Starting from the young master of Haotian Sect.

Chapter 53 Soul Beast Tribe
Liang Yao walked up to Tang San and whispered, "Third Young Master, the only soul beast territory nearby is the Wumu Basin. Originally, the Wumu Basin was just a low-level soul beast territory, with no ten-thousand-year soul beasts. But now soul beasts have actually invaded the village. I think something unusual may have happened in the Wumu Basin."

Hearing this, Tang San couldn't help but frown and said, "If it's really as Liang Yao said, then the Wumu Basin is likely to be upgraded to a mid-level soul beast area, and there may already be a soul beast tribe in it."

The Star Dou Great Forest and the Sunset Forest are just the two most famous soul beast forests in the Tiandou Empire, with the most soul beast species and the strongest strength. However, there are not only two soul beast territories in the Tiandou Empire. It’s just that the other soul beast lands are relatively barren, so they are not very famous. However, they are places where many solo soul masters like to pick up bargains.

In low-level soul beast areas like the Wumu Basin, there are only soul beast nests controlled by thousand-year-old soul beasts. Thousand-year-old soul beasts already have considerable intelligence and will establish their own nests and territories.

When Tang San hunted the Mandrill with its second soul ring, it had just reached its thousandth year and was building its own nest and territory, but he killed it all in one fell swoop.

According to the Spirit Hall's classification, a Soul Beast Nest is defined as a gathering of fifty or more Soul Beasts, with at least one Millennium Soul Beast. A territory with ten Nests, led by at least one Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, is called a Soul Beast Tribe.

A place like the Star Dou Great Forest, where there are 100,000-year-old soul beasts, is worthy of being called a soul beast empire. You must know that the "Huang" in the Blue Silver Emperor refers to the emperor, the emperor of the Blue Silver Grass.

Tang San is not underestimating himself now. It would be quite dangerous for him to fight against a ten thousand year old soul beast that has just reached ten thousand years of cultivation. Even though Tang San has successfully hunted down a five thousand year old soul beast alone, and he is a thirty-seventh level soul master, ten thousand years is not at the same level at all, it is another level.

If he encountered an entire soul beast tribe in the soul beast's territory, he would have no choice but to run away and would not be able to fight at all.

After thinking for a moment, Tang San said, "Let's go to the border checkpoint near the Wumu Basin to check the situation. I always feel that this matter is a bit strange."

They have all come here. If they don’t even dare to go and take a look because they are afraid of the soul beasts, then it would be a disgrace for the young master of the Haotian Sect.

The others also nodded in agreement. If something really happened in the Wumu Basin, then their Haotian Sect's medicine garden in the Wumu Basin would probably be affected as well, and they would need to report the situation at that time.

The group of six had a relatively smooth journey to the border of the kingdom and did not encounter any soul beasts. In addition, the other people in the team were not visiting the Wumu Basin for the first time, so they walked quickly.

After walking for half a day, the remote border of the kingdom finally came into view.

"Third Young Master, the border checkpoint is ahead."

This is a mountain. When you climb to the top of the mountain, you will immediately see a vast plain basin. To the west, the Wumu Basin stretches out endlessly. The purpose of setting up the border checkpoint at a high place is to be able to take in the entire Wumu Basin at a glance.

"How did it become like this? It was still normal when I came here more than half a year ago." Liang Yao brought Tang San to an outpost, looked at the miserable situation of the outpost, and said in surprise.

Tang San looked around and said, "Soul beasts can invade villages. This outpost must have been breached by them long ago. The houses and pathways are all in ruins. Without people living there, plants grow very quickly. Ivy, moss, and grass are everywhere. It looks like it's been destroyed for at least a month or two."

Everyone present had actually guessed that the kingdom's outpost had been destroyed by the soul beast, and they were mentally prepared.

Tang San bent down, picked up the broken spear on the ground, looked at the broken end and said, "What I find strange is that this outpost has been destroyed for such a long time, and the kingdom has not sent out any news. Not to mention clearing out the spirit beasts, they haven't even sent spirit masters and soldiers to evacuate the villagers. This shouldn't be right."

"Even if ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts and soul beast tribes appear in the Five Wood Basin, they would only be newly formed at most. Those ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts would only have a little over ten thousand years of cultivation. Even if they organized a soul beast tribe, they wouldn't be too strong. A Soul King with a ten-thousand-year soul ring leading a hundred soul masters and tens of thousands of soldiers should be enough. The kingdom can't possibly not even have a Soul King, right?" Generally speaking, the strength of an ordinary soul master can be judged by the soul rings compared to the strength of a soul beast. For example, a level 30 Soul Venerable can absorb a soul ring with a little over a thousand years of cultivation. Therefore, a Soul Venerable with a thousand-year soul ring can defeat a soul beast with a thousand years of cultivation in a one-on-one fight.

This is also why there is a theory about the soul ring absorption limit, because the strength of a soul master corresponds to this limit. Except for monsters like Tang San, ordinary people cannot even reach the general limit, let alone break through it.

If one can defeat a thousand-year soul beast without absorbing the third soul ring, he is simply a monster. A normal soul master is one who can defeat a thousand-year soul beast only after absorbing the thousand-year soul ring.

Therefore, a Soul King who has absorbed a ten thousand year soul ring is strong enough to defeat a soul beast that has cultivated for ten thousand years.

Liang Yao seemed to have discovered something and hurried over, saying, "Third Young Master, I found some strange footprints over here."

"Go and see."

Liang Yao pushed aside the dead branches of the trees, revealing some footprints on the ground. These footprints were somewhat similar to human footprints, both of which were walking on two feet, but the difference was that the nails of the footprints had sharp claws, and humans wore shoes.

"What kind of soul beast's footprints are these? They don't look like those of the Zerg, a bipedal beast?" Tang San really couldn't tell what kind of soul beast this was.

Liang Yao picked up a handful of hair from the ground and said, "Third Young Master, I'm sure these are the footprints of a wolf bandit."

"Wolf Bandit?" Tang San was puzzled. It was impossible for him to know everything.

Liang Yao said, "Wolf Bandits can be considered human, but they can also be considered not. They are a combination of humans and a spirit beast called the Swift Wind Wolf. Swift Wind Wolfs are extremely lustful and will mate with almost any creature of similar size. They particularly enjoy raping human women. When they mate with human women, they give birth to this unique species of Wolf Bandits, which can be said to be a half-wolf, half-human spirit beast."

"The Wolf Thief was born with the physique, speed, and some innate abilities of the Wind Wolf. He also possessed a certain amount of human wisdom and was extremely bloodthirsty and greedy."

"And the wolf bandits come in packs."

After hearing Liang Yao's words, Tang San asked, "You mean a group of powerful wolf bandits occupied the Wumu Basin, formed a wolf bandit tribe and ruled the mountains. They attacked the kingdom's outposts in order to seize the women and committed numerous atrocities?"

Liang Yao smiled in agreement and said, "The Third Young Master is indeed worthy of being the son of Haotian Douluo. I really admire his wisdom."

Tang San had already turned a deaf ear to such flattery, but this time he was a little dissatisfied.

If it was really done by wolf bandits, then the village should have been looted by a group of wolf bandits, not a three-eyed demon worm with a thousand-year cultivation history leading the entire nest.

“I always feel like something is wrong.”

(End of this chapter)