Night Raid

As the Soul Master army set off, perhaps because the atmosphere within the ranks was too heavy, even the sky began to be covered with dark clouds, as if foreshadowing the brutality of the war to come.

The massive army of Soul Master exuded an extremely oppressive aura, making onlookers feel as if they couldn't breathe.

A team of hundreds of thousands of Soul Masters, assembled to fight against Soul Beast, is actually quite rare.

Even hundreds of years ago, the scale of the force that fought against the beast tide caused by the Body Sect was far smaller than it is now.

This attack on the core area of Star Dou Great Forest involved nearly fifty top-tier combatants at the Titled Douluo level, and numerous other experts below the Soul Douluo.

There are countless Soul Emperor Soul King.

In addition, the three empires dispatched a total of more than 300,000 troops. Although most of them were ordinary people, nearly half of them were Soul Master.

The lowest Soul Power is around ten or so, while the highest are Soul Emperor Soul Sage, but the majority are still Soul Master below the Soul Ancestor.

This also shows how much importance the various forces attach to vying for this Divine Tree.

Maintaining the security of the mainland is a pretense. While some people may genuinely care about the security of the mainland, the real purpose of most people coming here is simply to get a share of the Divine Tree's profits.

"Pass down the order: everyone stop where you are, rest and recuperate, and we will officially launch the attack tomorrow!"

After a long journey of a day and a night, the allied forces finally arrived at an area several thousand meters away from the Star Dou Great Forest.

By this time, the sky had begun to darken.

To ensure the army could perform at its best in battle, Xuanzi immediately ordered his men to halt, regroup, and replenish their strength.

The teams dispatched by the three empires were highly trained and possessed a strong sense of wilderness survival, maintaining order even within such a large-scale force.

After being told they could rest, they immediately set up camp, prepared food, and divided into patrol teams.

"Xuan Zi, have something to eat. The great battle hasn't even begun yet, don't tire yourself out..."

"Um?"

Yan Shaozhe saw Xuanzi sitting alone on a boulder and assumed he was worried about the battle tomorrow and hadn't eaten, so he specially brought him some food.

As soon as I got closer, I saw that he seemed to be chewing on something.

Just then, Xuanzi heard the noise and turned around, and that's when Yan Shaozhe saw it...

Xuanzi was holding a pot of wine in one hand and a half-eaten chicken leg in the other.

His face was flushed from being drunk, and there was still grease from the chicken leg on the corner of his mouth.

Upon seeing the newcomer, Xuanzi, still tipsy, stood up and walked to his side.

"Oh... Xu Xiaoyan, it's you?"

"Hiccup~"

"Come, come, before the great battle begins, come and have a drink with this old man..."

Seeing Xuanzi's drunken state, Yan Shaozhe frowned, his face full of worry.

"Xuan Zi, we're quite close to the Star Dou Great Forest now, and Soul Beast could attack us at any moment. Isn't it inappropriate to drink now?"

"Hiccup~"

Xuanzi let out another burp, then took a swig of wine.

"Don't worry, that's impossible. I am a Level 98 Super Douluo. Unless Di Tian comes, ordinary Soul Beast wouldn't dare to approach..."

As he spoke, he took another bite of the chicken leg.

"Come on, Xu Xiaoyan, let's drink."

Hearing Xuanzi say this, Yan Shaozhe relaxed his guard a little, picked up Xuanzi's wine pot and took a big gulp.

"Xuan Zi, are you really alright?"

At this point Yan Shaozhe asked again, still somewhat uneasy.

Xuanzi, unfazed, replied, "Don't worry, if anything goes wrong, I'll take responsibility..."

Roar----

Before Xuanzi could finish speaking, a roar echoed through the hundreds of thousands of people in the army, also startling the taxi drivers who had just lain down to rest.

"Enemy attack!"

The patrol taxi driver didn't even have time to react.

But as they shouted for an enemy attack, thousands of hundred-year and thousand-year-old Soul Beast rushed into the ranks of ordinary soldiers.

On a tree in the Star Dou Great Forest, the King of Ten Thousand Monsters watched the now chaotic procession with a sinister gaze.

"Heh, I've been waiting for you for a long time. I didn't expect you to dare to set up camp so close to the Star Dou Great Forest. Should I say you're too stupid, or too confident in your strength?"

The King of Ten Thousand Monsters controls most of the Star Dou Great Forest and has been keeping a close eye on the arrival of human Soul Master teams these past few days.

According to the original plan, we were supposed to wait until they entered the forest before we started fighting, but we didn't expect that the other side would be stationed in such a place.

So he decided to launch a night raid on the enemy.

In the past, the King of Ten Thousand Monsters would not have believed that sending these centuries-old or millennia-old Soul Beast would have any impact on this team.

But now, thanks to the Divine Tree bestowed by the Medicine King, all the Soul Beast in the Star Dou Great Forest have gained a special ability...

Within the Soul Master faction.

Most high-level Soul Master are actually quite vigilant, and they immediately flew out of their tents upon hearing the commotion.

"Hmph, they're just a bunch of low-level Soul Beast that've been around for a hundred or a thousand years."

"Gentlemen, follow me to kill the enemy!"

A Titled Douluo flew in the sky, looking at the Soul Beast that had broken into the group with disdain, and then shouted and charged towards those Soul Beasts.

In the eyes of these high-level Soul Master, a hundred or a thousand years is nothing more than cannon fodder for the beast tide. Apart from being too numerous and annoying, they can't harm them at all and can only threaten ordinary people and those low-level Soul Master.

Unfortunately, everyone was probably wrong this time. They came here because they knew the Divine Tree had the ability to heal diseases and bring the dead back to life.

But you would never guess that all the Soul Beast in the Star Dou Great Forest have been granted Immortal Body.

"Heh, a mere thousand-year-old Soul Beast is nothing special."

Two taxi drivers, both Two-Ring Soul Grandmaster, had joined forces to kill a thousand-year-old Soul Beast and were now beaming with pride.

They were completely unaware that the corpse of the Soul Beast they had just killed was undergoing changes.

Roar---

Just as they were preparing to go and support their comrades, a roar suddenly came from behind them.

When the soldier turned around, he saw that the Soul Grandmaster had been bitten in the neck by a Soul Beast and died on the spot.

That Soul Beast was the one he and that Soul Grandmaster had worked together to defeat.

"How... how is this possible!"

The soldier from the Second Ring Road was horrified at the sight.

"You... you were clearly killed by me, how could you still be alive!"

The newly resurrected Soul Beast ignored what he said and immediately pounced on him, biting him to death.

Such strange things have happened elsewhere as well; even though someone has witnessed or personally killed Soul Beast, it suddenly comes back to life in the next second.