Walking back along the forest path, Lu Yuan no longer bothered to conceal his presence.
He strode openly through the Sunset Forest.
After obtaining his second spirit ring, Lu Yuan was confident that any spirit beast under ten thousand years was no match for him.
Right now, he almost wished one would jump out so he could test his skills.
After walking for half an hour, Lu Yuan had encountered not a single spirit beast.
“Huh?”
“When I came yesterday, I could see spirit beasts everywhere.
How come today there’s none?”
“Where the hell did all these spirit beasts go?”
The further he walked, the more Lu Yuan felt something was off.
“This is way too quiet.”
Out of caution, Lu Yuan summoned his trident and held it at the ready.
As he continued, Lu Yuan suddenly noticed that ahead of him, the grass was rotting and the trees were withering.
“Steel Body!”
With a single thought, his fair skin instantly turned pitch-black and deep.
Stepping forward, he grabbed a handful of the already decayed wild grass and examined it closely.
“This has been corroded by poison.”
Looking at the barren, lifeless scene stretching over a hundred meters in all directions, a name suddenly came to Lu Yuan’s mind.
“Dugu Bo!”
But then, remembering that this was the Sunset Forest, he understood.
“If it’s him, then it’s not strange for him to be here.
After all, the Sunset Forest is practically his backyard.”
“Judging by the scene, Dugu Bo released his spirit abilities here—probably to help Dugu Yan obtain a spirit ring.”
“No wonder I haven’t encountered a single spirit beast along the way.
They must have all been scared off by Dugu Bo.”
“Never mind—I need to get out of here fast.
That old monster has a strange temper.
It’d be bad if I provoked him.
As for the immortal herbs by the Yin-Yang Dual Flame Eye—I’ll have to wait for now.”
Lu Yuan then jogged all the way back to where he had first encountered spirit beasts.
“This area shouldn’t have been affected by Dugu Bo anymore.”
Seeing the familiar environment, Lu Yuan gradually slowed his pace, strolling through the forest like a leisurely hiker.
Awooo~
Suddenly, a howl of wolves rang out.
In the next instant, over a dozen gray wolves appeared, surrounding Lu Yuan in a tight circle.
They bared their sharp fangs at him, low growls rumbling from their throats.
Lu Yuan swept his gaze across the circle and precisely locked onto a gray-black giant wolf standing behind the pack—distinctly different in appearance from the rest.
“Oh ho—speak of the devil.”
“Didn’t expect a five-hundred-year Gray Wolf Leader.” Read this novel at g.com for the best experience.
“Perfect—I’ll use you unlucky lot to test my skills.”
The moment his words fell, Lu Yuan raised his right hand lightly, his index finger pointing at the gray wolf closest to him.
“Second Spirit Ability—Precision Detonation!”
A steel pellet the size of a soybean, coated with flammable and explosive material, condensed at the tip of Lu Yuan’s finger, then shot toward the gray wolf at lightning speed.
Bang!
The moment the pellet embedded itself into the gray wolf’s head, a crisp explosion rang out.
Under Lu Yuan’s gaze, the gray wolf’s head burst like a watermelon—shattered bone mixed with blood and flesh spraying everywhere.
The gray wolves closest to it were all injured by the flying shards of bone.
Seeing this, Lu Yuan’s eyes lit up.
“How interesting!”
Then, Lu Yuan condensed and fired more steel pellets at the other gray wolves.
“Awooo~”
The gray-black giant wolf standing behind the pack also sensed something was wrong.
It hurriedly issued a retreat order to its subordinates.
Those gray wolves farther from Lu Yuan, upon receiving their leader’s command, quickly turned and fled.
Lu Yuan didn’t bother chasing the fleeing wolf pups.
There was no need.
For Lu Yuan, the wolf leader was the main course.
The wolf leader ran ahead, Lu Yuan pursued from behind.
As he chased, Lu Yuan was charging up his spirit ability.
