First Entering the Heaven Dou Mountain Range

Several days later, Qing Mu and Bulbasaur finally arrived at a small town outside the Star Dou Great Mountain Range.

This place was only a few dozen li from the Star Dou Great Mountain Range and served as the front line of the battle between humans and Soul Beasts.

After arriving in the town, Qing Mu did not linger for long. He merely rested briefly, replenished some food supplies, and then set off for the Star Dou Great Mountain Range.

However, a young master like Qing Mu, dressed in fine clothes, generous with his spending, and without any guards at his side, naturally became a fat sheep in many people's eyes.

Thus, not long after Qing Mu left the town, he was stopped by a group of bandits.

"Kid, hand over everything valuable on you, nice and quick, and we might spare your life!"

The bandit leader stared at Qing Mu, who looked like a little lamb, and grinned viciously.

Looking at the group of bandits before him, none of whom even possessed Soul Power, Qing Mu could not help rubbing his forehead. His expression was one of helplessness.

So he had run into this kind of idiot after all. They only saw that he looked easy to bully, yet did not stop to think about how someone like him dared to travel alone.

Could it be that in this world, there were really so many stupid noble young masters who dared to run away from home without making any preparations at all?

"Kid, what are you dawdling for? Hurry up and hand your things over!"

When he saw the complete lack of fear on Qing Mu's face, the bandit leader had already sensed that something was wrong. Yet his greed for money still made him shout those words.

The only response he received was, "Come out, Bulbasaur!"

"Da Na, Da Na~"

As Bulbasaur was summoned, two yellow Soul Rings appeared as well, circling up and down around Qing Mu's body.

When the bandit leader saw the two Soul Rings beside Qing Mu, his face instantly turned pale. He looked at Qing Mu in disbelief and said, "How is that possible? You're actually a Soul Master—and a Two-Ring Great Soul Master at that!"

Qing Mu looked to be only around ten years old. In the bandit leader's view, even if Qing Mu had awakened Innate Soul Power, someone of that age would generally be unable to reach Level Ten and obtain a Soul Ring.

Moreover, Qing Mu did not bear the Soul Master badge issued by Spirit Hall, which undoubtedly seemed to confirm his assumption.

As long as Qing Mu had not obtained a Soul Ring, then even if he possessed Soul Power, a child of around ten could never possibly be a match for so many strong, healthy adults.

Yet no matter what, the bandits surrounding Qing Mu had never expected that he not only possessed Soul Power, but had also reached the level of a Great Soul Master.

"Bulbasaur, use Leaf Blade to take care of them!"

After Bulbasaur appeared, Qing Mu spoke to it calmly.

These ordinary people without even a trace of Soul Power were not worth the mental effort required to use Mind Link.

"Da Na!!"

The next moment, several broad green leaves shot from Bulbasaur's sides. The leaves sliced through the bandits' necks as easily as cutting tofu, instantly beheading every bandit present with a single leaf!

Afterward, Bulbasaur extended its Vine Whip and searched through the bandits' bodies, handing the Gold Soul Coins it found to Qing Mu.

After briefly counting the Gold Soul Coins, Qing Mu immediately cursed under his breath. "There are so many of you, yet all your money combined is only two and a half Gold Soul Coins. What a bunch of poor bastards!"

Still, curses aside, Qing Mu put the Gold Soul Coins into his Storage Soul Tool.

After all, even a mosquito was still meat, and this was his first haul of spoils.

Qing Mu then turned his gaze to Bulbasaur once more. "Bulbasaur, let's go. Someone will naturally deal with these corpses later."

As he said this, Qing Mu glanced toward the nearby forest.

"Da Na~"

Bulbasaur nodded and immediately began walking, slowly leaving the place together with Qing Mu.

After Qing Mu and Bulbasaur left, another group of people emerged from the forest Qing Mu had just looked toward.

One of them looked at the bandit leader, whose head had been severed by a single leaf, and could not help drawing in a sharp breath. Fortunately, he had been cautious enough. Otherwise, he would be the one lying on the ground now.

However, there was more than just this one group hiding nearby.

On a cliff on the other side, an elderly woman who looked to be in her sixties or seventies, with a youthful face and white hair, held a three-meter-long snake-headed cane in her right hand. Alongside her stood a girl in fitted clothes, and the two had watched everything that had just happened.

The elderly woman looked in the direction Qing Mu had left, a thoughtful glint flashing through her eyes.

A twenty-second-level Soul Master barely over ten years old—what family's genius had come out to train this time?

The elderly woman then looked at the girl in fitted clothes beside her and smiled. "Yiran, what do you think after seeing that? You should know that when you were his age, you had only just broken through Level Nineteen!"

That was right. This elderly woman and young girl were none other than the Snake Dowager Chao Tianxiang from the original work and her granddaughter, Meng Yiran.

Yet upon hearing this, Meng Yiran curled her lips. "Isn't he just cultivating a little faster? What's so impressive about that? I can do everything he just did too."

"You!"

Faced with her granddaughter's attitude, Snake Dowager Chao Tianxiang shook her head helplessly, feeling a headache coming on.

Her granddaughter possessed exceptional talent, but her personality was still too arrogant. She also enjoyed studying unorthodox methods, which had slowed her cultivation speed somewhat.

Otherwise, with Meng Yiran's Innate Soul Power of Level Seven, if she had worked hard enough, she might not have failed to break through Level Twenty at the age of ten.

As for now, although reaching Level Thirty at sixteen could already be considered quite good, there was still quite a gap between her and the truly top geniuses.

Immediately afterward, Meng Yiran said to Snake Dowager Chao Tianxiang, "All right, Grandma. Now that we're done watching the show, it's time for us to set off and find a suitable third Soul Ring for me."

Hunting Meng Yiran's third Soul Ring was precisely why they had come to the Star Dou Great Mountain Range. Watching Qing Mu's battle had merely been a coincidence.

"You girl, you're still so impatient. But we can't enter the Star Dou Great Mountain Range just yet. Your grandfather has gone to take care of something, and it will still take a few days," Snake Dowager Chao Tianxiang replied.

Meanwhile, with Chlorophyll's enhancement, Qing Mu and Bulbasaur entered the Star Dou Great Mountain Range in just over half an hour.

Although the Star Dou Great Mountain Range covered a vast area, its danger level was far below that of the Star Dou Great Forest. Even the Soul Beasts in its core region were at most ten to twenty thousand years old, let alone those in the outer regions.

At this level of danger, with Qing Mu's current strength, so long as he was careful, he would basically find it difficult to encounter any real danger.

Only a little over ten minutes after entering the forest, Qing Mu discovered a pig-type Soul Beast over a thousand years old. A strange smile immediately appeared on his face as he excitedly walked toward it.