Passing judgment without caring who was right or wrong-no one but Shrek would do that.
The first words out of her mouth were "Evil Soul Master." Heh. What a joke.
Lin Xiao did not even want to deal with her. He had almost no favorable impression of Shrek. Even Huo Yuhao turned out to be no good later on.
Lin Xiao wanted little to do with a faction like that.
Lin Xiao turned to leave.
The woman immediately stopped him. "Stay where you are. You're not leaving until you explain yourself."
Lin Xiao laughed at that. See? This was Shrek.
"Heh, see? This is Shrek. You start by calling me an Evil Soul Master, then insist I'm not allowed to leave."
Lin Xiao simply stared at the woman. He truly wanted little to do with Shrek.
Shrek bullied people with its power and behaved without a shred of decency. It was disgusting, a cancer.
It publicly claimed not to interfere in conflicts between nations, yet the moment someone tried to unify them, it intervened under the banner of doing what was best for the continent.
It was disgusting to the core.
"Can you move aside now?"
Lin Xiao spoke coldly and turned to leave.
The next instant, the woman swiftly stepped in front of Lin Xiao and looked him up and down.
Lin Xiao raised his eyes to look at her as well. Her cool face held a trace of gentleness, and she did not seem to take pride in belonging to Shrek.
"Would you like to join Shrek?"
The woman asked outright. Since he was not an Evil Soul Master, she could have him join Shrek. He was fairly strong.
Lin Xiao shook his head. "I have no fondness for Shrek."
With that, Lin Xiao turned to leave, but the woman stubbornly blocked him.
Lin Xiao's expression chilled. If you don't move aside, I'll have Old Medicine come out and fight for me.
I can't beat you, but I can call someone who can, right?
The woman smiled. "As long as you explain why you dislike Shrek so much, I'll let you leave. How does that sound?"
Live long enough and you really did see everything. Someone actually wanted to hear bad things about her own side.
"Heh, do you really need someone to tell you how disgusting Shrek's actions are?"
"If you want to know, go ask around yourself. Stop bothering me."
Lin Xiao truly did not want to waste any more words on her. She was wasting his time.
He still planned to rob Shrek in the future. If he did not improve his strength now, how long would he have to wait?
The more Lin Xiao spoke like this, the more interested the woman became. This was her first time meeting someone who harbored such resentment toward Shrek.
She would not be satisfied until she got to the bottom of it.
"Little fellow, I won't let you leave until you explain yourself."
The woman was unafraid. He was only a Soul Grandmaster, after all, and she had plenty of time to indulge him.
Lin Xiao was even more speechless. Shrek really did spit on the courtesy it was offered.
He lightly tapped his ring, and Old Medicine inside immediately understood. "Xiao Xiaozi, how about I lend you the Bone Spirit Cold Flame to play with?"
Lin Xiao's eyes lit up, and he immediately answered in his mind, All right, but Teacher, can I actually use it?
Lin Xiao was a little worried. That was the Bone Spirit Cold Flame. Could he use it with his current strength?
"No. You can only throw it."
Old Medicine smiled faintly and gave him a brief explanation.
Huh?
Throw it? That could work. As long as it could kill an enemy.
"All right!"
Lin Xiao did not mind. As long as he could play with the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, even if all he did was throw it.
The next instant, the Bone Spirit Cold Flame appeared in Lin Xiao's hand, and a sinister smile crossed his face.
Shrek, this will be the Bone Spirit Cold Flame's first kill. Letting you mark the beginning of its slaughter is more than you deserve.
Without wasting another word, Lin Xiao threw it straight at her.
The instant she saw the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, the woman was startled and immediately unleashed her Martial Soul to defend herself.
A moon appeared behind her, and the eighth Soul Ring beneath her feet shone with a dazzling red light.
Only after throwing it did Lin Xiao notice her Martial Soul and Soul Rings.
A moon, eight rings with a hundred-thousand-year ring, and Shrek!
With those three clues together, this could only be Zhang Lexuan.
But he had already thrown the Bone Spirit Cold Flame. Who cared? So what if she was Zhang Lexuan? She was the one blocking his way.
Damn it, what kind of flame is this?!
Zhang Lexuan cursed inwardly as the certainty of death rose in her heart. She had never expected to die at the hands of a little fellow. How laughable. Why had she stopped him in the first place?
The next instant, Old Medicine's voice rang out. "Boy, run! Someone powerful is coming."
Lin Xiao was speechless. Why were powerful people everywhere?
The Bone Spirit Cold Flame had already been withdrawn, but a little had still touched Zhang Lexuan, burning her entire arm.
"Zhang Lexuan, if you want to know the truth about your background, go to the Sun Moon Empire and find Silver Moon Douluo Kong Deming."
"Remember to investigate in private."
With that, Lin Xiao turned and ran without the slightest hesitation. Since he had failed to kill her, he would give her something to trouble over instead. Hehehe.
Lin Xiao did not know whether any of this was true, but who cared? What if it was? Even if it was false, that did not matter.
In less than a minute, an emerald-green figure appeared beside Zhang Lexuan, followed by a tremendous surge of vitality coursing through her.
"Lexuan, what happened?"
The man spoke, his face full of astonishment as he looked at her arm, half burned away by the Bone Spirit Cold Flame.
Fortunately, the flame's owner had not been serious. Otherwise, even his healing would have been useless.
Lin Xiao had simply thrown the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, relying only on its instinctive burning rather than actually wielding it.
Otherwise, how could Zhang Lexuan have gotten away with mere burns?
"Elder, it was a Soul Grandmaster!" Zhang Lexuan gritted her teeth. She had never imagined she would fall at the hands of a Soul Grandmaster.
If this middle-aged man had not arrived in time, she really would have died. She had no way to extinguish that flame and could only let it burn.
Lin Xiao's words kept echoing through Zhang Lexuan's mind. She was about to tell the man, but when the words reached her lips, she could not bring herself to say them.
He had called out her name afterward, clearly because of her Martial Soul. Was Kong Deming truly connected to her?
For a moment, Zhang Lexuan did not know what to do, but she told no one.
Someone capable of injuring her would surely disdain lying.
The man beside Zhang Lexuan was none other than Sea God Pavilion Elder Zhuang Yusen, whose title was Life!
Zhuang Yusen found Zhang Lexuan's words hard to believe, but she was Shrek's Senior Disciple Sister, Zhang Lexuan. She had no reason to lie.
"What exactly happened?"
Zhuang Yusen questioned Zhang Lexuan, sweeping the surroundings with his Spirit Power, yet he could not find a single Soul Grandmaster.
By now, Lin Xiao had already fled under Old Medicine's concealment. Though he had not escaped the range of Zhuang Yusen's Spirit Power scan, with Old Medicine there, the man could not detect him at all.
Zhang Lexuan recounted what had happened, but left out Lin Xiao's final words and his dissatisfaction with Shrek.
The more Zhuang Yusen heard, the less he believed it. At last, he suppressed his doubts and decided to ask Mu En once they returned. "Let's head back first."
But Zhang Lexuan refused. "Elder, I won't be returning just yet. I still have something to do."
Zhang Lexuan offered no further explanation. In her heart, she believed Lin Xiao's words-that strange flame, that immense Soul Power he possessed as a Soul Grandmaster.
On top of that, he had called out her name at the end and even knew Kong Deming.
The more Zhang Lexuan thought about it, the more panic rose in her heart. What if things really were as he had said?
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