Naive Ah Yin

Chapter 48

A month passed. In a relatively remote mountain village, Ah Yin was still as active as she had always been across Douluo Continent. She took out her little medicine chest from her Storage Soul Tool and, whenever she arrived at a village, treated its villagers free of charge.

With a treasure land like the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Qian Xunji had no shortage of medicinal herbs. But Ah Yin had never asked him for any, because her Blue Silver Domain possessed extremely powerful scouting abilities. She could sense the plants with denser energy within her domain and use Blue Silver Grass Vines to collect them.

Thus, for the past month, Qian Xunji and Ah Yin had traveled through forests rarely visited by humans.

At first, Qian Xunji had found it somewhat interesting, but gradually, he began to regret agreeing to Ah Yin's request. Drilling through forests, gathering herbs, treating villagers whenever they encountered a village—this was nothing like the trip he had imagined.

As for scenery, what place on this continent could compare to the Lake of Life in the Star Dou Great Forest or the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well? And what place could rival the splendor of Pope Palace?

Even traveling by carriage, it would take a month to reach Spirit City. At this leisurely pace, it would probably take four months.

After spending most of the morning treating all several hundred residents of the small mountain village, Ah Yin wiped the sweat from her face, put away the tables and chairs, and waved goodbye to everyone.

When she had been alone in the past, Ah Yin would ask for some dry provisions to fill her stomach. But now that Qian Xunji was with her, the food bought in big cities tasted far better than the food in small mountain villages. It was easy to go from frugality to luxury, but difficult to go from luxury to frugality, so Ah Yin's tastes gradually became pickier.

Perhaps influenced by Tang Hao and Tang Xiao—after all, swinging hammers was physically demanding—even Ah Yin, who had eaten only vegetarian food, had begun eating some meat.

At the village entrance, on the muddy road leading toward Spirit City, Qian Xunji appeared and said, "Aren't you bored? Doing the same thing over and over again, without end."

Ah Yin shook her head. "No. Don't you think it's interesting? I get tired of cultivating all the time too. Don't you also want me to reach the Transformation Stage sooner?"

Seeing Ah Yin's eager expression, Qian Xunji could not help recalling that she had been grass living in the Blue Silver Forest for a hundred thousand years. Having grown in one place for a hundred thousand years, watching scenery that barely changed every day, her patience was beyond anything he could imagine. Growing up in such an unchanging environment, it was no wonder her head was empty.

Half a month ago, in order to help Ah Yin reach the Transformation Stage as quickly as possible, Qian Xunji had given her an Immortal Herb, the Eight Petal Immortal Orchid.

The Eight Petal Immortal Orchid had the gentlest medicinal properties, yet they were also the richest and purest. It was perfectly suited for the life-attributed Blue Silver Emperor.

Its effects were Strengthening the Foundation and Nourishing the Origin, expelling impurities from the body. It was easy to absorb, but required a long time. However, Ah Yin's transformed soul beast body did not have this limitation. Thus, after taking it, she successfully broke through to Soul Emperor, and her cultivation was still increasing at an extremely rapid rate. She had now reached level 65.

As for the purpose, naturally, once she reached the Transformation Stage, there should be no need to worry that any offspring would carry soul beast traits. Ah Yin's life aura was abundant; simply put, she had a fertile constitution.

As the saying went, the origins of humans in the Douluo world were strange. They had not evolved step by step from apes or wild beasts, but were a race born countless tens of thousands of years ago from transformed soul beasts reproducing. Thus, there was no reproductive barrier at all between humans and soul beasts.

Ah Yin still said eagerly, "Those humans are so happy. In order to improve the relationship between the soul beast race and humans, these are things I must do."

Qian Xunji's lips twitched slightly before he said, "You're really stupid."

The smile on Ah Yin's face instantly vanished. Her little cheeks puffed up as she said angrily, "Why are you calling me stupid again? I'm obviously not stupid!"

Qian Xunji sensed several auras in the dense forest ahead with his Spiritual Power and said, "You'll soon understand why I say you're stupid."

After they walked roughly two hundred meters and reached a forest path, five figures leaped out and snarled, "Don't move! Hand over all the valuables on you!"

Of the five figures, four were Soul Grand Masters, while one was a Soul Elder. Beneath their feet appeared one white, one yellow, one white, and two yellow soul rings.

The moment the five finished speaking, their gazes all focused on Ah Yin. One tall man swallowed and said, "Is she a fairy?"

Another man with a pointed mouth and monkey-like cheeks, whose eyes were practically bulging out, nodded like a chicken pecking grain. "I've never seen such a beautiful woman in my life."

A third man, hideously ugly and bearing a scar across his face, added, "That man is handsome too. Us brothers are in for a treat this time!"

Qian Xunji raised his hand. Golden light surged in his palm as Soul Power gathered around his index and middle fingers. A light whip shot from his fingers, and two of the five were instantly severed into several pieces. Blood and organs splattered everywhere, an utterly nauseating sight.

"Rather than send you to the City of Slaughter, I might as well deal with you here."

Although soul masters received subsidies, human desire and the evil in human hearts could not be restrained. Once a soul master committed serious evil and their identity was discovered, they would be placed on Spirit Hall's blacklist, captured, and sent to the City of Slaughter.

Those blacklisted soul masters who did not wish to work for a living were the source of people like these.

As his words fell, Qian Xunji's light whip lashed out again. The scar-faced man was also blown apart, flesh, blood, and bone fragments scattering across the ground.

"Spare us, Senior! Spare us, Senior! We're only trying to make a living! Please spare us!"

The tall man and the pointed-mouthed, monkey-cheeked man, the last two survivors, both dropped to their knees and repeatedly kowtowed.

"Senior, I have an eighty-year-old mother above me and a newborn child below me to support. Please, spare me!"

Qian Xunji's face remained indifferent as the glowing light whip on his index and middle fingers was about to lash out again. Ah Yin's soft little hand suddenly grabbed his.

"Let them go. They're pitiful too."

A month had passed, and this was also the first time Ah Yin had seen the outwardly gentle and composed Qian Xunji act so viciously, directly blasting people apart with a whip and scattering intestines, organs, and blood all over the ground. Her voice trembled slightly.

As if he had expected this, Qian Xunji said, "Are you sure? I don't believe you never encountered this kind of thing when you traveled the continent with Tang Xiao and Tang Hao."

"We did, but Hao... Second Brother and Big Brother only taught those people a lesson before letting them go."

"Then I'll do as you say."

Qian Xunji withdrew his hand and said, "Stop blocking the road. Get lost immediately."

"Thank you, Senior, for sparing us! Thank you, fairy, for saving our lives!"

After saying this, the tall man and the pointed-mouthed, monkey-cheeked man immediately fled.

After the two left, Ah Yin and Qian Xunji entered the forest ahead. Ah Yin activated her Blue Silver Domain to search for medicinal herbs and placed them into her little medicine chest.

By the time Ah Yin and Qian Xunji climbed to the top of the mountain, it was already dusk.

Ah Yin tugged on Qian Xunji's sleeve and excitedly pointed at the setting sun on the horizon. "Look over there—the sunset is so beautiful. The little village I treated during the day is right there."

Qian Xunji nodded slightly as well. Looking down at the small village, his brows furrowed faintly. "Don't you find it strange?"

Ah Yin asked in confusion, "What's strange?"

"At this hour, the farmers should be done working and heading home to eat. Yet only one household in that small village has smoke rising from its chimney."

"Come with me."

Qian Xunji reached out, wrapped an arm around Ah Yin's soft waist, and flew toward the small village.