Wood Release: Wood Dragon Technique

Time slowly passed. The sun set and the moon rose in the sky, day giving way to night and then day again. Jun Yan seemed to have vanished, never once waking from the spring water.

The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger was growing impatient. "Roar!" (He's not going to die, is he? If he dies, will I die too?)

At the thought, the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, one of the most evil Soul Beasts, actually began to panic and pace around the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

Suddenly, it tilted its tiger head. "Roar." (Why have all these plants gone bitter? I remember they weren't like this before!)

The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger roared at the spring water, "Roar!" (Jun Yan, you're not dead, are you?)

Splash...

Water splashed as Jun Yan stood up in the spring. "Not dead yet. What are you howling for?"

"Roar." (Look at the plants on the ground.)

Jun Yan looked down. "My sixth Soul Skill probably absorbed their life energy!" He then glanced around and was relieved to find the Immortal Herbs unharmed.

In fact, Jun Yan also knew that although he had taken the two Immortal Herbs while their toxicity had disappeared, he would still be injured by the impact of the ice and fire energies when he subsequently digested their energy.

So he had activated his sixth Soul Skill in advance to absorb life energy from the surrounding plants and heal his injuries.

The move had indeed worked. During the time after Jun Yan fell into the spring, the ice and fire energies damaged his meridians while the life energy restored them. As a result, Jun Yan had not only gained all the energy from the two Immortal Herbs, but also part of the energy from numerous precious medicinal herbs.

It was only because he had yet to obtain his Seventh Soul Ring that he didn't immediately rise five or six levels.

"I've benefited enormously! The Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well really is a great place." Jun Yan couldn't help sighing in admiration.

Then he said to the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, "Come on, let's go get a Soul Ring."

Hearing this, the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger stepped forward and lay down, and Jun Yan climbed onto its back.

With a whoosh, the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger soared into the air, flew out of the valley, and headed west.

An hour later, the Soul Ring was his.

The target was a seventy-thousand-year-old plant-type Soul Beast. The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger had done the fighting, and the scene had been brutal.

To be honest, with Jun Yan's current physique, he might have been able to withstand a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring. After all, Tang San's Seventh Soul Ring in the original story had been a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.

But he wasn't very willing to try, because there was a risk. Once a Soul Ring's age exceeded what a person could withstand, they could explode and die.

The reason Tang San had been able to obtain a red Seventh Soul Ring in the original story was that he had a God-Given Soul Ring, which could increase its age according to what its user could withstand. It was both safe and useful.

Without such an opportunity, Jun Yan could only play it safe and choose a seventy-thousand-year-old Soul Beast. After all, there were no older Soul Beasts in the Sunset Forest.

After Jun Yan successfully absorbed the Soul Ring, the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger suddenly roared at him.

(Help me get a few Summoning Beasts!)

As Jun Yan's Animal Path Puppet, the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger had its own special ability: it could summon the other Six Paths Puppets and Summoning Beasts.

Of course, that was on the condition that Soul Beasts became Jun Yan's Summoning Beasts.

Moreover, this also went against the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's innate ability. The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger could rapidly increase his strength by devouring other Soul Beasts. Although he was now a puppet, the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger still possessed the Origin Pearl and retained that ability.

So all this time, Jun Yan had never made the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger capture Soul Beasts to serve as Summoning Beasts.

Now that it had asked of its own accord, Jun Yan naturally wouldn't refuse. "Sure, but you'll have to find the Soul Beasts yourself."

The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger was already tired of being ordered around by Jun Yan, so it was eager to have subordinates of its own.

"Roar." (Then I'm going now!)

After a roar, the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger left Jun Yan alone and flew straight away.

Jun Yan looked surprised. "In such a hurry? All right, then I'll have a look around the Sunset Forest."

Although the Sunset Forest couldn't compare to the Star Dou Great Forest, it was still enormous. Otherwise, it couldn't have become a gathering place for Soul Beasts.

By rights, it should have been difficult to run into anyone, but by sheer coincidence, as Jun Yan walked along, he heard the sounds of fighting ahead.

Driven by curiosity, Jun Yan ran toward the sound and saw two giant snakes fighting.

One snake was exceptionally beautiful and brightly colored. It was a Medusa, known as the empress among snakes, and judging by its age, it should have had over sixty thousand years of cultivation.

The other was a great jade-green snake, its emerald scales looking like pieces of jade inlaid into its body. Its age was impossible to tell, because it was someone's Martial Soul Avatar.

The Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor. Could this be Dugu Bo? Jun Yan thought.

The Medusa was considerably larger than the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor, and its tail smashed deep pits into the ground. The Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor, however, was much more agile despite its slender body, slithering aside to avoid the other snake's tail.

It then reared up like a person, opened its great jaws, and spat out clouds of green mist. It went without saying that the mist was filled with deadly poison.

The Medusa hurriedly slithered aside, escaping the area covered by the mist. Then it raised the front half of its body, its eyes instantly turning a terrifying white. Two deathly pale beams shot from its eyes at once, heading straight for the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor's body.

This was the signature Soul Skill of the Medusa, a top-tier snake-type Soul Beast: Petrification Ray.

Just as the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor tried to dodge the Petrification Ray, a tall tree suddenly grew from the ground in front of him, blocking it.

The tree immediately turned into a white stone tree. The Medusa slithered over and struck it with its tail, reducing it to rubble.

Who helped me? the Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor wondered, but his movements didn't slow in the slightest as he easily dodged the Medusa's lunge.

The battle between the two giant snakes had already knocked down the nearby trees. Suddenly, vines emerged from the ground, slowly growing thicker and taller until they became towering trees.

What's going on? The Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor was puzzled.

Even the Medusa didn't know what was happening and hesitantly stopped moving.

"Wood Release: Wood Dragon Technique."

Along with a calm voice, the branches of those trees began to wind together, eventually forming an enormous Wood Dragon that crawled down from the trees.

"Brother, do you need a hand?"

The Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor looked back and saw a figure slowly approaching from behind. The newcomer was young, seemingly in his twenties, but the seven Soul Rings on him-two yellow, two purple, and three black-were striking.

Like an obedient pet, the Wood Dragon lowered its head, lifted the young man on it, and only then slowly raised its head.