The fragrance of bamboo leaves in Douluo Continent

Zhutan walked towards her house with a heavy expression. She never expected to see Tang San waiting at the door of the house. She was stunned for a moment, then she collected herself and walked towards Tang San.

Tang San was helping Zhutan take care of the herbs in front of the house, his hand movements precise and quick, but he was thinking about other things in his heart.

After two days of classes, Tang San discovered that Shrek Academy's teaching methods are very special. They don't have strict rules and regulations like ordinary academies, where they have to attend classes every day. Instead, they use some special methods to learn from the more meaningful aspects. Practical combat and experience to improve their application of martial arts, which is undoubtedly much more effective than just teaching theoretical knowledge. He also clearly feels that he still has a long way to go. Dai Mubai, Zhutan, and that day When I met Zhu Qi, I had to work harder.

"Third brother, what are you thinking about?" Zhutan suddenly said from behind Tang San

Tang San, who was always vigilant, didn't notice Zhutan's arrival. Tang San was startled, and his hand had already touched the Twenty-Four Bridges on the Moonlight Night on his waist. He immediately recognized the person behind him, relaxed again, and sighed: "Let's go." Don't do this again, it will be bad if it hurts you."

Zhutan pouted playfully and said, "Okay."

"Come in, you seem troubled." Zhutan took out the tea set and made Tang San a cup of tea.

Tang San looked serious, looking at Zhutan with an extremely serious look: "I feel that I am not strong enough, but I don't know how to become stronger."

Zhutan didn't reply immediately after hearing this. She put down her tea cup and looked into those rare confused eyes: "Do you just want to become stronger?"

"Yes! I want to become stronger." Tang San didn't hesitate at all after hearing Zhutan's words.

Then he wanted to speak but was stunned again. He opened his mouth but said nothing.

"Then why do you want to become stronger? Are you becoming stronger for the sake of being strong?" Zhutan asked another question.

She continued without waiting for Tang San's answer: "If that's the case, you are actually strong enough. At the same age, your Blue Silver Grass martial spirit can reach level 29, and you can already be a genius. "

Tang San wanted to say something, but Zhutan stopped him: "You can answer me when you come back from the Star Dou Forest."

Tang San went back like this, telling himself that since he didn't know how to go in the future, he should take the current path first.

When I returned to the dormitory, I saw Oscar coming up to me with an excited face: "Mistress, I'm going to the Star Dou Forest tomorrow. What kind of soul ring should I get to be more suitable for improving the auxiliary effect of sausages?"

Tang San smiled and said: "This also depends on chance. There are all kinds of soul beasts, and no one is good at what kind of soul beast you will encounter. One of your first two soul rings is for recovery, and the other is for detoxification. This third one is for recovery." The soul ring only needs to add another auxiliary effect or strengthen the first two auxiliary effects. Oscar, you should have been to the Star Forest, tell me about the situation there."

Oscar nodded and said: "The Star Dou Forest is a good place, but of course it is also an extremely dangerous place. It is the cradle of soul beasts, and it is also the favorite place of powerful soul masters. There are endless rare treasures, and of course it is also the place where soul masters suffer the greatest casualties. place."

Hearing this, Tang San remembered how he had obtained his first two spirit rings and said, "Is that any different from the forest where spirit beasts are kept in captivity in our Tiandou Empire?"

Oscar said: "Those forests where soul beasts are kept are nothing at all. It is difficult to encounter even a thousand-year-old soul beast. Only soul warriors and soul master level people will go there. The Star Dou Forest is the most famous in our Douluo Continent. One of the three major soul beast settlements, the area is almost the same as the Balak Kingdom. It spans the borders of the Tiandou Empire and the Star Luo Empire. Two-fifths of it is in our Tiandou Empire, and the remaining five Three-thirds of the Star Luo Empire is a huge primeval forest. The terrain in the forest is complex, and the soul beasts are also extremely terrifying. It is said that there are even 100,000-year-old soul beasts in it. Even the people of the Zhu family dare not easily Explore the interior of the Star Dou Forest. Any soul master, as long as he is strong enough and lucky, can find the most suitable soul ring inside. My second soul ring was obtained in the Star Dou Forest."

Tang San's eyes lit up when he heard this: "So that's it. I hope you can get better results this time."

Then he asked doubtfully: "Who is the Zhu family you just mentioned, and is it related to Atuan?"

Oscar nodded: "The Zhu family is the only family that can master the information about the soul beasts in the Star Dou Forest. Everyone in their family has special skills and is proficient in all kinds of soul beasts and plant knowledge. They are powerful and there are many senior executives and nobles. When my disciples go to the Star Dou Forest for training, they will ask people from the Zhu family to buy information about soul beasts or provide them with escorts."

