Peerless: The Starry Sky Revival Plan of the Auspicious Beasts

The pain and high fever took away the woman's last bit of sanity. The guilt that she had hidden deep in her heart and didn't want her daughter to notice suddenly came out.

"It would be great if you were a boy..." Huo Yun'er lay on the cold, hard bed, staring blankly at the mottled ceiling of the woodshed, turbid tears streaming from the corners of her eyes, which were already covered with fine lines.

“I want to name you Huo Yuhao, and you can also include his name in your name… Only boys can inherit the White Tiger Martial Soul… If you awaken the powerful White Tiger Martial Soul, you will be able to be cultivated by the Duke’s Mansion and become one of the most powerful spirit masters in the world. The Duchess will never dare to lay a hand on you… It’s all Mom’s fault…”

Huo Yun'er passed away in pain, filled with self-blame and concern for her daughter.

To this day, the woman's painful murmurs still seem to echo in Huo Yuqing's ears.

But she knew in her heart that what happened to her and her mother had nothing to do with whether she was a boy or a girl.

How could this be Mom's fault?

The girl lowered her eyes, and hatred as strong as a raging fire was hidden in her eyes.

That person... He has been a Soul Douluo for a long time, and should have become a Titled Douluo by now.

No matter what the cost, ten years, twenty years, thirty years... fifty years, one day, I will return to the Duke's Mansion to seek justice for my mother.

Huo Yuqing loosened her grip and the bunch of hair flew away in the breeze.

The feeling of having your hair cut with a dagger was not pleasant, but the girl seemed not to feel the pain of her hair being pulled, and she continued to cut with an expressionless face until her hair was cut to a similar length.

If the development of boys and girls of this age is a little later, there is actually not much difference. With a tomboy hairstyle and dark blue coarse cloth clothes, Huo Yuqing no longer looks like a little girl.

She hugged the tombstone and gently kissed her mother's name.

"Mom, I'm leaving now. I'll come back to see you in a few years."

The girl got up and staggered forward, ignoring her numb legs.

"Squeak."

A small voice suddenly sounded at her feet.

A mouse as long as Huo Yuqing's forearm, milky white in color, with a silver-gray stripe on its back, was looking up at her, and its pair of black bean-like eyes seemed to contain a hint of condemnation.

Next to it lies a broad green leaf, on which rest a few berries.

"Eh? Aunt Rat?" Huo Yuqing looked at it in surprise.

This mouse was rescued by Huo Yun'er when he was six years old, and is older than Huo Yuqing.

At that time, Huo Yun'er had just finished awakening her martial soul. Although she had the eye martial soul, she had no soul power. So she was assigned to be a maid beside the young Dai Hao. Her life was better than that of an ordinary servant.

The white mouse was only as long as a palm at that time, and was fainted by the sun, lying limply not far from Huo Yun'er's residence. Huo Yun'er saw that its fur color was really special and it was clean, unlike other mice that were gray, so she took it back to her residence and fed it some water and food.

The white mouse was quite intelligent. After being released, it would often come back to visit Huo Yun'er, and every time it would bring her some small things such as nuts and bird eggs from the mountains.

In this way, the man and the mouse became friends.

For more than twenty years, the white mouse has been alive and has been growing slowly in size.

Normal mice can only live for two to three years, so Huo Yun'er occasionally suspects that this beautiful mouse is a soul beast.

But don't soul beasts live in the big forest? How can there be soul beasts in places where humans live? Huo Yun'er just thought that this white mouse lived longer.

Even after Huo Yuqing was born, Huo Yun'er jokingly asked her daughter to call her white rat friend "Aunt Rat".

After Duke Baihu left the mansion, Huo Yun'er was persecuted by the Duchess, and Bai Shu was the only friend left for the mother and daughter.

Over the years, the white rat seemed to be getting smarter and smarter, and it seemed to understand the difficult situation Huo Yun'er and her daughter were in. Every time it brought a little bit of food, it made the mother and daughter feel a little better during the hungry nights.

It would not be an exaggeration to say that Bai Shu is Huo Yuqing's only remaining relative.

"Auntie Rat, I'm leaving." Huo Yuqing bent down and touched the fur on the back of the white rat. "Didn't I tell you last night? I'm going to a very far place, and we're going to be separated for a while."

Aunt Rat squeaked twice and dragged the leaf with the berries under Huo Yuqing's hand, as if she would not let go unless she took it.

"Thank you." The girl reluctantly took a few berries and put them into her mouth. As soon as the fruit entered her mouth, it turned into sweet juice, and there was a hint of coolness when she swallowed it.

The white mouse squeaked a few more times, took two steps forward, raised its light-colored little paws and placed them on Huo Yuqing's trouser leg.

"Do you want to go with me?" Huo Yuqing asked tentatively.

Auntie Mouse nodded in a very human way, then crawled up the girl's trouser legs, onto her body, and slipped herself into her clothes pocket.

There was nothing wrong with taking Auntie Mouse with her. Huo Yuqing gently touched the little head of the white mouse. If she could never see Auntie Mouse again, she would be reluctant to let her go.

Then she left here, suppressing her reluctance and not looking back.

She didn't notice that the swift standing on the branch, which was slightly larger than an ordinary swallow, also took off at this moment and disappeared into a stream of light.

