Zhang San, Zhang Chang, and Zhang Gong, Dead!

Before the three of them arrived, Lin Jing had already moved.

With a slight surge of Spirit Power in his right leg, his body floated upward slowly.

He landed silently on the thick tree branch from before.

The position was high, the view was good, and it was well-concealed.

The foliage on the branch was extremely dense; looking up from below, one could not possibly discover the person hidden within.

Lin Jing crouched halfway on the branch, looking down through the gaps in the leaves.

He sensed carefully through his Blue Silver Devouring Domain and evaluated in his heart.

"One Great Soul Master, two Soul Masters."

"With just this setup, they dare to barge into the depths of the Soul Hunting Forest?"

Lin Jing was somewhat speechless.

He had thought they were some formidable characters; he had even hoped there might be a Spirit Grandmaster or something similar.

In that case, he could have taken the opportunity to raise his Spirit Power level even further.

And it turned out to be just this?

Three weaklings.

Lin Jing was a bit disappointed.

But it was better than nothing; he wouldn't turn down experience delivered right to his doorstep.

Below.

The three brothers, Zhang San, Zhang Chang, and Zhang Gong, had followed the scent of the Beast Repellent Powder all the way here.

The eldest walked in the lead, still on all fours, his nose pressed to the ground, sniffing as he crawled forward.

"This Spirit..."

On the branch, Lin Jing looked astonished.

"A husky?"

It was his first time seeing such a bizarre Spirit.

On the Douluo Continent... were there really Spirit Beasts like huskies?

If he encountered one in the future, he would definitely have to catch one to keep as a pet.

"Big brother..."

The third brother stopped in his tracks, feeling a chill run down his back.

He looked toward the area where they had deployed the Beast Repellent Powder.

"This... why is there no one here?"

The area ahead was empty, save for the corpse of a Thousand-Legged Withered Centipede and a wolf skeleton.

"There is no other scent here..."

The eldest stood up, his brows furrowed tightly.

"He... he couldn't have been burst apart by the Spirit Ring of the Thousand-Legged Withered Centipede, could he?"

The second brother patted his own round, bulging belly and guessed with a suspicious look on his face.

He looked left and right, the more he thought about it, the more he felt his guess was quite logical.

"It must be! That brat didn't know his own limits, tried to absorb a nine-hundred-year Spirit Ring, and ended up bursting himself apart, not even leaving a scrap behind!"

"Smack!"

Before he could finish speaking, a crisp sound of a slap echoed through the forest.

"Ouch! What are you doing~"

The second brother clutched the back of his head where he had been slapped, looking at the eldest with a resentful expression.

"How many times have I told you!"

The eldest was so angry he pointed at his nose and cursed.

"Don't use that pig brain of yours to participate in deductions that require thinking!"

"Burst apart? If he burst apart, could there be no bloodstains at all?"

"Look for yourself, is there any damn blood on this ground? Huh?"

The second brother lowered his head, looking aggrieved.

He had only wanted to contribute to the team...

On the branch, Lin Jing watched this farce below and almost laughed out loud.

At the same time, he recognized that two of them were the stall owners who had sold him the Beast Repellent Powder at the entrance of the Soul Hunting Forest.

Lin Jing's gaze turned cold in an instant.

They had actually intended to kill him and steal his goods.

Lin Jing's thoughts stirred.

On the ground beneath the three men, the Dark Blue Silver Grass, which had previously seemed unremarkable, suddenly grew wildly.

Black vines, carrying a sharp, piercing sound, aimed directly at the chests of the three and thrust through!

"Puchi--!"

The third brother had no defense whatsoever.

He had still been pondering his eldest brother's words, just about to open his mouth to explain something to the second brother.

As a result, the moment his mouth opened, a pitch-black Blue Silver Grass pierced in from behind him and out through his chest.

Fresh blood sprayed out.

The third brother's mouth opened and closed, but he couldn't even utter a single word.

The eldest was a Great Soul Master after all, and his Spirit had been in an activated state the whole time.

The moment the Dark Blue Silver Grass moved, he sensed that something was wrong.

He pushed off the ground and lunged to the side, narrowly dodging the attack.

As for the second brother...

His reaction was the slowest; he had no time to dodge.

But his Spirit was a pig, thick-skinned and fleshy.

The Dark Blue Silver Grass stabbed at his belly, only to be bounced off by that layer of fat!

"Who is it!"

The eldest rolled to the ground and stood up quickly, his sharp gaze sweeping across the surroundings.

"What kind of skill is it to hide your head and show your tail! Get out here!"

His voice echoed in the forest, but no one responded.

As for the second brother, he couldn't care about anything else at this moment.

He looked up at the third brother, who was pierced through the chest by the Dark Blue Silver Grass and hung in mid-air, his eyes turning red.

"Third brother!"

"Third brother!"

He shouted, standing on tiptoe and reaching out to try and grab him.

He jumped twice.

However, he wasn't tall enough, and his weight was truly excessive, so he couldn't reach him after jumping for a long time.

Instead, he ended up panting from exhaustion.

Right before his anxious eyes, the third brother's body withered away at a speed visible to the naked eye.

In just a few seconds.

The third brother turned into a dried corpse.

All the blood in his body had been sucked dry.

The second brother stared blankly at this scene, his face turning pale with fright.

On the branch, Lin Jing remained expressionless.

He did not have a shred of mercy.

He would not take the initiative to suck human blood to cultivate; that was his bottom line, and he would not attempt to break it.

Unless they were enemies, of course.

These three guys wanted to kill him and steal his treasure, so they were his enemies and had to be prepared to be killed in return.

Feeling the growth of Spirit Power within his body, Lin Jing's brows furrowed imperceptibly.

The entire blood supply of a Soul Master hadn't even increased his Spirit Power by much!

It was hardly worth the effort.

He even missed Tang San a little.

If he had sucked Tang San into a dried corpse back then...

It would have increased his Spirit Power by at least five levels.

That would have been a real tonic.

Lin Jing shook his head, casting the thought from his mind.

Forget it, let's deal with these two first.

He did not reveal himself just because the Great Soul Master with the husky Spirit had called out.

Are you kidding? What if they had some hidden means and were trying to trick him into coming out to be killed?

Lin Jing wouldn't fall for that.

Hiding in the dark and taking potshots was much more comfortable.

He moved his thoughts again.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!"

Countless Dark Blue Silver Grass surged madly from the ground, sweeping toward the eldest and the second brother in droves.

Facing so much Dark Blue Silver Grass, the eldest and the second brother couldn't even hold out for two breaths.

"Puchi! Puchi!"

Two muffled sounds, almost overlapping.

The Dark Blue Silver Grass pierced their hearts without mercy.

The eldest, Zhang San, had his eyes wide open, his face full of unwillingness and disbelief.

Until his death, he didn't know who it was that had killed him.

Subsequently, both of their bodies were hung high by the Dark Blue Silver Grass.

The blood from their bodies flowed continuously along the grass into Lin Jing's body.

Becoming his nourishment.

The second and third brothers combined hadn't even increased his Spirit Power by a single level.

As for the eldest, the Great Soul Master...

He had only increased it by 0.9 levels.

It probably had to do with his two white Spirit Rings.

But it still allowed Lin Jing's Spirit Power to reach a bottleneck twice in succession, increasing by two levels.