"Thank you. I won't betray your trust!"
Ji Yang smiled and nodded.
Having successfully persuaded the Sky Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape, he finally breathed a small sigh of relief.
Xiao Wu was happy for Ji Yang too. She looked at the Sky Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape and promised solemnly, "Da Ming, Er Ming, don't worry. Little Yang won't disappoint you."
The Sky Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape nodded first, then looked at Ji Yang. "In other words, we need to capture other Soul Beasts next, especially ones with powerful strength or exceptional bloodlines, right?"
When Xiao Wu had introduced Ji Yang's "god-given power," his Eight Trigrams Alchemy Furnace Martial Soul, she had mentioned that it could refine Soul Beasts into corresponding miraculous pills.
In particular, if a Soul Beast wasn't refined into a Soul Spirit Pill, it could instead be refined into seven different kinds of pills.
Those pills worked wonders for a human like Ji Yang, but their effects on Soul Beasts were even more astonishing.
They were also the key to rapidly increasing their cultivation, strengthening their bloodlines, and eventually becoming ferocious beasts.
That being the case, to improve their strength, bloodlines, and other aspects, they naturally needed to hunt Soul Beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest with exceptional strength or bloodlines.
The Sky Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape felt little resistance or aversion to this.
Soul Beasts killing one another was a natural law of survival among their kind.
In the past, they had killed plenty of Soul Beasts themselves to survive and grow.
Even now, whenever they needed to eat, they still attacked other Soul Beasts.
What they resented was humans, a different species, deliberately taking the butcher's knife to their Soul Beast Clan for their Soul Rings and Soul Bones.
Having suffered terribly at human hands, they naturally hated it to the bone.
Even if that, too, counted as a natural law of the Douluo Continent, they still found it hard to accept and felt deeply indignant and repulsed.
They only accepted this because Ji Yang was a Deity's inheritor, and their Sister Xiao Wu trusted him completely.
On top of that, this benefited them personally, greatly accelerating the growth of their strength and bloodlines so that they could become even more fearsome ferocious beasts.
Otherwise, they would have been reluctant to help a tyrant perpetrate his atrocities.
"That's right. Da Ming, you have the Azure Dragon bloodline, a branch of the Dragons, and you possess lightning-attribute power. I suggest you find Soul Beasts that also have the Azure Dragon bloodline, or that possess even stronger Thunder Power."
"As for you, Er Ming, the same principle applies. Try to find Soul Beasts that also possess a powerful Ancient Tai Tan Beast bloodline, or ones with the same attributes and powers."
Ji Yang looked at the Sky Azure Bull Python, then at the Titan Giant Ape as he spoke.
He remembered that after the Sky Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape followed Tang San into the Divine Realm and became Divine Officials under him, their bloodlines had evolved into those of the Azure Divine Dragon and the Tai Tan Divine Beast respectively.
His plan was to use the corresponding Soul Blood Pills refined by the Eight Trigrams Alchemy Furnace to evolve their bloodlines, then use Soul Power Pills to strengthen their cultivation, allowing them to advance to Two-Hundred-Thousand-Year Ferocious Beasts while also becoming outstanding members of their kind.
This would further raise Da Ming's and Er Ming's combat prowess.
Although the power scaling had gone off the rails, during the era of Douluo Dalu III: The Legend of the Dragon King, a select few two-hundred-thousand-year ferocious beasts could even rival Super Douluos wearing Three-Word Battle Armor.
He felt that once the Sky Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape improved their bloodlines and became ferocious beasts, they might well be able to do the same.
And that was nowhere near their limit.
As long as he kept improving the Sky Azure Bull Python's and the Titan Giant Ape's bloodlines and cultivation, even Peerless Douluos might prove no match for them.
At that point, unless the gods of the Divine Realm interfered with the lower realm and attacked him, he would have nothing to fear.
All this and more!
Ji Yang held great expectations for the Sky Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape.
