Chapter 246 Entering the Star Dou Forest.
It must be said that although Xiao Xiao was young, with the blessing of two top-grade soul bones, her stamina was truly remarkable. The two rolled around for nearly two hours, and Xiao Xiao remained full of enthusiasm until Wu Xuan told her about tomorrow's plans, at which point she finally calmed down.
The next morning, Wu Xuan and Xiao Xiao left Seagod Island hand in hand, very affectionately. When they arrived at the academy gate, they found an uninvited guest waiting there.
"Wang Dong!! What brings you here?" Xiao Xiao asked in surprise.
"Elder Xuan told me to come. Why are you so late? Elder Xuan and I have been here for a while now," Wang Dong said, looking at the two holding hands. Elder Xuan, sitting to the side, also raised his wine gourd and waved it at the two. Seeing this, Xiao Xiao quickly ran over.
"I overslept! Besides, Elder Xuan didn't tell me that any other classmates were going to the Star Dou Forest together," Wu Xuan said, yawning.
"It's alright, it's not too late to set off now. You haven't had breakfast yet, have you? I just bought two extra portions, here you go." Wang Dong even offered Wu Xuan a breakfast.
Looking at Wang Dong's smiling face, Wu Xuan felt a little uncomfortable. Smiling at him? Was this really the Wang Dong he knew? And this time, they hadn't even started arguing!
After eating the breakfast Wang Dong offered, Wu Xuan took out his flying soul tool from his storage soul tool and said, "Let's set off first. Let's try to reach the outer area of the Star Dou Great Forest by this afternoon."
"Okay!" The two nodded in unison.
Then, the three of them controlled their flying soul tools and took off, flying towards the Star Dou Great Forest.
Shrek City was indeed very close to the Star Dou Great Forest, and with the assistance of the flying soul tool, the three of them landed smoothly from the air about the time Wu Xuan had expected. After meditating and cultivating for a while to restore themselves to their best condition, the three of them ventured deeper into the forest.
With Wu Xuan, a Soul Emperor, leading the way, the three quickly ventured deeper into the Star Dou Great Forest. Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao needed to hunt ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts, so they couldn't afford to take their chances in the outer area. Therefore, their initial destination was the mixed zone.
Traveling through the outer area of the Star Dou Great Forest, the three naturally felt no pressure. After more than three hours, they were about to enter the mixed zone.
The sky was already dark. At Wu Xuan's signal, the three found a wide-open slope on the edge of the mixed zone and the outer zone, intending to rest for the night before entering the mixed zone.
Eating the rice balls and fried chicken he'd brought from the inner courtyard, Wu Xuan looked up at the two and said, "We're entering the mixed zone tomorrow. Tell me what kind of spirit rings you want next, so I can find them for you."
"Okay," Xiao Xiao spoke first. "Brother Xuan, my Three Lives Soul-Suppressing Cauldron mainly relies on shockwaves to control enemies. My cultivation direction also needs to lean towards mental control-type spirit skills. Therefore, my primary goal this time is to find a mental-attribute control-type spirit beast. Preferably around 20,000 years old."
Hearing this, Wu Xuan nodded slightly. Unlike most top-tier spirit beasts, the Three Lives Soul-Suppressing Cauldron doesn't have a fixed cultivation direction; it can choose from three paths: attack, control, and support. Clearly, Xiao Xiao had mainly chosen control.
Wang Dong then spoke up, "Wu Xuan, my requirement is a light-attribute spirit beast. My fifth spirit ring needs an amplification-type spirit skill, also around 20,000 years old. Thank you."
Wu Xuan looked at Wang Dong in surprise. He actually heard a thank you from Wang Dong? Had the sun risen in the west?
"Hey! Don't look at me like that, Wu Xuan. We've known each other for five years now. We had some minor disagreements before, but those were just misunderstandings. Putting those aside, we're still the Shrek Seven Devils of this year, and we're still friends, right?" Wang Dong's pink-blue eyes stared unblinkingly at Wu Xuan.
Friend? Wu Xuan suddenly fell into deep thought. He was familiar with the word, but it felt quite foreign to Wang Dong. They had never really spoken a word to each other before, so when did they become friends?
Seeing that Wu Xuan didn't speak, Wang Dong was about to say something more when Wu Xuan suddenly stood up, his eyes fixed on the west like a hawk's. "Be careful, a soul beast is coming from the west."
Upon hearing this, the two quickly stood up, summoning their martial souls and moving closer to Wu Xuan's side, ready to attack at any moment.
Not long after, a sound like scales scraping against flowers, trees, and dry leaves suddenly rang out. Accompanied by a sweet fragrance.
"Be careful, this soul beast is a large, peach-colored snake with a protrusion on its forehead. It should be a Mandragora Snake, and judging from its length, it's at least ten thousand years old." Wu Xuan, releasing his spiritual perception, gave a very accurate judgment.
"Croak—" With a strange cry, the ten-thousand-year-old Mandragora Snake instantly transformed into a pink afterimage and pounced towards the group. A sweet-smelling poisonous mist permeated the air.
Wu Xuan coldly snorted, and with a flick of his hand, a wisp of emerald green wind swept through, instantly dissipating the poisonous mist. The ten-thousand-year-old Mandragora Serpent was also blown askew by the wind.
Its considerable intelligence told it that the person opposite it was extremely powerful, but the intense killing intent in its scarlet eyes prevented it from retreating in fear.
"Just over ten thousand years of cultivation, I'll give you some practice. Let me make this clear: judging from this Mandragora's eyes, it has clearly tasted the flavor of a Soul Master. You'd better not hold back," Wu Xuan said, his eyes fixed on the two beside him.
The two men's expressions suddenly darkened. Tasting the flavor of a Soul Master clearly meant that this Mandragora had consumed a human Soul Master.
Soul Masters hunt Soul Beasts to break through to the next realm, and Soul Beasts also devour Soul Masters to nourish their bloodlines. The relationship between prey and prey could reverse at any moment, depending entirely on the strength of both sides.
"Alright!" the two responded, attacking the Ten-Thousand-Year Mandala Serpent one after the other.
Xiao Xiao struck first, four soul rings—two yellow and two purple—rising beneath her feet, a black light rapidly condensing above her head. With a flick of her finger at the serpent, the one-meter-diameter cauldron of light above her instantly surged forward.
The Ten-Thousand-Year Mandala Serpent was clearly cunning; previously coiled on the ground, it suddenly sprang up, leaping into the air as soon as Xiao Xiao's attack began. Its long tail whipped through the air, instantly lunging at Xiao Xiao like a black shadow.
Brilliant blue wings instantly unfurled from his back, and Wang Dong was enveloped in a strange color shifting between blue and purple. Golden orbs of light shone on his enormous wings.
"First Soul Skill, Winged Guillotine!"
Two blue-gold wings flapped up and down, slashing fiercely at the serpent's lashing tail.
With a loud clang like metal clashing, the datura snake that had lunged at Xiao Xiao was forced back. Looking at its body, its tail scales, aside from some cracks, were completely unharmed.
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