Phantom Tail Spirit Tiger, Golden Generation!

After the negotiations were settled, Sun Chuantao watched from the side, feeling a faint sense of envy. After all, when he had joined Xie Yue's team, he had not received such favorable conditions. Being personally taught by an Spirit Douluo-level teacher was something countless soul masters dreamed of.

"Since that's settled, stay here tonight. I've already got a fire going over there, so you can warm yourselves by it," Jin Yan invited.

"Boss, you're that confident? You actually dared to light a fire in the Soul Beast Forest?"

Li Kai was straightforward. The moment the discussion ended, he immediately started calling Jin Yan boss, without the slightest awkwardness over Jin Yan's young age. Perhaps he simply could not tell how old Jin Yan was.

Jin Yan was now about five foot seven, with a well-proportioned build and a lock of golden hair hanging over his forehead. Aside from the lingering youthfulness visible on both cheeks, he looked like an adolescent soul master if one did not examine him closely.

The group walked over and sat beside the fire. Jin Yan picked up the Soft Bone Rabbit that was nearly reduced to charcoal, sighed, and said to Li Kai, "Kai, go catch a few more prey animals."

"I'll go." Sun Chuantao stood up. He felt extremely uncomfortable staying here. Just moments ago, he had still been the leader of their four-man group, but now he felt like an outsider. This was a good excuse to get out and catch his breath.

The night passed, and the fourth day of the assessment arrived.

The dying embers still gave off faint wisps of smoke. Jin Yan slowly opened his eyes. They had taken turns keeping watch last night, and he had finally gotten a good night's sleep. He had at last experienced the benefits of forming a team. These past few nights, he had slept with one eye open; he had not dared to sleep too deeply in the Soul Beast Forest.

After getting up and identifying their direction, the group continued wandering through the Soul Beast Forest. They were already in its inner region, so there was no need to travel back and forth, saving them considerable trouble.

They were already among the strongest participants in this assessment. Now that they were traveling as a team, they could practically go wherever they pleased!

In just half a day, they seized quite a few more identity tokens. After careful calculation, the five of them had accumulated more than sixty tokens, over forty of which had been taken by Jin Yan alone.

One had to know that the entire assessment only had a little over three hundred participants. Yet the few of them had seized nearly one-fifth of all the tokens!

This was already an extremely terrifying result. As time went on, those who remained were either powerful or exceptionally skilled at hiding. Their numbers grew smaller and smaller, and finding people in such a vast Soul Beast Forest was no easy task.

Even so, aside from a few outstanding students specially admitted to intermediate and advanced academies each year, only a little over a hundred people were able to enter Spirit Hall's advanced academy annually. Moreover, most of them would eventually be expelled due to insufficient talent.

Of course, those who could enter Spirit Hall's advanced academy were not lacking in talent. Even if they were expelled, they would generally be assigned to lower-level Spirit Hall institutions for training.

Martial Soul Academy only had elementary and advanced divisions; there was no intermediate division.

From Li Kai, he also learned that the several of them, along with more than a dozen other students in their twenties in soul power, had already been guaranteed admission into the advanced academy. This assessment was simply considered one of their entrance examinations, but they still had to participate, as it affected how highly the academy would regard them.

"The tokens we have should be the most now," Li Kai said excitedly to Jin Yan.

Jin Yan chuckled, but there was not much joy on his face. From the beginning, he had never taken this assessment seriously. Seizing tokens had merely been something he did in passing, and he cared even less about the assessment rankings.

The only things he cared about were those two Soul Bones.

There was more than one way to win the wager. From the very beginning, he had already made his plans.

Not only would he win the wager, he would win it beautifully and leave Bibi Dong completely speechless!

Therefore, he had never placed his hopes on merely seizing tokens. Instead, in this Soul Beast Forest, he intended to thoroughly eliminate her so-called Golden Generation!

Just as Jin Yan was thinking, Zhang Ping, who was flying overhead, suddenly sounded an alarm.

"Jin Yan, something's happening."

The people on the ground instantly became alert. Jin Yan asked, "What is it?"

Zhang Ping stood atop a tree, shielding her eyes from the sunlight as she looked into the distance. After a while, she said uncertainly, "It looks like someone is hunting a soul beast."

"Let's go take a look."

Jin Yan gave the order, and the people below immediately sprang into action. The five of them now clearly regarded Jin Yan as their leader.

After dashing forward for several minutes, they indeed saw a White Tiger nearly five meters long, with three tails and several blue-gold stripes across its body. It was being jointly besieged by three humans. By now, the White Tiger had been completely restrained; its death was only a matter of time.

"Phantom Tail Spirit Tiger, thirteen hundred years."

The instant Jin Yan saw the soul beast, information about it immediately surfaced in his mind.

"Xie Yue!"

At that moment, someone beside him cried out in alarm. Jin Yan looked toward the three people hunting the soul beast, his eyes narrowing slightly.

Speak of the devil. What a narrow road for enemies to meet, Jin Yan thought.

That cry had come from Sun Chuantao beside him. He had already passed Jin Yan and run straight over to help hunt the soul beast.

"Boss, should we help them?" Li Kai, who was beside him, asked.

Li Kai and the other two all looked at Jin Yan. They had recognized the three members of the Golden Generation as well and wanted to know Jin Yan's opinion.

They did not know of Jin Yan's history with those three. In their eyes, the Golden Generation was currently enjoying tremendous prestige, and even the Pope knew of them. It was best not to offend people like that if possible.

Jin Yan did not explain much. He merely said, "Stay here and watch. I'll be right back."

"Boss, if we're helping, let's go together," Li Kai hurriedly said, thinking Jin Yan was going over to assist.

But Jin Yan had already stomped his right foot on the ground and shot into the air. The Golden Dragon Crocodile martial soul was unleashed, and two purple Soul Rings abruptly rose around him. Before anyone could react, he raised his right claw and viciously struck down at the Phantom Tail Spirit Tiger charging toward him. The force was so immense that the air itself shuddered.

The powerful claw force directly sent the Phantom Tail Spirit Tiger flying several meters away, making it spit out a mouthful of blood.

But at that moment, no one had the attention to spare for the Phantom Tail Spirit Tiger lying on the ground. Their eyes were fixed unblinkingly on the two purple Soul Rings slowly rotating beneath Jin Yan's feet, their faces filled with shock.

"Millennium Soul Rings!"

In an instant, every gaze converged upon the two Millennium Soul Rings beneath Jin Yan's feet, their eyes full of disbelief.

A Soul Grandmaster actually possessed two purple Soul Rings. It was simply too shocking!

Only when another beam of purple light rose from the side did Hu Liena suddenly snap back to her senses. Her beautiful face turned visibly livid, and fire nearly burst from her eyes.

"Jin Yan! You're courting death!!"