The density of soul beasts in the Evildemon Forest was indeed much greater than the ordinary soul beast mountain ranges these two Soul King teachers had been to before. It was worthy of being the place with the most soul beasts on the Sun Moon Continent.
"Yuhao." A flash of golden light, and a figure of emerald green appeared out of thin air beside Huo Yuhao in the Kamui space.
Yes, the Ice Empress had finally awoken. The Tianmeng Ice Silkworm had also shared a portion of its memories regarding Huo Yuhao with her, allowing her to see the possibility of a group of soul spirits becoming gods in the original plot.
Even for Huo Yuhao, this was the first time he had seen the Ice Empress in her human form. Her pretty face was incomparably cold and beautiful. On both sides of her moving, fair, and delicate face were four emerald-green demonic patterns. A head of long, dark green hair was draped behind her back. Her skin was as white as ice and snow, and had a translucent texture. Beneath her skin, a faint emerald light could be seen flowing. Even if it was just a spiritual body, when she appeared, the air temperature of Kamui dropped sharply.
"I'll have to trouble you," Huo Yuhao nodded slightly to the Ice Empress, expressing his meaning with his thoughts.
"It's fine," the Ice Empress's voice was crisp and pleasant, yet it carried a chill that came from the bones. She didn't do much. After coming out of the Kamui space, she just walked side by side with Huo Yuhao. An aura unique to the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion then emanated from her body.
At the same time, the simulation soul skill was activated. A soft halo formed a distorted light pattern around his body. Soon, he and the Ice Empress had completely merged with the surrounding environment. Even their own auras were completely blocked by this layer of halo. It felt as if they had disappeared into thin air.
The Ice Empress had extremely good control over her own aura; it was not fully released. With her cultivation before fusing with Huo Yuhao, if she were to fully release her aura, she might really have drawn out that Evil Emperor. In that case, the trouble would be great.
She just faintly emitted a trace of the unique pressure of a hundred-thousand-year soul beast, which was already enough to oppress the nearby soul beasts with lower cultivation until they couldn't move, let alone get close.
In Huo Yuhao's spiritual detection world, as Jing Hongchen and the others advanced, the soul beasts within a radius of several thousand square meters all retreated. The ones with weaker cultivation were even more so paralyzed on the ground, not daring to move.
Huo Yuhao followed behind Jing Hongchen and the others, advancing almost in a straight line towards the interior of the Evildemon Forest. What he had to do now was to find a soul beast suitable to become Ju Zi's first soul ring in the shortest possible time, lure it, absorb it, and then quickly withdraw.
Soon, he had already passed through the outer periphery of the Evildemon Forest. The strength of the surrounding soul beasts also began to become stronger. Hundred-year soul beasts could be seen everywhere, and thousand-year soul beasts also appeared occasionally. However, in the face of the powerful aura of the Ice Empress, a hundred-thousand-year soul beast, the attitude of these soul beasts towards Huo Yuhao was no different from those outside. They still avoided him as if he were the plague.
Jing Hongchen, walking at the very front, vaguely felt that something was not right, yet he couldn't put his finger on it. He was not a soul beast and could not sense the bloodline pressure aimed at soul beasts. He just pulled his pair of grandchildren to his side, just in case.
As the saying goes, "the older the ginger, the spicier it is," but also, "the older the river, the smaller the guts." The Evil Eye clan living in the Evildemon Forest was an extremely rare spiritual-type soul beast group. Their perception of spiritual fluctuations was naturally much more sensitive than that of ordinary soul beasts. Jing Hongchen naturally did not dare to be careless.
He walked forward cautiously. Suddenly, a chaotic fluctuation of soul power came from the front. A soul beast is fighting?
Huo Yuhao, following behind, his heart moved. He immediately stopped his steps, quickly retreated a few steps to the side of a large tree, and, relying on his simulation soul skill, completely assimilated with the surrounding environment.
His spiritual power had evolved to a tangible and qualitative level. Unless a ferocious beast-level existence specially probed his location, otherwise, the invisibility ability of his simulation soul skill, as long as he did not move, would absolutely not be seen by an enemy with weak spiritual cultivation.
The speed at which the chaotic soul power fluctuation approached was very fast. In a short while, the creature producing the soul power fluctuation had entered the range of Huo Yuhao's spiritual detection.
It really was a soul beast fighting! Jing Hongchen's eyes narrowed slightly. The situation before him was exactly as he had judged when he had sensed the soul power fluctuation with his detection-type soul tool earlier.
Rushing in front was a soul beast covered in thick scales. The lower limbs of this soul beast were extremely thick and stout, and it walked upright. Its upper limbs were short. But whether it was the upper or lower limbs, they were all three-fingered, with sharp claws that shone with a cold light. The thick scales on its body were a dark blue color. It looked to have at least three layers and was very thick. Its height was four meters, and it looked very majestic. Its head was particularly huge, almost occupying a third of its body's size, and it dragged a thick tail three meters long behind it.
Even Jing Hongchen, who was from the Sun Moon Empire, hesitated for a moment when he saw this soul beast. He quickly searched the knowledge he had learned before he could barely recognize what it was.
This was clearly the Devouring Dragon, known as the mini Tyrannosaurus Rex.
