Douluo Continent: Starting with a Heavenly Fire Judgment

Chapter 6 Star Dou Great Forest

Xingluo City is located in the northern part of the Xingluo Empire, and the place Ji Lin chose to hunt soul beasts was in the Xingdou Great Forest, which borders the Tianhun Empire in the northern part of the Xingluo Empire.

This forest, almost the size of an entire province, is home to a wide variety of spirit beasts, including many super-powerful ones. The Star Dou Great Forest is one of the most famous spirit beast habitats on the Douluo Continent, a vast primeval forest with complex terrain, including wetlands and swamps. The spirit beasts there are extremely terrifying; the closer you get to the center of the forest, the stronger they become. There are even 100,000-year-old spirit beasts. Any spirit master, with sufficient strength and good luck, can find the most suitable spirit ring within. The forest is teeming with powerful spirit beasts, poisonous insects, and deeply hidden plant spirit beasts, making it extremely dangerous. Every year, countless spirit masters perish while hunting spirit beasts, becoming fertilizer for the Star Dou Great Forest.

The Soul Master world divides the Star Dou Great Forest into four regions based on the Soul Beasts within it.

The outer area, the mixed area, the core area, and the most ominous place.

The outermost 20.5 kilometers of the Star Dou Great Forest is the outer zone. Only some weak ten-year and hundred-year soul beasts are active there, and even thousand-year soul beasts are few and far between.

The mixed zone occupies about 40 kilometers of the maximum radius of 100 kilometers. The mixed zone is relatively dangerous. Small Karami, such as ten-year-old soul beasts, are not worthy of living here. This place is also the place with the most diverse and abundant soul beasts.

Most Soul Masters can find suitable Soul Beasts here. The mixed zone is mainly composed of hundred-year, thousand-year, and ten-thousand-year Soul Beasts. Most of the ten-thousand-year Soul Beasts are less than twenty thousand years old, with ten-thousand-year Soul Beasts being the most common. In this area, hundred-year Soul Beasts are basically in groups, and they are even more dangerous than some ten-thousand-year Soul Beasts. If you kill one, a group of Soul Beasts will attack you. In some ways, they are even more difficult to deal with than those ten-thousand-year Soul Beasts.

The innermost forty-kilometer radius is the core area of ​​the Star Dou Great Forest. Although this area is quite vast, the number of soul beasts living there is far less than in the mixed area.

Because those who inhabit this area are all powerful soul beasts. Hundred-year-old soul beasts are almost extinct in this region, and even thousand-year-old soul beasts are few in number. Ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts are the main species, and occasionally one can see the terrifying figure of a hundred-thousand-year-old soul beast.

According to the research of Soul Masters, a Soul Beast that can own a small territory in this area must have a cultivation level of at least 30,000 years.

Within the very center of this core area, spanning ten kilometers in diameter, lies a place known as the Land of Great Calamity, also called the Forbidden Zone of Life. In the incomplete maps of the Star Dou Great Forest, this region is always distinguished by a deep, blood-red hue. There, ferocious beasts with cultivation exceeding one hundred thousand years live, each possessing strength capable of causing even a level 95 Super Douluo to tremble.

In any habitat of spirit beasts, those living on the fringes are often the weakest; this is common sense. The Star Dou Great Forest is no exception.

The edge of the Star Dou Great Forest is inhabited by some ten-year-old soul beasts and some weak hundred-year-old soul beasts.

Ordinary Soul Masters without a powerful background might choose these Soul Rings as their first Soul Ring for the sake of stability.

But Ji Lin and Chi Yuan obviously wouldn't.

Chi Yuan completely ignored the no-fly zone over the Star Dou Great Forest and led Ji Lin directly across the outer area to the mixed zone. No foolish flying spirit beasts came to their deaths along the way.

The reason for coming to the mixed zone is that the hundred-year-old soul beasts that can survive in the mixed zone are not simple, and it is easier to find a hundred-year-old soul beast suitable for Ji Lin.

Chi Yuan led Ji Lin through the dense forest, constantly searching for prey. Without exception, every soul beast they encountered along the way was frightened away by a single glance from Chi Yuan.

