Hunting a Four-Hundred-Year Soul Beast

A slight smile curled Jiang Li's lips. With a snap, he flicked his fingers.

The Summoning Grimoire in his hand bloomed with colorful light, and the surroundings immediately blurred as though a video had started dropping frames.

The next second, the two of them appeared beside a lake.

They had clearly been in the Soul Hunting Forest just moments ago, yet with a single snap of Jiang Li's fingers, they had arrived in this unfamiliar place.

Qian Renxue exclaimed in surprise, "Spatial teleportation?"

Jiang Li shook his head and answered, "No. This is my Summoning Space!"

"Summoning Space?" Qian Renxue looked at Jiang Li with confusion written all over her face.

"You know about Storage Soul Tools, right?" Rather than answering directly, Jiang Li asked Qian Renxue a question.

Soul Tools were naturally exceedingly precious to ordinary people.

But for Qian Renxue, whether as the heir of Spirit Hall or as the disguised crown prince of the Heaven Dou Empire—

Neither identity made such things seem rare to her.

"Could it be...?" Upon hearing that, Qian Renxue immediately formed a guess, though she was not entirely certain.

Jiang Li spread his arms and felt the false sunlight within the Summoning Space. He confirmed Qian Renxue's guess. "That's right. This is the unique Summoning Space of my Martial Soul, the Summoning Grimoire. It functions much like a Storage Soul Tool."

"Freak!"

Though the words had reached her lips, those were the only two Qian Renxue could ultimately say.

Given her status and experience, what rare things had she not seen before?

She had even possessed Soul Tools capable of storing living creatures, but a Martial Soul like Jiang Li's Summoning Grimoire, one that could even contain Soul Masters, was truly something she had never seen before.

Summoning, contracts, space.

The three outrageous abilities of Jiang Li's Summoning Grimoire Martial Soul, coupled with his Innate Full Soul Power—

Qian Renxue believed that even without her, Jiang Li could become a powerhouse at the level of a Title Douluo in the future.

Perhaps, if Jiang Li could come into contact with a God Trial, it might not be impossible for him to become a Deity one day.

Suddenly, Jiang Li asked, "This Summoning Space is huge, isn't it?"

"Mm." Qian Renxue nodded.

As far as the eye could see, this space stretched beyond the horizon. The portion visible to the naked eye alone—

Already extended for several thousand meters, not to mention the even farther regions beyond sight.

The scope of this place might as well have been another Douluo Continent.

"Unfortunately, it's all fake." Though Jiang Li was quite satisfied by the sight of this Limit Douluo looking so inexperienced before him, he still poured cold water over her excitement.

"Huh?!" Qian Renxue was stunned.

The sunlight? The air? The earth? The scenery?

They all looked so real, yet they were fake?

But amid her shock, Qian Renxue could not help but feel relieved.

After all, possessing endless space within a single Martial Soul was clearly beyond her understanding.

If it truly existed, it would be even more like a Godly Martial Soul than her Dark Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul.

No, perhaps only a Martial Soul that truly belonged to a god could accomplish such a thing.

"But it isn't entirely fake. At least the ground beneath our feet is real."

As he spoke, Jiang Li took several steps forward and felt around in the air with both hands. Something invisible, like a wall of air, blocked his path. "It's probably around ten square meters."

"As for the parts beyond that, they're merely false projections that can be seen but not touched."

"I see," Qian Renxue said.

That made more sense. If such a vast space were all real—

Something so far beyond imagination would only leave her with an unsettling sense of the unknown.

But now, although it still possessed spatial capacity, it was at least about the same size as an ordinary Storage Soul Tool. It merely had the special ability to allow Soul Masters to enter it, which she could accept.

However, Jiang Li's next words once again startled her heart out of its calm.

"This space can continuously expand as my Soul Power level rises. I believe that one day, it will become something like another world." Jiang Li spoke confidently.

Qian Renxue opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but in the end, nothing came out.

Jiang Li snapped his fingers again, and the two returned to the Soul Hunting Forest.

Roar!

The moment they emerged, they saw a tiger-like Soul Beast with black markings on its head pouncing toward Jiang Li.

"Fuck!"

Faced with the sudden attack, Jiang Li instinctively let out a curse.

But the next second, whether because of an adrenaline surge or something else—

Strength rose from his heart, and ferocity surged from his courage. He clenched his fist and threw a punch at the tiger Soul Beast lunging toward him.

Bang!

Jiang Li's fist collided with the tiger Soul Beast's head.

Strands of black light, belonging to the power of the Dark Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul, spilled from Jiang Li's fist.

"Whimper—"

The tiger Soul Beast let out a pained cry and was knocked back several meters by Jiang Li's punch.

"Are you all right?" Qian Renxue drifted to Jiang Li's side and asked worriedly.

Jiang Li did not answer. Instead, he looked at his slightly trembling fist.

He had nearly died before he could even get started.

Fortunately, he had not canceled his Dark Six-Winged Angel Spirit Avatar while entering and leaving the Summoning Space.

Otherwise, as a six-year-old child who had only just awakened his Martial Soul, he absolutely would not have escaped alive from the jaws of that tiger Soul Beast.

Much less knocked it back with a single punch.

At that moment, Jiang Li, who had nearly been buried in a tiger's maw, finally understood the danger of this world. He was not some player in a game, like the Fourth Calamity.

He had actually understood this principle long ago, but the awakening of his Martial Soul and his Innate Full Soul Power had made him somewhat carried away.

Yet this incident completely brought him back to his senses.

"I'm fine." Jiang Li replied to Qian Renxue, then turned his gaze toward the tiger Soul Beast in the distance.

Seeing that Jiang Li was unharmed, Qian Renxue sighed in relief. She truly feared that this little fellow with limitless potential would die just like that.

Yet in her current soul-body state, she could do nothing. She could only remind him based on what she knew. "Be careful. That's a Mottled Tiger Soul Beast of around four hundred years."

Jiang Li nodded. Since it was his first time facing a Soul Beast, there was no such thing as being too cautious.

The age of Soul Beasts on Douluo Continent was not actually difficult to judge. Much like the colors of Soul Rings after a Soul Beast was killed—

The color of Soul Power displayed when a Soul Beast attacked indicated its age range.

Ten years was white, a hundred years yellow, a thousand years purple, ten thousand years black, and a hundred thousand years red.

As for the exact age, that depended on the Soul Beast's specific characteristics.

For example, this Mottled Tiger Soul Beast that had attacked Jiang Li: aside from the yellow Soul Power surrounding its body, which proved that it was more than a hundred years old—

The four flower-like black markings blooming across its head were enough to prove that it was a four-hundred-year Soul Beast.

Roar, roar...

The Mottled Tiger kept growling lowly at Jiang Li, but after receiving Jiang Li's heavy punch earlier, it did not dare approach.

Yet it was unwilling to abandon the prey before it.

So it slowly circled Jiang Li, waiting for the instant he exposed an opening so it could rush forward and tear him to pieces.