Hunting Time

"The Spirit Ascension Platform is the culmination of the Spirit Pagoda's technology over the past thousand years. Inside, it can practically be considered another world."

"However, the Spirit Ascension Platform is essentially a half-real, half-virtual simulated world. The Beginner Spirit Ascension Platform before you belongs to the virtual portion."

The staff member explained it to Lin Xuan, then paused before giving him another warning.

"Inside the Beginner Spirit Ascension Platform, your actual body will not face any threat to its life after you enter. However, the pain of dying inside is synchronized."

"So if you ever feel that it exceeds your limits, be sure to press the distress signal immediately, lest the impact on your brainwaves damage your brain."

Lin Xuan nodded. Only then did the staff member press a button, and a metal cabinet slid out from the wall.

"Just lie inside."

The staff member said.

Following his instructions, Lin Xuan lay inside the cabinet. Instrument suction cups extended from all around him and pressed tightly against his body, cold to the touch. It gave him the same feeling as getting an ultrasound in his previous life.

"We're about to begin. Don't be nervous."

After the staff member spoke, the metal cabinet slid back into the wall, and darkness filled Lin Xuan's vision.

Waves of tingling spread through his body. The Soul Power within Lin Xuan seemed to be stimulated and began surging on its own. Then a wave of drowsiness hit him, and he fell asleep at once.

Who knew how long had passed before Lin Xuan's eyelids twitched. He raised a hand to shield his eyes from the glaring light.

"I'm in?"

When Lin Xuan opened his eyes, he discovered that he was standing on a grassy field. Towering trees dozens of meters tall surrounded him, and from deep within the forest came the occasional furious roar of Soul Beasts.

"How amazing! If my previous life had this technology, playing games would've been insanely fun."

Lin Xuan pinched his face. The sensation was smooth and delicate, far too real. Just standing there, he could even smell the faint fragrance of fresh grass wafting up from the ground.

If someone masturbated here, would that count as fantasy or masturbation?

A question suddenly crossed Lin Xuan's mind.

"Ahem, this should be the distress signal."

Lin Xuan shook his head, tossing aside those messy thoughts. At some point, a metal wristband had appeared on the back of his hand, with a bright red button on it.

Whoosh!

Just as Lin Xuan was surveying his surroundings, a white blur suddenly attacked him from behind.

Yet it was as if Lin Xuan had eyes on the back of his head. Just as the white blur's attack was about to touch him, he merely twisted lightly to the side and avoided it.

Swish!

The instant the white blur landed, a sharp green blade of grass rose from the ground like a Sharp Sword and skewered it like a candied hawthorn.

Lin Xuan controlled the Azure Leaf Sword Grass and brought the attacking Soul Beast over.

It was a snow-white rabbit. Its crimson eyes were wide open, seemingly full of confusion before its death.

"Soft Bone Rabbit!"

Lin Xuan looked at the snow-white rabbit before him and spoke. Then a streak of spiritual light rose from the Soft Bone Rabbit's corpse and entered his body.

"My Soul Spirit has gained a year!"

After carefully sensing it, Lin Xuan found that this Soft Bone Rabbit had only ten years of cultivation. He licked his lips and looked toward the distant woods as a Deep Blue Greatsword appeared in his hand.

"Now it's hunting time!"

"Meow~"

A little black cat was licking its paws on a tree branch. It had just eaten its fill, and now it was time to relax after its meal.

This feels so good, meow!

The next second, a greatsword descended from the sky and cleaved the Night Spirit Cat into a cat pancake.

Then a blade of Azure Leaf Grass wrapped around the greatsword and returned it to Lin Xuan's hand, along with a faint trace of spiritual energy.

"Damn it! Why are they all ten-year Soul Beasts?"

Lin Xuan's face was full of resentment. Every Soul Beast he had encountered along the way had been a damn ten-year one. After all that work, they had only added less than ten years to his Soul Spirit in scattered bits.

Thinking of how those people in the original story kept encountering hundred-year and thousand-year Soul Beasts, Lin Xuan was truly speechless. That was protagonist treatment for you.

Roar!

Just as Lin Xuan was about to leave, an earthshaking roar came from several hundred meters away. The sound waves made his ears ache.

"Fuck! A Thousand-Year Soul Beast!"

Lin Xuan cursed under his breath. Speak of Cao Cao, and Cao Cao actually came! He turned and ran, flashing deep into the forest.

He really could not beat that thing one-on-one.

"Big dummy, over here! Come chase me!"

A boy around ten years old flew through the air, constantly provoking the massive lizard over ten meters long below him.

Thousand-Year Unicorne Lizard!

Lin Xuan, hiding in a distant tree, named the giant lizard.

The Thousand-Year Unicorne Lizard had an enormous body. A casual stomp could make the ground tremble, but it could only glare helplessly at its target flying in the sky.

Perhaps realizing that it could do nothing, the Thousand-Year Unicorne Lizard stopped moving and no longer pursued the boy in the air.

"Don't stop!"

Seeing the Thousand-Year Unicorne Lizard halt, the boy in the sky hurriedly pulled a stone from his clothes and threw it at the lizard.

The stone landed on the lizard's head and bounced off its thick layer of keratin. The damage was minimal, but the insult was absolutely maxed out.

Roar!

The already irritable Thousand-Year Unicorne Lizard roared again and resumed its pursuit of the boy.

And so, one human and one beast chased and fled as they headed toward a distant valley.

Watching the two figures depart, Lin Xuan fell into thought. Then he leaped forward and hurriedly followed them.

That person was deliberately luring the Thousand-Year Unicorne Lizard toward the valley, so he clearly had preparations in place. However, his own strength should not be very high.

If Lin Xuan followed, he might just be able to reap some benefit. As for whether he would offend someone? What a joke.

At the peak of a mountain near the entrance to the distant valley, three boys and one girl stood quietly watching the Thousand-Year Unicorne Lizard draw closer. The boy and girl at the front were the pair of siblings from earlier.

"Xu Xiaoyu! You promised us. Don't forget to help us hunt Soul Beasts afterward."

A burly youth spoke to the cold-looking man at the front.

"Don't worry. As long as you help me kill this Unicorne Lizard, I naturally won't go back on my word."

Xu Xiaoyu gave the burly youth a calm glance, but sneered inwardly.

Help? Help my ass. With that spare time, I'd be better off helping my sister's Soul Spirit gain another two years.

He had only taken a fancy to the fact that one of the three could fly and could be put to use. Three Soul Masters with merely ten-odd ranks were not worth his time.

"That's good! That's good! Xiaofeng, why aren't you thanking Brother Xu?"

Wang Jinxi scratched his head and grinned honestly, then patted the frail boy beside him.

"Thank you, Brother Xu!"

Wei Xiaofeng said somewhat bashfully.

"Little sister, after you absorb the spiritual energy from this Thousand-Year Unicorne Lizard, you should be close to your limit."

Ignoring the two of them, a smile appeared on Xu Xiaoyu's cold face as he spoke gently to his younger sister, Xu Xiaoyan.

"Thank you, Brother!"

Xu Xiaoyan smiled sweetly, the two little dimples by her mouth especially adorable.

While the siblings spoke, Wang Jinxi and the other boy behind them exchanged glances, strange smiles appearing on their faces.

Inside a bush dozens of meters away, Lin Xuan wore a bird's nest on his head as he stared sharply at the group, especially at Xu Xiaoyu, who was leading them.

"What a small world!"

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