Like Yu Yuanzhen, Golden Crocodile Douluo was considering how to deal with the Azure Dragon.
Their Martial Souls were a Tyrant Dragon and a crocodile.
Neither was a type capable of flight.
If the Azure Dragon stayed in the sky and refused to come down, how were they supposed to attack?
But Golden Crocodile Douluo and Yu Yuanzhen did not have to wrestle with that problem for long.
While they were still thinking of a solution, the last few dark clouds in the sky were suddenly scattered by the wind, and an enormous figure appeared before everyone.
The last few dark clouds in the sky were suddenly scattered by the wind, and an enormous figure appeared before everyone.
Its entire body was covered in scales, its mouth resembled a crocodile's, a pair of whiskers grew beside its mouth, and a pair of golden horns rose from its head.
It also had a pair of sharp claws that looked capable of tearing through anything.
The Azure Dragon's overall length was about the same as the White Tiger's-several hundred meters.
But because of the difference in how their bodies stretched out, it looked much more slender than the White Tiger.
Its long body coiled in the sky, a truly outrageous sight!
Once the Azure Dragon appeared, Soul Masters soon began spotting it one after another.
Everyone tilted their heads back to gaze at the sky, looking at that absurdly huge figure.
"Hey! Isn't that a little too big?"
"How long must it be?"
"I just went over to the White Tiger. It's enormous too!"
"By comparison, the Azure Dragon actually looks a little smaller. It's just longer."
"Who cares about that? We've finally found the Azure Dragon! Now we can finally start hunting for its Soul Ring!"
After a brief moment of shock at the sight of the Azure Dragon, everyone was once again blinded by greed!
They stared at the Azure Dragon in the sky, practically drooling!
But just like Golden Crocodile Douluo and the others, most of them were wondering how to attack the Azure Dragon flying overhead!
Only the few Soul Masters with flight-type Martial Souls were itching to make a move!
But after thinking it over, no one acted.
Never mind whether they had the strength to bring the Azure Dragon down.
Even if they did, once they brought it down, they would have no way to absorb its Soul Ring with countless Soul Masters around them.
For a time, they simply stood there like ordinary people, watching the Azure Dragon without doing anything.
Ye Yao looked at the Soul Masters below, packed as densely as ants.
He could not help feeling a headache coming on. He did not want to be killed by concentrated attacks.
Only for his Soul Ring to end up with some utterly unremarkable Soul Master!
Besides, the imperial families of both the Heaven Dou and Star Luo Empires were present. Having them absorb his Soul Ring would not be a good thing either.
Since that was the case, he would have to screen them first!
He would weed out the low-level Soul Masters first!
At that thought, the Soul Power within Ye Yao abruptly began to fluctuate.
His Soul Power swept toward the forest below, and then golden light flashed in his eyes.
The forest of the Qingchuan Mountain Range began to move.
As the ground shook continuously, all the trees began growing wildly.
It had originally been nothing more than an ordinary forest.
In the blink of an eye, its trees became even more luxuriant than those of the Star Dou Great Forest.
Some ordinary plants also gained years of age as a result, developed consciousness, and became plant-type Soul Beasts!
After becoming Soul Beasts, their aversion to Soul Masters naturally increased.
Then these Soul Beasts began attacking the surrounding Soul Masters like mad.
The Soul Masters, whose view had already been blocked by the dense plants, leaving them unable to see the Azure Dragon overhead, were caught completely off guard!
However, the Soul Masters who had rushed to the Qingchuan Mountain Range were generally not particularly low-level.
Plants that had only just transformed into Soul Beasts struggled to inflict any real damage on these Soul Masters!
Instead, quite a few Soul Masters accidentally injured those around them while fighting back against the Soul Beasts.
This plunged the forest into chaos!
Amid this chaos, many trees in the forest began moving again.
These trees did not gain any more years of age, but they all began moving rapidly.
A Soul Master who was angrily slaughtering hundred-year Blue Silver Grass suddenly found his vision going dark.
A huge plant resembling a Venus flytrap had swallowed him whole in one bite.
But as a Soul Emperor, he was not overly anxious.
Inside that wet, sticky plant, he calmly used one of his single-target attack Soul Skills.
A streak of sword light suddenly slashed through the Venus flytrap.
Yet it only left a mark inside, rather than slicing straight through as he had imagined!
"How is that possible?" He immediately lost his composure!
After another bout of struggling inside the Venus flytrap, he finally broke free, having expended a considerable amount of Soul Power!
But the Venus flytrap snapped at him again, frightening him so badly that he fled toward a place with fewer trees, nearly wetting and soiling himself.
Scenes like this played out throughout the Qingchuan Mountain Range.
One weaker Soul Master after another was forced out of the forest.
Only Soul Saints and those above them could handle this situation with ease.
For a time, all sorts of screams rang out continuously through the forest.
Most of the low-level Soul Masters were scared off by those terrifying plants.
Some who had come to fish in troubled waters even became nutrients for the plants.
In the blink of an eye, a large portion of the people in the forest were gone.
The low-level Soul Masters who remained were mostly members of the major factions and units of imperial soldiers.
These people coordinated well, and with high-level consecrators present, these things could do nothing to them.
Seeing that there were far fewer ants on the ground, Ye Yao began to move.
His enormous body undulated in the air as he slowly descended.
As he gradually approached the ground.
The Soul Masters below suddenly felt as though the sky and sun were being blotted out.
"Move outward, quickly! Watch out, or you'll be crushed to death!"
Amid everyone's shouts, these Soul Masters descended into chaos once again.
The Azure Dragon's enormous body soon landed, and as his scales touched the ground, clouds of dust erupted one after another!
The entire Qingchuan Mountain Range shook violently as though struck by an earthquake.
Only after quite some time did the shaking gradually subside.
During this process, another group of low-level Soul Masters who refused to give up, along with imperial soldiers, lost their lives.
They were either crushed to death by falling rocks or fell into cracks in the ground and perished.
Of course, some high-level Soul Masters also took advantage of the chaos to ruthlessly kill the enemies around them.
Thus, from the Azure Dragon's appearance to his landing, nearly half the human Soul Masters were gone.
But some people were still lingering on the outskirts of the forest, unwilling to leave.
After finally waiting long enough to see the Azure Dragon appear in the world, no one wanted to leave just like that!
Once the Azure Dragon settled firmly on the ground, the people of the major factions gained a new understanding of his immense size.
A single azure scale was nearly as large as a person.
Countless such scales together made him look like an azure mountain as he coiled on the ground.
When he raised his head, it stood a full five hundred meters above the ground!
Even the enormous Titan Giant Ape would have been nothing more than a little monkey before a giant python in front of him.
His head hung in the air, his whiskers moved without any wind, his claws curled loosely, and his golden dragon eyes swept over the many Soul Masters below.
Those eyes, brimming with intelligence, sent a chill through everyone!