Favored by Fate, Secret Escort

Su Chen bade Chrysanthemum Douluo farewell and headed toward Heaven Dou City.

This time, the God of Destruction did not send him hunting for treasures along the way, so he did not need to make detours everywhere.

Su Chen rode his horse and galloped along the main road.

After they had already left Star Dou Forest some distance behind, the God of Destruction reminded him:

"That Title Douluo is still following you."

"Following me?"

Su Chen was slightly puzzled.

Could it be that Chrysanthemum Douluo was still unwilling to give up and wanted to forcibly take him back to Spirit Hall?

That should not be the case, right?

With Chrysanthemum Douluo's strength, there was no need for him to do that. If he wanted to take Su Chen by force, he could have done so earlier. There was no need to play along with him.

"This person probably bears you no ill will. He seems to be planning to protect you for a while."

"Protect me?"

Chrysanthemum Douluo was a decent person, but was he really this decent?

Su Chen had refused to become his disciple, yet not only had he not retaliated out of spite, he was even secretly escorting him. What kind of peerless good man was this?

"Perhaps it has something to do with your Blessing of the Goddess of Life. His Martial Soul is a unique kind of plant, so perhaps he naturally feels close to you."

The God of Destruction had found it strange at first as well, but once he saw the condition of Chrysanthemum Douluo's Martial Soul clearly, he had more or less guessed the reason.

"So that's how it is."

He had not expected the Blessing of the Goddess of Life to have such a side effect.

But this also showed that Chrysanthemum Douluo had been a decent person to begin with.

If he had been evil at heart, who knew what he might do after developing a sense of closeness toward a strange child, especially after being rejected.

Even the God of Destruction felt somewhat emotional.

He had even arranged guards for Su Chen, yet along the road, Su Chen had picked up a Title Douluo to protect him all by himself.

Although, in the end, it was still thanks to the Blessing of the Goddess of Life that he had given Su Chen.

But in the God of Destruction's eyes, even with that as a prerequisite, the fact that Su Chen had encountered Chrysanthemum Douluo—and that Chrysanthemum Douluo was a good person—was itself proof of Su Chen's luck.

Good luck was what truly mattered. That was the conclusion the God of Destruction had drawn from the events of his past life.

As the saying went, wisdom could not overcome divine powers, and divine powers could not overcome fate. Whether many things succeeded or failed ultimately depended on fate.

In Su Chen, the God of Destruction sensed traces of one favored by fate.

Ever since discovering Su Chen, the God of Destruction felt that even his own luck had improved considerably.

Whether it was building a better relationship than before with the Evil God and the God of Goodness, or making the God of Asura suffer a setback, both were things he had found difficult to accomplish in the past.

Both Su Chen and the God of Destruction felt that knowing the other was a blessing.

But for Chrysanthemum Douluo, who was secretly following Su Chen, it was regrettable.

Although Su Chen rode a horse while Chrysanthemum Douluo relied entirely on himself, with his cultivation, he could easily keep up.

By evening, two bedraggled figures appeared on the road ahead of Su Chen.

Chrysanthemum Douluo thought it was fortunate that he had followed along.

Even from afar, he could sense that not only were the two Soul Masters, but they also carried a murderous aura. They did not look like good people.

From their appearance, they seemed to have been hunted for a long time.

Chrysanthemum Douluo was an experienced veteran of the martial world. He felt there was a strong chance these two would attack Su Chen.

Sure enough, when they noticed Su Chen approaching and saw that he was a child traveling alone, vicious light flashed in their eyes.

Just as Su Chen was about to pass them, one of them transformed both hands into long-furred claws and viciously swiped at Su Chen on horseback.

One white and one yellow Soul Ring appeared around him.

Even against a child who looked so young, they still launched such a shameless sneak attack.

However, he had still been somewhat careless. He had only ambushed Su Chen without using a soul skill.

This man had thought he could easily knock Su Chen off his horse. Chrysanthemum Douluo had already revealed himself and was preparing to save Su Chen.

Although Chrysanthemum Douluo had not forced Su Chen to become his disciple, if he could save Su Chen now, perhaps Su Chen would agree out of gratitude?

Others rescued beauties as heroes; he would rescue a talented disciple as a renowned master. It would count as a fine tale.

Just as Chrysanthemum Douluo was about to act, he discovered that Su Chen had vanished from the horse's back.

More precisely, Su Chen had performed a stirrup hide, ducking to the other side of the horse.

At the same time, Su Chen's spear shot out like a dragon, thrusting straight at the man's throat from beneath the horse's belly.

The man had already frozen for a moment at Su Chen's sudden disappearance, and Su Chen's angle of attack happened to be beneath the horse's belly, right within his blind spot.

He heard his companion cry out in alarm. Just as he instinctively tried to retreat, his body suddenly stiffened, as if he had been frozen in an icebound wasteland for far too long and his joints had become rigid.

In that brief instant, Su Chen's spear tip had already reached his throat.

Soft upon entry, a line across the throat.

The tip of the Life-Killing Spear resembled a gentle bird, lightly pecking his throat with its beak.

Yet from that gentle thrust, the man instantly lost all strength and crumpled to the ground without even letting out a scream.

"Second Brother!"

The other man cried out in grief and fury.

The two brothers had survived more than ten days of pursuit, only to fall at the hands of a passing child.

"I'll kill you!"

This man's Martial Soul was identical to his brother's, also some kind of beast Martial Soul.

However, his Soul Ring configuration was better. Both his first and second Soul Rings were yellow hundred-year Soul Rings.

With his brother's fate as a warning, he did not dare underestimate Su Chen because of his age. He immediately used his first soul skill.

His claws extended sharp nails nearly half a meter long, gleaming with a dark green light and looking more like some kind of metal.

This time, Chrysanthemum Douluo did not rush to intervene.

Su Chen had just killed a two-ring Soul Grandmaster cleanly and decisively. Although he had caught him off guard, it was enough to prove Su Chen's strength.

Moreover, being able to anticipate that man's sneak attack was itself proof of sharp perception and extensive experience.

Chrysanthemum Douluo recalled Su Chen saying that he had no family, and he could not help feeling puzzled.

Although Su Chen's thrust just now had been simple and direct, without any profound spear technique.

It was precisely that simplicity that allowed Chrysanthemum Douluo to sense a solid foundation and traces of excellent instruction.

There was no way such spear technique could be figured out casually by oneself. Even a genius could not be that outrageous.

Especially when he saw the bright yellow Soul Ring on Su Chen's Life-Killing Spear.

Chrysanthemum Douluo felt it seemed slightly brighter than an ordinary hundred-year Soul Ring, but it was definitely a hundred-year Soul Ring.

Thinking of how Su Chen had previously appeared near Star Dou Forest, he even suspected that Su Chen had gone to hunt Soul Beasts alone.

While Chrysanthemum Douluo pondered the unusual aspects of Su Chen, Su Chen's clash with the other man had already begun.

After killing the first man, Su Chen had already flipped down from his horse.

This horse had followed him for several months. It would not be good if it got hurt.

Over the past few months, he had fought Soul Masters before, but he had yet to encounter a Soul Grandmaster.

Having just obtained his first Soul Ring, Su Chen also wanted to test how far his strength had progressed.

The Life-Killing Spear swept and lifted, deflecting the incoming claws.

"This seems a little easy."