Ownership of Soul Beasts

Not long after Jing Hang and the others headed to Shu City, the Soul Hunting Squad Zhang Ning belonged to took on a job. According to the client's requirements, they needed two land-dwelling Soul Beasts with cultivation levels of around 5,000 years. The client only wanted the Soul Beasts' bodies, while the Soul Rings and Beast Souls would be left for them to handle as they pleased.

As it happened, Song Yu Fan's cultivation had reached a bottleneck, and he needed a Soul Ring to break through.

Their mission was to search the outskirts for a Soul Beast around 5,000 years old that excelled in either strength or defense.

Their best hunting ground was Riverside Forest. Soul Beasts ranging from hundred-year to ten-thousand-year levels could be found there, though any Soul Beasts over ten thousand years old had likely long since been hunted clean. After all, two of Ye Lei's Soul Rings had been obtained there.

Although the forest was a public park, many Soul Beasts still lived deep within it. However, there would no longer be any Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts here. There were plenty at the thousand-year level, and as long as they were lucky, they would eventually encounter two thousand-year Soul Beasts.

As for what type of 5,000-year Soul Beasts they were, the client did not have many requirements. Whatever they brought back would do.

Yet they had not expected that, after finding two suitable 5,000-year Soul Beasts in the forest, the beasts would flee into territory outside their jurisdiction during the hunt.

According to the joint agreement between the Soul Hunting Squad and the City Defense Squad, the ownership of Soul Beasts hunted in places such as forests belonged to the Soul Hunting Squad. If they were within city limits, however, they would be handled by the