Snow Empress opened her eyes dizzily. After seeing it was Liu Yuan, she dissatisfiedly slapped his hand away, turned over, and grumbled, "What is it... it's so early... can't you let a beast sleep..."
"Stop sleeping." Liu Yuan's voice held no hint of a joke. "Get up, change into some more efficient clothes, and come out with me."
"There's work to do."
Hearing the words "there's work to do," Snow Empress instantly woke up a bit more.
She rubbed her bleary eyes, sat up from the bed, and asked somewhat reluctantly, "What kind of work? Can't I not go? I already made plans with Tian Zhen to go to the new amusement park that opened in the south of the city today."
"Come with me to kill an Evil Soul Master," Liu Yuan said flatly.
Snow Empress's movements stiffened.
She looked up at Liu Yuan and found that he was very serious right now.
"Hmph, I got it."
Snow Empress curled her lip.
After all, during this time, she had eaten Liu Yuan's food, drunk his drinks, and spent his money, enjoying imperial treatment. It fit the old human saying, 'to be soft-handed after taking from others, and soft-mouthed after eating their food'.
Now that the benefactor was calling for her, she was too embarrassed to keep making excuses.
Furthermore, she also had no good feelings toward Evil Soul Masters.
She nimbly jumped off the bed, changed into a set of practical clothes, and nodded to Liu Yuan: "Let's go."
"Mm."
The two didn't disturb any servants in the mansion. Their figures flashed, turning into two streaks of light that soared into the sky, flying rapidly toward the direction of "Xiewa City."
With their current cultivation, how fast their full-speed travel was!
In just half a day, a grand ancient city appeared on the horizon.
However, just as they were preparing to land and enter the city to search for their target, the System's notification sounded again.
[Warning! The target has left Xiewa City!]
[Re-tracking target trajectory... Tracking successful!]
[Target's latest movement: Heading toward the Star Dou Great Forest at full speed!]
"Damn it! He got away!"
Liu Yuan hovered in mid-air, his face darkening.
It seemed this Evil Soul Master named Gu Qi was extremely vigilant, or perhaps he had just committed a new crime in Xiewa City and was preparing to flee.
"What's wrong?" Snow Empress asked.
"He ran off toward the Star Dou Great Forest," Liu Yuan explained succinctly, his gaze hardening. "Pursue!"
Before his voice finished, his figure turned, spirit power erupted, and he transformed into an even faster streak of light, shooting toward the Star Dou Great Forest like a sharp arrow.
Snow Empress followed closely behind. High up in the sky at ten thousand meters, the two carved out two long white vapor trails, initiating a thousand-mile pursuit across the Empire.
...
Time flew by. When the sun dipped westward and dyed the horizon with magnificent sunset clouds, that boundless sea of emerald forest finally appeared in their field of vision.
The Star Dou Great Forest!
The oldest and largest gathering place for Spirit Beasts on the Douluo Continent.
This place was a paradise for Spirit Beasts and a forbidden zone for humans.
"System, lock onto his specific location!" Liu Yuan ordered in his heart.
[Performing precise lock-on... Lock-on successful! The target is located at the junction of the outer perimeter and the mixed zone of the Star Dou Great Forest, coordinates (3444, 2234). Currently in a stationary state.]
"Found him!"
Cold light flashed in Liu Yuan's eyes. Leading Snow Empress, he dove down like a meteorite, silently landing within the dense jungle.
The two concealed all their aura, moving through the forest like ghosts.
Soon, they stopped before a forest clearing surrounded by massive vines.
In the center of the clearing, a man wearing blood-red robes, his body as thin as a withered stick, sat cross-legged.
In his hand, he held a small banner as black as ink. On the surface of the banner, one could vaguely see distorted, pained infant faces. Wisps of black Qi overflowed from it, emitting a nauseating resentment and stench.
It was precisely the mission target—the Ghost Infant Douluo, Gu Qi!
Seemingly sensing the approach of living people, Gu Qi snapped his eyes open.
What terrifying eyes they were—turbid, blood-red, and filled with violence and madness.
His gaze first swept over Liu Yuan, and a hint of disdain flashed in his eyes.
A brat who looked less than twenty years old, whose spirit power fluctuations didn't even seem to reach the level of a Spirit Saint? Such a character was not worth mentioning.
However, when his gaze fell upon Snow Empress behind Liu Yuan, his turbid eyes instantly erupted with a terrifying light!
What a perfect "delicacy"!
She looked only two or three years old, carved from pink jade, like a celestial being.
More importantly, the life essence contained within her body was so pure, so vast and boundless—it was even more vigorous than a hundred young girls he had harvested before combined!
"Top grade! This is simply a peerless masterpiece bestowed upon me by the heavens!"
Gu Qi's throat emitted a "ge-ge" strange laugh, and greedy saliva uncontrollably dripped from the corners of his shriveled mouth.
He extended a long, blood-red tongue, licked his lips, and said in a raspy, piercing voice, "Kid, leave the little girl behind you, and this old man can show some mercy and let you die quickly!"
In his view, simply crushing this eyesore of a man and then properly refining this peerless sacrifice was a perfect script.
Facing this naked greed and killing intent, not even a single extra expression appeared on Liu Yuan's face.
He just looked at Gu Qi calmly, with the gaze one would use for a dead man.
Then, he spoke slowly, his voice not loud, yet carrying a grim chill that froze the Soul.
"Are you finished with your last words?"
"Courting death!" Gu Qi flew into a rage and was about to strike.
But at that moment, Liu Yuan stopped wasting words.
He just gently raised his right hand.
"Come out."
BOOM—!!!
In an instant, two completely different yet equally terrifying and extreme powerful auras descended upon this ancient forest without warning!
The sky turned gloomy in an instant, thick dark clouds gathered out of thin air, and lightning flashed and thunder rolled! The earth began to tremble violently, as if some world-ending behemoth was about to burst from the ground!
In Gu Qi's suddenly constricted pupils, which were filled with horror and disbelief...
A massive divine dragon, emerald green all over, its body like a dragon and surrounded by golden runes, tore through the clouds and coiled in the sky! Those golden dragon pupils, like two blazing suns, looked down indifferently at all living beings on the ground!
At the same time, a phantom of an ancient giant whale, as massive as a mountain, deep blue all over and covered in patterns like golden lava, slowly emerged from behind Liu Yuan! The phantom of the Primordial Sea swirled around it, as if it were going to drag the entire world into the abyss!
Mega Rayquaza!
Primal Kyogre!
Descend!
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