"Mutants like us must be rare. Otherwise, the Star Dou Great Forest wouldn't have had only the two of us as its kings for so long. But we'll do our best to find suitable, powerful Soul Beasts of the same species or attributes."
The Sky Azure Bull Python nodded as he spoke.
"If all else fails, we can try our luck in the Sunset Forest or the Far North. Though the chances of finding mutants like us there seem even lower."
The Titan Giant Ape scratched his enormous head.
"In any case, do your best. If that really doesn't work, find other Soul Beasts with equally extraordinary origins and add another, stronger bloodline to yourselves, such as the True Dragon bloodlines of the Dragon God's Following or the Ice God bloodline possessed by the Titan Snow Demon Ape."
Ji Yang offered the suggestion.
Although his initial impressions influenced him, he was hardly inflexible.
If the Sky Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape couldn't evolve into the Azure Divine Dragon and the Tai Tan Divine Beast, they could simply evolve toward the "Dragon God" and the "Ice God" instead!
"Well..."
"That could work too!"
The Sky Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape exchanged a glance. Beyond their surprise, they were even more eager to give it a try.
The Dragon God was the common sovereign of their Soul Beast Clan, the god of Soul Beasts in whom they all placed their faith.
The Ice God was a Deity-level existence, equally extraordinary.
If they could obtain the bloodlines of these two Deities, or something approaching them, why would either of them disdain or reject them?
"Then it's settled!"
Ji Yang smiled.
How could he fail to notice how tempted the Sky Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape were?
"What about me?"
Feeling left out, Xiao Wu pouted in displeasure.
Ji Yang had made such wonderful arrangements for Da Ming and Er Ming that even a rabbit like her was green-eyed with envy.
Even though she had already taken human form, she was still jealous!
"As for you, Xiao Wu, I don't know many rabbit-type Soul Beasts, and Soul Beasts of that species aren't necessarily very strong. If there really isn't a suitable target, I'd also suggest adding a True Dragon-related bloodline to further improve your species' innate potential."
Ji Yang spoke after a moment's thought.
He truly couldn't think of any suitable Soul Beast bloodline for Xiao Wu.
The rabbit-type Soul Beasts that appeared throughout the various Douluo eras really weren't strong.
As for rabbit-like creatures from other fantasy novels, such as the Lunar Jade Rabbit or the Falsehood Beast, whether they even existed on the Douluo Continent was another matter entirely.
"You're discriminating against bunnies!"
Xiao Wu puffed out her cheeks in even greater displeasure, looking ready to report Ji Yang to the Rabbit Protection Association.
Yet she had no rebuttal.
Leaving aside the Soft Bone Rabbit Clan she belonged to, other rabbit-type Soul Beasts really weren't particularly powerful.
At the very least, they fell far short of Da Ming and Er Ming, who possessed the Azure Dragon bloodline and the Ancient Tai Tan Beast bloodline respectively.
So turning into a dragon was the right choice for me?
Was I going to become "Dragon Rabbit" Xiao Wu in the future?
Tsk-
She still felt rather unhappy about it!
"This has nothing to do with discrimination, all right? Besides, whether you take that path is up to you, Xiao Wu!"
Ji Yang shrugged helplessly.
As for the Sky Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape, they each gave an awkward chuckle and offered no comment.
It might have been somewhat offensive to their Sister Xiao Wu, but they didn't think rabbit-type Soul Beasts were particularly powerful either. In fact, they considered that kind of Soul Beast quite weak.
In particular, as far as they knew, Aunt Rou and Sister Xiao Wu were the only two rabbit-type Soul Beasts who had managed to become hundred-thousand-year Soul Beasts.
Even that had already brought them to their limit. Advancing any further was basically impossible.
The two of them, by contrast, could still flourish and continue advancing.
That alone spoke volumes.
As Ji Yang had said, this wasn't a matter of discrimination at all.
It was... a fact.
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