(Second update)
After several weeks of preparations, Heaven Dou City finally welcomed Xue Ye's sixty-fifth birthday.
Before dawn, units of well-trained, fully equipped soldiers entered the city and headed to their assigned posts, guarding every corner to prevent any troublemakers from causing chaos on this important day.
When a rooster's crow heralded the dawn, the common people emerged from their homes. They were already accustomed to the soldiers stationed along every street, since the deployment had been rehearsed countless times over the past few days, and notices had long since informed the city's residents. Everyone was mentally prepared, without a trace of panic. Those who had work went to work, those who had school went to school, and those who needed groceries went shopping.
The gates of the Sky-Blasting Gang's headquarters swung open.
An enormous creature emerged first, radiating a formidable presence that could make any Spirit Master's liver and gall split with terror.
This was a soul beast, and no ordinary one at that.
He had a bull's head and a serpent's body. His head measured at least four meters across, with two enormous eyes shining like lanterns, connected to a massive, dark blue-black serpentine body several times thicker than a water barrel.
He was none other than the Sky Azure Bull Python.
As a hundred-thousand-year soul beast living in the Lake of Life at the very center of the Star Dou Great Forest, he had been the strongest soul beast in the forest at the time. He possessed the domain skill Sluggish Domain and was immensely powerful. Although regarded as a hundred-thousand-year soul beast, his true strength could probably place him among the ten greatest ferocious beasts.
After Qian Daoliu, the Elder Hall's Grand Consecration, returned to the Douluo Continent from the heavens, Spirit Hall increased the manpower