Chapter 2235 Soul-Eating Beasts

"Brother Ye, are you alright?" Wu Jiang asked, unable to help himself, seeing Ye Yuan's pale face and exhausted demeanor.

Ye Yuan nodded slightly and said, "I'm fine, I can still hold on!"

As for Wu Jiang, Ye Yuan had only met him for the first time, so naturally he wouldn't trust him with his secrets.

These ghost path and corpse path powerhouses were inherently cold-blooded and violent due to their origins.

It wasn't to say there were no good people among ghost path venerables, but Ye Yuan dared not, nor was he willing, to place his trust in a stranger.

Having traveled far and wide for so many years, he understood this simple truth.

Wu Jiang sighed and said, "Brother Ye, we can't twist our arms against the thigh. They are after all Heavenly Emperor powerhouses. Endure for a while, and there will be a chance to escape!"

Ye Yuan nodded slightly and said, "I understand, but I just can't swallow this anger!"

Wu Jiang nodded and added, "Brother Ye is truly a young prodigy, with so many trump cards that even I, Wu, feel inferior!"

He was genuinely astonished; the soul power Ye Yuan had just displayed shamed even ghost path powerhouses who had cultivated for years.

After all, ghost path powerhouses had no physical bodies; they cultivated the power of their soul forms!

Ye Yuan was so young; it was truly hard to imagine how he had achieved this.

Moreover, Ye Yuan's eye technique was extremely exquisite, able to see through illusions and perceive gray shadows that even ghost venerables couldn't see.

Coupled with his earlier superb swordsmanship, he was truly a terrifying young man!

Unfortunately, he was too impatient, exposing his strength just to save his servant.

And he had offended several Heavenly Emperors!

The road ahead would likely be difficult.

The group gradually went deeper; the cavern grew larger, and the blood pools also grew larger.

Or rather, it gradually turned into a blood lake, its thick, bloody stench almost making one vomit.

Even Ye Yuan was stunned by the spectacular sight.

With his insight, he could naturally tell that the blood pools were filled with real blood.

Moreover, this blood contained immense energy.

Clearly, the former owners of this blood were extremely powerful experts.

So much blood—how many experts had fallen here?

Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh!

Suddenly, several green shadows flashed by like lightning.

Then, a scream rang out.

A ghost venerable was directly dragged away by the green shadows.

But these green shadows didn't go far; they stopped at a cave entrance.

Ye Yuan looked closely and saw several small beasts that looked like kangaroos.

The ghost venerable was bitten by the small beasts, utterly powerless to resist.

Then, those small beasts, right in front of everyone, devoured the ghost venerable.

Outrageous!

These small beasts simply didn't care about the many ghost venerables present!

"Soul-Eating Beasts! They're Soul-Eating Beasts!" The ghost venerables were all on high alert, retreating one after another.

At that moment, from some small holes in the cavern, many such small beasts suddenly emerged.

More and more small beasts appeared, surrounding the ghost venerables.

Even the Heavenly Emperors had very grim expressions.

"What are Soul-Eating Beasts?" Ye Yuan asked, looking bewildered.

Wu Jiang said, "Soul-Eating Beasts are the bane of ghost path powerhouses, a specialty of the three great blood pools, feeding on soul bodies. Ghost path powerhouses who roam here are doomed if they encounter Soul-Eating Beasts. The saliva they secrete has a strong anesthetic and digestive effect on ghost path powerhouses, making them unable to resist. Moreover, they have the ability to traverse space, are extremely fast, and hard to guard against. Even Heavenly Emperor powerhouses are extremely wary of them."

Ye Yuan suddenly understood; there were such formidable fierce beasts.

These Soul-Eating Beasts were practically killers for ghost path powerhouses, but for corpse path powerhouses and humans, they were nothing much.

They almost exclusively lived in the three great blood pools.

Because there were large numbers of soul bodies there.

Swoosh, swoosh!

Another dozen or so Soul-Eating Beasts suddenly darted out, at an inconceivably fast speed.

The ghost venerables on the periphery were terrified, launching all kinds of terrifying attacks.

But these Soul-Eating Beasts were incredibly agile, flickering in the air and dodging all those messy attacks.

"Ah!"

"Ah!"

"Ah!"

...

Several screams rang out, and a few ghost venerables were dragged away by the Soul-Eating Beasts, who then feasted on them nearby.

After devouring these ghost venerables, the auras of those Soul-Eating Beasts visibly grew stronger!

Those ghost venerables couldn't stay any longer and turned to flee.

The seven Heavenly Emperors snorted coldly, their terrifying pressure spreading out, and the venerables turned pale with fear.

With wolves ahead and tigers behind, they simply couldn't escape!

The seven Heavenly Emperors clearly attached great importance to this Asura anomaly and wouldn't retreat easily.

At this moment, Jiu Ming pointed at Ye Yuan and said coldly, "You, go and deal with the Soul-Eating Beasts!"

Everyone was stunned, including Ye Yuan.

"Me? Alone?" Ye Yuan asked in disbelief.

Jiu Ming nodded and said, "Correct! You can choose to face them, or face the seven of us!"

A cold glint flashed in Ye Yuan's eyes. This Jiu Ming Heavenly Emperor had gone too far!

This guy was clearly targeting him.

The other Heavenly Emperors looked on with schadenfreude; clearly, they regarded him as an outsider, merely using him.

As for his life or death, they simply didn't care.

Ye Yuan's eyes flickered, and he said in a deep voice, "Fine, I'll go!"

Ye Yuan advanced with his sword, parting the crowd, and walked slowly toward the Soul-Eating Beasts.

The Heavenly Emperors exchanged glances and smiled, a playful expression on their faces.

Before them were dozens of Soul-Eating Beasts, all of the seventh rank.

Normally, it shouldn't be possible for so many seventh-rank Soul-Eating Beasts to appear at once.

But now, with the blood pool anomaly, these creatures had all come out.

"Kill!"

Ye Yuan shouted coldly, his form turning into a phantom as he charged straight at the Soul-Eating Beasts.

He targeted a mid-seventh-rank Soul-Eating Beast, which also charged at Ye Yuan, a hint of contempt in its eyes.

With a squeak, it vanished before Ye Yuan's eyes.

However, with a "pfft" sound,

Under everyone's astonished gaze, the Soul-Eating Beast that had vanished reappeared, a bone sword piercing through its chest!

This Soul-Eating Beast was dead as dead could be.

At the moment of death, the Soul-Eating Beast stared wide-eyed at Ye Yuan, clearly unable to believe that he had killed it.

"Squeak, squeak, squeak..."

The Soul-Eating Beasts shrieked madly, turning into flickering afterimages as they pounced on Ye Yuan.

The claws of these Soul-Eating Beasts were extremely sharp, their attacks carrying spatial laws!

Even against ordinary venerables, they would be unmatched among their peers.

Unfortunately, they had encountered Ye Yuan.

Except for a few late-seventh-rank Soul-Eating Beasts that could fight Ye Yuan to a standstill, the others couldn't withstand a single sword stroke from Ye Yuan.

Ye Yuan's sword was like a ghost in the bloodlight, reaping the lives of Soul-Eating Beasts wherever it went.