Journey to Soul Hunting Forest

Soul Hunting Forest.

After Wang Chen and his son Wang Tianyi passed the inspection by the Soul Hunting Forest guards, they entered without issue. Once inside the forest, Wang Chen did not immediately begin searching for Soul Beasts. With a flash from the ring on his right hand, a map appeared in his palm. Looking at the marked locations on the map, Wang Chen began explaining some basic knowledge about Soul Masters of Douluo Continent to Wang Tianyi.

For instance, the limits of Soul Rings ordinary Soul Masters could absorb, and how to roughly judge a Soul Beast's age... The map was crudely drawn, but it was very practical.

Wang Tianyi carried a small bundle on his back as he followed behind Wang Chen. It could not be helped. The wealth of an ordinary Soul Elder could not compare to that of Yu Xiaogang, who came from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. Wang Chen did possess a Storage Soul Tool—the ring on his hand—but it held less than a cubic meter, making it as small as could be. Entering a Soul Beast Forest required preparing many supplies. Wang Chen possessed the cultivation of a Soul Elder, but he was cautious. This was also how commoner Soul Masters survived.

Father and son moved through the forest, with Wang Chen leading the way. Three Soul Rings pulsed beneath his feet, and a black iron-colored staff appeared in his hand. There were no especially powerful Soul Beasts in Soul Hunting Forest; at most, they were only several thousand years old. A Three-Ring Soul Elder was already a formidable force here.

"Tianyi, both of your Martial Souls are Beast Martial Souls, and both use staffs as weapons. Since that is the case, our primary target this time will be strength-type Soul Beasts! Do not worry. I will definitely find you a suitable Hundred-Year Soul Ring!"

Wang Chen was brimming with confidence. A three-hundred-year Soul Beast was nothing to him.

Wang Tianyi nodded. Without a powerful background, having a Hundred-Year Soul Ring as his first Soul Ring was already quite good. With his current physical strength, absorbing a seven- or eight-hundred-year Soul Beast would not be a problem. However, in this ordinary Soul Hunting Forest, his adoptive father was their only main fighting force. He was in no position to be picky.

At that moment, the familiar electronic voice sounded again!

[Detected that the host has entered Soul Hunting Forest and is preparing to hunt the first Soul Beast! Choice triggered!]

[Choice One: Hunt an ordinary hundred-year Soul Beast! Reward: Increase the first Soul Ring's age by 50 years!]

[Choice Two: Hunt a Soul Beast at the limit for a One-Ring Soul Master! Reward: Increase the first Soul Ring's age by 100 years!]

[Choice Three: Hunt a Soul Beast over 500 years old! Reward: Increase the first Soul Ring's age by 300 years!]

[Choice Four: Hunt a thousand-year Soul Beast! Reward: Increase the first Soul Ring's age by 1,000 years!]

[Note: Once the host makes a choice, the system will automatically provide the location of a suitable Soul Beast! However, the host must note that the host's Twin Super-God-level Martial Souls must remember the path of balance. To prevent Heaven-Equaling or Six Ears from killing the other and taking over the host's mind, the host must attach Soul Rings to both at the same time! The interval between them must not exceed three days!]

[Additionally: The existence of Lawless will not be restricted by the drawbacks of cultivating Twin Martial Souls simultaneously. Absorbing two Soul Rings at once will not affect the host's future development!]

Wang Tianyi's God-Tier Choice System had presented him with choices again, four in total. The rewards all increased the age of his first Soul Ring, ranging from the most ordinary hundred years to the extreme limit of a thousand years. The higher the age of the Soul Ring he absorbed, the richer the reward. Naturally, Wang Tianyi wanted to hunt a thousand-year Soul Beast, but...

With his adoptive father's strength, facing a thousand-year Soul Beast? Wang Chen would never agree to it. After all, according to the beliefs of Douluo Continent, an ordinary Soul Master's first Soul Ring could only come from a hundred-year Soul Beast. More importantly, Wang Tianyi was entirely different from other possessors of Twin Martial Souls. He needed to absorb two Soul Rings at once. For Wang Chen, a Soul Elder, to kill two thousand-year Soul Beasts within three days was simply impossible.

Ah, forget it! Future geniuses become powerhouses, but geniuses now are merely ants. A Hundred-Year Soul Ring it is! Besides, given the system's nature, there may not be a lack of ways to increase Soul Ring ages in the future! System, I choose three!

After weighing the pros and cons, Wang Tianyi ultimately chose the third option. For one thing, a Hundred-Year Soul Ring would not attract too much attention. Even if someone noticed that his first Soul Ring exceeded the limit a Soul Master could endure, he could explain it by saying that he had trained in martial arts since childhood, consumed large quantities of herbs, and possessed a body stronger than that of ordinary children. On the other hand, was he really going to make his adoptive father risk his life for his first Soul Ring?

It was only his first Soul Ring. There would be plenty of chances to improve it in the future. Did not the Angel Clan, blessed with divine Martial Souls, possess only the most standard Soul Ring configurations during cultivation? That was because they had the Angel God's blessing and could raise their Soul Ring levels in the future. Wang Tianyi might not have a god's blessing, but he had a system! Even in the worst-case scenario, once he cultivated to a certain realm, his strength would surely draw the attention of the God Realm. After accepting a divine trial, raising the age of his Soul Rings would be as easy as drinking water.

Thus, he chose the third option!

The next moment, a pale blue screen visible only to Wang Tianyi appeared before him. An exceptionally detailed map of Soul Hunting Forest filled his vision. The system automatically filtered all the qualifying Soul Beasts within the forest. There were six red dots on the map, each representing a Soul Beast over five hundred years old that the system had selected as most suitable for Wang Tianyi.

"Mighty Bear, Iron-Arm Gorilla, Cosmic White Ape, Ironhide Pig, Bloodthirsty Tiger, Black Demon Armored Dragon... Heh, it is really hard to guess which two Soul Beasts I should choose..."

Wang Tianyi was completely speechless. Mighty Bear and Iron-Arm Gorilla? What kind of half-baked Soul Beast names were those? Cosmic White Ape and Black Demon Armored Dragon, on the other hand, outclassed the other four in name alone. Wang Tianyi had chosen five-hundred-year Soul Beasts, but that did not mean he intended to settle for just anything for his first Soul Ring. The higher the bloodline grade of the Soul Beast he hunted, the better.

Having made up his mind, Wang Tianyi, following behind Wang Chen, began trying every possible way to steer them toward the territories of those two Soul Beasts. Hunting Soul Beasts in a Soul Beast Forest was a matter of luck to begin with, so Wang Chen did not object. Their first destination was the territory of the Cosmic White Ape.

It was also the closest among the six Soul Beasts over five hundred years old to their current location.

Even so, they did not arrive until the second day. Along the way, they encountered quite a few dangers. At night, they even ran into a pack of Netherworld Wolves, including two hundred-year Netherworld Wolves. The wolf pack treated Wang Chen and his son as prey, but to their surprise, after only two swings of Wang Chen's staff, the two Netherworld Wolves that had just reached the hundred-year level silently fell asleep. The wolf pack scattered and fled in utter disarray.

On the second day, father and son continued onward until an ancient towering tree appeared before them! Wang Chen, with his sharp eyesight, immediately noticed the enormous nest woven from branches high in the tree. Looking at the holographic map before him, Wang Tianyi saw that this was precisely the territory of the Cosmic White Ape!