Entering

Not far from the village.

A shovel was stuck in the ground, and Wang Xingyu was patting the mud off his hands. At his feet was a newly filled pit.

Gu Kesi's body has already been buried. No matter how many Martial Soul he had in life, he's just a handful of dust after death.

Perhaps if they hadn't encountered me, they might have truly become a powerful Evil Soul Master. Unfortunately, they've taken advantage of my own strengths.

Xiao Wu stood to the side, holding a black, ring-shaped object with scale-like patterns on it—it was Gu Kesi's Head Soul Bone.

Xiao Wu handed the Soul Bone to Wang Xingyu, picked up the shovel, and the two walked towards Li Ping'an's house. "Xingyu, who do you plan to give this Soul Bone to?"

"Give it to Rongrong."

Xiao Wu nodded, then asked, "What about me? I want to absorb one too, can you make one for me?"

Wang Xingyu shook his head. "Don't absorb it for now. I want to give you an achievement, so even if there's a suitable one now, you can't absorb it."

"What achievement?" Xiao Wu asked curiously, leaning closer.

"It's a secret; you'll find out later."

"That wretched riddle teller," Xiao Wu muttered, pouting.

The two walked and talked.

Xiao Wu then asked when they would go to find that place, and how to find proof of peace between the two groups, the phrase "two feet drinking from the same river".

As Wang Xingyu walked, he pondered: the simplest and most direct proof of peace between the two groups was Tang San.

He is a hybrid of human and Soul Beast, a living testament to his innate abilities.

But it's too far to find Tang San now.

"We two are one of the proofs of peace between Soul Beast and humans. Let's try us first, and if that doesn't work, then we'll go find Little San."

"Good."

The two walked up to the broken statue.

Wang Xingyu stopped, looked at the stone statue, and stroked his chin. "Very ordinary marks—this should count as one too."

Xiao Wu also looked at the stone statue, but couldn't see anything special about it.

The most common proof of peace between two groups, which can be used as a key, is blood, Tang San's blood—his blood is composed of blood from two different groups.

But I think it's possible for me and Xiao Wu too.

The three possess Martial Soul Fusion Skill. Although they cannot perform it individually, as their Soul Power can only be fused and interconnected, they can perform it independently with Little San Xiao Wu. The two of them likely represent the physical form.

I'm not sure if the compatibility is sufficient.

"Xiao Wu, try dripping a drop of blood on it." Wang Xingyu said, first pricking his fingertip and dripping a drop of blood onto the stone statue.

Although Xiao Wu didn't understand, blindly trusting others was the only option, and she also shed a drop of blood, which landed on Wang Xingyu's drop of blood.

A few seconds later, there was still no reaction. Wang Xingyu shook his head, somewhat disappointed.

Am I mistaken?

Perhaps the trees nearby are the true legacy left by the Goddess of Life, and this stone statue is just an ordinary stone statue.

Just as he was about to turn and leave, the half-statue suddenly burst forth with a bright light.

The two stared in disbelief as the light shot straight into the sky, clearly visible even in the daytime sunlight.

After a moment, the light stabilized, covering only a small area around the statue, and the space seemed to be slightly distorted, with traces of light being bent at the edges.

"What did you do?" Xiao Wu asked, her eyes wide.

"I didn't do anything, didn't you see it just now?"

Wang Xingyu reached out to touch that distorted space, but the moment his hand entered, it seemed to disappear. He pulled his arm back, and his hand returned unharmed.

Xiao Wu curiously reached out and tried it too. Her palm disappeared and reappeared where the light was distorted, as if she were shuttling back and forth in an invisible wall of water.

"That's amazing!"

"They must have found it?"

Wang Xingyu breathed a sigh of relief.

He had initially thought they would have to go through a long detour through the Gulei Kingdom, but unexpectedly, the clues were hidden in the place where the two of them had passed by. "Xiao Wu, let's go."

Xiao Wu had just nodded when Li Ping'an's shout came from afar.

"Big Sister Xiao Wu-- " He must have seen the pillar of light shooting into the sky earlier, so he ran out of the courtyard to check the situation.

Xiao Wu turned around, threw the shovel she was holding far away, and shouted loudly while cupping her hands to her mouth, "Here--the shovel! Ping An, don't cook for us tonight!"

The next instant, the two disappeared into the distorted light, leaving only the shovel spinning and stuck in the mud in front of Li Ping'an.

Li Ping'an subconsciously gripped the shovel, staring blankly at the empty space around the stone statue for a long while.

What happened? What were they doing?

A giant black elephant slowly walked by.

Its back almost brushed against the branches of the giant tree. With each step it took, the ground beneath its feet trembled, and a dull thud rose from the soles of its feet, making the two men's teeth ache.

Behind the giant tree, Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu clung tightly to the trunk, holding their breath and remaining motionless.

Only after the giant elephant had gone far away and its footsteps had disappeared into the depths of the dense forest did the two dare to breathe heavily.

"Xingyu, is this the right place you've found?"

Xiao Wu complained in a low voice, her face still covered with bits of grass she had left behind from her frantic run, "How come these creatures are all so strong? And there's not even Soul Power in this place!"

The two had barely entered this space when they ran into a 20,000-year-old blue tiger.

Those fangs were longer than Xiao Wu's arm. They chased the two for who knows how long, but luckily Xiao Wu's Soul Skill was overpowered. With Rabbit Leap Meteor and Teleportation, she managed to shake off the tiger.

The two later discovered that creatures in this world generally live for at least a thousand years, and those living for tens of thousands of years are quite common.

The giant black elephant that just passed by, if converted to the level of Soul Beast, would probably be close to 100,000 years old.

However, Xiao Wu also sensed that these creatures were different from Soul Beast. Their auras were completely different from those of Soul Beast, and their intelligence was also lower.

It's more like a pure beast, only its size and strength far surpass those of its kind on the Douluo Continent.

Wang Xingyu crouched down and placed his hand on the ground. The roots of the Blue Silver Grass silently spread into the soil. A moment later, he opened his eyes.

"It should be fine. It should be stronger—if it's stronger, it proves we've found the right place. Although there's no Soul Power here, there's another kind of energy we can absorb."

He opened his palm, and a faint green aura gathered in it. "This energy is purer than Soul Power; once absorbed, it will automatically convert into Soul Power. It's much more efficient than cultivating outside."

Xiao Wu tried circulating her Soul Power, and it was indeed recovering faster than usual.

But then he frowned again. "We can't just keep hiding like this, not knowing where to go."

"Don't rush." Wang Xingyu stood up and pointed into the depths of the dense forest. "The Blue Silver Grass sensed a very strong life force ahead; that should be the place we're looking for."

This life force is as evident as a lighthouse at sea.

Xiao Wu nodded, relieved to have a goal in mind.

The two continued on their way.

When encountering creatures with a thousand-year cultivation level or a ten-thousand-year-old herbivorous creature, Xiao Wu releases the aura of Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast. These creatures sense this aura and avoid it from afar, thus saving the two of them a lot of trouble.

Only against a few exceptionally strong opponents, the two still need to avoid them or simply run away.