In just a few breaths, a steel ball the size of an apple condensed at his fingertip and shot toward the giant wolf at tremendous speed.
Boom!
A deafening explosion rang out.
Where the giant wolf had been fleeing, flames now erupted skyward.
At the center of the blast, thick smoke billowed upward.
After unleashing this attack, Lu Yuan’s spirit power was nearly drained, and his face turned somewhat pale.
As the smoke cleared, Lu Yuan saw the satisfying result.
A crater two meters deep and ten meters in diameter lay before him.
“Cough, cough—”
Dragging his somewhat weakened body, Lu Yuan slowly walked forward.
“Hahaha—totally worth it!”
“Right now, I can only release this kind of attack once with my current spirit power, but the power of this spirit ability is definitely worth the consumption.”
“I can’t wait to see what kind of power I’ll have when I level up more and can conjure a steel ball the size of a soccer ball.”
“And at my current level, I should be able to fire soybean-sized pellets about a dozen times—with power comparable to a light grenade.”
“Tsk, tsk, tsk—just look at this power.
A Great Spirit Master’s strength can already kill a Spirit King.
Isn’t that way more impressive than hidden weapons?”
He admired his handiwork for a while longer.
Seeing that time was getting late, Lu Yuan turned and headed back toward the forest exit. The source of this chapter is g.com.
He was extremely satisfied with this test of his spirit ability—his mood could only be described as joyful.
But while Lu Yuan was happy, others were not.
The spirit masters hunting nearby had also noticed the explosion.
Upon seeing the scene before them, their mouths gaped wide enough to stuff an entire goose egg.
“Just which unlucky spirit beast managed to piss off a Titled Douluo so badly that they’d unleash this kind of fury?”
“Holy crap—if that attack had hit me, I’d be black and blue all over.”
“Heh, you’re dreaming.
Black and blue?
More like bits and pieces scattered all over.”
…
After this group of hunters left, the message-sending spirit masters cultivated by various major sects immediately transmitted the news back to their respective organizations.
And so, news of a Titled Douluo displaying tremendous power in the Sunset Forest spread like wildfire.
It immediately drew countless hunter spirit masters flocking to the scene, eager to investigate what exactly had provoked a Titled Douluo.
Heaven Dou City, Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
In the center of the majestic main hall, a middle-aged man with a refined bearing and elegant attire sat at the head seat with an air of unhurried composure.
“Uncle Sword, Uncle Bone—what do you think of the news the sect disciples sent back?”
Gu Rong shook his head upon hearing this.
“Without seeing it firsthand, it’s hard for us to come to a conclusion.”
“However, based on the details the messenger disciple provided, that level of attack is beyond what ordinary people can achieve.”
“Fengzhi, with someone like this—we either befriend him or stay far away.
Otherwise, it won’t benefit us at all.”
Beside Gu Rong, a man with sword-like brows and starry eyes, a resolute face, and a middle-aged appearance, nodded in agreement.
“Mm-hmm, exactly.
We personally might not fear such attacks, but the sect disciples under us certainly can’t withstand them.”
“Mm-hmm, I understand.
I’ll issue orders to the sect disciples shortly—if they encounter this person, they are to befriend him only.”
“Mm-hmm, good!” Gu Rong and Chen Xin nodded in approval.
Then Chen Xin brought up another matter: “By the way, Fengzhi—why did the Spirit Hall suddenly mobilize so many people to search for talented spirit masters a while back?”
“I did manage to dig up some details about that.
I heard the orders came jointly from the Papal Hall and the Worship Hall.”
“The purpose was to search for an inheritor.
No one knows exactly what they look like—only that their talent is extraordinary.”
Upon hearing this, Ning Fengzhi relayed what his spies had uncovered.
But as he finished explaining, his usually composed face grew heavy with solemnity.
“This…” Gu Rong and Chen Xin were at a loss for words.
“What exactly is an ‘inheritor’?”