Could This Be Spirit Hall's Doing?

"What?" Juhua swayed its tail, asking in confusion.

"It's simple. I'm already level ten. Now I need to obtain a spirit ring so I can become a Soul Master. So, Tiger King, hehe!" As he spoke, Li Yuan looked at Juhua with an expectant expression.

To be honest, relying on his own strength, hunting a spirit ring was not difficult for Li Yuan. Although he was not a Soul Master, he could handle most Thousand-Year Spirit Beasts through brute force alone.

If he made preparations in advance, even killing a Thousand-Year Spirit Beast would not be too difficult.

But while spirit beasts were easy to hunt, what kind of spirit ring he should choose had stumped Li Yuan. It could not be helped—his martial soul was simply too bizarre.

A Keyboard martial soul... there was probably no other such martial soul in the entire Douluo Continent. Li Yuan had no clue how he should attach spirit rings to it, or what kind of spirit rings he should attach.

So Li Yuan could only place his hopes on Juhua. After all, this was a Ninety Thousand Year Spirit Beast. Although a spirit beast's cultivation did not necessarily equal how long it had lived—

A Ninety Thousand Year Spirit Beast had probably lived for at least ten thousand years. Otherwise, it would have been impossible for it to become a Ninety Thousand Year Spirit Beast.

From that perspective, Juhua should have seen plenty of the world and could probably offer suitable advice based on Li Yuan's circumstances.

Besides, Juhua itself was the local tyrant of the Sunset Great Forest. Well, the local cat. It should know the spirit beasts in the Sunset Great Forest extremely well.

With Juhua's help, Li Yuan would definitely be able to find the spirit ring best suited to him in the shortest amount of time.

"What the hell! Your Soul Power is only level ten?"

However, upon hearing Li Yuan's words, Juhua, which had been looking lazy, was shocked. Its narrowed eyes flew wide open as it stared at Li Yuan as though looking at a monster.

It was no wonder Juhua was so astonished. Li Yuan did not look anything like a Soul Scholar who had yet to obtain even a spirit ring.

Normal Soul Scholars were extremely weak. Forget dealing with Hundred-Year Spirit Beasts—even some Ten-Year Spirit Beasts were more than Soul Scholars could handle.

Yet this kid Li Yuan could effortlessly kill Hundred-Year Spirit Beasts. That was truly abnormal.

Even though Juhua had lived for over ten thousand years, it had never seen anything so strange. Unable to help itself, it began scrutinizing its newly acquired Human Pet.

"Little Slave, you're not joking, are you? Your Soul Power is only level ten?"

"That's right, Tiger Boss. My Soul Power is only level ten, but I was born with Innate Divine Strength. I'm much stronger than ordinary people. Don't let my size fool you—I'm only eight this year!" Li Yuan explained.

"Ei-eight?" Juhua instinctively looked over the eight-year-old child before it, who weighed four to five hundred jin and stood over two meters tall. It could not help but shudder, feeling as though its worldview had collapsed.

This is an eight-year-old? Are you kidding this cat? Can an eight-year-old grow like this? Do you really think I'm easy to fool just because I haven't read any books?

Juhua instinctively refused to believe Li Yuan's nonsense. Left with no choice, Li Yuan spent a great deal of effort before finally explaining everything clearly to Ju Hu.

To make Juhua believe him, Li Yuan even had the orange cat examine his Soul Power and Bone Age.

In short, after a great deal of trouble, Juhua finally accepted the fact that Li Yuan was only eight years old and had Soul Power at merely level ten.

Even so, Juhua's gaze toward Li Yuan remained full of suspicion.

"Little Slave, could it be that you possess spirit beast blood? Ordinary humans don't develop like you do."

After pondering for quite some time, Juhua finally came up with a possibility that could barely explain Li Yuan's condition.

"This... I don't know. I'm an orphan. I have no idea who my parents are."

Considering Juhua's guess, Li Yuan felt that this possibility was actually quite likely. Although this was the Douluo Continent, a fantastical world where nothing was particularly surprising—

An eight-year-old child growing into his current form was still far too fantastical.

Could it be that, like Tang San, he also had a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast for a mother or father? He knew that on the Douluo Continent, there was no such thing as reproductive isolation. Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts could completely have offspring with humans. Could that be how he had been born?

Otherwise, there was simply no way to explain why he had grown into his current state at such a young age.

But if that was really the case, where had his parents gone in this life?

Why had he been abandoned at the entrance to Douhun Village?

Could it be that his parents had encountered some danger and had no choice but to do so?

Li Yuan immediately thought of the protagonist Tang San's life experiences. Wasn't Tang San just like that?

His mother had been captured by people from Spirit Hall and, with no other choice, could only sacrifice herself to Tang San's father, Tang Hao, allowing Tang Hao to become a Titled Douluo and lead Tang San out of the encirclement.

Could his situation be similar to Tang San's? Had his parents also met with misfortune?

Could this also be Spirit Hall's doing?

Instinctively, Li Yuan thought of Spirit Hall. It could not be helped—Spirit Hall was the villain, and this was not the first time they had done something like this. They had a record.

"Hey, Little Slave, what are you spacing out for? Why do you look so devastated?"

Juhua had clearly noticed Li Yuan's abnormal state as well. It regretted bringing up Li Yuan's painful past and irritably swished its tail.

"It's nothing. I just thought of some possibilities."

Fortunately, Li Yuan quickly recovered. After all, whether he truly possessed spirit beast blood was still uncertain. And even if one of his parents really had been a spirit beast, there was no way to know what had happened.

Whether Spirit Hall had been involved still required investigation.

For Li Yuan, if his speculation was truly correct, then uncovering the full truth or avenging his parents would definitely be extremely difficult.

As the final boss of the Douluo Continent, Spirit Hall was an organization that was absolutely not to be provoked. If Tang San had not been the protagonist, constantly receiving ridiculous advantages and somehow surviving without becoming a Titled Douluo, Spirit Hall would have unified the Douluo Continent long ago.

But the problem was that he was not Tang San. If he sought death, he would really die.