Chapter 18 Star Forest
Star Forest.
As the largest gathering place of soul beasts in the entire continent, its area is almost as large as the Balak Kingdom’s land area.
Its scope spans the borders of the Tiandou Empire and the Star Luo Empire.
The huge forest area has given birth to various complex terrains, such as wetlands, swamps, cliffs, lakes, etc.
Thanks to such a complex and diverse terrain, there are extremely many types of spirit beasts living in the Star Dou Forest.
Except for a few ice-type soul beasts that only live in the far north, traces of basically all the known soul beasts in the mainland can be seen in the Star Dou Forest.
Therefore, there has been a saying to describe the Star Dou Forest since ancient times.
Any soul master, regardless of martial soul or attributes, as long as he is strong enough and lucky enough, can find the soul ring that suits him best here.
As the saying goes, you can rely on mountains to eat mountains, and you can rely on water to eat water.
The prosperity of the Star Dou Forest and the development of the soul master system have led to the creation of many prosperous trading towns near the Star Dou Great Forest.
In one of the small towns.
A procession of horse-drawn carriages drives through the streets of the town.
Soon after, the carriage stopped in front of a house.
Lin Rong got off the carriage, glanced in the direction of the Star Forest, and said with emotion:
"After all, I still have to go there myself!"
After that day, Lin Rong waited at his house for another month, but still couldn't get any news.
There was no other way, time waited for no one, so Lin Rong had no choice but to go there in person.
I hope this trip can be a happy one and that he can get what he wants.
In front of the house.
The captain of the secret guard who had been waiting here bowed and saluted, and presented a scroll with both hands.
"Your Majesty, this map marks the places where most bamboos and gourd vines grow in the Star Forest, as well as some places suitable for their growth."
"There are soul power marks on the map. The more marks there are on the same place, the more times and more carefully the secret guards have searched."
"Therefore, it would be better for Your Excellency the Duke to search in places with few soul power markers during this trip."
"Well, thank you for your hard work." Lin Rong nodded slightly, picked up the map presented by the secret guard, took a look at it, put it away, and ordered:
"It's getting late. Let everyone rest early and follow me into the Star Forest early tomorrow morning."
"Yes, I'll understand later." All the secret guards replied in unison.
……
at the same time.
Located in another small town in the Kingdom of Barak.
The three travelers checked into a simple hotel.
Among the three people, the leader was an unusually tall and sturdy middle-aged man, and the one next to him was a scruffy old man with a thin build.
Behind the old man was a short man with a thick beard.
The man obviously has such a thick beard, but if you look closely, his face is very young and handsome.
Especially his pair of peach blossom eyes, which are extremely lethal to those girls who are inexperienced in the world.
Thick beard, handsome face, and those blurry peach blossom eyes.
With such striking features, who else could it be but Oscar?
The sloppy little old man in front of Oscar is his master, the food soul saint Shao Xin.
Finally, the strong man at the head was the famous Fudo Ming King Zhao Wuji.
Oscar, who is over nine years old, had his soul power level break through to level 20 two days ago.
In order to obtain Oscar's second soul ring, Zhao Wuji took him to the Star Forest to hunt for souls. At this time, Oscar was not yet ten years old. Shao Xin was worried that he would follow Zhao Wuji to hunt for souls in the Star Dou Forest alone, so he followed him together.
This made Zhao Wuji complain in his heart:
"Shao Xin, although you are a Soul Saint, you are just a food-based soul master without combat ability."
"Originally, I can protect Oscar alone, but you know how stressed I am now that you are a burden?"
During this period, Zhao Wuji also secretly cursed Flanders many times. As the dean, he didn't know how to help the academy disciples when they were hunting souls.
Moreover, Shenlong has not seen Shenwei all day long, just to find a talented owner of the bird martial spirit, so that he can take him as his disciple and pass on his mantle.
In the original work, Flanders was lucky enough to find a disciple from Ma Hongjun who could pass on his legacy.
But now, Ma Hongjun was intercepted in advance by someone sent by Lin Rong.
Flanders is naturally still looking for a satisfactory successor.
In the hotel.
Perhaps Zhao Wuji's resentful eyes were too hot. Shao Xin, who had his back turned to him, felt a chill on his neck. He turned around and smiled apologetically, saying:
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"Okay, the hotel expenses are mine, and I'll also cover the food and drinks tonight."
"So, quickly put away that look in your eyes, it scares me so much!"
"Okay!" When Zhao Wuji heard this, he slapped Shao Xin's shoulder heavily with his big and generous palm and said:
"Old Shao, this is what you said, so I won't be polite tonight!"
"No, you can eat more food, but don't drink too much wine." Shao Xin rubbed the painful shoulder from Zhao Wuji's slap and said seriously:
"If you are drunk, who will protect Xiao Ao and me, a powerless old man, when we enter the Star Dou Forest tomorrow?"
After saying these words, Shao Xin's eyes returned to Oscar again, his caring eyes mixed with endless obsession, as if he was looking at a rare work of art.
"..." Shao Xin's words immediately made Zhao Wuji speechless. After a while, he replied:
"You can't restrain a chicken with your hands? It turns out you know that you also need my protection!"
"Now that you know it, you still insist on coming here to cause trouble. Do you think I am easy to bully, Old Zhao?"
As he spoke, Zhao Wuji pretended to be angry and waved his fist.
Shao Xin had known Zhao Wuji for many years, so he could naturally tell whether Zhao Wuji was really angry or fake, so he didn't pay much attention to Lao Zhao's punches and didn't even look back.
But Oscar is different.
He had only lived in Shrek Academy for more than three years, and he didn't have much interaction with Zhao Wuji on weekdays.
Therefore, when Oscar saw this situation, he failed to see that Zhao Wuji was pretending to be angry and thought he was really angry.
Seeing that the situation was so bad, Oscar's eyes rolled around and he suddenly had an idea.
Therefore, Oscar spoke up at the right time to smooth things over for his master Shao Xin:
"Teacher Zhao, how about this!"
"Tonight, just order a bottle of wine and have a drink with the food."
"How about you have a good drink after we return from hunting souls?"
"Of course, you don't need to pay for the wine, but my master will pay for it."
Zhao Wuji was just pretending to be angry, and just happened to walk down the steps that Oscar handed him.
At the same time, he also envied his old friend Shao Xin.
Although Zao Wou-Ki looks like he has well-developed limbs and a simple mind, he also has a delicate mind beneath his rough appearance.
Therefore, Zhao Wuji knew that Oscar said what he just said just to protect his master, Shao Xin.
This made him somewhat understand why Flanders was eager to find a disciple.
(End of chapter)