"No, don't help me. Just go back with Grandpa Jian." Ye Zhiqiu looked disgusted.
Ning Rongrong was stunned. How could someone be so shameless?
[Ning Rongrong's negative emotion value increases by 166]
"Ye Zhiqiu!" Ning Rongrong yelled, "You just took my soul guide and you dare to look down on me?"
Jian Douluo in the distance also had a dark face and cursed inwardly, "You little bastard."
Ye Zhiqiu touched his nose with a guilty conscience, thinking that what he had done was really a bit dishonest. However, how could Ye Zhiqiu possibly admit to such a thing?
"Rongrong, how could I possibly dislike you? It really makes me sad that you think so. I'm just worried about your safety. After all, I'm going to hunt a thousand-year-old soul beast, which is much more dangerous than a hundred-year-old soul beast. If you come with me, I'll be heartbroken if you get hurt." Ye Zhiqiu had a sincere and hurt expression on his face, as if to say, you really misunderstood me and made me feel so sad.
Ning Rongrong looked skeptical, "Really?"
"It's absolutely true~. Look at you, you're so cute, how could I possibly dislike you, right?" Ye Zhiqiu touched Ning Rongrong's little head with a doting look on his face and said softly.
Ning Rongrong's face suddenly turned red, but the nature of the tsundere girl would never change. "Hmph, you still have some vision." Ning Rongrong felt happy.
Sword Douluo, who was secretly observing the two of them, had a dark face like the bottom of a pot. "You little brat, you're really good at fooling people, huh? Even the little princess of our Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect was so fooled that she was stunned."
Douluo Continent is approaching winter. The temperature is still okay during the day, but it drops significantly at night.
Ye Zhiqiu had already taken Ning Rongrong to a dense forest surrounded by big trees, where the wind would be relatively small.
After simply clearing the dead and yellow leaves around, they started a fire.
The Soul Hunting Forest is quite dangerous at night. Soul masters who come in usually don't do things like building a fire and warming themselves. This is rookie behavior. Bright light is very conspicuous in the pitch-black Soul Hunting Forest and will attract the attention of soul beasts.
Moreover, soul beasts that like to travel at night are basically carnivorous, ferocious, and very aggressive. They are very dangerous to ordinary soul masters.
But Ye Zhiqiu and his companions were no ordinary spirit masters. As the saying goes, "the more skilled, the bolder." Ye Zhiqiu actually hoped to get a few brainless spirit beasts, preferably ones that looked tasty enough to serve as a midnight snack.
The Soul Hunting Forest was quite quiet at night, with only occasional roars of beasts coming from afar.
Ning Rongrong seemed to be a little afraid of the dark. Whenever she heard the roar of an animal, her delicate body would tremble. Even though she was very close to Ye Zhiqiu, she seemed to have no sense of security.
A pair of bright big eyes would often glance towards the dark places in the distance where the firelight could not reach, as if a big monster would emerge from there at any time.
He looked scared, yet couldn't control himself, and kept stealing glances, just like Ye Zhiqiu when he watched horror movies in his previous life.
Ye Zhiqiu shook his head in amusement and said, "How can you help me hunt spirit rings if you are so timid? If a thousand-year-old spirit beast suddenly appeared, you would be so scared that you wouldn't know how to use your spirit skills."
Ning Rongrong sniffed in grievance, "It's so dark, and I don't know where Grandpa Jian ran off to. I don't care. If there are any powerful soul beasts, you have to protect me."
"Hehe" Ye Zhiqiu smiled and said, "Don't worry. Those little things can't hurt you." After speaking, Ye Zhiqiu looked at a big tree somewhere in the dark.
Jian Douluo, who was hiding there, was stunned. This little guy seemed to be able to detect him? Coincidence? Even if he didn't deliberately hide his whereabouts, it shouldn't be possible for a soul master to sense him, even if this soul master's strength was somewhat abnormal.
What Jian Douluo could not have imagined was that after Ye Zhiqiu opened the kaleidoscope, his mental power increased significantly again. Mental power is something very mysterious and can be experienced in many places.
For example, people with a strong sixth sense will also have relatively strong mental power.
