Chapter 75: Thousand Shadows of the Magical Butterfly

As Huo Yuhao went deeper into the mixed zone under the leadership of the Shrek Titled Douluo, he encountered many soul beasts along the way, but those soul beasts could not provide him with the soul rings he needed, so he did not provoke them.

Although most soul beasts are full of hostility towards soul masters, with a Titled Douluo guarding them, they can be easily driven away even without making much noise.

After all, most of the fearless soul beasts died during their growth. In most cases, the longer a soul beast lives, the more it values ​​its life, except for some specific situations that stimulate the animal nature of the soul beast.

When faced with a situation where nothing can be done, most soul beasts will choose to flee rather than fight head-on.

Suddenly, Huo Yuhao's true eye saw a fleeting wave, and the range instantly shrank, as if he wanted to hide his spiritual power waveform, and he said: "Found it, there seems to be a spiritual attribute soul beast in that direction, and its cultivation should be not low."

"It's just that we can't tell its exact age and species, but it should be a solitary spiritual beast."

Hearing this, the Titled Douluo nodded, and then placed a hand on Huo Yuhao's shoulder, wrapping Huo Yuhao with his soul power, and then continued: "Okay, you will guide the direction. I can easily take down a soul beast of about ten thousand years old with you."

As his martial spirit possessed him, a pair of wings emitting a metallic luster grew out from the back of this Titled Douluo, and they carried Huo Yuhao nimbly through the dense forest.

At this moment, the Titled Douluo said to Huo Yuhao: “Look, is that the soul beast? It looks like a thousand-year-old light-dust butterfly, and should have a cultivation base of about four or five thousand years. But could it have mutated?”

Not far away, I saw a butterfly-like soul beast with a pure white body, its wings vibrating and its scales emitting star-like light, flying quickly into the distance.

At such a close distance, even this Titled Douluo could feel the obvious mental fluctuations emanating from this butterfly-like soul beast, but Huo Yuhao shook his head.

"It shouldn't be. This isn't its true form. In my spiritual perception, the spiritual fluctuations emanating from this soul beast are too scattered and weak. It looks strong on the outside but weak on the inside, as if it has no roots or source."

"I speculate that the true form of the soul beast I just discovered should be the soul beast that the Thousand-Eyed Spirit Butterfly may transform into when it advances to the ten thousand years of cultivation. It is called the Thousand Shadow Phantom Spirit Butterfly."

"And this butterfly-type soul beast is just its differentiated and disguised form through its spiritual power, used to confuse the enemy."

"It should be an illusion created by the transformation of the Light Dust Butterfly. However, since this illusion is here, the real body of the Thousand Shadows Phantom Butterfly should also be nearby."

Hearing this, the Titled Douluo nodded and said, "That's easy. Since it's nearby, it's easy to deal with. Since it's a soul beast with ten thousand years of cultivation, I'll just hold back a little and injure it but don't kill it."

The pair of wings behind this Titled Douluo suddenly enlarged, and then emitted a bluish-black metallic luster.

Then, as the spirit rings under his feet flashed, feather shadows with a metallic luster began to fly around him and Huo Yuhao.

Soon, tens of thousands of feather blades with soul power and metallic luster formed a storm that continued to expand outward.

Under this metal storm that was constantly expanding in the form of a sphere, the trees and land wherever it passed were cut into pieces and swept away.

And just as Huo Yuhao said, the 'Light Dust Butterfly' that was still fleeing disappeared into the air like a bubble that was punctured the moment it was hit by the metal wings.

Only a mass of spiritual power that kept dissipating was left, but no entity was left.

The Titled Douluo just glanced at it and said, "Hold on to me and don't vomit. Under the condition of suppressing the power, the range of my Golden Wing Dance cannot be expanded. It can only sweep a maximum of 100 meters outside my body."

Huo Yuhao nodded, and then, this Titled Douluo led Huo Yuhao to move in the jungle. Wherever they passed, the grass and trees were crushed to pieces by the Dance of the Golden Wings. At this time, the Thousand Shadow Phantom Butterfly that Huo Yuhao and the others were looking for finally appeared.

"Eh?" The Titled Douluo raised his eyebrows. "Another mutant soul beast, and a ten thousand year old cultivation. I thought you were lucky enough, but I didn't expect that you encountered a ten thousand year soul beast that had completed most of its transformation."

