A Banquet for His Younger Self

Yao Shi resurrected not at the place where he had previously perished. Although it was also a forest, he could tell that it was not the Star Dou Great Forest.

Unable to determine his location, he immediately took to the air to search for nearby villages or towns to inquire about his surroundings.

Yao Shi can no longer fly because of Han Xiao's possession or the Ice Empress Snow Empress. His current body has already reached the level of Titled Douluo, and is even close to its limit.

However, perhaps because this body was formed from the Jianmu and is composed of pure and Abundance essence, his cultivation system is no longer the Soul Master system of the Douluo Continent. He no longer needs to rely on Soul Ring to improve, although he originally did not need to hunt Soul Beast to obtain Soul Ring.

His current method of becoming stronger relies on the feedback from the faith and prayers collected throughout the universe, allowing him to grow infinitely stronger. Of course, what is being strengthened is his physical body, which is still floating in the universe.

His current body, formed from the Jianmu, can only be strengthened by feedback from the Douluo Continent and by the faith within it.

However, although their cultivation system has changed, Snow Empress and the others can still use their abilities.

The forest Yao Shi currently in is only about one-fifth the size of the Star Dou Great Forest. It's not too big or too small, but an ordinary person would still easily get lost if they went in.

He deployed his mental energy, exploring the surrounding activity.

"Hmm... those living inside are mostly low-level Soul Beast, the highest cultivation level being only 60,000 years..."

"There are no villages..."

Yao Shi's spiritual power swept across the entire forest, and apart from discovering a bunch of Soul Beast, there was no trace of human life.

"Forget it, let's go look around elsewhere."

As he spoke, he took flight again, heading towards the edge of the forest. There were still no villages, not even simple wooden houses.

"Help, help me..."

After flying for a long time, Yao Shi suddenly heard a faint cry for help. The voice was very soft, and if it weren't for his enhanced perception, he might have missed it.

Upon hearing this, Yao Shi immediately flew towards the source of the sound and saw several wooden houses and a scene that looked extremely disgusting.

A fleshy mass, oozing a clear, sticky fluid, was engulfing a person. The person's lower half had been completely devoured, and although they had lost consciousness, they were still struggling slightly.

A little girl was huddled in the nearby haystack, trembling with fear, tears streaming down her face, helplessly and desperately watching her father being eaten by the monster before her.

As the fleshy ball devoured the person, each wriggling movement of its flesh would splatter a pool of viscous, transparent liquid.

"Vomit!"

Yao Shi appeared before them and saw this scene, he couldn't help but gag.

The fleshy ball was clearly stunned Yao Shi, as if it had sensed the appearance of a more powerful life force. For a moment, it even had the ability to think.

Faced with this sudden surge of immense life energy, the Aberrant found it difficult to resist the temptation.

It decisively abandoned its attempt to devour the ordinary human who still had half a body remaining, and turned to wriggle rapidly toward Yao Shi.

"This is disgusting! Why can my Abundance Power create such a disgusting thing!"

Yao Shi watched the disgusting ball of flesh rush towards him, he suppressed the urge to vomit, then raised his hand and unleashed an ice elemental attack, instantly freezing it.

Instead of killing the ball of flesh immediately, he froze it to restrict its movement, then walked over to the middle-aged man who only had half a body left.

"Waaah... Daddy... Waaah..."

Seeing that the monster had been frozen in place, the little girl, who had been terrified, immediately went to the middle-aged man, shaking him and crying out.

Yao Shi approached, he could sense that Yao still had a faint breath.

Strange. Logically, the entire continent should have been blessed by the Jianmu I cast down, gaining Immortal Regeneration abilities. Why hasn't this person recovered yet?

Looking at the middle-aged man who only had a portion of his body left, Yao Shi couldn't help but feel puzzled.

No, the Abundance Power within him has been stripped away, could it be...?

Yao Shi pondered this, his gaze fell upon the Aberration he had frozen.

Could it be that these things, when devouring life, always consume the Abundance Power first?

"Big sister, please, please save my father!"

"You're so strong, you must have a way to save my dad, right?"

At this moment, the little girl came to Yao Shi's side, immediately knelt down, and then kept kowtowing, her voice full of sobs as she pleaded for help.

Yao Shi was somewhat moved by this, and couldn't help but recall his childhood, the time when his grandfather was attacked by Soul Beast and became paralyzed...

The scene now is so similar to that one.

So he immediately helped the girl up.

"Little sister, don't cry, I'll save your father."

As he spoke, Yao Shi directed a wisp of green light towards the middle-aged man's body.

Even if the girl hadn't asked him, Yao Shi would have saved her anyway. He hadn't intervened because he thought she possessed the Abundance Power bestowed by Jianmu and could recover on her own.

After a while, once the green light had completely merged, the missing lower body of the middle-aged man began to grow back rapidly.

"Big sister, thank you..."

The little girl was about to kneel again Yao Shi stopped her.

"Little sister, can you tell me where this place is?"

The little girl wiped away the tears still clinging to the corners of her eyes, nodded, then shook her head. "I don't know what this place is called. This forest has no name. My father only ever said that this is the southernmost part of the Star Luo Empire."

"The southernmost point...?"

Yao Shi hearing this.

Since we're in the Star Luo Empire, all we need to do is keep flying north.

Thinking of this, Yao Shi patted the little girl's head and said with a smile.

"Don't worry, your father will wake up soon. I've looked around, and it's just the two of you here. Once he wakes up, have him take you away from here."

As he spoke, he handed her a bag containing a dozen or so Gold Soul Coin.

The little girl took the bag and glanced at it. Even though she was very young, she knew how valuable the Gold Soul Coin were, and she was so frightened that she quickly returned the bag to Yao Shi.

"Big sister, this is too precious, we can't accept it..."

Yao Shi didn't reach out to take it; he just smiled.

"Please accept this as a small token of my appreciation. Seeing you is like seeing my younger self. These few Gold Soul Coin are not much to me now, but consider it a way of helping my past self who was struggling."

"Also, I'm the older brother."

Huh?

The little girl's jaw dropped in astonishment.

Yao Shi ignored her expression and turned to walk to the frozen Aberration.