Douluo Peerless: Eye of Truth

Chapter 27: Smooth Soul Hunting Operation

The next morning, Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong walked side by side on a road far away from Poseidon Lake.

Since Wang Dong didn't say anything, Huo Yuhao naturally didn't say anything either, and both sides walked the entire distance in silence.

The two's destinations were both the entrance to Shrek Academy, but Wang Dong was going back to the sect, while Huo Yuhao was going to participate in the soul hunting.

“See you next month.” After waving to Wang Dong, Huo Yuhao did not hesitate and walked directly towards the leader of the Soul Hunting Team.

This soul hunt was led by a strong attack system Soul Sage whose martial soul was the mutated martial soul of the Flame Lion King, the Molten Fire Lion, and whose soul power was level 73. In addition to Huo Yuhao, there were three other students participating in this soul hunt.

Although only the top three teams in the freshman assessment are eligible to request Shrek Academy to send teachers to help hunt souls for free.

However, other students can join the soul hunting team by paying a certain amount of gold soul coins. This is also the daily routine for ordinary students to obtain soul rings. After all, soul hunting has both benefits and risks.

Compared with wild soul hunting teams, Shrek Academy, which has a better reputation, is naturally more reliable, so the tuition fees of Shrek Academy are often much more expensive.

In the inner courtyard, if students want teachers and elders to assist them in soul hunting, except for those who are gifted and are particularly valued, ordinary students need to accumulate contributions from their daily tasks.

Looking at Huo Yuhao, although Wang Dong seemed to want to say something, he just waved his hand and said softly, "Goodbye." Then he turned around and left as if escaping.

After witnessing this scene, the Soul Sage didn't say much. He was also a teacher in the inner courtyard and was accustomed to the separation between students who had a good relationship with each other.

After scanning the team, the Soul Saint said, "My name is Lie Yong, you can call me Teacher Lie. I'm sure Director Du has given you my information, so I won't introduce it in detail."

"Soul hunting has always been risky. Even though we are heading to the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest this time, we must not be careless."

"In the complex forest environment, even as a Soul Sage, I cannot guarantee that I will return safely every time."

After a pause, he continued, "If you are worried, you can leave now. Once you enter the Star Dou Great Forest, it will be too late to regret it."

"I will not attack ordinary soul beasts that are ten years old or have just broken through a hundred years. I will leave it to the four of you to deal with. I will only attack soul beasts that have cultivated for more than five hundred years."

"Any other questions?"

The three students all shook their heads and said that there was no problem. Huo Yuhao did not say much either. After all, if an accident really happened, the one who would be the most unlucky would definitely not be him who was the most prepared. Probably.

"Okay, the three of you are all level 20 spirit masters. This time you are going to obtain the second spirit ring. Exchange your martial spirits and spirit skills with each other to avoid unexpected situations in the battle."

The other three people briefly introduced their own martial spirits.

There are two weapon spirits, one is a shield and the other is a bow. They are respectively defense and agility attack spirit masters. Their first spirit skills are to use the spirit itself to unload force and block, and the other is a wind-attribute arrow attack with extremely fast speed.

The last one is quite special, his martial soul is the auxiliary beast martial soul Mad Sound Queen Bee, and his first martial soul is a group amplification type soul skill.

With her current soul power, she can provide a speed boost for up to five soul masters for a maximum of ten minutes. As for the strength of the boost, it depends on the soul master's own physical fitness. It is not a particularly powerful soul skill.

"Well, defense, agility, support, and control. This configuration should be no problem against ordinary soul beasts. Well, since there are no problems, let's get going now."

Immediately, Lie Yong led four twelve-year-old students towards the Star Dou Great Forest.

Along the way, because the three people's speed and physical strength were different, it took several days to reach the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest.

Seeing the familiar signpost, Huo Yuhao's eyes became serious. Going deeper into the cave was the place he had traveled from.

Although he was finally safe, the panic he felt when he first crossed over was still fresh in his memory. However, he has now adapted to this world and is no longer at a loss because of such sudden situations.

Before stepping into the Star Dou Great Forest, Huo Yuhao activated the most basic form of the Eye of Truth.

