Douluo Continent: Dragon's Journey Across the World

Chapter 17 Mysterious Golden Nether Armored Turtle

After searching in the Soul Hunting Forest for three days, he still couldn't find a suitable soul beast. Occasionally, he even encountered a few thousand-year-old soul beasts, but he was able to skillfully avoid them with the help of the Purple-Gold Mastiff's keen sense of smell.

That day, the Purple-Gold Mastiff smelled a familiar scent. When the information reached Yang Ping'an, who had just taken the sea, he felt a sense of strangeness. Judging from the scent, it should be the middle-aged man he had encountered when he first entered the Soul Hunter Forest. Moreover, judging from his appearance, he was probably there for him, and probably wanted to kill and rob him.

After thinking it over carefully for a while, Yang Ping'an began to make his next plan. The entire Soul Hunting Forest was only about ten kilometers in radius, which was not very big. He was afraid that he would be found by these people sooner or later, so it was better not to deal with them in advance. If he was encountered by them when he was absorbing the soul ring, it would be troublesome.

After some adjustments, Yang Ping'an slowed down in the Soul Hunting Forest and swaggered around.

Suddenly, five figures appeared in front of Yang Ping'an, and judging from the situation, these five people seemed to have blocked his retreat and were vaguely surrounding him.

A sinister smile appeared on the gaunt middle-aged man's face: "You've been hiding for so many days, and we've finally found you. It wasn't for nothing that we spent three days searching."

Yang Ping'an looked at the gaunt middle-aged man with a gloomy expression: "I don't need to hire you. What exactly do you want?"

"What are you doing? You've been alone in the Soul Hunting Forest for several days, you must have a lot of money on you. Hand over your money obediently and we'll give you a quick death, otherwise we'll make you wish you were dead."

"Aren't you mercenaries? Yet you like to rob people on the highway. I'm afraid you specialize in robbing those who hire you."

"Of course, how could we let such a fat sheep go? We'd make more money robbing you than hunting soul beasts for you."

At this moment, Yang Ping'an's face was cold and sinister: "Aren't you vicious thugs like you afraid that the Spirit Hall will come after you?"

The gaunt middle-aged man sneered, "The Spirit Hall? We've done everything so discreetly that the Spirit Hall won't have any evidence to come after us."

But before the gaunt middle-aged man could finish speaking, Yang Ping'an slightly pressed down with his foot, and the five men suddenly lost their footing. A trap had appeared on the ground, covered with all sorts of poisonous thorns that Yang Ping'an had collected over the past few days.

The gaunt middle-aged man sneered, "You think you can deal with the five of us with such a petty trick? You're dreaming."

But before he could finish speaking, a huge trap net fell from the sky, as if to surround the five people.

At this critical moment, the gaunt middle-aged man quickly activated his martial spirit, which turned out to be that of a two-ring Great Soul Master. Unfortunately, his two spirit rings were one white and one yellow, and his martial spirit was actually a black bear.

With a roar, he activated his second soul skill, and a giant bear paw slammed into the trap net, shattering the entire net.

At that very moment, something seemed to spray out from the trap net, directly enveloping the five people.

When the five people left the trap, they looked extremely disheveled and even had a lot of unknown liquid on them, which didn't seem to be poisonous.

But Ping An had already taken the opportunity to slip away.

The gaunt middle-aged man flew into a rage: "This kid is too cunning! I, Lin Xiong, swear I will not rest until I kill him!"

The other four also appeared to share a common hatred for the enemy.

However, at this moment, a desolate sound seemed to come from the entire forest, as if some kind of soul beast was approaching. As a mercenary, he naturally knew that there must be a dangerous soul beast approaching.

But soon, the eyes of the five people were filled with despair, because they were surrounded by a dense swarm of poisonous spiders, which should be one of the overlords of the Soul Beast Forest: Ghost-faced Spiders.

Ghost-faced spiders are a common type of soul beast in the Soul Hunting Forest, known for their large numbers. However, because they reproduce extremely quickly and have very low age levels, many people are too lazy to hunt them.

But then a giant ghost-faced spider appeared before them. It looked like a thousand-year-old soul beast, and there were also many hundred-year-old soul beasts among the ghost-faced spiders. The thin middle-aged man immediately realized that this was probably one of the overlords of this soul beast forest. In particular, so many ghost-faced spiders were like an attack on their home.

What the gaunt middle-aged man didn't know was that there really were spider nests and spider eggs in the trap net they had just broken with their soul power, which Yang Ping'an had specially stolen to deal with them.

This is Yang Ping'an's trump card: using the many Demon Slayer Spiders to eliminate these five people. As long as they carry the aura of the Spider Nest, they will not escape death.

After Yang Ping'an left, screams echoed through the Soul Hunter Forest, clearly from the five people who had been preparing to deal with him.

Yang Ping'an just gave a cold laugh and ignored the five people, continuing his search for soul beasts.

Perhaps it was a stroke of good fortune, for he actually found a very good target spirit beast.

One day, while Yang Ping'an was carefully observing a stream, a group of thick-shelled turtles emerged from it. One of them was particularly eye-catching; its entire body was dark gold, and its shell was 1.8 meters long. It also appeared to be much larger than the other thick-shelled turtles.

Yang Ping'an couldn't help but swallow hard. Normally, a hundred-year-old thick-shelled tortoise would only be one meter long, and then it would increase by twenty centimeters every hundred years. This thick-shelled tortoise was a full 1.8 meters long, so it should be around four hundred years old, definitely no more than four hundred and fifty years old. The age was very suitable.

Especially noteworthy is that this thick-shelled turtle is unique. Normal thick-shelled turtles should be grayish-black, so this must be a rare, one-in-a-million Xuanjin Mingjia turtle among a group of ordinary thick-shelled turtles.

According to the records in the books, the Thick-Armored Turtle can occasionally mutate, and the Xuanjin Nether Armored Turtle can occasionally appear. However, the probability of mutation is relatively low, and once it appears, it will be the best choice for many defensive Soul Masters.

Although this Xuanjin Mingjia Turtle is not a gold-attribute soul beast, it still possesses extremely strong gold attributes, and it can even be said that it is very close to being a gold-attribute soul beast.

After Yang Ping'an summoned the Purple-Gold Mastiff, the previously relaxed Purple-Gold Mastiff actually stared sharply at the Xuanjin Nether Armored Turtle, as if it were a formidable enemy. This phenomenon had never occurred even when encountering thousand-year-old soul beasts.

Yang Ping'an stealthily followed the Xuanjin Mingjia Turtle. With his current strength, he was afraid he couldn't defeat this four-hundred-year-old soul beast, especially since the Xuanjin Mingjia Turtle had strong defense and amazing strength, making it difficult for other soul beasts of the same level to defeat it.

The downside is that it is extremely slow and relatively lazy.

(End of this chapter)