Beast Soul (Revised)

Riverside Forest.

A ray of sunlight shone straight through the leaves, falling on the heads of the four people.

Ye Lei, who had been meditating cross-legged, was stung by the sunlight. He opened his phoenix eyes, shook his head, and stood up.

Ye Lei looked at the three people meditating on the ground, then at the Scaled Beast corpse in the distance, as large as a sedan, and walked over.

Looking at the Scaled Beast's body pierced through by his Blue Silver Grass, with the ground already soaked in the soul beast's blood, Ye Lei walked to its head, pulled a dagger from his waist, and stabbed it into the Scaled Beast's head...

Unbeknownst to him, everything he had done since killing the Scaled Beast had been recorded by a uniformed person...

Rongcheng Military.

Inside an office, a white-haired old man sat behind his desk. He took a sip of tea, set down the tablet in his hand, and said to the guard, "Send someone to invite the person in this video over. I want to see him!"

The guard nodded slightly, stepped forward, picked up the tablet, and walked out.

The protagonist of that video was the one fighting in the forest...

Ten minutes later...

Ye Lei looked at the three people before him, who had opened their eyes at almost the same time, and could not help but freeze. Were families really this synchronized? His unfocused gaze drifted toward the girl beside him...

The girl seemed to notice someone staring at her. "Why are you looking at me? It's not like there's anything on my face."

"Hehe."

Ye Lei scratched his head and smiled.

"Oh, right, Uncle, this is for you." As he spoke, Ye Lei held out his hand. A jade-green bead immediately entered the three people's field of vision.

"What is this?" Han's Father asked in confusion.

"This is a Beast Soul. It can be used to increase the strength of a soul ring. This is only the lowest grade. If you kill stronger soul beasts in the future, you can obtain more," Ye Lei said.

Han's Father nodded, accepted the Beast Soul, and put it into his pocket.

"Uh, have you all rested enough?" Ye Lei asked.

The other three nodded in perfect sync again.

Ye Lei: Why can you all be so perfectly synchronized?! Wuwuwu.

System: Please do not lose heart, Host. Maybe you'll be able to do it someday!

Ye Lei: I know without you telling me, stupid system.

System: ￣□￣||

Back to reality.

Ye Lei kept his eyes on the detector in his hand at all times.

Suddenly, a little head popped out from beneath Ye Lei's left armpit. He instinctively pulled his arm in, and a pained cry came from beneath it. "Ow~, you hurt me! You big jerk!"

Looking at the little head that had emerged from beneath his arm, Ye Lei smiled helplessly and pinched Han Nuan's little cheek...

Behind them, someone held his wife's hand as he watched the two fooling around. He felt strangely irritated, seized by the urge to use Martial Soul Possession, rush over, and beat up the "pig" rooting around his family's cabbage. But when he thought of that Scaled Beast, he abandoned the idea...

Scaled Beast: You still remember me!

Han's Mother, standing nearby, seemed to see through her husband's thoughts and squeezed Han's Father's palm. Han's Father gave his daughter a helpless glance, then looked at his wife and smiled.

Over the course of the afternoon, Ye Lei hunted a soul beast for his mother-in-law, helped four passersby obtain soul rings along the way, and completed 6/10 of the system mission. Next, he only needed to help Han Nuan and three more passersby.

After seeing Han Nuan's family back to Mingyuan Residential Area, Ye Lei pondered something to himself. He felt as though someone had been watching him today. Lost in thought, he soon arrived at his own doorstep.

What he failed to notice was that the entire hallway was filled with a medicinal smell. He assumed it was the scent of traditional medicine being brewed by the old man next door, so he gave it no further thought.

Just as Ye Lei inserted his key into the lock, a black hood was pulled over his head. Before he could resist, a hand chop struck the back of his neck heavily. Ye Lei had thought that a mere hand chop could never knock out someone like him, a Six-Ring Soul Emperor. But he had not expected that the moment his right hand reached back to grab his attacker, his entire body would go limp and collapse. Only then did he realize that the smell he had caught in the hallway was not traditional medicine at all—it was a toxin with an extremely powerful hallucinogenic effect!

System: Host, I'm sorry. There is no way for me to help you...

Nothing happened that night...

The next day...

PS: As for why the male lead was knocked unconscious by a Soul Scholar who was only level ten with a hand chop, there will be an explanation later on. Readers, please do not dwell on this for now.

(Respectfully, Old Su)