Blue Silver Emperor

After realizing this, Jiang Lin immediately felt that it was a bit of a problem.

Forget it. He would raise her for now and kill her when he needed to.

Thinking this, Jiang Lin stopped paying attention to Xiao Wu.

"I'll keep her for now. I'll deal with her when I need to."

Jiang Lin took a bottle of pills from his Storage Soul Tool. Naturally, they were the Soul Refining Pills he had just bought.

He uncorked the bottle, poured out a pill, and handed it to Elder Chen.

"Elder Chen, try this."

"What is it?"

The pill's fragrant scent wafted out, and Elder Chen's listless eyes suddenly snapped open.

"It's a pill that can speed up cultivation. Try it and see how long its effects last for you."

Elder Chen took the pill, swallowed it, and immediately began meditating and cultivating.

About fifteen minutes later, Elder Chen stopped and said regretfully,

"The effect is quite good. It doubled the Soul Power I gained from meditating, but fifteen minutes is a little short."

Jiang Lin nodded. It seemed this thing really was just as the system had described: no matter one's cultivation level, the boost remained fixed.

And if it lasted fifteen minutes even for a Titled Douluo, then it would certainly be enough for Jiang Lin, a level-33 Soul Elder.

Just then, the bound Xiao Wu woke up groggily.

The two people in the courtyard turned their eyes toward her at the same time.

Xiao Wu's groggy mind had only just begun to function again, but when her gaze swept over the surroundings, her head went boom, and it nearly shut down all over again.

When Elder Chen had caught her, his movements had been swift and clean.

Before Xiao Wu had even figured out what was happening, he had knocked her out and brought her back.

After waking up and realizing she had been kidnapped, Xiao Wu had only one thought.

I'm done for!

After taking human form and coming to the human world, what Xiao Wu feared most was running into powerful humans who would discover she was a Soul Beast.

In this situation, the only explanation her not-so-bright little brain could come up with was that she had been found out.

"Y-You... who are you? Why did you kidnap me?!"

Xiao Wu's voice trembled, but she still forced herself to act calm.

What if...? What if I guessed wrong?

"This isn't a kidnapping."

Jiang Lin's calm voice reached Xiao Wu's ears. She froze slightly, and her heart immediately leaped into her throat.

"This is a capture."

Xiao Wu's heart, which had just leaped into her throat, instantly sank to the bottom.

Along with her fear, regret and hatred rose in her heart.

Jiang Lin ignored Xiao Wu's hateful glare and instead pondered another question.

Could this girl starve herself to death so I can't get her Soul Ring?

But after thinking about Xiao Wu's behavior in the original story, he decided she probably didn't have the nerve.

Still, Jiang Lin decided to be extra cautious.

"Elder Chen, please keep an eye on her."

"Don't worry. With me watching her, this rabbit won't be able to do anything."

As Xiao Wu listened to their conversation, the light in her lively eyes completely vanished.

"Why? I never did anything to you! Is it just because I'm a Soul Beast? Do Soul Beasts deserve to die?!"

Xiao Wu shouted at Jiang Lin in fury.

Hearing that, Jiang Lin couldn't help but scoff. The fact that she could ask such a question showed just how absurdly low her intelligence was.

Jiang Lin felt not the slightest bit of pity for her. After swallowing a pill, he returned to his room to cultivate, leaving behind one parting remark:

"Hah, if Soul Beasts don't die, then should I die instead? I can't be bothered to reason with you. You're not worthy of hearing it!"

"Damn you! You'll get what's coming to you! My Soul Ring won't be so easy to absorb!"

Seeing Jiang Lin treat her this way, Xiao Wu's face flushed red.

"You evil humans, all of you..."

Before Xiao Wu could finish, Elder Chen casually knocked her unconscious. Then he picked her up and carried her to a secret room.

Two days passed in the blink of an eye.

Two days was half the time that the Soul Refining Pill remained effective for Jiang Lin.

Feeling that half the pill's power had yet to be absorbed, Jiang Lin still stopped meditating.

Tang San should have already gone to the Soul Hunting Forest to obtain his First Soul Ring.

Although the original story never explicitly said that Tang Hao went with him, given how much Tang Hao cared about Tang San, he would most likely have gone along.

Grandmaster was only a level-29 Soul Grandmaster, after all.

Nuoding City wasn't far from Holy Soul Village.

With Elder Chen leading the way, the two of them soon reached the area around Holy Soul Village.

The plaque at the village entrance bore the words "Holy Soul Village," and the distinctive "handprint" remained on a stone stele not far away.

The two entered the village first and confirmed once more that Tang Hao had already left. Then they headed straight out to search the surrounding area.

The two soon found a place that matched their requirements.

Before them stretched a range of rolling mountains.

From where they stood, they couldn't see the entire mountain range, but even the outermost peaks soared high enough to pierce the clouds.

They exchanged a glance, and Elder Chen carried Jiang Lin as he swept into the mountains.

After flying for another half hour, Jiang Lin suddenly heard a rumbling in his ears.

The air had also grown damp.

They were close!

As they continued onward, the rumbling grew louder and the air grew damper. Even the temperature was a few degrees lower than outside.

It was a valley—or, more precisely, a pool.

The water was crystal clear, tranquil and deep, like a giant blue gemstone.

A waterfall nearly twenty meters wide stretched like a jade ribbon across a cliff almost two hundred meters tall. Its thunderous roar came from the water crashing into the pool.

The waterfall poured down and slammed into the pool, sending countless droplets spraying into the air. Sunlight struck them, and a seven-colored rainbow stretched across the water, dazzling beyond words.

As soon as Jiang Lin arrived, a fresh, cool mist of water swept over him.

The moist air was refreshing and exceptionally pleasant.

Surrounded by mountains and lush greenery, with the rippling blue gemstone pool before him and the magnificent waterfall reaching from sky to earth, Jiang Lin couldn't help staring in a daze at the beautiful scenery.

No wonder that guy Tang Hao had placed Ah Yin here.

The place looked rich with life force.

But there was another thing: although the life force here was abundant, the cave was dark and sunless. No matter how rich the life force was, Ah Yin couldn't have been comfortable there, could she?

Shaking his head, Jiang Lin stopped thinking about things like that.

"That waterfall over there. Elder Chen, let's go in."

Elder Chen nodded, picked Jiang Lin up, and flew toward the waterfall.

After searching for a while, they indeed found a cave hidden behind the waterfall.

Although a mechanism concealed it, it was still easy to find when a Titled Douluo deliberately searched for it.

Tsk, good thing he'd brought Elder Chen along. Otherwise, he wouldn't even have made it inside. Just searching for a mechanism while facing down this enormous waterfall would have been more than enough to give him a hard time.

This left Jiang Lin wondering: how had certain transmigrators from before managed to cross the mountains, brave the waterfall, find the mechanism, and get inside when they were only six or seven years old?

The cave was very damp, about three meters high and two meters wide, and stretched deep into the mountain.

After setting Jiang Lin down, Elder Chen casually cupped his hand, and a flame appeared in his palm, lighting the way ahead.

At the innermost part, the surroundings suddenly brightened. Looking up, they saw a hole in the ceiling of the cave. This place was a stone chamber only about ten square meters in size.

There was no furniture or decoration in the stone chamber; it was completely bare. But directly beneath the hole in the ceiling stood a small mound of earth, and a slender Blue Silver Grass swayed atop it in the breeze.

The Blue Silver Grass looked a little longer than ordinary blades of grass. Most unusual of all were the fine golden lines running along its leaves.

The Blue Silver Emperor!