Those Days in the Star Dou Great Forest

Life in the Star Dou Great Forest was not boring. With a Golden British Shorthair by his side and someone to talk to, the days were quite pleasant.

In the Mixed Zone of the Star Dou Great Forest, Lin En could practically walk sideways without facing any danger. In the entire world, he was probably the only one who received such treatment.

The aura of the Imperial Auspicious Beast was simply too useful. It could really stop Soul Beasts' children from crying at night.

With Qiu'er, a seasoned resident of the Star Dou Great Forest, acting as his guide, Lin En gradually captured many rare Soul Beasts.

These Soul Beasts with high-grade bloodlines provided Lin En with a large number of Memory bloodline cells.

For example, his wings had originally come from the Three-Eyed Owl, but they had now been replaced with those of a Dark Crow. This kind of Soul Beast possessed darkening abilities similar to elementalization, making it highly cost-effective.

Unfortunately, Lin En had originally wanted to see whether there were any Emerald Demon Birds nearby. He did find some traces, but they were far too fast to catch.

Besides Dark Crows, Lin En also captured Dark Golden Terrorclaw Bears. These Soul Beasts were indeed powerful, but before the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, they could not fight back and could only flee.

Given the Dark Golden Terrorclaw Bear's fleeing speed, escaping the pursuit of the two of them was nothing but a fool's dream. After obtaining the relevant Memory cells, Lin En's claws completely transformed into Dark Gold Terror Claws.

As for body structure, Qiu'er found him Golden Earth Dragons, Purple Radiant Bamboo, and Netherworld Ghost Tigers. All of them were Soul Beasts with exceptionally powerful bloodlines.

In the original work, Netherworld Ghost Tigers could even battle Dark Golden Terrorclaw Bears head-on.

However, the most important bloodline among them was that of the Three-Eyed Golden Lion. Qiu'er gave him a great deal of blood, and this essence blood was sorted by his second soul skill into bloodline Memory cells. It was the strongest bloodline Lin En had obtained so far!

But Lin En also discovered that even after loading the Three-Eyed Golden Lion bloodline, he still could not use the Power of Fate.

Qiu'er explained that the Power of Fate had never been tied to bloodlines. The Imperial Auspicious Beast was born because of the Power of Fate; it was not that the birth of an Imperial Auspicious Beast stirred the Power of Fate.

Lin En's bootleg Three-Eyed Golden Lion, assembled from technology and ruthless tricks, made the Power of Fate sniff around a few times before it covered its nose and ran away.

As for vitality, Mr. Blue Silver King made a major contribution. Thanks to its wholehearted assistance, his vitality directly returned to balance.

That was worth a full half-day of mourning and gratitude from Lin En.

However, before this Blue Silver King died, it actually tried to counterattack. It planned to forcibly break through and become a Blue Silver Emperor, believing that once it became an emperor, it could escape the hunting of one human and one beast.

But in the end, it failed. Everything had clearly been going exceptionally smoothly. Its wildly surging bloodline had completely reached the realm of an emperor, and the patterns on its leaves had visibly turned golden.

Lin En had even prepared a napkin and picked up his knife and fork, ready to enjoy the Blue Silver Emperor with Qiu'er. A Blue Silver Emperor's vitality ranked among the very top tier of Soul Beasts. There could only be one on an entire continent. It was a true tonic!

At the instant before it transformed into an emperor, it suddenly hit an invisible bottleneck. After crying, "Impossible! An emperor still exists! My life is over!" it perished.

Its failure was not due to any other reason. Every aspect of it had long met the requirements of a Blue Silver Emperor, but there could only be one Blue Silver Emperor on a continent. That was an ironclad rule.

In other words, there had always been a Blue Silver Emperor on Douluo Continent. As for who it was, Lin En had a rough guess.

He was not surprised, merely somewhat taken aback that Ah Yin had already been on Douluo Continent in this era.

After regretfully enjoying the Blue Silver King with Qiu'er, the bloodline belonging to the Blue Silver King nourished Lin En's entire body.

Working together with the Purple Radiant Bamboo bloodline, this bloodline gave the energy cells within him the ability to photosynthesize.

Little Sage carried out another round of modifications on the organelles inside the energy cells. By utilizing the stellar energy absorbed through photosynthesis, other forms of energy could also be efficiently converted into a new energy currency.

The new energy currency would then break down into gentle, balanced Soul Power, constructing a second energy cycle within his body.

As for how to modify the organelles, Little Sage innovatively wrote the operating principles of the Mysterious Heaven Skill into them.

The Mysterious Heaven Skill was simply too useful. Mitochondria and chloroplasts built upon its operating principles as their basic structure could perfectly accommodate all kinds of other energy.

