Little Mimi, Be Good and It Won't Hurt

After the three finalized their plan, they walked into Sunset Forest together.

Seeing her Young Master chatting so enthusiastically with her little attendant, Stingray Douluo kept silent for the time being.

In truth, he was recalling the places where their prey frequently appeared while constantly watching their surroundings.

Though Sunset Forest had no Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, with the strongest only being around fifty thousand years old, no one could say for sure whether some ferocious beast was slumbering underground, could they?

"It's getting late. Should we rest for the night and act tomorrow?" Qian Renxue suggested.

"Nighttime is pretty good too. A dark, windy night is perfect for murder," Shi Yueyi said casually. "When humans worry about Soul Beasts launching nighttime ambushes, maybe they're thinking the exact same thing?"

"You mean Soul Beasts would worry about humans hunting them at night?" Qian Renxue was somewhat speechless.

But on second thought, that really did seem to be the case!

"Yeah. In war and assassination, isn't a Soul Master's ability to fight at night usually tested?" Shi Yueyi backhanded a ten-year Dappled Cat Soul Beast that pounced from a nearby tree.

She blinked. "What do you think?"

Qian Renxue rubbed her forehead.

"Uncle Cixue, how much farther is the place you mentioned?" Qian Renxue still asked.

"Your Highness, it should be around three li ahead," Stingray Douluo said, shielding his eyes with a hand as he observed the path ahead.

"Then let's pick up the pace!" Shi Yueyi looked delighted.

Looking at Shi Yueyi's distinctly abnormal demeanor, Qian Renxue felt that her earlier judgment had been correct.

This little attendant truly had some ideas that differed from ordinary people's.

It was not Shi Yueyi's fault, either. In her previous life, she had read the battle reports of the Heaven Dou Empire and the Spirit Hall Empire. Tang San had apparently proposed a suggestion about protecting the rear supply lines, and it had scared the Heaven Dou Empire's god of war, Marshal Gelong, green.

Miss Angel, just what sort of useless drunks had you been keeping in your palace?

Don't tell me you actually had some other scheme, and that you deliberately kept Marshal Gelong around because having an incompetent fool filling a spot on the other side was also a strategy.

Stingray Douluo gathered his breath and lightened his body. "Your Highness, miss, please keep close."

Seeing this, Qian Renxue grabbed Shi Yueyi by the arm. A pair of feathered wings appeared behind her, flapping like those of a big white goose.

"Woo~ Takeoff!" Shi Yueyi whistled as Qian Renxue carried her into the air.

Two minutes later, they arrived together at the crown of an ancient towering tree. Stingray Douluo focused his gaze, then pointed.

Qian Renxue and Shi Yueyi looked over together and saw a completely black tiger lying there, leisurely licking its paw.

Beside it were remnants of something resembling a shell.

"This unlucky thing just finished its midnight snack." Shi Yueyi narrowed her eyes, forcibly channeling what little Spiritual Power she had into her eyes to see it clearly.

She stared fixedly at the Phantom Dream Golden Tiger, trying to discern its current condition.

Before long, she gloriously—

Handed that task over to Qian Renxue.

Her Spiritual Power was still insufficient. The source of her current Spiritual Power came entirely from having lived two lives, which meant she knew about certain "special Spiritual Power catalysis methods" of the Sun Moon Empire.

It was a secret technique that burned Life Force in exchange for increased Spiritual Power. But she obviously would not do that directly, so she had optimized the method in her previous life.

After all, trading away one's life for Spiritual Power was, in essence, like strengthening one's will by facing the threat of death.

Then, with the aid of certain special medicines, one could use drugs to drain one's Life Force and solidify one's Spiritual Power, thereby gaining the ability to control humanoid Soul Tools.

Those medicines were clearly not supplements like Soul-Infused Sea Urchins. They came with side effects.

She had not taken any drugs, retaining only the most fundamental method.

"That's a Pink Lady," Qian Renxue transmitted in a low voice. "A scorpion-type Soul Beast. They live in groups and are poisonous. Their venom has an excitatory effect. This Pink Lady must have accidentally become separated from its group and ended up as food for the Phantom Dream Golden Tiger."

"Excitatory venom... like the first soul skill of that girl from the Dugu family?" Stingray Douluo transmitted without changing his expression.

"Correct. Jade Phosphor Red Poison. She uses snake venom as a catalyst for her teammates, making them excited." Qian Renxue nodded lightly. "Her first soul skill may have come from this Pink Lady."

"This scorpion got eaten by this unlucky big cat. Doesn't that mean it got a boost?" Shi Yueyi stared at the tiger Soul Beast.

It was common for Soul Beasts to prey upon one another.

"What, are you worried it'll go berserk?" Qian Renxue raised an eyebrow.

"No, I'm thinking..." Shi Yueyi's gaze sharpened. "Would its first soul skill undergo a slight change as well? For example, could it also gain an effect that makes me excited?"

Stingray Douluo thought for a moment. "That might really be possible. This Pink Lady that was eaten should also have been close to a thousand-year Soul Beast. It escaped because it was being hunted by the Clan Head."

The queen of the Pink Lady clan, the Pink Lady Queen, devoured other members of her clan to secure her status. The others generally allowed themselves to be eaten willingly, but there were always one or two exceptions.

"If that's the case, then this sixteen-hundred-year-old little tiger may really have been affected, causing its soul ring to mutate as well," Qian Renxue said.

"It's the one!" Shi Yueyi made her decision at once. "While it's stuffed full, let's send it on its way!"

"Hey, wait!" Before Stingray Douluo could act, Shi Yueyi kicked off and leaped straight down from the tree!

"This brat is too impulsive!" Stingray Douluo hurriedly wanted to intervene. "I'm an old man—I can't take this kind of scare!"

"Wait." Qian Renxue waved a hand, stopping Stingray Douluo from helping.

"She said she survived alone in Frozen Forest for a year. She must have encountered thousand-year and even ten-thousand-year Soul Beasts. Let's see what she does."

"Fine." Stingray Douluo withdrew the Soul Power he had just released.

Shi Yueyi leaped directly down from the branch—

An ambush!

At that instant, she autonomously condensed her still-not-very-strong Spiritual Power and reinforced her eyes with it, fixing her gaze on the back of her opponent's head.

This was the instinct of an assassin: either do not strike, or if you did, draw blood and take a life.

"That speed is already no weaker than that of some Agility Attack Type Soul Grand Masters." Seeing this, Stingray Douluo gradually relaxed.

"I told you my eye for people wouldn't be wrong." Qian Renxue's voice sounded calm, though there seemed to be a hint of smugness in her tone.

Shi Yueyi smashed her fist directly into the thousand-year tiger's head. The intense recoil made even her fist tremble.

But at that moment, she activated her External Right Palm Bone. As her fist struck its skull, thorn-like bone spikes emerged from her knuckles.

She raised her fist, then smashed it fiercely into the back of its head again.

"Aooo—"

The thousand-year Phantom Dream Golden Tiger howled in pain.

Its body shuddered, and a violent aura burst from it as it tried to fling the girl behind it away.

But the bone spikes of Shi Yueyi's External Soul Bone, already embedded in its head, released lightning-element energy.

Her other hand seized the little tiger by the scruff of its neck. Then, with a flip, she mounted its back.

"Alright, Little Mimi." Shi Yueyi sighed.

"Be good, and it won't hurt so much."