Beast God Di Tian frowned, immediately stepped forward, and addressed Gu Yuena respectfully:
"My lord, someone who seems to have a death wish is causing trouble on the outskirts. I will go take a look."
"Wait."
Before Gu Yuena could speak, Ye Wuchen spoke up.
He looked toward the source of the disturbance and gave a cold smile.
After absorbing the Million-Year Soul Ring, his Soul Power had broken through to level 99.
He had also obtained a Super Divine Artifact and a God-Level Martial Soul. His strength had just soared, and his hands were itching for action.
With a flick of Ye Wuchen's wrist, the Eternal Abyss Sword of Perpetual Silence let out a clear ring:
"Gu Yuena, Di Tian, I've just made a breakthrough in strength, and I was worrying about finding someone to practice on. Let me go see which blind fool dares run wild in the Star Dou Great Forest."
With Ye Wuchen volunteering, the Snow Empress beside him naturally would not refuse.
Affection filled her ice-blue eyes as her crimson lips gently parted:
"Since you want someone to practice on, Wuchen, I'll accompany you as your master. I'd like to see who has the gall to cause such a commotion in the Star Dou Great Forest."
At his words, an intrigued smile appeared on Gu Yuena's exquisite face.
She had just witnessed Ye Wuchen's leap in strength and wanted to see for herself how powerful this level-99 Peerless Douluo with God King Bearing and a Super Divine Artifact truly was.
"In that case, I will come along as well." Gu Yuena nodded.
As the three set off, lines of large text suddenly appeared on the Firmament stretching across the sky.
[Firmament preview: in 10 days, the Firmament will begin a brand-new ranking!] [The five strongest human Soul Masters and the five strongest Soul Beasts on the Douluo Continent will be ranked separately!] [All who make the rankings will receive a God-Level Reward from the Firmament!]
"The five strongest Soul Masters and the five strongest Soul Beasts?!"
"Heavens! This ranking is practically going to reveal the true pinnacle of the Douluo Continent's fighting strength to the entire world!"
Inside the Worship Hall in Spirit City.
Great Enshrined Qian Daoliu stood up, brilliant light blazing from his eyes.
He considered his strength unrivaled beneath the heavens and was determined to claim a place among the top three of the five Soul Masters.
Inside the Sea God Hall on Sea God Island.
Bo Saixi gazed up at the heavens, her expression solemn. As a level-99 Peerless Douluo, she was certain to have a place among those five Soul Masters.
At the boundary between the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest and the Mixed Zone.
This had originally been a habitat for many middle- and high-ranking Soul Beasts, but now it had become a hellish sea of blood.
The thick stench of blood rose into the sky, and the towering ancient trees all around had been corroded until they were riddled with holes.
At the center of this field of carnage, an exquisitely beautiful figure in luxurious dark-purple robes hovered in midair, holding an Evil Spider Demon Scythe.
Dense Rakshasa Divine Power now swirled around Bibi Dong.
That evil, chilling aura seemed to freeze even the air around her.
Soul Beast corpses lay piled beneath her feet.
The vast majority were thousand-year and ten-thousand-year spider-type Soul Beasts-Man Faced Demon Spiders, Cave Demon Spiders, subspecies of the Death Spider Emperor... every variety was there.
To break through that barrier as quickly as possible, Bibi Dong had charged straight into the Star Dou Great Forest after leaving Shrek Academy and begun an inhuman slaughter.
Suddenly, Bibi Dong's tightly closed eyes opened.
The Soul Power suppressed to its limit within her finally burst through the last bottleneck like an erupting volcano.
Boom!
The terrifying pressure of a level-99 Peerless Douluo swept outward in every direction, with Bibi Dong at its center.
"Level 99... I've finally reached it!"
Not only that, but after devouring the blood essence of vast numbers of spider-type Soul Beasts and receiving nourishment from Rakshasa Divine Power.
The eight lances of the Eight Spider Lances External Soul Bone on her back, which she had stripped from Tang San, also underwent an earth-shattering transformation.
The purplish-black Eight Spider Lances had now completely crystallized. Strange Dark-Gold Divine Patterns flowed across their surfaces, and a sharp radiance capable of slicing through space itself flickered at their pointed tips.
This External Soul Bone had crossed the boundary of mortal objects and advanced into an immensely powerful Semi-Divine Artifact.
"Qian Daoliu, Golden Crocodile Douluo... you old fossils had better wait for me!" Bibi Dong stroked the Eight Spider Lances on her back, killing intent boiling in her eyes.
"Now I have two Semi-Divine Artifacts, along with level-99 cultivation. Even if I fight your entire Worship Hall alone, I can trample every one of you underfoot."
After her wild joy passed, Bibi Dong calmed down.
She glanced at her Second Martial Soul-the Soul-Eating Spider Emperor-which needed only one final Soul Ring to be complete.
Originally, she had planned to search the depths of the Star Dou Great Forest for a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast to serve as her ninth Soul Ring.
But the preview just announced on the Firmament had changed her mind.
"In 10 days, the five strongest Soul Beasts on the continent will be ranked..." Bibi Dong glanced up at the sky, a cold smile curling her lips.
"In that case, I'll wait another 10 days."
"I want to see exactly which five Soul Beasts are the strongest on this continent. My Soul-Eating Spider Emperor's ninth Soul Ring must come from one of the very best beings in this world."
Having made up her mind, Bibi Dong reined in the raging Rakshasa Divine Power around her, preparing to first find a secluded cave and thoroughly stabilize her newly attained level-99 cultivation.
Just as she turned around and prepared to leave this blood-soaked place.
Bibi Dong's keen spiritual senses as a Peerless Douluo frantically sounded an alarm of mortal danger.
"Who's there?!"
Bibi Dong whipped around, and the Semi-Divine Artifact Evil Spider Demon Scythe in her hand erupted with dazzling purplish-black light.
She stared ahead as though facing a formidable enemy.
Finally, three figures entered her sight.
Leading the way was an extraordinarily handsome young man with an otherworldly air.
He wore robes whiter than snow and carried an ice-blue longsword.
His unfathomable aura was not the slightest bit weaker than hers, even after her recent breakthrough to level 99.
To the young man's left stood a white-haired woman of unrivaled, icy pride and peerless elegance.
Merely by standing there, she seemed to turn the surrounding world into a kingdom of ice and snow.
To the young man's right was a peerlessly beautiful woman with purple eyes and silver hair, her features so perfect that words could not describe them.
There were no fluctuations of Soul Power around her, yet her purple eyes seemed to contain the birth and destruction of the universe.
Bibi Dong's pupils contracted as she looked at the three who had suddenly appeared.
She recognized the man and woman at the front.
"Ye Wuchen... the Heavenly Snow Woman, the Snow Empress!"
Shock and wariness filled Bibi Dong's voice.
She had never imagined that, having only just broken through to level 99, before she even had time to put her grand ambitions into action.
She would run straight into the continent's most terrifying master and disciple, whom the Firmament had just ranked.
One was Ye Wuchen, a peerless prodigy who possessed a Million-Year Soul Ring, wielded a Super Divine Artifact, and had God King Bearing.
The other was the ruler of the Far North, with cultivation reaching 950,000 years and the divine artifact Heart of the Ice God-the Snow Empress.
More troubling still was the mysterious purple-eyed, silver-haired woman beside them.
Although Bibi Dong did not know her, her instincts told her that this woman was absolutely no less dangerous than the Snow Empress.
Why were they here?
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