Sunset Forest lay roughly a hundred li east of Heaven Dou City.
For ordinary people, such a distance would take more than ten hours to cover on foot, but for Soul Masters like Jiang Li and Dugu Yan, it was not particularly far.
Moreover, since Sunset Forest was the largest Soul Beast habitat near Heaven Dou City, high-level Soul Masters often came here to hunt for Soul Rings.
As a result, carriages and other vehicles frequently traveled near Sunset Forest, making transportation fairly convenient.
Thus, the two of them did not spend much time reaching Sunset Forest.
After arriving at the outskirts of Sunset Forest, however, the horses pulling their carriage could not withstand the terrifying aura of the Soul Beasts within the forest, so they could only proceed on foot.
As an aside, viewed from above, Sunset Forest was distributed in an irregular, elongated oval shape.
It was more than two hundred li wide and over a thousand li long.
It lay a hundred li east of Heaven Dou City.
Because Spirit Hall's Pope, Qian Xunji, had been killed by Tang Hao when Tang San was born, Tang Hao's older brother Tang Xiao, who inherited the position of Clear Sky Sect Master, had no choice but to expel Tang Hao from the Clear Sky Sect and announce the sect's closure.
After the Clear Sky Sect declared itself sealed, its location was three hundred li east of Heaven Dou City.
That was right, it was on the other side of Sunset Forest.
This was also why, in the original story, despite the Clear Sky Sect having sealed itself away, it could still produce Title Douluo-level elders and had no shortage of Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts for Soul Rings.
All one could say was that the Clear Sky Sect's closure had been completely pointless.
Back to the matter at hand.
Jiang Li looked at Dugu Yan and said calmly, "Miss Dugu Yan, we've gone deep enough into Sunset Forest, haven't we? Aren't you going to contact Senior Poison Douluo?"
"Do you need to tell me that?!"
Dugu Yan shot Jiang Li a glare. For some reason, she always felt incompatible with the man before her. The sight of him irritated her.
Still, she took out a small emerald-green snake from her Storage Soul Tool. It looked exceptionally venomous.
Jiang Li looked at Dugu Yan in surprise. He had not expected her to possess a Soul Tool capable of storing living creatures.
Ordinary Soul Tools with storage space were already expensive. For Soul Masters from commoner backgrounds rather than great clans or noble families, it was not that there were no ways to buy one.
It was just that even after saving for half a lifetime, they might not have enough money to purchase a single one.
As for Soul Tools capable of storing living creatures, they were even rarer and more precious.
In the original story, only one had appeared: the Soul Tool called the Wishful Hundred Treasures Pouch, which Dugu Bo gave Tang San.
He had not expected Dugu Yan to have a similar one as well. A Title Douluo really was filthy rich!
However, Jiang Li had a Summoning Space, so he was not envious. He was merely somewhat curious about the green venomous snake in Dugu Yan's hand. "Is that a Jade-Coiled Snake?"
"I didn't expect you to have such sharp eyes." Dugu Yan glanced at Jiang Li in surprise. She had not expected him to recognize it. "That's right, it's a Jade-Coiled Snake."
The Jade-Coiled Snake was a special type of snake that existed only on Douluo Continent.
Each time they reproduced, they laid only one egg, yet that single egg would hatch two Jade-Coiled Snakes.
Besides their powerful venom, the Jade-Coiled Snake's greatest characteristic was the special organ on its tail, much like a rattlesnake's, which could make sounds.
As long as the two snakes born together were not too far apart, when one made a sound with its tail, the other Jade-Coiled Snake's tail would make the same sound.
Furthermore, while moving, a Jade-Coiled Snake would always intentionally or unintentionally sway its tail toward the other Jade-Coiled Snake.
So Dugu Yan used this thing to contact Poison Douluo.
It truly suited the contact method of Poison Douluo's Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor Martial Soul.
Dugu Yan extended her delicate hand and lightly flicked the Jade-Coiled Snake's tail.
