Myriad Beast Demon Spirit

Within Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang's senses, that aura was ferocious and savage, carrying the bloodthirsty brutality unique to wild beasts.

Moreover, the terrifying pressure contained within that aura shook both of them to their cores.

Meng Shu was somewhat better off. After all, he was a Soul Douluo-level powerhouse, and under that pressure, he could still barely hold his mind together.

Chao Tianxiang's cultivation, however, was inferior to Meng Shu's. Her face was already filled with horror.

"Judging by this aura, this hundred-thousand-year soul beast is coming straight for us. How could this be?" Meng Shu's voice carried both shock and suspicion.

Chao Tianxiang said in surprise, "Could it be a hundred-thousand-year Man-Faced Demon Spider? The one we captured is one of its descendants, so after we hit the young one, the old one came?"

Meng Shu's mouth twitched. "How could there be a hundred-thousand-year Man-Faced Demon Spider? Wouldn't that make it equivalent to other soul beasts with several hundred thousand years of cultivation?"

Chao Tianxiang turned to glance at Meng Yiran, who had stopped absorbing her soul ring because of their strange reactions and wore a puzzled expression. She said gravely:

"No matter what, we can't let Yiran be harmed by this soul beast. A hundred-thousand-year soul beast's speed is beyond anything we can match. The only option now is to let Yiran leave first while we do our best to delay and stop it."

Meng Shu nodded heavily. That had been his thought as well.

Chao Tianxiang turned back to Meng Yiran. "Yiran, a powerful soul beast is coming this way. Leave first. After your grandfather and I hold it back for a while, we'll come find you."

Meng Yiran looked confused. "Grandma, why don't we leave together? With you and Grandpa here, could that soul beast really catch up to us?"

As Chao Tianxiang considered how to send Meng Yiran away, Meng Shu beside her spoke in a deep voice:

"No need. It's too late. This soul beast is far faster than we imagined. It's already here."

Before his words had even faded, a tremendous crash rang out.

"Crack!"

Trees snapped apart, crashing to the ground and kicking up clouds of dust. A violent gale swept through the area, sending sand and stones flying as an enormous body approached.

A shadow as large as a small mountain had just emerged from the dense sea of trees one moment, then the next, it plowed through the trees before it at astonishing speed.

Only when it drew closer did its full appearance reveal itself before Meng Shu and the other two.

This soul beast possessed an enormous body, but when Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang saw its appearance, even these two experienced elders found it unfamiliar.

Its head resembled that of a leopard, yet it bore tiger-like stripes and was covered in a lion-like mane. Its body possessed the features of numerous beasts as well, appearing utterly mismatched, as though many soul beasts had been stitched together.

"What kind of soul beast is this?"

After getting a clear look at the soul beast before him, Meng Shu was secretly alarmed. He had never seen such a bizarre soul beast before, and he could not help but inwardly lament.

If it were a soul beast whose traits we understood, then perhaps Chao Tianxiang and I could use our martial soul fusion skill to find its weakness and drive it back.

But this unheard-of soul beast has shattered that hope.

The soul beast charged all the way up to Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang without slowing in the slightest. Its enormous front claw, as massive as a boulder, swung down toward the three of them.

"There's no choice but to fight it head-on."

Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang no longer harbored any wishful thinking. They exchanged a glance, both understanding that the only option was a direct clash.

They let out shrill cries at the same time as the dragon-headed cane and snake-headed cane crossed together.

Two yellow, three purple, and three black soul rings rose from Meng Shu's body. Together with Chao Tianxiang's two yellow, three purple, and one black soul rings, they circled the crossed dragon and snake canes.

"Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Dragon-Snake Combined Strike!"

Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang shouted fiercely. Massive beams of light shot from the mouths of the dragon head and snake head atop their canes, merging into one in midair.

The beam struck the strange soul beast charging toward them in the very next instant.

"Roar!"

A tremendous beastly roar resounded through the forest. That strangely shaped hundred-thousand-year soul beast actually had its forward charge forcibly halted by Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang's martial soul fusion skill.

A remarkably human expression appeared on that beast head, whose design was rather avant-garde. It looked both furious and exasperated.

"Damn it, are you people sick? Get the hell out of the way!"

Human words actually came from that enormous beast mouth.

Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang exchanged a glance. Beyond shock, they saw confusion in each other's eyes.

What did that mean?

However, they had no time to wonder. The soul beast before them did not stop moving and immediately resumed its charge.

Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang could only brace themselves.

Just as the standoff between the two sides was about to be broken, the hundred-thousand-year soul beast's gaze suddenly changed dramatically.

Neither Meng Shu nor Chao Tianxiang, nor Meng Yiran behind them, noticed that a figure had silently appeared behind them at some unknown time.

"Hmph, trying to run?"

The figure gave a soft laugh, instantly drawing everyone's attention.

Upon suddenly hearing an unfamiliar voice from behind them, not only Meng Yiran but even Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang could not help turning around.

Behind them stood a tall, upright young man. His features were exceptionally handsome, his eyes deep, and his nose high. His face possessed both masculine vigor and feminine beauty, making one lose oneself in it.

Behind the young man, a huge scarlet cape fluttered and snapped in the wind like an enormous banner.

He slowly walked forward, his steps steady and composed, as if there were nothing before him—as if several powerful soul masters and a hundred-thousand-year soul beast did not exist at all.

The young man was naturally Fang Yuan. As he approached, the hundred-thousand-year soul beast facing Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang retreated again and again, issuing threatening low growls.

Fang Yuan stared at the soul beast and said calmly, "Myriad Beast Demon Spirit, you can't escape. Be good and become my soul ring. I can let you die quickly."

His words provoked a huge reaction not only from the Myriad Beast Demon Spirit, but also from the astonished Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang.

Myriad Beast Demon Spirit? I've never heard of such a soul beast, but judging by this young man's words, he's hunting this hundred-thousand-year soul beast to use as his own soul ring? How is that possible?

Meng Shu's shock and confusion were beyond words. With more than seventy years of experience, everything happening before him was something he had never heard of or seen before.

This Myriad Beast Demon Spirit was a hundred-thousand-year soul beast Fang Yuan had lured out after arriving in the Star Dou Great Forest by releasing the aura of immortal herbs.

It was not an ordinary soul beast, but a type known as a Demon Spirit—a fused soul beast formed through mutation after absorbing the blood essence and souls of dead soul beasts. Their numbers were scarce, and most soul masters knew nothing about them.

At this stage, Douluo Continent's knowledge and research regarding the various soul beasts remained at a rather superficial level.

Otherwise, people would not have believed that the Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape, with their level of strength, could become the kings of the Star Dou Great Forest.