Douluo Continent: I, Huo Yuhao, am the Master of Spirit

Chapter 71 Strange
The golden tortoiseshell raised its head slightly, a look of distrust in its eyes, and said:
"is it?"

"as long as you are happy."

"When you encounter a problem, just use my old tortoise's shell; it's absolutely rock hard!"

The Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm pounded the Golden Tortoiseshell's head hard in the Sea of ​​Spirit and said:

"Yuhao will definitely be fine!"

"Don't say such unlucky things."

"And you, stop daydreaming and get back to studying alchemy properly!"

"Look at our team, aren't you the only one slacking off all day!"

"Everyone is working hard. As a member of this team, and a member of the Qiyun clan, how can you be so lazy!"

Even a tortoise should aspire to take flight!

How could the proud and powerful Qi Yun clan possibly withstand such provocation?

Flames ignited in the golden eyes of the golden tortoiseshell as it lowered its head and continued to study alchemy.

Because it lacks spiritual attributes, it is extremely difficult for it to learn, often taking several days to memorize a single inscription.

Meanwhile, Tianmeng Ice Silkworm and Electrolux have already begun to refine their inscription systems.

The golden tortoiseshell felt that the gap between them was even greater than the difference between the ant and the Emperor.
It gets a headache just looking at those numbers.

To accelerate its learning speed, the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm used the Tianmeng Processor to compile a large number of exercises.

It includes mathematics and alchemy.

After all, to form a complete spell, one must make rigorous calculations to ensure that the position of the inscriptions is correct.

The golden tortoiseshell only regretted that its parents hadn't passed on its spiritual attributes to it!
And those damn numbers, they're always playing hide-and-seek with me.

Often when solving problems, I rack my brains, only to find that I've finally solved the problem based on the given conditions.

The evolved form of the Golden Tortoise, Xuanwu, has two heads, a turtle head and a snake head, both of which seem to want to tear apart the test questions in front of them.

However, due to the watchful eyes of Tianmeng Ice Silkworm and Electrolux, they dared not do so.

Huo Yuhao ignored the words of the golden tortoiseshell, looked at the entrance to the Cataclysmic Mountain Range in the distance—the Cataclysmic Mountain Range, and then walked straight there.

There are no large-scale cities built around the Disaster Mountain Range, only some small towns.

These towns mainly rely on the risky mining of mineral resources from the Disaster Mountain Range to transport to Star Luo City in exchange for money.

Perhaps because of thunderclouds, there are many rare metals here.

A profession similar to that of gold prospectors in the previous life was born, but instead of prospecting for gold, they were prospecting for rare metals.

Huo Yuhao didn't plan to go to the town to rest; there was no need.

The purpose of this trip was very simple: to obtain information about the golden-haired lion mastiff.

Unique trees grow at the entrance to the Disaster Mountain Range.

The trunks of these trees are black, as if they can absorb all light. Their branches grow in a very twisted and irregular way, crisscrossing each other to form black palms that oppress the minds of visitors.

Because of the presence of these trees, Huo Yuhao felt a sense of oppression as soon as he stepped inside.

How can I describe that feeling?

Just like Tang San learned the clone technique, he can surround you and smile at you.

"Blackthorn: It grows in mountainous areas with poor lighting. The heartwood inside the black trunk is highly nutritious and edible. Through evolution, the branches of the blackthorn have become twisted to protect itself..."

Fortunately, their recording ability kicked in, and they managed to strip these trees bare.

Huo Yuhao extended his mental energy, capturing every change around the forest.

Huo Yuhao would carefully examine any unknown soul beasts detected by his mental power and then record them in his catalog.

The most common outer-area soul beasts are low-level soul beasts such as wind wolves, grass pigs, mandrake snakes, and horned horses.

As the terrain rises, the black thorn trees gradually become sparse, and normal trees come into view.

Here, some rarer soul beasts begin to appear occasionally.

These rare soul beasts are mostly gemstone-type and star-type soul beasts.

Since he was already there, Huo Yuhao decided to thoroughly investigate any unfamiliar soul beasts with his mental power.

Once the monsters are included in the encyclopedia, a sense of accomplishment arises as you look at the increasing variety of monsters in the encyclopedia.

