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Tian Meng felt much bolder with the support of the Snow Queen, and mustered up the courage to say: "You big black dragons and big bears want to eat Lord Tian Meng, you deserve it!"
Huo Qiuer was stunned, and her first reaction was anger, but this anger soon died down.
What Tian Meng said was absolutely right. She was the one with the most qualifications to blame the Star Dou Great Forest.
Just because the ferocious beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest had bullied her for ten thousand years, she had the right to take advantage of their misfortune.
Huo Qiu'er was silent for a while, then said calmly, "So since that reception, I almost stopped eating. It wouldn't improve my cultivation anyway."
Tian Meng was stunned. He didn't expect Huo Qiuer to say such a thing.
Bingdi was a little surprised: "Why?"
Huo Qiuer whispered, "Because just as he thinks, since I enjoy such a high status, I have the responsibility to do something for the soul beast clan."
Chapter 412 Huo Qiuer's Troubles
After hearing the reason given by Huo Qiuer, the two Ice and Snow Emperors were both a little surprised. Tian Meng, who wanted to rely on the Snow Emperor to support him, was also slightly stunned.
There was now a hint of confusion in Huo Qiuer's eyes, which had changed to a color similar to Huo Yuhao's.
Her voice was somewhat lost as she analyzed to herself: "No matter how we reason, soul beasts seem to be inferior to humans."
"Soul beasts are obviously not a united race. They have been killing each other and eating each other since birth."
"Rabbits and tigers are not of the same species, ice scorpions and ice silkworms are not of the same species, and you and I are not of the same species either. We are in competition with each other."
"But now a particularly powerful external threat has appeared. Humans and soul beasts are so scared that they have to be called a clan and gather together to discuss how to deal with humans together."
Huo Qiuer sighed softly, took out the soul guide cigarette that Huo Yuhao gave her, took a puff, and spoke in a calm tone.
She liked this little thing very much. Just as the legend goes, Suanni is an auspicious beast that washes away fireworks.
Huo Qiuer's movements of holding the soul guide cigarette were somewhat similar to Huo Yuhao's. They both held it naturally between the index and middle fingers of their right hands. There was no need to worry about it burning out like a cigar, and they could enjoy it slowly.
Xue Di's tone was a little bit praiseful: "That's amazing. I didn't expect you to really think about this kind of question seriously. You are indeed a bit like Yu Hao."
Huo Qiu'er was not happy about Xue Di's praise. She glanced at Huo Yuhao in the distance, as if she had thought of something, and continued, "Tiger... Speaking of tigers, I thought of a sad thing."
"What?" asked Bingdi.
Huo Qiuer said: "Tiger soul beasts are usually much stronger than other soul beasts of the same age. It is not uncommon for thousand-year-old tiger soul beasts to hunt ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts."
"However, in the Xingdou Great Forest, there are almost no tiger soul beasts that are over 100,000 years old. There are very few of them. There is not even a single tiger soul beast that has cultivated for 200,000 years."
Bingdi frowned, somewhat puzzled: "What is the reason?"
Even if soul beasts such as lions, tigers and bears do not have noble bloodlines, they are naturally much stronger than other soul beasts.
Huo Qiuer explained: "Because the status of tiger soul beasts is not low, and they are naturally domineering, after breaking through 100,000 years, they are likely to threaten the status of dragon rulers."
“So once a tiger soul beast breaks through 100,000 years, it will be taken seriously by Emperor Tian. If it shows signs of breaking through 200,000 years, Emperor Tian won’t even need to do anything, as the Bear King and the Ten Thousand Monster Kings will eliminate it in advance.”
The two Ice and Snow Emperors frowned at the same time when they heard this.
No matter which soul beast habitat, hundred thousand year and two hundred thousand year soul beasts have extraordinary significance, and there are many unspoken rules behind them.
One hundred thousand years is a hurdle, which means that the soul beast has wisdom that is not inferior to that of humans, and its strength is roughly equivalent to that of a human Titled Douluo.
At this time, the hundred thousand year soul beast automatically entered the circle of soul beast rulers and could no longer be treated as an ordinary soul beast.
They have almost no natural enemies from the outside world, and only have to consider the natural disaster that occurs once every 100,000 years.
Even the more powerful beasts usually feed on weak soul beasts and will hardly kill another hundred thousand year soul beast.
