Chapter 515 Negotiations break down
The army of soul beasts had now completely quieted down due to the appearance of the Emperor's auspicious beast, but the endless herd of beasts was still frightening.
"Human, your words are interesting. Tell me, what are your conditions?"
The Bear King grumbled a few words in dissatisfaction but did not refute. It was obvious that he also knew that the auspicious beast was no longer as powerful as before, and that she represented the will of Emperor Tian.
Du Bu Si took a deep breath and said in a deep voice: "Cease the war. All the people in Shrek Academy are at your disposal. The soul beasts return to the Star Dou Great Forest. We will re-sign the contract. Humans promise not to invade the core area of Star Dou again. How about that?"
"The sect master's ideals are too ambitious." As soon as these words came out, Linghui Douluo from the Body Sect couldn't help but secretly complain to the deputy sect master Jinshen Douluo. Not to mention the emperor beast, even the IQ-low Earth Bear King would not agree to such a condition.
Sure enough, the laughter of the emperor's auspicious beast echoed across the plain, as if mocking Du Bushi's naivety.
"You humans have a saying, 'Since we're here,' we took the territory with our own ability, why should we give it back?" Fu Rui stared at him jokingly, "You can break the contract once, and you can break it a second time. Human lifespan is so short, how can you guarantee that your descendants will abide by the contract?"
“…”Du Bu Si’s face turned pale in an instant. He clenched his fists, and his knuckles cracked.
As the strongest level 98 Super Douluo on the front line, he had all the strength but could not refute every word of the Emperor Beast. And he realized just a second ago that he had made a mistake. He thought too simply about the soul beasts. Their wisdom might not be inferior to that of humans.
"Then what are you going to do?" Du Bu Si felt very aggrieved. The Lima Plain must not fall into the control of the soul beasts. Anyone who has a little knowledge of the area of the Star Dou Great Forest and the scope of the Lima Plains knows that if the soul beast army completely captures Soto City, the area of the Star Dou Great Forest will have to be multiplied by two on its original basis.
What's even more unfavorable is that Soto City is the granary of the Tianhun Empire. The food supply from all over the country comes from the Lima Plain. If this fertile land is occupied by soul beasts, even if they do nothing next and the other empires are at peace, the Tianhun Empire will fall into civil strife due to food shortages.
"I heard that when you humans fight each other, the losing side has to cede land and pay compensation. I want you to return twenty hundred thousand year soul bones and the ownership of another soul beast settlement. Don't say you don't have soul bones. Back then, the Body Sect sneaked into the Star Dou Great Forest and hunted down seven hundred thousand year soul beasts in a row within a year. In the past ten thousand years, you humans have hunted more than twenty hundred thousand year soul beasts." Fu Rui said slowly.
It was a really eye-popping condition! The 100,000-year soul bones were in the hands of those big powers. If the soul beast army didn't reach their doorstep, who would contribute the heirloom for Soto City? Besides, apart from Shrek Academy, Dragon Pavilion had the most 100,000-year soul bones, right?
Even if all the people from Shrek Academy were killed, it might not be possible to gather twenty hundred thousand year soul bones. However, if the Body Sect was willing to take the lead and contribute the seven hundred thousand year soul bones...
The faces of all the members of the Body Sect looked very ugly. If they could use 100,000-year soul bones to exchange for the retreat of the soul beast army, Du Bu Si would certainly be willing to do so. Even the soul bones in his body could be dug out on the spot as compensation.
The problem is that they didn't! They did hunt down seven hundred thousand year soul beasts and absorbed their soul rings, but before their soul bones could even warm up, they were snatched away by a mysterious strong man.
Can we tell this story if the poison is not fatal? No, the Body Sect still has some dignity! Besides, will anyone believe it? Everyone will only think that the Body Sect is hypocritical and is unwilling to contribute even when the human race is in danger of extinction.
No one will remember that he was willing to self-destruct his soul core in order to force the ferocious beast to negotiate. They will only see that he was unwilling to return the soul bone for his own benefit.
Seeing this, Linghui Douluo quickly flew to Du Bu Si's side to give him advice. Poor clan leader, he was almost played around by the soul beast.
All the people in the sect are simple-minded and honest. Linghui Douluo, who possesses the brain martial soul, has become one of the few military strategists in the sect.
After hearing the voice transmission from Linghui Douluo's soul power, Du Bu Si finally calmed down a little. As expected, he still had to bring his brain with him when he went out. Ugh! Bring an external brain.