Tang San asked carefully, "Won't this cause an imbalance to the spirit beasts in the forest?"

Oscar shook his head: "On the contrary, the Zhu family releases some news about soul beasts just to maintain the balance of the soul beast population. This has been an unwritten rule for thousands of years."

Tang San nodded and thought to himself: "So Atuan's family is so powerful."

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Everyone had nothing to prepare for the day. Early the next morning, after breakfast, everyone gathered in the playground, and Zhao Wuji was already waiting for them there.

Seeing Zhao Wuji, the students were stunned at first, and then they wanted to laugh but were afraid to laugh.

Zhao Wuji looked extremely embarrassed, with at least three bruises on his face that had not faded away, especially the panda eye in the orbit of his left eye, which really made people laugh.

Although a few people found it funny, they were also surprised. After all, Zhao Wuji is a level 76 soul saint. With the martial spirit of the powerful Vajra Bear with high defense, even Dean Flanders, even if he is a level higher than Zhao Wuji, Gao, it seems impossible to hurt Zhao Wuji like this. If you want to hurt Zhao Wuji like this, this person's strength is probably at least Contra level.

And it seemed that the other party just wanted to warn Zhao Wuji and had no hostile intentions, but where did Zhao Wuji provoke such a person.

"What are you looking at, you little bastards, are your skin itchy?"

Hearing the words "little bastard", Xiao Wu was obviously unhappy and whispered, "Why didn't you say little bastard was blind?"

Zhutan on the side listened to Xiao Wu's complaints and smiled.

Zhao Wuji's eyes widened: "Xiao Wu, what did you say? And you, Atuan!"

Zhutan waved his hand at Zhao Wuji and cursed in his heart: "Can we pandas be the same as ordinary bears? We are national treasures."

Zhao Wuji did not pursue Xiao Wu's squeeze, and said with a snort: "Okay, everyone is on their way. Mubai, you lead the team, and Atuan will act alone."

Zhutan nodded, left the team and stood next to Zhao Wuji.

Dai Mubai's expression immediately became serious and he said to the others: "The Star Dou Forest is not a place for fun. There are many spirit beasts there, and they are extremely aggressive. They don't have any good impressions of us humans. Everyone. You must deal with it carefully. Tang San, you are at the front, Oscar and Ning Rongrong, you two are following Tang San, Fatty, Xiao Wu, you two are on the left and right, and Zhu Zhuqing and I are at the back. After entering the forest , we must maintain such a formation and be alert at all times, everyone, let’s go.”

Tang San secretly admired Dai Mubai's arrangement. Even Zhao Wuji nodded with satisfaction. His arrangement was just right, placing the two auxiliary spirit masters in the middle of the team for protection. Among the seven, the most powerful one After the strong attack, he would act as the forward, and Fatty and Xiao Wu on the left and right wings could provide reinforcements at any time.

Several people walked out of the academy and started running forward. As soon as they started running, the students understood the importance of Dean Flender's second class yesterday. Everyone no longer rejects Oscar's sausages. If they eat a sausage transformed by Oscar's martial spirit every hour, everyone will always have plenty of energy. Even Ning Rongrong can barely keep up with everyone.

Sure enough, only by truly using it can one understand the importance of auxiliary martial spirits. Oscar was also admired by everyone because of the wonderful effect of his sausage, and received the best treatment. Since they had not yet entered the forest, the strongest Dai Mubai and Tang San They took turns dragging Oscar's arm to share part of his weight, so that he could better restore his soul power.

Ning Rongrong, on the other hand, seemed extraordinarily silent during the entire journey. He neither refused Oscar's sausage nor used his martial arts to provide auxiliary effects to the team, as if to isolate himself from the small group.

Seeing this scene, Zhutan sighed helplessly.

The Star Forest is located in the southeast of the Balak Kingdom, with a small part bordering the Balak Kingdom. Soto City itself is also located in the southeast of the Balak Kingdom, not far from the Star Forest, less than 500 kilometers away.

With the help of Oscar's martial spirit, in just one day, when night fell, Shrek and the others had already traveled more than 400 kilometers and were very close to the Star Forest.

Zhao Wuji saw that he would not be able to reach his destination today, so he gave the order to rest. They happened to arrive at a small town and took a short rest. It would not be too late to set off the next day.

When everyone entered the town, they discovered that although the town was only three times the size of Shrek Academy, except that there was no city wall, it was as lively as a small city. There were many shops on the streets, and there were all kinds of shops.

Tang San took a closer look and found that these shops sold weapons, armor, and various potions, and they were all related to spirit masters.

I can't help but have some questions.

And Zhutan, who had been invisible along the way, suddenly appeared next to Tang San and said: "This is what is called living on the mountain and living on the water. There are not a few towns like this around the Star Dou Forest."

