Ling Yu looked at his somewhat scorched hands, then glanced at the man at his feet, dead beyond any doubt.
His expression grew solemn. "I didn't expect the Evil Soul Masters here to have such rich combat experience. Honestly, if my raw strength hadn't surpassed his by so much, I would've had to reveal more of my abilities in this fight."
"Just a Soul Ancestor—and one whose martial soul isn't even particularly strong—was already this difficult to deal with. This really is a great place to train in actual combat!"
After looking once more at the man's corpse, he turned and continued forward.
This had only been a small fry from the outer region. Soul Kings had yet to appear, and he had not entered the inner region yet.
With his current strength, he could try going up against a Soul King, but a Soul Emperor was out of the question. Unless he could reach level thirty and obtain his third soul ring within three years, he would only then have the confidence to enter the inner region. Otherwise, that place was not within his considerations for now.
This place was a battlefield where lives were at stake. Either he died, or they did.
Still, he was quite confident in his ability to stay alive.
Since he had encountered Evil Soul Masters, that meant he had entered the outer region. The books said that the outer region of this valley stretched for roughly three hundred kilometers, while the inner region covered two hundred and eighty kilometers. As for the forbidden zone, no one knew.
There were ways to find food here as well. A type of edible creature lived in this place: Stone Ox!
Unlike ordinary herbivorous cattle, these beasts did not actually survive by eating stones. Instead, they fed