Soul Hunting and Breaking Through to Soul King

Lin Yao glanced at the Paralysis Ray in his hand, then took it off and handed it to Ye Guyi. "Teacher Mu gave me this Paralysis Ray. Supposedly, it can paralyze a fifty-thousand-year soul beast for thirty seconds."

Ye Guyi nodded, then pushed the Paralysis Ray back to him and said, "No need, Brother Yao. You keep it. Teacher Mu gave it to you, after all, so it wouldn't really be right for me to take it. And besides, what difference does it make which one of us holds it?"

Lin Yao nodded, then said to Ye Guyi, "All right. When we go soul hunting, stay close to me. Don't get too far away no matter what."

Ye Guyi nodded and took Lin Yao's hand. "Don't worry. I know what I'm doing. I'm not some delicate vase, you know. Don't forget, I beat two Soul Ancestor-level Evil Soul Masters while I was only a Soul Elder. It might not be as impressive as you defeating a Soul Emperor, but it's still not bad!"

Lin Yao smiled, then said to Ye Guyi, "Fair enough. Let's go. To the Star Dou Great Forest."

With that, Lin Yao led Ye Guyi out of Shrek Academy.

At the carriage house in Shrek City, the owner looked at Lin Yao with some confusion.

"Young man, didn't you only just come back? And now you're taking someone else there again? What, are you Shrek Academy's hired muscle in charge of soul hunting?"

Lin Yao: "..."

After awkwardly brushing him off with a couple of vague replies, Lin Yao ordered a carriage on the same scale as last time. He and Ye Guyi got into the carriage together and sped off toward the Star Dou Great Forest.

When they arrived at the Star Dou Great Forest again, Ye Guyi's target was much clearer. Before this, she had already decided what soul beast she wanted to hunt.

It was from a soul beast handbook left behind by the ancestors of her family, which recorded some soul beasts compatible with the Holy Angel Martial Soul.

Ye Guyi said to Lin Yao, "I plan to hunt this soul beast called the Light Feather Sparrow. According to the handbook, it can grant us Holy Angels a soul skill called Holy Light Flame. After the soul skill is released, before my Soul Power is exhausted, all my abilities will double."

Lin Yao nodded, then said to Ye Guyi, "Good. Then that's the soul beast we'll deal with. We're both good at flying, so it won't get away."

Light Feather Sparrows lived in the eastern part of the Star Dou Great Forest. It was said that the main way this kind of soul beast cultivated was somewhat similar to the Purple Demon Eye: when the sun first rose in the east, they absorbed that special breath that appeared as the sun had just climbed into the sky to increase their strength.

Light Feather Sparrows also lived in clusters. Although they were not one unified clan, they liked to gather together. Normally, they would compete with one another for food, but when there was no need to compete over food or mates, the Light Feather Sparrows liked to stay together and communicate, rather like the old ladies at a village entrance sitting around chatting about household affairs.

So as long as they found one Light Feather Sparrow, in theory, they could find an entire flock. When the time came, they could simply pick whichever age they wanted.

Another reason Light Feather Sparrows were extremely suitable for humans to hunt was that their age was very easy to identify. Feathers corresponding to the colors of soul rings would appear on their tail feathers.

For example, one purple feather paired with three yellow feathers would mean a one-thousand-three-hundred-year Light Feather Sparrow.

After entering the Star Dou Great Forest, the two of them had no intention of wandering around the outer region. Instead, they headed straight east, walking all the way into the depths of the mixed region, roughly to the central depth of the mixed region.

There, a giant tree grew facing the sun. Lin Yao and Ye Guyi looked up toward the crown, where some golden, yellow sparrows the length of a forearm were perched.

Ye Guyi said excitedly, "Found them. There are a lot here, too. Look at that one with nine purple tail feathers and two yellow ones. I want that one!"

Lin Yao could not help but turn his head to glance at Ye Guyi. "Going that hard for your fourth soul ring right away—aren't you making things a little difficult for yourself?"

Ye Guyi said to Lin Yao, "Difficult how? You keep saying difficult, but my fourth soul ring is over nine thousand years. No matter how intense it is, can it be more intense than your ten-thousand-year soul ring? If you can do it, why can't I? I want that one!"

Lin Yao helplessly stuffed an entire Golden Apple into Ye Guyi's arms and said to her, "Fine, I'll help you get that one. But before you absorb it, finish eating this first."

Ye Guyi looked at the golden apple in Lin Yao's hand, tossed it lightly up and down once, then nodded and said to Lin Yao, "All right. I promise."

Lin Yao did not hesitate any further. He suddenly raised his hand, and a Paralysis Ray shot out from the Soul Tool on his hand, striking the nine-thousand-two-hundred-plus-year Light Feather Sparrow directly.

Since this Paralysis Ray could paralyze even a ten-thousand-year soul beast for thirty seconds, it could naturally paralyze this Light Feather Sparrow until its death.

The Light Feather Sparrow gave a violent twitch, then immediately plunged headfirst to the ground.

Lin Yao walked straight over. Those Light Feather Sparrows had no clan awareness to begin with; they had merely gathered here to exchange information and plan their own routes of action. When they saw their companion paralyzed and falling to the ground, they immediately scattered like birds and beasts. It was truly every bird for itself in the face of disaster.

Lin Yao held the Light Feather Sparrow upside down and tossed it in front of Ye Guyi. As he stroked the paralyzing Soul Tool Mu Jin had given him, he said to Ye Guyi, "The thing Teacher Mu gave me is pretty handy. It makes soul hunting a lot more convenient."

Ye Guyi nodded, then said to Lin Yao, "I just didn't expect the Light Feather Sparrow flock to be this loose. It really does fit biological instincts perfectly."

Lin Yao shrugged, then looked at Ye Guyi and said, "Hurry up and eat the apple, then finish it off and absorb the soul ring. Although this is only the mixed region of the Star Dou Great Forest, and still far from the truly dangerous Land of Great Calamity, it is still the Star Dou Great Forest. For us, it's dangerous all the same."

Ye Guyi nodded. Under Lin Yao's supervision, she ate the Golden Apple in three bites, then drew her Angel Rapier and thrust it into the Light Feather Sparrow's head.

A deep purple soul ring immediately floated above the Light Feather Sparrow's corpse. That soul ring already carried faint traces of black within the purple, clearly close to reaching the level of a ten-thousand-year soul ring.

Seeing the appearance of that soul ring, Ye Guyi felt delighted. She sat down cross-legged and guided the soul ring toward her Martial Soul.

Strangely enough, situations that basically would not appear in the original kept happening again and again around Lin Yao.

Just as Ye Guyi closed her eyes and began absorbing the soul ring, several foolish-looking soul beasts came walking over and assumed pouncing postures toward Lin Yao and Ye Guyi.

Lin Yao sighed, then loosened his wrists and said, "Do I really look that unthreatening? One after another, they all want to come provoke me?"

As he spoke, Lin Yao felt the Soul Power in his body surge and gradually begin to loosen. At the same time, he raised his fists and faced those soul beasts...