Soul Hunting Forest (Please Vote)

Yu Xiaogang handed the token to the guards. They were stunned at first, then gave the two of them strange looks before opening the massive black iron gates.

The moment the gates opened, the air of the Soul Hunting Forest rushed over them. Feeling the vitality in the air, Yu Xiaofeng became filled with anticipation for this journey into the Soul Hunting Forest.

Beside him, Yu Xiaogang circulated his Soul Power and said, "Fart Like Thunder, Luo Sanpao, come out."

A cloud of purple smoke exploded out of nowhere. Sanpao spread his four legs, spun around, did a three-hundred-and-sixty-degree backflip, and landed steadily.

His long, rabbit-like ears bore strange patterns, and his tiny limbs made him look adorably clumsy as he walked.

Sanpao shook his big head, making Luo Luo noises from his mouth. Wagging his tail, he moved to Grandmaster's right side and kept rubbing against him.

Yu Xiaogang said, "This is my spirit beast, Luo Sanpao."

Yu Xiaofeng stared at Luo Sanpao in shock and trembled as he said, "How... is he so big?"

Yu Xiaofeng's words stunned Yu Xiaogang for a moment, after which he smiled. "My martial spirit is a mutated martial spirit, but it mutated in a bad direction."

"If the mutation had been normal, he should have been much bigger than this."

That was not why Yu Xiaofeng was shocked. After landing, Sanpao was three meters long and around two meters wide—several times fatter than he had been in the book and animation.

Seeing that Yu Xiaofeng did not ask, Yu Xiaogang smiled and said, "Blood Eye Spirit Beasts need to attach themselves to another spirit beast in order to survive."

"And no one has ever seen what a Blood Eye Spirit Beast truly looks like."

"So I cannot describe its appearance either. But one thing is certain: among the spirit beasts a Blood Eye Spirit Beast attaches itself to, their pupils will carry tomoe. As long as you find a spirit beast with tomoe in its pupils, it must be a Blood Eye Spirit Beast."

"But they are rather troublesome to kill, because you need to kill both of them. Besides the Blood Eye Spirit Beast, you also need to kill the spirit beast it is attached to."

"Luo Luo..."

The two looked toward Sanpao and found that he had stopped walking. His eyes were fixed straight ahead, and Luo Luo sounds kept coming from his mouth.

"Xiaofeng, many years ago, I saw Moon Spirit Beasts in the Withered Wood Forest to the right. Remember not to stray too far from me."

Yu Xiaogang stroked Sanpao, then pointed to the right. "Sanpao, go scout the way."

"Luo Luo!"

Sanpao sped away on his short little legs, trailing sparks and lightning.

"Teacher, I think Sanpao is very happy. In his current state, if you left him at home, I bet he'd tear the whole place apart."

Thinking of his former-life friend's husky, Yu Xiaofeng said this with certainty.

Yu Xiaogang smiled as he walked. "He probably would not tear the house apart, but he could certainly blow it up with a fart."

"Hahaha!"

Just then...

"Luo Luo!"

Sanpao let out a low growl.

Yu Xiaofeng looked in Sanpao's direction and discovered a hedgehog-sized spirit beast in the bushes on the right, desperately resisting Sanpao's fierce claw attacks.

Seeing this, Yu Xiaogang shouted, "Sanpao, let it go. Keep moving forward."

The two encountered several scares along the way, but no real danger. At last, they arrived at the Withered Wood Forest.

The mist-filled Withered Wood Forest had extremely poor visibility. Insects and ants occasionally scurried back and forth over the cracked ground.

Rows of oddly shaped dead trees occasionally snapped in the wind. Amid the wind-blown sand, cries would occasionally ring out.

Yu Xiaogang swept his gaze around them. "Let's go. A little farther north, there is a patch of lowland with a water source. The Moon Spirit Beasts are there."

"I just hope they are not gathered in a swarm, or we'll be in trouble."

They headed north over the yellow earth. After walking for around twenty minutes, Luo Sanpao abruptly stopped and began making Luo Luo noises.

Yu Xiaofeng and Grandmaster stared blankly at the densely packed Moon Spirit Beasts before them.

Dense, low shrubs grew along the edge of the lowland, and the Moon Spirit Beasts rested atop them.

Their grayish-white, ink-blue bodies had a pair of bat wings tightly folded around their eggplant-like heads. Through the gaps, one could occasionally glimpse pale golden outer eyes.

