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But the instant Tang Hao's gaze fell on the young girl, it sharpened.

He was not studying her face. He was sensing her aura!

It was an aura unique to a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.

This girl was not human!

She was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast that had taken human form to cultivate anew!

The thought flashed through Tang Hao's mind, sweeping away all his earlier guesses about the beast tide.

Tang Hao's breath quickened for an instant. His fingers tightened unconsciously around the phantom Clear Sky Hammer, his knuckles turning faintly white.

A Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.

To any Soul Master, those words held an incomparable temptation.

His wife, Ah Yin, had been a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast who took human form. He had paid a terrible price for it: disaster had befallen his sect, and he and his wife had been torn apart. The wound in his heart would never heal.

But that did not mean he felt any special mercy toward other Soul Beasts in human form.

On the contrary, it was precisely because he had lived through it that he understood more deeply what a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast meant to a Soul Master.

A guaranteed 100,000-Year Spirit Ring, plus an exceedingly rare Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone.

It was a peerless treasure that could drive any Soul Master mad, even a Titled Douluo.

What was more, the target before him looked so frail: a little girl who had only recently taken human form and whose strength was still meager.

Compared with the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts that held sway deep in the forest, wielding terrifying power, she was like a defenseless pastry giving off a tempting aroma.

Take her!

The thought spread through Tang Hao's mind like wildfire and consumed it in an instant.

He was certain that if he