I Want This Soul Beast

Tang San looked utterly calm and composed, as if he were a scholar who persuaded others with reason.

"I am Tang San. I am willing to compete with this young lady. Whoever wins will obtain this Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent."

Meng Yiran frowned.

"Who asked what your name was? I don't care if you're Tang San or Tang Four."

"This young lady wants to pull out that damn fatty's tongue right now! What do you think you are?"

The girl's tone was willful and vicious.

It was obvious that she and Chao Tianxiang both judged people by their weakness. Seeing that Zhao Wuji was a coward, they had grown bold.

Tang San was left speechless by her retort.

"What? You... how can you be so unreasonable?"

"Reason?"

Meng Yiran let out a scoff.

"Who ever told you the soul master world had to be reasonable? The weak are prey to the strong. You don't even understand that?"

"And besides, I was the one who set my eyes on that Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent first. Are you people really in the right?"

"You're impossible to reason with. You're simply a shrew!"

"Who are you calling a shrew!"

"..."

With Tang San joining in, the conflict was successfully intensified, and the scene instantly became incomparably chaotic.

Taking all of this in, Lin Yan could not help clicking his tongue inwardly.

"Looks like Zhao Wuji is afraid that if a fight breaks out, it'll drag the Shrek Seven Devils into it."

"Who would've thought that old Zhao today had actually learned to judge the situation and seek benefit while avoiding harm?"

"The people on Douluo Continent aren't that stupid after all~"

Thinking back to how people in his previous life had all said the people of Douluo Continent had low IQs and no brains...

Now it seemed everything really had to be judged by the facts.

However, it was time to put an end to this farce.

With a light sigh, Lin Yan came over to everyone's side.

"Enough!"

He gave a low shout, then held a token in his hand and displayed it directly to Chao Tianxiang.

"Crown Prince's Guard of Heaven Dou—Lin Yan!"

"It doesn't matter who discovered this serpent first or who made a move first. In short, I'm taking this serpent."

"As for the other matter..."

Lin Yan looked at Ma Hongjun.

"Ma Hongjun, give this young lady a sincere apology."

His words rang out powerfully, falling on everyone's ears as if he were announcing an unchangeable rule.

Chao Tianxiang's expression turned solemn as she began sizing Lin Yan up.

"Crown Prince's Guard?"

"What? The token is right here. Do you object?"

Lin Yan raised an eyebrow and looked at Chao Tianxiang. The superior air mixed into his tone actually made her feel, for a moment, the illusion that she could not muster the ability to resist.

The air fell into a brief silence once again.

At this moment, offense and defense had switched sides!

The mental process Zhao Wuji had just gone through now played out again in Chao Tianxiang's mind.

Was he really one of the Crown Prince's Guard? What status did the Crown Prince's Guard have? Could he represent the Crown Prince?

Many questions unfolded in Chao Tianxiang's mind.

At that moment, Lin Yan suddenly let out a stern, low shout.

"Ma Hongjun, apologize!"

That voice frightened Ma Hongjun so badly his body tensed.

His gaze swept over Zhao Wuji and Lin Yan, only to discover that neither of them had any intention of paying attention to him at the moment.

So he simply lowered his head.

"I... I'm sorry."

Chao Tianxiang and Meng Yiran both frowned at those words.

Neither of them had expected Lin Yan's entrance to be so forceful, directly reversing the situation.

Just then, Lin Yan issued another "order."

"Oscar, do it."

Oscar, who had been holding the dagger, had long since been unable to wait. With Lin Yan's words, he immediately stabbed it into the fleshy crest of the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent.

Pfft—

The sound of a sharp weapon sinking into flesh rang out. The Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent only twitched slightly before its life force vanished completely.

Seeing this, Meng Yiran immediately grabbed Chao Tianxiang's sleeve.

"Grandma! Look at him..."

Lin Yan saw this and gave Chao Tianxiang no chance to say anything more. He spoke bluntly.

"Senior Chao Tianxiang, find your granddaughter another suitable spirit ring."

Chao Tianxiang said nothing when she heard this.

Her situation at that moment was almost exactly the same as Zhao Wuji's had been earlier.

Her mind was filled with thoughts of Lin Yan's background, and whether or not she should tear off all pretense of cordiality and fight him to the end.

"Grandma, hurry up and teach him a lesson!"

"Let's go back and find Grandpa. I'm definitely going to make him pay."

Chao Tianxiang still did not move.

Lin Yan was too lazy to waste time with them. He simply raised a hand and gestured for the two of them to leave.

"Please go back."

From beginning to end, the aura Lin Yan displayed had been extremely forceful, without the slightest hesitation, without a single useless word.

It brought Chao Tianxiang an inexplicable pressure.

A moment later, Chao Tianxiang finally made her decision. She took Meng Yiran by the arm.

"Yiran, we're leaving."

"Grandma!"

The young girl pouted in a fit of pique, while Chao Tianxiang continued to comfort her.

"Come on. Grandma will find you another spirit beast."

"There wasn't anything good about that Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent anyway."

Meng Yiran certainly could not win against Chao Tianxiang, so she could only let the other woman lead her by the hand and leave unwillingly.

At the very end, she looked back and glared viciously at Lin Yan.

"You..."

"You just wait!"

The young girl could only throw out a harsh threat. Beyond that, she could not do anything else.

Before long, the scene returned to silence.

The wind blew through the leaves with a rustling sound. The group looked at one another, each seeing nearly the same astonishment in the others' eyes.

Several seconds later, the scene instantly erupted!

"Holy crap!"

"Bro, you're way too fierce!"

"That token... hiss~"

Faced with everyone's praise, Lin Yan's expression remained calm as he looked toward Oscar.

"Hurry up and absorb the spirit ring."

When Oscar heard this, his heart was deeply moved.

Honestly, if Lin Yan had not appeared in time, this Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent's spirit ring really would have been snatched away by that person called Meng Yiran.

"Thanks... Lin Yan!"

Lin Yan nodded, then looked toward Ma Hongjun.

"Rein it in from now on."

"Got... got it."

The disturbance ended there.

Oscar finally obtained a spirit ring he was pleased with.

At the back of the crowd, Lin Yan returned to Wen Ruan's side and pulled her into his arms.

Wen Ruan raised her eyes to look at Lin Yan.

"Your current status... can actually scare off even a Spirit Emperor?"

"It's not quite to that extent." Lin Yan's expression was calm as he explained.

"A Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent is just a thousand-year soul beast. What idiot would make themselves an enemy of the Heaven Dou Imperial Family over that?"

True!

The Heaven Dou Imperial Family was the Heaven Dou Imperial Family, one of the two great empires of Douluo Continent. Even if the imperial family had no Title Douluo among them, they were still not something commoner soul masters could touch or provoke.

Chao Tianxiang was already nearly a hundred years old, so she naturally understood how to judge the situation.

Coming into conflict with the imperial family over a thousand-year soul beast was truly not worth the loss.

So... after weighing the pros and cons just as Zhao Wuji had, she turned and left with Meng Yiran without looking back.

In the clearing.

Lin Yan glanced at Oscar, who was absorbing his soul ring, then at the gradually darkening sky.

"Is it about to come?"

"Titan Giant Ape! Man Faced Demon Spider!"

"I can hardly wait..."

The most crucial purpose of Lin Yan's trip this time was to compete with Tang San for that "External Soul Bone."

And...

To make Tang San absorb a "Solitary Bamboo soul ring"!