They had simply been unlucky. At the most critical moment, another group of Soul Masters had swooped in and stolen their prey.
Such things were common enough; in the end, strength did the talking.
It should have been a scene of two groups of Soul Masters fighting over a soul beast, but a wolf's howl instantly made the situation tense.
In the Star Dou Great Forest, even in the outer regions, one had to be especially wary of pack-dwelling soul beasts.
Among such soul beasts, wolf packs were the most common and among the most dangerous. Their numbers could not be ignored, and their strict discipline made them extremely difficult to deal with.
Pairs of crimson eyes, bodies over three meters long, and grayish-brown fur.
Hundred-year Rending-Claw Wolves!
Tie Li was right within their encirclement.
The other two groups of Soul Masters stopped arguing. Their problem now was how to escape the wolves' encirclement, no longer how to fight over the soul beast.
There were over a hundred wolves, and every one of them had a hundred years of cultivation. A wolf pack like this was terrifying.
Tie Li planned to break through the encirclement at a single point. Their target should have been the other two groups of Soul Masters; he had merely been unlucky enough to be caught inside their encirclement.
Summoning his martial soul and soul rings, Tie Li swept his gaze over every direction of the wolf pack, trying to find their weakest point.
As they drew closer and closer, Tie Li knew he could not delay any longer. Once the encirclement shrank to a certain extent, the gathered wolf pack would become truly terrifying.
His first and third soul rings lit up. Tie Li burst forward and attacked in one direction.
"Hmm?"
Tie Li froze.