Through the Eye of Truth, he observed various traces in the forest, and was able to lead his team to avoid those soul beasts that were not their hunting targets but were more difficult to deal with.

At the same time, Lie Yong sat in the center of the team, keeping his eyes and ears open, sensing the breath of the soul beasts around him.

Although the place where they are active is only the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest, it is also possible that thousand-year-old soul beasts may appear. Soul beasts of this level are definitely not something that a first-ring soul master can deal with.

However, Lie Yong glanced at Huo Yuhao, who was calmly guiding the team in the direction of advance, and nodded secretly.

Although it is nominally soul hunting, the leader of each soul hunting team is also responsible for scoring the students participating in the soul hunting.

This is to discover those special students who may not have an advantage in direct combat in the ring, but are more adaptable to sudden environments such as the wild.

"The performances of the other three were mediocre, but this student named Huo Yuhao had good observation skills. He had such observation skills even without activating his spirit skills. No wonder he could be selected as a core student in the first grade."

"Not only in the ring, but also in the wild, he is quite calm and steady. Not bad."

Not long after walking, everyone was lucky enough to encounter the first target soul beast.

A small bird the size of a palm was flying back and forth among the flowers. It seemed that these flowers were blooming from a plant-type soul beast master called bellflower, which was about five hundred years old.

The little bird hovering above it and collecting nectar is a wind-attributed soul beast known for its speed, the Sonic Hummingbird.

Moreover, it seems that its cultivation level has just broken through 500 years, which is just right for the level 20 agility attack soul master in the team. The soul master was also excited to see the soul beast that suits his taste.

Seeing this, Lie Yong waved his hand and did not let the students rush forward. Instead, he directly entered the state of martial spirit possession. However, this time he controlled and restrained his breath very well.

Only the right arm turned into a red lion's paw, and then a red palm print hit the Sonic Hummingbird, knocking it unconscious with just the right force.  

Then he clenched his right palm again, and the palm print made a circle and caught the stunned Sonic Hummingbird.

At this time, with the scorching soul power of this Soul Saint, although it did not kill the sonic hummingbird that had only 500 years of cultivation, the hummingbird was also covered with wounds and traces of burns from flames. It was obvious that it would not live long.

Whether it is the control of martial souls or the use of soul power, the experience and means possessed by this Soul Sage who leads the team are far beyond the reach of a few first-year students.

Huo Yuhao paid special attention to the movement of the soul power in the Soul Saint's body and the meridians it ran through when he controlled his martial soul to send out the soul power palm print, and he memorized it.

The student whose martial soul was a bow weapon martial soul quickly went up to finish off the soul beast that had lost its ability to move, and then began to absorb its soul ring.

Under Lie Yong's protection, the absorption process went very smoothly. Although the age of this sonic hummingbird was not extremely old, it was very suitable for the attributes and type of this soul master's martial soul.

Lie Yong nodded and said calmly, "Go on."

Then he continued walking in the forest with a group of students, with his hands behind his back, like a master.

It seemed that good luck favored Huo Yuhao and his group. Before it got dark, another target soul beast entered everyone's sight.

A giant turtle with a huge body covered with hard rock skin and a thick tortoise shell appeared in front of everyone.

The giant tortoise moved slowly, and even when it saw a strange human, it did not react too much. It just retracted all exposed body parts into its shell.

"Rock Turtle, can anyone among you tell the specific year of its cultivation?" Lie Yong wanted to test everyone present, so he asked.

While the other three were still reminiscing, Huo Yuhao spoke directly: “The way to identify the Rock Turtle’s cultivation age is to look at the shell on its back.”

"The shell of a rock turtle under a thousand years old is earthy yellow. Every ten years, the rock on its back will fuse together. Initially, there were ten pieces."

"And every time his cultivation rises by a hundred years, a piece of his tortoise shell will merge into the other tortoise shells, until they finally become one, as solid as rock without a gap, and he will become a thousand-year soul beast."

"And each of the six tortoise shells on the back of this rock tortoise is made up of seven lines, so its cultivation age is about 670 years, with an error of no more than 30 years."

