"Tuo'er, you can tell me now, what exactly is your plan?" the Golden Body Douluo asked.
Since they were heading to the Demonic Forest, it was likely related to hunting soul beasts.
Yuwen Tuo countered, "Grand Elder, has the Sect Master told you about my Assimilation Technique?"
Jin Peng nodded. "After you left, he mentioned it to me. It's also the main reason he felt confident enough to let you come to the Sun Moon Empire alone, because the Snow Empress exists within your body. That Gluttonous Douluo, in truth, didn't die from the siege of fierce beasts, but from the Snow Empress's hand you summoned, right?"
"Precisely so. However, Sister Snow Empress's power is truly too strong, and her summoning cooldown is too long. For this reason, I need a true companion that I can summon freely, for example, a soul beast that has just surpassed a hundred thousand years, possessing Titled Douluo-level combat strength, yet without placing too much burden on me," Yuwen Tuo explained.
"Excellent strategy!" Jin Peng's eyes lit up. If Yuwen Tuo could summon a hundred-thousand-year soul beast at any time to protect him, then he wouldn't have to worry too much. For ordinary opponents, Yuwen Tuo, coupled with a hundred-thousand-year soul beast, should be sufficient.
And if a master appeared whom even a hundred-thousand-year soul beast couldn't handle, that would at least be a Hyper Douluo. Such powerhouses were rare in the Sun Moon Empire. Although Class 9 Soul Engineers could also unleash such combat power, most of them were enshrined in the Enshrinement Hall, and they wouldn't assassinate an imperial prince for Xu Tianran before he inherited the throne.
The only thing Yuwen Tuo had to worry about was the Holy Spirit Cult, but once that group appeared, it would mean Yuwen Tuo's revenge was also about to begin, and the Snow Empress's sword would definitely be drawn.
"Tuo'er, then your target is—"
"A hundred-thousand-year Evil Eye Tyrant!" Yuwen Tuo stated. "My strongest point right now is my spiritual power. Today, I shall play to my strengths."
Jin Peng stroked his chin. "An Evil Eye Tyrant, huh? It is indeed a very formidable soul beast. But such soul beasts are not easy to deal with. As a unique soul beast of this Demonic Forest, our Body Sect's records on them are not extensive. We only generally know that they are social creatures and usually live in the hottest or most humid places, depending on their cultivation path."
If it were an Evil Eye Tyrant that had just reached one hundred thousand years, he wouldn't put it in his eyes. The difficulty lay in finding it.
Although Evil Eye Tyrants were spirit-attribute soul beasts, they were not purely spirit-attribute. Different Evil Eye Tyrants might have different sub-attributes, such as fire, water, earth, etc., which also led to variations in their living environments.
"I have a way to find it!" Yuwen Tuo said. He had read the original novel and knew that within the Demonic Forest, there was a Flame Evil Tyrant.
And living near that Flame Evil Tyrant was the son of the Evil Emperor, a hundred-thousand-year pure spirit-type Evil Eye Tyrant, which was Yuwen Tuo's target this time.
In other words, as long as he found the Flame Evil Tyrant, he could find that hundred-thousand-year Evil Eye Tyrant.
The two delved deeper into the Demonic Forest. With Jin Peng, a Hyper Douluo, accompanying them, there was no need to worry about ordinary soul beasts causing trouble.
They kept walking south, to the hottest part of the entire Demonic Forest.
The Flame Evil Tyrant would surely prefer such a living environment.
Yuwen Tuo summoned his Flame Elephant martial soul. The purest Flame Elephant power was the favorite thing of fire-attribute soul beasts. Back then, even the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and the Scarlet King drooled over it. He didn't believe the Flame Evil Tyrant could resist.
As the two delved deeper into the Demonic Forest, deep within, a strange soul beast opened its eyes.
It hovered in the air, its entire body a giant eye, a full meter in diameter, blood-red in color.
Six tentacles surrounded the giant eye, three green and three red, hanging long and trailing on the ground. Where the tentacles dragged, either corrosive grooves were left behind, or the ground was scorched by flames.
Clearly, this was the creature Yuwen Tuo was searching for this time: the Flame Evil Tyrant, possessing spiritual, fire, and corrosive attributes.
It was also quite suitable for his Flame Elephant martial soul.
Unfortunately, this one was a bit too young; it had only just passed the twenty-thousand-year mark.
"What pure flames!" The Flame Evil Tyrant's eyes were filled with greed. If it could devour such powerful flames, its fire power would surely greatly increase.
Thinking this, its gigantic tentacles swayed, and it charged at Yuwen Tuo's location at an incredibly fast speed.
In truth, Yuwen Tuo's flames attracted more than just this one fire-attribute Flame Evil Tyrant, but in this Demonic Forest, the Evil Eye clan was the absolute overlord.
Unless it was a Dragon Species or an Ancient Exotic Beast, equally powerful existences, ordinary soul beasts wouldn't dare to contend with the Flame Evil Tyrant for food.
Even those stronger than it would give it a wide berth, as the Evil Eye Tyrant clan liked to live in groups and were quite united. Offending one Flame Evil Tyrant might lead to its boss coming to their door the next day.
Yuwen Tuo's eyes narrowed. "It's here! Elder, please hide yourself."
"Good." Jin Peng responded, and his figure vanished instantly without a trace. He knew Yuwen Tuo's plan.
If he were present, the Flame Evil Tyrant would probably not dare to show itself at all. With Yuwen Tuo's current strength, he shouldn't fear a soul beast less than thirty thousand years old.
Soon, Yuwen Tuo sensed a peculiar fluctuation spreading towards him.
It was a domain-like soul ability. Within a radius of several hundred meters, everything became distorted.
This technique should be the Mental Field, a natural soul ability of the Evil Eye clan.
It belonged to the spiritual control category, and those affected would experience various states such as dizziness, sluggishness, fatigue, decadence, and weakness. This was also the Evil Eye clan's strongest crowd control ability, with its specific intensity depending on the Evil Eye clan's spiritual power.
It was said that the Evil Emperor's Mental Field could at least cover half of Mingdu.
This one, however, was only a few hundred meters, which was indeed weak.
The next moment, a gigantic, fiery-red eye appeared before Yuwen Tuo, flickering with an eerie red light. This was the mark of the Flame Evil Tyrant releasing its soul ability.
"Finally, it's out. First Soul Skill, Sword Domain!" Yuwen Tuo didn't use his Flame Elephant but directly started with the Xuanyuan Sword.
Although the range of the one-foot Sword Domain was extremely small, precisely because it was so small, the sword qi was condensed to a terrifying degree.
At the same level, no power could penetrate this Sword Domain to harm Yuwen Tuo.
The spiritual power of this twenty-thousand-year Flame Evil Tyrant was far inferior to Yuwen Tuo's.
In the original work, a sixty-plus level Huo Yuhao could instantly kill it with a Soul Shock. Yuwen Tuo could also do that, but his goal in coming here today was not to kill it.
Seeing that its Mental Field had no effect on Yuwen Tuo, the Flame Evil Tyrant, in its rage, directly unleashed another racial skill of the Evil Eye clan: Mental Ray.
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