Douluo Continent: The World Shines with Stars

Chapter 6 Soul Hunting

The Star Dou Great Forest is the largest gathering place for soul beasts on the Douluo Continent, which has given rise to many surrounding industrial chains.

Led by the elder, Xu Mingxi arrived in the northern part of the Star Luo Empire, at one of the entrances to the Star Dou Great Forest.

Although it's called the entrance, it's actually quite a distance from the Star Dou Great Forest.

Hunting groups and caravans from all over the world have established a small town here, specifically to serve those who want to enter the Star Dou Great Forest.

The town was filled with shouts, hawking, and even occasional fights.

This is a chaotic place without laws.

Xu Mingxi and the other three were all dressed in black robes. The seasoned locals could tell at a glance by their height that these four were definitely elders leading younger ones to obtain soul rings.

Moreover, this young man is definitely not very old, and he's a genius.

On the Douluo Continent, martial spirits are mostly inherited through bloodlines, and most of the genius elders are no less talented. None of the old hands in the town wanted to be the first to step forward.

Xu Chunyi led the way, guiding the group into a tavern where they planned to rest before setting off again the next day.

"Sir, are you looking for a place to stay? Our baboon meat is quite a delicacy!"

"Two rooms, one night's stay, no need to prepare meals."

The Grand Elder tossed out several gold soul coins and led the three of them upstairs.

When traveling, it's always best to be cautious. The Star Dou Great Forest is a mixed bag of people, so it's safest to eat the food stored in your soul tool.

Before the Xu brothers left the sect, the sect leader specially gave each of them a storage soul tool.

They are all ring-shaped, and the space is not large, only three cubic meters, but it is more than enough.

An elder lived with a little boy; these two were crucial to the future fortune of the sect, and could not be taken lightly.

Nothing happened overnight, and the next morning, the elder woke Xu Mingxi up early.

"Mingxi, wake up. The view is wider in the Starry Sky Forest in the morning, and we are safer."

"Coming right away, Grandpa, wait for me a moment."

As usual, the elders led the two little brats forward.

But when they officially entered the Star Dou Great Forest, the two elders put them down.

"From now on, it's up to you to make your own way. Becoming a powerful Soul Master isn't something you can achieve just by blindly cultivating."

The two elders stood one in front and one behind, protecting the two children in the middle. Xu Mingxi walked along, looking around as she went.

Before the sect leader set off, he had already told Xu Mingxi about the past of the Star Ancestor.

Back then, after the Star Ancestor absorbed the Star Summoning Soul Skill, he only regarded it as a soul skill to enhance cultivation.

The subsequent selection of spirit rings still followed the sect's control route.

As a result, when he reached his seventh spirit ring, he unexpectedly absorbed a 50,000-year-old star spider.

Star Douluo discovered that his cultivation speed was much faster than before, and he didn't encounter any bottlenecks before reaching level 80.

The Star Douluo with the next two spirit rings subconsciously searched for spirit beasts that had a strong connection with starlight.

With each soul ring he absorbed, he felt his cultivation speed increase by one point.

In the end, I only got stuck at the bottleneck between level 97 and 98 for a few years.

However, his breakthrough ended there, and Star Douluo remained stuck at level 99 for his entire life.

In his later years, he always regretted his choice of the second to sixth soul skills.

If you choose a soul beast with a deeper connection to the starlight, wouldn't you be able to see the scenery of the Limit Douluo?

The sect leader consulted ancient texts for a long time and found that there were only three types of soul beasts most suitable to be Xu Mingxi's second soul ring.

The first type is called Starlight Grass, a special species within the Star Gathering Grass family. It is extremely rare, and the Star Crown Sect has never seen a Star Gathering Grass in all these years of cultivation.

The second type of spirit beast is called the Star Tiger. Its skin has mysterious patterns, and it is nocturnal.

It possesses a unique ability: it can attract the power of stars to surround its body, greatly increasing its speed.

The third type is the Star Energy Turtle that Xu Mingxi had seen before. The Star Crown Sect has a map leading to the Star Energy Turtle colony.

However, Star Turtle is a last resort choice; it can be used as a substitute if you really can't find the other two.

For Xu Mingguang, the choice was simple: the Rockfall Bear soul beast, which could produce the Starfall Technique soul skill, was his best option.

Suitable soul beasts are hard to come by, and the group had been searching for them on the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest for half a month.

