Chapter 121: Death Canyon, Ten-Thousand-Year-Old Dark Golden Terrorclaw Bear!
One year later.
Death Canyon.
Today, Hu Bai, led by Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo, arrived at the mysterious Death Canyon, preparing to obtain his fourth soul ring.
That's right. After a year, Hu Bai's cultivation had finally broken through to rank forty. According to Spirit Hall's investigation, a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, a Dark Golden Dreadclaw Bear, had appeared here in Death Canyon!
In the original work, Hu Bai remembered that even a Titled Douluo would find it difficult to kill a Ten-Thousand-Year Dark Golden Dreadclaw Bear.
But to say that a Ten-Thousand-Year Dark Golden Dreadclaw Bear could truly rival a Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Beast?
Hu Bai thought that was completely overstated!
It was like Schrödinger's Titan Ape: initially, it was said that a Thousand-Year Titan Ape was comparable to a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, then it was changed to a Ten-Thousand-Year Titan Ape comparable to a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
But if their cultivation was the same, their actual combat power was not much higher than other Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts!
After all, Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts are not cabbages—any Soul Beast that can truly cultivate for a hundred thousand years would not be ordinary.
Of course, if we compare, under the same cultivation level, the Titan Giant Ape could still defeat Soul Beasts like Xiao Wu and Ah Yin.
Although the former had many life-saving soul skills, it had a fatal weakness: no Domain!
And although the latter had a Domain, it was still unlikely to defeat the Titan Giant Ape.
Since there was news of a Dark Golden Dreadclaw Bear in Death Canyon, Hu Bai's fourth soul ring naturally had to be from it!
Although he only increased his soul power by rank four this year, he had nearly completed the first trial of the God of Seven Elements.
The extreme attributes he now possessed were: Extreme Ice, Extreme Fire, Extreme Lightning, Extreme Light, Extreme Water, and Extreme Wind.
Aside from the dark attribute being just a little short of reaching the Extreme, he had actually over-completed it!
"Little fellow, the Supreme Pontiff only gave us one month. Your Holy Son Ceremony will be held in a month, and invitations have already been sent throughout the continent," Yue Guan sighed slightly.
Gui Mei agreed: "Who would have thought that you are only nine years old now, yet you're already a Soul Ancestor expert! This has already broken the continent's record! Of course, this excludes the Young Miss; the speed at which the Young Miss's cultivation increased can only be described as terrifying."
Gui Mei couldn't help but shake his head when he thought of Qian Renxue's rapid soul power increase. Comparing Hu Bai to Qian Renxue was too unfair.
With an innate rank twenty soul power and high-grade Soul Bones, who could catch up?
And Hu Bai naturally wouldn't compare himself to Qian Renxue. Both of them had divine trials and would definitely become gods in the future; it was just a matter of who reached that goal first.
Moreover, he might not necessarily be surpassed by Qian Renxue in the future.
Although under Qian Daoliu's guidance, Qian Renxue had learned how to use mental power to guide her soul power cultivation over the past year, increasing her speed slightly, the gap was still significant. Unless she could obtain another Immortal Herb comparable to the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew.
But in the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, there was only one such Immortal Herb capable of enhancing mental power.
Additionally, Spirit Hall was actively searching for the legendary Life Gold, but no results had appeared so far.
If it were just one Extreme attribute, Qian Renxue's cultivation speed wouldn't be so slow. But there was no "if."
Hu Bai benefited from the life essence left by the Tianmeng Iceworm and the energy provided by the Million-Year Skull, so his cultivation speed remained steady.
Xie Yue's cultivation had also reached the peak of rank thirty-eight within a year, while Hu Liena reached rank thirty-three.
Over this year, the three of them often undertook missions outside the academy, and everything was progressing normally.
Among the candidates for the purple record badge, none could match Hu Bai and Xie Yue. Once they reached level forty, they could obtain the purple record badge.
As for Hu Liena, progress would be slower. When she was still a Soul Grandmaster, her mental power could sometimes make mistakes when facing Soul Masters close to rank forty.
Initially, others didn't realize her primary cultivation focus was mental power, so they were unprepared. But later, with preparations, they would naturally develop countermeasures.
However, all of this would become irrelevant once Hu Liena obtained her third soul ring.
Although her soul power was only at the level of a Soul Elder, her mental power had already surpassed Soul Ancestor!
Unless her opponent also cultivated mental power, resisting her would be impossible; otherwise, they were just targets!
While the three of them continued talking, they arrived at the territory where this Dark Golden Dreadclaw Bear frequently appeared.
Roar! Roar! Roar!!!
As soon as they stepped into the territory of the Ten-Thousand-Year Dark Golden Dreadclaw Bear, the colossal beast's eyes flashed red, saliva dripped from its sharp teeth, and it issued a warning, as well as excitement at the sight of prey!
At this moment, Chrysanthemum Douluo and Gui Mei had not yet displayed their Titled Douluo strength, so the Dark Golden Dreadclaw Bear had not sensed the danger approaching.
Originally a predator, it was now hunted!
Hu Bai also felt a little excited upon seeing this sturdy black bear. He hadn't expected that, besides the Dark Golden Dreadclaw Bear clan in the perilous zone of the Star Dou Great Forest, there would also be one here in Death Canyon!
Moreover, since this area was the territory of the Dark Golden Dreadclaw Bear, there was no need to worry about other Soul Beasts appearing here.
The Dark Golden Dreadclaw Bear had an extremely strong territorial instinct.
Even within the same species, they would fight fiercely over territory—unless a more terrifying existence suppressed them. Otherwise...
Unfortunately, Bear Lord was not here.
Hehe.
"Xiao Bai, how do you want to handle this Dark Golden Dreadclaw Bear? Do you want us to make a move? The aura of this Ten-Thousand-Year Dark Golden Dreadclaw Bear, if not that of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, then it has the aura of a fifty-thousand-year Soul Beast," Yue Guan said solemnly, as the two sides faced off.
Hu Bai pondered for a moment. It wouldn't be easy to defeat this Ten-Thousand-Year Dark Golden Dreadclaw Bear with his current strength, but he wasn't someone who would give up without trying!
Otherwise, wouldn't he be unworthy of his Extreme attributes, unworthy of his divine trial?
When Yue Guan saw that Hu Bai was already in a martial soul possession state, he understood his decision.
But he still gave Gui Mei a look.
Gui Mei also knew that since they were responsible for support, they must always be ready to use their martial soul fusion.
And Hu Bai had promised the Tianmeng Iceworm that when he was about to obtain a soul ring, he would awaken it, and it would increase the age of Hu Bai's soul ring.
Soon, the Tianmeng Iceworm's soul returned from the third soul ring to Hu Bai's spiritual sea.
"Eh, Hu Bai, you woke me up so quickly. You didn't change your mind and want me to stay in your spiritual sea… Holy crap! A Ten-Thousand-Year Dark Golden Dreadclaw Bear, Hu Bai, are you crazy?!!!"
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