Please Hear My Plea, Stars!

All the soul beasts maintained their worshipful posture for roughly three minutes. Then, the forest, which had been still, once again filled with the sounds of all things growing and moving, and the countless soul beasts returned to their normal routines.

Those who hunted went hunting, and those who played went playing.

As for those who had lived for more than ten thousand years, even over a hundred thousand years, and even the Auspicious Beast Three-Eyed Golden Lion, who considered herself superior to most soul beasts, all revealed looks of surprise.

Among them, Bi Ji, who was by the lake combing her beautiful hair, was undoubtedly the most excited.

The guardian of the Star Dou Great Forest, the strongest known healing-type soul beast, the precious patriarch of the Emerald Swan Clan, and one of the few female Ferocious Beasts.

She immediately sensed that, beside a stream in the forest near the outskirts, a being similar to an Auspicious Beast had been born.

Moreover, that being's origin, like hers, leaned toward healing.

"Di Tian, I'll go bring it back first, in case some blind human on the outskirts finds it!"

Before the other Ferocious Beasts could speak, Di Tian gave his response.

Bi Ji turned into a streak of emerald light and flew toward where Lin Wan'er was.

That was right—she flew.

"Isn't Bi Ji being a little too impatient? I refuse to believe there's anything more helpful to the growth of our soul beast race than the Auspicious Beast."

Bear King, who looked broad and burly and hardly like a good person, glanced at the Auspicious Beast still playing by the lake and voiced his displeasure to Di Tian.

Bear King, who had always worshipped strength above all else, believed that the Auspicious Beast, capable of boosting the cultivation speed of all soul beasts, was the one they should pay the most attention to.

As for that fellow who had brought a small change in the forest's vitality the moment it was born, he did not like it much.

"Bear King, I don't like hearing you talk like that."

Zi Ji, speaking in her Abyssal Demon Dragon form nearby, rolled her eyes and stepped forward to refute him. "Have you ever seen such a heaven-shaking phenomenon when any other soul beast was born in the forest?"

"Zi Ji, you can't put it like that!"

After thinking for a long time without knowing how to refute her, Bear King could only stare with his beady eyes at Di Tian, who was dressed in black and appearing before them in human form, hoping the other man would speak up for him.

"Zi Ji has a point. Setting aside the phenomenon itself, the fact that Bi Ji is this excited is enough for us to wait and see."

In Di Tian's memory, Bi Ji, a healing-type soul beast close to six hundred thousand years old, had never been so excited as she was today throughout all the time they had spent together.

Therefore, he did not help Bear King, who spoke without thinking, and instead explained the matter from an objective perspective.

Di Tian's leisurely words made the already withdrawn Bear King withdraw even further.

Seeing Bear King suffer one blow after another, Zi Ji—who had been in a good mood recently, cultivating quickly, and had yet to encounter a bottleneck—decided to help him save some face, lest he embarrass himself before the Auspicious Beast again.

"But then again, I don't really agree with Bi Ji being in such a hurry to bring her back."

"Even when the Auspicious Beast was born back then, didn't we observe it in secret for three or four years before bringing it back to raise, after it had adapted to the Star Dou Great Forest's environment?"

As she spoke, Zi Ji took advantage of Bi Ji's absence to return to human form and lazily drape herself over Di Tian, playing with his long hair.

Bear King, standing nearby, was endlessly envious.

Damn it, why was there not a single Ferocious Beast who liked him? Why did they all insist on liking Di Tian?

It left him no choice but to find partners among the Hundred Thousand Year soul beasts and raise cubs with mediocre talent.

Di Tian was not accustomed to intimate contact in front of outsiders. He instinctively slapped away Zi Ji's wandering hand and said blandly, "Perhaps it is unlike the Auspicious Beast and does not possess abilities that other soul beasts cannot resist. That may be why Bi Ji is so... so impatient."

"That makes sense. Then let us wait and see as fresh blood joins our big family."

The late-arriving Scarlet King transformed into a burly man with his upper body exposed. The scar on his face lent him an added air of ferocity, while the curiosity in his eyes was the shared emotion of the many Ferocious Beasts at that moment.

At the same time, in the Land of Extreme North, Snow Empress, Ice Empress, Titan Snow Demon King, Ice Bear King, and Tian Meng—who was still endlessly eating and drinking without being discovered—all stopped what they were doing at the same time.

"The Star Dou Great Forest is truly blessed. Having one Auspicious Beast wasn't enough—they actually gave birth to such a pure and flawless life as well."

Snow Empress bit her lip and stared coldly into the distance, as though she wished she could kill Di Tian and the others with her gaze—their good fortune was enough to make any Ferocious Beast jealous.

If she had not been unable to defeat them, and if the environment of the far north had not made her unsuited to going into the forest to seize soul beasts, then no matter what, Snow Empress would have gone to the fortunate Star Dou Great Forest to snatch away its treasure.

However, no matter what turmoil the birth of an egg had caused among the Ferocious Beasts—or even in the God Realm—it had nothing to do with Lin Wan'er at present.

Because she was currently facing a problem no less difficult than a world-class dilemma.

How was she supposed to use her tiny hands, hands with barely any nails, to open this stone from Mount Targon?! Curled up inside the half-meter-tall eggshell, the little girl wore an expression of utter agony.

Although Soraka's appearance easily led people to misunderstand and believe she was a woman transformed from a unicorn or some other strange creature, she should actually have been a mammal! Not oviparous—and certainly not sharing the same mother as the Great Sage Equal to Heaven! As Lin Wan'er's anger rose and her self-awareness continued to develop, the massive stone from Mount Targon seemed unable to withstand the wrath of a god any longer and let out a crisp sound.

The next moment, the giant stone was corroded by a light breeze into pale green gas, which swirled around Lin Wan'er and forged a staff for her that possessed Star Power.

It carried the blessings of the stars from another world and was known as one of the gods' finest weapons: the Moon Staff.

Empowered by that force, the Moon Staff also ignited some unknown divine power, visibly transforming into another staff—entirely golden, with a diamond-shaped tip, an orange-yellow gemstone embedded within, and a pair of pure white wings floating above it.

This was the staff from Soraka's Star Guardian skin!

Holding the staff and sensing an unknown power churning within her, Lin Wan'er instinctively opened her mouth and shouted, "Please heed my prayer, stars!"

As her voice fell, phantasmal golden meteors descended from the sky to the earth. They made little sound, yet it was as pleasant as spring water.

Pale golden light particles sank underground along with the sound, repairing the bodies of every soul beast and living being in the Star Dou Forest.

Beneath the light of the Masterless Stars on the Douluo Continent, Lin Wan'er, who had yet to awaken her Soul Power, instinctively comprehended the Innate Domain granted by her martial soul: Wish.

Blessed by a top-tier martial soul, countless soul beasts received the favor of the stars. Even the old hidden injuries within the several Ferocious Beasts deep in the forest and near the lake were healed.

Not to mention that silver-haired beauty sleeping at the bottom of the lake, grievously wounded...

The sleeping Silver Dragon King Gu Yuena felt as though another hot spring was nourishing her true body, soothing the pain in her soul. Her expression gradually softened from agony.

Her fingers began to twitch unconsciously. Her lips did not move, yet her voice traveled across a great distance to reach every Ferocious Beast's ears.

"Bring her to me. She is one of the only two hopes of the soul beast race, and also the Sacred Beast capable of healing me completely!"