Body Sect and Evil Soul Masters (Please Vote with Recommendation Tickets)

Village Chief Ke Lan and the uncles and aunties left.

The house quieted down as well.

Qin Ze sat down on the stool where the doctor had been sitting.

Zhu Xiyan had already woken up. Her aged face was weary, but at the same time, she looked at Qin Ze sitting beside her with a trace of comfort in her eyes.

That tiny little boy from back then had already grown so big. He had been so delicate-looking as a child; now that he had grown up, who knew how many girls would lose their hearts over him?

"Grandma!" Qin Ze called softly with his head lowered, his face dim.

Zhu Xiyan reached out and took Qin Ze's hand, smiling as she said, "Birth, aging, sickness, and death are things everyone must go through. You don't need to be sad."

Hearing this, Qin Ze's body trembled a few times. He did not know how to begin.

Zhu Xiyan shifted her gaze to the ceiling and spoke in a calm voice. "Do you know? Before Grandma was even thirty, my husband left. When I was almost sixty, my son left too. They both died in the war between the Heaven Dou Empire and the Sun Moon Empire. Back then, Grandma's heart had already died. But right at that time, Grandma picked you up."

"Back then, you smiled at Grandma like a little angel, and Grandma's almost-dead heart got a little better too. Being able to watch you grow up has already satisfied me. It's just that you're only five years old, far too young... Grandma won't be able to stay with you anymore. I've already asked Village Chief Ke Lan and the others to raise you from now on. With them here, after I'm gone, I'll be able to rest easy."

Beside her, Qin Ze's lips trembled, and mist filled his eyes. He did not answer. He only raised a hand and wiped his eyes.

"Don't cry. A true man sheds blood, not tears. Your life is still very long. Grandma can only accompany you for part of the road. From here on, you can only rely on yourself. Remember this: as long as people are alive, they will inevitably run into bumps and setbacks. You can only look forward. Never look back. Did you hear what Grandma said clearly?" Zhu Xiyan looked at Qin Ze with heartache, but her tone became somewhat sterner.

Qin Ze's eyes were slightly red. He nodded heavily. "I'll listen to Grandma."

Seeing this, Zhu Xiyan smiled in relief. When she had fallen unconscious, she had a dream. She dreamed that her good grandson had actually become a god like ancestor Tang San from Ten Thousand Years Ago. Although it was only a dream, at least it was an auspicious dream.

It was just that she would not be able to see the day her grandson married and had children. What a pity...

"Grandma, I'm going to make fish soup for you." Qin Ze shot to his feet, said this, and turned to leave the room. Grandma loved eating fish the most, especially drinking fish soup.

Zhu Xiyan looked at Qin Ze's departing figure and sighed.

In the kitchen, Qin Ze watched the steam rising from the pot. He leaned quietly against the wall, no one knew what he was thinking.

Fate was like a joke. In his previous life, his parents had both passed away when he was five. In this life, it seemed the same tragedy was about to happen again.

"Douluo Continent, oh Douluo Continent, what should I do?" he murmured in a low voice.

Whoosh!

Suddenly, Qin Ze's eyes focused. He remembered that when he had read the original work, at the grand finale, hadn't Huo Yuhao's mother, who had died long before, been revived?

As long as a god reached the first rank, they possessed two qualifications to bring people into the Divine Realm.

Thinking of this, Qin Ze's adrenaline surged in an instant, and his breathing quickened.

Godhood!

Qin Ze stared at the Ginkgo Tree outside the window, and an idea naturally arose in his mind.

He knew many places and opportunities on the Douluo Continent that possessed heavenly treasures.

For example, the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where immortal herbs could be obtained, and Electrolux, who had crossed over.

He had never thought about that big worm. After all, he did not know whether he was a Soul Master of the spiritual attribute or not. But the immortal herbs and Electrolux were opportunities he could completely snatch from Huo Yuhao.

Immortal herbs could help his aptitude soar, and Electrolux could help him produce soul spirits.

"I hope you haven't obtained these opportunities yet," Qin Ze whispered. Of course, he could not possibly seize all of Huo Yuhao's opportunities. Everyone could obtain immortal herbs, but Electrolux was something he would not give up.

Glug, glug!

Inside the pot, steam rolled. Qin Ze woke from his thoughts, glanced at the pot of fish soup boiling away, and hurriedly turned off the fire. By now, the thick white fish soup was ready.

In a dense forest thirty kilometers outside Maple Leaf Village.

Several Mysterious Persons with incomparably powerful auras had gathered beneath a towering tree.

At the very front of this group stood a tall Elder with a head of long green hair. Strangely, however, there was not a single hair on the top of the Elder's head. He was actually balding.

The Elder's complexion was ruddy, smooth like that of an infant, but his dark green eyes were filled with the marks of time and hardship, as though proclaiming that he was already far from young.

"Sect Master, those four Evil Soul Masters fled here and vanished. This subordinate was incompetent and failed to locate their tracks."

Someone nervously stepped forward a few paces and spoke to the Elder.

"It's not your fault." The Elder stood with his hands behind his back, gazing into the distance. "Among those Evil Soul Masters, one person's martial soul is Nightmare. It can block perception. It's normal that you couldn't find them."

Hearing this, the person who had spoken still lowered his head in shame. He was an eighty-fifth-rank Soul Douluo, while those Evil Soul Masters had not even reached Soul Saint. For them to escape from his hands truly made him lose face.

However, he also understood how strange Evil Soul Masters were. For example, that Nightmare Martial Soul was simply terrifying to the extreme. Although its attack power was not strong, its ability to confuse was enough to nearly make even a Soul Douluo like him suffer a huge loss.

The green-haired Elder raised his head and glanced at the sky, where stars glittered. He said, "They won't have fled far. Although they tricked you, they also suffered serious injuries. They'll definitely find a place in this area to hide and treat their wounds. They dared assassinate a disciple valued by my Body Sect. I will grind their bones to dust and scatter their ashes."

As the final word "ashes" fell, in an instant, a terrifying pressure swept out from within the Elder's body. The entire dense forest was forced into violent trembling by that pressure. Fierce winds howled, making the forest shake without end, while the sky looked even stranger, as though devoid of light.

Hearing the Elder's words, the other Mysterious Persons all nodded solemnly as well, killing intent bursting from their eyes. There were already very few people on the Douluo Continent who awakened a Body Martial Soul. They had finally found a disciple with Innate Soul Power at rank nine, whose martial soul was even the heart, yet before he could be nurtured, these Evil Soul Masters had dug out his heart and killed him.

A detestable pack of beasts.

The Elder said, "Go. Find this pack of beasts. If they want to recover, they will definitely need a great deal of flesh, blood, and souls. There are quite a few villages and towns nearby. Pay close attention."

"Yes!"

Everyone answered in unison.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

Several sounds of air being torn rang out. The people who had still been gathered beneath the great tree vanished in the blink of an eye, leaving only the green-haired Elder behind.

The Elder raised his head and looked into the distance, his thoughts churning. "I'm still a little short of breaking through to Limit Douluo. Just what should I do to break these shackles? This path is too difficult."

A faint sigh spread through the dense forest.