The Martial Soul Skeleton, in Douluo Continent's Bone-Changing Susanoo

Chapter 133 Gengar, one of the Ten Ferocious Beasts

"Of course, some hybrid soul beasts survive by virtue of their strong survival ability and luck, thus becoming soul beasts with higher bloodlines, a completely new species. The Golden Fire Silver Wolf survived by its own ability or luck, and then this lineage of soul beasts emerged."

"As far as I know, the Golden Fire Silver Wolf inherited the Golden Blood Wolf's formidable physical attributes and refined the Silver Wolf's various elemental attributes, retaining only the fire and light attributes most suitable for itself. In other words, the Golden Fire Silver Wolf is not only a top-tier soul beast, but also possesses top-tier physical strength and top-tier light and fire attributes. It is very suitable to become a soul ring for the Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul."

After hearing this account, Qian Renxue looked at Xia Liang with a different kind of gleam in her eyes. She had long heard that this virtuous younger brother was highly proficient in many fields, but today she had truly witnessed it for herself.

Top-notch culinary skills, outstanding talent, and the best qualifications for the divine examination.

Nowadays, even my grandfather is not as knowledgeable as I am.

How can a sixteen-year-old Soul Master be proficient in so many fields? In contrast, what have I learned in my twenties, besides lurking in the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace and scheming against the ministers?

Do you know how to poison people?

With a self-deprecating laugh, Qian Renxue stared at Xia Liang again, a faint blush suddenly appearing on her face. She didn't know if she felt ashamed for wasting her time over the years, or if it was the resonance of her martial soul at work.

"Brother Xue, what do you think?" This was the third time Xia Liang had asked the same question. The first two times he asked, Qian Renxue stared at him but never gave an answer.

"Xiaoxue!" Qian Daoliu's voice interrupted Qian Renxue's thoughts. She then realized what was happening, quickly looked away from Xia Liang, and adjusted her state.

"Brother Xue, what are you thinking about?" Xia Liang asked.

"I was thinking about what happened with the Golden Fire Silver Wolf earlier," Qian Renxue replied without changing her expression. She realized that she had learned some things during the infiltration plan, at least in terms of patience and disguise.

"So what do you think of the Golden Fire Silver Wolf?" Xia Liang pressed.

Qian Renxue nodded. "That's good. I'll use it as my sixth spirit ring. Brother, I'll need your help finding a spirit beast."

"Alright." Xia Liang responded and suggested to Qian Daoliu, "Great Elder, let's venture deeper into the core area of ​​the Star Dou Great Forest. Starting our search from the core area will give us a better chance of finding a 50,000-year-old Golden Fire Silver Wolf."

Qian Daoliu smiled and nodded. He had just discovered something interesting: his granddaughter seemed to have more than just a fondness for her talented younger brother.

Although it's unclear whether it's due to the resonance between their martial souls or something else, if there's a certain emotional foundation between the two, then imitating his son's actions in the secret room wouldn't be considered evil; on the contrary, it would be helping the two of them.

As for Dugu Bo's granddaughter, there's no need to worry too much, because Dugu Bo's granddaughter has no chance to become a god and will inevitably die of old age in the mortal world.

half a month later.

Starry Sky Forest, Core Area.

Inside a cave.

Xia Liang, Qian Renxue, and Qian Daoliu and his granddaughter are spending the night in a spacious cave.

It has been half a month since we entered the core area of ​​the forest. Every day, we have sent out thousands of black and purple ghost fire to search for traces of the Golden Fire Silver Wolf in every area of ​​the core area, but so far there has been no news.

The core area of ​​Star Dou Great Forest is completely different from the core area of ​​Sunset Forest. When the black and purple ghost flames are searching for soul beasts, they are easily ambushed by passing soul beasts.

The dark purple ghost fires sent out each day were annihilated as soon as they left the range of mental perception.

In order to find the trail of Goldrak and Silver Wolves as soon as possible, Xia Liang had no choice but to send out the more agile and powerful Gastly to carry out the mission.

Gastly possesses considerable combat capabilities, with excellent flight altitude and reaction speed. Its replacement of the black-purple will-o'-the-wisp in searching for soul beasts has significantly increased efficiency.

While searching for the Golden Fire Silver Wolf in the core area, Xia Liang also ordered the Gastlys to find the Titan Ape and the Azure Bull Python. One of these two 100,000-year-old soul beasts might become his seventh soul ring in the future, so they needed to find their habitat first.

Besides the Titan Ape and the Azure Bull Python, Xia Liang also asked the Gastlys to look for any million-year-old soul beasts, like the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm.

Many years ago, he explored the far north and discovered that the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm had sailed south and might have already reached the Star Dou Great Forest.

If they can find the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm before the ferocious beasts, they'll have struck gold. Because once the Blue Silver Emperor Cocoon mutates and develops the dark devouring attribute, the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm's corpse and soul rings will be its best nourishment.