Ji Lin, itching to fight, reluctantly gave up his first battle. There would be many more opportunities for real combat; he should focus on obtaining his first spirit ring first.

The two had been deep in the forest for more than two hours, and the only creatures they encountered along the way were other types of spirit beasts. They hadn't seen a single fire-type one, and there wasn't a single one suitable for Ji Lin.

Meanwhile, in a valley more than ten kilometers away from the two, a group of people were cutting down trees to build a fire and cook.

"Senior sister, this is fruit I saved for you." A boy who looked only fifteen or sixteen years old shyly handed the fruit in his hand to the woman in white in front of him.

"No need, I'm not hungry yet. You can give it to someone else," the woman in white said, shaking her head in refusal.

Upon hearing this, the boy looked dejected and hid under a tree. His companions quickly came over to comfort him.

Ma Xiaotao, who was cooking over a fire, saw this and curled her lip in disdain.

"You think you can win over Sister Lexuan with this? You'll have to try for another ten thousand years."

Upon hearing this, Ling Luochen, who was sitting opposite Ma Xiaotao, glanced at Ma Xiaotao, then sat down on the ground with his knees drawn up to his chest without saying a word, staring blankly at the burning wood.

On a large tree a few dozen meters away from them, a disheveled man was holding a gourd in one hand and a chicken leg in the other. He was gnawing on the chicken leg and occasionally taking big gulps from the gourd.

Their leisurely demeanor made it seem as if this wasn't some perilous Starry Forest, but rather an entertainment venue.

He took a sip of his drink, wiped his mouth haphazardly with his sleeve, and then yawned.

This group of people actually came from extraordinary backgrounds; each of them was a top student from the inner academy of Shrek Academy.

Those who are able to enter Shrek Academy's inner courtyard are rare talents in the outside world.

Regardless of Shrek Academy's reputation, the quality of their students is indeed the best on the entire continent.

Even the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy cannot match this.

Leading this group was Zhang Lexuan, hailed as the number one genius of the Inner Academy. She was only 18 years old this year, yet had already reached level 70. Her cultivation talent was unparalleled in the Inner Academy's three thousand years of history.

Dressed in a white robe, with a beautiful and aloof appearance, she is Zhang Lexuan, one of the core disciples of Shrek Academy's inner court. She is already a Soul Saint at less than twenty years old. This time, she led a team to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt for the seventh Soul Ring and officially become a Soul Saint.

It should be noted that the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Battle Tournament is less than a year away. Given Zhang Lexuan's age, he is definitely eligible to participate in this tournament. It seems that Shrek Academy will once again dominate the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Battle Tournament.

The one cooking over the fire is Ma Xiaotao, the only fire-type soul master in the team and one of the core disciples of the outer academy who broke through level 40 at the young age of 13.

Ma Xiaotao had a slender and well-proportioned figure. A red veil covered her face, obscuring her features, but her eyes and brows revealed her to be undeniably beautiful. Her pale pink eyes possessed a captivating allure. Fortunately, her cold gaze slightly suppressed that mesmerizing intensity.

She's already so beautiful at such a young age; who knows what kind of stunning beauty she'll become in a few more years.

Sitting opposite Ma Xiaotao was Ling Luochen, who was in the same year as her and was also one of the core disciples of the outer academy.

Ling Luochen possesses a cool and aloof beauty, unlike Ma Xiaotao's fiery charm or Zhang Lexuan's gentle grace. Her serene and proud demeanor, like a plum blossom in full bloom, easily leaves a lasting impression. Her skin is very fair, and she seems weightless when she walks.

White hair and blue eyes, wearing a strange cat headdress.

Unlike Ma Xiaotao, Ling Luochen had just reached the level 30 Soul Master realm. Although her talent was also considered genius, it was not as good as Ma Xiaotao's.

Because of her arrogant personality, Ling Luochen not only didn't get along with Ma Xiaotao, but she was also not very friendly with others. Only in front of Zhang Lexuan would she slightly restrain her arrogant personality.

Just then, two people walked from a distance at the entrance of the valley. Zhang Lexuan immediately became alert, knowing that anything could happen in the Star Dou Great Forest.

(End of this chapter)