Wu Xuan

First Soul Skill, Spirit Gathering Wind!

A cool breeze slowly spread out from around Wu Xuan, seeming to soothe everything in its path. The dizzy, disorienting sensation vanished in an instant.

A black glint flashed in Wu Xuan's left hand, and a long spear appeared in his grasp. The spear shaft was entirely dark silver, while its tip was bright silver. The blade alone accounted for nearly half the weapon's total length.

The spear thrust out, its sharp aura arriving first and piercing through Wang Zhen's chest.

Wang Zhen's eyes widened, his face filled with disbelief. He cried out in shock and fury, "That Martial Soul is... the Soul Breaking Spear! You sissy actually have another Martial Soul..."

Wu Xuan's face was icy as he viciously twisted the Soul Breaking Spear in his hand, thoroughly shredding Wang Zhen's heart.

"Just as you said, we only came together to make a living. Why would I reveal all my trump cards to people like you? You have no chance in this life. In your next life, remember to read more and stop being so greedy."

Listening to Wu Xuan's mockery and ridicule, Wang Zhen's mouth overflowed with blood. Gritting his teeth, he said, "Damn Tang Sect remnants... Iron Blood Sect... Master... won't let you off..."

Before he could finish, Wang Zhen breathed his last on the spot, leaving behind only a pair of glaring, furious eyes.

"Tang Sect? Who are you insulting? Who the hell is from that trash sect?" Fury filled Wu Xuan's face as he pulled out the Soul Breaking Spear and drove it through Wang Zhen's head. White and red matter instantly spilled all over the ground.

Wu Xuan took a deep breath and calmed his rising fury. He casually withdrew his spear, and in the next moment, the Soul Breaking Spear turned into starlight and dissipated into the air.

Even within the mixed zone of the Star Dou Great Forest, Wu Xuan remained calm and composed. He carefully looted all the valuables from the three corpses, removed the soul bone, dissected the Crimson Flame Tiger's body, and only then left unhurriedly.

Wu Xuan naturally had no use for a mere thousand-year left arm bone, but sold together with the tiger meat, it would certainly fetch a good price.

As for the three bodies, Wu Xuan could not be bothered with them. Wang Zhen and Qin Lan were merely commoner soul masters, while their employer was nobody important. Dead was dead.

What status could a piece of trash who only broke through to Soul Elder at nearly forty possibly have within a sect?

If he had any status or capability at all, he would not have needed to spend money hiring an outside soul-hunting team.

Wu Xuan's Martial Soul was the wind element, making him exceptionally attuned to the winds of nature. Any significant resistance to the wind within a thousand meters could be promptly sensed by him, allowing him to avoid danger in advance. This was one reason Qin Lan had said that, ever since Wu Xuan joined the soul-hunting squad, their hunts had become several times easier.

In his Previous Life, Wu Xuan had been one of the countless utterly ordinary people. After graduating from university, he casually found a company job and lived a routine life between home and work. His hobbies were reading novels or working out and boxing at a martial arts gym. He only went home to visit his parents during holidays.

Who could have imagined that, on an ordinary commute, a speeding SUV would suddenly send him into reincarnation?

Even more unbelievable was that he had transmigrated—into a novel he had read in his Previous Life.

After transmigrating, Wu Xuan was born into a moderately well-off family in the Heaven Dou Empire.

Both of his parents were soul masters. His father, Wu Lin, came from a family with modest assets. His Martial Soul was the mutated Swift Wind Tiger, and he possessed Innate Level Five Soul Power. His mother, Yang Wenhui, possessed the Soul Breaking Spear Martial Soul. She was a descendant of the Breaking Clan of the Tang Sect and possessed Innate Level Eight Soul Power.

His mother was a member of the Tang Sect and had Innate Level Eight Soul Power. Yet despite such high talent, the Tang Sect treated her like dirt and refused to give her even a fraction more resources. They even made every excuse possible when it came to providing the soul rings she needed to break through, unwilling to put in any effort. Yet their attitude toward those Blue Silver Grass soul masters was completely different. They not only handed out Gold Soul Coin allowances every month, but even their cultivation resources were first-rate.

In the eyes of outsiders, the higher-ups of the Tang Sect regarded the disciples of the five subordinate halls as servants. How could mere servant disciples be qualified to surpass the main family in cultivation?

Under this continued suppression, the original four single-attribute clans gradually declined into extinction. The other three had even lost their inheritances entirely.

According to the Tang Sect, their ancestor Tang San had cultivated the Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul into one of the continent's foremost powers and ascended to godhood. Therefore, the descendants of Ancestor Tang San should naturally inherit his will.