The Devouring Dragon before him looked very similar to a Tyrannosaurus Rex on the outside, but they could be easily distinguished by their size. The Devouring Dragon was good at defense, but unlike the Tyrannosaurus Rex, its innate soul skill was very domineering. Its innate soul skill was called Devour Heaven and Earth. It was born bloodthirsty. After killing an enemy, it could restore its own consumption and complete its evolution by devouring the enemy's body.
The Devouring Dragon was very unpopular in the world of soul beasts because its personality was too cruel. No matter whether the opponent was strong or not, whether it was a soul beast or a human, in its eyes, there was only slaughter. Only when it was full would it stop its slaughter and fall into a deep sleep.
There were several other kinds of soul beasts like the Devouring Dragon that evolved by devouring the power of their enemies. Among them, the most representative and also the most powerful was the Dark-Devil God Tiger. However, most Dark-Devil God Tigers possessed extremely high intelligence, while the mental state of a Devouring Dragon was generally chaotic, relying more on instinct to kill.
The Devouring Dragon before them was already quite large. From the color of its scales and the length of its tail, one could tell that it was at least a ten-thousand-year level cultivation Devouring Dragon, its cultivation probably between ten thousand and twenty thousand years.
At this level, the strength of a Devouring Dragon was already quite terrifying. But now, its movements as it ran ahead were somewhat staggering. There were obvious burn marks on the side of its body, and it looked panicked. It was clear that the one chasing it was an even stronger existence.
A strong red light at this time shot over from behind like lightning. The light was as thick as a water tank, and its cross-sectional diameter was at least one meter. Wherever it passed, all obstacles were instantly turned to dust.
Seeing this, Jing Hongchen immediately deployed a soul tool shield, leading everyone far away to find a hidden location to lie in wait.
The red light came too fast, and the area it covered was too large. The Devouring Dragon's reaction was already very fast, yet it was still hit by it. All the scales on the Devouring Dragon's body stood up, and a layer of dark blue light was released from its body, forming a protective light shield. When the dark blue light came into contact with the red light, one could clearly see that the Devouring Dragon's protective light halo was rapidly twisting and fluctuating. Like a bubble being instantly popped, the residual red light swept across its back, immediately bringing up a cloud of smoke.
The Devouring Dragon couldn't help but let out a miserable cry. Its body rolled on the ground, then leaped up again and turned around. Its huge head was raised, and its bloody maw suddenly opened, letting out a heaven-shaking roar. The posture was clearly one of risking its life.
In the Devouring Dragon's open mouth, a ball of dark blue airflow instantly took shape. The core of the airflow was as black as ink. It was precisely its innate soul skill—Devour Heaven and Earth.
Within a hundred-meter radius of the soul skill, it instantly became a sheet of gloom. The terrifying devouring power turned all life within this range into nothingness, devouring their energy, whether it was insects or plants.
However, at this time, Jing Hongchen felt deeply helpless. When the Devouring Dragon was attacked, it was just a few dozen meters away from them. At this time, with its Devour Heaven and Earth activated, it immediately swept the dozen or so of them in as well.
Ju Zi only felt her surroundings instantly turn cold, and immediately after, a strange force began to frantically pull at her life force. The feeling was as if her flesh and bones were about to be stripped away, and her whole person was about to be crushed into fine powder.
Of course, this feeling of hers only lasted for a moment before it ended. Without the simulation soul skill being deactivated, a spatial vortex had isolated the terrifying devouring aura. Of course, Ju Zi had also subsequently entered Huo Yuhao's Kamui space.
Seeing one of them disappear in an instant, before Jing Hongchen and the others could react, the attack from the other soul beast arrived one after another.
Jing Hongchen was helpless. He directly opened his soul tool shield to its maximum, isolating the red light. In the world of soul beasts, their perception of humans was always the most sensitive. The moment Jing Hongchen made a move, a sharp whistle was heard. They also finally saw the second soul beast that had launched the terrifying red light attack just now.
Appearing before everyone was a soul beast with a very strange appearance. It was suspended in the air and looked somewhat like a balloon. Unfortunately, what was suspended was not a balloon, but a huge eye, a blood-red eye with a diameter of one meter.
Around this giant eye were some brown spots. Six soft tentacles hung down to the ground, dragging along. It could be seen that where it had dragged past, it had left behind corroded gullies. And among these six tentacles, three were green, and three were red, clearly distinct. The moment it appeared, its huge eye looked towards the soul tool shield deployed by Jing Hongchen.
An Evil Eye! This soul beast was simply too easy to recognize! It was precisely the target of Huo Yuhao's trip, an existence of the Evil Eye clan. When an Evil Eye's cultivation exceeded ten thousand years, it could be called an Evil Eye Tyrant. This Evil Eye was more appropriately called a Fire Evil Tyrant.
Huo Yuhao immediately judged the origin of this Evil Eye based on the original plot. In fact, Huo Yuhao's luck was really good. This Fire Evil Tyrant was precisely the mate of the youngest son of the true ruler of the Evildemon Forest, the number one ferocious beast of the Sun Moon Empire, the Evil Eye Tyrant Overlord, also known as the Evil Emperor.
Huo Yuaho's eyes were full of excitement. It's precisely this daughter-in-law of the Evil Eye Tyrant Overlord I'm catching!