Furnace Refines Great Pill (II)

Furnace Refines Great Pill (II)

"Kid Ye, this is already an area where Thirty-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts roam."

"..."

"Kid Ye, fifty thousand years."

"..."

"Kid Ye, seventy thousand years. Don't go any farther!"

"..."

As they followed Ye Qingcang all the way into the core region of the Star Dou Great Forest, Yue Guan, Guimei, Shui Feng, Huo Lie, Feng Wuji, and the others had yet to recover from the shock of Ye Qingcang knocking out two Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts with two casual punches and securing Soul Rings for two level-forty Quasi Soul Grandmasters from Blue Tyrant Academy—a level of strength no Soul Ancestor should possess. Yet they watched as Ye Qingcang led Blue Tyrant Academy's Soul Hunting Squad charging recklessly onward. They paused only briefly in the Thirty-Thousand-Year Soul Beast area before crossing straight through the Fifty-Thousand-Year and Seventy-Thousand-Year Soul Beast areas, continuing their advance with unstoppable momentum.

If Ye Qingcang had not occasionally grunted in acknowledgment, Yue Guan would have thought the brat had stuffed donkey hair into his ears.

You were a Soul Ancestor, not a Soul Douluo. Wandering around the Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast area was tolerable, considering you were a genius. But wandering into the core region inhabited by Soul Beasts over seventy thousand years old? Were you trying to die?

Still, looking at the team behind them, Yue Guan had to admit that they were extremely safe.

So what if this was the core region?

Three Titled Douluo, four Soul Douluo!

And more than thirty Soul Sages!

If these people worked together in earnest, then even if they encountered the two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts of the core region, he was confident they could retreat unscathed!

"Are we still following him?" On the way to the core region with Ye Qingcang, Yue Guan repeatedly used voice transmission to confirm with Guimei and Hu Liena. "Who knows what madness has gotten into this brat? I truly like the lad's natural talent, but once we enter the core region, although I'm confident I can retreat safely, I have to admit the risks are much greater. Na Na, what do you think?"

"Follow him." Hu Liena's Soul Power Level was not high enough for her to transmit her voice across a hundred meters like Yue Guan, but she could still send her voice to Guimei, who was stationed in the middle of the group, and have him relay it to Yue Guan:

"Chrysanthemum Grandpa, Blue Tyrant Academy is an academy personally praised by Teacher, and it is also the only academy with a good relationship with Spirit Hall. We are not the Clear Sky Sect. We cannot abandon Blue Tyrant Academy as the Clear Sky Sect abandoned the Four Element Families. From the standpoint of serving the greater good, once people lose heart, the team becomes difficult to lead. Therefore, even if there is danger, we cannot find an excuse to withdraw."

"From my personal standpoint, during these nearly twenty days of the Soul Hunting Operation, Blue Tyrant Academy's students have repeatedly astonished us and broadened our horizons. As Blue Tyrant Academy's number one on the Heavenly Ranking, Ye Qingcang once knocked out two Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts with two punches. His methods are extraordinary. Now, he and Violet have yet to obtain their Soul Rings. I want to see for myself just how strong he truly is."

"To put it another way, even those small fry are worth recruiting. Is Ye Qingcang not worth it?"

"If we want to recruit him, can empty promises of benefits alone really make him agree?"

"If anything happens, I'll take responsibility!"

"I don't believe he would do something pointless!"

Since Spirit Hall had followed them, the teachers and students from the three academies—Skywater, Blazing Fire, and Godwind—found it difficult not to follow as well. Especially since they were already in the core region, where every Soul Beast they passed was seventy or eighty thousand years old. Even if they wanted to turn back, they first had to consider whether their own teams could return safely.

A team made up of one Soul Douluo and several Soul Sages was still far too weak.

In the Soul Beast areas below thirty thousand years, such a team was reasonably safe.

In the core region, such a lineup was utterly vulnerable.

Thus, with Spirit Hall going all in, Skywater, Blazing Fire, and Godwind Academy could only follow suit. When the sky fell, the tall ones would hold it up. Even the three Titled Douluo were not afraid, so their fear would be nothing but needless worry.

And amid this complicated unity,

Ye Qingcang finally found the target of this journey.