What she didn't know was that not long after she left, a group of mice that looked very similar to Aunt Rat, with silver lines on their backs, emerged from the surrounding bushes.

They dug a shallow hole behind Huo Yun'er's tombstone and took out a round ball that was engraved with a strange formation and emitted a faint glow.

Wuhu! Huo Loli dressed as a man!

But she can't dress up as a man for a few years XD

Chapter 15 Stars (4-in-5 k)

The swift flapped its wings and flew into the sky.

The slender wings vibrated at a speed that was impossible for the human eye to perceive, and a dark silver light flashed across the blue sky.

The Spine-tailed Swift has no sharp beak or claws, and cannot fire wind blades or light cannons. This weak soul beast with almost no special abilities is almost indistinguishable from an ordinary bird.

But they still found their own way in the dangerous Star Forest and were not eaten to extinction by predators in the forest.

——The key is speed.

Over the long years, generation after generation of spine-tailed swifts have evolved a more sophisticated skeleton, lighter feathers, more powerful wings, a body shape that is more favored by the wind... and a more extreme speed.

Hundreds of thousands of years have passed, and the Spine-tailed Swift has become one of the fastest flying soul beasts on the continent.

According to legend, ten thousand years ago, spirit masters with the Spine-tailed Swift as their martial spirit were also the fastest humans. Among them, the top masters even set a terrifying record of crossing the entire continent in two days.

However, to this day, the inheritance of the Spine-tailed Swift's martial spirit has been cut off, and the legend has long been untraceable.

And right now, the flying speed of this swift is many times faster than that of the powerful man in the legend!

In just less than an hour, it flew from the Duke's Mansion in the center of Xing Luo to a location near the border in the north of the Xing Luo Empire, crossing almost one-third of the territory of the Xing Luo Empire.

What a terrifying speed!

The swifts flew northward. Along the way, the distance between towns became farther and farther, human houses became more and more sparse, and the neatly cultivated farmlands disappeared. Instead, the wild vegetation became more and more lush.

The road built by humans slowly extended into the forest, was soon swallowed up by the dense forest, and finally disappeared, leaving only the shadows of trees that could not be seen at the end.

We have arrived at the Star Forest.

Swifts flew over the trees, and dilapidated houses could be vaguely seen in the forest. It used to be a human village, but now it has been submerged by green plants.

Over the past fifteen thousand years, the Star Forest has been slowly expanding outward, and now its area is more than twice its original size.

And humans didn't react much to this.

This is not surprising.

Human beings are a short-lived race, but what does fifteen thousand years mean?

Ordinary people have a generation every twenty years, and even the most powerful soul masters in the world only have a lifespan of more than two hundred years.

Fifteen thousand years is enough time for humans to reproduce for how many generations?

Regimes changed, dynasties collapsed, families rose and fell, heritages appeared and disappeared…how much information recorded on paper has been lost.

Who can remember how big the stars were tens of thousands of years ago?

Human soul masters are respected for their strength, and the ruling class has devoted a lot of energy to cultivation. But how many humans have both outstanding cultivation talents and political talents?

Governing a country by force is bound to leave behind one mess after another. Who cares that the plants in this forest grew ten meters outward this year?

What's more, for human countries, the Star Forest also belongs to their own territory.

Even though the forests are expanding, the country's land will not be reduced. It is just that the villages where civilians live will be transformed into forests... It is not a big problem.

As for whether the civilians’ fields were swallowed up by the Star Forest?

Soul masters don’t farm, so who would care about this?

What soul beasts lack most is time, and what they lack least is also time.

Today, the Xingdou Great Forest has become the most terrifying forbidden area for humans in the entire Douluo Continent. Even in the outer areas, people have seen 100,000-year-old soul beasts appear.

Without the protection of a Titled Douluo, let alone going deep into the Star Dou Great Forest, even entering the outskirts of the forest could lead to fatal danger.

The swift continued to fly deeper into the forest.

The deepest part of the Star Forest is the legendary forbidden land. There is a lake that condenses the vitality of the entire star forest, and a large number of terrifying beings that have surpassed 100,000 years of cultivation guard here.

However, not too far from the Lake of Life, there is actually a fairly large building complex.

It was a small town built in the center of the Star Forest.

Most of the houses here are built with brown or dark blue stones, and look quite rough...even sloppy.

However, the atmosphere of life here is very strong. Some houses have decorative graffiti on their exterior walls, some have clothes hanging outside the windows, and some have small gardens for growing vegetables at the door.

If you ignore the geographical location, this place looks like just an ordinary quiet town.

A child of five or six years old opened the window and looked up at the narrow sky between the treetops.

A dark silver light flashed before his eyes.

……

Almost in the blink of an eye, the spine-tailed swift flew to the center of the town.

There was a relatively flat open space there, with the ground being compacted dark brown soil, and it looked like a square.

In the center of the clearing is a thick, strange dead tree that has obviously been modified by humans (or animals).

The dead tree's well-developed root system extends deep into the ground, and the roots exposed on the surface and the charred trunks are engraved with complex patterns that connect end to end.

The dense branches have long been dead, but they still stubbornly stretch towards the sky, with light green translucent light balls hanging at the tips of the dead branches.

Countless light green spots flowed upward along these lines, like a chaotic rain curtain flowing upstream, and finally merged into the ball of light on the branches.

These balls of light seemed to be still breathing, flickering according to some unknown pattern.