Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's Inner Core

Narak Space.

En Zuo did not deliberately look at the flickering figures appearing in the space, not because he did not want to find new companions, but because...

His pale hand rested over his heart, feeling the throbbing of life.

"Something... from the distant past, is calling to me..."

En Zuo frowned. Under normal circumstances, nothing could possibly affect him.

Then what was it?

Following the throbbing in his heart, En Zuo came to the "small window" through which he could observe this place. Endless ancient trees surrounded him, their trunks dotted with specks of moss like stars.

As the wind passed through, countless points of light swayed with it.

"The Star Dou Great Forest?"

En Zuo answered the call in his heart and crossed through the curtain. His heart throbbed. Though En Zuo was not one to casually venture into dangerous places, a powerful subconscious instinct told him that this might be his only chance at obtaining this opportunity at his current level.

So En Zuo decided to risk it all.

Star Dou Great Forest.

The eternal holy land of soul beasts.

A doorway crackling with scarlet lightning quietly formed in a clearing. En Zuo, dressed in Monster Academy's uniform and wearing a hood, lightly stepped onto this land.

Fresh air carrying the fragrance of plants flooded his lungs. He took a deep breath and sighed. "I never expected the real location to be far better than Monster Academy's simulated training grounds."

En Zuo stroked the Demon Ding on his shoulder and cautiously surveyed his surroundings. If he had guessed correctly, this place was already close to the core region of the Star Dou Great Forest. Ten-thousand-year soul beasts could be found everywhere, and the danger had increased geometrically.

It was far beyond anything the outer regions of the Star Dou Great Forest could compare with.

En Zuo had to remain vigilant at all times.

Right now, he was merely a three-ringed Soul Elder. Encountering a ten-thousand-year soul beast would still be far too difficult for him to handle.

"So it really is..." En Zuo's expression turned grave. "The era of the first Douluo story."

Why was he so certain?

It was because

he had seen a limited-pool veteran player.

The one wielding the Sea God Trident and undergoing the Sea God's Eighth Trial... Tang San!

That figure had sped past too quickly to be seen clearly, but En Zuo was certain it was Tang San.

Tang San had only returned to the Star Dou Great Forest once before the Sea God's Eighth Trial, to add a soul ring to the Clear Sky Hammer.

En Zuo had now completely sorted out the time period he was in. A native god had already been born on this timeline.

That was...

the Angel God... Qian Renxue!

A god-level martial soul, the Six-Winged Angel.

Although Guanyin's Tears had pierced through her divine body, she was not an existence En Zuo could hope to challenge at present.

She was a god who had surpassed Limit Douluo and reached level one hundred!

Even if Yun Ming of the Dragon King Era were here, facing Qian Renxue after she became the Angel God, there would be only one outcome: a crushing defeat.

Of course, if he broke through the shackles of level one hundred while on the brink of death, perhaps he could contend with those overpowered monsters of the old era.

"Roar!"

After an ear-splitting roar came an unsettling evil aura. En Zuo hid behind an ancient tree, resisting the residual pressure of a super soul beast.

"Dark Demon Evil God Tiger..."

En Zuo sighed. "As expected of a super soul beast with the bloodline of an Evil God. If this overwhelmingly tyrannical power were allowed to truly mature, even Di Tian, who possesses the Dragon God's Claw, would have to give it some ground."

In En Zuo's perception, two incomparable waves of terrifying might erupted and collided.

Even from afar, he could clearly see dust filling the sky and shattered vegetation soaring upward. An immense evil aura spiraled above the core region of the Star Dou Great Forest.

"Closer... get closer..."

Within En Zuo's subconscious, a voice seemed to keep urging him toward the center of their battle.

But a battle at the Title Douluo level had long surpassed the range of anything he could observe. It was not something a three-ringed Soul Elder like En Zuo could casually watch.

Even an insignificant aftershock could easily kill him.

En Zuo hesitated. At some point, the doorway behind him had quietly opened. As long as he wished it, he could leave this place in the next instant.

He could return to the safest place, Narak Space.

But that was not what En Zuo wanted.

"Waaah, meow!"

Demon Ding flapped its wings and circled around him, more excited than ever before. It had sensed an opportunity for evolution—an opportunity to cast off this frail body and evolve!

As his martial soul, how could En Zuo fail to notice Demon Ding's unusual reaction? If he left so easily, he would not be willing to accept it.

En Zuo had worked tirelessly to find the reason Demon Ding could not evolve. Now that hope had finally appeared, he was unwilling to give up just like that.

"Wait a little longer. Once Tang San leaves, the area where he killed the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger will temporarily become a safe zone."

By then, En Zuo would have enough time to investigate exactly what had caused Demon Ding's reaction.

Completely concealing himself within the dense forest, En Zuo waited quietly for the battle to end.

The battle ended faster than he had expected. In less than half an hour, the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's final roar abruptly ceased within the Star Dou Great Forest. Its echo struck the layers of ancient trees, scattering the leaves among the woods.

Suddenly.

Everything around En Zuo distorted. A black hole abruptly formed before him, and a strange bead, pitch-black all over and radiating azure and blue light, shot out from within.

The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's inner core?!

En Zuo's expression hardened. Without hesitation, he snatched it from the air, waved a hand to summon a doorway, and instantly leaped into Narak Space.

He could not hesitate for even a second. Tang San had already completed the Sea God's Seventh Trial and reached the realm of a Title Douluo. Fighting him now

would be utterly unwise.

The next instant.

Tang San pushed aside the dense undergrowth and searched the area with a strange expression. The bead's fluctuations had clearly been here, so why had they suddenly vanished?

Could it be that this opportunity was ultimately not meant for him?

Inside Narak Space.

En Zuo spread open his palm. A pitch-black bead rested in his hand, and he could feel that this was what he had been looking for.

But how exactly was he supposed to use it?

En Zuo turned it over and examined it repeatedly. His gaze settled on its smooth curved surface, and a thought unconsciously surfaced: Should I just swallow it?

That would be far too risky.

En Zuo shook his head and suppressed the thought. He decided to seal away the bead for now, at least until he possessed the strength of a Soul Douluo.

Or perhaps he could study the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's inner core with his teacher, En Ci's help.

Doing it alone was still far too risky.

Thoughts churned through his mind.

Yet the bead in his palm suddenly became scorching hot, like a branding iron.

The pitch-black bead, which had originally been as still as a dead object, violently erupted with an energy so frenzied it reached the extreme the instant it sensed the aura of the Crystal Staff martial soul.

That energy was black as ink, purer than any darkness. Every visible trace of light was erased in an instant, and the surroundings completely sank into an inky blackness where he could not see his own hand before his face.

En Zuo's pupils suddenly contracted.