Fire Wushuang's Siblings, Fallen Soul Masters

Lin Li turned around and continued wandering through the street. He bought some barbecue, then hurriedly squeezed into the crowd to watch the commotion when he heard something happening nearby.

The people surrounding the scene had encircled an old man lying on the ground and a small stall selling protective charms.

"Come and see! They're bullying an old man!"

The old man lay on the ground, rolling around and throwing a tantrum. He waved his hands about, grabbing at an enemy who did not exist.

"You! You clearly refused to buy my things and even tried to snatch them, then stepped on my protective charms!"

The stall owner looked like a plain, honest woman. At that moment, her face had flushed red.

"That just means your things are no good! Otherwise, why wouldn't you let me look at them? Does not buying mean I can't touch them?"

Lin Li, who was watching the show, twitched the corner of his mouth.

He had still overestimated the reasons behind conflicts among ordinary people. Someone could actually say something like that. It seemed the old man must have been quite a character in his youth.

The matter clearly was not going to be resolved so quickly. The old man soon stated his demand: "I don't care. You have to compensate me! My waist is about to break—ow, my waist... At least three Gold Soul Coins! Ow, my waist..."

"You old man, you're being completely unreasonable!"

At that moment, a crisp, brisk female voice rang out from within the crowd. Then, a red-haired girl in the uniform of Blazing Academy stepped out not far from Lin Li. She pointed at the old man and began berating him.

"Quite the attack power!"

Lin Li could not help exclaiming. A red-haired boy beside him said awkwardly, "She really is. Her attack power has been strong since she was little."

Lin Li turned his head and asked the person beside him, "You know each other?"

The boy felt the gazes of everyone around him fall on him and hurriedly waved his hands. "We don't!"

"Heh heh!"

Lin Li gave an awkward laugh. The two of them were standing together in school uniforms and looked so alike. There was no way anyone could believe they did not know each other.

As if he had thought of something, Lin Li asked the boy uncertainly, "Huo Wushuang?"

"You know me?"

The two of them stared at each other.

If this person was Huo Wushuang, then the girl doing the cursing was Huo Wu.

Too many years had passed, and Lin Li had forgotten these supporting characters.

"The name of Blazing Academy's genius, Huo Wushuang, is renowned far and wide. I've naturally heard of you. I'm Lin Li. It's a pleasure to meet you."

Huo Wushuang failed to notice the perfunctory politeness in Lin Li's words and felt extremely pleased with himself.

"Big Brother!"

Huo Wu's booming voice drew Huo Wushuang's attention away. Lin Li also turned to look.

Something seemed to have broken out at the other end of the crowd. Lin Li followed Huo Wushuang as he ran over there. Huo Wu said angrily, "A Human Trafficker took advantage of the chaos to grab several children just now. Let's hurry and chase them!"

Lin Li looked around and saw a familiar passerby. It was the same passerby he had questioned earlier.

Seeing the man's expression of utter despair, Lin Li's heart sank as he thought of a terrible possibility.

"Which way did they go?"

Only then did Huo Wu notice the seemingly young boy behind her brother. She instinctively pointed and said, "That way."

"Okay."

Lin Li immediately ran in the direction Huo Wu indicated, vanishing from sight in an instant.

Huo Wu, who had remained behind, asked Huo Wushuang, "Big Brother, who was that?"

"Uh, someone..." Huo Wushuang organized his thoughts before saying, "A child who was attracted by my strength."

"You're sure?"

Huo Wu did not believe him. With Lin Li's speed and age, how could he have been attracted by the strength of her idiot brother?

It would have made more sense if it had been her.

At that moment, a boy wearing a half-mask resembling Lanling Wang walked over. He held a drink in each hand and passed one to Huo Wu.

"Huo Wu, what's going on?"

Only then did Huo Wu remember what she had to do. She had been too shocked by Lin Li's speed just now.

"I have to catch up quickly..."

With that, Huo Wu took off running, her speed not slow in the slightest.

Feng Xiaotian withdrew the drink he had held out, completely accustomed to it.

As a standard pursuer, Feng Xiaotian had naturally heard about Blazing City's festival.

In his eyes, Huo Wu was the most beautiful and most talented girl, so of course he had to make time to come and watch her dance... Although Huo Wu had made it clear that she would not participate in that sort of event, Feng Xiaotian felt that simply seeing Huo Wu made him happy.

"...That's more or less what happened."

After Huo Wushuang finished telling Feng Xiaotian what had just happened, he prepared to follow in his sister's footsteps, but Feng Xiaotian stopped him.

With Huo Wu gone, Feng Xiaotian's intelligence had returned.

"According to what you said, the Human Trafficker vanished in the time it took you to turn your head. That means their strength is definitely not weak... For safety's sake, I'll follow them. You return to the academy and report this."

"How can I do that?"

"Listen to me. I'm faster."

Feng Xiaotian said this with great confidence. Then he activated the Wind-Bladed Two-Headed Demon Wolf, wind gathering beneath his feet as he sprinted away.

Huo Wushuang hesitated for a moment before deciding to return to the academy and ask Grandfather for help.

If Feng Xiaotian's guess was correct, there was a good chance those Human Traffickers were powerful Soul Masters. Soul Masters referred to people like that as Fallen Soul Masters!

Elsewhere.

Lin Li chased for several minutes before finally seeing the Human Traffickers fleeing with two children cradled in one arm. There were four of them in total.

The four of them noticed Lin Li as well. After exchanging glances, one of them threw the two children in his hands toward a companion, then turned around to face Lin Li.

Seeing the four Soul Rings appear beneath the man's feet, Lin Li's expression grew solemn.

It seemed he would not be able to conceal his Soul Rings today. To make up for the time, he had to kill his opponent quickly!

In the next moment, the enormous Mahoraga Martial Soul appeared behind Lin Li, granting him two passive Soul Skill enhancements.

"How is that possible?!"

Looking at the yellow and purple Soul Rings beneath Lin Li's feet, the Human Trafficker felt as though his entire worldview had been shattered.

How could someone like this exist? This could no longer be described as merely being a genius!

He had no time to think further. He had already seen Lin Li's fist growing larger in his field of vision.

The man gripped the Straight Blade Martial Soul he had condensed. He released his third amplification Soul Skill, muscles bulging as he swung his blade at Lin Li.

Lin Li did not take the blow head-on. He halted his movement and turned sideways to evade the Downward Slash. At the same time, he recalled Tang San's technique for exerting force through Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon. With a turn, he gathered the force of his charge into his fist once more, spun around, and slammed it violently into the man's face!

"Bang!"

The body fell from the rooftop to the ground with a tremendous crash. Before the man could react, Lin Li had already leaped down from above and thrown another punch!

"Ah!!"

A cry of agony rang out. The man's eyes turned bloodshot, and Blood Qi coiled around his body.

Lin Li sensed that something was wrong. This blood-colored gas was not inherent to his Martial Soul, which meant...

This man was an Evil Soul Master!

By today's standards, that meant he was a Fallen Soul Master!

Lin Li immediately stopped hesitating. Soul Power surged through his right hand, and a milky-white sword was summoned.

"Pfft!"

The Sword of Exorcism plunged viciously into the man's abdomen, and he was visibly shocked.

This boy's strength was indeed tremendous, but he could definitely hold out until he activated his Secret Manual. According to his expectations, he could then turn the tables... Yet he never could have imagined that this boy was actually...

"Twin Martial Souls... I'm unwilling to accept this..."