Douluo: Starting with the Signing in of Goddess Xiaowu

"Boom!" With a loud bang, the wall in the center of the valley was split apart by Chu Qin's Pangu Axe, revealing a spacious area unlike any other.

This place seemed like a heavenly paradise; there was a small river in front, and across the wooden bridge over the river was a thatched cottage.

Chu Qin and the ladies quickly focused their attention on that thatched cottage.

The cottage, neither too big nor too small, seemed just right for Tian Qiang Elder and his beast companion to live in.

"This person really knows how to enjoy himself," Bi Bidong said, raising her eyebrows slightly as she looked at the quaint and exquisite cottage. "This place really can be considered a hidden paradise!"

"Indeed, it's brimming with elegance and leisure," Qian Renxue also nodded in agreement.

"No matter how quaint or peaceful it may be, he's still our enemy. Didn't you hear him? He just tried to kill Xi E. If it weren't for wanting to find out more from him, my sword would have taken his life already!" Chu Qin said with a slight smile.

"Strange, in my memory, Tian Qiang Elder isn't this kind of person," Yue Yina said, puzzled.

"People change," Qin Sijing said with a serene smile.

"Chu Qin, come and look, there's a book here, but I can't understand it," Huo Wu exclaimed excitedly.

Upon hearing this, everyone walked over. What Huo Wu held in her hand was an ancient tome, yellowed with age; the text resembled the small seal script from Chu Qin's previous life and was completely incomprehensible.

"What is this? Some kind of hieroglyphs?" Xiaowu pouted.

"I feel like it's all gibberish," Ning Rongrong said with a confused face.

"I recognize this text!" Xi E exclaimed with some surprise.

"You recognize it?" Chu Qin and the ladies exclaimed.

"Yes, it's an ancient script unique to the Life Forbidden Zone. I learned some of it when Master was teaching me the Hualsheng Emperor Technique," Xi E said, nodding gently.

"Then take a look and see what it says," Yu Hairou hurriedly asked.

"This appears to be a book on formations," Xi E said as she flipped through it. "It's somewhat similar to the defensive, offensive, and combined triple formation used by Tian Qiang Elder just now. Tian Qiang Elder is a genius; he combined the Hualsheng Emperor Technique with the formation technique. That's why I couldn't defeat him! This book on formations will be very useful!"

"Xi E, if it's useful, you keep it," Chu Qin said with a smile. "Once you've learned it, teach us the Hualsheng Emperor Technique as well."

"Yeah, that technique feels so powerful!" Sea Woman said.

"I want to learn it too!" Purple Pearl followed.

Xi E did not immediately agree but paused for a moment before speaking, "Chu Qin, it's not that I don't want to teach you all. Like the Supreme Divine Art, the Hualsheng Emperor Technique can only be learned by observing the original version and practicing from memory. I can't teach you, but I can teach this formation to you and the sisters."

"That will do," Chu Qin said with a smile. "Let's continue looking. Are there any other books? It would be best if it's about the Tree of Life."

After a thorough search by everyone, they found nothing else of use apart from the formation Secret Manual.

At that moment, Chu Qin's gaze fixed upon the wall.

He could see a painting depicted on the wall, resembling a circle divided into nine parts.

Within the circle, there were many marked points.

"Isn't this painting a map of the nine regions of the universe?" Xi E said in surprise.

"Then what are these points?" the Life God King asked, puzzled.

Chu Qin shook his head.

The distribution of these points showed no discernible pattern, and Chu Qin couldn't make sense of them.

After Chu Qin and the ladies pondered for a moment without any discovery, Chu Qin simply took down the painting and placed it into a Soul-Guiding Divine Artifact. "Let's go, to the Life Forbidden Zone!"

"Yes!"

With Tian Qiang Elder gone, the valley's formation no longer posed any resistance to these powerful beings. They effortlessly made their way to the other side of Tian Kun Mountain.

Compared to the outside, the restrictions in Tian Kun Mountain seemed even greater. Chu Qin's True Sight Eye had greatly diminished in effectiveness at this moment, and Xiaowu and the others' Divine Sense perception had completely failed.

What's more, it was impossible here to tear through space, unable to fly!

