Sunset Forest

"Little Bei."

When she saw Lin Bei, Ip Man's wife immediately came over with a face full of joy and worry and hugged him.

Ip Man smiled gently from the side.

"Let me see if you're hurt."

Madam Ye looked Lin Bei up and down with concern. Only when she saw that he was more or less fine did she let out a breath. Then she looked at Lin Bei reproachfully and said, "Why didn't you come find me and your cousin-in-law when you returned to Foshan?"

Lin Bei smiled awkwardly.

I didn't know I was your cousin.

If I'd known my cousin-in-law was Ip Man, I definitely wouldn't have stayed in some hotel. I'd have gone straight to your place.

"Uh, Cousin. I just didn't want to trouble you."

Lin Bei found an excuse and said it.

Madam Ye gave Lin Bei a scolding look and said, "Between you and us, what's all this talk about trouble or not?"

"That's right, Little Bei. Your sister and I welcome you to visit anytime," Ip Man added from the side with a chuckle.

Madam Ye took Lin Bei's hand and walked out of the Police Station. "All right, let's go home first."

But the moment they had just stepped out of the Police Station, a chill suddenly rose in Lin Bei's heart. He looked in panic toward the corner across the street, and saw an upraised handgun!

"Cousin, watch out!"

Lin Bei grabbed Madam Ye and instinctively used his own body to shield her in front. The next instant, the muzzle spat fire, and Lin Bei's chest burst open with it, blood spraying everywhere.

Ding. This deployment simulation has ended. Do you wish to consume 58 Simulation Points to extract the M1911 Semi-Automatic Pistol, thirty bullets, and two magazines to Douluo Continent?

Yes.

In his final view, Madam Ye's terrified, tearful face looked so real. Lin Bei sighed inwardly and stood in the darkness, waiting for his consciousness to return—

What a trap!

Such a massive trap!

On the very first deployment, it arranged such a dangerous identity for him.

Simulator, do you have no shame at all?

The sudden death left Lin Bei rather depressed.

He also had not expected those foreign assassins to be so bold and reckless that they would dare lie in ambush and open fire at the entrance of the Police Station.

Sigh...

Lin Bei sighed gloomily again.

The body and identity he had been given in this deployment had been dangerous, but they had also come with enormous opportunities. If he could have smoothly inherited the old man's five hundred million dollars in shares, he could have done quite a few things.

For example, purchasing some firearms.

Then spending Simulation Points to extract them to Douluo Continent.

Although the Ip Man Timeline could only buy some weapons from the World War II era, those firearms would absolutely trounce the Hidden Weapons Tang San could currently bring out.

Using them for self-defense, arming the forces under him, or trading them to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would all have been good choices.

In the end, death had descended without warning.

What a shame.

He just did not know whether the next deployment simulation would arrange a completely new identity again. If the next identity was still this rich, then that would be fine too...

As he thought this, Lin Bei's consciousness returned to his body in Douluo Continent. He got up from the bed and stood on the floor, once again feeling his incomparably powerful body.

He looked at the time on the simulator and discovered that while he had been deployed into the simulation, only three hours had passed.

And that amount of time was about the same as the time he had been active inside the simulator.

Could the flow of time between the two timelines be the same?

A trace of doubt flashed through Lin Bei's mind.

It seemed he would have to pay attention to the difference in time flow between the Simulation Timeline and the Douluo Timeline next time.

For now, it was better not to conduct another deployment simulation yet.

Several thoughts flashed through Lin Bei's mind. Then he took out the handgun he had obtained in the Ip Man Timeline from the simulator's exclusive space.

The metal-textured handgun appeared abruptly in Lin Bei's hand. He admired it for a while, then put it into the Soul Tool on his wrist, opened the door, and walked out.

"A Fu?"

Lin Bei found it a little strange to see A Fu standing at the door. "Why are you standing here?"

A Fu straightened his body and said meticulously, "Young Master, did you not say that no one was to disturb you? I was worried those maids would not be able to stop people, so I personally stood guard here."

Lin Bei was taken aback, then smiled and said, "Thank you for your trouble. I'm going to the courtyard now to test a new weapon, so you don't need to keep watch here anymore."

"Yes, Young Master."

A Fu bowed slightly, then withdrew.

Lin Bei came to the courtyard and placed a piece of fruit on the artificial hill.

Bang!

A gunshot rang out in the quiet courtyard.

The fruit Lin Bei had placed on the artificial hill shattered in response.

Though he had never played with a pistol before, his extraordinary physical qualities let him instantly turn into a sharpshooter. In his hands, the pistol seemed to lose its recoil, steady enough to be astonishing.

Bang, bang, bang!

Gunshots rang out one after another in the courtyard.

After emptying every bullet in the magazine, Lin Bei had gained a certain understanding of this pistol.

The power of this M1911 Semi-Automatic Pistol did not count as especially strong. At the very least, it could not threaten experts above Soul Sage, but against soul masters below Soul Sage, as long as the shot was unexpected, it could basically kill them instantly.

Lin Bei was fairly satisfied. He refilled the magazine with bullets, then put it away into the simulator's exclusive space.

In the days that followed, Lin Bei did not continue with placement simulations. He merely consolidated his current cultivation while waiting to see what excuse Bibi Dong would use to send him away from Spirit City—

If his guess was right.

This beautiful teacher of his was probably going to find another excuse to send him out of Spirit City.

Not long after, at Lin Bei's residence.

Yue Guan suddenly paid him a visit.

"Your fiancée ran away from home."

"Huh?"

Lin Bei looked blankly at Yue Guan.

What fiancée ran away from home? I have a fiancée?

...Oh. I actually do.

