The Captured Emperor Auspicious Beast

The Emperor Auspicious Beast hid in the undergrowth, secretly watching the deep pit in the distance.

Her three eyes darted around.

"Huh? Where did they go?"

She looked left and right.

The figures in the pit had already vanished.

As she puzzled over it, a gentle voice drifted from behind her.

"Little one, are you looking for us?"

The Emperor Auspicious Beast stiffened all over and whipped her head around.

Yan Lingji stood behind her with the hint of a smile, a playful gleam in her eyes.

She was so frightened that she backed away repeatedly.

"Y-you..."

The Emperor Auspicious Beast's voice trembled.

As she retreated, she scanned the three figures before her.

She was the Emperor Auspicious Beast of the Star Dou Great Forest.

Although she had only five thousand years of cultivation, she had been born intelligent and had long since learned to speak.

Yet at this very moment, she felt like a little mouse cornered against a wall.

Xiong Jun had been slaughtered by this human.

Who knew where Di Tian and the others had been sent?

Even the Scarlet King had been trapped.

In the blink of an eye, this person before her had uprooted every last one of the Star Dou Great Forest's core fighting forces.

"What... do you want to do?"

The Emperor Auspicious Beast's voice held a hint of timidity.

Her three eyes watched Ye Guixu warily.

Ye Guixu did not answer.

He simply raised his hand and grabbed.

An invisible gravitational force drew the Emperor Auspicious Beast into his hand.

"L-let go of me!"

The Emperor Auspicious Beast struggled desperately.

Her four short little legs kicked wildly in the air.

"Wah... human, don't try anything!"

"And what could you do if I did?"

Ye Guixu narrowed his eyes and reached out to stroke her smooth, silky golden fur.

"Di Tian isn't here right now."

"Neither is your bodyguard, the Scarlet King."

"Who do you think is still a match for me in the Star Dou Great Forest?"

The Emperor Auspicious Beast immediately wilted.

Her three eyes blinked.

She was speechless.

It was indeed the truth.

Apart from the one sleeping deep beneath the Lake of Life, there really was no one in the entire Star Dou Great Forest who could stop this person now.

He was far too terrifying.

"Now, take me to see your lord."

The Emperor Auspicious Beast jerked her head up.

All three eyes widened into circles.

"How... how could you possibly know?!"

Only a handful of core members in the entire Star Dou Great Forest, including Di Tian, knew of their lord's existence.

She had only been entitled to learn this secret because of her special status as the Emperor Auspicious Beast.

Yet now, a human actually knew the Star Dou Great Forest's most closely guarded secret?

"Human, what exactly are you trying to do?"

The Emperor Auspicious Beast's voice now held a measure of fear.

"Naturally, I need her power."

Ye Guixu gave a low chuckle.

His gaze passed over the dense canopy toward the Lake of Life.

"Clean out the Star Dou Great Forest's home."

"Clean out the Star Dou Great Forest's home."

That old schemer, the Asura God, had been keeping his eyes on Tang San's family all along.

To make a move against Tang Hao's family, he naturally had to keep some strength in reserve.

When the time came, even if the Asura God descended upon Douluo Star, how much of his power could he unleash?

He would bring out the silver arowana directly; with grudges both old and new added to the mix, and Puppets copied as well, when the Asura God descended, the Mystic Ice Illusion Realm would produce not only divine-power avatar Puppets, but also a whole bunch of enhanced Puppets.

"Let's go."

With that, Ye Guixu rose into the air with the two women.

They flew toward the Lake of Life.

The Emperor Auspicious Beast lay in Ye Guixu's arms, her heart in her throat.

She kept calling out inwardly.

Di Tian! Where are you?

Hurry back!

This human knows where our lord is!

He's going to find our lord!

Hurry back!

Wah, wah, wah...

The Lake of Life, Star Dou Great Forest.

Er Ming, the Titan Giant Ape, soaked in the lake with his brows tightly furrowed, his thick arms stirring the surface.

"Big Brother, what a commotion."

"I wonder what exactly happened."

"I felt a terrifying aura just now."

"It was like something exploded in the Star Dou Great Forest."

The lake churned.

An enormous creature slowly surfaced.

Huge bull horns, a thick bull's nose, and a long, powerful body.

The Sky Azure Bull Python raised his head, his gaze grave as he looked into the distance.