Huo Yuhao was also a little puzzled. This was only the first day they entered the Star Dou Great Forest. According to his original plan, even with a Titled Douluo leading the team, it would take at least a week to get any results if he did not reveal the information about the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm.

But I didn't expect it to be so smooth. Soul beasts are at their most vulnerable when they are transforming.

Moreover, the completion of the transformation does not mean that the soul beast’s cultivation has completed the ascension, but it depends on the situation.

The process of the Thousand-Eyed Spirit Butterfly transforming into the Thousand-Shadow Phantom Spirit Butterfly can only be achieved through complete metamorphosis after forming a cocoon.

Generally speaking, among a hundred thousand-eyed spirit butterflies that are about to break through their ten thousand years of cultivation, there is a possibility that only ten will choose to undergo metamorphosis.

Because even if they manage to survive the metamorphosis with a success rate of only one in ten, after the metamorphosis is completed and the Thousand Shadow Phantom Butterflies emerge from their cocoons, their bodies will be extremely fragile for an hour, except for their own mental power.

They are unable to use soul power or fly, and even hundred-year-old soul beasts, if they are not affected by the mental illusion, can easily kill them in this state.

The ability to release mental power to form phantoms symbolizes that the transformation process of this Thousand Shadow Phantom Butterfly has reached the final stage and has been successful. It only needs to wait to break out of the cocoon.

The Golden Wing Dance of the newly-titled Douluo suppressed its power, and coupled with the fact that it was a large-scale attack, it hit the cocoon of the Thousand Shadow Phantom Butterfly, causing it to appear.

However, it was blocked by its own mental power and tough transformation cocoon that it used to protect itself. However, the mental power of this Thousand Shadow Phantom Butterfly itself was almost consumed.

When the transformation was complete and the cocoon was broken, Huo Yuhao could kill it alone without the help of the Titled Douluo.

"It looks like this Thousand Shadows Illusion Butterfly will be able to break out of its cocoon in less than half an hour. Let's wait here for a while."

The Titled Douluo put down Huo Yuhao in his hand and casually found a clean place to sit down among the mess around him.

Although this place had just been swept by the Golden Wing Dance, it was still inconspicuous compared to the huge Star Forest.

You have to know that this place itself is the territory of the Thousand Shadow Phantom Butterfly, and the range affected by the Golden Wing Dance is not large. Only a few plant-type soul beasts were killed or injured. Normally, there would be no problem even resting here.

Everything happened just as they had imagined. Soon, after about forty minutes, the cocoon that originally wrapped the Thousand Shadow Phantom Butterfly began to turn into tiny specks of light and dissipated into the air.

A butterfly-like spirit beast with its wings folded up and looking extremely weak appeared in front of Huo Yuhao. It was different from the Thousand-Eyed Spirit Butterfly, which had up to 9,999 eyes depicted on its back wings, depending on the year.

The back wings of the Thousand Shadow Phantom Butterfly are of a single color without any patterns, but if you look closely, you can see circles of closely connected ripple-like patterns starting from the base of the wings and spreading to the edge of the wings.

Although the wings have not yet opened, a little bit of scale powder mixed with spiritual power has begun to spread around.

It seemed like a warning, but due to the previous consumption, the method that was originally used by the Thousand Shadow Phantom Butterfly to deter possible threatening enemies around after the transformation was completed seemed so ridiculous.

The scale powder flew less than half a meter before falling to the ground, losing its luster. The compound eyes of the Thousand Shadow Phantom Butterfly, which should have radiated the brilliance of spiritual power, were now foggy and looked particularly dim.

Without further ado, Huo Yuhao took out a level three soul guide that was allocated to him from among the soul guides that Ning Tian had purchased and distributed to everyone at the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Competition, and attacked the Thousand Shadow Phantom Butterfly in front of him.

The Thousand Shadow Phantom Butterfly still wanted to resist at this time, but its fragile body could not support the flow of soul power. In the process of transformation, most of its mental power had been consumed because of the production of the Light Dust Butterfly phantom and protecting itself.

Although he managed to form a defense, he was unable to stop Huo Yuhao's continuous attacks.

This thousand-year-old Thousand-Eyed Spirit Butterfly, which had gone through untold hardships and finally completed its transformation to become the Thousand Shadow Phantom Spirit Butterfly, died the next moment after breaking out of its cocoon before it could see a whole new world.

Huo Yuhao sat cross-legged and began to absorb the 10,000-year soul ring produced by the Thousand Shadow Fantasy Butterfly, which was extremely light in color but completely black.

