The Tiger’s Roar Across Ten Thousand Years: A First Meeting with Xue’er in the Star Dou Forest

Ten Thousand Years of Tiger Roars: Snow's First Meeting in Star Dou

Deep in the Star Dou Great Forest on Douluo Dalu lives a being so powerful that even the Dragon God of the divine realm keeps his distance: Ye Chen, a million-year Shadow Evil God Tiger. After cultivating for a million years, he takes human form and turns the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, once the birthplace of Sunset Forest's rare treasures, into his “private vegetable garden.” He plants Dragonblood Grapes beside the pavilion in the middle of the lake, has the Titan Giant Ape serve as his “gardener,” and appoints Poison Douluo Dugu Bo as his “personal physician.” This forbidden ground of Soul Beasts becomes a cozy hidden sanctuary where Soul Beasts and extraordinary beings live together: the “Garden of Ten Thousand Beasts.”

One morning, before the morning mist has lifted, Ye Chen follows an unusual trace of energy and finds a “lost” girl in a pale yellow ruqun by the bamboo grove. Her name is Xue'er. She claims to have become separated from a merchant caravan, but she conceals the Tang Sect's Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, the holy aura of the Angel God, and the distinctive fluctuations of Spirit Hall soul power. She cowers before the Titan Giant Ape, yet dares to clutch a bamboo branch beneath the aura of a million-year Soul Beast big shot. This deliberate “getting lost” quietly entwines Ye Chen's century of peaceful “gardening” with the timeline of Douluo One, and brings two figures from utterly different worlds together beside the iridescent Lake of Life, where their encounter begins with both wariness and warmth.

Key highlights

1. The contrast of a “big shot who lies flat”: Ye Chen is a million-year Shadow Evil God Tiger whose power eclipses the Sea God and the Angel God, yet he has become the laid-back “caretaker” of the Star Dou Forest. He treats the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well as a vegetable garden, growing Snow Ginseng and Infernal Delicate Apricot. He uses his shadow cloak to turn his hands into fluffy tiger paws for catching grapes, and even reminds the Titan Giant Ape to “sneeze gently.” This sort of “with a casual wave, he can overturn...