The grass spread like a lush green carpet, and every tree in the dense forest sheltered the ground from sunlight like an umbrella canopy.
Treading over thick layers of fallen leaves, a group of Sky-Blasting Gang members dressed in black robes and wearing Demon Masks gazed at the young man leading them with boundless admiration.
Yang Ming raised a hand to shield his forehead from the sunlight and narrowed his eyes at the familiar yet unfamiliar Star Dou Great Forest nearby. A touch of nostalgia stirred within him. He had not expected it to remain just as it had always been after several years away—vast and brimming with life.
Yet compared with its former tranquility, the Star Dou Great Forest now teemed with powerful auras. Soul beasts with over ten thousand years of cultivation led their respective packs in relentless assaults on the defensive line erected by the humans ahead, attempting to breach the Heaven Dou Empire's borders and strike straight at the dragon's heart!
After realizing that this crisis engulfing the entire Heaven Dou Empire was likely instigated by the gods of the Divine Realm, Yang Ming had carefully considered his options before bringing the Sky-Blasting Gang's finest subordinates to the Star Dou Great Forest, intending to eliminate the threat here first.
Across the entire Douluo Continent, apart from the sea soul beasts in the deep ocean, the Star Dou Great Forest housed the greatest number of soul beasts—a staggering four million!
This was a major reason why, despite humanity's relentless hunting of soul beasts over so many years, the Star Dou Great Forest still stood on the Douluo Continent and had never been completely overrun by humans.
Of course, when it came to the number of soul beasts with a hundred thousand years of cultivation, the Star Dou