"Well, there are no other soul beasts around, so I'll leave this big turtle to you. I'll be in charge of it for you." Lie Yong nodded with satisfaction and said.

The Rock Turtle is timid by nature, and will respond with defense even when facing natural enemies. Its innate soul skill is the shattering of its shell. The rock shell on its body can reduce the attacks of external predators by breaking a line on the shell.

The strength of the attack reduction increases linearly according to the total number of tortoise shells. Even for a Rock Turtle that has only one tortoise shell transformed, its defense is outstanding even among thousand-year-old soul beasts.

Therefore, although the Rock Turtle itself has no attack ability, there are indeed not many soul beasts in the soul beast world that would choose the Rock Turtle as their prey because of its hard bones that cannot be chewed. Therefore, the Rock Turtle’s biggest natural enemy is the defensive soul master who would covet their innate soul skills.

Ding ding dang dang, accompanied by the scraping of a group of soul masters, only one layer of the shell on the back of the Rock Turtle was broken, and the remaining six tortoise shell patterns seemed to be mocking everyone.

In fact, Lie Yong’s purpose was to let the bow spirit weapon soul master who had just obtained the second soul skill to practice. After all, the second soul skill that had just been obtained had to be verified through actual combat.

The Rock Turtle has strong defenses and is not aggressive, so it is naturally the best target.

Seeing that everyone except Huo Yuhao had not stepped forward to attack, Lie Yong waved his hand. It was just the simplest martial spirit possession.

Then he used his absolute strength to smash the remaining shell of the Rock Turtle, revealing the Rock Turtle's fragile and now seriously injured body.

"Okay, let's finish off the enemy. This place is pretty good. Everyone else, go find a place nearby to set up camp and prepare to spend the night." Lie Yong waved his hand and said to the shield-wielding soul master who walked up happily with a low-level melee soul guide in his hand.

A night passed, and four students took turns to keep watch, while Lie Yong would only take action when the students were in danger.

Although the Star Dou Great Forest was not very safe at night, due to Huo Yuhao's choice of location, nothing special happened that night.

In the next few days, everyone also found a spirit ring suitable for another spirit master whose martial spirit was the beast spirit, the Mad Sound Bee Queen.

Coincidentally, this soul ring was produced by the martial soul's original owner, a 600-year-old Mad Sound Queen Bee, so it can be considered a top-notch choice.

"Well, we have almost walked through the outer perimeter of the Star Dou Great Forest. Going deeper into the front is the mixed area. This is where spiritual attribute soul masters are more troublesome."

"After all, spirit beasts are rare, and most of them move alone, so they are difficult to find."

Lie Yong glanced at Huo Yuhao and continued, “However, since the academy has promised to do its best to obtain the most suitable spirit ring for you, we will not break our promise. Let’s go back to the city to rest first, and then I will take you to the mixed zone.”

The other three had no objection when they heard this. After all, they had already obtained the spirit rings they wanted, and naturally did not want to take any more risks and continue staying in the Star Dou Great Forest.

Huo Yuhao also nodded. In fact, not long after he arrived, he had already learned from the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm a place where a soul beast suitable for him could be found.

That is the tribe home of the big-headed spirit ape. Although that area is also on the edge of the outer area of ​​the Star Dou Great Forest and the mixed zone, it is also one of the optional routes for Huo Yuhao and his party to return to Shrek City at this time.

This was also the result of Huo Yuhao constantly modifying the route and guiding the soul hunting operation in the past few days.

“Okay, then let’s go back to the city first. If we’re lucky, we might meet a suitable soul beast on the way back.” Huo Yuhao did not refuse, but began to lead everyone to the place where the big-headed spirit apes gathered.

On the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest, these big-headed spirit apes can be considered a relatively powerful species. Coupled with their spiritual attributes and the ability to live in groups, the strength of this group is far beyond the reach of ordinary solitary spirit beasts.

And this information was also obtained by Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm when it was merging with Huo Yuhao and using its mental power to suppress the outer periphery of the Star Dou Great Forest. It has only been about a year, so it is unlikely that such a huge tribe of big-headed spirit apes will disappear just like that.

  (End of this chapter)

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