This expedition into Star Dou to hunt Soul Beasts was fundamentally different from the routine Soul Ring hunts ordinary Soul Masters had undertaken before.
Their primary concern wasn't absorbing Soul Rings at all.
Instead, they wanted to make the most of She Xian's extraordinary White Snake Bearing Ganoderma talent and forcibly extract top-grade Soul Bones.
Since they were hunting purely for Soul Bones, the older their prey, the better.
But capturing these super-tyrants, whose lifespans often stretched tens of thousands of years, meant venturing into the most dangerous forbidden territory on the continent.
Sunset Forest, not far from Heaven Dou City, was simply too small.
In that cramped stretch of wilderness, Soul Beasts with more than fifty thousand years of cultivation were already few and far between. Finding one was like looking for a needle in a haystack.
If they wanted to find older Soul Beasts, there was only one place on the entire continent: the vast, mysterious Star Dou Great Forest, spanning the border between two kingdoms.
But before they officially entered that life-devouring, primeval forest,
She Xian's formidable party still had to make a stop along the way to pick up a free, top-tier hired hand.
Deep in the valley at the heart of Sunset Forest, the land was shrouded year-round in roiling, deadly miasma.
Poison Douluo Dugu Bo was meditating at the edge of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, a blessed place shaped by heaven and earth.
Suddenly,
two overwhelming auras of Titled Douluos descended from thin air above the tranquil sky.
The Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor phantom behind the old poison master instantly opened its maw.
His eyelids twitched violently, and his withered hand clenched into a fist.
Only when the figures giving off those auras landed before him, revealing She Xian, Qian Renxue,