"Gathering twenty hundred thousand year soul bones cannot be done in a short time. Can you give us a few days? Why don't you tell me which soul beast habitat you want first?" Linghui Douluo was right. As the sect master, he couldn't say in front of so many people that the Body Sect didn't have those soul bones. He could only change the subject and divert everyone's attention from the compensation to the cession of land. Although it was quite humiliating, it was better than the Body Sect being targeted by the soul master world.
"Sunset Forest." Fu Rui looked at him leisurely.
"I..." Du Bu Si almost vomited blood, and Linghui Douluo had to use his soul skills to control him and make him swallow back the swear word that was about to come out of his mouth.
Again, anyone with a little geographical knowledge knows that the Sunset Forest is near Tiandou City, which is the capital of the Tianhun Empire. If the soul beasts of Xingdou take control of the Sunset Forest, my God!
Du Bu Si couldn't imagine that scene. Ten thousand years ago, the two gods of the Wuhun Empire had failed to cross the Jialing Pass and reach Tiandou City. If soul beasts could accomplish what even gods couldn't do, then the Tianhun Empire would not be far from destruction!
If Sunset Forest was not adjacent to Tiandou City, but bordered other countries, Du Bushi might have agreed immediately, but the problem was that the location of Sunset Forest was not only close to Tiandou City, but also separated from Lima Plain by several main cities and half of the Vixlock Plain, which was where the Kingdom of Silves was located ten thousand years ago.
Can we open up a separate migration route for soul beasts? Will they abide by the rules and not disturb any humans? But if the Emperor Beast is allowed to lead the soul beast army to advance into the Sunset Forest, the area of the Star Dou Great Forest will be tripled!
Why did she go to Sunset Forest? What was there there that attracted the Emperor's auspicious beast?
"Have you thought about it?" Just when everyone was puzzled, Fu Rui urged impatiently.
The bear let out a low roar at the right moment, the threat clearly evident in its meaning.
This is simply too much! Du Bu Si was almost furious. What's the difference between this and attacking Tiandou City?
"Why don't you say you want to take over the frozen forest in the north as well?!"
It was originally ours! If the Star Dou Great Forest could expand to border the Far North, it would definitely be something that the soul beasts would be happy to see. Fu Rui shook her head. The task given to her was to merge the Sunset Forest into the jurisdiction of the Star Dou Great Forest.
"It doesn't matter if you don't give it to us, we'll get it ourselves!"
Seeing that the soul beast army was about to start a new round of attack, Xian Lin'er, who was confronting a 100,000-year soul beast, had no choice but to make public the scandal of how Xuanzi led his team to the Sunset Forest to snatch the Yin-Yang Eyes of Ice and Fire, but failed and ended up losing more than a dozen Titled Douluo.
When the soul masters who came to support from various forces heard this, they broke out in cold sweats. It was not because the Beast God had visited the Sunset Forest before, but because Xuan Zi had single-handedly caused Shrek Academy to fall from a top force to the point where there were only three Titled Douluo left.
Is this person really not an undercover sent by another force? We all believe you when you say he is the supreme elder of the evil soul master organization!
The teachers and students of Shrek Academy who stayed behind to participate in the battle were even more shocked. Did the academy only have three Titled Douluo left? Were all the old masters dead? Without the fighting power of those Titled Douluo, what difference would there be between Shrek Academy and the ruined building?
"What the hell is that 'Yin-Yang Eyes of Ice and Fire'?" Du Bu Si didn't completely believe what Xian Lin'er said, "Could it be that those old guys from your academy don't want to fight and that's an excuse? I've been to the Sunset Forest, it's full of poisonous miasma, not many soul beasts can survive in it, and the center is impossible to enter at all. Do you still want to deceive us now?" He didn't doubt the strength of the Beast God Di Tian, he just felt that this kind of operation was too outrageous, people couldn't, at least shouldn't... How could they kill more than a dozen Titled Douluo at once?
But looking at the dark army of soul beasts not far away, all of them were attracted by Xuanzi, so why couldn't they kill more than a dozen Title Douluo? Even Du Bu Si himself was almost killed.
It seems that Xuanzi is no longer satisfied with being a scourge to Shrek Academy. Even if he dies, he wants to be a scourge to all mankind.
The Holy Spirit Church had been secretly plotting and scheming for so many years, but none of them had caused as much damage as Xuanzi's this time. Compared with Xuanzi, the Holy Spirit Church was just a bunch of small fry!
Du Bu Si was so angry that he gritted his teeth. The world was unpredictable and created such a stupid thing! But he seemed to have forgotten something important. What was it?
