Leaving

At those words, the scarred man's face turned deathly pale.

Didn't that mean he would die no matter what? Either he took one of them with him, or he died for nothing.

"P-Predecessor, please spare me! I won't dare do it again!"

Bibi Dong ignored the scarred man and turned her gaze toward her daughter, who was trembling slightly nearby.

"I won't force you. In ten breaths, I'll lift the suppression on his Soul Power. What you do is your own choice."

"You choose your own path."

"Oh, and don't think about running away. If you dare hide in there, I'll leave the Star Dou Great Forest immediately, and you can fend for yourself from then on."

Don't blame Mom for being cruel. Sooner or later, you'll have to go through this. If you want to survive on this continent, killing is something you must experience.

Listening to her mother's words, Ye Xinyu felt bitterness well up inside her.

A choice?

Did she even have one?

Ye Xinyu bit her lips until they turned white. Her body trembled faintly, but her feet slowly carried her toward the scarred man.

Watching the little girl draw closer and closer, the scarred man wanted to run, but his body was pinned firmly to the ground. He could not move an inch.

"Little girl, please, spare me! I swear I'll turn over a new leaf and become a good man! I have elderly parents above me, an eighty-year-old mother, and a three-year-old child waiting to be fed! I really can't die!"

Ye Xinyu bit her lip, closed her eyes, and in the next instant, drove the dagger in her hand straight into the scarred man's back.

After a miserable scream, Ye Xinyu recoiled like a startled rabbit, instinctively taking several steps back. However, she bumped into something soft. Turning around, she saw that her mother had somehow already come over.

"Mom, is it... is it okay now?"

Ye Xinyu's voice still trembled. Despite having lived two lives, this was still the first time she had killed someone. She could not help feeling panicked.

Bibi Dong gave her a half-smile.

"What? Do you think stabbing someone in the kidney will kill them? Or were you planning to let him bleed to death?"

"Huh?"

Bibi Dong said irritably, "If you're going to kill someone, kill them. Don't torture them. Go on, give him a quick death."

After taking a deep breath, Ye Xinyu pulled out the dagger and stabbed it in again.

"Ah, no!"

"Not there! Give me a quick death!"

Who knew how much time passed? Looking at the scarred man covered in holes, Bibi Dong was speechless.

"I didn't expect you to be even more ruthless than me. You stabbed him so many times, yet perfectly avoided every vital spot. Can't you just give him a quick death?"

Ye Xinyu's body was still trembling slightly.

"I... I didn't know."

After sighing softly, Bibi Dong pointed at the scarred man's corpse.

"Remember this from now on. When killing someone, you need to finish them in one strike. Next time, stab the heart." As she spoke, she raised a hand and destroyed the body without a trace.

"Mom, what are you doing?"

Bibi Dong said crossly, "What, do you want everyone to know you killed someone? Besides, you stabbed him so many times. If anyone saw that, they might think we were some kind of evil cult."

With that, Bibi Dong frowned slightly, then grabbed Ye Xinyu's hand and led her away.

Not long after the two left, a team of soul masters arrived as the sound of rustling footsteps approached.

"What happened? I clearly heard screams coming from here just now."

Three days later.

"This Thousand-Year Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent isn't bad either. Put it in."

"This hundred-year Bloodthirsty Demonic Spider isn't bad either. Take it in, take it in."

After storing all those soul beasts in that space, Ye Xinyu wiped the sweat from her forehead.

"Mom, we've caught quite a few soul beasts these past few days. Isn't that enough?"

Heaven knew what her mother was thinking. Her original chicken farm had now been stuffed full of soul beasts by her mother, most of them venomous. Thinking about how her future chicken farm had turned into a slaughterhouse, she felt utterly speechless.

They were all spiders and things like that. How was she supposed to go in there later? She was terrified of spiders, snakes, and the like.

Hearing this, Bibi Dong shook her head.

"No rush. Catch more. They'll be useful later."

Ye Xinyu was speechless at that.

Ever since her mother calculated the time difference in that space, she had become a little obsessed. Just because one day equaled one year—was there really any need to catch so many soul beasts?

The multiplier seemed high, but at most, one year only amounted to three to five hundred years. Ten years only amounted to three to five thousand years.

It was indeed not bad, but Thousand-Year Soul Beasts and Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts were everywhere on the continent. There were only two people in their family. Did they really need to go this far?

Raising a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast required twenty years. A hundred-thousand-year one required two hundred years. By the time the soul beasts reached that age, she would probably be dead already.

After all, even if one cultivated to level 99 on Douluo Continent, their lifespan was only two or three hundred years.

Was this really necessary?

"Mom, when are you going to help me obtain a soul ring? The mosquitoes are practically eating me alive."

Bibi Dong replied, "There are quite a few Support-type soul beasts, but I want to find the best one for you. Bear with it for now. If we really can't find one, then we'll consider absorbing that Thousand-Year Blazing Sun Fox we caught earlier."

The Blazing Sun Fox was a fire-attribute soul beast. It could boost its combat power under sunlight, so its soul skill would most likely be some sort of self-enhancement skill. It was not bad, but her goal was to raise her daughter into a Support-type soul master.

Therefore, unless there was truly no other choice, she did not want her daughter to obtain this soul ring.

"Alright, let's go."

Under the spiritual power of a level 98 Titled Douluo, the surrounding soul beasts were practically laid bare before them. Any exceptional ones had basically been captured already, and there were not many soul beasts nearby worth catching anymore.

Very soon, the two headed deeper into the Star Dou Great Forest.

As for the outer region, catching a few was enough. Bibi Dong had no intention of capturing every rare soul beast. She had merely caught those they encountered along the way.

After walking for roughly two hours and catching several more decent soul beasts along the way, Bibi Dong had just stored them in the space when a flash of delight suddenly appeared in her eyes.

"Mom, what is it?"

A smile suddenly appeared on Bibi Dong's lips.

"We found your soul ring."

Before Ye Xinyu could react, Bibi Dong swept her through the forest at high speed. At the same time, a sound came from ahead, becoming clearer as they drew nearer.

"What is that?"

Looking at the creature in the distance, which looked neither like a deer nor a horse and had a tuft of white fur on its rear, Ye Xinyu could not help asking.

Another filler chapter done.