Lu Mingfei starts from Douluo

The warm yellow sun lazily climbed the hillside, looking somewhat listless. The sunlight felt neither hot nor warm on the skin, and a cool breeze blew from the mountaintop, its chill seeping into the heart and making one shiver.

Lu Mingfei didn't sleep well last night. He spent most of the night setting up his tent and only managed to drift off to sleep wrapped in his blankets. However, the occasional ghostly wails and howls coming from the nearby Soul Hunter Forest kept his nerves on edge.

However, he still had to get up and go to the town market. In broad daylight, there shouldn't be much danger.

This town was built around the Soul Hunting Forest, and there are many professional Soul Hunting teams on the outskirts, making a living by helping Soul Masters hunt for Souls.

Over time, they will definitely have a map of the plant spirit beasts in fixed locations, as well as the approximate locations of some spirit beast habitats.

So today he plans to go out and try his luck as a street urchin, hoping to trigger some hidden plot points, such as overhearing information about some soul beasts.

After packing up his tent and belongings, Lu Mingfei dug a hole to hide in before heading down the mountain into the town.

This town, which was created for the Soul Hunter Forest, primarily serves Soul Masters, who are a well-known high-income group. As a result, the prices in this town are as outrageous as those in a 5A-level scenic spot.

Looking at the exorbitant prices on the restaurant's menu, Lu Mingfei felt the 1.3 yuan he had left in his pocket, bought three sesame seed cakes from the bottom of his heart, and sat down in a corner of the hall to eat them under the waiter's unfriendly gaze.

After all, heroes and warriors of all kinds cannot live without food and drink, and brothels and restaurants have always been the best choice for intelligence gathering.

"Make way, make way."

Just as Lu Mingfei was enjoying the free boiled water, a group of people gradually gathered at the restaurant entrance. He peeked out and discovered that someone had brought over a soul beast corpse, which was probably an ingredient purchased by the restaurant.

The restaurant's signature dish is charcoal-grilled soul beast meat, which costs five silver soul coins a plate, and a hundred-year-old soul beast costs one gold coin. Lu Mingfei thought to himself that it was robbery.

"This thing is a soul beast? It's huge!"

Looking at the wolf-shaped soul beast, which was even larger than a Siberian tiger in a zoo, Lu Mingfei subconsciously swallowed a few times. He suddenly began to doubt his plan to kill the hundred-year-old soul beast by himself. Could such a thing really be killed by poking it with a fire poker?

That night.

Under the cover of darkness, Lu Mingfei mustered his courage. In his original world, he had never even killed a chicken, so to be honest, he was quite unsure about killing a soul beast.

After all, this isn't like fighting monsters in a game where you just show their health bar, go in, do a bunch of combos, and then the game is over.

He also had to evade law enforcement and imperial troops, and to ensure his safety and avoid being exposed, he could only operate during the darkest hours of the night.

Besides, he couldn't be sure if the Soul Hunter Forest had the soul beast he needed; if not, he might have to travel to several more maps.

In short, hunting for soul rings is too difficult. Just thinking about the nine more soul rings he needs to hunt in the future makes Lu Mingfei feel a headache coming on.

With his eyes closed and a thought forming, Lu Mingfei instantly activated his Golden Eyes, and iron-blue membrane wings unfurled from his back.

He called this form "dragon transformation," but he didn't know exactly how powerful it was.

However, he had picked at the dragon scales that had grown on his body and pierced them with an iron spike, and the effect was that he was completely invulnerable to blades and spears. Coupled with his wings that could travel at speeds of over 100 kilometers per hour, this gave him the confidence to hunt souls alone. If he couldn't win, he could simply run away.

Clenching his fist, Lu Mingfei leaped into the sky, deliberately concealing the light of his golden eyes to prevent anyone from noticing.

The entire Soul Hunting Forest stretches across several mountain peaks, comparable to a primeval forest.

After entering from high altitude, Lu Mingfei lowered his flight altitude.

Because the spirit beasts here are all captured and released, there are no flying spirit beasts, so Lu Mingfei hardly needs to worry about being attacked in the air.

From the perspective of the Golden Eyes, the night is as bright as day. Because of the inherent mental pressure, he had only used it three times when he was in the academy to avoid trouble. The only time he actually used it in battle was when he was with Tang San. In fact, he didn't know much about his own eyes.

But tonight he realized how convenient these eyes were; it was like having a radar-like see-through cheat code, and he could even see the soul power fluctuations on the soul beasts.

Looking down, they immediately spotted the tracks of more than a dozen soul beasts, but most of them had weak soul power and seemed to be only ten-year-old soul beasts.

After testing it for a while, he immediately flew towards the center. The more powerful the soul beast, the more likely it would occupy the central position. If there were dragon-type soul beasts here, they would never stay in one corner.

Lu Mingfei had no idea how much psychological trauma his unbridled scanning of the forest with his golden eyes tonight had inflicted on these little soul beasts who had left their homes.

For the soul beasts of this continent, the might of the dragon is a fear etched deep into their very souls.

Lu Mingfei's behavior was like walking around Hiroshima with a Tsar Bomba; their legs went weak with fear.

"This is?"

Soon, in a valley, Lu Mingfei found a suspected target.

Among the soul power fluctuations of all the soul beasts that appeared tonight, this one was the most astonishing in strength.

Lu Mingfei immediately recognized it as the Dragon Scale Horse recorded in the Soul Beast Encyclopedia. It was crimson all over, with dragon scales covering its head and limbs. It was extremely fast, and its main attack method was high-speed impact.

It's not unusual to encounter familiar soul beasts in the Soul Hunter Forest.

Notting Academy's Soul Beast Compendium is an official teaching material published by the Empire. In addition to the contributions of some royal and noble Soul Masters, the information in it also comes from the Empire's records of capturing Soul Beasts. Almost all types of Soul Beasts in the Soul Hunting Forest are recorded in the Soul Beast Compendium.

He just didn't expect to be so lucky to encounter such a soul beast in the Soul Hunting Forest, a remote area. He originally thought it might take him several months to find one.

"This is it, let's try it out!"

Lu Mingfei made up his mind. Based on the fluctuations in soul power, he could roughly determine that this dragon-scaled horse was a hundred-year-old soul beast. As for the specific age, even the encyclopedia did not provide a method for determining it, since dragon-type soul beasts were extremely rare.

Although the book states that the limit a Soul Master can withstand for their first Soul Ring is about four hundred years, Lu Mingfei could immediately see the problem with that statement.

Whether from gaming experience or objective scientific principles, the lifespan of a Soul Ring should be related to the Soul Master's physical condition.

The truth is that the more powerful a Soul Master is, the more powerful a Soul Ring they can withstand.

A healthy Soul Master can generally withstand a 400-year Soul Ring, but a Soul Master with a congenital disability may not even be able to withstand a 300-year Soul Ring.

Furthermore, a powerful soul beast's ten-year soul ring will definitely be stronger than a weak soul beast's hundred-year soul ring.

The content in the book is just a summary of general rules for the benefit of all Soul Masters on the mainland.

But Lu Mingfei knew exactly how inhuman his dragon-transformed form was; he could probably withstand even a thousand-year soul ring.

Taking a deep breath, Lu Mingfei pulled out the iron spike, flapped his wings to lower his altitude, his muscles tensed, ready to face his first soul beast hunting battle.

He didn't feel anything while he was in the air, but as he got closer, Lu Mingfei suddenly felt as if he were facing a heavy armored vehicle.

However, just when Lu Mingfei thought it might launch a lightning attack at any moment, the Dragonscale Horse knelt down cleanly and neatly on all fours without making a sound.