Star Dou Forest

"The information I received earlier mentioned that the Power Gem had raised my physical attack and defense to an invincible level, but why didn't I feel much different?"

Lu Chen touched his body. There was not a hint of muscle on him; his skin was smooth and tender, with no sense of strength at all.

He clenched his fist. It seemed much stronger than before, but he had no idea by how much.

"I'll know once I try it."

Walking up to a pillar, Lu Chen clenched his tiny fist and threw a punch at it.

Boom!

With a tremendous crash, the entire pillar was shattered by Lu Chen's little fist.

The whole Spirit Hall shook, and dust continuously fell from above.

"Holy shit, I didn't even use my full strength! The pillar got blown apart, and my hand doesn't even hurt at all. This is way too awesome."

"Forget six Infinite Gems—even a single Power Gem is enough for me to run rampant across the Douluo Continent."

Looking at the rubble on the ground, Lu Chen smiled in satisfaction. The Power Gem's boost was indeed incredibly powerful. Even if it could not reach the invincible level described in the information, he could still accept that.

"I need to fix this, or the Spirit Hall will collapse later."

Lu Chen turned his gaze to the Time Gem and drew upon its power. An extremely profound green magic circle formed over his right hand.

Under the effect of the magic circle, time seemed to flow backward. The stone pillar that had been blasted to pieces rapidly restored itself at a visible speed.

In the blink of an eye, it had returned to its original state.

"It actually works!! This is the power of a god! No—when it comes to supreme laws like time, even ordinary gods are not qualified to touch them!"

Lu Chen shouted excitedly. Mastering the power of time meant he would no longer be affected by time in the future. Put simply, he would live forever.

"I've tested both the Power Gem and the Time Gem. Next, I'll try the Space Gem."

With the Space Gem, any place Lu Chen wanted to go—whether it was the edge of the universe or an unknown realm—could be reached in an instant.

The Space Gem's power activated, and a pitch-black Spatial Tunnel appeared behind Lu Chen. The next second, it sucked him inside.

When Lu Chen appeared again, he had returned through the Spatial Tunnel to his own home—the home of Old Jack, the village chief.

"Haha, I really can go wherever I want. Once I get tired of staying in the Soul Land World, I can go visit other worlds in the universe." Looking at the Space Gem's dazzling blue glow, Lu Chen nodded in satisfaction.

"But I've stayed in Holy Soul Village long enough. I had no strength before, but now I'm not the same person I used to be. Why not go out and have a look around?"

No sooner had he thought of it than he acted. Lu Chen now had the right to be this willful.

The Space Gem's power activated once more. He locked onto a relatively distant destination. Rather than using a Spatial Tunnel, he Teleported there directly.

"Where is this?"

The scene before his eyes changed. Lu Chen looked at the tall, luxuriant trees around him and the thriving scene of chirping insects and singing birds, completely unable to get his bearings.

"I'll just pick a direction and wander around. I wonder if I'll run into any soul beasts."

Along the way, Lu Chen was like a curious child. Whenever he encountered anything novel, he would hurry over to take a closer look.

There were snails that sprayed ink. Fortunately, Lu Chen reacted quickly enough to dodge them.

There were beautiful giant butterflies. Only when he got closer did Lu Chen see that these butterflies were actually terrifying and disgusting. Their flapping wings released a colorless, odorless powder.

Lu Chen inhaled some of it but did not feel any discomfort. However, he knew it was because his body had already been modified by the Infinite Gems. If it had been anyone else, they would probably have fallen victim to it already.

"Disgusting things like this should just die."

Lu Chen raised a hand. The purple light of the Power Gem flickered, and a purple ripple spread outward. All the colorful butterflies surrounding Lu Chen instantly turned to dust and scattered away.

Only several hundred white soul rings remained floating in the air, one of which was a yellow hundred-year soul ring.

Looking at these soul rings, Lu Chen suddenly had a question. What kind of soul ring should he find for himself? Or rather, did he even need soul rings?

"I probably don't need soul rings, but wouldn't it seem too unusual if I didn't have any?" Lu Chen pondered as he walked. "Even a Titled Douluo should be easy for me to kill instantly now. The Douluo Continent is only a low-level martial world, after all."

"Why am I thinking so much about this now? I'll wait until I get to the Junior Soul Master Academy. With the Infinite Gems, I can really give Grandmaster a good lesson and make him embarrass himself in front of Tang San..."

Boom, boom, boom!

As Lu Chen pondered, booming sounds in the distance caught his attention.

"What's going on? What happened up ahead?" Lu Chen looked toward the sound and saw trees in the distance falling one after another, as though some monstrous beast was charging this way.

As the commotion grew louder, birds and beasts scattered in all directions.

"Looks like it's a big one." Lu Chen was a little excited. No matter what was coming, even if it was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, he was not afraid.

He stood where he was and waited for it to arrive. Before long, when it reached him, Lu Chen finally saw what it looked like.

"Holy crap, what a huge monkey! No, it's an ape." Lu Chen stared at the ape before him, which was several stories tall. Its entire body was covered in mysterious golden patterns, and its enormous frame resembled a moving fortress.

Wherever it passed, towering ancient trees were knocked aside.

It seemed to have noticed Lu Chen. It had initially intended to stomp down on him, but suddenly changed its mind. After turning in another direction, it fled into the distance.

"Isn't that the hundred-thousand-year Titan Giant Ape? Why is it here? Could this be the Star Dou Forest?" Lu Chen scratched his head. "It looked like it wanted to stomp me to death just now, but then it changed its mind. Are soul beasts this kindhearted now?"

"But I think I saw a figure in the Titan Giant Ape's hand. Could that be Xiao Wu? In that case, Xiao Wu must have been the one who made the Titan Giant Ape change its mind?"

"Based on the current timeline, Tang San will leave for Nuoding City Junior Soul Master Academy in two days. Could the Titan Giant Ape be escorting Xiao Wu out of the Star Dou Forest?"

After analyzing it for a while, Lu Chen felt that the possibility was very high.

"Interesting. A hundred-thousand-year-old rabbit—no, a hundred-thousand-year-old loli. Since I've run into her, I should at least say hello, right?" With that thought, Lu Chen pushed off with his right foot. The ground beneath him cracked apart, and his entire body shot forward like a cannonball.