Total Riot!

Su Yu stood atop Smooth Rock, watching the battle below.

At the center of the Sandstorm, his presence could be concealed, keeping him from being discovered by Soul Beasts or Soul Masters.

With the Sandstorm covering him, and with those Soul Beasts focused on the special Energy Cubes and other Soul Beasts, none of them noticed Su Yu.

Meanwhile, outside the Sandstorm.

Not far away, two people hid in the treetops. If Su Yu had been there, he would have recognized them as two members of the trio he had encountered for the first time.

Only the woman named Miaomiao and the refined-looking man remained now. As for the burly man, no one knew where he had gone.

"Damn it, why did we run into a herd of Savage Bulls? Why was our luck so terrible today?" Miaomiao said helplessly.

"Cough, Old Zhao got eliminated just like that. What a pity!" The refined-looking man was equally helpless.

Old Zhao was naturally the burly man.

"Brother Li, we have to earn back Old Zhao's ticket!"

"Alright, let's hunt some low-level Soul Beasts first." Brother Li nodded.

As they spoke, they climbed down from the treetops.

"Who knows where that herd of Savage Bulls ran off to!" Miaomiao swept her gaze over the surroundings.

"Seems like they went that way!" Brother Li raised his hand and pointed in one direction.

"Hey, what's happening over there?" Miaomiao looked that way.

"Looks like a sandstorm!" Brother Li answered.

At that moment, rolling yellow sand could be seen in the distance.

Dust filled the air.

"Come on, let's head the other way!" Brother Li said as he walked in the direction opposite the Sandstorm.

"Okay!" Miaomiao agreed, following behind Brother Li.

However, just then, they felt the ground trembling.

"Look over there!" Miaomiao stared ahead in shock, her lips trembling slightly.

At that moment, groups upon groups of Soul Beasts came stampeding toward them. There were cattle, sheep, tigers—thousand-year ones and ten-thousand-year ones.

In short, Soul Beasts of many different species and ages were all rushing toward the Sandstorm at once.

A trace of purple flashed through their eyes.

"Run!" Seeing the sight before him, Brother Li hurriedly grabbed Miaomiao and ran in another direction.

If they were struck head-on by that horde of Soul Beasts, their trip to the Spirit Ascension Platform would be over.

They did not want it to end so soon, so they fled frantically.

Fortunately, the Soul Beasts were not targeting them. They hid behind a giant tree a hundred meters tall.

The herd of Soul Beasts swept straight around them.

"Phew!" Miaomiao let out a long breath.

"What's going on with this Intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform? It wasn't like this before!" Brother Li frowned as he watched the Soul Beasts depart.

"What should we do?" Miaomiao asked nervously. The horde of Soul Beasts from earlier had put her under enormous psychological pressure, and her legs felt a little weak.

"We have to go over there and take a look!" Brother Li said solemnly.

"Ah!" Miaomiao cried out. "But it's dangerous over there!"

"I feel like every Soul Beast in the entire Intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform has gone over there! If we don't go, we might never see another Soul Beast again!"

"But...!"

"Besides, look over there!" Brother Li pointed toward the center of the Sandstorm.

"What is that?" Miaomiao asked in confusion. She looked over but saw nothing unusual.

She only saw a white cloud.

"Would a white cloud appear in a sandstorm like this?" Brother Li pointed out the problem.

"Then this is very likely..."

Miaomiao's eyes instantly lit up.

"The Soul Beasts over there might be fighting over something. During that time, a huge number of Soul Beasts must have died, and their spiritual power was drawn in by that thing, gathering into this spiritual power cloud!"

"Then let's hurry over!"

Miaomiao became impatient. She was already imagining herself absorbing that spiritual power and all her Soul Rings turning black.

At this moment, Su Yu watched as more and more Soul Beasts gathered there.

He muttered softly,

"Could all the Soul Beasts in the entire Intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform have come here?"

More and more spiritual power gathered around him, completely covering him.

"So much! Xiao You, eat quickly!"

"Received!"

At that moment, Su Yu's entire right hand was covered in gold. At the connection point with his back, six spider legs swayed up and down.

The surrounding spiritual power was continuously absorbed by Xiao You.

"Roar!" A bull's bellow threw the entire battlefield into even greater chaos.

Su Yu turned his head and saw the Savage Bull King charging wildly through the Sandstorm.

The Savage Bull King sent another innocent Soul Beast flying. Its breathing was ragged, and it was clearly at the end of its strength.

Veins bulged all over its body, some of them purple.

This was the venom injected by the Human-Faced Demon Spider back then, and only now had it fully taken effect. This Savage Bull King had truly been formidable.

However, half of the ordinary Savage Bulls in the herd were already gone.

As the Savage Bull King collapsed completely, the remaining herd of Savage Bulls entered a berserk state as well.

This was the counterattack following their leader's death, a berserk frenzy that burned their lives away.

Though the blade was broken, it could still unleash its final might.

Bull bellows rang out one after another.

The Sandstorm condensed into the enormous phantom of a Savage Bull in the air.

Seeing this, those ten-thousand-year Soul Beasts that had also fallen into frenzy and chaos regained a bit of their reason and hurriedly avoided the Savage Bull herd's final charge.

Su Yu watched the scene and said, "Looks like the scent isn't strong enough!"

As he spoke, he took out several more special Energy Cubes, crushed them, and tossed them into the Sandstorm.

In an instant, a flash of purple appeared within the yellow-brown Sandstorm.

The chaotic aura around them intensified.

After inhaling the dust within the Sandstorm, the Soul Beasts' injuries showed signs of recovering.

But they also fell into complete chaos.

Su Yu watched the Soul Beasts slaughtering each other below. Still, he also spotted several small figures.

"Oh, Soul Masters are coming to join the fun too?"

His gaze swept over the area, and he saw at least several dozen figures.

Meanwhile, outside, in the main control room of the Spirit Pagoda's Spirit Ascension Platform.

A staggering figure entered, his hands trembling constantly as he held a tablet.

"Something terrible has happened! There's trouble in the Intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform!" the staff member who entered said hurriedly.

"Don't you know to report before entering? No discipline at all!" The middle-aged man at the head of the room looked at the staff member.

"Report! The Intermediate—"

The middle-aged man cut him off mercilessly. "What's the point of reporting now?"

He paused, then continued, "Tell me, what happened?"

The staff member had been interrupted repeatedly, but he did not dare show any displeasure. The man before him was the deputy tower master of East Sea City's Spirit Pagoda.

He could only stand properly and continue his report.

"The Soul Beasts in the Intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform have rioted!"

"Are you trying to fool me?" The deputy tower master glared at the staff member with an unfriendly expression.

It was currently the riot period of the Spirit Ascension Platform. If the Soul Beasts were not rioting, could it still be called a riot period?

"No..." The staff member was briefly at a loss for words.

It was also his first time encountering something like this in the Intermediate Spirit Pagoda, and he did not know how to report it.