Chapter 158 The Auspicious Beast of Fear

Chapter 158 The Auspicious Beast of Fear

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Outside the Star Dou Great Forest, Amon's main body took out the four soul bones he had obtained from Shi Nian, Dugu Bo, and Tang Hao.

As he circulated his soul power, a semi-transparent worm with twelve rings and starlight-like colors appeared, swimming quickly in the palm of his hand, leaving behind trails of transparent phantoms, like a swarm of worms.

After swimming around a few times, the Worm of Time flew towards a soul bone, stopping at the skull left by Dugu Bo, which emitted a faint green light.

Pale gray light surged, constantly eroding the soul bone until it was also dyed gray.

As the gray soul power eroded, the skull gradually melted, turning into a mass of gray gelatinous substance, eventually merging into one of the Worm of Time's rings.

Amon's external soul bone was attached to his martial soul, so it also took on some of the martial soul's characteristics.

It gained the ability to "corrupt" other soul bones, turning them into similar "martial soul bones." Then, it assimilated and absorbed them to increase its own age.

The disadvantage was that the abilities of the assimilated and absorbed soul bones would not be retained; they would only become nourishment for the original soul bone.

The advantages were more numerous: first, Amon's materialized soul power would become more resilient, and the generated monocle would become more solid, avoiding the previous situation where it was frequently shattered in battles of even low intensity.

Second, the effect of absorbing soul bones on Amon's soul power improvement would still exist, without the limitation of soul bone slots. Amon could then quickly improve his soul power level by absorbing soul bones, instead of cultivating painstakingly as before.

Third, soul bones were mostly products of soul beasts in extreme emotions, and soul bones contained the resentment of soul beasts. These resentments would become nourishment for the martial soul, making the "whispers" in the soul power stronger, making it easier to destroy other people's spirits.

Just by absorbing Dugu Bo's soul bone, Amon's soul power level directly reached level 60.

Looking at the remaining soul bones, he did not hesitate and absorbed them all. Since he had no soul rings, Amon's level did not continue to increase. He knew that this soul power was only restricted and still existed. As long as he obtained a soul ring, the increased levels would be revealed, without worrying about disappearing.

Amon's external soul bone, which was originally only a hundred years old, had been greatly improved by following his own growth. At this time, using two ten-thousand-year soul bones and two fifty-thousand-year soul bones as nourishment, its quality was further enhanced, crossing a certain limit and reaching the level of a hundred-thousand-year soul bone.

A special force descended along that invisible connection to each of Amon's avatars, and they all felt their soul power undergoing a qualitative change.

The Amons unanimously took off their original monocles, crushed them, and then re-condensed them, putting them on in different poses, adjusting them to the most comfortable position for themselves.

"Heh… the hunt begins."

As Amon's soul power level reached another limit, he could absorb soul rings again.

Although the main body could not absorb them because it had not yet found a suitable target, the avatars could.

One by one, Amon's avatars, either alone or in groups, entered the forests where soul beasts lived, wantonly hunting various soul beasts.

They did not care about the type or age of the soul beasts, because these soul rings were only used to exploit bugs and improve soul power without side effects.

This time, Amon had more avatars than last time, and each clone needed more soul power to increase from level forty-one or forty-two to level fifty. Therefore, the number of soul beasts he needed to hunt was also much larger than before.

Except for some distant avatars, these Amons, under the request of the main body, went to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt.

Amon's main body glanced at the depths of the forest, then turned and slowly walked towards Spirit Hall City.

A clone with a personality similar to the main body stole the main body's fifth soul skill and stayed in the forest to preside over the overall situation.

The corner of his mouth slowly curved back, revealing a smile.

One by one, animals with flight capabilities had their minds collapse under the erosion of Amon's soul power, and then, streams of Worms of Time emitting starlight merged into their bodies.

Crows, sparrows, butterflies, etc., with circles in their right eyes, formed a huge reconnaissance network, advancing in a carpet-like search from the edge of the Star Dou Great Forest to the depths.

Without exception, all the soul beasts in this reconnaissance network became Amon's soul rings.

As this large team of soul masters moved, a large number of soul beasts were slaughtered.

On the Douluo Continent, the number of soul masters had never been large, and the total number had never exceeded one million.

It was unprecedented for nearly two thousand soul masters to pour into the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt soul rings at once.

Amon's hunting behavior even caused turmoil among the soul beasts in a small area. The soul beasts scattered in groups to other places, vying to escape from the humans who brought danger.

On the periphery of the forest, a tiger that was pure black, with blood-red eyes, over eight meters long, exuding a gloomy aura, and with its tail raised upward in the shape of a scorpion's tail, sensed the danger, growled softly in the direction where the Amons were gathering, and then moved away.

In the depths of the Star Dou Great Forest, a huge head emerged from the water. It was an ox head, connected to a snake body that was tens of meters long.

