Beast Clan Traitor

Morning light spilled down.

On the second floor of an inn in the border town, Tang Xiao stretched and pushed open his door.

But after making a circuit outside the inn, he scratched his head in puzzlement and muttered to himself:

"Strange, where did Second Brother go?"

Ah Rou gave a soft huff, dissatisfaction in her voice:

"Good riddance. Now he won't be an eyesore of a third wheel all day long. Think how carefree our days together will be from now on."

Tang Xiao thought about it and agreed.

His second brother was stubborn and proud. After suffering such a blow outside the door last night, it made sense that he would leave alone. Tang Xiao smiled and wrapped an arm around Ah Rou's slender waist, giving the matter no further thought.

They had no idea that Tang Hao, the losing dog, had already found his own third spring.

With Xiao Wu, whose heart was full of love, he left the border town, and the two set out on the long road to travel the continent.

Cold came and heat went, spring passed and autumn arrived. Time flew by in the blink of an eye.

Under Tang Hao's Oscar-worthy performance of deep affection, his relationship with Xiao Wu warmed rapidly, and they had become inseparable.

Now Tang Hao's Soul Power had finally crossed the threshold to level eighty. He needed only one more Soul Ring to officially advance to Soul Douluo.

The two traveled all the way to the Star Dou Great Forest.

To help her beloved Hao-gege find the Soul Beast best suited to the Clear Sky Hammer, Xiao Wu took advantage of a moment when Tang Hao had closed his eyes to regulate his breathing. She quietly slipped out of sight and summoned a few of her rabbit descendants.

"The Lightning Soft Bone Hybrid Rabbit of the ninety-one thousandth generation pays respects to the revered ancestor. What are your orders, revered ancestor?"

The little rabbit in the lead twitched its split upper lip and looked Xiao Wu over curiously, its eyes full of confusion:

"Huh? Revered ancestor, why are you standing and walking on two legs?"

Xiao Wu looked impatient and couldn't be bothered with them:

"Cut the nonsense and listen up. Find me a strength-type Soul Beast over seventy thousand years old, quickly. I want it to become Hao-gege's Eighth Soul Ring. Go."

One of the little rabbits hesitated and muttered in a low voice:

"Revered ancestor, I'm afraid that wouldn't be right, would it? We're members of the Soul Beast Clan, after all. Soul Beasts and humans are irreconcilable enemies. How can we help humans slaughter our own kind? If word gets out, won't we become beast traitors?"

Xiao Wu, her love-struck brain in full control, wouldn't listen to a word of warning. She immediately scolded it:

"Shut up! Are you the ancestor, or am I? How could my Hao-gege be compared to an ordinary human? Becoming Hao-gege's Eighth Soul Ring would be that Soul Beast's honor. Hurry up. If you keep running your mouth, Sister Xiao Wu will pluck all your rabbit fur and make a scarf out of it."

The little rabbits shuddered all over in fright and hurriedly accepted their orders:

"As you command, revered ancestor. We'll go find an unlucky victim for our ancestor's husband right away."

With the entire forest's rabbit clan searching at full strength, it took only a short while for the location of a Frenzied Armor Black Bear's den to be sold out. The bear had just passed eighty thousand years of age.

In the mixed zone of the Star Dou Great Forest, the Frenzied Armor Black Bear let out a heaven-shaking roar at the two humans who had intruded on its territory.

Presented with a rare chance to fight with his great hammer, Tang Hao was determined to display his might before Sister Xiao Wu.

He immediately tore open the clothes on his upper body, exposing his massive pectoral muscles, seized his pitch-black iron hammer, and swung it at the bear.

Gu Yue saw the entire scene from within the independent space in the Great Ferocious Land.

Gu Yue had not been idle during this time either.

Within the space, the silver-haired little loli in white robes sat quietly cross-legged. Seven elements-water, fire, earth, wind, light, darkness, and space-circulated around her like a dazzling river of stars.

There was still plenty of time left on the countdown until her return.

Since she could not be sure whether her actions in the past would disturb or even reshape the future's "predetermined" course in the original Douluo I, Gu Yue simply relaxed and concentrated on studying the abilities of the Silver Dragon King's body at its peak.

Whether it was the seven elements or the Creation Godhead, she would at least grind her proficiency up to a level sufficient for actual combat first.

When Tang Hao and Xiao Wu had entered the Star Dou Great Forest just now, Gu Yue's divine sense had already picked up their movements.

Witnessing Xiao Wu sell out her own kind, Gu Yue stirred her divine sense:

"Di Tian."

A respectful voice immediately came from outside the space:

"I am here."

Gu Yue used her divine sense to transmit the scene that had just unfolded to Di Tian.

After watching it, Di Tian narrowed his golden eyes, killing intent rising from his body:

"Damn that beast traitor! My lord, I'll go slaughter that reckless rabbit and its entire clan at once..."

"Stop. All that fighting and killing is so dull."

