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Suddenly, a clear, tender, and melodious voice drifted into Dai Weisi's ears. Following the sound, he saw it was none other than Xiao Wu.
"Great, the rogue rabbit showed up too," Dai Weisi shook his head helplessly. This wasn't the first time he had seen Xiao Wu in the forest.
He had been observing for a full day and night and had seen her several times. Although he didn't know exactly why she was here, Dai Weisi had a good guess.
Tang Hao must have revealed himself to Tang San, exposing Xiao Wu's human disguise and telling her to return to the Star Dou Great Forest. After all, Tang Hao needed to train that brat in the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer technique and had no time to protect her. For Xiao Wu, the forest was undoubtedly the safest place.
Dai Weisi had no interest in listening to Xiao Wu's stories. He quietly slipped away, his mind preoccupied with how to obtain the Titan Giant Ape's soul ring and soul bone.
"Should I capture Xiao Wu and force the Titan Giant Ape to sacrifice its soul ring to me?" Dai Weisi muttered, but then quickly shook his head. "No, that won't work. Xiao Wu is always with the Sky Blue Bull Python. I'll never get the chance."
Even with his incredible speed, the Sky Blue Bull Python's Slowing Domain would completely neutralize his advantage. That domain was the ultimate counter to all Agility-Attack type Soul Masters.
"If using Xiao Wu as a threat is out, I'll have to find another way."
With that, Dai Weisi left the core area of the Star Dou Great Forest and moved into the deeper regions. To avoid alerting the two Beast Kings, he had told his grandparents not to approach the core. Instead, they set up camp just outside it to avoid stirring up trouble.
"Well, Vis, have you thought of a way to deal with those two hundred-thousand-year soul beasts?" Dai Tianxing asked gravely.
On their first day in the forest, they had spotted both the Titan Giant Ape and the Sky Blue Bull Python from the sky. To put it simply, if they went all out, the two of them could likely defeat the Titan Giant Ape, or at best, force a mutual-destruction scenario with the Sky Blue Bull Python. But if the two Beast Kings fought together, they would be utterly crushed.
And that was without considering the rest of the forest. As Beast Kings, they commanded the loyalty of most of the forest's soul beasts. If they triggered a beast tide, the situation would become catastrophic. Thus, they could not act rashly without a foolproof plan.
Dai Weisi shook his head and sighed. "The only way I can see is to separate the Sky Blue Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape so we can take them on one by one. The problem is how to separate them."
Zhu Lingyun frowned with worry. "Vis, are you certain about absorbing a hundred-thousand-year soul ring? Wouldn't a ninety-thousand-year one be enough? Your soul power is only at Level 70. Are you sure you can withstand it? The spiritual shock from a dying hundred-thousand-year beast is incredibly powerful!"
Dai Weisi smiled calmly. "Haha, don't worry, Grandma. After absorbing the Spirit Condensing Skull, my spiritual power doubled! And don't forget, my sixth soul ring was from a fifty-thousand-year beast."
His spiritual strength was already far beyond ordinary. Aided by the Yearning Heartbroken Red and the Spirit Condensing Skull, absorbing a hundred-thousand-year soul ring was well within his capabilities.
"Why don't we find a different target? The Star Dou Great Forest is huge; surely there are other hundred-thousand-year soul beasts here, right?"
"Hehehe…" Dai Weisi let out a bitter laugh. Of course, there were others. There were several Ferocious Beasts whose power rivaled that of a Peak Douluo. Against creatures like that, his grandparents would be swatted flat in seconds.
"I think we should keep brainstorming. If there's really no other way…"
If there was no other way, Dai Weisi was already considering a trip to Sea God Island to hunt the Deep Sea Demon Whale King. Its soul ring would be a fine prize as well.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
As Dai Weisi was thinking, the ground suddenly cracked and trembled violently. Countless trees toppled as birds and beasts fled in a panic toward the forest's edge.
"An earthquake?" Zhu Lingyun exclaimed, immediately flying into the sky. Dai Weisi unleashed his Spirit, spreading his Ice-Fire Wings and soaring upwards to survey the forest from above. During an earthquake, the safest place was, of course, the sky.
"Ice-Fire Evil Eyes—Fiery Golden Vision!"
A strange light flashed in Dai Weisi's eyes. One red and one blue, they pierced through the earth's surface like a magic mirror, seeing deep underground.
"That is…" Dai Weisi narrowed his eyes, focusing on the depths. He saw a massive ant, over four meters tall, radiating with crimson soul power.
"What do you see, Vis?" Dai Tianxing asked.
"Grandfather, I see a four-meter-tall ant—it's a Thousand-Jin Ant Emperor! And…" A grin spread across Dai Weisi's face, his voice filled with a mix of excitement and disbelief. "And it's radiating crimson soul power. I'm sure of it—it's a hundred-thousand-year soul beast!"
"What? A hundred-thousand-year soul beast?" Dai Tianxing and his wife were ecstatic. It was like someone handing you a pillow the moment you wanted to sleep. They had been agonizing over how to deal with the two Beast Kings, and now a hundred-thousand-year Ant Emperor had appeared to deliver its soul ring right to them.
BOOM!
With a final, thunderous crash, the Thousand-Jin Ant Emperor burst from the ground, its scythe-like forelimbs tearing through the earth. It threw its head back and let out a hysterical, world-shaking roar at the three figures in the sky.
"ROOOAAR!"
The shriek, backed by the pressure of a hundred-thousand-year beast, swept across the forest. All nearby soul beasts scattered in terror, fleeing the epicenter of the calamity.
The Ant Emperor fixed its glaring, blood-red eyes on the trio. The hatred it felt for them was bone-deep. They were the ones who had killed its brothers. It would never forget their scent. The moment it had caught Dai Tianxing's scent, it had charged with lightning speed to exact its revenge.
Staring into those crimson eyes, Dai Weisi could feel nothing but boundless hatred and overwhelming killing intent.
"This Ant Emperor is definitely one of the three brothers. Two and a half years ago, when I last saw it, it was an eighty-thousand-year beast approaching ninety thousand. How did it grow so powerful so quickly?"
What Dai Weisi didn't know was that after its brothers died, the Thousand-Jin Ant Emperor had devoured their corpses. In the years since, it had slaughtered countless ten-thousand-year soul beasts, its power surging as it finally evolved into a hundred-thousand-year beast.
The Ant Emperor seethed. Two and a half years! Do you have any idea what I've been through for the past two and a half years? The kind, brother-loving Ant Emperor you once knew is dead! And it's all your fault! Today is the day you die. I'm going to eat all three of you, and not even God can stop me. I swear it!
(End of Chapter)