It's been five years without contact. I almost forgot I still had a fiancée.

Yue Guan helped himself to a piece of fruit from the table and started eating. "I said, your fiancée ran away from home!"

"Ning Rongrong?"

"Yes."

Yue Guan looked at Lin Bei and said, "I heard she had a bit of a falling-out with Ning Fengzhi, and there were also some reasons involving you. Then, in a fit of anger, she ran away from home. Now the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect has sent a letter, hoping you'll go bring Ning Rongrong back."

Lin Bei's expression turned a little strange.

Come to think of it, at this point in time, it should be when Tang San and the others enrolled in Shrek, right?

So because of plot inertia, Ning Rongrong ran off to Shrek?

Yue Guan looked at Lin Bei and asked with a smile, "Are you going or not? If you don't, your fiancée might run off with someone else."

"I'm going. Of course I'm going!"

How could he possibly let his own fiancée run off with someone else?

Lin Bei stood up and had A Fu prepare his luggage.

A short while later, he came to the courtyard.

He took out a steel sword, and under Yue Guan's astonished gaze, leapt onto it and flew into the air.

Lin Bei still did not want to expose his other martial souls. It just so happened that Sword Control Technique did not have many requirements; as long as it was a sword, it would do.

Of course, it did not have to be a sword either. Branches, axes, stones... all of these could serve as carriers for Sword Control Technique. It was just that a sword looked cooler, freer, and more imposing.

"You're leaving right now?" Yue Guan asked.

If he did not leave now, Bibi Dong would find some reason to make him leave later anyway.

Besides, he still had some private business to take care of in Sunset Forest.

Lin Bei smiled at Yue Guan and said, "Lord Yue Guan, please tell Teacher for me. I'll be going ahead!"

As soon as his words fell, he used Sword Control Technique.

With a whoosh, he flew into the sky, turning into a small black dot.

"What a miraculous sword art."

On the ground, Yue Guan murmured to himself. He vaguely remembered that five years ago, Lin Bei had told him this miraculous sword art had been taught to him by an old man with white hair.

But Yue Guan had not expected that aside from being used to attack, this sword art could actually be used to fly and travel. It was truly miraculous.

So elegant.

When Lin Bei came back next time, he would see if he could learn a move or two.

Imagining his own elegant figure stepping on flower petals as he danced through the sky, Yue Guan smiled and left Lin Bei's residence.

After dark, Lin Bei arrived in Heaven Dou City.

By carriage, the journey from Spirit City to Heaven Dou City took three or four weeks.

But the Sword Control Technique was extremely fast.

Lin Bei also flew in a straight line, accelerating constantly along the way. The sea of clouds kept retreating beneath him, and before long, he arrived in Heaven Dou City.

Lin Bei did not go to Spirit Hall in Heaven Dou City.

He did not want to see that old fellow Salas.

Lin Bei also did not go straight to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. Instead, he rested in the city for a while, then set out for Sunset Forest early the next morning.

He went to Sunset Forest for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

In the original work, Tang San and Shrek Academy had relied on the immortal herbs nurtured by this Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to take off directly.

How could Lin Bei possibly leave such a treasured place to Tang San?

However, judging from the original plot, the current Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well was occupied by the Titled Douluo Dugu Bo, who used it as a medicinal garden.

Dugu Bo also relied on this Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to suppress the deadly poison in his body.

In the original work, Tang San used the herbs in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to cure the poison in Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan, not only gaining Dugu Bo's friendship, but also obtaining the treasured land, the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

He had made a killing!

"Dugu Bo, huh..."

Lin Bei stood on his Flying Sword and gazed into the distance at the emerald-green Sunset Forest. "Perfect. I'll test my current strength."

As a newly advanced Titled Douluo, Lin Bei had yet to compete against anyone.

In the original work, among the many Titled Douluo, Dugu Bo's strength could not be considered particularly powerful, but he was still a famous Titled Douluo.

Lin Bei wanted to spar with him.

While testing his own strength, he would conveniently seize the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well as well.

Of course, Lin Bei would not go so far as to kill Dugu Bo.

On the contrary, he would cure the deadly poison in Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan.

With the Senzu Bean Martial Soul, curing Dugu Bo's poison was not difficult.

In Dragon Ball, Senzu Beans were ineffective against diseases.

But the deadly poison in Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan was no disease. It was the result of using their martial souls, which caused large amounts of toxins to accumulate in their bodies.

Moreover, the simulator's description of the Senzu Bean Martial Soul was as follows: it possessed powerful restorative power. As long as the target had not yet died, after eating a Senzu Bean, both body and Soul Power would be fully restored.

"Body fully restored!"

In other words, as long as Dugu Bo ate a Senzu Bean, his body would recover to the state it had been in back when he had not yet been poisoned!

This was the power of the Senzu Bean Martial Soul!

However, before curing Dugu Bo, he would beat him up first and seize the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

If Dugu Bo knew what Lin Bei was thinking right now, he would definitely start cursing beautifully:

Do you have any manners?

Lin Bei drove the Flying Sword onward, turning into a streak of rainbow light as he flew toward the center of Sunset Forest.

Screech—!

A thousand-year flying soul beast sensed Lin Bei flying into its airspace and immediately launched an attack.

Lin Bei watched the soul beast, which resembled an eagle, fly toward him. In the next instant, the rainbow light flashed, and the flying soul beast's head separated from its body, falling from the sky.

In the blink of an eye, Lin Bei arrived at the center of Sunset Forest. There stood a volcano and an ice mountain, the two leaning together in an encircling formation, with an inverted cone-shaped valley between them.

Around the outside of the two mountains, a layer of poisonous mist enclosed them. It was none other than Dugu Bo's Poison Array.