"It's true, Your Majesty, I can swear on my martial spirit that what Lin'er said is true, because we are the survivors of that operation!" Qian Duoduo hurriedly protected Xian Lin'er, "The Yin-Yang Eye of Ice and Fire is located deep in the Sunset Forest. It is a legendary treasure land left by Tang San's ancestors. It was formed by the coexistence of two springs with extreme properties, the Cold Extreme Yin Spring and the Fire Extreme Yang Spring. Due to the intersection of their extreme properties, it gathers extremely rich spiritual energy from heaven and earth. This spiritual energy is not only extremely dense, but also has the dual characteristics of ice and fire. It has a significant promoting effect on the soul master's soul tempering and physical strengthening. And when we went there, we didn't encounter any poisonous miasma at all. They should have been cleaned up by special methods."
As soon as these words came out, all the soul masters present were excited, especially the soul masters of the Body Sect. Tempering soul power? Strengthening physical fitness? This is exactly what they need most!
Since the Shrek gang has offered Sea God Tang San as a guarantee, it proves that this precious land is also of great benefit to soul beasts. No wonder the Emperor Beast asked for the entire Sunset Forest right away.
What a big mouth the lion has! But Suanni is indeed a lion, no, isn't that the point? Du Bu Si's eyes suddenly widened, he remembered!
“You bastards blew up the high-altitude soul detection device near Tiandou City, didn’t you? And you killed the hundreds of city defense soldiers!” Du Bu Si was so angry that his eyes were red with anger. “Not only did you tear up the contracts with soul beasts, you even attacked low-level soul masters. Even evil soul masters are not as evil as you! Is there anything else you can’t do?!”
Faced with Du Bu Si's accusation, Xian Lin'er and Qian Duoduo had no way to defend themselves because they had indeed done it.
“Hahahahaha! More than a dozen Titled Douluo were wiped out. The Beast God did a great job! Why didn’t he destroy you and Shrek City together?” Du Bu Si felt angry and amused. “If he had killed you all, we wouldn’t have to negotiate with the soul beasts here today!”
Damn, you Shrek people are really in debt and never worry about life! Du Bu Si really wants to talk to the Emperor Beast about whether he can give them some of the Shrek people so that they can skin and pull out their tendons.
The soul masters from other countries looked at the soul masters of the Heavenly Soul Empire with sympathy. When Shrek City was built, it was separated from the Heavenly Soul Empire. After the city was destroyed five years ago, the Heavenly Soul Empire granted Shrek Academy a license to build a school outside Soto City, which led to today's disaster.
"Charge. Follow the stars and destroy the city in front of us." Fu Rui gave the order calmly. The beast tide covered her figure, and the four ferocious beasts re-entered the battle.
Du Bu Si was horrified. He originally wanted to get close to the Emperor Beast and detonate its soul core to die together with it, in order to threaten the soul beast army to retreat. However, the other party seemed to have predicted his action. At the moment he rushed towards the Emperor Beast, he could not even catch a trace of her breath.
The soul beast army rushed towards the city wall like a flood, relying on their physical advantages to climb directly to the top of the city. The soul guides on the city wall roared, but they could not stop this violent attack.
Layers of emerald green waves spread towards the front of the beast tide with Biji as the center? In the bombardment of the soul guide ray, not only did soul beasts die, but also a large number of soul beasts were injured. However, under the illumination of this green light, the injuries of those soul beasts healed at an astonishing speed. What was even more bizarre was that those densely packed soul rings actually melted in the green light, making the green light even stronger. Soon, the soul beasts that fell to the ground climbed up one after another and launched an attack again.
Under the attack of various soul beasts' soul skills, the city wall was shattered, the soul masters guarding the city were blown away, and screams were heard one after another. However, the flying soul beasts flew directly over the top of the city and attacked the people in the city who had not yet completely evacuated. This time, there was no Shenfeng Douluo to kill the soul beasts for them.
What made them even more desperate was that there were not many soul beasts that were killed and injured at all costs. The so-called killing and injury was actually death, because the injured soul beasts would be pulled up by the Emerald Swan the next moment.
The biggest problem of Soto City is that there are not enough soul masters. Apart from the reinforcements, there are not many soul masters who are willing to stay and fight. The vast majority of local soul masters have cultivation levels between three and five rings. They are not soul masters from regular armies, and their experience on the battlefield is pitifully small.
"Listen carefully! If the city is breached, I will cut you into pieces and feed you to the soul beasts before I die!" Du Bu Si pointed at the Shrek group and roared.