After lunch, the group continued searching the Mixed Area.
Within four hours, they found suitable soul beasts for Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu in succession.
By the time Zhu Lu finished absorbing her soul ring, it was nearly six in the evening.
The sun was already sinking in the west, and darkness would fall before long. The Star Dou Great Forest was far more dangerous at night than during the day. Chen Tianyuan had once been attacked there at night by a ten-thousand-year raptor-type soul beast...
Still, the soul hunting operation had progressed smoothly. In just one day, three of them had obtained suitable soul rings.
Next, they needed to find suitable soul rings for Ma Xiaotao, Wang Qiu'er, and Wu Feng.
Wu Feng's martial soul was the red dragon, a fire-attribute lesser dragon soul beast. Its control over flames, however, fell short of Ma Xiaotao's fire phoenix, while its strength fell short of Dai Huabin's evil-eyed white tiger, leaving it something of a fish out of water. Still, dragon-type martial souls were almost never weak, and hers ranked among the best of the high-grade martial souls.
Suddenly, the ground began to tremble faintly.
Chen Tianyuan and Zhang Lexuan hurriedly extended their spiritual power ahead.
Less than a hundred meters away, three pitch-black, wolf-shaped soul beasts were charging toward them at an astonishing speed.
All three were over five meters long and nearly two meters tall. Their size rivaled that of large lion- or tiger-type soul beasts, yet these were wolves.
"These are mutant soul beasts," Zhang Lexuan said softly.
Mutant soul beasts had always been an important subject of soul beast research at Shrek Academy. Such mutations were actually much like martial soul mutations among soul masters: they could make a soul beast stronger, or they could make it