Icebound Forest, Hunting the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger!

"Not bad!"

"Generally speaking, Soul Masters with top-tier Martial Souls have the potential to cultivate into Titled Douluo!"

"Of course, that assumes their Innate Soul Power isn't too low. Otherwise, they still won't become Titled Douluo!"

"Likewise!"

"A super Martial Soul paired with level-nine Innate Soul Power can allow a Soul Master to join the ranks of Super Douluo!"

"An ultimate Martial Soul ranks second only to a god-tier Martial Soul!"

"As long as a Soul Master with an ultimate Martial Soul doesn't have abysmal Innate Soul Power, they can become an Ultimate Douluo!"

"Rumor has it that a god-tier Martial Soul leads directly to demigod. Beyond that lies becoming a god at level one hundred."

"This is all just hearsay to me!"

"However, one thing is certain: the higher the quality of a Martial Soul, the greater a Soul Master's future achievements!"

Xia Mu spoke candidly, explaining it to the two of them.

"So there's such a saying?"

After hearing this, Ling Yuan could not help murmuring.

"Martial Souls, Soul Rings, and Soul Bones!"

"These three things are the foundation upon which Soul Masters stand. If you want to achieve something, better to lack them than settle for inferior ones!"

"Oh, right, I forgot to ask earlier!"

"After absorbing the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot, did your Soul Power change at all?"

Xia Mu looked at the two of them and asked.

"My Soul Power increased by five levels out of nowhere. I'm now at level fifty-six!"

Ling Yuan answered honestly. That single Infernal Delicate Apricot had perfectly matched her Martial Soul, granting her five levels of Soul Power and saving her two years of bitter cultivation.

"My Soul Power actually increased by five levels!"

"I'm at level fifty now. I can hunt for my fifth Soul Ring!"

"Isn't this Soul Power increasing way too fast?"

Noticing the changes in her Soul Power, Shui Qingwu cried out in shock, still finding it hard to believe.

"You've eaten this before too!"

"Take her down and have her consume it later."

"As for its effects, explain them to her yourself!"

Xia Mu took out a piece of Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Glue and handed it to Ling Yuan, having her help Shui Qingwu refine its medicinal power.

"What is that?"

Shui Qingwu asked when she saw it.

"This is good stuff!"

"After I consumed it, my fifth Soul Ring broke through its limit and reached more than eighteen thousand years."

"You have to know, with the mainstream Soul Ring configuration, the fifth Soul Ring is only around twelve thousand years."

"Not only can this let Soul Masters absorb Soul Rings beyond their limits, it can also strengthen a Soul Master's foundation!"

Ling Yuan pulled Shui Qingwu aside and whispered.

"Huh?"

"This thing has such miraculous effects?"

Shui Qingwu was greatly shocked upon hearing that, and could not help saying so.

"The world is vast, and all manner of strange things exist."

"You've already eaten immortal herbs. What are you afraid of?"

Ling Yuan curled her lips. She had also learned of the wondrous uses of Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Glue from Xia Mu.

"I'm not afraid!"

"At worst, I'll just let him have his way with me!"

As an ice-attribute Soul Master, Shui Qingwu naturally recognized Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Glue. She stiffened her neck and spoke stubbornly.

"I swear!"

"I really didn't hint at anything to that little girl!"

Hearing Shui Qingwu's voice, Xia Mu halted mid-step before helplessly spreading his hands.

This little girl had far too many thoughts!

Half a month later, Sunset Forest.

"I've broken through to level fifty-two!"

"Thank you, Aunt Liu, for hunting the Soul Beast for me!"

A corpse lay before Shui Qingwu. It was an Ice Bird that had cultivated for as long as seventeen thousand years.

Ling Yuan, standing nearby, had also obtained her sixth ring from a thirty-thousand-year Explosive Flame Sparrow!

After Ling Yuan absorbed her sixth ring, her Soul Power reached level sixty-two, two levels higher than Xia Mu's.

"Xia Mu!"

"What Soul Beast are you planning to hunt?"

Liu Yuer watched anxiously.

Nearly two months had passed, yet Xia Mu still refused to hunt a Soul Beast. He said he had not found one he liked and asked everyone to wait a little longer.

