Douluo Continent: Huo Yuhao, the Thief of Heaven

"Wow, you guys have been walking for quite a while."

Half an hour later, Wang Qiu'er and Na'er emerged from the bushes after explaining everything.

Huo Yuhao noticed that Wang Qiu'er seemed to be acting strangely, as if she were a hostage being threatened, trembling with fear.

"teacher?"

"It's probably their family coming to see them," Benjamin said.

"Huh? Aren't they orphans whose families were wiped out?" Huo Yuhao asked in surprise.

Even though I can see it with my mental detection, I still want to be a human being...

"Wait a minute, wait a minute? I can let it go, but why didn't Aunt Yun sense anyone appearing? She's a Title Douluo, after all." Huo Yuhao scratched his head.

"Perhaps he'll return when you go back to your sect," Tianmeng Bingcan said with a smile.

"Fine, I'll keep you in suspense then," Huo Yuhao said helplessly.

The group walked for three or four hours, searching through the Starry Sky Forest.

They were incredibly lucky to encounter two top-tier soul beasts that were nearing their end: a 15,000-year-old Xuan Turtle and a Lightning Leopard of the same age.

They were happy to become Ning Tian and Na'er's soul beasts, and everything went so smoothly that Huo Yuhao felt a little nauseous.

Especially that black tortoise, which was originally slow-moving, suddenly nodded at an extremely fast speed, as if becoming a human's soul ring was a great honor.

If the black tortoise hadn't been female, Huo Yuhao would have suspected that it was some kind of strange white-haired loli-con, stretching its neck out to let Na'er touch it.

He seemed to be enjoying it.

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On the south side of the Starry Sky Forest, a 70,000-year-old Purple Spirit Wolf was strolling leisurely through the forest.

It was an old wolf; to be precise, all wolf-type soul beasts are in their old age from birth.

Because the species "bei" originally evolved from wolf-type soul beasts, each "bei" is an old wolf-type soul beast that has reached a certain level of enlightenment and evolved on its own.

Compared to their brains, wolf-like spirit beasts tend to evolve their physical bodies more, which is why the jackal is an extremely rare species.

Only a naturally gifted wolf could undergo such a transformation when it had lost all potential for advancement.

At that time, the extremely intelligent old wolf will give up its powerful body in order to survive longer.

In addition, its original attribute will change to mental attribute, and its body will become much smaller.

A look of desolation flickered in the old wolf's eyes. It had been living alone for a long time and sensed that its time was coming to an end; it didn't have more than two years to live.

It had a glorious life, but the moment it gained the ability to move in the wolf den, it abandoned its poor mother and siblings and left the den without looking back.

It once disguised itself as a dog and wandered the human world; it gained the friendship of auspicious beasts in the Starry Sky Forest; and it even traveled to the far north...

I haven't seen the auspicious beast for a long time. I wonder how she's doing. I'll go see her before I die.

The old wolf thought so.

Little did it know that it had already been sold by its good friend as repayment for the debt of abusing the Lord of Soul Beasts.

"Awooo—"

A wolf howl from deep within the forest caught the old wolf's attention, arousing its curiosity.

Amidst a pool of blood, a purple soul beast identical to the Purple Spirit Wolf lay prostrate on the ground, struggling and whimpering in pain, as if its life was nearing its end.

Suddenly, it saw a shadow walking towards it, and immediately stood up with a ferocious expression, growling at the newcomer.

After seeing the whole picture, they immediately showed a pitiful look in their eyes.

"Awooo—Awooo! (Beast language: Senior, save me! I've been attacked by those despicable humans!)"

The old wolf approached, narrowed its eyes, and looked at the creature with an expression of pity for someone with intellectual disabilities.

"Senior, save me. I am your junior from the same clan—" the soul beast let out a pitiful howl, trying to gain the old wolf's sympathy.

"...Come on. You're a purple-spotted hyena, a hyena-family spirit beast. We're not even in the same family," the old wolf said speechlessly.

"Huh?" The purple-spotted hyena was dumbfounded.

"Although we are both of the mental attribute, your mental attribute is innate, while mine is a mutation acquired later. There is a fundamental difference in the fluctuation of mental power. Yours is more long-wave type, while mine is short-wave type. Your disguise is too obvious."

"what?"

Even Di Tian, ​​who was hiding in the shadows, was dumbfounded.

"What intrigues me, however, is that your race clearly prefers to ambush from behind, and someone of similar size shouldn't be on your menu. Besides, you seem to operate in groups, don't you?"

"That, that is..."

"Oh—I see. So I fell into the trap set by a 100,000-year-old soul beast, and you were the bait."

The purple-spotted hyena felt a strange increase in knowledge, and a thousand thoughts swirled in its mind, eventually culminating in a nonsensical statement.

"Sounds too bookish, are you planning to take the postgraduate entrance exam?"

Having said that, it stopped pretending, got up from the ground, and shook off the soft bone rabbit blood covering its body.

"Lord Di Tian, ​​you've seen it. I've tried my best."

To the old wolf's astonishment, a tall humanoid figure suddenly appeared between them.

"You have truly amazed me. I never imagined that our Soul Beast race would have such a wise beast as you," Di Tian exclaimed to the old wolf.

This was the first time he had ever seen such a spirit beast, and he immediately felt the urge to cultivate it.

He wanted to keep the existence of the old wolf a secret, even if it meant being punished by his lord.

If all soul beasts were as intelligent as the old wolf...

"If all soul beasts were as intelligent as I am, then we wouldn't be soul beasts anymore," the old wolf said.

Di Tian felt as if a thunderbolt had struck his mind. He was certain that his spiritual sea had not been invaded by any spiritual force.

"Most of the competent rulers I've met don't wear their thoughts on their sleeves," the old man said.

Di Tian frantically touched his face...

"Don't worry, you're not overstepping your bounds. If the Lord of Soul Beasts only had this much magnanimity, he wouldn't deserve to be called the Lord of Soul Beasts," the old wolf said calmly.

Di Tian's heart was in turmoil. He had just realized that it was presumptuous of him to consider himself the ruler of the soul beast race when the old wolf immediately guessed his thoughts.

"If I'm not mistaken, Your Majesty the Emperor wants me dead, right?" the old wolf said to the Emperor in an extremely calm tone.

"Um... I'm sorry."

"Lord Beast God, you don't need to apologize to me. I was already on the verge of death," the old wolf said.

"Please lead the way."

At this moment, the old wolf had already walked in front of Di Tian, ​​which Di Tian couldn't see at all.

At this moment, Di Tian realized that he still knew too little about the Soul Beast race, and it seemed that he needed to continue learning.

The old wolf had lived in the human world for a long time, and it understood that those in power disliked those in power who thought they were clever enough to guess their thoughts.

As I said before, its death is imminent, and it has become so invincible that it fears nothing.

The wolf den where he was born was destroyed tens of thousands of years ago, leaving only broken bones and skinning knives on the ground.