After absorbing the Golden Tortoiseshell's soul ring and soul bone, Ye An and Zhang Lexuan failed to find a suitable hundred-thousand-year soul beast for several days in a row, as though those beasts were deliberately hiding from them.
Seeing that they were about to enter the true Core Area of the Star Dou Great Forest, Ye An could not help sighing.
Although he and Zhang Lexuan were now strong enough to defeat powerful hundred-thousand-year soul beasts, facing the ferocious beasts of the Star Dou Great Forest still left him somewhat uneasy. Even with the Auspicious Beast's powers of destiny and fortune within him, ferocious beasts like Di Tian and Xiong Jun might not show him mercy.
In truth, however, what Ye An did not know was that Di Tian's instructions were precisely why he could not find a suitable soul beast in the Star Dou Great Forest.
Previously, Gu Yuena had warned Di Tian not to provoke Ye An. Yet Di Tian did not want to see the forest's hundred-thousand-year soul beasts slaughtered like this, so he had instructed them to hide.
"Not finding any hundred-thousand-year soul beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest... That really is strange. Forget it, Sister Lexuan. Let's not venture any deeper. If we do, we might run into those ferocious beasts on the Fierce Beast Ranking. Let's go back and search the Mixed Area again. Finding a hundred-thousand-year soul beast would be ideal. If we can't... we'll just have to try our luck at sea or in the Evil Demon Forest."
Zhang Lexuan nodded slightly at his words.
She, too, felt that continuing deeper would be somewhat reckless. Even if Ye An had not brought it up, she would have reminded him herself.
And so, Ye An and Zhang Lexuan searched the Mixed Area