Gu Yue spoke dismissively:

"The Soft Bone Rabbits are, after all, an indispensable food source for the Soul Beast Clan. If we wipe them all out, what will the other carnivorous Soul Beasts eat in the future? What a waste that would be. Do you see those two big fellows beside that fake Lake of Life in the core zone? They're that rabbit's simps."

In the Sea of Consciousness, Gu Yuena suddenly asked, "Daddy, what does 'simp' mean?"

"Ahem. When adults are talking, children shouldn't interrupt." Gu Yue cleared her throat.

Gu Yuena's little face was full of dissatisfaction as she muttered, "Treating me like a child again..."

Gu Yue continued giving Di Tian instructions:

"Di Tian, first you do this and this... then do this, and finally do that and that..."

After hearing Gu Yue's arrangements, Di Tian was sincerely won over and exclaimed in admiration:

"As expected of my lord's world-shocking wisdom. I'll go take care of it at once."

The little loli face of Gu Yue darkened. She had a nagging feeling that Di Tian was insulting her. Who used "world-shocking wisdom" to praise someone?

In the core zone of the Star Dou Great Forest, by the Lake of Life.

The Sky Azure Bull Python Da Ming and the Titan Giant Ape Er Ming felt as though knives were twisting in their hearts. They were depressed now.

Their Sister Xiao Wu had secretly taken human form and gone out, only to become someone's wife, and she had even strictly forbidden them from going to disturb her.

The two simp beasts were wallowing in self-pity when a middle-aged man silently appeared.

Although outsiders saw Da Ming and Er Ming as overlords of the forest, in truth they were merely the watchdogs of the Great Ferocious Land.

When they saw the newcomer's face clearly, both beasts shuddered and immediately recognized him.

"We pay our respects to the Beast God."

Di Tian's expression was cold as he spoke indifferently:

"So you've found yourselves quite the big sister. Instead of protecting her own kind, she colludes with humans to hunt Soul Beasts. She truly has found a way to her own death."

Da Ming and Er Ming had seen everything that had just happened, but they didn't think there was anything wrong with it. After all, that was their beloved Sister Xiao Wu. Whatever she did was right.

Driven by their simp mentality, the two beasts forgot their fear and hurriedly pleaded for mercy:

"Lord Beast God, please show mercy! Sister Xiao Wu was only deceived by that human. Please spare her life."

Seeing that the two beasts still dared to hesitate, Di Tian narrowed his eyes and unleashed his bloodline pressure.

Da Ming and Er Ming felt their souls shake violently. Their enormous bodies trembled like leaves, and they no longer dared utter another word in defense.

Di Tian produced a small, emerald-green bamboo stalk out of nowhere and tossed it in front of Da Ming.

"You two go over there now, save that black bear, and make that human absorb this Ten-Year Solitary Bamboo as his Eighth Soul Ring. Otherwise..."

"You wouldn't want to see that damn rabbit lying dead in the forest, would you?"

To save the life of their beloved Sister Xiao Wu, Da Ming and Er Ming had no choice but to rush off at top speed.

In the mixed zone, under the Clear Sky Hammer's stats, the Clear Sky Nine Absolutes, and the Divine Slaughter's Domain, the Frenzied Armor Black Bear was already in grave danger, on the verge of being smashed to death by a hammer blow.

At that critical moment, a violent air cannon tore through the air.

Tang Hao had no way to dodge. He slid backward again and again, his body skimming the ground. A sweet taste rose in his throat, and he spat out a mouthful of blood.

Seeing this, the eighty-thousand-year Frenzied Armor Black Bear seized the chance to flee blindly, saving its bear life.

Tang Hao steadied himself and looked at the two enormous, mountain-like shadows that had appeared out of nowhere, shocked and uncertain.

"Two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts?!"

Not even a ninety-thousand-year Soul Beast could severely injure him, a Quasi-Soul Douluo, in a single blow. Therefore, the ones before him could only be the exceedingly rare Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts.

Xiao Wu, who had been watching from the rear all this time, was dumbfounded on the spot.

She had clearly sent word through the little rabbits earlier, sternly warning these two simp beasts never to come and disturb her.

Frantic, Xiao Wu blinked desperately at Da Ming and Er Ming, trying to signal them:

Have you two lost your minds? What are you doing? Stop and go back, now!

But Da Ming and Er Ming paid no heed to Xiao Wu's anxious gaze.

On one hand, they had just witnessed Xiao Wu and this rough human man hugging and cuddling, sweetly calling him "Hao-gege." Their simp hearts had already been replaced by the fury of cuckolded victims;

On the other hand, Beast God Di Tian's words-"You wouldn't want anything to happen to your Sister Xiao Wu, would you? You wouldn't want... You wouldn't want..." -were still echoing in their minds.

Da Ming slowly slithered forward on his enormous serpent body and tossed the Ten-Year Solitary Bamboo in front of Tang Hao.

"Human, you have some nerve, coming to the mixed zone to hunt for a Soul Ring. If you want to live..."

"This is a Ten-Year Solitary Bamboo. Its defining trait is toughness, which makes it an excellent match for your Clear Sky Hammer Martial Soul. Go on and absorb it."