As one of the Douluo Continent's three most famous gathering grounds for soul beasts, the Star Dou Great Forest covered an area almost equal to the entire Balak Kingdom. It straddled the border between the Heaven Dou Empire and the Star Luo Empire, with two-fifths of its area in the former and three-fifths in the latter. It was an immense primeval forest with complicated terrain, including wetlands and swamps. Its soul beasts were terrifying, growing stronger the closer one ventured to the center. Even hundred-thousand-year soul beasts lived there. Any Spirit Master with sufficient strength and good fortune could find the soul ring best suited to them within it.
Situated directly south of the Heaven Dou Empire, the forest stretched across both empires. With so many soul beasts living there, it was also the place where the border between the two nations was least clearly defined. On a map, most of the Star Dou Great Forest lay within the Star Luo Empire. Of course, the Heaven Dou Empire had never acknowledged that.
After casually tossing aside the dead Silver Wolf Emperor, the cat girl Duoduo followed a narrow path toward the central region of the Star Dou Great Forest. Standing on a large rock atop a mountain, she looked back along the way she had come. Towering firs lined the path, their dense crowns like enormous opened umbrellas. Flecks of moonlight slipped through their overlapping branches. She turned her gaze into the distance, where clouds and mist shrouded the wetlands and marshes, lending them an unfathomable air of mystery.
Gathering her inexplicably unsettled thoughts, the cat girl Duoduo entered the central region of the Star Dou Great Forest. Ancient trees in a thousand strange shapes filled her vision, offering more wonders than her eyes could take in. Some towering trees