The Silver Dragon King's extremely high praise left Di Tian and the others no time to marvel at the newborn's strength. They exchanged glances and nodded.
The next second, they transformed into streaks of light in different colors and shot toward Lin Wan'er's location.
If Di Tian had harbored any suspicions toward Lin Wan'er before, he immediately cast aside every conspiracy theory lingering in his mind.
For a little one capable of making the Co-Lord of soul beasts feel both protective and possessive, whether she was part of a scheme from the God Realm or not, he would do everything in his power to protect her—he would even treat her better than the Auspicious Beast!
After all, the healing ability she had displayed far surpassed that of the Emerald Swan leader who was nearly 590,000 years old—Bi Ji, one of his current wives! With that thought in mind, Di Tian sent his voice throughout the entire Star Dou Great Forest as he traveled. "All residents of the Star Dou Great Forest, remember this power. You must never harm it! Those who do will die!"
Now, whether they had brains or not, all the soul beasts understood that another "Sacred Beast," one protected by Di Tian and the other Ferocious Beasts and forbidden from being harmed, had appeared in the place they called home.
Even the Auspicious Beast, who had been playing by the lake and had not cared much about the strange phenomenon, raised her head and looked into the distance.
For some reason, she vaguely felt that the heavy fate she had originally been destined to bear had invisibly dissipated by quite a bit, while her mind had become clearer.
Reflected in her eyes, the fortune of the Star Dou Great Forest, which had been on the verge of decline, was visibly strengthened.
"Lit... little sister, I like."
After saying that, the Auspicious Beast turned back to play with the butterfly soul beast, tossing everything that had just happened out of her mind.
On the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest, beside a small stream, Lin Wan'er—who looked about three or four years old—had no idea that her unconscious actions had already disturbed the workings of the Star Dou Forest's fate.
At that moment, she looked at her reflection in the stream and carefully examined her appearance in this life.
Unlike her previous life, when her skin had been pale and somewhat sickly.
Now, possessing a healthy body and a lifespan seemingly like that of a soul beast, she had healthy, smooth, tender skin without a single visible pore.
Her originally light pink short hair had been affected by the lingering power, becoming a head of lustrous green hair.
The long hair that would have made every balding girl from her previous life jealous fell neatly down her back. Her eyes, bright as stars, proved that in this life, she looked even more like Soraka with the Star Guardian skin.
"Good thing I don't have horns on my forehead, or blending into the human world would be a problem."
"But based on looks alone, I can definitely stand alongside all those comic-book beauties and give them a run for their money."
Holding the miniature Star Guardian Staff, Lin Wan'er rose to her feet, patted away the nonexistent dirt from her body, and stared at the endless forest, lost in thought.
What should she do now?
Her consciousness had told her that she needed to help some people break free from their predetermined fates and try to help the soul beast race escape its tragic destiny.
But she truly had no idea which Douluo installment this world was set in!
What if this was Douluo One? Wouldn't that mean she had to deal with the Tang God King, famous for saying others had courted death and for the ultimate classic line, "Revive, my beloved!" Thinking of the Tang God King's values and conduct, Lin Wan'er, barely three or four years old and holding a healer's staff, could not help but sigh.
Could she only choose to join Spirit Hall?
Although she quite liked Spirit Hall's contributions to soul masters and ordinary people, Pope Bibi Dong was also an obsessive Love Brain, and she harbored deep malice toward soul beasts.
Trying to make Bibi Dong, the Pope, and even all of Spirit Hall give up their large-scale hunting of soul beasts and change the tragic fates of the soul beast race and certain people would undoubtedly make an already difficult task even harder.
Besides, she was currently just a child with a top-tier healing Martial Soul. Even if she displayed sufficient talent before the people of Spirit Hall, she could not possibly persuade everyone with words alone.
"In that case, I can only..."
"Only what?"
A voice devoid of malice came from an ancient tree in the distance. Lin Wan'er answered instinctively, "Unless I enter the Depths of Star Dou Great Forest..."
Just as Lin Wan'er sorted through her thoughts and prepared to leave the streamside, she suddenly spun around and looked up at the towering ancient tree behind her. Quickly putting on an unapproachable air, she loudly demanded, "Who's there? Who is it?"
Unknown fear filled her heart. She had never expected someone to be near her spawn point.
Judging from the voice just now, the other party was a woman around thirty years old.
She just did not know whether it was a passerby who happened to be passing through or a soul master hunting for a soul ring.
If it was the latter...
Clutching the staff in her hand tightly, Lin Wan'er somewhat regretted accidentally voicing her inner thoughts just now.
But now that things had come to this, she could only risk it!
"Who exactly are you? Why don't you dare come out and meet me?"
Though the child of three or four put on a fierce, blustering display, the residual newborn power within her body was secretly spreading through her meridians toward her limbs. An endless stream of Star Power was remaking her body at an astonishing pace.
At the same time, the Blue Silver Grass beneath Lin Wan'er's feet flashed with a dark gleam too fleeting for ordinary eyes to notice.
Its roots underwent a tremendous transformation, as the anti-magic power from Mount Targon was converted into a curse that prevented the circulation of Soul Power.
Anyone who stepped within its range would have all the Soul Power in their body sealed, unable to move until a period of time had passed.
This was another innate skill granted by the Soraka Martial Soul: Star Body Barrier.
Bi Ji, hidden within the ancient tree, was briefly stunned. Before coming here, she had never imagined that the little one who would help the Star Dou Great Forest—and even the entire soul beast race—overcome its crisis would be a human rather than a soul beast.
However, recalling the little one's earlier words.
Bi Ji, a top-tier healing soul beast, narrowed her eyes and discovered in surprise that a phantom seemed to have suddenly appeared around the other party.
It was an unseen "soul beast" with legs resembling goat hooves and a horn on the center of its forehead like the equine horn unique to the unicorn race.
Interesting.
Since she bore traces of a soul beast's transformed form, and had brought blessings to the entire Star Dou Great Forest from the moment she was born...
After considering the current situation, Bi Ji stopped teasing the nervous little one below and descended in human form to the ground beneath the ancient tree.
Lin Wan'er: ...
When Lin Wan'er saw with her own eyes that the person who had overheard her talking was Bi Ji, the Emerald Swan—a rare female Ferocious Beast of the Star Dou Great Forest during the era of the Peerless Tang Sect—her healthy little heart in this life nearly stopped beating again.
Imagine it: a figure old enough to be your great-great-great-great-grandmother gracefully descended from the sky, having overheard your earlier muttering—and your rather embarrassing plans. What kind of experience would that be? At the very least, Lin Wan'er was extremely nervous right now as she stared at Bi Ji before her, a woman exuding female hormones from head to toe, with distinctive emerald-green hair and an emerald-green gown that radiated nobility and elegance.
"Y-you... I..."
With her brain spinning so fast that her CPU was about to overload, Lin Wan'er decided to stop struggling and pay her respects by going to sleep first.
Yes, literally going to sleep first.
Having only just been born and suddenly mastered two Innate Domain Skills, Lin Wan'er was so frightened by Bi Ji's dazzling entrance that the Star Power within her fell into disarray. Before Bi Ji could speak again, she successfully slipped into a deep sleep.
Bi Ji, at a loss and wondering whether she had said something wrong: Huh?! The many Ferocious Beasts who had been peeking from the sidelines for ages: Huh?!
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