The sound of horses' hooves came from afar, and a black carriage came from a distance, and after repairing at the roadside inn in the evening, it was almost noon, and the muddy road had dried slightly in the sun.

The traffic situation in the Douluo Continent is not good, the traffic between civilians is often through horse-drawn carriages, the roads are not paved, and the bumpy and muddy distance makes the speed a little slower.

Although this kind of horse contains some kind of soul beast blood, its speed is only twice as fast as that of ordinary horses. And the faster horned scale horse is not something that ordinary people can use.

And the Horned Horse's ordinary speed has surpassed that of a car traveling at high speed, and the unrepaired road cannot withstand the bumps of the carriage at such high speeds.

Lu Ming has never experienced this ancient mode of transportation, and for him, who has adapted to modern modes of transportation, the comfort of this ancient means of transportation is really not good.

After a few hours of turbulence, Lu Ming and Old Man Lu finally approached the Star Dou Great Forest, and finally arrived at the town on the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest in the afternoon.

As soon as he arrived in the whole town, Lu Ming couldn't wait to get out of the car and walk around, and his legs and buttocks were obviously a little numb after several hours of bumps.

When he got out of the car, he exerted a lot of force, his legs and feet were weak, and he almost collapsed to the ground, and slowly walked a few steps, using his soul power to relieve his physical discomfort as he walked. Thinking that he still needed to take this damn carriage back to go back, Lu Ming felt powerless in his heart.

"Get off the car slowly, it is inevitable that your legs and feet will be weak after sitting for a few hours", Old Man Lu was a little smarter, sat on the edge of the carriage and slowed down, and waited until he was comfortable before getting off the car.

As soon as you get out of the car, you will find a town on the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest, which is more of a large village than a town.

Small wooden houses appeared in front of me, and the whole village still emitted a fishy smell.

Most of the small houses had some animal skins and bones hanging outside, and some of the small houses also had some dried meat and unprocessed soul beast corpses. Most of the townspeople wore linen clothes, or silk fabrics mixed with unknown materials.

However, there are quite a few inns open around, and just looking at their clothes, you can see that most of them are from the Star Luo Empire, and the aesthetic habits of the Star Luo Empire prefer to wear clothes with small cuffs and sleeves.

As for the costumes of other countries, Lu Ming has never seen them, but he heard Old Man Lu brag that the Heavenly Soul Empire likes to wear the kind of clothes that are tightly covered, but Lu Ming has never seen a person from the Heavenly Soul Empire when he is so old, and he doesn't know whether it is true or not.

Seeing that it was almost half an afternoon, the two of them casually found a place to eat two bites, and hurriedly walked towards the soul beast forest.

There are quite a few people on the side of the road, buying supplies, traveling back and forth, and looking for people to form teams to hunt soul beasts. There are also many children of nearby residents, who are still wearing a little mud and playing around.

"Hey, grandpa, aren't we going to get someone to help?" Lu Ming tugged at the corner of Old Man Lu's clothes, he had never seen Old Man Lu's strength.

Although the people who can have a shop in Xingluo City have more or less the strength of two or three rings, the old man is inevitably a little too old, and his strength must have declined.

Coupled with his own oil bottle, it is difficult to run when he encounters a powerful soul beast. Lu Ming saw that Old Man Lu wanted to take him to hunt the soul ring by himself, and he was a little stunned in his heart.

"Of course not, your grandfather traveled to the mainland when he was young, and he hasn't seen anything, what is a small hundred-year-old soul beast", the corners of Old Man Lu's mouth twitched a few times, patted his chest, and smoothed a few strands of hair.

Lu Minghu glanced at Old Man Lu suspiciously, looked at his look that didn't look like a lie, and then looked at himself.

"Okay, then let's not go too far, just pick up a leak at the outermost, it's safer", Lu Ming was still a little uneasy, after all, he had also heard of Old Man Lu's nickname.

"Okay, okay", Old Man Lu snorted.

Last night's rain had cooled the air, and the scent of the woods, shade, and a few breezes from time to time, was a bit of a source of pride.

The sun shines through the shade of the trees on the dark soil, and there are a few wild flowers blooming along the side of the path that is often walked in the forest, and the petals are still with a little bit of residual rain.

Under the trees on the side of the road grew mushrooms of unknown species, crystal clear and emitting a faint blue shimmer, and a few small glowing insects occasionally flew in the air. The strange unknown bird in the treetops.

The sound of birds, insects, the smell of wild flowers on the roadside, the smell of earth in the wind.

……

Walking through the forest path, everything around you is very new and beautiful.

