Ye Guyi

By one o'clock the next afternoon, Kong Bo and the Evil Emperor had changed into cloaks and were waiting at the entrance for Lin Lang to appear. Before long, Lin Lang drove up to the front of the Evil Emperor's residence.

This was a type of soul guidance device from the Sun Moon Empire known as a Soul Guidance Car. The vehicle was pitch-black with smooth, flowing lines, and its entire teardrop-shaped design was quite aerodynamic, suggesting that the Sun Moon Empire had conducted significant research into aerodynamics while developing their soul guidance technology.

After arriving in this world, Kong Bo had gained some understanding of the Sun Moon Empire's productivity. This Soul Guidance Car was not a mass-produced sedan like those on Blue Star; it was handcrafted, and the production cost was naturally very high. Kong Bo and the Evil Emperor climbed into the car. "Sister Lin Lang, you can afford to drive a Soul Guidance Car? Are you really that short on money?"

"Mind your own business. Who would ever complain about having too much money?" Lin Lang said from the driver's seat. She then started the vehicle and drove the Evil Emperor and Kong Bo toward the Underground Soul Fighting Arena.

This Underground Soul Fighting Arena was located on the border between the inner and outer city districts. It operated under the name "Aodu Warehouse," appearing on the outside as a massive storage facility guarded by several burly men.

"This is the Underground Soul Fighting Arena. Little Brother Kong Bo, these guards belong to the Aodu Chamber of Commerce, the Pingfan Alliance, and the Xishui Alliance. Try to act a bit arrogant," Lin Lang instructed.

"Understood." Kong Bo nodded.

At the entrance, Lin Lang displayed a soul guidance access card. The guards' attitudes immediately turned respectful; they opened the gate and allowed Lin Lang to park the car. After the three of them stepped out, Lin Lang took them to the front desk to register Kong Bo for the competition. Before entering the arena, the staff provided them with cloaks to conceal their identities, as the respectable citizens of Ming Capital generally avoided such places.

"Let's go, we're heading into the Underground Soul Fighting Arena," Lin Lang said.

Compared to a traditional soul fighting arena, the atmosphere here was far more raucous. The audience, incited by the brutal combat on the stage, roared at the top of their lungs and waved their arms wildly.

"Finish him!"

"Kill him!"

"Rip his arm off!"

On the stage at that moment were two beast soul masters: one with a Bloodthirsty Mad Bear martial soul and the other with a wolf-type martial soul. Both were close-quarters combatants, making the fight exceptionally bloody. The Bloodthirsty Mad Bear soul master had already gained the upper hand; he swung his bear claws, tearing into the wolf soul master again and again. His violent assault soon shattered the wolf soul master's martial soul avatar.

In a standard soul fighting arena, the match would have ended there, but the audience in the stands only grew more frenzied.

"Kill! Kill! Kill!"

The Bloodthirsty Mad Bear soul master grabbed the wolf soul master, let out a roar, and ripped off his left arm. Amidst the wolf soul master's agonizing screams, the bear soul master tore off his right arm as well. Finally, he clamped his massive bear paw onto the man's head and crushed it, leaving the ground in a gruesome mess.

"Ooooooh!" The audience let out bloodthirsty howls.

"Uh, Little Brother Kong Bo, there's still time to back out. Sister just wants to make some money, but this kind of combat... will it be too much for you?" Lin Lang asked, feeling concerned. Kong Bo was only eight and a half years old, and she worried he wouldn't be able to handle such carnage.

"This kind of combat is exactly what suits me," Kong Bo replied. Having watched "Gundam" for two and a half years, he had seen every type of battle imaginable; his heart was already calm. This scene was nothing to him.

Damn, this little guy is a natural-born demon, Lin Lang thought to herself. Through his mask and the expression on the lower half of his face, she sensed that Kong Bo wasn't afraid of the bloody combat—he was watching with genuine interest.

"You... you make the call," Lin Lang said. "I'll register you then. Little Brother Kong Bo, rest assured, to ensure the matches are evenly matched and not completely one-sided, they are tiered by five-level increments. You will only face soul masters up to level 25, but once you step onto the stage, there is no turning back."

"Understood, Sister Lin Lang," Kong Bo replied calmly. "I am a soul guidance master; is that a problem?"

"No problem at all," Lin Lang said. "There are a few more matches before yours. Do you want to prepare?"

"No need," Kong Bo shook his head. "I'll just watch from here."

Kong Bo watched the matches with great enthusiasm, focusing intently on the executions that followed each victory. Lin Lang could feel that his tone wasn't one of fear, but of genuine enjoyment, as if the person being executed on stage wasn't a human soul master at all. This was the benefit of his two and a half years of watching "Gundam"—he felt no fear at all while witnessing the brutal combat.

"Hm?" A soul master on stage caught Kong Bo's interest. She was a masked female soul master, level 28. She wore a golden mask, and after manifesting her martial soul, it turned out to be a Holy Angel with holy attributes. Facing the evil soul master opposite her, she showed no fear and ultimately killed him with a single sword strike.

Seeing the angel martial soul, Kong Bo immediately recognized her—it was none other than Ye Guyi. However, he couldn't understand how she was able to compete in an underground arena where many of the participants were evil soul masters.

He asked Lin Lang about it: "Sister Lin Lang, we know what kind of soul masters the Xishui Alliance has. This Holy Angel martial soul exerts a clear suppression on them; they must hate angel-attribute soul masters. Is it really okay for her to compete here?"

"It's fine, at least outside the ring," Lin Lang said. "The Xishui Alliance is powerful, it's true, but the Pingfan Alliance and the Aodu Chamber of Commerce both protect this girl, Ye Guyi. At the very least, her cultivation conditions are excellent. But inside the arena, it's a matter of life and death. That is the line the Xishui Alliance has drawn."

"The Aodu Chamber of Commerce and the Pingfan Alliance benefit because they are training a very powerful angel soul master, and as for the arena, it gives the Xishui Alliance a chance as well," Kong Bo noted.