On a quiet night, the bright moon hung high in the sky.
Ning Rongrong gazed at the Full Moon, her thoughts in turmoil.
"Oscar, you jerk, hurry up and come back..."
Chen Xin and Ning Fengzhi stood on the roof, quietly watching. They had figured out why Ning Rongrong had been so troubled.
"Rongrong cares too much about Oscar. This can't go on..."
Ning Fengzhi's expression was complicated. Ning Rongrong was lovesick, and the only way to resolve this was to find Oscar. But who knew where Oscar had gone?
The two could only sigh and leave in silence.
Meanwhile, Ling Chen had arrived at the Soto Great Soul Arena.
He had only one reason for coming: loot corpses! Loot corpses! And damn it, loot more corpses!
Ever since obtaining his Soul Ring, Ling Chen had looted the Hundred Shadow Demon Crow's corpse, but he hadn't looted another since.
His hands were itching for it. Following the pitch-black passage, Ling Chen came to a morgue.
There were three ways to fight here: match battles, deathmatches, and betting matches. Aside from match battles, the other two kinds often left corpses behind.
There weren't many corpses in the morgue. Most had already been claimed by their families; the rest were unclaimed.
As a qualified coroner, Ling Chen naturally had to see what was what~.
His little hands, covered in calluses, touched the cold corpse. There wasn't a trace of fear on his face. If anything, he looked a little excited.
"Hehe, boy~!"
Ling Chen could no longer hold back his grin. Nearly every corpse had three or four Soul Rings.
This place was another paradise!
Just as Ling Chen was happily looting corpses, the hurried footsteps of two people approached the morgue.
"Hurry, hurry! There's a great show today. What a waste of space—he died without even lasting two moves!"
The two dragged a corpse to the morgue entrance, tossed it inside, then left. They hadn't even noticed there was someone in the morgue.
"What's this? Someone's delivering freebies!"
Seeing them hurry off, Ling Chen finished looting the charred corpse on the ground, then ran after them. The freebies could wait, but the show was best enjoyed fresh.
Following them all the way, Ling Chen spotted a fiery woman standing in a one-on-one arena. Flames surged beneath her feet, burning the Soul Master she was standing on.
Her fiery style drew loud cheers from the audience. Ling Chen couldn't help stopping in his tracks. The woman onstage seemed strangely familiar.
Before anyone had carried the corpse away, she had already left the arena.
"This is so boring. None of them can take a hit. Come on, Feng Xiaotian! Let's check somewhere else."
Feng Xiaotian? Ling Chen thought it over. He seemed to be from the Four Elements Academy. But the four elements had all been united with Shrek, so the other one must be Huo Wu.
She'd only killed a few people, and now she wanted to leave? Had she even considered Ling Chen's feelings? Did she have any idea how hard it was for him to loot corpses?
Seeing that Huo Wu and the others were about to leave, Ling Chen had to resort to a few tricks to make sure he got his chance to loot.
Ling Chen switched into tailing mode and followed them all the way to the Heaven Dou City Great Soul Arena.
Other Soul Masters from the elemental academies were there too: Huo Wu's brother, Huo Wushuang; Shui Bing'er of Skywater Academy; her younger sister, Shui Yue'er; and Yu Tianxin of Thunder Academy.
The six had gathered there, apparently waiting for one more teammate so they could compete in a team battle.
"Huo Wu, did you run into any powerful Soul Masters over there? The vice dean told us to reach Silver Soul Fighter rank in team battles here within seven days. If we fail, next month's daily training load will triple!"
Huo Wushuang was getting anxious. The top fighters from the Four Elements Academy were all here now; they were only missing one person.
"It's a shame Yu Tianheng had something come up. Otherwise, we'd be more than strong enough to break the Shrek Seven Devils' record."
Yu Tianxin sighed. His cousin wasn't much weaker than the Shrek Seven Devils.
"No. Everyone at the Suotuo arena was trash. Not one of them could even take a single hit from me..."
Huo Wu spread her hands helplessly. Feng Xiaotian, however, turned to look behind them. He had an inexplicable feeling that someone was watching.
"Who's there?"
Feng Xiaotian trusted his instincts. He'd felt that something was off all the way here. Seeing his reaction, the others looked over too.
Ling Chen was hiding in a large tree, its lush leaves perfectly concealing him. But Feng Xiaotian kept staring at the tree below him, as though certain Ling Chen was hiding nearby.
"Don't be so jumpy. Come on, let's go inside and take a look..."
Huo Wu pulled Feng Xiaotian along. After giving the others a look, she walked into the Heaven Dou City Great Soul Arena as if nothing were amiss.
Only after they had all gone inside did Ling Chen jump down from the tree. But before he could steady himself, his Killing Intent Perception flared, and he immediately rolled to the side.
Several spinning wind blades sliced through the tree, but that wasn't the end of it. His Killing Intent Perception still hadn't faded.
Ling Chen leaped into the air. The ground beneath his feet had already frozen, forming a long icicle.
"Damn it!"
Ling Chen pulled an iron sword from his Soul Tool and cleaved the icicle in two. As soon as he landed, two fireballs came hurtling toward him.
Ling Chen rolled to dodge, then immediately launched into a series of backflips. Two icicles thrust up from the ground, hot on his heels.
Ling Chen seized his chance and cut them down with a single slash. The icicles shattered. As the fragments fell, a golden ball of lightning was already flying toward him.
Ling Chen gritted his teeth. If that hit him, he'd probably be sleeping as peacefully as a baby.
Feeling death closing in, Ling Chen summoned the Green Steel Sword in his other hand. He raised it in front of himself. Before the golden ball of lightning could touch the sword, it exploded.
"Boom!"
Thick smoke billowed up, threaded with flickering golden arcs of electricity.
"What nimble footwork! He even dodged after his landing spot had been predicted!"
Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er stared in disbelief. Anyone else would either have been impaled by the icicles or frozen solid on the spot.
As the smoke cleared, Ling Chen stood there with a cold expression. Blood trickled from the corner of his mouth, and the hand gripping the Green Steel Sword trembled slightly.
The six stared at him, stunned. They'd just unleashed a whole set of Soul Skills on a child?
"A bunch of adults at Soul Power levels in the forties and fifties ganging up on a little kid? You've got no shame!"
Ling Chen wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth. A cold glint flashed in his eyes, and for a moment he could barely suppress the killing intent in his heart.
"So that's who was following us. Just a little brat."
Huo Wu tossed him a bag of Gold Soul Coins, waved her hand, and turned toward the Great Soul Arena.
"Take it and buy yourself some candy. Don't say we bullied a little kid. If we'd really fought, you might have died here. Hurry home to your mother!"
Huo Wushuang and the others turned and followed Huo Wu, not taking Ling Chen seriously.
However, Ling Chen kicked the bag of Gold Soul Coins away, and the Peerless Domain unfurled...
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