The unchanging aspect was still the endless forest, filled with the roars and calls of all kinds of beasts, almost as if they had come to the Star Dou Forest of Soul Land.

"Here, with so many voices of soul beasts, could this be a gathering place for soul beasts?" Xi E said in slight surprise.

"It's not a gathering place for soul beasts!" Yina shook her head, "These are different kinds of otherworldly beasts. Like the Xuan Mo, they seem to be in a state like souls."

"Nether Beasts!" Chu Qin immediately thought of the Nine Great Races mentioned by the Azure Dragon; since these ferocious beasts were like the Xuan Mo, they must undoubtedly be Nether Beasts.

Chu Qin finally understood why the beings within the Life Forbidden Zone were so powerful; as the Azure Dragon said, the strengths of races like the Nether Beasts were naturally superior to the three races of humans, gods, and soul beasts!

So powerful that they could not easily cross the boundary to the outside universe.

It was likely that Tian Kun Mountain was the dividing line between the outside universe and the Nether Beast Race.

Chu Qin and his company had entered a higher species plane.

"Divine Sense perception is very weak here, everyone stick close to me," said Chu Qin as he activated his True Sight Eye.

At that moment, his expression changed slightly; around five hundred miles ahead, a group of Nether Beasts was besieging a human.

"There's a human!" Chu Qin exclaimed with joy.

"Where?"

"Follow me!"

In the dense forest, a group of terrifying Nether Beasts was surrounding a human woman, just as Yina said, these Nether Beasts, similar to the Xuan Mo and akin to specters, were vastly different from common soul beasts.

Only their heads allowed one to discern what kind of ferocious beasts they were.

However, this woman was not ordinary either. She was about in her twenties, with fiery red hair tied into a ponytail that fell to her waist. She wore a tight, explosive red armor. Her looks could be described as stunning, giving off an overall hot and enchanting feel, but those ruby-like eyes were filled with determination, as she tried to continuously conceal that enchanting aura.

In stark contrast, the explosive red armor served to infinitely magnify this enchanting sense. The lower body was covered by a short skirt armor, revealing a pair of slender, flawlessly beautiful legs that gave an unparalleled visual impact.

The fiery red crystal high heels below those legs seemed to interpret the distinctiveness of this woman.

"You bunch of bastards!" the woman angrily looked at the group of Nether Beasts and said, "Playing dirty tricks, huh!"

"Huo Ninger, after all, you're the Sovereign of the Ancient God Tribe Fire Nation, don't you know that all's fair in war?" the leading Nether Beast, with the head of a horse, spoke coldly in human language, "Enough talk, killing you will allow us to claim our reward!"

"Ma Kui, with just a few of you rotten fish and shrimps, you think you can capture me, the Empress!!"

"Humph, ha ha!" Ma Kui sneered coldly, and immediately afterward, he and the remaining six Nether Beasts simultaneously radiated pitch-black glows.

It could be seen that these six Nether Beasts each had ten rings of light at their backs, indicating that they were all Supreme Gods.

The energy released by Ma Kui even reached that of a Three Calamities Supreme Deity.

"Zhurong Power!" Huo Ninger, feeling the pressure, lit up ten rings of light behind her too, and the shadow of a figure in armor made of flames appeared behind her.

The moment the Zhurong shadow appeared, Huo Ninger's body erupted with terrifying flame power, which collided with the power of Ma Kui and the six Supreme Gods of Nether Beasts.

The clash of energy from a Three Calamities Supreme Deity would have sufficed to shatter stars and disperse nebulae in the outer universe, but in this Life Forbidden Zone, there were no such fearsome scenes, just the shaking ground and several hundred miles of forest laid to waste.

Although Huo Ninger could invoke the Zhurong Power, she was not a real Three Calamities Supreme Deity but only a Two Calamities one. She could barely contend with Ma Kui ordinarily, but now, with the six Supreme God Nether Beasts supporting him, Huo Ninger was clearly at a disadvantage.

Continuously pressured by Ma Kui and the other Nether Beasts, the space that Huo Ninger and her flames occupied grew smaller and smaller.

Just as Huo Ninger was about to be crushed to dust by the Nether Beasts,

At that moment, a golden shadow descended next to Huo Ninger.