Douluo Continent, Huo Yuhao who returned from Sekiro

Chapter 402 The Bear That Greets (Daily Life)

The Star Dou Great Forest itself has an irregular shape, with its widest point being about two hundred kilometers and covering an area of ​​over ten thousand square kilometers, making it the undisputed number one forest in Douluo Continent.

As the Soul Masters continued to explore, this place was divided into several different areas.

The outermost 20-kilometer-wide area is called the outer zone, which is generally inhabited only by soul beasts under 1,000 years old, with very few soul beasts over 1,000 years old.

Next, the forty-kilometer-wide area inward is called the Mixed Zone. The Mixed Zone has the most diverse types of soul beasts, mainly thousand-year and ten-thousand-year soul beasts, but there are also hundred-year soul beast groups.

The innermost circular area, with a diameter of eighty kilometers, is called the core area, which is the true gathering place for high-quality soul beasts.

The very center of the Star Dou Great Forest is the so-called ominous place, only ten kilometers away. It seems that the Crimson King and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion that Huo Yuhao encountered last time live in this place.

By the way—Brother Tianmeng also lived in this ominous place for a while, but he himself didn't really like living there.

I wonder what kind of strange ecosystem it is that so many soul beasts with such different living habits and completely different requirements for their living environment all live together in this Star Dou Great Forest.

At least Huo Yuhao couldn't quite figure out how so many soul beasts could have been born in such a small place over the past ten thousand years.

Even if Star Dou Forest only needs to prepare the ten-year soul rings required by a thousand level ten junior soul masters each year, it will still require ten million ten-year soul beasts over ten thousand years.

If half of these Soul Masters need to hunt for 100-year Soul Rings, the Star Dou Forest will suffer even greater losses.

And this only accounts for the soul hunting needs of level 10 junior soul masters; the soul hunting needs of higher-level soul masters have not been taken into account at all.

Moreover, Shrek Academy alone admits around a thousand first-year students every year!

There are 133 advanced soul master academies across the entire continent, and there are only more junior academies.

Based on this calculation, the number of ten-year soul beasts that the Star Dou Great Forest and other soul beast forests would need to produce over the past ten thousand years would be astronomical. Even if each soul beast is worth one gold soul coin, that would amount to billions or even tens of billions of gold soul coins.

For a moment, Huo Yuhao felt a strong sense of confusion. What exactly is a soul beast? And why do soul masters need soul rings to break through?

According to Electrox, needing a spirit ring to break through is simply absurd.

For a moment, Huo Yuhao's mindset changed slightly. He originally thought that Star Dou Forest was a place to subdue demons, but now from this perspective, Star Dou Forest and other soul beast forests are simply slaughterhouses for human soul masters.

That's why Huo Yuhao felt a bit sweaty when he thought about the beast tide that the Body Sect had once stirred up.

Hundreds of millions of soul beasts surged out like a tsunami, likely to flatten the entire Douluo Continent.

It was only because Mu Lao, a level 99 Limit Douluo, was in charge of the Douluo Continent at that time that things might have turned out differently.

"Auspicious beasts are truly amazing!"

Huo Yuhao couldn't help but sigh. Without this auspicious beast that could urge birth, production, and cultivation, there wouldn't be enough soul beasts to kill in the Star Dou Forest. No wonder the Star Dou Forest regarded auspicious beasts as their lifeblood. Isn't this their lifeblood?

"What auspicious beast?"

Wang Dong turned his head and looked at Huo Yuhao.

"A mythical beast, I'll introduce you to it later. Shh, be quiet."

At this very moment, Huo Yuhao's mental detection returned some interesting results.

A large, jet-black bear slowly appeared in the mental detection.

According to the mental detection, this fool was sniffing around and wandering about, seemingly unsure of what he was planning.

This giant bear was at least three meters long, and when it was on all fours, it was more than a person tall. It was extremely robust, much more majestic than ordinary bear-type spirit beasts. Its black fur had a faint metallic sheen, making it look very fierce.

It can be seen that its eyes are a light green color, and the sharp blade on its right paw is particularly long, more than two feet long. It walks with a swaying gait, and its arrogant and domineering aura is comparable to that of the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.

"Is this... a Dark Gold Devilclaw Bear?"

Wang Dong, who had also connected to Huo Yuhao's shared mental detection, spoke with some surprise.

Huo Yuhao nodded.

"This Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear seems to be only about two thousand years old. Killing it is pointless. Let's go around it."

Huo Yuhao wasn't interested in the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, but the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear didn't think so.

Perhaps it smelled the scent of the ten-thousand-year-old soul beast's excrement powder remaining on Huo Yuhao's body, because the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear did not turn around and run away like other hundred-year or thousand-year-old soul beasts. Instead, it shook its head and charged towards Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong.

"Seriously, is this guy crazy?"

Wang Dong's expression was as if he had swallowed a pot of flies. He didn't even want to kill you anymore, but you insisted on coming to your death.

Huo Yuhao could only draw his katana from his waist and warily watch the distant woods.

As one of the top predators in the Star Dou Forest, the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear's utterly unreasonable and terrifying killing power and excellent defense allow it to defeat ordinary thousand-year or even ten-thousand-year soul beasts in the hundred-year stage.

The Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear in front of Huo Yuhao is now two thousand years old. It can easily devour a ten-thousand-year-old soul beast. It's only natural for it to come closer to see if it's edible when it smells the ten-thousand-year-old soul beast's excrement.

Before Huo Yuhao could say anything more, the dark gold dinosaur appeared in their field of vision, shaking its head.

Unexpectedly, the dark gold dinosaur didn't seem to be in a hurry to attack Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong. Instead, it stood up and clumsily circled around behind the trees, slowly approaching Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong.

"What is this guy doing?"

Wang Dong had already summoned his martial spirit, but he was taken aback by the reaction of the dark gold dinosaur bear.

The dark gold dinosaur bear made a whooshing sound, which didn't sound harsh. It hid behind a big tree, peeking out and observing Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong. Every now and then, it would raise its thick right arm and wave its claw as if to say hello.

The claws merely moved through the air following his body, producing a slight hissing sound.

"Yuhao, look! This big, clumsy bear is even greeting us!"

Wang Dong's initial wariness instantly vanished. He found it somewhat comical that the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear was mimicking a human greeting, and even raised his hand to wave at it.

Huo Yuhao did not put away his katana, because he discovered that although the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear's speed did not seem fast, in just a short while, the distance between it and the two of them had been reduced from four or five hundred meters to less than two hundred meters.

(End of this chapter)