To make a simple analogy to humans, it is like a soul beast that has automatically obtained an organization after 100,000 years, and under the unspoken rules among ferocious beasts, it has obtained the privilege of being exempted from death by "no punishment for officials".
After all, soul beasts cannot obtain each other's soul rings and soul bones when they hunt each other, and the different bloodlines have little effect on improving one's own cultivation.
Xue Di asked in confusion: "With Emperor Tian and Xiong Jun's cultivation, can't they subdue a mere 200,000-year-old beast?"
Di Tian has been cultivating for more than 800,000 years, but he is actually afraid of a 200,000-year-old tiger soul beast threatening his position. Such a motive is really hard to believe.
Huo Qiuer was silent for a moment: "Tiger... Dragon, from the perspective of bloodline, it seems that neither is stronger. If I am not mistaken, it is because of a top soul beast called the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger that appeared in history that made Di Tian so afraid."
"A Dark Demon Evil God Tiger with ten thousand years of cultivation can rival a hundred thousand year soul beast. Therefore, Emperor Tian and King Xiong will never allow a tiger soul beast to surpass two hundred thousand years."
The Ice Emperor was still somewhat puzzled: "I have also heard a little about the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger. It is indeed a very powerful soul beast, but what does it have to do with suppressing all tiger soul beasts?"
Huo Qiuer replied in a low voice: "In order to prevent the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger bloodline that may exist in them from awakening, all tiger soul beasts are not allowed to break through the 200,000-year mark."
Rather than let the wrong person go, in order to maintain and consolidate his rule, Emperor Tian, the leader of the ferocious beasts, adopted a very simple and crude method, which was indeed effective.
However, the price they paid was that many tiger soul beasts failed to become ferocious beasts and become one of the top combat forces in the Star Dou Great Forest. The few remaining hundred thousand year old tiger soul beasts were also destined not to survive the next hundred thousand years.
After Huo Qiuer finished her story, her eyes looked a little complicated.
Exchanging memories with Huo Yuhao had a huge impact on her. Not only did it allow her to see the colorful human society, it also gave her many new thoughts.
When she stayed in the core area of Star Dou and occasionally heard Di Tian and other fierce beasts discussing the increasingly serious conflicts between soul beasts and humans, she also had an urge to join the discussion and express her ideas, but Di Tian never let her join.
Whenever she gazed at Di Tian's majestic back, Huo Qiuer would always feel dazed.
On the surface, the Xingdou Great Forest has the strongest man in the continent, Di Tian, as well as many powerful beasts that are well-known on the ferocious beast list, including Biji, Xiong Jun, Chi Wang, etc. There are also many hundred thousand year soul beasts that soul masters dare not even think about.
But soul beasts are still at a disadvantage in the confrontation with humans.
A hundred years ago, the Body Sect was able to penetrate deep into the core area of the Star Dou and hunt down seven hundred thousand year old soul beasts, forcing Emperor Tian to launch a beast tide in anger.
The soul beasts of the Xingdou Great Forest came out in droves overnight and slaughtered the human cities. But soon, under the joint resistance of the strong men of Shrek Academy and Body Sect, even a powerful emperor like Di Tian could only retreat temporarily and sign an agreement with humans, asking them to swear never to enter the core area of Xingdou to hunt 100,000-year soul beasts.
If humans violate the agreement and hunt down hundred thousand year soul beasts again, will the Star Dou Great Forest launch another beast tide...?
not at all.
In the following hundred years, several hundred thousand year old soul beasts were hunted down by Shrek Academy one after another, but Di Tian simply turned a blind eye and did not make a big fuss about it.
There is no other reason. Although the beast tide can bring heavy blows to mankind and destroy countless cities, the Star Dou Great Forest will also pay a heavy price.
Not only humans died in the beast tide, but also countless soul beasts. The beast tide a hundred years ago caused several soul beast tribes to still not recover.
The beast tide frightened humans and soul beasts as well.
But compared to soul beasts, humans have a much faster ability to self-repair after a disaster. It only takes a hundred years to cultivate a new generation of high-end combat power, but soul beast resources cannot be replenished.
Di Tian would not easily launch another beast tide unless it was absolutely necessary, so he acquiesced to the killing of those hundred thousand year soul beasts that were hunted down within the past hundred years.
As long as humans can remain respectful and do not take the risk of killing several hundred thousand year old soul beasts in succession, the Star Dou Great Forest can still tolerate it.
