The Terrifying Power of Auspicious Fortune! The Innate Fire Spirit!

Tang Hao's pupils shrank, and every hair on his body stood on end.

The presence locked onto him was cold and sharp, its killing intent undisguised.

He knew who stood behind him without turning around.

The bastard with the white spear. The one who had humiliated him and piled fresh wounds on top of old ones!

"You—"

Boom!

An explosion tore through the depths of the forest, sending flocks of birds into the air.

Meanwhile, Jiang Hao climbed into the carriage Bai Qian had prepared and set off for the Star Dou Great Forest.

The Soul Hunting Forest was too low-level. Finding a suitable soul beast there would be like searching for a needle in a haystack.

And he couldn't even be sure there was a needle to find.

They traveled day and night for two days.

At last, Jiang Hao reached a well-known gathering place outside the Star Dou Great Forest.

Star Dou Town.

Shops lined both sides of the street, and vendors called out over one another.

Jiang Hao jumped down from the carriage and looked around. Spotting a shop with a sign that read "Soul Hunting Inn," he walked in.

The inn was small, but it was clean.

Behind the counter, a chubby innkeeper was bent over an abacus. When a customer came in, he raised his eyes for a glance.

"Where are your grown-ups, kid?"

"They'll be here later."

Jiang Hao took several Gold Soul Coins from his pocket and slapped them onto the counter. "One good room for three days."

The innkeeper's eyes lit up at the sight of the coins, and his manner turned warm at once. "Of course! Right this way, young sir!"

Once he had settled in, Jiang Hao stood by the window and gazed at the endless green sea of trees in the distance.

The Star Dou Great Forest was the largest gathering place for soul beasts on the continent.

Countless soul beasts lived within it, ranging from ten-year beasts to hundred-thousand-year beasts.

"I'll head in first thing tomorrow morning. Three days should be enough."

As he considered his plans, a commotion rose from downstairs.

"Did you hear? Someone saw a streak of white light fall from the sky last night!"

"Seriously? What level was the soul beast?"

"No idea, but it made one hell of a racket. Several soul masters hunting nearby saw it."

Jiang Hao listened to their discussion, then put it out of his mind. He lay back on the bed and closed his eyes to rest.

At dawn the next day, Jiang Hao left the inn.

With a small bundle on his back and a short blade at his waist, he strode toward the entrance to the Star Dou Great Forest.

Quite a few people had already gathered there, mostly soul masters traveling in groups. When they saw a child arrive alone, they cast curious glances his way.

"Kid, are you on your own?"

A burly, bearded man blocked his path and looked him up and down.

Jiang Hao nodded. "Yeah."

"This isn't a game. The forest's crawling with soul beasts. A little squirt like you goes in there, there won't be a bone left."

"Thanks for the concern. I know what I'm doing."

Jiang Hao stepped around the man and walked straight into the forest.

The man watched him go and scratched his head. "What's with kids these days? Are they all this reckless?"

Inside the forest, the light was dim and the air damp.

Jiang Hao walked over the thick layer of fallen leaves, his senses on high alert as he watched his surroundings.

He had not gone far when his foot struck something hard.

Looking down, he saw a scarlet herb poking out of the rotting leaves, its blades swaying like flames.

"Blazing Fire Grass? At least a hundred years old?"

Jiang Hao bent down and pulled it up. "This would sell for dozens of Gold Soul Coins outside."

He had barely stuffed the Blazing Fire Grass into his bundle and taken a few steps when his foot struck something hard again.

He looked down. A silvery-white herb, its leaves seemingly coated in frost, lay among the fallen leaves.

"Silver Frost Grass? This one's over a hundred years old too?"

Jiang Hao pulled it up. A few steps later, another herb appeared ahead, emerald green from stem to leaf, with a faint glow playing across its surface.

"Jade Spirit Ganoderma? At least three hundred years old?"

After picking four or five herbs in a row, Jiang Hao's bundle bulged like a ball. Nothing else would fit.

He patted the swollen bundle and sighed. "This thing's way too small. I need to get a storage Soul Tool when I get back."

As he grumbled, a faint metallic clink came from the grass ahead.

Jiang Hao stopped and looked toward the sound.

Beneath a shrub half as tall as a person, an old-fashioned silver ring lay quietly in the dirt.

"That design... Doesn't it look a bit like a Soul Tool?"

Jiang Hao went over, picked up the ring, and turned it over in his hands.

It felt cool and remarkably light. The words "storage" were engraved on the inside.

Holy shit, it really is a storage Soul Tool!?

Jiang Hao tried feeding a trace of Soul Power into the ring. A silver-white halo immediately lit up around it.

A space of roughly ten cubic meters appeared in his senses. It was empty except for a few Gold Soul Coins in one corner.

"Probably belonged to some soul master who died here. I'll take it."

Jiang Hao put his bundle into the storage ring and continued on.

Perhaps he had used up all his luck for the day. He found no more treasures and barely encountered any soul beasts.

"What the hell? Is this still the Star Dou Great Forest?"

Jiang Hao was considering whether to venture deeper when—

Boom!

An earth-shaking explosion erupted from deep within the Star Dou Great Forest.

Jiang Hao instinctively looked up. At the distant edge of the sky, a massive pillar of fire shot upward, staining half the heavens a blinding silver-white.

"What the fuck was that?"

Before Jiang Hao had finished speaking, the pillar exploded into countless streams of silver-white flame that spread in every direction like a spiderweb.

Then his pupils shrank!

The flames were racing toward him fast enough for him to see them coming!

"Holy shit!"

Jiang Hao moved on instinct. He kicked off the ground and hurled himself to the left, rolling twice before crashing awkwardly against the roots of a large tree.

Boom!!!

A deafening blast erupted behind him.

Dirt and stones flew everywhere. The shock wave swept his hair back.

Jiang Hao lay on the ground with his ears ringing. After a long moment, he raised his head and brushed the grit from his face.

"Ptooey! What the hell was that? It nearly killed me..."

He looked closely. Where he had just been standing, there was now a crater three or four meters across.

Its bottom was scorched black and still trailing wisps of smoke. An acrid smell of burning filled the air.

At the center of the crater, a fist-sized cluster of silver-white flame hovered in midair, burning quietly.

Arcs of electricity ran across the flame, crackling, yet it gave off no heat. Instead, it carried a strange chill.

"Is that..."

Jiang Hao narrowed his eyes and studied it for a few seconds. Suddenly, his pupils contracted.

"An Innate Fire Spirit!?"

An Innate Fire Spirit was a rare spiritual treasure born naturally of heaven and earth. It held the purest essence of fire.

If a soul master absorbed one, it would not only produce a perfectly matched Soul Ring but also grant their martial soul the fire element. There was even a chance it could awaken a domain ability!

This was the stuff of legend, something countless powerful soul masters sought in vain. And today, one had landed right in front of him?