"All right, let's rest at this inn for the night."
"We'll enter the Star Dou Great Forest tomorrow morning."
"It really isn't very suitable to go in at night."
Liu Erlong waved, signaling for everyone to follow her into the inn on the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest.
"Wow, there are so many people!"
The inn's ground floor was also a restaurant. Looking at the room full of people, Xiao Wu couldn't help exclaiming in surprise.
She saw three pretty girls. The youngest had green hair and lively eyes, and she was roughhousing with a white-haired 'girl' with waterdrop-shaped pupils. The last one looked cool and aloof, seemingly the other two's older sister?
At another table, she saw a fox girl with a seductive face arm-wrestling a white-haired young man, then having a slip of paper stuck onto her in dejection.
For some reason, she had singled out these two tables immediately, as though the people at them were the most dangerous.
"Perhaps it's a coincidence? Maybe we happened to arrive when the Soul Masters were out Soul Hunting?"
Liu Erlong shook her head. None of that mattered.
"Boss, bring out all your specialties!"
Liu Erlong swept her hand out and declared generously.
"There's a transformed Soul Beast over there."
The Ice Empress used her Soul Power to conceal what was happening at their table of three. Raising an eyebrow, she looked teasingly at Xiao Wu, who was busy flattering Liu Erlong.
"Another transformed Soul Beast?"
'Fuli' raised his head in surprise, but the voice that came from his mouth was a light, curious female one.
"I sense no fewer than five Titled Douluo experts hiding nearby."
The Snow Empress spoke calmly. The moment she sensed Xiao Wu, she had concealed her aura for her. As far as she could see, this stupid rabbit really had a death wish.
"Yes, two of them followed the group that just came in."
"Another three are hiding behind that white-haired boy."
"And finally, there seems to be another expert hiding in the shadows, watching this place."
The Ice Empress, a little girl with twin ponytails, added this as she ate.
"The Soul Beast Clan..."
The Snow Empress's eyes flickered as she vaguely guessed the identity of this strongest expert.
"Barring anything unexpected, these people probably followed the traces of that Emperor Beast here too."
"Xue'er, which side do you think we should take?"
The Ice Empress asked in puzzlement.
"I want to side with the Soul Beasts, but... this beast has slaughtered too many, offending the harmony of heaven."
The Snow Empress spoke with some hesitation.
"Then judge him in the name of justice!"
'Fuli' raised his hand and declared smugly.
"Mm..."
"Nana, Bing'er and I won't act for now."
"Since this is a god's trial ground, I want you to try and see whether you can win a god's favor."
"Through the form of your existence, I've already worked out a way to retain consciousness after sacrificing oneself."
"If you really can obtain an inheritance of Godhood, Bing'er and I can both sacrifice ourselves to you and use our connection with you to ascend to the Divine Realm together."
The Snow Empress spoke gently, making no attempt to conceal anything.
"Don't worry, Fuli will definitely do it!"
'Fuli' gave a thumbs-up.
"Are you already keeping your level at fifty now?"
Hu Liena spoke resentfully. Things had been a little better when Bai'e was level one; she could overpower him physically.
But now that Bai'e was staying at level fifty, she was no match for him.
"Hmph, level-fifty Soul Power and ten Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings. I refuse to believe anyone else has greater aptitude than me!"
Bai'e gave a smug little snort.
"I seriously doubt whether a freak like you even needs Godhood."
Hu Liena rolled her eyes at Bai'e with alluring charm. At his rate of growth, he would have ten Million-Year Soul Rings in a hundred days...
Even a Soul King's million-year Soul Skill would probably have at least the power of a Soul Douluo, wouldn't it?
Hu Liena thought uncertainly. Never mind a Million-Year Soul Ring at level fifty-she had never even seen someone with a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring at level fifty.
"Senior Sister, you must remember that beyond every person stands someone greater, and beyond every heaven lies another heaven."
"With my current aptitude, no god has discovered me, yet that Soul Beast on the Path of the Emperor was discovered by the gods and surrounded for extermination..."
Bai'e shook his head, leaving it at that.
"How is that the same? A transformed Soul Beast has to be at least a hundred thousand years old."
"And if my junior brother were a hundred thousand years old, he could probably slap him dead with one hand."
Hu Liena shook her head. In any case, she didn't believe Bai'e would lose to anyone else.
"Hehe, if I could live that long, wouldn't my Soul Rings reach thirty billion years?"
Bai'e laughed it off and said teasingly.
"Right, even the gods probably wouldn't be as strong as you..."
Hu Liena lost herself in imagining it.
"But resetting my level at fifty is the most cost-effective approach."
Bai'e shrugged. The god level really wasn't all that impressive. Never mind a hundred million years-it wasn't even certain whether a divine ring had the strength of ten million years.
But his level was low, so even if his Soul Rings were old enough, he couldn't bring out their full power.
Although Bai'e could actually stop reincarnating once his Soul Rings reached a million or ten million years and cultivate normally instead, the first thing that had to be considered was lifespan.
Therefore, for this avatar, stacking up his attributes and then refining him in one go was the right path.
"So in the future, people will call you the Douluo Continent's number-one Soul King."
"Not meaning you're number one among Soul Kings, but that the number-one person on the Douluo Continent is a Soul King."
Hu Liena gazed at Bai'e's face in a daze. She didn't quite understand why her teacher didn't want her getting close to her junior brother.
He's powerful and handsome. Could Junior Brother have some embarrassing secret?
Hu Liena's gaze unconsciously drifted below Bai'e's stomach.
"That blue dress is the Skywater Academy uniform, and those red clothes over there belong to Blazing Fire Academy..."
Liu Erlong narrowed her eyes. While waiting for the food, she also began sizing up the people at the other tables.
"It really is a little strange. Why have all these people gathered here?"
Liu Erlong was somewhat surprised. Earlier, she had thought they had simply happened to arrive during the peak Soul Hunting period.
But looking now, none of these people were ordinary...
Could something major have happened recently?
"Who cares about them? We're only here to hunt for Soul Rings, not do anything else."
"They can do their business, and we'll do ours."
Ning Jiao shrugged and said indifferently.
"Zhao Wuji, go out and ask around later."
Liu Erlong pondered for a moment. In the end, she couldn't be as carefree as Ning Jiao.
"Mm, sure!"
Zhao Wuji nodded, unable to resist rubbing his hands together.
It really is better to follow Dean Erlong. If it were Flender, he'd never treat us!
Even if he did, he wouldn't treat us to anything good!
"Teacher Erlong, I want a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring for my fourth Soul Ring."
Ning Jiao reached out and tugged Liu Erlong's sleeve.
"Hmm?"
Liu Erlong turned her head in bewilderment.
"As long as you help me kill a female Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, Teacher, my special trait will let me absorb it."
Ning Jiao spoke seriously. To him, Soul Rings were divided into male and female too.
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