[On the Celestial Screen, the Blue Silver Emperor's self-detonation caught Di Tian off guard.]
["He actually blew himself up?!"]
[Amid the swirling smoke, a massive dragon claw swept out, scattering the dust. Di Tian's expression looked somewhat grim.]
["What exactly happened to the Blue Silver Emperor? Never mind turning into that thing-he actually rushed up and blew himself up just because of something a human said?"]
[Di Tian felt as though all his years of living had gone to the dogs.]
[Not only had the Blue Silver Emperor, dead for years, come back to life in an unprecedented state,]
[he had even blown himself up against Di Tian on a human's orders?]
[It was too bizarre!]
["I must get to the bottom of this!"]
[Whether it was that human's strange green soul ring or the matter of the 'Blue Silver Emperor,' Di Tian had to get to the bottom of both today.]
["Roar!!"]
[A tremendous dragon's roar resounded through the heavens, and an order that allowed no refusal slammed into the minds of every soul beast in the Star Dou Great Forest.]
["Kill every human in the Star Dou Great Forest and find him for me!!"]
["Rumble!"]
[The Star Dou Great Forest boiled over!]
[It boiled over in the truest sense!]
[The soul masters hunting soul beasts in the forest for various reasons could all feel the ground shaking.]
["This shaking... something's wrong!!"]
[In the middle-to-outer region, Tang Zhao and Dai Tianxuan simultaneously activated martial soul possession. One held the Black Iron Heavy Sword, while the other had almost transformed into an enormous black-and-white tiger.]
[Soul rings flashed around them as they warily watched their surroundings.]
[Countless beast roars reached their ears-not the sounds of ordinary soul beasts fighting each other, but the mingled roars of all kinds of soul beasts gathered together.]
[Looking toward the core, they saw countless thousand-year-old trees collapsing. Amid the swirling dust, flying soul beasts filled the sky, blotting out the sun as they hurtled toward the outer regions.]
[On closer inspection, they could clearly make out several ten-thousand-year soul beasts occasionally breaking away from the flock and diving downward.]
[When they steadied themselves again, they held the corpses of several human soul masters in their beaks.]
[Dai Tianxuan suddenly roared.]
["Tang Zhao, run!!"]
[The herds did not simply surge out from the core of the Star Dou Great Forest.]
[Instead, several different populations launched waves from different places at the same time.]
[Countless human soul masters were trampled to death by the herds while still utterly bewildered, or simply rammed to death on the spot by giant soul beasts.]
[By the time the human soul masters reacted, countless soul masters had already lost their lives.]
[But how weak could the humans with the knowledge to make a living or hunt soul rings in the Star Dou Great Forest possibly be?]
[The first to react were several soul hunting groups that fought in the Star Dou Great Forest year-round, making their living through soul hunting.]
["Aah! You beasts!"]
[The leader of one soul hunting group, a Five-Ring Soul King wielding a large saber martial soul, roared and actually led his men in a counterattack against the soul beast herds.]
["Brothers! Unleash your martial souls! Show these beasts who the true masters of this forest are!"]
["Kill!!"]
[Without the slightest hesitation, the mercenary commander, his eyes bloodshot, activated his fifth soul ring and charged fearlessly at several ten-thousand-year soul beasts.]
[Behind him, several Soul Ancestors with beast martial souls followed close on his heels, letting out all manner of roars as they charged into the herds.]
[Their only common traits were their bloodshot eyes and the abnormal blood-red light flashing around them.]
["Oh no! The commander, Second Brother, and the others have gone charging in like madmen again!"]
["Who cares! Run! These soul beasts have gone crazy!!"]
["Holy shit! The commander killed two ten-thousand-year soul beasts with one leaping slash! Isn't he only a Soul King?"]
[Not everyone had the courage to charge into the beast tide. Several mercenary soul masters fleeing in different directions were dumbstruck by the sight.]
[Dai Tianxuan and Tang Zhao, who had quietly blended in among them, heard the soul masters' exclamations and could not help looking back at those brave warriors.]
[Blood-red radiance burned around the soul masters. Drenched in blood, they attacked the herds madly, looking less like humans and more beastly than the soul beasts themselves.]
[As for the commander at their head, who was said to have killed two ten-thousand-year soul beasts with one leaping slash, both his arms had now been severed.]
[A ten-thousand-year wolf soul beast held his entire body in its jaws. Half his body had already been crushed, but he still held his martial soul between his teeth, his eyes scarlet as he attacked the soul beast holding him.]
["What a fierce warrior!" Dai Tianxuan sighed. "A pity I can't make his acquaintance."]
[However astonishingly those skilled soul hunters performed, those figures radiating blood-red light ultimately fell amid the endless beast tide.]
[Only a few indistinct words, such as "blood sacrifice... throne," drifted on the wind.]
["I wonder whether I'll ever see another fierce warrior like that."]
["Forget about later. Let's survive today first!"]
[Glancing at Dai Tianxuan, Tang Zhao doused his enthusiasm in a flat tone.]
[The various soul hunting groups made their living by taking commissions from soul masters to help hunt soul rings or by harvesting materials from soul beasts' bodies. They were usually scattered throughout different areas of the Star Dou Great Forest.]
[Normally, this reduced conflicts between different factions, but now it had led to the tragedy of being isolated without aid.]
[Within moments, the beast tide wiped out the few soul hunting groups that dared to resist.]
["Roar!!"]
[Even the powerful soul masters among the humans were driven into desperate straits.]
[The Soul Douluo expert Dragon Duke Meng Shu and the Soul Saint expert Snake Granny Chao Tianxiang, respectfully known in the soul master world as the Peerless Dragon Snake,]
[had long since been forced to unleash their Martial Soul Fusion Skill by a pack of ten-thousand-year soul beasts of different species.]
[High in the sky, an enormous green-and-gold dragon stretched out its massive body, locked in fierce battle with several ten-thousand-year soul beasts and a ten-thousand-year dark gold terrorclaw bear.]
["Hahaha! Exhilarating! It's been so long since I've enjoyed myself this much!!"]
[A powerful sonic howl swept across the sky, followed closely by a fiercely imposing phantom of dark-gold claws that seemed to tear the heavens apart.]
["No!!"]
[Dragon Duke Meng Shu looked toward the sound. He saw no beast, only its skill.]
["This aura! A hundred-thousand-year soul beast?!"]
["We can't dodge it! Old woman, use all your strength to hold it off!!"]
["Boom!"]
[Under the terrified gazes of countless human soul masters, the phantom dark-gold claws instantly tore apart the Martial Soul Fusion Skill that had made the Peerless Dragon Snake couple famous.]
[Their bodies plummeted from high in the sky before a dark gold terrorclaw bear finally carried them off in its jaws.]
[It looked as though it wanted to claim credit by presenting them to the hundred-thousand-year soul beast that had just attacked.]
[Just as everyone was nearly overcome with despair, a clear, ringing voice amplified by soul power resounded throughout Star Dou.]
["Everyone! I am Bi Shuo, a Red-Robed Cardinal of Spirit Hall. Please gather beneath Spirit Hall's flag immediately!!"]
["Now is the time for us to unite as an unbreakable wall and face this crisis!"]
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