The Hunting Team Returns Laden with Spoils, the Douluo World Falls Apart
Before anyone realized it, the sun was sinking in the west.
The sunset's afterglow cast a faint golden hue over the whole of Stone Village, making it look sacred and peaceful.
From the distant mountains and forests, bursts of ape cries and tiger roars added a touch of clamor to the tranquil scene.
Inside Shi Yan's stone house.
Qian Renxue sat cross-legged with her eyes tightly shut on a stone bed covered in soft animal-hide bedding. Circulating her Soul Power, she tried to condense the Soul Power within her into the Bone Text she had learned that morning.
Compared with those mischievous children of Stone Village.
Qian Renxue had been very serious about learning Bone Text from Shi Yunfeng.
On top of that, she could indeed be considered exceptionally bright.
Thus, after a morning of study.
Although Qian Renxue had not learned to incorporate Bone Text into her body, she had memorized its structure.
Since she still had the power of Soul Power within her.
Qian Renxue planned to condense the Soul Power in her body into Bone Text and inscribe it on herself.
She wanted to see whether she could use Bone Text like Little One.
But unfortunately...
"I failed again!"
Qian Renxue opened her beautiful amethyst eyes. Her delicate, noble little face was full of helplessness as she sighed softly and slowly held out her jade hand.
A faint golden ball of light appeared in her palm.
This was the Bone Text Qian Renxue had hoped to condense using Soul Power.
Yet Qian Renxue felt that her Soul Power was like gas, utterly incapable of forming stable Bone Text.
It could not even maintain a stable shape.
Is Soul Power simply incapable of condensing Bone Text? Must I use the power of this world?
Qian Renxue thought helplessly.
Just then, footsteps sounded at the door.
Shi Yan walked into the stone house, covered in sweat from exercising outside. He picked up a stone cup and drank all the water in it.
Then, after wiping the sweat from his forehead.
Seeing Qian Renxue sitting cross-legged on the stone bed, Shi Yan asked, curiosity on his handsome face.
"How's it going? How are you coming along with Bone Text?"
"You looked much more serious than Snot-Nosed Child and Skinny Monkey this morning."
"As an honored guest from a great nation outside, you must be a good learner. You've probably succeeded, haven't you?"
Shi Yan grinned, a teasing look in his eyes.
Hearing this, Qian Renxue felt a little guilty.
After all, she knew she was no noble young lady from some great nation outside.
Although, as the young master of Spirit Hall, her status was nothing to scoff at either.
But coming from another world was her greatest secret, and she could never reveal it lightly.
"I've more or less memorized the Bone Text Grandpa Shi taught me."
"But I don't know how to incorporate it into my body."
Qian Renxue shook her head and said.
"Hehe!"
Shi Yan smiled and said.
"Your physique is still too weak. You haven't even awakened your Bloodline Power, so there's no way you can incorporate Bone Text into your body."
"Keep training your body!"
With that, Shi Yan turned and walked out of the stone house.
"So that's how it is?"
"Is this world's cultivation system based on physical strength?"
After listening to Shi Yan, Qian Renxue could not help murmuring to herself.
Douluo Continent, the core region of the Star Dou Great Forest.
Ten thousand meters underground.
"Is the cultivation system of this sky-screen world actually based on the physical body?"
Seeing this, Di Tian could not contain his excitement and wild joy.
"Then wouldn't our Soul Beast Clan have an even greater advantage over humans?!"
"Bloodline Power is needed to condense Bone Text."
"We of the Soul Beast Clan have stronger bodies than humans. We can surely learn to awaken our Bloodline Power and incorporate Bone Text into our bodies more easily."
"In that case, couldn't we enter the Blood Moving Realm ahead of them and gain even greater power?!"
Beside him, Xiong Jun, Scarlet King, and the other Ferocious Beasts were also thrilled.
"Haha! Could this be our Soul Beast Clan's opportunity?!"
