Mutated Spirit Beasts Pour Out, Devour Humans, and Threaten the Cities

The rift looked tens of thousands of miles long.

Its edges were dark red, like scabs of dried blood.

Inside, thick black mist churned like tar, bubbling and gurgling.

It gave off a stench that made souls tremble and swept across the entire continent.

"What the hell is that thing...?"

Lu Yuan rolled down the car window and stuck his head out.

It wasn't as if he hadn't seen his share of the world.

Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Beasts, Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, Soul Douluo, Titled Douluo...

He had rammed his way through them all. What kind of spectacle hadn't he seen?

But what lay before him now...

In all his time on the Douluo Continent, he had never seen anything like it.

And he wasn't the only one.

No one on the entire continent had ever seen such a terrifying sight in the sky.

The presence seeping from the rift wasn't Soul Power, the wild aura of a Spirit Beast, or any kind of energy they knew.

It smelled like... something that didn't belong to this world.

"Roar...!"

The next instant, roars rang out from deep within the Star Dou Great Forest.

Three days.

In just three days...

The continent's southwestern border had become hell on earth.

There was more than one blood-red rift. More and more appeared.

From the Heaven Dou Empire's southwestern border to the Star Luo Empire's northern wasteland and the Spirit Hall Empire's western frontier, thirteen enormous rifts tore across the sky.

The soul masters gave the things crawling out of them a name.

Mutated Spirit Beasts.

They had no reason and no sense of territory.

They neither fought over resources nor settled down to breed.

They had only one instinct!

To devour.

To devour every living thing of flesh and blood.

Stonecliff Town.

It was the border town nearest to the Star Dou Great Forest.

About three thousand people lived there.

Three days earlier, the first wave of Mutated Spirit Beasts had descended and charged into the town.

The head of the town's soul master guild had hastily organized a defense.

A level-sixty-three Soul Emperor led a dozen or so soul masters at the front.

The Mutated Spirit Beasts smashed through even his Martial Soul Avatar...

A blood-red eighty-thousand-year Bloodthirsty Giant Ant swallowed the Soul Emperor's upper body in a single bite.

Crunch.

A sharp crack rang out.

The Soul Emperor got only halfway through a scream before he died.

The remaining soul masters broke at the sight. They stopped trying to hold the line and fled in every direction.

The Bloodthirsty Giant Ant did not pursue them. After chewing the Soul Emperor's corpse, it gave a satisfied rumble deep in its throat.

It didn't care who its prey was.

All it cared about was that humans were edible.

Behind it, a swarm of thousand-year Bloodthirsty Giant Ants chased the fleeing townspeople...

Stonecliff Town was wiped out that day.

Not one of its three thousand residents survived.

Only two of the fleeing soul masters escaped.

And that was only the beginning.

More terrifying than the Bloodthirsty Giant Ants was a ninety-thousand-year Earth-Splitting Demon Scorpion.

The creature was as large as a hill, its shell as heavy as a mountain range. Every time its hooked tail slammed down, it killed another group of soul masters who tried to resist.

But those were not roars of attack.

Just then, the system's voice sounded in Lu Yuan's mind.

[Ding-dong!]

[An interworld passage has been detected. It has opened!]

[Warning! A higher-energy life-form has been detected crossing over!]

[Warning! Warning!]

The system's alerts flashed red on the display before Lu Yuan.

His pupils contracted.

Another world?

A passage?

Before he could make sense of those words...

A tremendous commotion erupted inside the blood-red rift overhead.

Crack.

A horrifying claw reached out from the edge of the rift.

It was as if the roars had come from creatures fleeing for their lives.

Lu Yuan watched a dark-gold-furred Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Beast burst out like a mad thing. Its four hooves flew as it raced deeper into the forest.

Behind it, a thousand-year Wind Wolf was also running flat out, plunging into depths of the forest it normally would not have dared enter...

It looked as though every Spirit Beast in the Star Dou Great Forest was fleeing.

"Even ten-thousand-year Ferocious Beasts are running for their lives..."

Lu Yuan frowned, his gaze sharpening.

He wasn't afraid. He had sensed something strange.

He had the feeling that something was about to burst out of the rift.

Whatever it was, it had terrified the Spirit Beasts throughout the Star Dou Great Forest into fleeing...

The claw was pitch-black, covered in dense, dark-red markings. Its nails alone were at least a hundred feet long and razor-sharp.

It looked as though it had torn open space itself...

The next moment, the claw hooked onto the edge of the rift and pushed hard.

A twisted figure slowly crawled out.

The instant it emerged, Lu Yuan's pupils tightened slightly.

It had the outline of a wolf but three heads. It had no fur, only a layer of slick, dark-red skin.

Fist-sized tumors bulged from that skin, and embedded in each one was a bloodshot eye!

That was right. Eyes!

The wolf-like creature was covered in them.

It was horrifying!

Dozens of eyes swept across the continent in unison.

Then they seemed to catch sight of Big Luck inside the Star Dou Great Forest.

The mutant creature suddenly split its mouth into a grin. There were no teeth inside, only layers of backward-pointing barbs.

"Roar..."

Its howl shook the entire continent.

Then it kicked off with all four claws and dropped onto the land below.

Behind it, more and more claws reached out from the blood-red rift.

One.

Ten.

Hundreds descended onto the continent in an unending stream.

Lu Yuan looked up at the blood-red rift spanning the sky and suddenly grinned.

There was not a trace of fear in his smile.

Only a fierce excitement, newly ignited.

"All right!"

"I just upgraded, and I've been looking for somewhere to put myself to the test!"

"And here you are, coming right to me."

He floored the accelerator. The engine roared, and Big Luck surged forward again.

But deep down, Lu Yuan was beginning to worry.

With the mutated Spirit Beasts crossing over, the people of every nation on the continent could face a terrible disaster. Even the soul masters might be wiped out. These creatures might destroy the entire continent...