"Thousand Jun Ant?" Yue Guan looked at Ye Qingcang, who had stopped walking, then at the purple Thousand Jun Ant on the earthen slope, which was displaying extreme fury at the invasion of its territory. His expression suddenly turned grave. "Thousand Jun Ants are pack-dwelling Soul Beasts. This one looks to be over ninety thousand years old, but judging from its appearance, including the wings on its back, it has not reached one hundred thousand years yet. However, it is male. That means there is at least one Hundred-Thousand-Year Thousand Jun Ant Queen nearby, along with an unknown number of Thousand Jun Ant Kings, just like the Thousand Jun Ant King before you... Kid Ye, if you truly need a ninety-thousand-year Soul Ring, Old Ghost and I can help you. We'll end this quickly. Otherwise, once that Hundred-Thousand-Year Ant Queen and the other Thousand Jun Ant Kings surround us, leaving won't be easy!"

Shui Feng, Huo Lie, Feng Wuji, and the others also wore grave expressions.

Thousand Jun Ants were one of the dominant types of Soul Beasts.

They possessed limitless strength and incredibly tough shells.

Their strength could even contend with a Titan Giant Ape of the same age. Even a Titan Giant Ape would find it difficult to kill a Thousand Jun Ant of the same age.

Their defense was terrifyingly high.

Their weakness was the lack of long-range attack methods.

Their speed was also the slowest among all dominant Soul Beasts.

Even though their charging speed was astonishing, it only relied on the reaction force generated by their immense strength to propel them forward in a straight line.

As long as one predicted their direction, they were not difficult to evade.

These were all records from the Soul Beast encyclopedia.

They were common knowledge in the world of Soul Masters.

Yue Guan was not lying.

The reason Yue Guan dared to say they could end this quickly was because he and Guimei possessed a special Martial Soul Fusion Skill: Two Extremes Stillness Domain. As long as they controlled its range, had Dugu Bo, a Titled Douluo, suppress it from afar, and let Ye Qingcang deliver the finishing blow, instantly killing this roughly ninety-thousand-year Thousand Jun Ant King would not be a problem. It merely placed demands on the speed at which Ye Qingcang could absorb the Soul Ring.

But for Ye Qingcang...

"Thank you for your kind offer." Ye Qingcang reached a hand toward the air before him. The instant his fingers touched the air, blood-red light condensed before his fingertips into a scarlet crystal card. "But there is no Hundred-Thousand-Year Thousand Jun Ant Queen here. There are only three ninety-thousand-year Thousand Jun Ant Emperors. At present, they should be called Thousand Jun Ant Kings, because Soul Beasts that have not reached one hundred thousand years cannot be called Emperors... But they soon will be. This is my battle. Please do not interfere."

This familiar scene made Yue Guan and Guimei's pupils constrict. Their hearts skipped a beat, as though they had returned to the outside of that secret chamber, watching Bibi Dong kill Qian Xunji all those years ago, holding a pure black crystal card as she laughed wildly and wept bitterly.

Especially the red vertical sword mark between Ye Qingcang's brows.

It had not seemed unusual before.

But now, it was filled with an iron-blooded sense of sacredness.

The others did not know what the simultaneous appearance of this crystal card and the mark on his forehead signified. But how could these two, who had survived under Bibi Dong and personally witnessed her ascend to the position of Pope and walk all the way to where she was today, fail to understand what these signs meant?

What had supported their shift from Qian Daoliu's faction to Bibi Dong's was not profit, but Bibi Dong's special status—one that even Qian Daoliu had yielded before. It was the status of a God Trial Taker, someone they had no choice but to pledge loyalty to, lest even their souls be denied reincarnation forever!

Ye Qingcang was a God Trial Taker of another god?

Ye Qingcang was a God Trial Taker of another god!

Yue Guan and Guimei exchanged a glance, then tacitly looked at Hu Liena.

They had not thought much of it before.

But now, as expected of the Pope's disciple!

Her eye for people was truly unmatched!

She casually drew a card...

Bang!

And got a UR!

With Violet included, that was another SSR!

And with the other students, there was a whole pile of SRs!

Before meeting Ye Qingcang, he was someone they could recruit.

After meeting Ye Qingcang, he was someone they needed to try hard to recruit.

Now... he was someone they absolutely had to recruit!

The fight was finally about to begin.

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