By devouring the million-year-old Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm, the Blue Silver Emperor Giant Cocoon's cultivation level will definitely experience a crazy surge.

Inside the cave at this moment.

In front of the fire.

Qian Daoliu and Qian Renxue are enjoying a delicious meal made by Xia Liang using the meat of the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger.

While eating, Qian Renxue also told Qian Daoliu about Xia Liang's experience as Master Xia, a special-grade chef at the Heaven Dou Royal Academy.

Xia Liang himself sat cross-legged to the side, closed his eyes and meditated, diligently cultivating his soul power.

In the past two weeks, he secretly consumed and refined ten pieces of ten-thousand-year-old cold marrow. After absorbing them with the help of ice and fire energy, his soul power only increased by one level.

My current soul power is level 66.

While meditating, Xia Liang was also sparring with Tang Hao in the spiritual world. With this god of death as his sparring partner, he would be able to adapt to the more dangerous and deadly battles when he entered the City of Slaughter in the future.

After finishing his cultivation, Xia Liang did not leave his spiritual world. As his concentration increased, a ball of dark purple ghost fire gradually emerged in his gray spiritual world.

Under the control of his mind, the dark purple will-o'-the-wisp gradually transformed into the shape of Gastly.

Then, a strange scene unfolded.

Gastly's white, triangular eyes suddenly turned red, and the corners of its mouth curved into a slight smile. It was an evil smile, revealing a row of large white teeth when it smiled.

Even more strangely, Gastly grew a lower body and legs like the ossified Susanoo in its half-human form, except that the legs were somewhat short.

After a series of changes, Gastly's entire body was enveloped by wisps of black energy, forming a ball of light resembling a total solar eclipse.

The moment the orb of light exploded into dust, Gastly, floating in the spiritual world, underwent a significant change in appearance and form.

At this moment, Gastly's appearance was dark purple all over. Its two claws, which had separated from its body, were connected to its body and turned into two short arms. Its lower body also had two short legs and a short, pointed tail.

Compared to before, Gastly now looks like a chubby purple creature with arms and legs, always wearing a smile, and a row of large white teeth that are very conspicuous.

If Gastly is an upgraded version of Gastly, then this Gastly with legs and a drastically changed appearance is a higher-level evolutionary form.

Xia Liang named it Gengar.

At the same time that Gastly evolved into Gengar, the Gastlys that were searching for Goldrathian and Silver Wolf in the core area of ​​Star Dou Great Forest also turned into Gengar. Without receiving orders, they continued their work of searching for Soul Beasts in the forest.

I spent about an hour in the mental world, letting the three Gengar and the Shiny Gengar battle.

Through observation, it was discovered that Gengar not only possesses all of Gastly's abilities, but can also condense its ultimate dark attribute into a Shadow Ball and throw it out.

As a Shiny Gengar that has consumed the herb Snowy Swan Kiss, in addition to Shadow Ball, it can combine the Dark and Virus types to form an attack called Toxic Bomb.

The poison bomb is five times more toxic and powerful than the black poison mist. If a peak Soul King is hit by a poison bomb, even if he doesn't die, he will die suddenly due to the virus multiplying a thousandfold.

In terms of combat power, the Shiny Gengar is enough to rival a peak Soul Emperor. The other Gengars vary in strength, but they could easily defeat any Soul Master.

At this moment, a Gengar source in another dimension became restless.

After receiving the message from the Gengar's origin through the connection of soul power, Xia Liang was overjoyed. The Gengars, who were searching for soul beasts in the core area of ​​the Star Dou Great Forest, discovered a lake full of life.

Although the Gengar were instantly wiped out, judging from the visual sharing transmitted back, a monster with a bull's head and a snake's body was soaking in the lake, and a giant ape was standing on the lake shore.

What surprised Xia Liang even more was that a girl with scorpion braids and rabbit ears was sitting on the giant ape's shoulder.

Not only this girl, but the giant ape had also seen them before; they were the 100,000-year-old soul beast Xiao Wu and the Titan Giant Ape. The bull-headed, snake-bodied monster submerged in the lake was likely another 100,000-year-old soul beast, the Azure Bull Python.

According to the original description, the lake where the Titan ape and the Azure Bull Python lived was called the Lake of Life.

Xia Liang couldn't understand why Xiao Wu wasn't participating in the Elite Tournament with Tang San during the current timeline, which is during the Elite Tournament qualifiers.

Could it be that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School targeted her, forcing her to return to the Titan Giant Ape and the Azure Bull Python?

Or perhaps Tang San and Xiao Wu were afraid of being targeted by Poison Douluo again, so they didn't participate in the Elite Tournament?

If Xiao Wu returns to the Star Dou Great Forest, where will Tang San go?

