In Douluo Continent, there is a proper way to die.

Chapter 58 Qian Renxue

"Young Master, you flatter me by saying that," said one of the middle-aged men with a buzz cut who was standing next to the blonde girl. His voice carried a sense of age that did not match his appearance. "Fire-attribute ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts are fine, but light or holy-attribute ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts are extremely rare. It will probably take us a lot of effort to find them. They are not something that can be found in a short time."

"It's alright. If we still haven't found a target by the final appointed time, we can just choose a fire-attribute ten-thousand-year-old soul beast." The blonde girl hesitated for a moment, but then, as if she had thought of something, she gritted her teeth and answered with a determined look.

"She Long, what are you saying?" The slightly overweight man on the other side of the blonde girl looked displeased. "Even if we have to plunder every inch of this Star Dou Great Forest, we must find the Bright Unicorn for our young master. We can't jeopardize his future!"

"It was my fault for being confused," the man called She Long said apologetically. "That old bastard Ci Xue is right. We will do our utmost for the young master. Please rest assured, young master!"

But despite saying that, the three of them were actually quite unsure of what to expect.

It wasn't that they were worried about their own safety. Not to mention that they had a team of Spirit Hall guards with them, both She Long and Ci Xue were Title Douluo with level 92 cultivation. As long as they didn't encounter some extremely strange ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts, they could definitely come and go freely in and out of this mixed circle.

The problem is that this place is too big, and there is even another part in the Star Luo Empire. If the golden-haired girl, Qian Renxue, needs a soul beast that happens to be in the Star Luo Empire, the journey there and back will take a lot of time, not to mention the time needed to find the soul beast.

Qian Renxue set a time limit of only one week to obtain the soul ring, and at most no more than half a month. If she were to leave the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace for too long, she feared that some changes might occur within the palace, causing her plan to seize the country, which she had been carrying out for seven years, to fail.

This amount of time is far too short. It's common for Soul Masters who are stuck at a bottleneck to not encounter the Soul Rings they want. It's even normal for Soul Masters to be stuck at their bottleneck and live in the Soul Beast Forest for two or three months because they can't find their ideal Soul Beast. After all, the end point for each Soul Master is determined early on by their innate Soul Power. Soul Masters who aren't that talented won't care about wasting a lot of cultivation time and can slowly search for the Soul Rings they want.

And so, three days later, the group still hadn't found the target that Qian Daoliu had set for Qian Renxue. They found a few light unicorns that were just over ten thousand years old, but they did find quite a few fire-attribute ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts. Among them was a Flame Lion King that had just reached the so-called "limit of the fifth soul ring absorption" and was about 12000 years old.

However, such a spirit beast was certainly not what the three of them wanted. Therefore, in the end, the three of them only remembered the range of the Flame Lion King's activities. If they still couldn't find the Light Unicorn after half a month, they would have no choice but to use the Flame Lion King as Qian Renxue's fifth spirit ring.

The three were not like Liu Erlong, who was bloodthirsty about killing soul beasts (this girl had a hobby of slaughtering soul beast groups until the main storyline, which is really hard to deny, just because Yu Xiaogang ran away and didn't marry her, she used this method to relieve her pain, it can only be said that Douluo's love-obsessed people are really ridiculous). They would not attack soul beasts that were not their targets, and even if a soul beast provoked them, they would only drive it away and not chase it, unless they encountered a soul beast that kept pestering them, in which case they would kill it.

Fun fact: Back in the Douluo Continent era, some high-ranking human leaders were already aware that the number of human Soul Masters was gradually increasing, and that the cultivation speed of human Soul Masters far exceeded that of Soul Beasts. If indiscriminate killing was not curbed, humanity might face a predicament where there were no Soul Rings to obtain in the future.

Indeed, this is the case. If the restrictions of the God Realm had not been lifted 20,000 years later, and if human soul guidance technology had not developed rapidly, with the development of mature cloning technology and the soul contract left by Huo Kaoyu, then in the era of Douluo Continent III, the profession of Soul Master might still exist, but it would be absolutely difficult for truly high-end individual combat power to emerge again. At that time, it would be the world of soul guidance devices.

The idea that a dynamic balance would be formed between human and spirit beast combat power—meaning that because fewer spirit beasts exist, humans lack the option of choosing excellent spirit rings to break through bottlenecks, leading to a weakening of human combat power and making them unable to defeat spirit beasts—allows spirit beasts time to recuperate and reproduce, giving humans a new option of spirit rings, until another titled Douluo appears, followed by more and more titled Douluo, then a further decrease in spirit beasts, leaving no spirit rings to choose from… forming such a cycle—is something that anyone who can come up with is probably seriously mentally ill.

Because human civilization never stands still. Take Earth for example. A hundred years ago, people would never have understood that people today can know everything in the world just by holding a "little box." In the past hundred years, several species have become extinct or become rare species because of human development.

Moreover, the technology tree of Douluo Star has developed for a full ten thousand years from Douluo I to Douluo II. To use Douluo Star as an example, the peerless Douluo (Limit Douluo) of the strong attack type in Douluo I would never understand that even an ordinary person in the era of Douluo II could unleash an attack comparable to or even surpassing a level 99 Limit Douluo by holding a level 9 fixed-position soul guide cannon.

The development of soul tools and the death of the Emperor Beast Three-Eyed Golden Lion directly rendered the so-called "dynamic cycle theory" impossible and a joke.

What's even less known is that in the era of Douluo Continent I, the Spirit Hall was the most dedicated and contributed the most to "curbing the indiscriminate killing of spirit beasts by humans and protecting the ecosystem of the spirit beast forest."

The various "Soul Hunting Forests" in the human world are maintained by the Spirit Hall and filled with captive soul beasts. Compared to the "wild" soul beast forests like the Star Dou Great Forest, they are safer, but it is also difficult to encounter rarer and more powerful soul beasts. In addition, one must apply for a "Soul Hunting Order" from the Spirit Hall to enter. When the Soul Hunting Order is issued, the person in charge will repeatedly remind soul masters not to kill soul beasts indiscriminately.

Incidentally, the Spirit Hall checks the number of spirit beasts in the Soul Hunting Forest, their types, and their cultivation levels every so often. Spirit masters who finish a Soul Hunt must return their warrants and update their own information. Therefore, it is easy to find out if anyone has been indiscriminately killing spirit beasts during this period.

After a short lunch break, the group set off again to continue searching for target soul beasts for Qian Renxue within the mixed zone. Qian Renxue no longer hoped for the Light Unicorn that her grandfather Qian Daoliu had set for her; any ten-thousand-year-old soul beast with the Light attribute would be fine.

Not long after they started walking, two terrifying auras came from ahead, causing the ground to shake violently. A large number of the accompanying Spirit Hall guards fell down with a "whoosh," while She Long and Ci Xue's expressions changed at the same time.

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