Douluo Continent: Angel Saint Huo Yuhao

Chapter 186 Hawksbill Turtle
"The Starry Sky Forest... I haven't been here for two years."

Huo Yuhao hovered in the sky, gazing at the entire dense forest, where the continuous layers of canopy stretched to the horizon.

Besides the Star Dou Forest itself, there are also scattered dense forests and grasslands in the surrounding area. However, these places are all lands that humans seized from the Star Dou Soul Beasts.

After hundreds of years of development, the soul beasts were gradually hunted down and driven away. Then, starting from this point, they continued to delve deeper, peeling back the layers like an onion, slowly encroaching on the territory belonging to the soul beasts.

Of course, some people choose to swallow a big one whole.

For example, the vast plains surrounding Shrek City were created during the major construction of the city, which greatly compressed the territory on the west side of the Starry Sky.

But now the situation is completely reversed.

Under the influence of the powerful soul beasts in the core area, the numerous soul beasts that had been squeezed within a radius of less than 300 kilometers began to release water in reverse, refilling the outer dense forest and even showing a faint tendency to expand into the plains and grasslands.

In response to this situation, the Soul Masters who came to hunt for Soul Rings were forced to form stronger teams, and multi-professional mercenary groups, which had already disappeared in reality, revived, bringing the conflict between humans and beasts back to the state it was ten thousand years ago.

Of course, the current soul beasts are much weaker than they used to be.

Once the losses reach a certain level, the soul beasts deep within the starry sky may voluntarily give up and gather back the few remaining inhabitants.

"Tianmeng..."

Retracting the probe thrown into the forest, Huo Yuhao carefully bypassed a team of soul hunters and led the group into the dense forest: "What should we do next?"

"Let's go to the inner circle of the forest first. Golden hawksbill turtles love water, and with their strong bloodline, as long as they don't suffer any serious injuries in their lives, they can live steadily past the 100,000-year mark."

Tianmeng looked coldly into the depths of the forest: "That's why these guys always try their best to squeeze towards the Lake of Life. During the years I was trapped, Di Tian came out to drive away the Golden Tortoiseshell more than once."

The inner circle, the area with water.

After roughly noting down the environmental conditions, Huo Yuhao turned his gaze to Yu Mengdi: "Shall we split up now?"

Originally, he planned to leave the two angels and the vengeful spirit outside, but by sheer coincidence, Yu Mengdi successfully absorbed the energy from purifying the beast spirits during his journey and broke through to level sixty.

Since they're going to enter the Star Dou realm anyway, it might be better to have them form a team and find a suitable soul ring.

"Go ahead without worry!"

Ye Guyi raised his chin like a good brother and said, "I'll take care of your entourage."

"That's called a companion..."

Huo Yuhao sighed helplessly, "Try to act quickly. If anything major happens in the forest, leave immediately and don't linger."

"Ah."

Yu Mengdi nodded emphatically.

Her soul rings were planned long ago, and the Ten Thousand Year Fiery Monkey could give her a skill that was mainly fire-attribute and had some light attribute.

Once you've identified your target, just rush over and kill one; it won't take too much time.

……

After parting ways with the others, Huo Yuhao decided to stop hiding and drove the aircraft at full speed through the forest.

The power of the simulation skill was once again demonstrated; even though the flames from the nozzles behind him had turned incandescent, they quietly disappeared under the shadow of light and shadow.

With the aid of mental detection, he was also able to avoid the disastrous outcome of crashing into a tree.

Just as she was about to cross the boundary and enter the deeper forest, Tianmeng suddenly sensed something and hurriedly shouted in her spiritual sea, "Stop!"

"what happened?"

Huo Yuhao paused for a moment, but quickly reacted, releasing a large number of various metal parts from his storage soul tool, forming a single-unit formation around him. "I just sensed something... something like something from the same origin as me... no!"

Tianmeng suddenly became excited: "That's the power from me! It's nearby... right here! There's someone here who absorbed my power!"

Upon receiving his reminder, not only Huo Yuhao, but even the Snow Empress instantly became serious, slowly extending her icy spiritual sense to scan the surroundings.

After all, in this Star Dou Great Forest, the lowest level of soul beast that has the opportunity to absorb the power of the Heavenly Dream is a hundred thousand years old. With such a being lurking in the shadows, no one would feel comfortable.

Even a Super Douluo would suffer if attacked with full force.

"Well!"

Huo Yuhao opened his vertical eye to survey his surroundings, but suddenly stopped when he swept his gaze over a patch of slowly bubbling mud.

For some reason, the power of destiny in his spiritual sea suddenly became active, and even the fortune that was covering his head was surging.

There's something there!

Faced with an opponent of unknown strength, Huo Yuhao dared not make any rash moves. After secretly nodding to the Heavenly Dream Snow Emperor in his mind, he decisively released his mental space.

Two terrifying beams of light descended, casting out a semi-transparent membrane:
"Silkworm molting... collect!"

'what? '

A sudden surge of energy erupted from beneath the silt, and a pair of eyes, etched with the weariness of time, flashed with terror: "How could this be? This is impossible!"

It is a 100,000-year-old golden tortoiseshell, and it has the double protection of its own skills and luck. Even if Di Tian himself descended, he would not be able to detect its existence...

How did these strange, unidentified individuals manage to do that?
But there was no time for it to think things through. The membrane layer, which was showing strange fluctuations, was already coming down on it. If it didn't run away now, it would really be too late!

"Tsk~ Why am I so unlucky..."

Faced with the crisis, the golden tortoiseshell could no longer conceal its strength and directly used its proud life-saving skill: "Water Transformation - Earth Element Manipulation!"

The moment the water transformation was activated, the golden light covering his body suddenly receded, revealing his original dark color with shimmering waves. Then, his entire body transformed into a stream of water and merged into the silt, using elemental manipulation to separate the soil and dive deeper.

"Alas?"

Tianmeng narrowed her golden eyes: "The aura lock was actually broken? What kind of method did that thing use!"

His silkworm molt not only seals power, but also comes with a near-guaranteed and inescapable mental lock. In theory, it should be able to seal any soul beast under 400,000 years old, so how could the guy under the mud escape...

"Yuhao, can you still pinpoint its location?"

Xue Di withdrew her spiritual sense somewhat helplessly and gave up the pursuit.

In her perception, the ground was completely empty, with no living creatures at all.

"It's a bit difficult. That force of fate won't listen to me, and I can't get any more information out of it."

Huo Yuhao shrugged and looked up at the sky with his spiritual body: "Teacher... now we can only rely on you."

"give it to me."

Riding on the gray currents, Elder Yi summoned his staff, and with his left hand he held up the golden divine essence, which reflected a golden light that filled the sky.

With his combined power and that of the divine, the cycle of fate was forced to respond, locking onto the creature fleeing underground.

"Trying to escape by changing the elements?"

Old Yi chuckled and unleashed a complex array of magic circles with his staff: "High-level Weakness, Skill Silence, Absolute Earth Element Silence, Attribute Deprivation... Forced Contract Summoning!"

(End of this chapter)