Driving Wolves to Devour Tigers, Turning the Tables!

Jin Yan roamed back and forth through the Soul Beast Forest without any particular destination, neither hurried nor slow as he made his way toward the forest's center. No matter which direction they entered from, as long as they kept moving forward, they would eventually meet in the center.

In this way, he gradually discovered quite a few examinees harboring ill intentions toward him. The strongest among them was only a level twenty-five Soul Grandmaster.

Like Jin Yan, they had all entered the Soul Beast Forest from the south.

But before Jin Yan, they were nothing more than lambs awaiting slaughter. He dispatched them with ease.

This Soul Beast Forest covered a considerable area. Jin Yan conserved his strength as he traveled forward at an unhurried pace. Every soul beast he encountered was injured by him and fled.

A full moon hung high in the sky, its cold light slipping through gaps in the leaves and spilling across the ground.

In the blink of an eye, three days had passed, and Jin Yan finally arrived at the inner region of the Soul Beast Forest.

Beside a tree, a plump Soft Bone Rabbit sizzled over the bonfire, its grease dripping as the orange flames illuminated Jin Yan.

If this had been the Star Dou Great Forest, Jin Yan would never have dared light a fire. Though most creatures feared flames, there were still a handful of powerful soul beasts that would follow the light!

But in this Soul Beast Forest, where the strongest soul beasts were only a thousand years old, Jin Yan had no such concerns. He was not Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang—someone who could be solo-killed by a four-hundred-year Man-eating Vine Snake!

After three days of hunting, Jin Yan had collected more than thirty identity tokens. To prevent students from cheating, the academy required every class's Soul Tools to be handed over to their homeroom teacher. Jin Yan had nowhere to store so many identity tokens, so he could only tie them together with a rope and fasten them around his waist.

The only problem was that whenever he made even a slightly larger movement, they would jingle and clatter, which irritated Jin Yan greatly.

However, it also had one advantage: it could serve as a filter.

He had already thought it through. There were so many people in the academy that searching for them one by one would be far too troublesome. All he needed was to wait for the stronger students, or those who had formed teams, to eliminate the weaker ones. Then he could follow behind and reap the benefits.

With so many identity tokens hanging from his body, he was undoubtedly a symbol of strength and a display of intimidation in this Soul Beast Forest. Students who believed themselves weak would naturally avoid him outright. Jin Yan usually could not be bothered to chase them anyway. If they were not strong enough, their tokens would end up in his hands sooner or later.

As for those students who fancied themselves capable enough to come and seize his identity tokens, Jin Yan would naturally show them what it meant that there was always someone stronger!

Jin Yan rubbed the token in his hand when his ears suddenly twitched. His eyes narrowed slightly, gleaming with danger.

"Driving wolves to devour tigers... not a bad idea. Unfortunately, you ran into me!"

Jin Yan suddenly leaped onto the treetop and looked toward the east. By the moonlight, he could vaguely make out several ghostly green lights slowly approaching from that direction.

Looking at the seven Nether Wolf soul beasts gradually closing in on him, Jin Yan revealed a cruel smile. A sinister plan slowly took shape in his mind.

"Hey, can this really work? That guy is really strong. It's been a whole day, and I haven't seen him use a single soul skill."

Behind the Nether Wolves, several figures trailed them from a short distance away. One of them spoke quietly, his voice filled with concern.

"What are you afraid of? The moment things go wrong, we'll run immediately," the leader said confidently.

"Hmph, I carefully picked out these Nether Wolves. Three of them are hundred-year soul beasts. No matter how strong he is, I refuse to believe he can beat three hundred-year soul beasts!" one of them said disdainfully.

"The third brother really is impressive. He actually came up with driving wolves to devour tigers, using the scent of that thousand-year Phantom Tail Spirit Tiger's dung to drive this wolf pack here."

The man from before licked his lips and said greedily, "I only noticed that he had so many identity tokens on him, and we just happened to find that Phantom Tail Spirit Tiger dung. Isn't this a heaven-sent opportunity?"

Jin Yan watched the Nether Wolves slowly approach. When they were more than ten meters from the bonfire, the old wolf leading the pack suddenly stopped. It sniffed at the ground as if it had smelled something. It glanced at the wolf king, but after sensing the dominant aura of the Phantom Tail Spirit Tiger behind them, it still chose to continue forward.

Once they came within three meters of Jin Yan, he finally moved from where he had been coldly watching atop the treetop.

Fine dragon scales instantly grew across his body, and a crocodilian tail swept out from behind him. At the same time, he released the incomparably tyrannical and pure dragon might of the Golden Crocodile Dragon. A ring of golden ripples spread outward from Jin Yan as their center.

This was not a domain, but rather a method of utilizing martial soul pressure. To a certain extent, however, it could achieve the effect of a domain.

Jin Yan had developed this while bored, based on Mu En's Self-Created Soul Skill, Dominating the World, from Douluo Dalu II. It was still in its initial stage, so naturally it could not compare to Dominating the World in its complete form. At present, he could only release his martial soul's pressure to the greatest extent possible. He could not yet fuse his spirit, martial soul origin, and everything else into one, as Dominating the World did. Ultimately, it was because his strength was still insufficient.

However, the Golden Dragon King highly approved of Jin Yan's soul skill, declaring that it could eventually evolve into an exceptionally powerful domain skill. He also said that once Jin Yan's martial soul evolved once more, it would undergo a tremendous qualitative transformation, and there was a great chance that it would develop an innate domain as well.

One had to know that innate domains were exceptionally powerful. Across the entire continent, there were not many people who possessed one.

The Nether Wolf soul beasts below felt the overwhelming dragon might and immediately felt as if they had been struck on the head. A terrifying aura descended upon them from above, and the fear rising from their souls made their entire bodies tremble.

Every hair on their bodies stood on end as they flattened themselves against the ground. Their ferocious wolf eyes were now wide with terror, and they let out frightened whimpers. Fortunately, Jin Yan controlled it well and did not scare them into soiling themselves, leaving them with a certain amount of strength.

The pressure came quickly and vanished just as quickly. Only after that terrifying pressure disappeared did they shakily rise to their feet, their legs still trembling.

The wolf king's dignity finally asserted itself. With a long, distant howl from the wolf king, the Nether Wolves trembled as they reformed their formation. The old wolf took the lead, the wolf king brought up the rear, and they headed back the way they had come.

After all, compared to that thousand-year Phantom Tail Spirit Tiger, the dragon might Jin Yan had just unleashed was far more intimidating.

And frankly speaking, given the overall strength of their wolf pack, they did not truly fear that Phantom Tail Spirit Tiger of over a thousand years. Wolves were simply the most cautious creatures and feared injury the most. They avoided what they could in ordinary times, and when a more powerful existence appeared, they naturally turned back under its pressure.