"Not long ago, Lord Xiong Jun rushed out of the core region in a fury."

"I felt a trace of Lord Xiong Jun in that aura just now."

He paused, a hint of reverence in his tone.

"Now that aura has vanished completely."

The Sky Azure Bull Python vaguely understood that something had probably happened to Lord Xiong Jun.

Although they, too, had once been the rulers of the Lake of Life.

Only later had they learned that they were merely gatekeepers.

Even more terrifying beings lived beneath the Lake of Life.

Those Soul Beasts with greater ages were each more terrifying than the last.

Any Soul Beast seeking to contend for dominance over the Lake of Life.

Could learn this deepest secret of the Star Dou Great Forest only after holding it for long enough.

"Lord Xiong Jun..."

The Titan Giant Ape also drew his neck back, a measure of fear in his voice.

"Oh, so this is the Lake of Life?"

Suddenly, a voice came from the lake's surface.

The Sky Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape were both startled.

They jerked their heads up.

At some point, three figures had appeared above the lake.

One man and two women.

Most importantly, the man was holding a small, fluffy golden beast in his arms.

Those slit-pupiled eyes blinked helplessly at them.

The Emperor Auspicious Beast!

The Titan Giant Ape's pupils contracted sharply.

He recognized that little golden beast.

The Emperor Auspicious Beast of the Star Dou Great Forest.

She was the embodiment of the entire Star Dou Great Forest's fortune.

As long as she was there, Soul Beasts could cultivate twice as fast, and their chances of breaking through the hundred-thousand-year mark would also double.

Yet now she was actually in a human's grasp!

"Damn human! Let go of the Emperor Auspicious Beast!"

The Titan Giant Ape roared and slammed both palms against the water.

His mountain-like body soared into the air.

Carrying surging waves with him, he lunged at Ye Guixu.

The Emperor Auspicious Beast had originally hoped someone could stand up for her.

But when she saw that it was the Titan Giant Ape and the Sky Azure Bull Python, all that remained on her little face was an expression of having nothing left to live for.

These two dimwits aren't strong enough...

Even Xiong Jun was slaughtered by this human. What could a Sky Azure Bull Python and a Titan Giant Ape possibly do?

The Sky Azure Bull Python had felt that something was wrong all along and was about to stop him. "Er Ming! Don't!"

Yet in the next instant, a dark red domain abruptly spread outward.

It covered a radius of a thousand meters.

The Titan Giant Ape's and the Sky Azure Bull Python's expressions changed drastically at the same time.

Their strength was instantly suppressed by fifty percent!

How was that possible?!

At the same time, Ye Guixu's aura surged to three times its original strength.

When the Titan Giant Ape sensed something wrong and tried to stop, Ye Guixu merely raised his hand lightly.

Gravity changed instantly.

The Titan Giant Ape, who had been charging straight at him, seemed to hit an invisible wall.

The momentum of his entire body was forcibly canceled out by the opposing gravitational force.

His whole body hung suspended in midair.

His limbs flailed, but he could find no purchase at all.

Even Douluo Star's gravitational pull on him had been erased.

He simply floated there, like a giant turtle flipped onto its back.

He struggled helplessly in midair.

There was nothing at all for him to push against.

The Sky Azure Bull Python was just about to help.

Suddenly, a terrifying gravitational force descended upon him.

Three hundred times gravity bore down like an invisible mountain.

It slammed his enormous body into the lake.

A tremendous spray exploded across the lake's surface.

His head was pinned firmly beneath the water.

He could not lift it at all.

"How is this possible?!"

The Sky Azure Bull Python's voice was filled with incredulous horror.

As his mouth opened and closed, he swallowed several mouthfuls of lake water.

Lying in Ye Guixu's arms, the Emperor Auspicious Beast swallowed with difficulty.

Her three eyes stared blankly at the two hulking creatures who had been subdued in an instant.

For a long time, she could not speak.

How terrifying...

The Sky Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape were, after all, Soul Beasts with exceptionally powerful bloodlines within the Star Dou Great Forest.

Yet they couldn't withstand even a single move from this guy.

She looked at Ye Guixu's casually raised hand.

Then she looked at the Titan Giant Ape suspended in midair and the Sky Azure Bull Python pinned to the bottom of the lake.

Only three words remained in her mind.

It's all over.