Xue Nianbing: It's Only Right to Help Each Other

"It's him!"

Beibei and Tang Ya were both startled as they recognized the newcomer.

"Awoo..."

The Silver Moon Wolf was about to be strangled to death.

Seeing this scene,

Beibei disregarded everything else and hurriedly shouted, "Friend, please show mercy. My junior brother needs its Soul Ring."

"Then take it."

Xue Nianbing revealed an "enlightened" expression before tossing the barely breathing Silver Moon Wolf over.

"Bang..."

The Silver Moon Wolf landed before Beibei and the other two, its aura rapidly weakening.

"Yu Hao, quick, kill it."

Beibei shouted urgently.

"Okay."

Huo Yuhao did not hesitate. He immediately took out the White Tiger Dagger and ended the Silver Moon Wolf's life.

The next second, a yellow Soul Ring condensed into being.

"Hisss!"

Suddenly, the Mandala Snake's furious hissing rang out.

Beibei saw that the Mandala Snake had quietly moved behind Xue Nianbing and hurriedly warned, "Friend, watch your back!"

"Frosty Slash: Ice Mark."

Xue Nianbing's senses were incredibly sharp. He had long noticed the Mandala Snake's intention to launch a sneak attack.

He immediately used the Mark of Ice soul skill. With a casual backward sweep of his ice spear, frost spread through the air, and the icy-blue spear light lingered for a long while.

Bang!

The ice spear fiercely struck the Mandala Snake at its vital point.

With a single sweeping strike from Xue Nianbing's spear, the Thousand Years Mandala Snake was instantly sent flying as terrifying cold rapidly spread through its body.

"A Thousand Years Soul Ring... a Soul Elder?"

Beibei and the other two witnessed Xue Nianbing activating his Soul Ring and using a soul skill.

Thus, they instinctively assumed that Mark of Ice was his third soul skill.

Crack, crack...

At that moment, the Mandala Snake was about to be frozen into an Ice Sculpture by Extreme Ice.

Seeing this, Xue Nianbing raised his ice spear, ready to finish it off—or rather, finish it with another spear strike.

However, Beibei's voice came again. "Friend, please show mercy once more. We need the Mandala Snake's Soul Ring too."

"...Here."

Xue Nianbing flicked the Mandala Snake, frozen into an Ice Sculpture, into the air with his spear and sent it landing before Beibei and the other two.

Tang Ya immediately finished it off.

Xue Nianbing calmly watched the scene, then turned his gaze toward the five White Striped Wolves and said indifferently, "Get lost."

"Awoo~"

In an instant, the five White Striped Wolves vanished without a trace.

This scene greatly surprised Beibei and the other two.

"Why didn't you kill them?" Tang Ya could not help asking.

"I don't need their Soul Rings," Xue Nianbing said calmly.

"But they're Soul Beasts."

"Do Soul Beasts deserve to die?"

"Humans and Soul Beasts are enemies."

"Enemies? Are you sure it isn't a relationship of supply and demand?" Xue Nianbing smiled and asked in return.

That question immediately left Tang Ya speechless.

Even the still-naive Huo Yuhao gained a different understanding of the words "Soul Beast" for the first time.

"Friend, I am Beibei. Thank you for righteously stepping in to save us."

"This is Tang Ya, and this is my junior brother, Huo Yuhao."

Beibei stepped forward and introduced them with a smile.

"It was nothing. When traveling outside, it's only right to help each other." The corners of Xue Nianbing's lips lifted into a gentle, spring-breeze-like smile.

The three of them froze for a moment at the sight.

"So handsome!"

Tang Ya's eyes lit up again.

Beibei and Huo Yuhao also felt that the person before them was handsome to an excessive degree.

"Don't you need Soul Rings? Aren't you going to absorb them?" Xue Nianbing reminded them.

The three instantly came back to their senses.

"Xiao Ya, Yu Hao, absorb the Soul Rings here. I'll stand guard for you," Beibei said.

