Douluo Continent: Ning Rongrong? Even a dog wouldn't chase her.

"Let's go and see, maybe we can get some useful information out of these people."

Having given himself a reason to act, Gu Yi immediately changed direction and flew straight towards the place where the explosion had occurred.

Because the distance was not far, Gu Yi arrived quickly.

He looked down and saw a giant lizard covered in ice crystals and with wings on its back, spitting out frost. Its target was a blonde girl wrapped in a cotton-padded coat.

Several corpses lay around the girl, and judging from their appearance, they were probably her teammates of similar age. They were likely a team that had come together to hunt soul beasts.

Unfortunately, it seems my luck wasn't very good.

"Help!"

Suddenly, the girl shouted something.

It was this sound that brought Gu Yi back to his senses from his deep thoughts.

He fixed his gaze on the 'giant lizard' once again, and with a flick of his right hand, the Asura Blood Sword appeared in his grasp.

Immediately afterward, he flashed down from the sky with his greatsword, swiftly piercing the lizard's head with lightning speed. With a single strike, he pierced through its skull, pinning it firmly to the snow.

"Are you OK?"

Gu Yi stood atop the lizard's head, looking indifferently at the girl, and asked.

"No...it's okay."

The girl was stunned; she hadn't expected that someone would actually come to her rescue at this crucial moment.

"Stand up if you're not in a bad mood. Aren't you cold sitting in the snow?"

Gu Yi casually made a comment, then drew his Asura Blood Sword and put it back in his right hand.

After doing all this, he looked at the girl again and slowly walked towards her.

After Gu Yi reminded her, the girl hurriedly stood up and stood there, somewhat at a loss.

As she watched Gu Yi approach, she felt extremely flustered, unsure whether she should thank him first or be on guard.

"You're here to hunt soul beasts, right? Are you familiar with this place?"

Gu Yi stopped in front of the girl and asked.

"Yes...yes, I'm here to hunt soul beasts."

"As for this place, I should be quite familiar with it. I've lived around here since I was a child."

The girl kept a close eye on Gu Yi's expression; she was still a little nervous.

"Do you know where else these kinds of spirit beasts are around here? Or, do you know where there are any stronger dragon-shaped spirit beasts around here?"

“If you’re willing to tell me, I don’t mind sending you away.”

Gu Yi also took a closer look at the girl and noticed that she had many wounds on her body, and her coat, which she used to keep warm, had many holes in it.

In this situation, going back is her best option.

"A dragon-shaped soul beast? Are you here to hunt soul beasts too?"

"These soul beasts usually live on the high mountains in the core of the ice plains, and they are generally gregarious. If you want to hunt one, you have to be prepared to deal with dozens."

"Moreover, the soul beasts there are generally over ten thousand years old, and there are even some with a hundred thousand soul beasts!"

The girl became more and more excited as she spoke, as if she were recalling the scene of being brutally killed by the ten-thousand-year-old soul beast.

"I see, I understand now, thanks."

"Do you want to go back now? I can take you to the outskirts."

Gu Yi smiled. He had finally learned some information, which was much better than searching aimlessly on his own.

"me"

Faced with Gu Yi's question, the girl hesitated. She looked at Gu Yi, then at her companions who had turned into ice blocks, as if she had made up her mind.

She looked at Gu Yi with unwavering focus and utmost seriousness.

"I think……"

"and many more!"

Before the girl could speak, Gu Yi, as if he had anticipated it, interrupted her.

“I’m not taking you with me, so you only have two choices: either let me take you back, or you stay here.”

There is no third option.

Girl: "..."

Chapter 216 Snow Dragon

"Why not?"

“I’m very familiar with this place. I’ve been coming here with my grandfather to hunt spirit beasts and gather spiritual herbs since I was a child.”

"Taking me with you will definitely help you, and all I need is for you to kill a soul beast for me along the way."

"Really! With your abilities, it definitely won't be troublesome at all!"

"Please~"

Seeing that Gu Yi had interrupted her spellcasting, the girl immediately started to use her charm and coquettishness to cast a spell.

She grabbed Gu Yi's right arm with both hands, pleading sweetly while shaking his arm incessantly.

She blinked her big, bright eyes, her little face full of pleading.

"No, if you don't want to leave, then I'm leaving."

Gu Yi looked at her coldly, without feeling anything in his heart.

