive.

"Do you drink Luckin Coffee, big kitty?"

Since he was going to die anyway, Bai Ran simply threw caution to the wind. He used his soul power to condense a cup of Luckin Iced Americano, and at the same time made one for the Three-Eyed Golden Lion in front of him as well.

Sensing that the child before her had no ill will, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion used her claw to accept the cup of Luckin Coffee.

It was just that the pitch-black liquid looked strange no matter how she looked at it.

But when she saw the child in front of her drinking it too, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion decided to give it a try. Imitating Bai Ran, she used the straw to drink the cup of coffee.

Di Tian, hidden in the shadows, did not stop her.

After all, according to his senses, the thing that child had taken out had been condensed from soul power.

Though its pitch-black appearance gave off an uneasy feeling, in truth, it posed no harm.

Even if it were poisonous, with the Three-Eyed Golden Lion's abilities, unless it was a method from the Divine Realm, ordinary toxins were no different from protein to her.

Feeling the coolness of the liquid in the cup, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion couldn't help taking bigger gulps.

On a scorching day like this, being able to drink a flavorful cup of ice water was simply too refreshing.

Wasn't the whole reason she had been soaking in the lake earlier because the lake water was cool?

But after a few mouthfuls, the bitterness of the coffee overwhelmed the chill from the ice.

"Pfft~"

Aside from the first two mouthfuls she had swallowed, the few mouthfuls she reacted to afterward were all spat out by the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.

"Child, how did you manage to drink something this bitter?"

The Three-Eyed Golden Lion had just been about to properly lecture the little brat in front of her, but then she saw him drinking with great relish.

Suspecting that she was the problem, she tasted it again.

"Pah, pah, pah..."

Three-Eyed Golden Lion: There's a dog!

"So this is a drink from human society?"

Sensing the darkness of this drink, most of the Three-Eyed Golden Lion's curiosity toward human society instantly vanished.

Di Tian: There's such a good thing?