Douluo: Manifesting the Black Abyss and White Flower at the Start Chapter 43: The Emperor Auspicious Beast

The sky gradually darkened, and the dense forest felt oppressively silent. Suddenly, Lu Jingming's heart skipped a beat as his keen spiritual senses detected a surge of soul power rapidly approaching—but more than one soul beast was coming. Ahead of the soul beast Jingliu had previously ntioned, another beast imbued with both light and fla auras was fleeing in a panic.

Lu Jingming was startled; by sensing its aura, he could tell this soul beast had reached around a ten-thousand-year cultivation.

This was a hunt—and the pursuer was the very soul beast Jingliu had said would be suitable for his soul ring.

Jingliu frowned slightly. She also sensed the fleeing beast. Although it t the age requirent, in her opinion, a creature that couldn't even stand against a soul beast of the sa level and only knew how to run for its life was not fit to beco Lu Jingming's soul ring.

So she simply inford Lu Jingming about the soul beast behind and ignored the one fleeing.

With a rush of wind and the sound of heavy footsteps, the beasts burst into view.

Lu Jingming narrowed his eyes and saw a gigantic soul beast—eight ters long, three ters tall at the shoulder.

Golden fur covered its body, marked with crimson fla patterns. Its eyes were a deep amber, its limbs wrapped in roaring flas, and the tip of its tail burned with dazzling light, radiating powerful waves of light energy.

The mont he saw the beast, Lu Jingming's pupils shrank sharply.

In the past two years, he had learned much about soul beasts—he was no longer the naive rookie from his first trip into the Star Dou Great Forest.

These distinctive features let him instantly recognize the beast before him as a Holy Fla Sky Tiger—a top-tier soul beast with light and fire attributes.

Yet at this mont, this mighty Holy Fla Sky Tiger was fleeing for its life, and the beast chasing it was actually of the sa level!

Jingliu also turned, a trace of surprise flashing in her eyes.

She too recognized the Holy Fla Sky Tiger. Earlier, she could only sense its aura from afar and couldn't determine its species, resulting in her earlier misjudgnt.

"Teacher, keep it!" Lu Jingming instantly reacted. For sothing to chase a top-tier soul beast of the sa level into such a desperate flight, it could only be 'her'.

Besides, this Holy Fla Sky Tiger had the light attribute, which fit perfectly into her nu.

Whoosh—!

In an instant, a chill filled the air, and the temperature plumted.

On the open grassland, an iceberg suddenly rose from the ground, encasing the Holy Fla Sky Tiger in solid ice.

Its eyes still held panic, clearly not yet recovered from the terror of being hunted before Jingliu froze it.

With Jingliu's action, the pursuing hunter seed to sense a deadly danger and abruptly slamd on the brakes, landing on all fours and coming to a steady halt.

At the sa ti, an even more powerful and terrifyingly oppressive aura with a wild fla energy rapidly approached.

Lu Jingming focused his gaze and saw another soul beast before him, covered in golden fur with faint golden scales beneath, dragon claws at the ends of its limbs, those claws burning with golden flas.

When he saw the blood-red vertical pupil on the beast's forehead, Lu Jingming twitched and looked at Jingliu with frustration.

So this was the soul beast Jingliu had just said was suitable for him—the Emperor Auspicious Beast: the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.

Thinking of this soul beast's identity, Lu Jingming silently put away his Black Abyss. All his earlier boldness vanished into thin air.

He might have a chance against the Holy Fla Sky Tiger, but the Emperor Auspicious Beast? He couldn't possibly win.

Don't be fooled by the fact that both the Emperor Auspicious Beast and the Holy Fla Sky Tiger had fifteen thousand years of cultivation; the Emperor Auspicious Beast could challenge hundred-thousand-year beasts, equivalent to a Title Douluo's power.

With his current soul power, he'd be no match at all. The Emperor Auspicious Beast could slap him so hard it might beg him not to die. Of course, Jingliu wasn't wrong—if he could absorb the Epror Auspicious Beast's soul ring, he'd gain extrely powerful soul skills.

But that's if he could kill it in the first place.

Not to ntion the ferocious beasts and Silver Dragon King lurking in the shadows—the first to show up would probably be God King Tang San.

After all, the Emperor Auspicious Beast represented the destiny and luck of the Star Dou Great Forest, long marked by the God King.

Lu Jingming had no intention of causing himself massive trouble over a third soul ring by attacking the Emperor Auspicious Beast.

The Emperor Auspicious Beast glanced at the frozen Holy Fla Sky Tiger, a trace of ferocity in her eyes, then turned to Lu Jingming and Jingliu, her gaze full of curiosity.

She had never left the Star Dou Great Forest, and her range of activities was limited to the forbidden and core areas—places rarely visited by humans.

"Human, that's my prey," she said, her voice clear and lodious—hard to imagine coming from a beast over three ters tall.

The Emperor Auspicious Beast looked cool and majestic, but she was a girl; this huge contrast was rather amusing.

"Oh? How can you prove it's your prey? My teacher caught it!" Lu Jingming retorted boldly, looking at the majestic Emperor Auspicious Beast, itching to tease the darling of the Star Dou Great Forest.

The Emperor Auspicious Beast was at a loss, her not-so-bright mind spinning furiously.

Right! How could she prove that the Holy Fla Sky Tiger was her prey? Unable to co up with an answer, she just stood there, dumbfounded.

Luckily, a crimson figure arrived, breaking her ntal impasse.

"Emperor Auspicious Beast, are you okay?" a deep, powerful voice sounded, as a massive soul beast entered.

It had three lion-like heads, was five ters long, and its dark red fur was surrounded by crimson flas.

It imdiately looked at the Emperor Auspicious Beast, and seeing that she was unhard, finally relaxed.

"Scarlet King, how can I prove that this Holy Fla Sky Tiger is my prey?" the Emperor Auspicious Beast asked, making Scarlet King instantly silent.

It had overheard the conversation between Lu Jingming and Emperor Auspicious Beast, but never expected Emperor Auspicious Beast would be so honest.

When it was with her, she'd never seed this adorably clueless.

Lu Jingming was speechless too. The Emperor Auspicious Beast, before rging half of Tang Wutong's divine consciousness, was this simple-minded.

But this was a hard question for the Scarlet King. How could they prove the prey was theirs? Between soul beasts, who ever needed to prove prey ownership?

But now they were facing humans, not just other soul beasts. Scarlet King glanced warily at Jingliu and had already secretly notified Di Tian.

Just approaching Jingliu gave him a huge sense of crisis—a feeling he'd only gotten from the slumbering lord or Di Tian himself.

Facing a being beyond his ability, especially involving Emperor Auspicious Beast, he had to be cautious.