However, after hearing his father recount this, Wu Xuan had a different opinion. Over the past thousand years, the widespread use of Soul Tools had completely driven hidden weapons off the stage of history.

The Martial Souls of the Tang Sect's main line higher-ups were merely Blue Silver Grass, pitifully weak and incapable of intimidating the four subordinate single-attribute clans. In order to consolidate their own power, perhaps that was the true reason the Tang Sect higher-ups had suppressed and plotted against the four clans.

But the Tang Sect's higher-ups truly were unbelievably foolish, bringing about their own destruction. It was one thing for them to be trash themselves, but they even wanted their subordinates to be trash alongside them. Their eventual extermination was well deserved.

Wu Lin had joked more than once that if the Tang Sect's higher-ups had not been so foolish, then no matter how deeply he and Yang Wenhui loved one another, he could never have married a peerless daughter of heaven like her.

Ever since Wu Xuan awakened Twin Martial Souls with Innate Full Soul Power at the age of six, his father's smile had practically never left his face. After discussing it, the two moved away from their original home overnight, distancing themselves from the city where the Tang Sect was stationed.

It was also at the moment he awakened his Martial Souls that Wu Xuan regained the memories of his Previous Life. He knew that he was not originally from this world. Compared to his Previous Life, he now had parents who loved him and unparalleled talent. Wu Xuan was very satisfied with his current life.

As for his Previous Life, he was already dead. No matter how much he thought about it, he could not go back. Besides, his younger brother was there to care for their parents, and with the compensation from his accident, he believed their lives would not be too difficult afterward.

Yet Wu Xuan never imagined that his warm life would come to an abrupt end when he was nine years old.

That year, Wu Xuan cultivated the Enlightenment Scripture distributed by the martial arts gym from his Previous Life and broke through to Level Twenty. It should have been a joyous occasion, but an accident occurred on their way back from a soul hunt. They encountered an Evil Soul Master with cultivation as high as Soul Saint.

The Evil Soul Master stared greedily at Wu Xuan, looking as though he wanted to swallow him whole. A fierce battle erupted. Though the Evil Soul Master was a Soul Saint, he was unable to gain any advantage against Wu Xuan's parents fighting together.

After a long struggle, both sides had intended to call a truce. However, a Dark Demon Evil God Tiger with cultivation exceeding ten thousand years suddenly attacked. With a single move, it heavily injured the Evil Soul Saint. Wu Xuan and his parents escaped amid the chaos caused by the Evil Soul Master's self-destruction, but the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger was not seriously injured and soon pursued them again.

Knowing he was certain to die, his father stayed behind alone to stop the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger so that his mother and Wu Xuan could escape. Yet only moments later, the tiger caught up again. His mother moved to intercept it, telling Wu Xuan only one thing: do not look back. Keep running forward. Just run.

Tears filled Wu Xuan's eyes as he unleashed his Second Soul Skill and ran with all his strength. He did not know how long or how far he ran until his body could no longer endure it, and he collapsed to the ground.

In the span of a single day, his Level Fifty-Eight Soul King father and Level Sixty-Nine Soul Emperor mother both died in the Star Dou Great Forest. Looking at the Storage Soul Tools left behind by each of his parents, Wu Xuan cried for a long, long time that day, even with the memories of his Previous Life.

After grieving, Wu Xuan wiped away his tears and walked step by step toward a town in the outer region.

He cultivated as he traveled, ventured alone, and later joined soul-hunting squads, enduring countless battles and killings. There was naturally a different flavor to all he experienced along the way. Yet even to this day, Wu Xuan had never returned to his original home.

Over the past two and a half years, Wu Xuan had already tempered himself into someone decisive and ruthless in battle. He was still three months away from turning twelve, yet his Soul Power had reached Level Thirty half a year ago. He only lacked one soul ring to break through to Soul Elder.

The reason Wu Xuan had joined the soul-hunting squad and come to the Star Dou Great Forest was, aside from earning some extra money, to familiarize himself with its terrain. First, he would sooner or later kill that Dark Demon Evil God Tiger to avenge his parents. Second, it was naturally for the Million-Year Soul Beast, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm. With his attack-type spiritual Martial Soul, the Soul Breaking Spear, only someone with water in his brain would pass up such an opportunity.

Besides, he refused to believe that Sky Dream Ice Silkworm would ignore someone as talented as him and insist on choosing Huo Yuhao instead.

Furthermore, before taking part in this soul hunt, Wu Xuan had already used money and connections to buy a house in a nearby main city. He had also established good relations with the officials at the City Lord's residence. All he needed to do afterward was spend some money and follow the procedures to obtain the City Lord's letter of recommendation. Even if he ultimately failed to obtain Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, he refused to believe that, with his talent, he would not receive Shrek Academy's full support.