"The Soul Beast I want to hunt isn't in Sunset Forest. This time, we'll likely have to make a trip to the Star Dou Great Forest. The Soul Beast I want lives there!"

Over these two months, Xia Mu had not been idle.

Xia Mu had put his money to work, searching across the entire Douluo Continent for traces of the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger!

That was right. For his sixth ring, Xia Mu planned to hunt a Dark Demon Evil God Tiger to strengthen his foundation.

The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger was a rare mystical beast of heaven and earth, a Soul Beast mutated from the divine beast White Tiger.

According to legend, its mutation began when the power of an Evil God descended into the body of the divine beast White Tiger, transforming its light attribute into a darkness attribute.

As a result, the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger grew Fallen Dark Wings and an Evil God Hook, gaining numerous attributes such as evil, darkness, light, wind, lightning, and space-time!

What Xia Mu coveted most was the incomparably mysterious Evil God Orb. This Evil God Orb had made the protagonist of Heavenly Jewel Change and allowed him to ascend to the position of God King.

Beyond that, the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger also had a high chance of producing an extremely rare External Soul Bone!

External Soul Bones were far rarer than Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones. Xia Mu certainly would not complain about having too many of them.

Setting those factors aside.

The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's Soul Ring was also exceptionally good. After absorption, it could strengthen the innate origin of one's Martial Soul.

"A carrier pigeon has arrived!"

"There's finally news about that Soul Beast!"

Xia Mu opened the message slip and began reading.

Only after a long while did he let out a breath of foul air, his tightly furrowed brows gradually relaxing.

"During this time, I've practically turned the Star Dou Great Forest upside down, yet I couldn't find any trace of the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger. So it ran off to the Icebound Forest!"

"No wonder we couldn't find it!"

"We were searching in the wrong direction!"

Xia Mu felt somewhat annoyed. This matter had cost him nearly two months for nothing.

"Oh, right, I vaguely remember!"

"It seemed that in the original story, the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger was once driven away by Da Ming and Er Ming working together!"

"It looks like this is that part of the story."

"I just didn't expect the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger to run all the way to the Icebound Forest!"

After reading the intelligence, Xia Mu calculated inwardly.

"Mother!"

"We need to set out quickly this time!"

"The Soul Beast I want is currently in the Icebound Forest. If we get there too late, it'll run away again!"

According to the intelligence, this Dark Demon Evil God Tiger had only just broken through the fifty-thousand-year mark.

Although its cultivation was not particularly high, Dark Demon Evil God Tigers were exceptionally sinister Soul Beasts. At ten thousand years, they could rival hundred-thousand-year Soul Beasts, and they possessed the rare devouring attribute!

If they arrived too late and gave the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger more room to grow, then after it devoured the powerful Soul Beasts in the Icebound Forest, it would become even harder to deal with.

"Alright!"

Liu Yuer nodded and agreed.

The group left Sunset Forest and began actively preparing for the Soul Beast hunt. This time, the Xia Family was deploying all its strength.

To hunt this Dark Demon Evil God Tiger.

Xia Mu enlisted Ye Renxin and Dugu Bo. Together with Liu Yuer and Xia Feng, they dispatched three Soul Sages and one high-level poison-attribute Soul Douluo.

There was naturally no need to say much about Dugu Bo's strength!

Ever since his Martial Soul Evolution, his combat power in the path of poison had become comparable to that of a Titled Douluo.

Ye Renxin possessed the Nine-Heart Begonia Martial Soul. So long as a person was not dead, he could heal them back to life.

After Xia Feng's body Martial Soul underwent its gold-grade awakening, his combat strength had reached a terrifying threefold increase.

In other words, although Xia Feng was currently only a level-seventy-six high-level Soul Sage, when he went all out, he could almost rival an ordinary Titled Douluo!

As the owner of an ultimate Martial Soul, Liu Yuer could also unleash combat power at the Titled Douluo level for a short period after becoming a Soul Sage.

(A Soul Sage with an ultimate Martial Soul in Douluo II could rival a Titled Douluo. A body Martial Soul Soul Sage who had undergone a gold-grade awakening possessed combat power even more outrageous than the former!)