Since he got Zhu Zhuqing, he has become immune to most women; such tricks have no effect on him.

"No! I refuse to believe you would abandon such a lovely girl like me here all alone."

As they were talking, the girl directly wrapped her arms around Gu Yi's right leg, just like a koala clinging to a tree, trying to entangle Gu Yi in this way.

But after Gu Yi glanced at her, he quietly used his third soul skill. In an instant, Gu Yi disappeared from the girl's sight, as if it had just been an illusion.

"Eh?"

The girl gasped in surprise, her large eyes filled with confusion. She turned her head blankly to look around, but apart from the corpses of her teammates, there was no one else around.

"Really gone? No way?"

……

On the other side, Gu Yi continued to rush towards the core area. During this process, he kept observing the surrounding snow-capped mountains and using his mental power to explore every cave.

He didn't want to miss any possibilities.

The ice field stretched as far as the eye could see. Even at Gu Yi's speed, he had been flying here for nearly half an hour, but he still hadn't found any powerful soul beasts. There were only four or five ten-thousand-year soul beasts.

If he hadn't been able to sense that the surrounding temperature was still dropping, he would have wondered if he was going around in circles.

"The vastness here far exceeds my expectations. It seems I need to speed things up."

Gu Yi decided not to waste any more time. He immediately adjusted the release of his mental energy to the maximum, and the speed of the bone wings on his back also increased by two times.

He's like a flying human radar now; every time he flies over a snow-capped mountain, he uses his mental power to instantly perceive the entire mountain.

He remained in this state for a whole hour until he finally discovered his first 100,000-year-old soul beast.

It was a spirit beast that looked like a polar bear, but its body was as big as a small mountain, and its whole body exuded a nauseating bloody smell.

At this moment, Gu Yi stood in mid-air in front of it, his aura surging out, and the terrifying killing intent immediately caused the surrounding temperature to drop several degrees.

But when Gu Yi summoned his martial soul, when he summoned his ninth soul ring, the giant bear seemed to have seen something terrifying; its fur bristled, and its lantern-like eyes were filled with...

Fear caused him to retreat uncontrollably.

The aura emanating from that spirit ring was so terrifying that it lost all will to fight and only wanted to escape immediately.

As Gu Yi took a step towards it, the giant bear soul beast's psychological defenses were instantly breached, and its powerful survival instinct forced it to keep running backward.

Gu Yi did not stop it, but simply watched it escape into the distance.

"We're almost there. It seems we'll be at the heart of this far north soon."

Thinking of this, Gu Yi's eyes were filled with excitement. He withdrew his martial spirit and flew deeper into the world once again.

A few minutes later, Gu Yi stopped, looked at a snow-capped mountain in the distance, and smiled.

"finally found you."

Under his mental probing, Gu Yi discovered a cave halfway up the snow mountain, where dozens of snow dragons were lying, including a giant snow dragon that was the leader. The aura emanating from its body was definitely that of a 100,000-year-old soul beast.

"I'm really curious, what kind of skills will the right arm soul bone you dropped grant me?"

Gu Yi suppressed his excitement, and in a flash, he arrived at the cave where the snow dragon lived.

Hey!

The moment Gu Yi appeared, the snow dragons in the cave awoke simultaneously, all fixing their gazes on him as if they were looking at a pastry.

Without any hesitation, the snow dragons closest to Gu Yi immediately opened their blood-red mouths and lunged at him.

"Sixth Soul Skill, Lock the Void."

In an instant, dozens of illusory chains fell from the sky, instantly sealing off the surrounding space.

Gu Yi didn't bother with the group of snow dragons around him that were less than 100,000 years old. After keeping them in place, he slowly walked toward the snow dragon leader on the stone platform at the deepest part of the cave.

"You can't escape, so you'd better not resist. That way, you can die more quickly."

As Gu Yi spoke, he summoned the Asura Blood Sword in his hand.

Roar

But as a 100,000-year-old soul beast, how could the Snow Dragon leader possibly listen to Gu Yi?

It roared at Gu Yi, spewing out large amounts of ice and ice crystals in an attempt to drive him away.

"Third Soul Skill: Spatial Transfer."

Gu Yi created a black hole in front of him, and absorbed all the ice and ice crystals spewed out by the snow dragon leader and transferred them to the entrance of the hole.