Yu Xiaofeng circulated his Soul Power and activated the Rebirth Eye, inspecting the Moon Spirit Beasts one by one. He discovered that most of the Moon Spirit Beasts before him were only a few decades old.

At that moment, Yu Xiaogang said to Yu Xiaofeng, "Moon Spirit Beasts are usually only a few decades old. They are not difficult to kill. We only need to lure one away."

"I'm just afraid there might be a Moon Spirit Beast leader among them. That would be troublesome."

As the two spoke, the Moon Spirit Beasts suddenly let out shrill cries. The densely packed Moon Spirit Beasts shot into the sky, sealing off the already dim Withered Wood Forest so completely that not even light could pass through.

Yu Xiaogang immediately shouted, "Xiaofeng, run!"

"Sanpao, Fart Like Smoke, Sleep-Inducing Luo Sanpao!"

Yu Xiaogang unleashed his Soul Power with all his might. Two yellow soul rings rose beneath his feet. Sanpao leaped into the air as his entire body began to swell. A yellow soul ring then enveloped his body, and the swelling flesh continuously gathered toward his rear.

With a burst of momentum, Sanpao aimed at the Moon Spirit Beasts sweeping toward them from all directions and directly fired his first shot.

Terrifying yellow gas exploded like dynamite, instantly sweeping across a hundred-meter radius. Had Grandmaster not taken out a mask beforehand and thrown it to Yu Xiaofeng, he would likely have been knocked unconscious by that horrifying stench.

While running and looking back, Yu Xiaofeng watched the flow of Soul Power within the Moon Spirit Beasts. He could clearly see that these Moon Spirit Beasts possessed pitifully little Soul Power, and immediately said, "Teacher, they might be illusions. There aren't actually this many Moon Spirit Beasts here."

Yu Xiaogang stopped, turned around, and looked back. "There really does seem to be something wrong. They are only chasing us without attacking."

Yu Xiaofeng scanned the Moon Spirit Beasts one by one. Within a patch of bushes to the north, he spotted a pair of scarlet eyes. He said in shock, "Teacher, there is a Blood-Eyed Moon Spirit Beast in the northern bushes."

"What? Are you sure?"

After crying out in surprise, Yu Xiaogang pondered for a moment. "It seems a Moon Spirit Beast has been possessed by a Blood Eye Spirit Beast. These Moon Spirit Beasts were all created by its blood eyes."

"Xiaofeng, can you restrain these illusions?"

Yu Xiaofeng said, "Ignore them. Their Soul Power is pitifully weak. Let's deal with the Blood-Eyed Moon Spirit Beast directly."

"Rebirth Eye, activate!"

With all his Soul Power circulating, a pair of deep eyes appeared behind Yu Xiaofeng. He roared, "First Soul Skill, Almighty Push!"

Before Yu Xiaogang's shocked eyes, dust swept across the sky. The ground split apart, dead trees were uprooted, and trees mixed with dirt and shattered stones surged toward the bushes in the northern lowland.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Terrifying Soul Power swept the illusions away completely. Ripples spread across the water's surface one after another. As the impact grew increasingly fierce, the Blood-Eyed Moon Spirit Beast in the bushes finally realized the danger.

"Roar..."

It let out a roar and flew upward.

Seeing this, Yu Xiaogang said, "Xiaofeng, this is a Blood-Eyed Moon Spirit Beast nearly eight hundred years old. Sanpao needs half an hour to rest after every attack."

"Now we can only wear it down."

Yu Xiaofeng nodded. "Teacher, do you have any spare daggers? The more, the better."

Yu Xiaogang did not hesitate. He took out eight daggers in succession and threw them to Yu Xiaofeng.

Yu Xiaofeng circulated his Soul Power, and nine daggers floated before him. Seeing this, Yu Xiaogang immediately understood what he intended.

The instant the Blood-Eyed Moon Spirit Beast's outer and inner eyes bulged, Yu Xiaogang roared, "Fart Like Thunder, Heaven-Shattering Earth-Splitting Luo Sanpao!"

Two yellow soul rings entered Sanpao's body in succession. Sanpao leaped into the air and directly fired a blast at the Blood-Eyed Moon Spirit Beast's eyes.

As the terrifying mist spread, Yu Xiaofeng unleashed his Soul Power to its fullest and roared at the Blood-Eyed Moon Spirit Beast, "Sword Rain!"

(Sword Rain: another manifestation of repulsive force.)