149: Chapter 149: The Supreme Ruler of Soul Beasts!

Snow Empress held the unconscious Wang Donger, whose face was still streaked with tears, and moved like lightning, instantly returning to that secluded mansion in Heaven Dou City.

She did not even have time to enter through the front gate, landing directly in the open space of the inner courtyard.

Qian Renxue and Porcupinefish Douluo followed closely behind, their expressions equally grave.

Without a moment's delay, Snow Empress flashed, carrying Wang Donger straight into her bedroom.

She carefully placed the young woman in her arms onto the soft large bed, gently covering her with a brocade quilt.

Wang Donger's eyes were tightly shut, with undried teardrops still hanging from her long eyelashes; her stunning face was pale, devoid of any color.

Even in her unconscious state, her brows were slightly furrowed, as if she were still immersed in immense grief and panic.

"Sister Donger!"

The door was pushed open violently, and Xiao Wu rushed in, her face full of anxiety.

She had been staying in the quiet room absorbing an Immortal Plant, and although she sensed the earth-shattering energy fluctuations from the distant Sunset Forest, she dared not leave easily.

It wasn't until she sensed the return of Snow Empress and the others, and realized Lu Jing was missing, that she rushed over in a panic, only to see Wang Donger lying on the bed, her aura withered.

"What happened to Sister Donger? Is she injured? Where is Lu Jing? Why didn't he come back with you?"

Xiao Wu asked in a rapid-fire manner, her pink eyes filled with worry.

Neither Snow Empress nor Qian Renxue answered immediately.

Snow Empress just looked quietly at the unconscious Wang Donger. After confirming that she was only temporarily unconscious due to emotional agitation and disordered Soul Power, and that her life was not in danger, she turned around and walked out the door without a word.

Her cold profile showed little emotion, but that heavy aura could not be concealed.

Qian Renxue also took a deep breath, shook her head at the anxious Xiao Wu who wanted to ask more, signaling her not to speak for now, and followed Snow Empress out of the room.

Xiao Wu bit her lip. Although she was full of doubts and unease, she knew this was not the time to press for answers, so she quickly followed, gently closing the door behind her, fearing to disturb Wang Donger inside.

The three of them arrived in the quiet courtyard.

The afternoon sunlight filtered through the leaves, casting dappled light and shadows, but it could not dispel the heavy atmosphere shrouding the courtyard.

"Senior Snow Empress!"

Qian Renxue spoke first, breaking the silence.

Her violet eyes stared straight at Snow Empress, her stunning face bearing an unprecedented seriousness and urgency as she asked, "Who exactly is that silver-haired woman who suddenly appeared and took Xiao Jing away? Do you... know her identity?"

This was the question she cared about most right now.

Lu Jing had been taken away, his life or death unknown, his whereabouts uncertain.

That silver-haired woman's strength was terrifying to the point of being unfathomable.

She hoped to get some clues from Snow Empress.

Xiao Wu also pricked up her ears, looking nervously at Snow Empress.

She also wanted to know what kind of person could easily take Lu Jing away in front of Snow Empress and Sister Donger, and it seemed that even Snow Empress was quite wary of her.

Snow Empress was silent for a moment, her ice-blue eyes looking toward the distant horizon, as if she could still see that silver figure that tore through space and took Lu Jing away.

She sighed softly, the sigh filled with helplessness, gravity, and a trace of... awe that even she herself had not realized.

"If... I am not mistaken!"

Snow Empress's voice was very soft, but like a stone thrown into a calm lake, it stirred up raging waves in the hearts of Qian Renxue and Xiao Wu: "That woman... should be the Sovereign of our Soul Beast Clan."

"Sovereign of the Soul Beast Clan?!"

Qian Renxue and Xiao Wu exclaimed almost in unison, their pupils suddenly constricting!

Qian Renxue's shock stemmed from the meaning behind this title.

Spirit Beasts actually have a Sovereign?

And judging from Snow Empress's grave tone, this Sovereign's strength and status were clearly unimaginably high, enough to make even Snow Empress call her Master!

This completely overturned her understanding of the Spirit Beast World.

In her view, and even in the minds of the vast majority of human Spirit Masters, although Spirit Beasts were powerful, they mostly operated independently in tribes and territories, such as the Star Dou Great Forest, the Far North, the Sunset Forest, and so on, and they were not a unified entity.

How could there be a Sovereign?

And Xiao Wu's shock carried more disbelief and bewilderment.

She herself was a 100,000-year-old Spirit Beast who had taken human form, having lived in the Star Dou Great Forest for over ten thousand years.

But she had never heard that the Star Dou Great Forest, or even the entire Spirit Beast World, had any such Sovereign!

This was simply like a fantasy!

"Sovereign of the Soul Beast Clan? This... how is this possible?"

Xiao Wu could not help but speak up, her pink eyes full of confusion as she asked, "Senior Snow Empress, could you be mistaken? I lived in the Star Dou Great Forest for so long, and I have never heard of, let alone seen, any Sovereign of the Soul Beast Clan! And if such an existence really existed, how could Da Ming and Er Ming not know? How could they not tell me?"

Upon hearing this, Snow Empress slowly turned her head, her ice-blue eyes falling calmly on Xiao Wu, with no contempt in her gaze, only the indifference of stating a fact.

"You have not heard of it, nor have you seen it, and that is because..."

Snow Empress's voice was cold and clear, carrying an unquestionable certainty: "You do not have the qualifications to see her."

"..."

Xiao Wu was choked into silence for a moment, her face slightly flushed, but a chill involuntarily rose in her heart.

Not qualified?

She was a 100,000-year-old Spirit Beast!

Already one of the existences standing at the pinnacle among Spirit Beasts!

Snow Empress continued slowly, as if uncovering a page of an ancient history book sealed for endless years:

"Let alone you. Even I, as the ruler of the Far North with nearly 700,000 years of cultivation, have only heard legends of this Sovereign's existence. I know there is such a supreme existence, hidden in the shadows of the continent, overlooking the rise and fall of the entire Spirit Beast World. I have never had the fortune, or rather... never had the qualifications, to see her true face."

She paused, a flash of complex light appearing in her ice-blue eyes:

"In other words, in the entire Douluo Continent, among countless Spirit Beasts, there are only two who have the qualifications and possibility to know her exact existence and identity. I am one of them, knowing there is such a Sovereign, but the details are unknown. And the other one..."

Snow Empress's gaze seemed to pierce through the barriers of space, looking toward the depths of the distant Star Dou Great Forest, her voice carrying a trace of imperceptible gravity:

"Is her spokesperson, walking the World in her stead, ruling over Star Dou, and intimidating the eight wildernesses. His cultivation... is over 800,000 years. He is the strongest of the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon Clan, known as the Emperor of Beasts—the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King, Di Tian."

"Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King... Di Tian... 800,000 years...?!"

Xiao Wu gasped, her pretty face instantly turning pale, and her delicate body could not help but sway slightly.

800,000 years!

What kind of concept is this?

The strongest existence she knew, Sky Azure Bull Python Da Ming, was only at the 100,000-year level!

800,000 years, that is simply an existence from myths and legends!

And such an unimaginably terrifying existence is actually just that Sovereign's spokesperson?

Then what level must the Sovereign herself be?