Without giving the matter much thought, Xia Liang focused his attention on the information transmitted back by another Gengar source. After a thorough search over half a month, they finally found traces of a Goldraven Silver Wolf.

After finishing his meditation, Xia Liang said to Qian Daoliu and Qian Renxue, who were chatting, "Found it. It's a Golden Fire Silver Wolf with nearly 50,000 years of cultivation."

night.

Starry Sky Forest, Core Area.

This is not the Lake of Life, but just an ordinary lake a hundred meters wide, with the reflection of the crescent moon on its mirror-like surface.

As a strange wind blew, ripples spread across the calm lake surface.

A golden-armored behemoth, about five meters tall, emerged from the dense thicket and walked straight toward the edge of the lake.

The lake reflected the golden light from the golden-armored beast, instantly illuminating the pitch-black surroundings.

The golden-armored behemoth was a wolf with a silvery body, but its limbs were burning with brilliant golden flames.

If you look closely, you'll find that the silver giant wolf's fur is actually a type of heat-resistant silver scales. Brilliant golden flames erupt from the gaps between each scale, causing the surrounding air to distort.

In addition to its silvery, scale-like fur, the silver giant wolf also has a crescent-shaped tail.

Ancient texts about soul beasts describe a creature with a wolf-like head, a crescent-shaped tail, and a body engulfed in golden flames—a top-tier dual-attribute soul beast.

A thousand meters away, Xia Liang used his X-ray vision to clearly see that the silver giant wolf drinking water on the lake shore was the same Goldenrath Silver Wolf that the Gengar had discovered.

Qian Daoliu also used his spiritual power to see the existence of the Golden Fire Silver Wolf. Just as he was about to set off to capture it alive, Xia Liang suddenly reached out to stop him, "Grand Elder, wait a moment."

"What's wrong?" Qian Daoliu asked.

Xia Liang did not reply. He activated his external eye bone, and his pupils turned dark gold, enhancing his X-ray vision.

As his gaze broke through the dense trees in front of him, Xia Liang saw another enormous soul beast.

This soul beast is over ten meters long and looks like an extremely majestic lion, but it has three identical heads, each with a diameter of over two meters, and its terrifying canine teeth emit a reddish-gold luster.

The three heads simultaneously stared at the Golden Fire Silver Wolf, who was drinking water. Surprisingly, the seemingly ferocious Golden Fire Silver Wolf actually retreated several steps timidly, then lay prostrate on the ground, not daring to move an inch.

Upon seeing the three-headed soul beast, Xia Liang was immediately taken aback. With his Bone Observation Realm ability, he could see that the soul beast's skeleton was dark gold, indicating that all of its bones were in the nascent stage of soul bones, a condition that only appears in 100,000-year-old soul beasts.

However, the soul power flowing within this three-headed soul beast was not red, but orange-gold.

After a moment's thought, Xia Liang suddenly realized that the core area of ​​the Star Dou Great Forest was not only the lair of the Titan Giant Ape and the Azure Bull Python, but also the lair of the ferocious beasts from the Douluo Continent era.

Could this three-headed soul beast be a ferocious beast with a cultivation level of over two hundred thousand years?

His mind quickly recalled the descriptions of ferocious beasts from the original novel, *Douluo Continent II: The Peerless Tang Sect*, and Xia Liang soon had some clues. Among the ferocious beasts of the Star Dou Great Forest, there was a three-headed soul beast called the Crimson King. Its true form was a three-headed Crimson Demon Mastiff, possessing some pure-blooded true dragon bloodline.

Judging from its appearance and cultivation characteristics, this three-headed soul beast matches up and should be the ferocious beast Crimson King.

Qian Daoliu also sensed the presence of the Crimson King and couldn't help but frown. He never expected that he would discover a soul beast with a cultivation level of over 100,000 years on this trip.

As expected, the core area of ​​this Star Dou Great Forest is still inhabited by monsters that defy common sense.

Just as the Golden Fire Silver Wolf lay prostrate, too afraid to move, another soul beast suddenly emerged from beside the Crimson King.

This was a soul beast that Xia Liang had never seen before. It was over three meters long, eight feet tall at the shoulder, and its entire body was covered with a layer of brilliant golden fur.

The spirit beast's overall shape resembles a lion, but its four claws are like those of a dragon, with each claw resting on a ball of golden flame. Its mouth is also longer than that of lion-type spirit beasts, and beneath its fur appear to be fine, dense golden scales.

In addition to its two normal eyes, it also has a third vertical eye.

Is this the Three-Eyed Golden Lion?

Xia Liang remembered that the original novel said that the Crimson King was the patriarch of the Three-Headed Crimson Demon Dog clan and also the bodyguard of the Three-Eyed Golden Lion. So, the one who appeared with the Crimson King should be the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.