Ye Zhiqiu discovered Jian Douluo's whereabouts by relying on his intuition.
Few spirit masters in Douluo Continent cultivate their spiritual power, unless they have a special martial spirit. For ordinary spirit masters, their spiritual power naturally improves as their spirit power and physical fitness grow.
From this point we can see that mental strength is closely related to the strength of the physique and soul power.
Ye Zhiqiu's method of increasing his spiritual power was similar to cheating. Every time his martial soul leveled up, his spiritual power naturally and significantly increased. This method of increasing spiritual power was undoubtedly much faster than that of soul masters who could only rely on hard training to increase their spiritual power.
If we only compare the sensitivity of mental perception, even if a Soul Sage comes, he may not be stronger than the current Ye Zhiqiu.
This is also the reason why Ye Zhiqiu was able to discover Jian Douluo.
Jian Douluo, who didn't believe in evil, secretly changed to a big tree branch and squatted there. He wanted to see if the boy could still discover him.
However, this time, Ye Zhiqiu did not look at him.
Because he sensed that something was coming.
At the same time, Jian Douluo narrowed his eyes and looked towards the darkness in the forest.
There, everything was very peaceful, as if nothing was strange.
Ye Zhiqiu could only vaguely sense a vague sense of being watched from that side, but he had not yet discovered what it was.
It seems this soul beast has quite a few tricks up its sleeve. Ye Zhiqiu smiled nonchalantly and moved a little closer to Ning Rongrong, until the two of them were almost touching.
Ning Rongrong's face turned red, not sure if it was because of shyness or the burning of the flames. "What's wrong?" she asked softly.
Ye Zhiqiu smiled and rubbed Ning Rongrong's little head, saying, "It's okay, it's just that a guest came."
"Guest?" Ning Rongrong was stunned for a moment before she realized that there was a ghost guest in this Soul Hunting Forest. Perhaps a soul beast had come?
Ning Rongrong was so frightened that she wanted to turn her head to see where the soul beast was. This was a human instinct.
Ye Zhiqiu quickly reached out and cupped her cheeks, soothing her softly, "Don't be afraid, don't look around. I'll protect you. What if you look around and scare the spirit beast away?"
Ye Zhiqiu and Ning Rongrong's actions at this time were somewhat ambiguous. In the dark night, in front of a small fire with softly dancing flames, a young man held the cheeks of a young girl and looked at her tenderly. This action made Jian Douluo, the third party, feel that he was getting old.
"Oh." Ning Rongrong lowered her head shyly, her heart beating faster and faster.
She was too embarrassed to look directly into Ye Zhiqiu's eyes. Her two little hands unconsciously rubbed the corners of her clothes, and her little face was as red as a ripe peach.
"Uh..." Ye Zhiqiu only then realized how ambiguous his actions were. No wonder Ning Rongrong acted like this.
"Ahem." Ye Zhiqiu coughed lightly to hide his embarrassment, and withdrew his hand as if nothing had happened.
He could sense the vigilance getting closer. The soul beast was approaching.
Jian Douluo looked at a giant four-legged beast that secretly crawled under the big tree where he was hiding, and smiled with interest.
Half dragon head, phantom scales, blood-red claws, and silent movements.
If he was not mistaken, this should be a Chameleon Hidden Dragon, one of the top ten soul beasts in terms of concealment ability. Judging from its length of over six meters, it must be over 3,000 years old. This is a 3,000-year-old Chameleon Hidden Dragon.
This soul beast is extremely rare and has a terrifying ability to hide. The scales all over its body can imitate the surrounding scenery, and when it is motionless, it can almost blend into the environment.
Jian Douluo could clearly see that it was a crushing strength.
This chameleon hidden dragon was slowly approaching Ye Zhiqiu and Ning Rongrong.
To be on the safe side, Jian Douluo also secretly moved closer to Ye Zhiqiu and the others, so that he could rescue them if there was any crisis.
"You've always been shouting about hunting down the thousand-year soul beast, and this time you've really come. I hope you can give me a surprise," Jian Douluo muttered to himself, with a rare smirk in his eyes. Now, he should be able to force out the full strength of that little guy, right?