"How can we trust a human's words? Your cultivation system requires soul rings to advance in the first place!"
Xiong Jun's roar exploded like thunder. Dark gold soul power churned around him like boiling magma, and the cold gleam on his claws threatened to tear the air apart. Clearly, the trauma of humans slaughtering soul beasts in the past had been stirred up, driving his emotions to the breaking point.
"You must be pretending to cooperate! Once you trick us into handing over our blood essence, you'll seize the chance to slaughter Star Dou's soul beasts! No matter how sweet your words sound now, you're only trying to make us lower our guard!"
The Scarlet King echoed him. The fiery soul power around him suddenly surged, and his red hair stood on end like burning flames. His voice brimmed with hostility toward humans:
"Xiong Jun is right! Humans are all oath-breaking liars! Why should we trust you?"
Qian Daoliu looked at Xiong Jun's furious, wide-eyed glare without the slightest anger, calmly meeting his gaze instead-he knew that members of these ferocious beasts' clans had died gruesome deaths at the hands of human soul masters. Words alone could never dispel their doubts. He had to prove his confidence through strength and dissolve their wariness through sincerity.
Di Tian did not stop Xiong Jun. He merely hovered silently in midair, a trace of scrutiny flashing through his golden dragon eyes.
He could vaguely sense that Qian Daoliu's strength was unfathomable, but he wanted to see for himself just how capable the Great Enshrined of Spirit Hall was, and whether he truly had the qualifications to discuss "cooperation as equals."
If Qian Daoliu could not even subdue an enraged Xiong Jun, this so-called "cooperation" would be nothing but empty talk. If he could