Starting from the young master of Haotian Sect.

Chapter 54: Insect Soul Beast

"How strong are these wolf bandits?"

Hearing Tang San's question, Liang Yao quickly said, "Third Young Master, these Wolf Bandits are not very strong, generally only possessing the strength of Level 20 to 30 Spirit Masters. They often attack villages and plunder women, but they are numerous and united, making them very formidable. A Wolf Bandit Corps of 500 is enough to defeat an army of 10,000."

Different from Liang Yao who was afraid of the Wolf Bandit, Tang San looked a little confused. The strength of this Wolf Bandit was simply too weak.

Soul Master is a very rare profession. Most people cannot become Soul Masters after awakening their martial souls. Therefore, ordinary people who cannot become Soul Masters but whose martial souls have attack power will choose to join the army.

Generally speaking, a well-equipped soldier can be as strong as a one-ring soul master, but will definitely not be able to defeat a two-ring soul master.

Liang Yao was not strong, and his fear of the Wolf Bandits came more from their brutality and large numbers. However, in Tang San's opinion, these Wolf Bandits were very weak. One Soul Saint was enough to slaughter all 500 Wolf Bandits. Moreover, the Wolf Bandits themselves knew that they were very weak, so they did not dare to attack human cities at all. They only dared to attack remote villages outside the cities where there were no Soul Masters.

Tang San stood on a high place and looked back at the village behind him that was attacked by giant earthworms. The distance between the outpost and the village was not close, and they needed to walk for half a day.

"This outpost has been destroyed for some time. Why did the giant earthworms take so long to attack the village? Moreover, it was the wolf bandits who attacked the outpost, but it was the giant earthworm tribe that attacked the village. The kingdom did not provide regular feedback to its own outposts. Why was there no reaction at all? Did something happen to the kingdom? These wolf bandits are so weak. They used to only attack villages. Now they dare to provoke the kingdom, attack the outpost and kill the kingdom's soldiers? Aren't these wolf bandits afraid that the kingdom will send powerful spirit masters to retaliate?" The more Tang San thought about it, the more wrong it felt, because these things were not logically connected, but they seemed to be connected, and they all happened.

Not to mention soul beasts, soul masters who enter soul beast territories to hunt are also very afraid of soul beasts' revenge. Even if they want to obtain soul rings, they only dare to hunt soul beasts quietly. If they can hunt alone, they will go alone, otherwise they will bring some soul masters of similar strength to accompany them. If a Soul Emperor, Soul Saint or other strong person helps a low-level soul master hunt soul beasts, if they accidentally attract a ten-thousand-year-old soul beast, everyone will die there.

Now the soul beasts are taking the initiative to provoke the kingdom, which is indeed not in line with common sense.

"The herb picking mission is suspended. You guys stay here. Liang Yao, come with me. I need to investigate if anything happened in the Wumu Basin. If a ten thousand year old soul beast tribe really appears, our Haotian Sect cannot let the Wumu Basin herb garden fall into the hands of the soul beasts for nothing." Tang San gave orders one after another.

Although the Wumu Basin is not as stable as the industries in Haotian City, it is also considered one of the private properties of Haotian Sect. The annual output of medicinal herbs and spiritual plants is very important.

As the young master of the sect, Tang San naturally has the obligation and responsibility to protect the sect's property. After his evaluation, he may even send a Soul Sage or even a Soul Douluo to deal with it.

"I know, Third Young Master." Liang Yao couldn't help but shrink his head when he heard that. If he had known earlier, he wouldn't have jumped like that. Now look what happened. The Third Young Master has noticed his ability and wants to bring him into the soul beast territory.

Liang Yao led the way. The mountains in the Wumu Basin crisscrossed and undulated, like giant dragons lying on the earth. After passing the outpost, Tang San and the others could hear the faint sounds of tigers roaring, insects chirping, and birds singing from time to time.

Liang Yao was not afraid of these calls, as he could hear them every time they came.

"Third Master, the footprints have disappeared."

Liang Yao followed the wolf bandit's footprints all the way to the edge of the mountain. After pushing away the obstacles, the compressed feeling of physical space was suddenly released. The vision that was originally cut by the mountain suddenly stretched out, as if stepping into the bottom of a giant bowl held up by the earth.

Below the basin, bipedal black figures moved back and forth, as if carrying something. "Third Young Master, those are wolf bandits," Liang Yao whispered from behind Tang San.

Tang San circulated the soul power in his body into his pupils, and the Purple Demon Pupil was activated, and he could gradually see the appearance of those wolf thieves.

There were only about forty or fifty wolf bandits, each of them incredibly strong, as tall as an adult man. Most peculiarly, their hair was gray, and their bodies were heavily covered in hair, giving them the appearance of wild men. Their lips protruded outward, revealing two canine teeth several times larger than those of an average human.

These wolf bandits seemed to be carrying something to the other side of the basin.

"It's strange. The number of wolf bandits is less than I thought. Could they be on the other side of the basin?" Liang Yao narrowed his eyes. He counted the number of wolf bandits and found that there were not many. It was somewhat different from the wolf bandits he knew.

Tang San narrowed his eyes slightly and said in a deep voice: "It's not that there are not many of them, they have been killed."

"Kill them all?!" Liang Yao was shocked.

Tang San had the Purple Demon Eye, so he could see more clearly. He found that these wolf bandits looked depressed, without any of the brutality and bloodthirstiness that Liang Yao had described. If he had to describe it, they were like prisoners who had been defeated in a battle.

Moreover, all these wolf bandits were carrying things and doing the work of porters, which was obviously completely different from what Liang Yao said.

"It wasn't these wolf bandits who broke through the kingdom's outpost. They were enslaved and were only there to rob and transport supplies. It was other spirit beasts that broke through the kingdom's outpost and massacred the soldiers." Tang San looked around below, then stopped at the high side of the basin. He found the real culprit.

Seeing those figures, the contradiction was completely resolved.

Zerg! Zerg soul beast!

Several one-meter-long crimson giant locusts appeared in the darkness, flapping their wings. The forelimbs of these giant locusts had evolved into serrated blades, their elytra were covered with lava lines, and their six hind legs had barbed suction cups at the ends.

"I was wondering why the insect soul beasts attacked the village. It turns out the Zerg are the mastermind behind this." Tang San locked his eyes. He was sure that this basin had been occupied by the insect soul beasts.

The biggest difference between the Insect Soul Beast and other Soul Beasts is their reproductive capacity. Insect Soul Beasts are extremely aggressive because they require a large amount of resources to maintain their terrifying reproductive capacity. Therefore, even in Soul Beast territory, Insect Soul Beasts are an alien species, and even Soul Beasts dislike them.

"The Red Flame Sabre Locusts have a cultivation lifespan of a thousand years, and the highest is no more than six thousand years. I'm not afraid of their numbers, but are they actually enslaving the Wolf Bandits?"

Tang San didn't know why, but he felt a strange and uneasy feeling in his heart. He always felt that something was happening quietly, but the entire soul master world was completely unaware of it. No one even realized that the crisis had arrived.

(End of this chapter)