[Reflecting on the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Beasts made Yu Xiaogang's hair stand on end.]
[He felt goosebumps break out across his arms, making him instinctively hug himself and rub them.]
[Yu Xiaogang's actions naturally caught the Grand Elder's attention, who hurriedly asked what he had thought of.]
[So, Yu Xiaogang shared his thoughts with the Grand Elder.]
[After hearing Yu Xiaogang's ideas, the Grand Elder was equally stunned.]
[Indeed, why had no one ever cared about what a Spirit Beast would become after reaching a hundred thousand years?]
[Records of Hundred Thousand Year Soul Beasts have existed since ancient times; the very first record in history is now untraceable.]
[Since then, there haven't been many records of people obtaining a hundred-thousand-year spirit ring.]
[So, where did those Hundred Thousand Year Soul Beasts, invincible among their kind, go?]
[They couldn't have all just slowly died of old age, could they?]
[The Grand Elder could understand humans dying of old age, but Spirit Beasts?]
[That was a very niche notion.]
[Accumulating like this generation after generation, heaven only knows how many terrifying Spirit Beasts are hidden across the entire Douluo Continent.]
[At this moment, the Grand Elder felt that the Douluo Continent was so incredibly foreign.]
In fact, it wasn't just the Grand Elder who felt the Douluo Continent was unfamiliar; the people of the Black World felt a chill down their spines after hearing Yu Xiaogang's speculation.
The people of Shrek Academy.
"Right, why has no one ever thought about a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Beast continuing to grow, becoming a two-hundred-thousand or three-hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beast?"
Flender turned pale with shock.
Anyone with half a brain, after hearing Yu Xiaogang's conjecture and thinking about it for a moment, would immediately be certain.
The number of Hundred Thousand Year Soul Beasts on the Douluo Continent was definitely not small.
But why had Spirit Beasts exceeding a hundred thousand years never appeared, and why were there no detailed records of them?
Was it because there was no need to care?
Impossible. For those who compiled data and published theories, this kind of information was extremely valuable.
They wouldn't possibly overlook it.
"Perhaps there were records, but they were erased?"
Zhao Wuji proposed a hypothesis.
He had some say in how strong a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Beast was; he had seen the Titan Giant Ape in the Star Dou Great Forest back then.
The aura emanating from it made his spine tingle even now just thinking about it.
If a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Beast was like that, then wouldn't a two-hundred-thousand or three-hundred-thousand-year one be even more ridiculous?
He didn't believe that anyone who encountered such a powerful Spirit Beast would fail to record it.
Thus, Zhao Wuji felt that only this explanation could account for everything.
"Xiao Gang, what do you think?"
Unable to make head or tail of it, Flender looked toward Yu Xiaogang for help.
"Hmph, what does it matter if they were erased or not?"
"Currently, among the Titled Douluo of the Douluo Continent, no one even possesses a hundred-thousand-year spirit ring."
"If a hundred-thousand-year spirit ring is already like this, what about two hundred thousand years or more?"
"Even if someone exhausted all their strength to defeat such a Spirit Beast, who would have the life to absorb a two-hundred-thousand-year spirit ring?"
Yu Xiaogang said with a cold snort.
But as he finished, his gaze turned toward Tang San beside him.
Tang San met Yu Xiaogang's gaze, his eyes flickering.
Ordinary Spirit Masters might indeed have no chance to absorb a two-hundred-thousand-year spirit ring, but he was different.
He possessed twin spirits.
As long as his first Spirit followed the normal steps, then for the first spirit ring of his second Spirit, he could add one that was over fifty thousand years old.
By increasing the years step by step after that, he might truly have a chance to attach a two-hundred-thousand-year spirit ring to himself.
A two-hundred-thousand-year spirit ring... Tang San didn't dare imagine how much of a boost such a ring could give him.
Furthermore, a two-hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beast would definitely drop a Spirit Bone. If he could obtain a two-hundred-thousand-year Spirit Bone...
