Chapter 73: Undying Moon Laurel, Shredding Blade Mantis!

The boundless Xingdou Great Forest was like a green ocean, vast and endless.

Its area was nearly equivalent to that of the entire Barak Kingdom, spanning the Tian Dou Empire and the Star Luo Empire.

Inside, forests, mountains, grasslands, volcanoes, swamps, and every kind of terrain were all present.

Here lived the soul beasts of Douluo Continent in the greatest number and variety.

The soul beasts living here also had the highest cultivation compared to other soul beast habitats.

After leaving Tian Dou Imperial City and arriving at the Xingdou Great Forest.

Under the leadership of Ye Zhi Lan and Ling Zhan Tian, Ye Yu followed Dugu Bo into the Xingdou Great Forest.

All the way, they rushed toward an area in the Outer Circle of the Xingdou Great Forest.

On this trip, Ye Yu's target was a god-level plant soul beast with around fifty thousand years of cultivation discovered and recorded by the previous head of the Nine Heart Begonia Family—the Undying Moon Laurel!

The moon laurel tree was also famous in Ye Yu's previous life, originating from the legend of Wu Gang chopping the laurel.

The legendary Wu Gang was a guard of the South Heaven Gate.

Because he had a good relationship with Chang'e, he often only cared about meeting with Chang'e and neglected his duties.

After the Jade Emperor discovered this, he angrily punished Wu Gang to chop the moon laurel in the Moon Palace.

And the moon laurel in the legend possessed a near-undying recovery ability.

Wu Gang waved his axe, no matter how he chopped.

The next second, the moon laurel tree could always recover to its original state, and could never be chopped down.

And the Undying Moon Laurel of Douluo Continent also possessed a near-undying recovery ability like the moon laurel in mythological legends, as well as powerful attack capabilities.

It was a god-level plant soul beast!

Unexpectedly, the Nine Heart Begonia Family just happened to know the location of a fifty-thousand-year Undying Moon Laurel.

This made Ye Yu very excited in his heart.

Because the Undying Moon Laurel was obviously life attribute.

As a god-level plant soul beast.

The life essence of the Undying Moon Laurel was absolutely extremely powerful.

And it was extremely suitable for his Blue Silver Spirit Jade Vine martial soul.

If he successfully hunted the Undying Moon Laurel and absorbed its soul ring.

Ye Yu felt that perhaps the Blue Silver Spirit Jade Vine could obtain evolution again!

In the Xingdou Great Forest, after rushing for three full days.

Following the map's guidance.

Everyone finally arrived at the location of the Undying Moon Laurel.

This Undying Moon Laurel grew on a mountain covered in lush trees.

At this moment, it was nighttime.

Still at the foot of the mountain, Ye Yu saw it from afar.

On the mountain peak grew a tree with a very thick trunk, height far surpassing the surrounding trees, branches and leaves incomparably lush and flourishing, seeming to absorb moonlight under the night sky, its whole body emitting a bright radiance, covered with white small flowers, a mysterious large tree.

(Undying Moon Laurel · Concept Art)

"Undying Moon Laurel, found it!"

"It's still there!"

Finally finding the target, Ye Zhi Lan's pair of deep blue beautiful eyes couldn't help but brighten, on that dignified and noble, incomparably beautiful face was great surprise and excitement, pointing at the Undying Moon Laurel on the mountain peak, she said.

"Good! Then I and Dugu Brother will now go help Ye Yu hunt this Undying Moon Laurel!"

Hearing this, Ling Zhan Tian also laughed loudly, directly extending a hand in a summoning gesture, and summoned his martial soul Bloodthirsty Mad Blade.

As an auxiliary system Spirit Master family, just like the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

Within the Nine Heart Begonia Family, whether they were Nine Heart Begonia Spirit Masters or other auxiliary system Spirit Master clansmen whose martial souls were not Nine Heart Begonia, they would all choose Soul Masters as spouses.

And because of the powerful healing ability of the Nine Heart Begonia martial soul.

Nine Heart Begonia Spirit Masters generally would choose those powerful Spirit Masters whose martial souls possessed abilities like Bloodthirsty Madness, which could increase a Spirit Master's combat power but had side effects like weakness, as spouses.

In this way, the two combined could achieve an effect of 1+1>2!

And Ling Zhan Tian's Bloodthirsty Mad Blade possessed Bloodthirsty Power.