Sky Blue Bull Python! One of the two great soul beast kings of the Star Dou Great Forest.

A black gorilla as big as a hill burst out of the forest and jumped to its side.

Titan Giant Ape! Another hundred-thousand-year soul beast.

On the giant ape's shoulder sat a girl in a white dress. She had delicate features and a beautiful figure, like a fairy in a painting, but her face carried a faint sadness.

"Er Ming, Xiao Wu, do you know what's happening over there? The soul beasts are restless," the Sky Blue Bull Python said, speaking in human language.

"I don't know. I came to you for this. Something seems to be making them feel fear," said the Titan Giant Ape.

Xiao Wu gazed in the direction from which the soul beasts were fleeing, with a hint of solemnity and hatred in her eyes: "That's the direction of Spirit Hall City."

"Spirit Hall City? Is that where the humans who killed your mother live?" the Sky Blue Bull Python said in a deep voice.

"Yes."

"Do you want me to go and see what's going on? The soul beasts that are fleeing can't express clearly why they're fleeing, they only know that danger is approaching," said the Titan Giant Ape.

"Don't!" Xiao Wu dissuaded, "I'm afraid it's humans. If it's really those people, even you, Er Ming, will be in danger. Let's wait and see. Later, soul beasts with higher ages should run over. We can ask them then."

At the same time, in the true central area of the Star Dou Great Forest, beneath a calm and beautiful lake, a small beast with golden fur, a semi-transparent body, full of strange texture, a body like a lion, four claws like dragons, and golden flames on its feet was trembling.

The golden scales under its fur also stood on end because of fear and unease, and the third eye on its forehead revealed endless despair.

"Waa…" it wailed, "Di Tian, I'm scared, so scared!"

Beside it, a handsome man with black hair hanging down to his feet said gently: "Auspicious Beast, what's wrong? Your condition has been very bad recently."

A woman with long turquoise hair and eyes, wearing a green dress, with a pair of wings on her back, said gently:

"Yes, don't be afraid. I, Di Tian, and Chi Wang and the others will do our best to protect you."

"But, but… it's really scary!"

The Auspicious Beast was still crying non-stop. It cried heart-wrenchingly, and tears flowed down. Even though the green-haired woman called Bi Ji tried her best to comfort it, it was still useless.

Di Tian, the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King, an unparalleled ferocious beast of eight hundred thousand years, the true king of the Star Dou Great Forest, was helpless in the face of the crying Auspicious Beast, and only felt that his head was twice as big as usual.

He used various methods, made funny faces, barked like a dog, and tried to make the Auspicious Beast happy.

"Okay, okay, Di Tian, you don't have to do that. I'm not a child," the Auspicious Beast gradually stopped crying, sobbing.

Seeing the Auspicious Beast's emotions gradually calm down, Di Tian also revealed a smile: "You are a child."

He touched the little beast's head and said softly: "Now, can you tell me, what happened?"

The Auspicious Beast said in an extremely heavy and extremely fearful tone:

"I saw the destiny, the destiny of the soul beasts… dead, all dead… I'm dead, Chi Wang is dead, you're dead too… The destiny of the Star Dou Great Forest is terminated. In the near future, all the soul beasts will be eaten clean by something!"

If someone else said this, Di Tian would only think he was talking nonsense, but when these words came from the mouth of the Auspicious Beast who possessed the power of destiny, he could not help but take it seriously.

His face became solemn, and he said in a deep voice: "Auspicious Beast, are you sure? How long is this near future, approximately? Tens of thousands of years? Or thousands of years?"

The Auspicious Beast said hesitantly: "I… I'm not sure, it seems to be only a hundred years, no, shorter, it seems to be less than fifty years."

"Uh…" A look of astonishment appeared on Di Tian's face, and the solemnity in his eyes was replaced by suspicion. If it was said that the soul beasts would encounter a survival crisis under the oppression of humans in thousands or tens of thousands of years, he could still believe it, but fifty years?

On the Douluo Continent, the power of humans added together was at most equivalent to that of soul beasts, or even slightly inferior. How could they exterminate soul beasts in fifty years?

He said in a questioning tone: "Can you see clearly what is bringing the destruction? Humans? Gods? Or a certain soul beast?"

The Auspicious Beast was stunned, and said in a self-doubting tone: "It seems to be a human."

Speaking of this, it was stunned itself. Although destiny revealed a dark future to it, reason told it that humans really had no ability to destroy the Star Dou Great Forest in fifty years.

"I, I'm not sure, maybe I'm wrong, maybe…" The Auspicious Beast's voice became smaller and smaller, appearing extremely unconfident.

Bi Ji's eyes were smiling, "Maybe you are too tired, Auspicious Beast, but in any case, let's not be careless, pay more attention to the Star Dou Great Forest recently, and see if there is anything unusual."

"Yeah." Di Tian nodded.

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