Tang San was a little surprised. Firstly, he was surprised that this town was still nearly a hundred kilometers away from the Star Dou Forest. Secondly, he was surprised that Zhutan had not eaten Oscar's Wuhun Sausage along the way. He had been moving at a high speed, even though he had been following Behind the team, but seemed to disappear, silently, like a ghost.

On the other hand, Xiao Wu looked accustomed to the situation in the small town, but she could sense some urgency in her brisk steps.

When Tang San raised the question, Oscar on the side shook his head: "You must be used to the spirit beast forests kept in captivity in the country. The spirit beasts there are relatively gentle and will not actively attack humans. In primeval forests like the Star Dou Forest, , Soul beasts are not only ferocious, but the surrounding soul beasts will often go out of the forest. Even hundreds of years ago, soul beasts would attack cities. If these towns were too close, it would be bad. "

Tang San nodded understandingly, thinking to himself that it is better to travel thousands of miles than to read thousands of books. It was indeed true. When you go out, you can learn much more.

At this point, Zhao Wuji pointed to the front and said: "Let's stay here, rest for one night, and leave early tomorrow morning. You bear the cost of accommodation and meals yourself."

Shrek Academy is not rich to begin with. Zhao Wuji and Flanders have no income, but Dai Mubai and others have subsidies from the Spirit Hall, which is enough for their daily expenses.

Everyone looked in the direction that Zhao Wuji pointed and saw only a very luxurious hotel. The fat man said with starry eyes: "No, are we staying in such a luxurious hotel?"

Tang San shook his head: "Impossible, we can't afford to stay in a hotel like that." Tang □□ felt that the sign on the big hotel looked a bit familiar, where had he seen it before.

Zhao Wuji glared: "Hey, what are you thinking about? Look forward."

Only a few people saw the slightly shabby small hotel next to the big hotel, but they were not picky about where to stay.

The hotel is a two-story building. The lobby on the first floor is a simple restaurant. The accommodation is on the second floor. Zhao Wuji opened a single room for himself and went directly upstairs. Zhutan also opened a single room for himself, and Dai Mubai A few people discussed it and opened a four-person room for the four boys to live in, and also opened a three-person room for the girls.

A few people decided to eat first. After eating sausages for a whole day, they felt nauseated. Zhutan said, "You guys can eat. I won't eat. I have something to go out for."

Dai Mubai nodded and didn't say anything more. He just asked to pay attention to safety.

After Zhutan went out, he went to the luxurious hotel. After handing a token to the front desk, the foreman immediately took Zhutan to the reception room. There were already people waiting in the reception room.

"Hello, young master." When people in the reception room saw Zhutan, they immediately stood up and saluted.

"Uncle Mao, there is no need to be polite. Please tell me the situation." The person who came was Zhu Mao, the branch manager of the Tiandou Empire in the Star Dou Forest.

Responsible for the commodity trade in the towns around the Star Dou Forest to prevent some unscrupulous people from stealing and selling.

"Are you saying that a large number of Qinglian deer bones suddenly appeared on the market?" Zhutan frowned and looked at the information in his hand, and then took out the information that Dean Flanders had given her before: "Confirmed? Is it all true?"

The middle-aged man named Uncle Mao nodded: "Confirmed, they are indeed true, and they all died recently."

Zhutan tapped her teacup with her fingers and thought thoughtfully: "Do my father and the others know?"

"The head of the family already knows that Young Master Zhu Qi has led the escort team into the forest to explore. So you must be extremely careful when entering the forest this time." Zhu Mao looked at the girl in front of him with some worry.

Zhutan nodded. She compared the two pieces of information in her hands. These two pieces of information could not be faked. A table of changes in the races of soul beasts in the Star Dou Forest recently explored by the Zhu family showed that the Qinglian Deer clan had not changed much. , and even the entire forest has not changed much, just like the calm before the storm.

The other one was given to her by Dean Flanders, which showed that the Wuhun Palace was buying several medicinal herbs, but these herbs seemed to have nothing to do with it, and that a large number of soul masters suddenly appeared in the Wuhun Palace to upgrade.

The Star Dou Forest is so big that Zhu Qi and the escort team alone cannot easily check it. They also went to the gathering place of Qinglian Deer first.

The Zhu family cannot reveal the strangeness of the Star Dou Forest at will. After all, the Star Dou Forest is one of the three most important forests in the entire Douluo Continent. If a problem occurs, the consequences will be unimaginable. It will not be possible until a critical moment. It will be revealed to the royal family and other extended families.

Zhutan sighed, fortunately they would only be operating outside the forest tomorrow, and hoped that tomorrow's soul hunting would go well.