Just as Huo Yuhao was absorbing the soul ring, the Shrek Titled Douluo who was originally guarding beside Huo Yuhao frowned and realized that something was wrong.

"Wait, this aura is from a hundred thousand year old soul beast?" At this moment, he couldn't help but become a little nervous.

Although as a Titled Douluo from Shrek Academy, he was not afraid of ordinary hundred thousand year soul beasts, but at this time he had Huo Yuhao, a quasi-Soul Master who was absorbing soul rings, beside him.

If he took action here, the consequences would be disastrous. However, before leaving Shrek Academy, Moon had asked him to go to the Soul Guidance Department to collect a few sixth-level soul guides of average quality.

After all, one reason was to promote the integration of the martial soul system and the soul guidance system, and the other was because Xuan Zi's successive accidents forced Moon to have some distrust of the Titled Douluo from Shrek.

In fact, during the training process, many of the Titled Douluo in Shrek Academy were trained vigorously by Xuanzi. Therefore, if they also inherited Xuanzi's spirit, it would be better for them to bring a few soul guides with them just in case.

After a little thought, the Shrek Titled Douluo placed several soul guides around Huo Yuhao and used his own soul power to charge them.

He also left a note stating that if Huo Yuhao had finished absorbing the soul ring but he had not returned yet, he should leave immediately and return to Shrek Academy.

“I really don’t know whether you are lucky or unlucky.” After watching the soul guide light curtains rising up and covering up the fluctuations of Huo Yuhao’s aura, the Shrek Titled Douluo sighed helplessly.

"Just as you encountered a spiritual soul beast that is perfectly compatible with me, you encountered a hundred thousand year soul beast in the mixed zone. I hope that when I lead the soul beast away, you can successfully absorb it and leave here on your own."

Flying high with wings flapping, the Titled Douluo left here directly and approached the soul beast with a powerful aura in the distance.

At the same time, the aura of his cultivation continued to rise, attracting the other party's attention.

It was only after approaching that the Shrek Titled Douluo realized something was wrong: "Damn it, a ferocious beast, why is it here?!"

As a Titled Douluo at level 93, although he is not afraid of ordinary hundred thousand year soul beasts, if the enemy is a ferocious beast, even if it is only a weak two hundred thousand year beast, there is still a world of difference.

Even if we want to lure it away now, it will probably be a big trouble, but the arrow is on the string and has to be shot.

At this time, the Red King, who was originally watching the Emperor's auspicious beast eat, also felt the powerful aura emitted by the Titled Douluo not far away.

"Oh! At this time."

"Is it because of the auspicious beast?"

"No, we can't let outsiders discover the auspicious beast!"

The three heads of the Red King roared, and at the same time, his own momentum rose, and he rushed towards the Shrek Titled Douluo.

Although the Three-Eyed Golden Lion sensed the clash of two powerful auras, he was more embarrassed and annoyed. Because he was paying attention to the two auras, the ten thousand year old Aurora Ape that he almost caught just now took the opportunity to run away.

"Damn it, what is Uncle Chi Wang doing!" Looking at the lunch flying away from his plate, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion gnashed his teeth and hurriedly chased after it.

After all, at this time, she did not have sufficient knowledge about humans in the outside world, nor did she know what humans were. Having grown up under the pampering of a group of ferocious beasts, she did not know the relationship between humans and soul beasts.

Generally speaking, unless humans actively attack it, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion will not actively attack humans like ordinary soul beasts.

"Something seems to be wrong outside." Huo Yuhao, who was concentrating all his attention on absorbing and refining the spirit ring, suddenly received a hint from the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm.

'? ' Huo Yuhao was a little puzzled, but he didn't take it to heart. After all, normally, unless it was a master at the level of Extreme Douluo or Emperor Tian who could influence space and was close to the level of Demigod, he would take action.

Otherwise, with Alex's current state, it is not certain whether he can hit the attacker when controlling himself, but with the undead demiplane, he will be able to take himself away at least.

Even if it really is Extreme Douluo or Emperor Tian, ​​then in a desperate situation, throwing out some of the information you know can definitely buy time instead of being killed directly by the opponent.

It was not until Huo Yuhao opened his eyes after refining his soul ring that he saw the golden-haired lion, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, clinging to the transparent soul guide protective shield, looking at him curiously with a few drops of golden liquid at the corners of its mouth.

(End of this chapter)