On the Douluo Continent, within the Balak Kingdom, a party of three traveled toward Heaven Dou City.
They were not far from the border, on the outskirts of Tiger-Dragon Hill, a small-to-medium-sized gathering place for soul beasts. This mountain range lay between Heaven Dou and the Star Luo Empire, not far from the Star Dou Great Forest, and most of its soul beasts were lesser dragons or tigers.
Though the place was small, the quality of its soul beasts was anything but low.
Leading the trio was a handsome, spirited youth with blue-gold hair. Behind him walked a handsome, white-haired middle-aged man wearing a white knitted cap and carrying a basket on his back, along with a girl who skipped along with her hair in a scorpion braid.
Though he was described as a blue-haired youth, his physique was every bit the equal of the middle-aged man's-if anything, he was more powerfully built and stood taller and straighter. Rather than cutting his hair, he had styled it into a wolf-tail mullet that hung to his shoulders, adding a touch of wildness.
The girl was much the same. While her figure could not be called smoking hot, she had curves in all the right places, and the light in her crimson eyes clearly did not suit her age. She bounced along like a rabbit.
Even the white-haired middle-aged man still had the face of a young man of twenty-seven or twenty-eight. A trace of melancholy lingered in his eyes, though it seemed somewhat at odds with the unprecedented vitality he now displayed.
Behind that middle-aged man at the rear of the trio, who seemed to be laboring under some kind of pressure as he strode forward drenched in sweat, his basket packed with various metals, a little golden dog with a