It could sacrifice his own blood to increase combat power.

Originally, this definitely had side effects.

But with Ye Zhi Lan's Nine Heart Begonia martial soul's healing ability.

It turned this double-edged sword-like Bloodthirsty ability into a powerful ability without side effects that could increase strength!

Discovering that her husband Ling Zhan Tian directly prepared to go hunt the Undying Moon Laurel with Dugu Bo, Ye Zhi Lan hurriedly said.

"You two don't rush!"

"Treasures of heaven and earth are all guarded by exotic beasts."

"This Undying Moon Laurel is the same."

"According to the notes left by my mother, this Undying Moon Laurel is guarded by a seventy-thousand-year Shredding Blade Mantis."

"You must first deal with this Shredding Blade Mantis before you can hunt this Undying Moon Laurel."

"Shredding Blade Mantis?"

Dugu Bo and Ling Zhan Tian were both stunned for a moment, still not knowing what kind of soul beast the Shredding Blade Mantis was.

Regarding this, Ye Yu, who was well-read and particularly knowledgeable about various soul beasts and Spirit Master related knowledge, introduced the situation of the Shredding Blade Mantis.

"The Shredding Blade Mantis is a top-tier insect-type soul beast; a seventy-thousand-year Shredding Blade Mantis generally reaches a height of two point four meters, its speed is extremely fast, it can also fly at low altitude, and its pair of blade arms are incomparably sharp, able to chop through metal, hence named Shredding Blade Mantis."

(Shredding Blade Mantis · Concept Art)

"But Grandfather and Uncle Ling, you needn't worry. In a moment, I'll join you in taking action, with me controlling the situation. Dealing with this Cracked-Blade Mantis shouldn't be difficult!"

Ye Yu said with a very confident smile.

However, since the sky had already turned dark.

The Cracked-Blade Mantis belonged to high-speed, high-attack assassins, its entire carapace was black, and it was very skilled at hiding and hunting in the night; its pitch-black protective coloration made it very difficult to be discovered.

A ten-thousand-year-old Cracked-Blade Mantis possessed considerable killing power.

If one was careless and got ambushed, it was still very dangerous.

So after discussing it.

Everyone still did not plan to go up and hunt the Cracked-Blade Mantis and the Undying Moon Laurel right now.

But instead prepared to rest for a night first.

Early the next morning, they would go to the mountain top where the Undying Moon Laurel was located to hunt the Cracked-Blade Mantis and the Undying Moon Laurel.

In the blink of an eye, it was the next day.

After dawn.

Everyone finished their dry rations.

Then they set out, heading for the mountain top where the Undying Moon Laurel was located.

Along the way, Ye Yu quietly unfolded the Blue Silver Domain, expanding it to the extreme, probing and scanning the situation within the domain.

To prevent the Cracked-Blade Mantis from coming down the mountain to hunt, hiding in the surrounding forest, and ambushing them.

However, along the way, they encountered no problems.

Very soon, everyone arrived at the mountain top where the Undying Moon Laurel was located.

Only to see not far away, an Undying Moon Laurel with a diameter exceeding three meters, a height exceeding three hundred meters, its whole body emitting a pure silver radiance, its branches and leaves incomparably lush, covered with white small flowers, emitting powerful Life Qi, was growing there.

And a Cracked-Blade Mantis standing two and a half meters tall, its entire body covered in pitch-black carapace, possessing two pairs of feet and a pair of extremely sharp blade arms, was constantly hacking at the Undying Moon Laurel tree.

After that pair of sharp blade arms hacked into the Shu Gan of the Undying Moon Laurel, they were covered with the silver-white sap of the Undying Moon Laurel.

That pitch-black blade arm emitted a gleaming dim light.

At the same time, as the sap of the Undying Moon Laurel flowed out, the Cracked-Blade Mantis immediately thrust its head into the gap cut by the blade arms and began to absorb it.

However, after Ye Yu and the others arrived.

The Cracked-Blade Mantis also immediately discovered the uninvited guests, turned its hideous head, directed a pair of scarlet compound eyes toward Ye Yu's side, and its wings behind flapped in fear.

The next moment, only to see the Cracked-Blade Mantis emit a sharp hiss, open its pair of sharp blade arms, vibrate its wings behind it frantically, suddenly charge out, transform into a pitch-black afterimage, and rush toward Ye Yu's side.

Chapter End