Huo Qiuer sighed deeply again and retracted her gradually diverging thoughts.
If humans are also regarded as a kind of soul beast, they must be the most powerful race in the entire continent, and other races will have no chance of fighting against them.
No matter from which angle she deduced it, Huo Qiuer felt that the decline and demise of the soul beast was inevitable.
But she herself is the auspicious beast that is guarded by destiny, and she has a hunch that there is a way that, even if it cannot completely resolve the conflict between soul beasts and humans, can at least greatly alleviate it.
Huo Qiuer sat on the big chair made of vines, covering her face with her hands, and fell into deep thought.
During the more than 10,000 years that she had been the emperor's auspicious beast, she had never thought about any complex problems. She just repeated the same routine of eating and sleeping, and sleeping and eating every day like an ice silkworm.
The only difference is that she doesn't have to worry about the pressure of survival, and all soul beasts will worship her.
Such a life, repeated for ten thousand years, would be no different from one million years.
But now, fate has allowed Huo Qiuer to escape from that monotonous life and start thinking about the future of herself and the soul beast.
She sadly discovered that she was revered as the emperor's auspicious beast entirely because of her natural bloodline, and others' respect for her was entirely because she could accelerate the cultivation of soul beasts.
As for her own feelings, it seemed that she had never been cared about and she just needed to be a mascot quietly.
This may also be a major reason that prompted Huo Qiuer to leave the forest and come to human society. In this place where no one knows her, she is herself, not an imperial beast.
"Tsk..."
Huo Qiuer clicked her tongue and focused her gaze on Tian Meng.
"You...what are you doing? Do you still want to eat me?" Tian Meng was startled and quickly hid behind Xue Di again, asking, "Didn't you just say you didn't want to eat me anymore?"
"I would like to go back to the days when I only knew how to eat, and I wouldn't have so many worries."
Huo Qiuer snorted coldly, and there was no longer the feeling of hunger and thirst at the sight of Tian Meng in her eyes, but instead a hint of self-mockery.
"This is one of the few things I hate about humans."
"Why do humans have so many troubles when their life span is so short?"
She talked to herself, seemingly asking a question.
The two dragon souls hovering in the air seemed to sense her troubles, and their roars were somewhat mournful.
The Snow Queen stood in front of her. After a long silence, her cold voice suddenly mentioned a term: "Doesn't your Xingdou Great Forest have a soul beast master?"
As soon as the words "Soul Beast Leader" came out, Huo Qiuer's eyes widened in shock.
"Do you know the Soul Beast Leader?" This was a secret that even she didn't quite understand.
Snow Queen said coldly: "Only someone with a lifespan as long as mine would know about the existence of the Soul Beast Lord."
"The legendary soul beast leader was the Dragon God, who had his own throne in the God Realm. But later, for some unknown reason, he perished along with the nine Dragon Kings."
She pointed at the two dragon souls and said, "This Yin-Yang Eye of Ice and Fire should be the place where the two dragon kings of ice and fire fell."
"The Dragon God and the nine dragon kings fell together, but a trace of his bloodline remained in the Xingdou Great Forest and became the current soul beast leader. I once faintly felt its powerful aura, and it was definitely not Emperor Tian."
"As for what it is, only Emperor Tian knows."
Huo Qiu'er shook her head and said, "But I don't know what it is. Di Tian has never talked about it to outsiders."
Xue Di continued, "If one day, the soul beasts really reach a life-or-death situation, I believe that is the time when the soul beast master will show up."
"By then, it won't be certain who will win or lose between humans and soul beasts."
Huo Qiu'er pondered for a moment and nodded heavily: "Yes, once the Soul Beast Lord gives an order, not only the Star Dou Great Forest, but also the Far North, the sea soul beasts, and almost all the soul beasts will be under his command."
"By that time, it will be a situation where both sides will perish together, and the whole continent may be destroyed."
Her expression was already extremely solemn.
Human beings are indeed developing very fast, but the accumulation of soul beasts for hundreds of thousands or millions of years cannot be easily destroyed by humans. Once an unreserved full-scale war between the two breaks out, it is very likely to destroy the entire Douluo Continent, and both sides will suffer losses.
I hope I never see such a future.
After hearing what Huo Qiuer said, Xue Di corrected her small mistake.
"I need to remind you that what you just said is wrong."