"As long as we can learn the cultivation system of this sky-screen world before the humans, our Soul Beast Clan can surely turn things around!"
"That's right! We mustn't miss this chance! It might let us safely survive the lightning tribulation and gain strength surpassing the gods without a million years of cultivation!"
Just then, as though something had occurred to him, Xiong Jun scratched his head with claws like sharp blades of dark gold and said.
"I wonder if we Soul Beasts can also learn to cultivate that body-training fist technique from Stone Village."
The sky-screen world.
"Everyone, come out! The hunting team is back!"
Suddenly, Qian Renxue heard a shout of delighted surprise from outside the stone house.
She immediately hurried out of the stone house.
There, in the glow of the setting sun.
A group of tall, robust figures emerged from the distant mountain forest, dragging enormous, strange beasts behind them, returning laden with spoils.
Standing in front of the stone house, Qian Renxue watched the group return with their spoils as a crowd of elders, women, and children, their faces full of joy, happily went to welcome them.
For a moment, though, she felt her cheeks ache a little.
The dried beast meat she had eaten at noon had been far too tough to chew!
After eating it, however, Qian Renxue had felt currents of warmth flow through her body, and her physique had seemingly improved a great deal.
Its effects were far stronger than those of Soul Beast meat on their Douluo Continent, by who knew how much.
"Come on! Let's go take a look!"
Just then, Shi Yan came over too.
A smile on his handsome little face, he took Qian Renxue by the hand and hurried over.
"The hunting team seems to have brought back quite a haul this time!"
Soon, after they drew closer.
They saw that the hunting team's prey was all very unusual.
Among them were Dragon-Horned Elephants as huge as small mountains, Kui Beasts with a single leg and the appearance of an ox, Flying Pythons as thick as buckets but with a pair of wings, Two-Headed Fire Rhinos, and more.
Even in death, these Ferocious Beasts gave off a powerful presence.
"Lin Hu, h-how did you bring back so many Ferocious Beasts this time? All of them seem to have the bloodlines of Primordial Remnants!"
An elder looked astonished, scarcely able to believe it.
These powerful Ferocious Beasts had always been extremely difficult to deal with.
Yet this time, the hunting team had killed so many and brought them back. It was truly unbelievable.
Douluo Continent, Heaven Dou Imperial City.
Inside the imperial palace.
"W-what are all these Ferocious Beasts?!"
When they saw the powerful, strangely shaped Ferocious Beasts on the sky screen, each radiating a terrifyingly savage, primeval presence and a baleful aura.
The expressions of Yu Xiaogang, Bone Douluo Gu Rong, and Liu Erlong changed drastically, their pupils contracting and their faces full of shock.
For even through the sky screen.
They could feel the terrifying pressure emanating from these Ferocious Beasts!
Especially from the corpse of that Dragon-Horned Elephant.
"That's impossible!"
"This Dragon-Horned Elephant is clearly only a sub-dragon with dragon blood."
"Why is the dragon might within it so powerful?!"
"My Martial Soul is no longer Luo Sanpao. It's the Golden Sacred Dragon, which is about to complete its evolution!"
"That's the legendary Martial Soul of my Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect!"
"A true dragon-class Martial Soul!"
Yu Xiaogang clutched his head with both hands, his stiff face full of shock, anger, and disbelief.
And it was not only Yu Xiaogang and the others.
Whether it was Huyan Zhen of the Elephant Armor Sect, Tuoba Xi of the White Armored Earth Dragon Sect, Niu Gao of the Defense Clan... or Golden Crocodile Douluo, Mighty Lion Douluo, Azure Luan Douluo, and the others from Spirit Hall, all were stunned and incredulous, scarcely able to accept it.
Why?!
Why are these Ferocious Beasts, hunted as prey by a primitive village's hunting team in this world, so terrifying and powerful?!
Even through the sky screen, their bloodline pressure makes our Martial Souls feel fear and tremble!
Is our Douluo Continent really so weak compared with this sky-screen world?!