Deep into the Star Dou Great Forest (Please Keep Reading)

The sky was a spotless blue, and fierce winds howled across it.

Boom!

A violent wave of white air exploded across the heavens. A piercing sonic boom tore through layer upon layer of cloud as a black afterimage raced through the sky at a terrifying speed.

As Xiao Dong hurtled onward, a thoughtful glint flickered deep in his dark eyes.

He turned his palm, and the yellowed parchment Ancient Map he had obtained from Zhou Yi unfurled in the wind. With the terrifying processing power of his overclocked Brain Martial Soul, he needed only a few breaths to map every mountain and waterway of the Star Dou Great Forest clearly in his mind.

According to the map, the lair of the high-level Mental Attribute Soul Beast Wang Yan marked should be southwest of here...

Xiao Dong raised his hand slightly, and a thought stirred.

Hum!

Space trembled faintly above his palm. A wisp of pure, translucent white frost mist curled up from his fingertips.

As the mist billowed, the temperature around him plunged in an instant to the point where water would freeze on contact. Even the hot wind rushing past him was forcibly frozen into ice crystals that fell from the sky.

The Ice Origin left behind by the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm!

Back when I had to choose four of the nine starting opportunities, not choosing the Ice Jade Scorpion Martial Soul was the right call.

Xiao Dong gazed at the bitter cold dancing above his palm, and an arrogant smile slowly curved his lips.

With the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's vast, pure ice essence as a foundation, he could now shape and refine the form and attributes of his Second Martial Soul however he pleased!

In the original course of events on Douluo Continent, Huo Yuhao had relied on the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's coaxing to draw in the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion and the Heavenly Snow Woman of the Far North, one step at a time.

Now Xiao Dong could follow that same path to godhood—and do it far more ruthlessly!

The Three Heavenly Kings of the Far North...

At the thought of the peerlessly beautiful, aloof Snow Empress and the fierce, willful Ice Empress with her exquisite figure, naked desire to possess them rose unbidden in Xiao Dong's eyes.

Once he found the time, he would travel to the blizzard-swept Far North himself, subdue those two renowned Soul Beasts, and forcibly turn them into his bonded Soul Spirits and Second Martial Soul!

Then he would possess Ice Arts that could shake the ages. He could also transform those two ravishing Snow Demon and Ice Scorpion beauties into human form and take them into his bed night after night. The mere thought made his blood surge!

"Hah..."

Xiao Dong slowly suppressed the heated thoughts churning within him and exhaled. The cold above his palm swept back into his meridians.

For now, his priority was to kill an old, powerful Mental Attribute Soul Beast, obtain his Second Soul Ring, and advance to level twenty as a Soul Grandmaster.

His gaze pierced the layers of cloud. Below, the boundless sea of dark green forest had given way from the gentler outskirts to the Mixed Zone, where ancient trees towered and a savage aura hung in the air.

Xiao Dong stopped abruptly in midair. His powerful body broke through the Poison Miasma and dense canopy below, then landed lightly and soundlessly on a huge boulder atop a cliff, like a black meteor.

Wind swept through the ancient wilderness. The air was thick with the earthy stink of soil and the brutal pressure left by countless Soul Beasts. From deep within the distant forest came faint, ferocious roars that chilled the heart.

Ordinary Soul Masters entering this deadly Mixed Zone trod as carefully as if they were walking on thin ice, terrified of provoking a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast whose strength rivaled a Soul Saint's.

Xiao Dong, however, strolled along the cliff's edge with his hands in his black robe's pockets, as relaxed as if he were touring his own back garden.

He had fused with the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's million-year, godlike Spiritual Origin, and he possessed the Homelander's invulnerable body of steel, tough enough to withstand a missile strike. He feared no sudden attack from a so-called ten-thousand-year Ferocious Beast. If anything, he worried that the Soul Beasts he encountered would be too young to serve as his Soul Ring.

Hum!

Xiao Dong slowly closed his eyes. Deep within his dark pupils, the crimson light of his X-ray vision surged together with the platinum glow of Tian Meng's Spiritual Detection!

His vast spiritual perception spread like an unseen net over heaven and earth. With Xiao Dong at its center, it swept across every inch of ground within dozens of miles.

Poisonous insects crawling beneath bark, currents flowing a thousand meters underground, even ten-thousand-year pythons sleeping in dark tree hollows—all appeared as translucent images in Xiao Dong's Super Vision, down to the finest detail.

"Found it."

After only a few dozen breaths, Xiao Dong's eyes snapped open. His gaze locked precisely onto a dark ravine several thousand meters to his left.

His piercing sight reached the deepest part of a damp, chilly cave in the ravine. There, a strange beast five or six meters long lay motionless, its body covered in glossy, deep-purple fur.

The beast resembled a giant lynx, with unusually short forelegs and powerful hind legs. A huge purple eye gleamed with cunning and malice on its long, flat head, while dense waves of purple spiritual energy rippled around it. Its savage Soul Power had reached a full thirty thousand years of cultivation!

A Purple Spirit Lynx—a rare, high-level Mental Attribute Soul Beast!

At the sight of the thirty-thousand-year Purple Spirit Lynx, Xiao Dong raised an eyebrow, faintly pleased.

But after examining the strength of its Soul Power more closely, the pleasure faded from his eyes. He shook his head in dissatisfaction.

"Thirty thousand years... Its age was still a little too low."

Xiao Dong clicked his tongue. Any ordinary genius on Douluo Continent would have laughed themselves mad with joy at absorbing a thirty-thousand-year Second Soul Ring. But Xiao Dong had the Homelander Physique, and his First Soul Ring had started at a million years. A mere thirty-thousand-year Soul Beast hardly measured up.

If I really can't find a suitable one, I could make time to visit the Evil Demon Forest in the Sun Moon Empire...

A place teeming with Evil Eye Tyrants flashed through Xiao Dong's mind.

It was the lair of the Evil Eye Tyrant Master. Old, powerful Mental Attribute Evil Eyes were as numerous as hairs on an ox there, and hundred-thousand-year Ferocious Beasts were hardly rare. But the Evil Demon Forest lay across the sea. Making such a long journey just for a Second Soul Ring would hardly be worth it.

"If the Mixed Zone of the Star Dou Great Forest isn't good enough, I'll go deeper."

A cold, domineering smile touched Xiao Dong's lips. Without another moment's hesitation, he tapped the hard rock beneath his feet.

Boom!

The entire cliff boulder shattered into countless fragments under the recoil. Xiao Dong became a flickering streak of black lightning. Ignoring every ten-thousand-year Soul Beast's territorial warning in the Mixed Zone, he barreled straight through and charged into the edge of the Star Dou Great Forest Core Zone—a place that made ordinary people turn pale at its very mention!