Beast Tide Descends

"Really! I saw it with my own eyes—someone from the Black Wolf Mercenary Group found a glowing patch of grass, sold it to an auction house, and made several hundred Gold Soul Coins!"

"That's nothing! I heard some guy got ridiculously lucky and picked up a strange bone. After fusing with it, his Martial Soul was actually strengthened!"

"Charge! The treasures are in the forest! The chance to rise to the top is right before us!"

Such rumors spread throughout the Heaven Dou Empire, driving even more people filled with dreams or ambition to flood into the Star Dou Great Forest like a tide.

They felled trees to clear paths and ventured deep into regions previously rarely visited by humans. Their clashes with Soul Beasts grew increasingly frequent and intense.

By the Lake of Life, the Nine-Colored Deer paced uneasily.

Its pure eyes were filled with sorrow. It could clearly feel the pain and grief of the entire forest.

The emotions of those innocent creatures that had been disturbed and slaughtered hung over it like dark clouds, making even the dazzling nine-colored divine radiance around it seem somewhat dim.

"Lord Auspicious Beast, don't be sad..." Xiao Wu hugged the Nine-Colored Deer's neck sorrowfully, her little face full of anger.

"Those humans are awful! For something that doesn't even exist, they've turned the forest upside down!"

She looked up at the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape, who stood guard nearby like mountains.

"Da Ming, Er Ming! Can't we go out and drive all those awful humans away?"

Da Ming, the Sky Azure Bull Python, gazed toward the forest's outskirts with his enormous snake eyes and let out a deep sigh. "Sister Xiao Wu, there are too many humans, like a plague of locusts passing through. And there are