Chapter 9: Shadow Mantis
The mixed area outside the Star Forest.

This is where the hundred-year soul beasts and thousand-year soul beasts meet.

The main reason why Zhu Zhuqing chose this place to hunt soul beasts was safety!
The soul beasts she needs to hunt are roughly three thousand years old and are of the relatively strong type.

However, although it is strong, it has difficulty mingling in the inner circle due to its small size.

Therefore, if you want to find this kind of soul beast, it is better to come to the mixed area.

The soul beast she was looking for was a soul beast called Shadow Mantis.

This kind of soul beast is less than one meter long even after ten thousand years.

However, it is famous for its powerful attack power.

He is considered the top killer in the soul beast world!
However, this killer is too small. Even a three thousand year old shadow mantis is only thirty centimeters long.

This results in the fact that the food that it likes among soul beasts is too large.

Therefore, in order to satisfy their appetites, they usually wander in the areas of lower-level soul beasts.

However, because the Shadow Mantis is too careless in its actions, other soul beasts will not be polite when they see the Shadow Mantis larvae.

They are considered the three major pests in the Star Forest!
The first harm is the human-faced demon spider!

The second evil is the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger!
The third evil is naturally the Shadow Mantis!

As a three-good girl of the new era, it is her duty to eliminate harm from the Xingdou Great Forest!
I believe other soul beasts will understand her!
Ah!
Why do you have a weird feeling?

Now that she had a goal, Zhu Zhuqing naturally wouldn't hesitate.

After the Shadow Cat evolved and sublimated, its stealth ability naturally became even better.

What the entire Star Forest lacks the least is shade!
Zhu Zhuqing, who shuttles back and forth under the shade of trees, can basically be said to have nowhere to go.

Even if she passed by other soul beasts, no soul beast could sense her presence.

For a moment, the Star Dou Great Forest, which seemed extremely dangerous to others, seemed more like a back garden to her.

However, the Shadow Mantis is indeed the dwarf among soul beasts!
Although it is clear that they are definitely in this mixed area, it is still difficult to find them.

The main reason she wanted to obtain the Shadow Mantis's soul ring was to obtain the soul skills given by the Shadow Mantis.

The soul skills of the mantis soul beast's soul ring can basically be determined.

That is the double blade, or continuous sword slashing!
Both of these soul skills are very good soul skills, so mantis soul masters are also very popular in the soul master world.

In other words, the attack power of the mantis soul beast is extremely strong.

Those who come to hunt them are basically killed in return.

Otherwise, if the mantis soul beast is not exterminated by other soul beasts, it will probably be killed to extinction by the soul master.

Rather than scratching people with her claws, Zhu Zhuqing prefers to chop people with weapons.

After all, an inch longer is an inch stronger.

Moreover, Shadow Mantis has dark attributes and can provide two powerful weapons.

As long as you are lucky enough, killing people with two swords will no longer be a dream!
And even if it doesn't work this time, isn't there still a second chance?
Whether it is the soul power out-of-body attack or the blade soul skill, it is very suitable for the shadow spirit cat.

But this Shadow Mantis is really hard to find.

As the owner of the ultimate dark attribute, she can sense the fluctuations of the dark attribute within thirty meters around her.

Relying on this sensing method, she found many soul beasts with dark attributes.

However, these soul beasts do not arouse Zhu Zhuqing's interest for the time being.

Her first choice was always the Shadow Mantis, but she still secretly memorized the locations of these soul beasts.

If she fails to find the Shadow Mantis within half a month, she will prepare to hunt down this ghost tiger that is more than three thousand years old.

After all, the clone's soul skills are pretty good!

at last!

The emperor pays off!
After searching for more than a week, Zhu Zhuqing found her true love! Shadow Mantis!

The Shadow Mantis is about three thousand five hundred years old!

Its large compound eyes allow it to see the scenery 360 degrees around it, and no enemy can get close to its alert range safely.

The thirty-centimeter-long body has two huge sickle blades of the same length.

Just standing there gave off an aura that made him look very unpleasant.

As an emotionless killer, there are basically no other soul beasts that dare to exist around the Shadow Mantis.

Unless Shadow Mantis is hungry!

This shadow mantis had obviously just finished its hunt and was enjoying feasting on the corpse of a thousand-year-old ghost tiger.

This ghost tiger was more than three meters long, but was easily defeated by a thirty-centimeter-long mantis.

It's such a disgrace to the soul beast!

But this shows how terrifying the Shadow Mantis is!

If it weren't for its size limitations, it would not be able to handle larger prey.

It is estimated that the area where the ten thousand year soul beasts live is their paradise.

Other girls would probably feel creepy seeing this kind of insect.

But when Zhu Zhuqing looked at the mantis, she felt that it had delicate features, heroic look and was extremely handsome!
If we ignore the size of the three thousand year old shadow mantis, it is estimated that it can collide with a soul beast that is more than nine thousand years old.

If fighting against a soul master, I guess even a soul master would have to consider whether to pack up and run away when encountering it.

Even the Soul King is not sure he can have an easy time against the three thousand year old Shadow Mantis.

After all, the damage of the mantis soul beast is famously high, with high damage and high armor penetration, so ordinary soul beasts and soul masters will basically not offend them.

However, the Shadow Mantis, which has always been regarded as a pest of soul beasts, finally encountered someone who dared to covet its existence today.

Zhu Zhuqing, lurking in the shadows, just watched quietly as the shadow mantis devoured the flesh and blood of the ghost tiger.

She planned to give the Shadow Mantis a severe blow after it had eaten its fill!
However, things did not go as smoothly as Zhu Zhuqing had expected.

The scene she imagined of the shadow mantis having a round belly after eating so much did not happen.

The Shadow Mantis stopped eating after at least eating enough to fill its stomach.

Looking at the ghost tiger's corpse which was still a little fleshless, Zhu Zhuqing felt the urge to curse.

You killed such a big tiger just to eat these two taels of meat?

If you had told me earlier, this ghost tiger would have stabbed you in the butt twice.

Is it necessary for you to start a killing spree?

Sure enough, the soul beasts that can survive in the Star Dou Great Forest are not fools!
They have their own survival rules in the forest!
The first point is to never reveal your weaknesses!
Shadow Mantis also knows that it can eat more, but the price of eating too much is that it will feel bloated!
Actions will become insensitive!

Although they don't have much knowledge, they have their own way of survival!

"It seems that the opportunistic approach won't work!"

Seeing that the Shadow Mantis had no intention of eating any more, Zhu Zhuqing realized that her idea probably wouldn't work.

Well, since clever tricks won't work, we can only fight it hard!

Fortunately, the Shadow Mantis was famous, and the area was cleared the moment it appeared to hunt the Ghost Tiger.

Otherwise, it would be difficult for her to take action!
A shadow mantis that’s over three thousand years old!

If it was before, she would not be able to do it, but now...

"Martial soul fusion!"

(End of this chapter)