Flender: This Guy Is a Transformed Soul Beast!

Uchiha Huan sent Xiao Wu away.

He then set off directly for the Star Dou Great Forest.

The Star Dou Great Forest was generally divided into three areas: the Outer Zone, the Mixed Zone, and the Core Zone.

The Outer Zone was home mostly to century-old and low-level thousand-year Soul Beasts. The Mixed Zone was where high-thousand-year and low-ten-thousand-year Soul Beasts roamed, while the Core Zone was entirely inhabited by Soul Beasts that were tens of thousands of years old.

Of course, this division was not entirely accurate.

High-age Soul Beasts often crossed between regions.

Uchiha Huan had been in the Mixed Zone for ten days, searching for the territory of the Time-Shatter Beast recorded in the Soul Beast collection tomes of the Spirit Hall library.

The Time-Shatter Beast barely met the minimum standard for the Mixed Zone, yet it was an exceptionally peculiar Soul Beast.

Time-Shatter Beasts seemed able to seek fortune and avoid disaster. Whenever they detected human Soul Masters or Soul Beasts, they could always sense their intentions. Sometimes, they could detect danger before even seeing it.

The Soul Master who recorded the Time-Shatter Beast was a level 98 Super Douluo from a century ago, whose hobby was researching Soul Beasts.

To study the Time-Shatter Beast, he had spent several years in the Mixed Zone, observing its movements and habits.

Whenever a Time-Shatter Beast faced danger, it would often evade it in advance.

After several years of observation and research, he finally concluded that Time-Shatter Beasts could foresee danger.

That Title Douluo had shown no hostility toward the Time-Shatter Beast, which was why he had been able to observe it for years.

Uchiha Huan stopped by a stream to collect water and eat something to replenish his strength.

If the Time-Shatter Beast could foresee danger, then it must already know why he had come and had long since fled beyond his sensory range.

This was a serious problem. Uchiha Huan's expression darkened.

If he kept searching like this, he would never find the Time-Shatter Beast.

Just then, Uchiha Huan suddenly heard footsteps and turned to look behind him.

Two people emerged from the dense forest, one tall and one short.

The tall one wore glasses and had a long, horse-like face that was truly hard to look at.

The short one looked to be just over five feet tall, but he carried a burly, domineering aura.

Both sides froze in place, sizing each other up.

"Flender, why is there a child here?"

Flender stared at Uchiha Huan. Someone that young had appeared in the Mixed Zone of the Star Dou Great Forest.

Could this little fellow be a Transformed Soul Beast?

Uchiha Huan noticed that Flender was actually hostile toward him, with greed in his eyes as well, and felt utterly baffled.

"Old Zhao, this guy is very likely a Transformed Soul Beast."

Zhao Wuji's eyes widened abruptly. A Transformed Soul Beast?

The next moment, wild delight appeared on Zhao Wuji's face.

"Flender, help me. He'll be my seventh Spirit Ring."

At this moment, Zhao Wuji did not care whether he could absorb a seventh Spirit Ring or not. His mind was filled with nothing but a Transformed Soul Beast and a Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Ring.

A Transformed Soul Beast? Me?

Uchiha Huan's eyes widened, his face full of astonishment.

Flender suddenly charged at Uchiha Huan.

Bang—

Uchiha Huan turned into a cloud of smoke.

"Where is he? Where did that Transformed Soul Beast go?"

Flender and Zhao Wuji immediately released their Mental Power to search the area.

Wood Release: Rootwood Burial!

Suddenly, the ground around them churned. Roots burst from the earth one after another and surged toward Flender and Zhao Wuji.

Cat Eagle Possession! Flender hurriedly flew into the air.

But Zhao Wuji was in trouble. He had no way to fly into the air.

He kept tearing at the roots, but there were simply too many. No matter how many he tore apart, even more roots wrapped around his body.

Seeing this, Flender immediately dived down. His hands transformed into Cat Eagle claws as he reached for Zhao Wuji's hands, trying to pull him out of the encirclement.

But in the next instant, a root that had long been lying in wait lashed violently across Flender's body just as he was about to seize Zhao Wuji.

"Ah..." Flender cried out as he was sent flying.

Flender immediately scrambled up and was about to take off again, but more roots had already wrapped around his feet.

Cat Eagle True Body! The Martial Soul phantom behind Flender suddenly solidified and merged with him. Just as he was about to spread his wings and soar away, several thick roots immediately coiled around his wings.

"Ah! Ah..."

The roots snapped both his wings, and Flender let out a miserable scream as his body was dragged completely to the ground.

Only then did Uchiha Huan appear before Flender.

"Brat, let me go, now!" Flender roared.

Uchiha Huan ignored Flender's shouting and raised his right palm.

Then Uchiha Huan pressed his palm against Flender's shoulder.

Flender immediately felt something burrow into his body. He could no longer sense his Soul Power.

Wood Release: Mayfly Parasitic Technique!

"Hey... what did you do to me? Let me go if you know what's good for you, or once I get free, I'll make you regret it." Flender fell into unprecedented panic.

Uchiha Huan ignored Flender's curses and walked over to Zhao Wuji, who had just been subdued.

Compared with Flender, an agility-attack type, Zhao Wuji, a power-attack type, was more difficult to handle.

Fortunately, he had not yet obtained his seventh Spirit Ring. Otherwise, if he activated his Martial Soul Avatar and charged around recklessly, he might truly have escaped from the Rootwood Burial formation.

Uchiha Huan used the same trick, reaching out and pressing his hand against Zhao Wuji. Zhao Wuji likewise discovered that his Soul Power had vanished.

"Damned little brat, what exactly are you?"

Just then, the Rootwood Burial technique began to recede. Zhao Wuji and Flender finally regained their freedom, but they still could not sense their Soul Power.

"Now, you can start running. Oh, and splitting up might improve your chances of getting away." Uchiha Huan smiled at the two of them.

Flender and Zhao Wuji exchanged a glance, then turned and ran.

Just as Uchiha Huan had said, they fled in two different directions.

Whatever that little brat was, he was not something they could deal with in their current state.

Fortunately, he still wanted to treat the two of them as toys to amuse himself with instead of killing them outright.

At this point, neither of them could care about the other's life or death. If one of them could escape, that was enough.

They were not the sentimental sort who insisted on living and dying together.

As for their vanished Soul Power, they would deal with it after leaving the Star Dou Great Forest.

Although their Soul Power was gone, their physiques were still those of Soul Sages. They could still race through the mountains and forests with incredible speed.

But without Soul Power to sustain them, they could not keep it up for long.

After who knew how long he had run, Zhao Wuji felt utterly exhausted.

But he did not dare stop. He continued fleeing desperately.

Suddenly, Zhao Wuji felt a sharp pain in his head.

A Soul Beast whose entire body resembled colored glass appeared before him. It looked somewhat like a deer but not quite, with a slender, agile body and winding, intersecting antlers that glimmered with specks of starlight.

The Soul Beast was looking at him with contempt.

Zhao Wuji could tell that this Soul Beast had only five or six thousand years of Soul Power, but its Mental Power was no small problem.

If Zhao Wuji had been at his peak, he naturally would not have feared it. But now he was utterly exhausted and unable to use his Soul Power.

"Beast! Are you looking to die?" Zhao Wuji barked fiercely, though he was bluffing.

But his rebuke did not scare away the Soul Beast before him.

Another wave of impact struck him. Zhao Wuji immediately felt as though his head had been hit by a hammer, blood seeping from his nose and mouth.

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