Douluo Continent: Tonight, a Fairy Tale Descends

However, looking at the almost insane obsession and deep-seated despair in Dai Mubai's eyes, he finally nodded. After all, he was just a guard.

"Yes, Your Highness. I will go and prepare the carriages and necessary supplies immediately."

"No, no carriage. It's too conspicuous and will easily reveal our whereabouts. Let's travel light and walk!" Dai Mubai decisively rejected the idea.

Chapter 104 Swarm of Human-Faced Demon Spiders

Huo An said no more and quickly got up to leave and make arrangements. As a Soul Emperor, he had his own means of ensuring survival in the wild.

A moment later, the two figures disappeared into the night, leaving Tiandou City silently and heading swiftly towards Sunset Forest.

Dai Mubai knew this was a huge gamble, a gamble on his speed, a gamble on his luck, and even more so on the possibility that the mysterious witch might treat the first sincere person to arrive under the cover of night with special regard.

He had even thought about what he would say when he met Godot. He couldn't match Godot's wealth, but he could promise the future, exchange information, and pay any price he was willing to pay.

Huo An sighed inwardly. The ruthlessness and decisiveness that the Third Prince, who had always acted carefree, showed at this moment was beyond his expectations.

However, the road ahead is uncertain, and even he dares not say he can be absolutely certain that he can protect everyone in the Sunset Forest at night.

Shortly after Dai Mubai and his servant disappeared into the darkness of the night, Zhu Tianlin and Davis received secret reports from their subordinates almost simultaneously.

"Oh? Mu Bai went to Sunset Forest overnight?" Davis was wiping his Purple Lightning Pearl when he heard the news. He paused, then let out a contemptuous sneer.

"My brother is really desperate. He thinks he can gain the upper hand this way? How laughable. Is Sunset Forest so easy to break into? I'm afraid he won't even get to see that lord before becoming some ten-thousand-year-old soul beast's midnight snack."

He didn't take Dai Mubai's actions to heart, instead thinking that the other party was overestimating himself and would only make a fool of himself.

Davis didn't even bother to stop him; he was happy to see Dai Mubai go and get hurt.

When Zhu Tianlin received the news, he only frowned slightly.

"Your Highness the Third Prince is too impatient." He spoke calmly, revealing neither joy nor anger.

"It's good that young people are energetic, but too much of a good thing can be bad. Huo An should be safe with him, but trying to impress a Title Douluo with this..."

He shook his head, the unspoken message clear.

In Zhu Tianlin's eyes, Dai Mubai's actions were nothing more than a child's tantrum, and completely meaningless.

Genuine deals rely on tangible resources and genuine sincerity at the empire level, not on such clever but risky maneuvers.

"Ignore it. Proceed as planned, depart promptly tomorrow morning," Zhu Tianlin ordered.

He believed that only this weighty list of gifts in his hands could truly open the door to Ge Duo's heart.

……

Deep within the Sunset Forest, beside the Yin-Yang Well of Ice and Fire, Godo had just finished refining yet another batch of magic potions.

She seemed to sense something, and looked up at the dimly lit night sky, a hint of amusement and anticipation flashing in her dark green eyes.

"The fish... seem even more eager than expected." She chuckled softly, as if she could already smell the unusual scent carried on the wind.

She gently stroked the wand in her hand, beginning to ponder how to entertain this first potentially uninvited guest.

……

Meanwhile, Dai Mubai and Huo An had already rushed to Sunset Forest.

The dense darkness of night, like ink that cannot be dissolved, enveloped the entire forest.

The branches of the towering ancient trees twisted and intertwined, casting eerie shadows under the faint starlight.

The air was filled with the damp smell of decaying leaves, a faint miasma, and a subtle, sweet, fishy odor.

"Your Highness, stay close to me," Huo An said in a deep voice, his soul power fluctuating slightly as six soul rings quietly appeared and disappeared.

His powerful aura emanated from him, dispelling some of the weaker beings lurking in the darkness.

In his hand, Huo An also held a long sword burning with crimson flames, which served both as illumination and a deterrent.

Dai Mubai nodded, took a deep breath, and suppressed the pounding in his heart.

He is currently just a Soul Master, and in this perilous forest, he clearly feels his own insignificance.

But the flames burning in Dai Mubai's eyes did not go out; instead, they burned even brighter due to the pressure of the environment.

The two trudged deeper into the forest, their steps uneven. Huo An, being experienced, deliberately avoided areas with unusual energy fluctuations or that were too quiet.

He knew that it was the symbol of a powerful soul beast's territory.

However, danger lurks everywhere in the Sunset Forest at night.

"chichi"

A faint sound came from behind the two. Huo An turned around abruptly, and his flaming longsword swept out. As the blade flashed, several colorful venomous snakes that had sprung out of the humus layer were cut in two, and the cuts made a sizzling sound of corrosion.

"It's a spotted venomous snake, extremely poisonous. Watch your step and the tree trunk!" Huo An warned in a low voice.

A cold sweat trickled down Dai Mubai's back; he hadn't even noticed it before.

The deeper they went, the taller and denser the trees became, almost completely blocking out the starlight, and they relied entirely on Hoan's Flame Blade for illumination.

The miasma became denser, with hallucinogenic effects, forcing even Huo An to divert some of his soul power to resist it, which slowed him down.

"Roar!"

