Douluo Continent: Breaking Through the Clouds, the Qilin Marches!

On the shore of this small lake in the Sunset Forest, auspicious light ripples gently like waves.

Less than a hundred meters above the lake, a hidden spatial rift quietly opened. Di Tian, ​​dressed in black robes, and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion stood within the spatial rift, looking down at everything below.

There was no overwhelming pressure, nor any earth-shattering commotion. Di Tian cautiously concealed all his aura, for he knew that a Qi Luck Soul Beast wouldn't sacrifice itself without a reason, and even he wasn't confident he could perfectly interrupt such a sacrifice.

Most importantly, he knew his purpose in coming: to attract the auspicious beast's extraordinary fortune.

"It's actually... a sacrifice to a human cub?" A hint of shock and confusion flashed in Di Tian's golden vertical pupils. But when he saw the small black beast lying next to the boy, simultaneously absorbing the energy back to nourish him, that confusion instantly turned into shock.

The three-eyed golden lion beside him stared wide-eyed at the small, dark jade-colored beast, emitting a complex, low growl as if it had encountered its own kind.

Time passed by, second by second.

As the last ray of golden light completely disappeared into Yang Yuntian's body, the dazzling purple soul ring finally began to rhythmically move steadily beneath his feet.

"call--"

Yang Yuntian slowly exhaled a long breath and opened his eyes.

He lowered his head and immediately began to calmly assess the changes in himself.

"Soul power... has directly reached the level 20 bottleneck?" But he quickly figured out the logic through his recent experiences:

With his innate full soul power, he had been cultivating day and night in the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well for nearly a hundred days. In the first half of the process, he also had the help of the old poison pill. His soul power was always in a state of compressed overflow.

In addition, there is the immense foundation of the Yin-Yang Unity Pill, which transforms one's body, and the Xuanjia Golden Tortoise Shell's unreserved sacrifice and nourishment.

The combination of these three energies allowed him to leapfrog ten levels across a major realm, a natural outcome resulting from the accumulation of energy!

Not only that, Yang Yuntian also keenly felt a warm, hard object coming from his chest.

He slightly pulled open his shirt and looked down. He saw that under the skin of his heart, a hexagonal heart-protecting mirror, as clear as black crystal and covered with dark gold patterns, was faintly visible!

"An external soul bone?" Yang Yuntian's pupils constricted sharply. In the original story, Tang San absorbed the Human-Faced Demon Spider to obtain the Eight Spider Spears, but Yang Yuntian actually obtained an extremely rare external soul bone—the Xuanjia Heart-Protecting Mirror—through the sacrifice of the Xuanjia Golden Tortoiseshell!

As Yang Yuntian gradually came to appreciate this unexpected joy, he understood its purpose: protection and expansion.

Firstly, it can withstand three attacks per day that are no more than 20 levels higher than its own cultivation level.

Secondly, it increases its total soul power by 20%!

Invincible Golden Body! Invincible Golden Body! Invincible Golden Body! (Just kidding!)

"The tallest tree in the forest is the first to be felled by the wind. Although this Sunset Forest is on the outskirts, who knows what dangers might be lurking in the shadows? The matter of the external soul bone must not be exposed now. We should make plans after we return to the absolutely safe zone of the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well."

With a thought, Yang Yuntian instantly concealed the patterns on the protective mirror on his chest, completely merging into his flesh and blood, so that from the outside, there was no abnormality whatsoever.

He stood up and looked at the black jade unicorn at his feet. After obtaining its first spirit ring, the black unicorn had grown even stronger, its limbs becoming more robust and powerful, and a pure and majestic aura of a mythical beast was beginning to take shape.

"Grandpa, Poison Grandpa, I succeeded." Yang Yuntian smiled and was about to show his two elders the first soul skill granted by the "Luck Soul Ring".

However, the moment he opened his mouth—

"Qilin? I don't know how many tens of thousands of years have passed, but on this continent, we can still see this kind of soul beast that only exists in ancient legends."

A deep male voice suddenly boomed in mid-air without warning!

The voice was not loud, and it didn't even carry any killing intent, but when it reached the ears, it made one's soul tremble!

Yang Yuntian suddenly turned his head, his pupils contracting sharply.

Yang Wudi and Dugu Bo, who had been standing not far away protecting him, were now frozen in place like two lifeless stone statues!

Two powerful figures, both renowned throughout the continent, one an 82-level Soul Douluo and the other a 93-level Title Douluo, were unable to release their Martial Souls or even utter a single exclamation!

Their eyes were filled with unprecedented horror and despair!

"To be able to instantly render Poison Douluo and Grandpa powerless, this person's strength is... absolutely top-notch!" Following the stiff gazes of his two elders, Yang Yuntian raised his head and looked up at the sky above the lake.

The void was drawn back like a curtain, revealing a majestic man in a black robe with a pair of bright golden vertical pupils, standing with his hands behind his back, silently looking down at him.

Behind the man in black robes, a strange soul beast covered in brilliant golden fur, standing on flames, and with a third blood-red vertical eye on its forehead, poked its head out from the void, its three eyes fixed on the little black beast at Yang Yuntian's feet.

"Golden fur...three eyes...a mythical three-eyed golden lion?"

"Capable of tearing through space with the imperial auspicious beast of the Star Dou Great Forest, able to imprison two top-tier powerhouses simultaneously using spatial laws without breaking a sweat, and possessing a pair of pure black dragon golden eyes..."

The answer is obvious!

Yang Yuntian took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing his violently pounding heart. When facing such an unparalleled being who could crush the entire Heaven Dou City with a single move, any struggle, clumsy lies, or attempt to escape would be an extremely foolish and idiotic act.

He did not retreat, nor did he show any hostility. He straightened his robes, clasped his hands together, and bowed deeply to the black-robed man in mid-air and the golden soul beast in a standard junior's posture.

"Junior Yang Yuntian greets Senior Beast God and the auspicious beast."

Di Tian, ​​suspended in mid-air, paused slightly. A hint of surprise flashed in his golden eyes, which seemed to have seen through the vicissitudes of time.

This six-year-old human cub, who had just acquired his first spirit ring, was not only able to stand up under his aura, but also immediately recognized him and the auspicious beast.

At this moment, Mo Yu Xiao Lin, who had been standing obediently at Yang Yuntian's feet, suddenly snorted.

"Hmph!"

As a pure bloodline holder of the extremely ancient and prestigious Qilin clan, Xiao Hei's inherent pride would never allow it to bow down to any soul beast.

Even if the other party was the Black Dragon King who had lived for eight hundred thousand years. It turned its head away in an extremely human-like manner, not even looking at Di Tian in mid-air, but just spewing out a cloud of black gas from its nostrils, clearly very dissatisfied with Di Tian's uninvited arrival and the fact that he had imprisoned its "bodyguard".

"How dare you!"