Moonshadow Traces

Azure Jade Forest truly lived up to its reputation.

When Li Xuansheng and his group of six crossed the last stretch of hills and the view before them suddenly opened up, even the well-traveled Li Tianwu drew in a quiet breath.

Endless mountain ranges rose and fell like the backs of colossal dragons, while the forest's greenery was so rich it seemed impossible to dissolve—not an ordinary emerald green, but a blue-green hue almost like jade. Ancient trees thousands of years old blocked out the sky, thick vines coiled like pythons, and the air was filled with the dense, nearly sticky fragrance of vegetation and ancient Soul Power.

Every plant here seemed to have been nourished by ten thousand years of Soul Power, brimming with vigorous life.

"The Soul Power is so dense..." Li Yuanfeng murmured. This eighty-first-level Soul Douluo felt every pore on his body opening. "Cultivating here for one day is worth three days outside."

"The price is that you might become a Soul Beast's dinner at any time." Li Haiwang spoke calmly, holding a crystal orb the size of a fist in his palm. Mist flowed within it as it detected the surrounding Soul Power fluctuations. "Three miles to the left, a Jade-Scaled Python around thirty thousand years old is hunting. Five miles ahead, there seems to be a Soul Beast nest over fifty thousand years old."

The six held their breath and focused, quietly advancing along a concealed route under Li Tianwu's lead.

They had already been in the forest for two days, and their progress was slower than expected. The density of Soul Beasts in Azure Jade Forest far exceeded their imagination. They encountered Soul Beasts over a thousand years old almost every half hour, while Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts were hardly uncommon. If not for