The moon is now high in the sky, countless stars twinkle on the black screen, and the brilliant Milky Way stretches across the heavens.

Huo Yuhao lit a campfire in a cave and roasted the fish he had just caught.

Throughout the day, Huo Yuhao collected over a hundred kinds of unknown soul beasts.

The vast majority are low-level soul beasts, with only a small portion being high-level soul beasts.

What puzzled Huo Yuhao was that although he had already traversed more than half of the Cataclysmic Mountain Range and his spiritual power had swept through almost every corner, he hadn't seen a single ten-thousand-year-old soul beast. The density of soul beasts was quite high during the Douluo Continent II: The Legend of the Condor Heroes era.

Ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts are not particularly rare. The Cataclysmic Mountain Range is quite large, so it's impossible that there are no ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts there.

At this moment, Tianmeng Ice Silkworm spoke.

"Yuhao, there are two possibilities for not seeing a ten-thousand-year-old soul beast."

"They've either been wiped out by humans, or there are beast king-level soul beasts clearing out their territory!"

"This is very common in the world of soul beasts, whether in the far north or the Star Dou Great Forest."

Huo Yuhao pondered for a moment and said, "From the information we currently have, very few Soul Masters come here to hunt Soul Rings."

"The Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School has long since shifted its focus on soul rings to the Star Dou Great Forest."

"The Star Luo Star Crown lineage only has a few people; it's impossible for them to hunt so many ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts."

“Gemstone-type and star-type martial souls are extremely rare in Douluo Continent.”

"And here, the only one that can be called the King of Beasts is the Golden Lion Mastiff."

Huo Yuhao pondered for a moment and then asked Tianmeng Ice Silkworm:
When the Beast King Soul Beast clears its territory, will it choose to kill all other threatening Soul Beasts?

Tianmeng Bingcan stammered and couldn't speak, as he didn't know much about it.

The golden tortoiseshell finally spoke.

"I, Old Turtle, know this. I am the Beast King, and I used to have a good relationship with several other Beast Kings."

"Beast kings usually choose to subdue their territories by force, and soul beasts that are willing to submit can continue to stay in their territories."

"Soul beasts that refuse to submit will either be killed or banished."

"Under no circumstances will we exterminate the ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts within our territory."

"Beast King, Beast King, what kind of king is there without subjects?"

"I've heard of similar cases to the Cataclysmic Mountains."

"Dark Evil God Tiger!"

"The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger hunts all soul beasts; there is no such thing as submission before it."

"Just like the evil soul masters among you humans, they do it to devour these soul beasts and become stronger."

Huo Yuhao watched as the oil dripped continuously from the grilled fish, and the tree branches crackled and popped.

His gaze was slightly unfocused.

"The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger does not exist here."

"Only that golden-haired lion mastiff could do something like that."

Why does it do this?

The golden tortoiseshell head nudged the reluctant black snake head, letting it continue with the questions.

Then, with his golden eyes looking up at the top of the Sea of ​​Spirit, he said:
"Feeling threatened, they want to become stronger."

"It's obvious."

Huo Yuhao picked up a grilled fish, took a bite, and chewed the fish meat continuously, saying indistinctly:

"A golden-haired lion mastiff that is 30,000 years old is impossible to kill in close combat unless you are a Limit Douluo."

"There aren't even any 100,000-year-old soul beasts here, so who can threaten it?"

The golden tortoiseshell shook its head, indicating that it didn't know.

Tianmeng Ice Silkworm thought for a moment and said, "Is it possible that the soul beasts in the core area are threatening it?"

"I remember in the story, that Super Douluo also encountered the opponent when he entered the core area."

"That means the golden-haired lion mastiff is running outside!"

"It wants to escape the core area!"

Huo Yuhao's eyelids drooped. He wasn't quite sure what was in the core area that made the golden-haired lion-dog want to run away.

His hand had just touched the second grilled fish when he suddenly paused.

"Brother Tianmeng, someone's here."

"I sensed a powerful aura in my spiritual power; it should be a Title Douluo."

"He hasn't reached the level of a Super Douluo; he's far inferior to Lin Huiqun."

"Heh, the target is clear: the cave on our side."

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