Xu Mingguang unexpectedly encountered a rockfall bear, which was exactly what he needed.

Judging from its size and coat color, it should be over 700 years old. The two elders took it down immediately.

Xu Mingguang pulled out a dagger and turned the rockfall bear into his second spirit ring. The spirit beast Xu Mingxi needed was nowhere to be seen.

That day, Xu Mingxi, who had been walking for half a day, suddenly had a novel idea.

"Grandpa, Second Elder, since we can't find them, why don't we let them come to us?"

The soul beasts that Xu Mingxi needs are all closely related to starlight. Could a place with abundant starlight attract them?

His idea was agreed upon by the two elders, since this was only the outer perimeter of the Star Dou Great Forest.

Let alone ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts, even soul beasts over five thousand years old are rare, so there's nothing to fear about them.

As night fell and the stars twinkled in the sky, Xu Mingxi sat on the ground gazing up at the starry sky.

A star crown appeared, the first spirit ring lit up, and starlight was drawn down from the distant horizon, dressing Xu Mingxi in a starry veil.

The surroundings were also illuminated by starlight, and Xu Mingxi's location was like a bright light in the darkness.

The nearby spirit beasts could see it clearly as well. In the distance, a tiger-type spirit beast was raising its head as it was eating.

It glanced in Xu Mingxi's direction, as if it felt some kind of attraction.

Lacking much intelligence, it ran wildly toward whatever attracted it.

The Second Elder, standing beside Xu Mingxi, was already on high alert, and countless soul beasts around them had been immobilized by her Star Guiding Technique.

"They're here."

Suddenly, a tiger with mysterious markings sprang out from the bushes in front of Xu Mingxi. Upon closer inspection, it seemed that some starlight had gathered on its body.

The Second Elder stunned him with a Starfall spell, then immobilized him with a Star Attraction spell.

"Mingxi, it's your turn. Kill it."

Xu Mingxi, who was still using her first soul skill, seemed to sense something and shook her head at the Second Elder.

"Grandpa, take this Star Tiger with you, we're going somewhere."

The three were puzzled. Hadn't they already decided on Star Tiger? What was Mingxi doing?

However, the three of them also trusted Mingxi, believing that he would not speak without reason.

The First Elder carried the Star Tiger on his shoulder and walked in front, while the Second Elder protected him from behind, occasionally throwing a Star-Attracting Spell at the Star Tiger to prevent it from moving.

Soon, guided by Xu Mingxi, the group arrived at a valley filled with the familiar Star Gathering Grass.

Could it be...

Just as the three were wondering what was going on, Xu Mingxi moved, as if guided by starlight, and headed towards the depths of the valley.

Sure enough, Xu Mingxi looked at the Star-Gathering Grass with its yellow patterns and felt delighted.

This yellow-patterned Star-Gathering Grass is the Starlight Grass recorded in the sect's ancient books. The yellow patterns are formed by its long-term absorption of starlight.

"Grandpa, I'll choose this one."

"Mingxi, why don't you think about it again?"

The soul skill provided by this starlight grass is probably useless again.

Although you might get another soul skill that has no offense, defense, control, or support.

However, Xu Mingxi still wanted to choose Starlight Grass, simply because Starlight Grass was mutated from Star-Gathering Grass after absorbing starlight for a long time.

Its connection with starlight is something that the Star Tiger simply cannot match.

Xu Mingxi wants to become a god.

Even without the position of Star God, he harbored the ambition to create his own Star God position.

Although the two elders were unaware of Xu Mingxi's thoughts, fortunately, the Starlight Grass was also part of the sect leader's plan.

Moreover, it's just a second soul skill. Unless it's an amplifying divine skill, it's practically useless to Soul Douluos and Title Douluos.

Judging from the appearance of the Star Tiger, the only possible amplification soul skill it can produce is speed amplification.

For Soul Masters with Star Crown Martial Souls, who possess Star Guardian Soul Skills, stationary output is their norm, and speed boosts are the last thing they need.

Starlight Grass had no offensive capabilities, and Xu Mingxi finished it off with a swift stroke.

A yellow spirit ring rose up on the spot, but its color didn't seem as dark as the previous spirit ring of the Falling Rock Bear.

Xu Mingxi sat down with peace of mind, and under the guidance of his soul power, the soul ring kept moving towards his head.

(End of this chapter)