Douluo: Emerald Poison King

Chapter 111: Duguyan's Third Soul Ring (Reward plus update 2/4)
Dugu Bo brought Dugu Yan back to the restaurant, packed their luggage, and continued their journey.

About half a day later, the group arrived outside the Star Forest.

Although it was already late, it was more dangerous to enter the Xingdou Great Forest at this time than during the day. But obviously, for Dugu Bo, this was meaningless.

Dugu Bo took Chen Ming and Dugu Yan into the Xingdou Great Forest and walked straight inside.

The Star Dou Great Forest is roughly divided into five different stages: the edge circle composed of ten-year soul beasts and hundred-year soul beasts, the outer circle composed of hundred-year soul beasts and thousand-year soul beasts, the mixed circle of thousand-year soul beasts and ten-thousand-year soul beasts, and occasionally the mixed circle of ten-thousand-year soul beasts.

After the mixed circle is the inner core circle. In the core circle, only soul beasts over ten thousand years old survive, and only a small number of thousand-year-old soul beasts with powerful bloodlines dare to live in it.

It is said that there are even 100,000-year-old soul beasts in the core circle, but few people can confirm it. In other words, most soul masters who encounter 100,000-year-old soul beasts are not qualified to leave the core circle alive.

At the same time, in this era, the core circle of the Star Forest is the limit of what humans can explore. The interior is a forbidden area for human soul masters.

The Pseudo-Life Lake inhabited by the Azure Bull Python and the Titan Ape is located within the core circle.

It is said that within the core circle of the Star Dou Forest, there is a place called the Great Land of Evil, where soul beasts that are more than 100,000 years old live. However, its existence has never been confirmed.

It can even be said that in the last few thousand years, the number of hundred thousand year soul beasts confirmed to exist inside the Star Dou Great Forest is extremely small.

Because of their noble bloodline, the hundred thousand year old Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape are called the Kings of the Star Forest by the world.

But as a time traveler, Chen Ming knew very well that the Great Dangerous Land really existed. That place was an absolute forbidden area even for Titled Douluo. Even if a Titled Douluo of level 99 entered, he would not dare to say that he could escape unscathed.

In this era, only the high priest of the gods or the demigod holding the divine weapon are qualified to try to spy on the place of great danger.

Of course, the purpose of this time was just to obtain the third soul ring for Dugu Yan, and at most he would go deep into the range of the mixed circle, not to enter the dangerous core circle, and not to set foot in the fierce place.

In this era, all the ferocious beasts have hidden themselves. No one knows whether they are gathering at the real Lake of Life to absorb the essence of the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm, or to take care of the auspicious beasts, or simply to avoid something.

As long as they don't do anything stupid, the strength of the Titled Douluo level is enough to protect the two of them and allow them to walk freely in the Star Dou Great Forest.

Dugu Bo led the two across the outer area. They encountered several waves of soul beasts along the way. Dugu Bo did not choose to take action, but chose to let the two handle it themselves.

Although the poison attribute is no longer popular after becoming a Titled Douluo, it is still a powerful weapon for challenging higher-level opponents in the early stages.

Even though Dugu Yan was only a quasi-soul master who had not even obtained the third soul ring, he relied on his first two soul skills and the poison of the Green Phosphorus Snake to easily kill off several waves of attacks from ten-year-old and hundred-year-old soul beasts.

Most of the time, soul masters' attitude towards soul beasts is to force them to retreat, and if it is not necessary, they will try to avoid killing them, in order to leave soul beast resources for their descendants.

It is said that this proposal was first proposed by the Spirit Hall, and the spirit masters of Douluo Continent were called upon to follow it. Over a long period of time, it gradually formed a rule in the minds of the spirit masters. Except for a few spirit beasts with poor brains who refused to retreat even if they were beaten to death, most of the spirit beasts were driven away by Chen Ming.

During the process, I only killed a ten-year-old wind baboon. I didn't kill it with poison, but I poisoned the wind baboon to the point that it lost its fighting power and then killed it with a dagger.

Dugu Yan and Dugu Bo had no idea what Chen Ming was thinking, but it was just a ten-year-old wind baboon, so they just killed it, and they were too lazy to ask for the reason.

After entering the outer circle, Dugu Bo directed the two to choose a suitable place, eliminate soul beasts, and set up camp. Then he gradually explained to the two why these actions were done and what they should do if they were alone.

Soul masters cannot live without sleep, but that doesn't mean they cannot live without it at all.

On the first night after entering the Star Dou Great Forest, Dugu Bo did not let the two sleep, but the three of them kept watch together. During this time, Dugu Bo kept recounting his past experiences and pointed out what the various phenomena that occurred at night represented.

When it was almost dawn, Dugu Bo took advantage of Dugu Yan's sleepiness and quietly removed the means set up outside to disperse the soul beasts, so some soul beasts surrounded them directly.

Although these overconfident soul beasts were dissolved into poisonous water by Chen Ming at the first sight, this unexpected situation still gave Dugu Yan and Chen Ming a profound insight, and gave them their own experience in encountering soul beast attacks at night.

In the next few days, Dugu Bo did not rely on his Titled Douluo-level strength to lead a few people across the territories of various soul beasts. Instead, like an ordinary soul master, he led the two of them to walk slowly in the cracks of various places in the Star Dou Great Forest, telling about his accumulated experience.

Behind these things passed down orally are the blood and tears of countless soul masters. Both Chen Ming and Dugu Yan listened very carefully and recorded them in their hearts.

During this period, Chen Ming and Dugu Yan used their experience to determine the gathering places and types of several soul beasts, and chased some soul beasts based on the traces on the ground. Time passed quickly, and the two of them grew a lot.

In the process of learning and practicing, the group stepped into the mixed circle and came to the position where Dugu Bo was going to add the third soul ring to Dugu Yan.

It was a huge canyon, and no one knew whether it was formed by an earthquake or torn apart by a battle between powerful men.

The sides of the canyon are as smooth as if they were cut by a knife or an axe, and only a few plants can grow on them. Once you accidentally fall into the canyon, it is difficult to climb out.

There live a large number of snake soul beasts in the canyon, most of which are highly poisonous. They gather together in groups to form snake piles. There is also a faint poisonous mist in the air. For low-level soul masters, it is almost a dead end.

After Dugu Bo's introduction, Chen Ming learned that this was a natural breeding ground for Gu. Most of the soul beasts living in this canyon were snakes, and the food of these snake soul beasts, apart from some poisonous grass, was other snake soul beasts and intruders.

Here, the snake spirit beasts devoured poisonous grass and their own kind, so that their own toxicity and quality were higher than those of the same kind living outside. Among them, the oldest batch of poisonous snakes had mutated after years of devouring.

Ever since the ancestor of the Dugu family discovered this canyon, the descendants of the Dugu family basically choose this place to obtain soul rings.

(End of this chapter)