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 was a frontline region where humans and Soul Beasts fought.
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 luxuriously, generous with his money, and without guards at his side, naturally became a fat target 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, and we might spare your life!"
The bandit leader stared at Qing Mu, who looked like a little lamb, and sneered viciously.
Looking at the bandits before him, who did not even possess Soul Power, Qing Mu could not help but rub his forehead helplessly.
So he had still run into such fools. They only saw that he looked easy to bully, yet they did not stop to consider how someone like him dared to travel alone.
Could it be that, in this world, there were really so many foolish noble young masters who dared to run away from home without making any preparations?
"Kid, what are you dawdling for? Hurry up and take out your things!"
Seeing Qing Mu's utterly fearless expression, 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!"
"Bulba, Bulba~"
As Bulbasaur was summoned, two yellow Soul Rings appeared as well, circling up and down around Qing Mu.
When the bandit leader saw the two Soul Rings beside Qing Mu, his face instantly turned pale. He looked at Qing Mu in disbelief. "How is that possible? You're actually a Spirit 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 his age ordinarily could not have reached level ten and obtained a Soul Ring.
Moreover, Qing Mu did not have a Spirit Master Badge issued by Spirit Hall, which undoubtedly supported his assumption.
As long as Qing Mu had not obtained a Soul Ring, then even if he possessed Soul Power, a child around ten years old could never be a match for so many strong adult men.
Yet no matter what, the bandits surrounding Qing Mu had never expected that Qing Mu not only possessed Soul Power, but had even reached the Soul Power Level of a Soul Grandmaster.
"Bulbasaur, use Leaf Blade to take care of them!"
After Bulbasaur came out, Qing Mu spoke to it indifferently.
These ordinary people without even a trace of Soul Power were not worth the mental effort of using Mind Link.
"Bulba!!"
The next moment, several thick green leaves shot out from Bulbasaur's sides. The leaves passed through the bandits' necks as though slicing tofu, instantly beheading every bandit present with a single leaf!
Afterward, Bulbasaur extended its Vine Whip and searched 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. "So many people, and all of you together only had two and a half Gold Soul Coins? What a bunch of paupers!"
Still, despite his complaint, Qing Mu put the Gold Soul Coins into his Storage Soul Tool.
After all, no matter how small a mosquito was, it was still meat. Besides, these were the first spoils he had ever obtained.
Qing Mu then looked at Bulbasaur again and said, "Bulbasaur, let's go. Someone will naturally deal with these corpses later."
As he said this, Qing Mu also glanced toward the nearby forest.
"Bulba~"
Bulbasaur nodded, then immediately began walking away 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 but suck in a cold breath. Fortunately, he had been cautious enough, or he would be the one lying on the ground now.
However, there was more than one group hiding nearby.
On a cliff on the other side, an old woman who looked to be in her sixties or seventies, with the face of a child and hair like a crane's, holding a three-meter-long Serpent Head Cane in her right hand, and a young girl in tight-fitting clothes beside her had watched everything that had just happened.
The old woman looked in the direction Qing Mu had left, a thoughtful glint flashing in her eyes.
A Level-22 Spirit Master just over ten years old—what family's genius had come out to train?
The old woman then looked at the young girl 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, and her granddaughter, Meng Yiran, from the original work.
However, upon hearing this, Meng Yiran curled her lips. "Isn't it just that he cultivates a little faster? What's so impressive about that? I could do everything he just did too."
"You girl!"
Faced with her granddaughter's attitude, Snake Dowager Chao Tianxiang shook her head helplessly, feeling somewhat troubled.
Although her granddaughter was exceptionally talented, she was still far too arrogant. She also liked to study strange and unorthodox methods, which had slowed her cultivation progress.
Otherwise, with Meng Yiran's level-seven Innate Soul Power, if she had worked hard enough, she might not have failed to break through level twenty by the age of ten.
As for now, while reaching level thirty at sixteen could already be considered fairly good, there was still quite a gap between her and the true top geniuses.
Then Meng Yiran said to Snake Dowager Chao Tianxiang, "All right, Grandma. Now that we've finished watching the show, it's time for us to set off and find a suitable Third Soul Ring for me."
Hunting a Third Soul Ring for Meng Yiran was precisely why they had come to the Star Dou Great Mountain Range. Watching Qing Mu fight had merely been a coincidence.
"You girl, you're still so impatient. But we can't enter the Star Dou Great Mountain Range for now. Your grandfather has gone to handle something, and we still need to wait a few days," Snake Dowager Chao Tianxiang replied.
Meanwhile, with the enhancement of Chlorophyll, 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 an enormous area, its danger level was far below that of the Star Dou Great Forest. Even the strongest Soul Beasts in the Core Zone were only ten to twenty thousand years old, let alone those in the outer regions.
With this level of danger, given Qing Mu's current strength, he would basically find it difficult to encounter any danger as long as he was careful.
Only a little over ten minutes after entering the forest, Qing Mu discovered a pig-type Soul Beast that was more than a thousand years old. A strange smile immediately appeared on his face as he excitedly walked toward it.
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