Chen Yu landed beside Zhu Hongzhen. He had raced more than a dozen li to get here.
His gaze swept the surroundings. Zhu Hongzhen was watching the area tensely.
Chen Yu asked, "Uncle Hong Zhen, how are things?"
At the sound of his voice, Zhu Hongzhen's expression relaxed. He turned to Chen Yu and said, "Don't worry. A few of those Titan Rhinoceros Beetles tried to come over earlier, but I drove them back. I reckon they're watching and waiting now."
Chen Yu nodded. He understood that Zhu Hongzhen's relaxed mood did not mean they could let their guard down.
The Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well lay on the edge of the Sunset Forest's core region, where many powerful soul beasts gathered.
To ensure the safety of soul masters entering the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well in the future, and as a precaution, the Chen Clan had begun systematically clearing out the surrounding soul beasts, especially those on the side facing the core region.
Naturally, they were not targeting every soul beast. Clearing them all out would do more harm than good. Who knew how the soul beasts in the core region would react? Besides, the low- and mid-tier soul beasts served as a protective screen, keeping human soul masters away.
They therefore selected soul beasts capable of threatening a Soul Douluo: Ancient King tier soul beasts aged sixty thousand years or more, along with large colonies of communal soul beasts, all within a fifty-li radius.
During the half month Chen Yu had been away, Chen Cong and Zhu Hongzhen had already gathered preliminary information on the nearby soul beasts.
They had identified the three greatest threats: the Holy King tier Nine-Star Demon Leopard, the Blood-Armored Beast King, and the Titan Rhinoceros Beetle Colony.
Although the Titan Rhinoceros