Thump, thump, thump sounds came from the Jade-Coiled Snake's tail.
"Strange."
As she spoke, Dugu Yan reached out again and lightly flicked the Jade-Coiled Snake's tail.
The Jade-Coiled Snake stared at Dugu Yan, flicked out its tongue, and lightly swished its tail at her.
It seemed somewhat dissatisfied with Dugu Yan's actions.
Jiang Li asked curiously, "What's wrong?"
Although he was somewhat interested in the Jade-Coiled Snake used to contact Poison Douluo, Jiang Li had no intention of going closer.
Even after becoming a Soul Master following his transmigration, Jiang Li still could not shake his fear of animals without feet and animals with too many feet.
"I can't contact my grandfather," Dugu Yan replied.
"Uh, what?" Dugu Yan's answer left him a little dumbfounded. Jiang Li scratched his head and asked, "Then are we still going forward?"
Dugu Yan said resolutely, "Of course!"
Perhaps because Jiang Li had just said that she and her grandfather were poisoned, she felt a faint sense of fear in her heart.
She feared that if she could not contact Dugu Bo, something might have happened to her only remaining family member.
But precisely because of that, she had to go to the Icefire Yin Yang Well, where Dugu Bo often cultivated, and take a look.
What if her grandfather really had been poisoned, just as Jiang Li said, and the toxins in his body happened to erupt now?
Then bringing Jiang Li along might be able to help her grandfather.
"Of course, if you're afraid, you can go back by yourself."
After hesitating for a moment, Dugu Yan suddenly remembered that Jiang Li was Ye Lingling's friend. She therefore added, "But you have to tell me what the medicinal herb that can detoxify looks like."
"What are you talking about? How could I let you enter Sunset Forest alone? What would Ling Ling think of me if she found out?" Jiang Li waved his hand.
What a joke. Since he had already come all this way, how could Jiang Li possibly give up like this?
Besides, he knew far more about Dugu Bo's physical condition than Dugu Yan did.
In the original story, Dugu Bo had endured until Tang San appeared. It was impossible that Jiang Li coming a year early to seize Tang San's future opportunity would cause the toxins in Dugu Bo's body to suddenly lose control and make him drop dead, right?
Hearing this, Dugu Yan looked at Jiang Li in surprise.
She had thought he would fear the danger and leave immediately. She had not expected this annoying man to be rather manly after all.
"But we need to be careful from here on out. Neither of our Soul Power Levels has reached level 40 yet."
"If we encounter high-level Soul Beasts, those that have only just entered the Ten-Thousand-Year realm should be manageable. Even if we can't defeat them, we can barely escape."
"But if we run into Soul Beasts over twenty thousand years old, that would be courting death."
If Jiang Li had been alone, he was confident he could protect himself in Sunset Forest.
But with Dugu Yan added to the equation, he truly could not guarantee her safety.
Not only did he need Dugu Yan to guide him to the Icefire Yin Yang Well, but Ye Lingling, Qin Ming, and the others all knew that Dugu Yan had left with him.
He could not let anything happen to Dugu Yan.
Otherwise, he really would have to face the pursuit of a Title Douluo ahead of schedule.
However, Jiang Li did not know that the reason Dugu Yan could not contact Dugu Bo was actually Jiang Li himself.
Not long ago, after teaching Xue Beng a lesson, Jiang Li had fed him a red pill that made his entire body itch unbearably.
Thus, Prince Xue Xing had sent someone to contact Dugu Bo first, summoning him back to Heaven Dou City.
The reason the Jade-Coiled Snake in Dugu Yan's hand could not contact him was also because it was too far away from the other Jade-Coiled Snake in Dugu Bo's possession.
If Jiang Li knew that his own actions had forced him and Dugu Yan to carefully search Sunset Forest for the Icefire Yin Yang Well together,
would he feel like crying without tears and think that he was making himself suffer for nothing?
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