The Star Dou Great Forest is the largest Spirit Beast Forest in the entire Douluo Continent, bar none.
It is also a place that all Spirit Masters dream of, yet dread.
Within the Star Dou Great Forest, Spirit Beast resources are extremely abundant.
Basically, all terrestrial Spirit Beasts exist there, and even some extremely rare Spirit Beasts can be found.
It is also the only Spirit Beast Forest among the major terrestrial Spirit Beast Forests that contains 100,000 years Spirit Beasts (excluding the ice-sealed forest in the Far North).
However, the Star Dou Great Forest is also fraught with danger.
Precisely because of its abundant Spirit Beast resources, various Spirit Beast attacks are endless and impossible to guard against.
Snakes, insects, rats, and ants are countless.
Even encountering a seemingly weak Spirit Beast might cause fatal harm, and even a Titled Douluo is at risk of falling.
The entire Star Dou Great Forest is extremely vast, with a length and width of roughly a thousand kilometers.
It is divided into multiple zones, from the outer layer to the core, forming three distinct major areas: a two-hundred-kilometer outer zone, a five-hundred-kilometer mixed zone, and a two-hundred-kilometer core zone.
The central fifty kilometers of the core zone is known as the Forbidden Zone of Life.
The outer zone generally contains Spirit Beasts below Ten Thousand Year Spirit Beast.
The mixed zone has Spirit Beasts of hundred, Thousand-Year Soul Beast, and Ten Thousand Year Spirit Beast, but none of excessively high age.
The core zone is basically all Spirit Beasts above 30,000 years.
The Forbidden Zone of Life has not been explored by anyone, but it is estimated to be the Lake of Life.
Given Yang Pingan’s current strength, he can at most wander around the outer zone, which is predominantly inhabited by low-level Spirit Beasts.
Yang Pingan would never dare to enter the mixed zone.
There are countless Ten Thousand Year Spirit Beasts there, and normal Ten Thousand Year Spirit Beasts generally possess the strength of a Spirit King or even a Spirit Emperor, which is far beyond what a mere Spirit Master can provoke.
After entering the Star Dou Great Forest, Yang Pingan quickly summoned his Purple Gold Mastiff.
In this forest, the Purple Gold Mastiff’s sense of smell would be the primary means of detection.
It must be said that there are indeed many Spirit Beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest.
In just half a day, Yang Pingan had already encountered six or seven hundred-year Spirit Beasts and two Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, each appearing incredibly powerful. Find the original chapter at novelping(.)com.
It was only by relying on the Purple Gold Mastiff’s keen sense of smell that Yang Pingan barely managed to evade them.
Even so, he encountered danger multiple times and was chased by various Spirit Beasts.
It’s worth noting that some high-level Spirit Beasts also have relatively keen senses of smell.
After five days in the Star Dou Great Forest, Yang Pingan, completely out of breath, hid in a very lush, hundred-meter-tall tree with dense, sky-obscuring foliage.
Especially, there was a relatively strong life aura on the tree, which could conceal his own aura.
On the ground, four Golden-Backed Grey Wolves were roaming around, seemingly searching for Yang Pingan, their eyes extremely sinister, like predators hunting prey.
The Purple Gold Mastiff had long since been recalled into Yang Pingan’s body.
Although Yang Pingan quickly climbed to the treetop using wire, his entire arm was still trembling.
About half a day ago, the Purple Gold Mastiff suddenly became excited in the Star Dou Great Forest, as if it had smelled something particularly fragrant.
It quickly searched towards a cave and, to its surprise, found a newborn Gold-backed Wolf inside.
Although this Gold-backed Wolf was just born, it looked exceptionally fierce.
It displayed its ferocity immediately after birth, truly living up to its reputation as a top-grade wolf-type Spirit Beast.
But unfortunately, before Yang Pingan and the Purple Gold Mastiff could even think about what to do with the Gold-backed Wolf cub, a wolf howl echoed from afar, a sound seemingly filled with malevolent energy.
A shiver ran down Yang Pingan’s spine.
He had probably stumbled into a wolf den and, to top it off, had been discovered by the Golden-Backed Grey Wolves.
Yang Pingan, disregarding the Purple Gold Mastiff’s reluctance, immediately took the Purple Gold Mastiff and prepared to flee quickly.
Wolf-type Spirit Beasts have extremely keen senses of smell and incredibly fast reactions.
After just one howl, multiple howls immediately echoed through the Star Dou Great Forest.
Yang Pingan was terrified.
It seemed he had stirred up a wolf’s nest.
For the next period, seven Golden-Backed Grey Wolves relentlessly pursued Yang Pingan.
Even though Yang Pingan managed to kill three weaker ones using crossbows and traps, the remaining four Golden-Backed Grey Wolves became even more bloodthirsty, their eyes completely blood red, completely disregarding their lives to chase Yang Pingan.
A total of seven Golden-Backed Grey Wolves were chasing Yang Pingan this time, four of which were Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, and the other three were hundred-year-old ones, but all over five hundred years old.
At this moment, Yang Pingan was hiding in a giant Chinese Toon tree.
Chinese Toon trees are generally unique and a favorite of many herbivorous Spirit Beasts, especially their rich life aura and strong fragrance, which can block the detection of Golden-Backed Grey Wolves.
Yang Pingan was now exhausted, covered in cold sweat, his hands and feet trembling slightly.
He even had a half-foot-long scratch on his back.
The wound was simply wrapped with a cloth strip and a little herbal medicine applied to prevent bleeding and to keep the scent of blood from attracting other Spirit Beasts.
Just in the past half-day, so many Golden-Backed Grey Wolves were as fast as lightning, and what’s more, they even employed tactical encirclement, which was almost unimaginable.
Yang Pingan had just narrowly escaped death.
Luckily, what he provoked this time wasn’t Storm Devil Wolves, otherwise he would have been doomed.
As for the three Golden-Backed Grey Wolves he killed, one was shot in the eye with a crossbow, but crossbows require arrow replacement, and there was no time for that.
Moreover, it was only effective against hundred-year Spirit Beasts; Thousand-Year Golden-Backed Grey Wolves could avoid fatal injuries from crossbows.
Another one was trapped and killed, but this only worked on the hundred-year Gold-backed Wolf that was leading the chase.
The Thousand-Year Golden-Backed Grey Wolves opposite were extremely cunning and intelligent; they wouldn’t fall for the trick and actually avoided several traps he had recently dug.
The last one was killed by desperately using a Spirit Bone skill, but it also left a wound on his back.
These four Thousand-Year Golden-Backed Grey Wolves were like a nightmare.
Finally, after staying in the tree for a full four hours, these Golden-Backed Grey Wolves slowly left.
Yang Pingan finally breathed a sigh of relief.
He simply ate some dry rations in the tree to recover his strength.
With Yang Pingan’s individual strength, he dared not make a fire or cook in the Star Dou Great Forest; such actions would be suicidal.
Yang Pingan hid in the tree for a full day and two nights, only leaving on the third day.
Night is the domain of wolf-like creatures, and Yang Pingan dared not doubt the strength and intelligence of this wolf king in the slightest.
It wasn’t until early on the third day that Yang Pingan left in the opposite direction of the Golden-Backed Grey Wolves.
With his current strength, he couldn’t seek revenge on that pack of Golden-Backed Grey Wolves.
Before leaving, Yang Pingan gave the Purple Gold Mastiff a stern talking-to, and its small eyes looked rather wronged.
Finally, Yang Pingan spoke darkly, “If you’re going to search, find some reliable ones, preferably lone ones. Absolutely do not find a pack of Spirit Beasts that I can’t defeat again.”