"Okay."

"Mm."

Tang Ya and Huo Yuhao responded, then sat cross-legged and each drew in a Soul Ring to begin absorbing it.

After watching for a while, Beibei turned his gaze to Xue Nianbing. "I still don't know your name, friend..."

Xue Nianbing smiled faintly. "Xue Nianbing."

"Your surname is Xue?"

Beibei murmured in surprise.

That surname was uncommon on Douluo Continent. It had only been seen within the Dou Ling Empire after the Heaven Dou Empire split.

Could Xue Nianbing be from the Dou Ling Empire?

As though he had seen through Beibei's thoughts, Xue Nianbing said, "I'm from the Heaven Dou Empire. I have nothing to do with the Dou Ling Empire... nor with the Imperial Xue Family of old."

The Far North lay north of the Heaven Dou Empire.

Therefore, it was not wrong for Xue Nianbing to say that he came from the Heaven Dou Empire.

"Brother Xue, you must have come to the Star Dou Great Forest for a Soul Ring as well. Have you found a suitable one?"

"If not, why not wait until Xiao Ya and Yu Hao finish absorbing theirs? We can help you look for one together."

Beibei suggested.

On one hand, he wanted to repay Xue Nianbing.

On the other, he also wanted to probe Xue Nianbing's Martial Soul and cultivation.

Unfortunately, Beibei's wish was destined to fall through.

Xue Nianbing shook his head and smiled. "I've already found a suitable Soul Ring. I only helped because I happened to pass by."

"You seem to be struggling a little on your own, so I'll wait for these two to finish absorbing their Soul Rings before heading to Shrek Academy."

As soon as he said that,

Beibei's eyes immediately lit up. He hurriedly asked, "Brother Xue, are you also a student of Shrek Academy?"

"No."

Xue Nianbing shook his head, then feigned surprise and asked, "Also? Could it be that Brother Bei is a student of Shrek Academy?"

"To be honest, I am indeed a third-year student of Shrek Academy."

Beibei nodded with a smile.

"What a coincidence. I actually helped one of Shrek Academy's monster students on a whim." Xue Nianbing gave a chuckle.

It was as though he truly knew nothing and believed it was all mere coincidence.

In truth, he had deliberately revealed that he intended to go to Shrek Academy, solely to make his next steps more convenient.

"A monster student? I wouldn't dare accept that."

"Compared to Brother Xue, my little cultivation is nothing worth mentioning. After all, even a Thousand Years Mandala Snake was killed in seconds by you."

"May I ask something presumptuous? Brother Xue, are you a Soul Elder?"

Although Beibei had his suspicions, he could not be certain.

"Mm, more or less."

Xue Nianbing nodded.

His Soul Power was Level 40, but the Frosty Ice Spear Martial Soul only had three Soul Rings attached. Calling him a Soul Elder was not wrong.

"Brother Xue is already a Soul Elder at such a young age. That truly is astonishing."

Beibei sighed, then changed the subject and asked again, "Brother Xue, since you aren't a Shrek student but are planning to go to Shrek Academy, you must be intending to join the academy, right?"

"Mm."

"I just don't know whether I've missed Shrek Academy's enrollment period, nor do I know its standards for accepting students."

"Since Brother Bei is from Shrek Academy, could you tell me?"

Xue Nianbing's smile was neither warm nor cold, making it impossible to tell what he was thinking.

Hearing this, Beibei thought to himself, Xue Nianbing must be a disciple from some Hidden Sect who has gone out to train. Otherwise, it would be impossible for him not to know Shrek Academy's widely known enrollment standards.

Shrek Academy's enrollment standards were no secret anywhere on Douluo Continent.

Xue Nianbing did not know them?

That made it highly likely that he had rarely interacted with the outside world.

"Of course I can."

Beibei smiled. "You must be no older than twelve, and your Soul Power must be no lower than Level 15. Those are Shrek Academy's enrollment standards... though exceptions and adjustments are made for certain special Soul Masters."