They made different forms of energy balanced and gentle, allowing them to be more easily converted into the new energy currency.

After this modification, Lin En was very far from being human.

Although vitality was no longer a problem for the time being, Little Sage still recommended that Lin En choose a life-attribute Soul Beast for the Immune System Martial Soul's third Soul Ring.

Its reasoning was an extremely complicated series of theories that gave Lin En a headache. He had returned his biology knowledge to his teachers centuries ago.

Among those theories, the one that concerned Lin En most was the "Simulated Biosphere."

The Immune System was matter, the Nervous System was will, bloodlines were offspring, vitality was the core, and Alchemy was both the rules and the brush.

The endpoint of this theory was to turn his body into a complete ecosystem, establish rules independent of the world, and become a truly perfect organism.

Then, using his flesh as a springboard, he would pollute and assimilate the rules of the universe itself, allowing this perfection that should not exist to devour reality.

His will would stand above all things. His body would become the universe, all living beings would be his offspring, rules would be prisoners within his chest, no change could escape his eyes, and the natural disasters feared by living creatures would be no more than a single flicker of thought.

He was the world. He was one, and he was ten thousand. He was the Final Calamity!

Of course, the theory was indeed beautiful, but he still had to focus on the present and handle things bit by bit. Arrogance was the greatest taboo of survival.

The difficulty Lin En now faced was deciding what kind of life-attribute Soul Beast to choose.

As early as five months ago, Lin En had broken through Rank 30. He was only one Soul Ring away from advancing.

But life Soul Beasts were far too rare. Finding one was as difficult as finding a spiritual-attribute Soul Beast. Lin En looked down on life-attribute Soul Beasts with overly weak bloodlines, as they did not meet Little Sage's standards.

The Blue Silver King he had hunted last time did meet the requirements of a life attribute, but according to Little Sage's estimates, the soul skill it could grant the Immune System Martial Soul was somewhat mediocre and also carried risks.

If his luck was bad and he got a flight soul skill or a flesh-entangling soul skill, that would be utterly embarrassing and would waste a Soul Ring slot for nothing.

Although Lin En did not understand why a Blue Silver King could grant a flight soul skill. Could that possibly make sense? What, Blue Silver Grass could fly?! It might as well say elephants could fly.

If it were a Blue Silver Emperor, then there would be nothing to say. Unfortunately, it was impossible for another Blue Silver Emperor to exist in the Star Dou Great Forest.

The Emerald Swan clan was treated as treasure by the Star Dou Great Forest, and he could not kill them. He could only turn his attention to other races.

The Star Dou Great Forest was vast and rich in resources. There had to be a Soul Beast that met Lin En's standards.

If he truly could not find one, then he could only trouble the Blue Silver Grass clan of the Star Dou Great Forest once again.

"Lin En, I'm hungry."

While Lin En flipped through books on Soul Beasts, the Golden British Shorthair beside him stretched out her claws, her voice lazy.

Lin En did not raise his head. He had just turned a page and casually said,

"It has only been two hours since lunch. You just ate an entire Blazing Fire Bull. Based on your digestive ability, it will probably take another four hours before you fully digest it."

"A few days ago, I looked at your feces. You have a bit of excess nutrition. If you keep eating like this, be careful not to turn into the Gong Baiman next door."

Qiu'er's fur instantly stood on end, and she nearly activated her Stegosaurus form.

"What!?"

"You peeked at my feces? Beast mother, are you disgusting or what?! I have privacy too! Watch out or I'll bite you!"

"And who is Gong Baiman? You know other Soul Beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest?!"

Lin En rolled his eyes and took a sip of water from the Lake of Life. Qiu'er had brought him this lake water; it tasted sweet, with a lingering aftertaste.

As expected of the Silver Dragon King's bathwater. Even out in the world beyond, it was a heavenly treasure that could spark bloody conflict.

"Sigh, why don't you read some books too? Lying around all day isn't good for your body."

Lin En pointed at the mountain of books piled up ahead. Most of these books had been left behind by Yu Mu'en, while a small portion had been looted from dead Soul Masters.

Everyone clearly knew that the death rate in the Mixed Zone was as high as eighty percent, yet countless Soul Masters still pressed onward into its depths.

They also especially loved making huge commotions when they fought. Without the protection of the Imperial Auspicious Beast, exposing one's location in the Mixed Zone meant one could directly go pick out their favorite drink bottle.

In just one year, Lin En had collected a huge pile of storage Soul Tools by looting corpses.

Whenever he was bored, Lin En would open blind boxes and see what interesting things were inside those storage Soul Tools.