It was unimaginable!
And if one were to say who among those present was most shocked by Yu Xiaogang's thoughts in the heavenly curtain, it would definitely be Xiao Wu.
As a Transformed Hundred Thousand Year Soul Beast, Xiao Wu's understanding of the Spirit Beast community far exceeded that of Flender, Yu Xiaogang, and the others who could only speculate based on records.
After all, these were her own personal experiences.
But it was precisely because of her personal experience that she felt alarmed.
Because when she lived in the Star Dou Great Forest, relying on her own cultivation and Da Ming and Er Ming, Xiao Wu could be said to have walked with her head held high everywhere.
There was nowhere she hadn't been.
But having traversed the entire Star Dou Great Forest, she had never seen any two-hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beast.
So, was Yu Xiaogang wrong?
No, Yu Xiaogang was not wrong.
Because after becoming Hundred Thousand Year Soul Beasts, Da Ming and Er Ming's cultivation was still rising.
Even if they did nothing but eat, drink, and play every day from now on, ten thousand years later, they would become hundred-and-ten-thousand-year Spirit Beasts.
So what about those Hundred Thousand Year Soul Beasts of the Star Dou Great Forest from the past?
They couldn't have all died, could they?
Xiao Wu's mind constantly sifted through her past memories.
Then, some blurred memories flooded back.
She remembered her mother telling her once that the Star Dou Great Forest was not that simple, and even with her mother's cultivation, she didn't dare to act recklessly.
If she dared to act out, her mother would surely be punished.
At the time, because she had just become a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Beast, Xiao Wu's ego was unprecedentedly inflated, so she hadn't taken those words to heart.
In her view, she had a mother who was a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Beast, she herself was a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Beast, and she had two younger brothers who were about to become Hundred Thousand Year Soul Beasts with Bloodlines far stronger than her own.
With such a lineup, it was just the Star Dou Great Forest; what was there to fear?
Thinking back on those words now, Xiao Wu's scalp suddenly went numb.
Her mother had become a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Beast very early on, and the years she spent living in the Star Dou Great Forest far exceeded those of herself, Da Ming, and Er Ming.
A presence that could make her mother not dare to act recklessly, and would even punish her mother if she did.
And recalling her mother's tone, it was one of complete lack of any will to resist.
Therefore, there truly was a great terror within the Star Dou Great Forest!
It's just unknown why those great terrors never appeared before her, Da Ming, or Er Ming.
Why?
Even as Hundred Thousand Year Soul Beasts, were they still not worthy of being noticed by those great terrors?
Even when her mother, a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Beast, was being hunted by human Spirit Masters, they didn't show their faces to intervene.
Could it be that in the eyes of those great terrors, a group of Spirit Beasts like them who had just entered the hundred-thousand-year level still couldn't integrate into their circle?
Then just how terrifying were they?
Meanwhile, in the Star Dou Great Forest, Da Ming and Er Ming watched the heavenly curtain, equally terrified by the implications.
They glanced at each other and then looked around their surroundings.
At this moment, they felt as if some terrifying existence was watching them from the shadows.
What the two of them didn't know was that right beneath the Lake of Life where they resided, within a special space...
"Tsk tsk tsk, to think he actually noticed. That kid isn't bad."
"Hmph, a human gathering such Luck... it seems that in that so-called parallel world, a new god is about to be born."
"This is truly interesting. The Yu Xiaogang of the parallel world has a chance to Ascend to Godhood, while the Yu Xiaogang on our side is a piece of trash."
"Ignore him. We should worry about ourselves. It's my turn to absorb that ice silkworm's energy during this period."
"I really didn't expect such a strange thing to exist in this world. An ice silkworm, relying on Opportunity, actually surpassed us in cultivation."
"Hahaha, unfortunately, that fellow's combat power is too pathetic, which ended up benefiting us."
"But speaking of which, what's the deal with that ice and fire spring water?"
Upon hearing this question, the space suddenly fell silent.