The Star Dou Great Forest has all kinds of unique ecological structures, this unique ecological structure is a novelty that Lu Ming has never seen before, and Lu Ming wants to deeply sink it into his mind for any strange thing he sees.

"Beautiful, isn't it wonderful", Old Man Lu looked at Lu Ming, who was immersed in nature, and said softly.

"Well, it's beautiful, I love it"

"I was even more surprised than you when I first entered the Star Dou Great Forest, and everyone who stepped into the Star Dou Great Forest for the first time would be impressed by the scenery here." Old man Lu muttered to himself, "Even if I see it again now, I still think it's beautiful."

"Okay, okay, if you go inside, you will reach the soul beast activity area, there are crises everywhere, you must always be vigilant", Old Man Lu gently pulled Lu Ming.

Lu Ming agreed, came back to his senses and looked at the surrounding environment, vigilant, and slightly concentrated.

The Star Dou Great Forest bloomed on the Douluo Continent like a thorny rose, as beautiful and charming as Pandora's Star, full of danger.

The two of them walked forward cautiously while paying attention to the soul beasts around them, most of the soul beasts in the outermost area were weak soul beasts that were decades old, and they didn't quite meet Lu Ming's requirements.

For Lu Ming's strange martial soul, Old Man Lu didn't know what type of soul beast to hunt, and he didn't have any suggestions for this, he just wanted to hunt a soul beast with a suitable age.

When Lu Ming accepted the memory, he accepted all the knowledge of the original owner of the soul beast illustrated book, which not only introduced the types, ages, and identification methods of many soul beasts, but also introduced many novel theories.

For example, the theory of soul beast protection mechanism is probably about the aggression of soul beasts and the protection of soul beasts.

For soul beasts, the vast majority of low-age soul beasts will not take the initiative to attack the soul master, once they sense the existence of a soul master nearby, the vast majority of low-age soul beasts will scatter and flee.

The process of obtaining the soul ring by the soul master is extremely terrifying for a low-age soul beast. This fear of their parents and grandparents being killed has been engraved in the bloodline of soul beasts, and it has become the instinct to protect them, and for low-age soul beasts, soul masters are almost equivalent to natural enemies.

Only low-level soul beasts who are hungry to the limit and are struggling to survive will take the risk and overcome their fear to attack civilians or seemingly weak soul masters, driven by death.

Human flesh is not delicious for soul beasts, and its nutrition is not as good as that of soul beasts of equal strength. On the contrary, this kind of hunting is extremely risky, and many soul beasts are unwilling to face it.

Taking the initiative to hunt humans is like a jackal attacking a cheetah in the face of hardship and poverty in the cold winter.

For high-age soul beasts, hunting soul masters is a dangerous and low-reward behavior, and the nutrition brought by soul hunters is far inferior to hunting low-level creatures of the same level.

And the hunting instinct passed down from generation to generation gives them a natural advantage over their subordinate creatures, and this advantage naturally has no effect on the strange ability of the soul master.

Just as the mandala snake hunts rabbits and phoenix birds of the same age, they have evolved unique weapons and techniques for treating their own food from generation to generation.

Once the soul beast cultivation reached a certain level, they gradually possessed their own territorial consciousness.

This territorial consciousness is unique to them, and it is also the only romance, different high-level soul beasts have different hunting areas, once humans step in, it is equivalent to declaring war on them.

Because the instinct in the soul beast's body told them that the creatures that came were not food for them to hunt, but hunters who were as strong as them.

Faced with this situation, soul beasts will often take the initiative to attack humans, and will not flee here to find a new home until they are injured by the enemy.

However, for some types of soul beasts with strange attributes, their attributes make them more aggressive, they will attack almost any creature they see, and they will only flinch when facing natural enemies directly.

They are like domestic geese, always majestic, even if they meet a dog stronger than themselves, they want to fight.

Although the vast majority of low-grade soul beasts will not attack humans, who knows if there are some aggressive soul beasts that suddenly come out and attack them, such as monkeys and baboons.

Or rather, some hungry jackal, tiger and leopard who had not caught their prey for several days, eyeing their two pieces of meat.

Lu Ming had to raise his heart, and he was alert to the surrounding environment with Old Man Lu, while carefully observing the surrounding environment, while paying attention to whether there were suitable soul beasts around.

As we gradually walked deeper, the surrounding environment became quieter and quieter, and the chirping of birds, beasts and insects gradually became smaller.

It seemed that the whole forest was only the sound of the two of them walking on the soft dirt and occasionally stepping on the fallen twigs.