Is This a Hunt or Feeding Time? Blood-red Baboons Were Crispy and Crunchy

Roar!

"Attention, all soul beasts of the Star Dou Great Forest!"

"Whoever catches the culprit for my Darkgolden Terrorclaw Bear clan will be handsomely rewarded by Xiong Jun!"

As the 470,000-year-old king of the Darkgolden Terrorclaw Bears, he naturally would not personally hunt down some petty thief.

Besides, the outer reaches of the forest covered an enormous area.

There was no way a single high-level Fierce Beast could search it all alone.

But Xiong Jun was no fool either.

He had actually made a vow and mobilized all the soul beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest to find the culprit.

"Damn, did he really have to take this so seriously?"

Hearing that furious roar,

the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff rolled his eyes.

There was no helping it.

His cultivation had not yet reached 100,000 years.

He was not qualified to confront Xiong Jun head-on.

The only thing he could do now was hunt quickly

and raise his cultivation as much as possible!

"Damn stupid bear. The strong devouring the weak is the law of the soul beast world. So you want to make trouble, huh?"

He shot a vicious glance toward the heart of the forest.

Then the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff abruptly turned around

and began moving swiftly along the outer edge of the great forest.

He had originally thought that as long as he kept changing locations,

high-level soul beasts would never be able to track him.

But he had still underestimated the soul beast populations within the Star Dou Great Forest.

His battle with the Dark-Gold Dreadclaw Bear had just been witnessed by many pairs of eyes.

Under normal circumstances,

after that slaughter,

no soul beast would have dared come looking for trouble.

But the leader of the Darkgolden Terrorclaw Bears had issued a hefty reward.

That changed everything!

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

Aah! Aah! Aah!

The Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff had not run far

when he noticed something strange about the atmosphere around him.

All of a sudden, many fiery-red monkeys appeared nearby.

They were Blood-red Baboons!

They were common pack-dwelling soul beasts in the forest.

In the original story, when Princess Vina of the Heaven Dou Empire came here to seek a Soul Ring,

she had once been attacked by a group of Blood-red Baboons.

These primates were not particularly powerful individually.

Even a Blood-red Baboon King only possessed 30,000 years of cultivation.

However, their clans were extremely numerous.

And as long as a king led them, they became exceptionally united.

Thus, even soul beasts above the 50,000-year level stayed far away from these violent baboons!

But for some reason,

this troop of monkeys had targeted the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff.

The baboon king at their head was even gesturing and pointing at several of his subordinates,

continuously signaling for them to surround the giant beast below.

"Stupid monkeys, do you have a death wish?"

Sensing their hostile intentions,

the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff stopped and warned the Blood-red Baboons in the surrounding trees.

Yah, yah, yah!

Yet unexpectedly, those damn monkeys became even more excited!

There were roughly twenty of them in total.

All of them crouched on the trees closest to the enormous beast.

Their eyes held both fear and excitement.

Though these baboons could not speak human language,

they were the creatures in this great forest whose behavior most resembled that of humans.

Those fellows had certainly received Xiong Jun's wanted notice just now.

That was why they had clung to his trail like leeches!

"Looks like if I don't deal with you, trouble will keep coming after me."

Looking at the monkeys drawing ever closer,

the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff decided not to leave.

Since he had not understood the forest's rules earlier, he had not eaten his fill.

Perfect. These monkeys could tide him over!

Chitter, chitter, chitter!

Seeing the golden-haired Fierce Beast stop,

the Blood-red Baboon King immediately began hopping about in excitement.

The baboons around him, large and small, seemed pumped up as well.

One after another, they actually leaped down from the trees,

baring their teeth as they charged at the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff!

But the sight was rather absurd.

It somewhat overturned the laws of nature.

The baboons, who were supposed to be prey, actually dared launch a countercharge against a giant beast?

It was an utterly unexpected spectacle!

"You brought this on yourselves, so don't blame me!"

The Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff had no intention of indulging these annoying Blood-red Baboons.

You wanted to tail me endlessly?

Then I'll turn around and strike back!

Awo?

Roar!

In a lightning-fast pounce,

the Blood-red Baboon at the front, with roughly 10,000 years of cultivation, was swiftly slashed apart by his claws.

Three deep grooves were carved across its chest before it toppled stiffly to the ground.

This was an attack empowered by the claws of a Dark-Gold Dreadclaw Bear!

Coupled with the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff's own vitality,

a single swipe of that claw

was enough to break every bone in the body of an entry-level human Titled Douluo.

A 5,000-year Blood-red Baboon simply could not withstand such power.

Crack!

Chitter, chitter, chitter!

After a burst of agonized screams,

the Blood-red Baboon leading the charge collapsed outright.

Seeing this, the several 10,000-year baboons following behind immediately had their fur stand on end and tried to flee.

But it was already too late.

The Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff had locked onto them!

Awoo!

Like a starving tiger pouncing on prey,

he tore off one baboon's hind leg with his right claw.

Then his gaping maw swallowed the upper half of another baboon.

Everything happened in the blink of an eye.

Not even enough time had passed for a single blink.

Splat!

He merely pressed his fangs down instinctively.

The Blood-red Baboon held in his mouth convulsed, spraying out a stream of tomato-juice-colored liquid.

Then it stopped moving.

"Not bad. On the planet where I used to live, monkey brains were considered a delicacy too!"

Crunch, crunch, crunch!

As he chewed, the Soul Rings of the three baboons he had killed earlier lit up almost simultaneously.

Whoosh!

The terrifying giant beast merely took a light sniff.

The three Soul Rings of different colors were drawn into him like spring water.

"Not bad. Tastes just like the Huiyuan Juice I drank when I was little. Nice!"

Although the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff looked as though he was thoroughly enjoying himself,

to the surviving Blood-red Baboons, he was practically a demon descended upon the world.

Even the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger that had been killed by Lord Sea God ten thousand years ago had not been this terrifying.

Chitter, chitter, chitter!

Almost at the same moment,

the remaining baboons completely ignored the Blood-red Baboon King's shrieks.

They were all scared out of their wits.

Letting out wave after wave of piercing cries,

they fled toward the distant forest at top speed!

Awoo, awoo, awoo!

Seeing his underlings prove so disappointing,

the Baboon King was furious.

He grabbed a small monkey by the neck

and tried to drag the little creature back with all his strength.

But it completely ignored the pain in its neck.

Even when its body was lifted into the air, its limbs continued clawing at the ground.

That was what fear at its utmost looked like.

Roar!

The next moment, just as the Baboon King had run out of options,

a low growl sounded behind him.

Then... there was no then.

The Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff locked his throat and gave a hard tug!

Crack!

A 30,000-year monkey head was crushed beneath his bite like a paper-shelled walnut.

Buzz!

At the same time, a black Soul Ring appeared before the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff.

[ Ding! Congratulations, Host, for obtaining another Soul Ring above the 10,000-year level. Your overall cultivation has risen to 50,000 years. ]

[ At the same time, you absorbed the Berserk Bloodline from the Blood-red Baboon's body and unlocked the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff's Mad Demon Body, which can be activated three times per day... ]