Failed to Loot the Corpse, Beaten by the Mob

The night was silent, the bright moon hanging high in the sky.

Ning Rongrong gazed at the full moon, her thoughts drifting far away.

"Oscar, you bad egg, hurry up and come back to me..."

Chen Xin and Ning Fengzhi stood on the eaves, watching all of this quietly; they had finally found the reason for Ning Rongrong's melancholy.

"Rongrong cares too much about Oscar. This can't go on like this..."

Ning Fengzhi's expression was complex. Ning Rongrong was trapped by her feelings, and the only way to break the deadlock was to find Oscar. But who knew where Oscar had gone?

The two could only sigh and leave in silence.

On the other side, Ling Chen arrived at the Suotuo Great Soul Arena.

He had only one purpose for coming here: looting corpses! Looting corpses! And more damn corpse-looting!

Ever since Ling Chen had obtained his Soul Ring and looted the body of the Hundred Shadow Demon Crow, he hadn't touched a single corpse.

His hands itching uncontrollably, Ling Chen followed the pitch-black corridor until he reached a morgue.

There were three ways to fight in the arena: sparring matches, life-and-death duels, and gambling duels. Aside from the sparring matches, the other two methods always produced corpses.

There weren't many bodies in the morgue; most had already been claimed by their families, leaving only the unclaimed ones behind.

As a qualified coroner, Ling Chen naturally had to see what was going on.

His small, calloused hands touched the cold corpses. There wasn't a hint of fear on Ling Chen's face; instead, he felt a little bit of joy.

"Hehe, boy~!"

Ling Chen could no longer suppress his smile. Basically, every corpse had three to four Soul Rings on them.

This place was another paradise!

Just as Ling Chen was happily looting corpses, the sound of two pairs of hurried footsteps approached the morgue.

"Hurry, hurry! There's a good show to watch today. That guy was a real piece of trash, he didn't even last two moves before dying!"

The two men dragged a corpse to the entrance of the morgue, tossed it aside, and left. They didn't even notice that there was someone inside.

"What's the situation? Someone is delivering welfare!"

Seeing the two men hurry away, Ling Chen finished looting the charred corpse on the ground and chased after them. The welfare could be collected later, but the gossip had to be fresh.

Following them all the way, Ling Chen saw a fiery woman standing in a one-on-one duel arena, the flames rising beneath her feet burning the soul master she was stepping on.

Such explosive methods drew loud cheers from the audience. Ling Chen couldn't help but pause; the fiery woman on the stage gave him an inexplicable sense of familiarity.

Before the corpse on the ground could even be moved away, she had already stepped off the duel stage.

"How boring, not a single one of them could take a hit. Let's go, Feng Xiaotian! Let's go look somewhere else."

Feng Xiaotian? Ling Chen recalled carefully. He seemed to be from one of the Four Element Academies, but since the four elements had been integrated by Shrek, the other one must be Huo Wu.

But she wanted to leave after killing only a few people? Had she considered Ling Chen's feelings? Did she not know how hard Ling Chen worked to loot these corpses?

Seeing that Huo Wu and her companion were about to leave, Ling Chen had to use some methods to ensure he could loot the bodies.

Ling Chen activated his "stalker" mode, following them closely all the way to the Heaven Dou City Great Soul Arena.

There were other soul masters from the elemental academies here: Huo Wu's brother Huo Wushuang, Shui Bing'er from Skywater Academy, her sister Shui Yue'er, and Yu Tianxin from Thunder Academy.

The six of them gathered here, seemingly waiting for one more teammate to start a team battle.

"Huo Wu, did you encounter any powerful soul masters over there? The vice-dean told us to reach Silver Soul status in team battles here within seven days. If we don't finish it, next month's daily training volume will triple!"

Huo Wushuang was a bit anxious. All the top experts of the Four Element Academies were here now, except for one person.

"It's just a pity that Yu Tianheng is busy, otherwise, relying on us would be enough to break the record of the Shrek Seven Devils."

Yu Tianxin sighed; his cousin's strength was not much worse than the Shrek Seven Devils.

"No, the people at the Suotuo Great Soul Arena are more pathetic than the last, they couldn't even withstand a single move from me..."

Huo Wu spread her hands helplessly, but Feng Xiaotian suddenly turned his head to look behind them; he inexplicably felt like he was being watched.

"Who's there!"

Feng Xiaotian trusted his intuition. Along the way, he had felt that something was strange. Seeing Feng Xiaotian's reaction, the others looked over as well.

Ling Chen was hiding in a large tree, the lush leaves perfectly covering his body. Yet, Feng Xiaotian stared right at the tree he was standing under, as if certain he was hiding there.

"Don't be so jumpy, let's go, let's go inside and see..."

Huo Wu pulled Feng Xiaotian along, gave them a look, and walked into the Heaven Dou City Great Soul Arena as if nothing had happened.

Seeing that they had all gone inside, Ling Chen jumped down from the tree. But before he could even stand steady after landing, a strong sense of Killing Intent Perception made Ling Chen immediately roll to the side.

Several spinning wind blades sliced through the large tree, yet it wasn't over; the Killing Intent Perception had not vanished.

Ling Chen leaped up, but the ground beneath his feet had already frozen into ice, forming a long, sharp ice spike.

"Damn it!"

Ling Chen took an iron sword from his Soul Tool and split the ice spike with one strike. Just as he landed, two fireballs came crashing toward him.

Ling Chen rolled to dodge them, immediately following up with a series of backflips. Two ice spikes rising from the ground were in hot pursuit.

Ling Chen seized the moment and slashed his sword, shattering the ice spikes. As the fragments rained down, a golden sphere of lightning flew straight toward him.

Ling Chen gritted his teeth; if this strike landed, he would likely be enjoying a sleep as peaceful as an infant's.

Sensing the threat of death, Ling Chen manifested the Green Steel Sword in his other hand. He held it up to block, but the golden lightning sphere detonated before it even touched the blade.

"BOOM!"

A thick cloud of smoke billowed out, with golden electric arcs dancing within it.

"Such agile footwork! He even dodged it after we predicted his landing spot!"

Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er exclaimed in disbelief; had it been anyone else, they would have either been pierced by the ice spikes or frozen into a statue 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 was trembling slightly.

The six of them stood frozen in place, stunned—had they really just unleashed a full combo of soul skills on a child?

"A group of adults at level forty or fifty bullying a child like me—you truly have no shame!"

Ling Chen wiped the blood from his mouth, a cold glint flashing in his eyes as he struggled to suppress the killing intent rising within him.

"And here I thought someone was stalking us; turns out it's just a brat."

Huo Wu tossed a bag of Gold Soul Coins, waved her hand dismissively, and turned to walk toward the Great Soul Arena.

"Take this and go buy some candy; don't say we bullied a little kid. If we actually fought for real, you might have died right here. Hurry home to your mother!"

Huo Wushuang and the others followed Huo Wu as she turned to leave, not taking Ling Chen seriously at all.

However, Ling Chen kicked the bag of Gold Soul Coins away, and his Peerless Domain unfolded...