A deep roar shook the leaves to their core, and two eerie green lanterns lit up in the darkness ahead, accompanied by a stenchy gust of wind.

It was a massive, ancient ghost tiger that clearly regarded them as intruders.

Huo An's expression turned grave as he shielded Dai Mubai behind him, saying, "Your Highness, step back! This guy is not easy to deal with!"

The battle erupted instantly.

Huo An and Ghost Tiger collided violently, the light of their soul skills tearing through the darkness, and a huge roar echoed far and wide through the silent forest.

Dai Mubai clenched his fists tightly, watching Huo An fight fiercely with the ghost tiger. He could only watch helplessly from the sidelines, and this sense of powerlessness almost drove him mad.

Huo An, being a Soul Emperor, possessed formidable strength. After a fierce battle, he finally managed to severely injure Ghost Tiger with a massive fiery blade aura, forcing it to retreat.

However, he also suffered considerable damage, with a deep, bone-revealing wound on his arm, which was covered in blood.

"Huo An, how are you?" Dai Mubai rushed forward.

"It's nothing, just a superficial wound." Huo An tore off a strip of cloth and hastily bandaged the wound, his face somewhat pale.

"Your Highness, we should not linger here. The commotion we just made could cause more trouble. We must find His Majesty's residence as soon as possible."

Dai Mubai gritted his teeth and nodded.

The two continued onward, but Huo An's injuries and exhaustion clearly affected their speed and stealth.

Finally, while traversing a dark forest covered in giant spider webs, they triggered a real nightmare.

Almost instantly, countless fist-sized spiders with bizarre human-face patterns surged out from the treetops and ground in all directions, moving at an astonishing speed, spewing out thick, shimmering purplish-black spider silk from their mouths.

"A swarm of human-faced spiders! Run!" Huo An was horrified. He brandished his flaming blade wildly, trying to burn through the spider silk, but the silk was extremely tough and could not be melted immediately.

Even more terrifying is that these spider silks are coated with potent neurotoxins and have a paralyzing effect. Just inhaling a small amount of the smoke from the burning spider silk made Huo An feel dizzy and slowed down his movements.

Chapter 105 I Need Power

Countless spider silk instantly coiled around Huo An, wrapping him up layer by layer, and the light on the Flame Blade quickly dimmed.

He struggled desperately, unleashing his soul power to shatter layer after layer of spider silk, but more and more spider silk kept wrapping around him, like a white wave, threatening to completely engulf him.

The toxins seeped through his skin, and Huo's power was rapidly diminishing.

"Your Highness, run!" Huo An roared in despair, on the verge of being completely swallowed up.

But the cold spider silk instantly wrapped around Dai Mubai's hands and feet, and the poison invaded, causing Dai Mubai to feel his body begin to go numb.

Just as Dai Mubai's consciousness was about to fade and Huo An was about to be completely enveloped in a cocoon,

"Tsk, what a noisy night."

A languid yet strangely magnetic female voice seemed to whisper in their ears, or perhaps it came from every corner of the forest.

Time seemed to stand still at that moment.

All the surging spider silk, the frantically attacking human-faced demon spiders, and even the howling wind were frozen in this moment.

Immediately afterwards, an indescribable, deep, and dark pressure swept across the woodland like a tide.

The ferocious and violent human-faced spiders seemed to have encountered their natural enemy, letting out extremely sharp and fearful screechs. They retreated like a tide, burrowing back into their caves and tree crevices, disappearing without a trace, leaving only a mess of spider silk and signs of battle on the ground.

The spider silk wrapped around Dai Mubai and Huo An was cut off as if by an invisible blade, and fell off one by one.

Dai Mubai collapsed to the ground, panting heavily, and looked up in shock.

Not far away, on the branches of a huge, strange plant that emitted a faint blue light, a figure was seen sitting.

Moonlight filtered through the gaps in the trees and fell precisely on her.

She was a woman breathtakingly beautiful, yet so dangerous she sent chills down your spine.

She wore a long, deep purple dress with dark green patterns, the hem of which spread out like a blooming poisonous flower.

Her skin was so pale it was almost transparent, which made her deep green eyes appear even more profound.

Her face possessed an eerie beauty, with a playful, all-knowing smile playing at the corners of her lips.

She toyed with a winding, twisting wooden staff in her hand, the dark gem embedded at the top of the staff slowly gathering its chilling energy fluctuations.

Just by being swept by her gaze, Dai Mubai felt a shiver from the depths of his soul, as if all his secrets, all his struggles and despair had been seen through at a glance.

Huo An struggled to kneel on one knee, ignoring his injuries, and lowered his head, his voice filled with utmost awe and lingering fear: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for saving my life!"

"Help? I just don't like my garden being disturbed by these noisy little bugs."

Ge Duo chuckled softly, her voice like a night breeze brushing against the strings of a zither.

Her gaze slowly fell on Dai Mubai, who was struggling to stand up, and she looked him up and down as if she were evaluating an interesting item.

"The young prince of the Star Luo Empire?" She parted her red lips slightly, her tone languid.

"Instead of enjoying wealth and luxury in your palace, you've come to my dangerous forest to die?"

Dai Mubai's heart pounded wildly, his blood rushing with fear and a strange excitement.

He forced himself to stand up straight, looked up to meet those unfathomable green eyes, and used all his strength, his voice dry and hoarse from nervousness.

"Your Majesty Godot! I'm not here to die! I'm here... to make a deal with you!"