Profound Yin Viper, Geng Metal White Tiger

Only two unperformed scripts remained, and Tang Hao's script wouldn't yield results for another three months. Could this sudden failure to change fate be...?

Lin Chen pulled up the records and checked. Sure enough, the problem was on Bibi Dong's end.

However, this failed fate change didn't mean Spirit Hall would come harass him. Rather, the script he'd written was no different from Bibi Dong's own thoughts.

In other words, even without his script, Bibi Dong would still ignore him.

The system hadn't exerted any effort, so naturally there was no reward.

It seemed the information about Tang San in the original story hadn't gone unreported. Bibi Dong had simply saved him for Gangzi.

Two Innate Full Spirit Powers, and she gave them up without even blinking.

Love-brains really were absurd.

Lin Chen couldn't help shaking his head. After closing the system interface, he sat cross-legged on his bed and circulated the Profound Origin Technique to cultivate his spirit power.

The next day, early morning.

Lin Chen got up early, washed up, ate breakfast, then directly hired a carriage bound for the Soul Hunting Forest.

The Soul Hunting Forest wasn't particularly far from Nuoding City, but it wasn't close either.

After a day and a half of bumpy travel, Lin Chen finally arrived outside the Soul Hunting Forest around noon the next day. After showing his pass, he entered.

System, begin editing.

Within the Soul Hunting Forest, the territory of a roughly seven-hundred-year-old Golden-Scaled Two-Headed Flood Dragon was invaded, and it let out a deafening warning roar.

Walking through the dense jungle, Lin Chen wrote a script in his mind.

He had come up with this method of locating his target Spirit Beast during the journey here. At the very least, it could confirm whether the Soul Hunting Forest contained the Spirit Beast he was looking for.

[Fate change failed. No reward will be granted!]

Upon hearing the system prompt, Lin Chen didn't even need to check the records to know that the failure was definitely because there was no Golden-Scaled Two-Headed Flood Dragon here.

Or perhaps there wasn't a Golden-Scaled Two-Headed Flood Dragon around seven hundred years old.

System, begin editing!

As he continued onward, Lin Chen constantly wrote scripts in his mind, eliminating the top-tier metal-element Spirit Beasts listed in the Spirit Beast Encyclopedia one by one.

The Soul Hunting Forest was too small, and there were too few types of Spirit Beasts.

Lin Chen wrote scripts for over a dozen top-tier metal-element Spirit Beasts in a row, but every result was a failure. It was getting to the point where he wondered whether he should change locations.

As he walked, his steps suddenly halted.

Whoosh!

The sound of something slicing through the air suddenly came from his right, accompanied by a foul stench.

A giant python over five meters long, as thick as a barrel and the color of withered leaves, suddenly lunged at Lin Chen like a swimming dragon.

It was incredibly fast, and its jaws clamped down on Lin Chen's waist.

Yet it didn't feel like it had bitten anything solid. The next second, the person in its mouth dissipated into the air like a phantom.

The giant snake was stunned, somewhat unable to make sense of the situation.

Lin Chen appeared over ten meters away and looked at the giant snake with considerable surprise.

A hundred-year-old Profound Yin Viper.

The Profound Yin Viper was a particularly bizarre venomous snake. Its venom wasn't fatal, but it killed off all male hormones within a living body.

Once a male was bitten by it, he would become neither man nor woman.

And the damage was permanent.

Lin Chen deeply suspected that Yue Guan had been poisoned by a Profound Yin Viper in his youth, which was why he had become so neither-man-nor-woman.

"I never thought the Soul Hunting Forest would have such a bizarre Spirit Beast. It'd be a pity to kill it."

As if he had suddenly thought of something, the corners of Lin Chen's lips curved upward. Then, he turned into a series of afterimages and sped into the distance.

By the time the Profound Yin Viper came to its senses, Lin Chen had already vanished from its sight.

System, begin editing.

"Within the Soul Hunting Forest, the territory of a roughly seven-hundred-year-old Geng Metal White Tiger was invaded, and it suddenly let out an extremely piercing tiger roar."

After leaving the Profound Yin Viper behind, Lin Chen continued searching for his target Spirit Beast.

White tiger was merely a general term for all white tigers, while the Geng Metal White Tiger was the most elite among them.

It was no weaker than the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon, at the very least.

If the Star Luo Imperial Family's Martial Soul had been the Geng Metal White Tiger, they might not have directly unified the continent, but they certainly wouldn't be in their current state.

[Editing complete!]

Hearing the system prompt, Lin Chen's eyes immediately lit up.

Since the editing could be completed, that meant there was a Geng Metal White Tiger in this Soul Hunting Forest, and it happened to be around the seven hundred years he needed.

Roar...

Before Lin Chen's excitement could fade, an incredibly piercing tiger roar rang out from the depths of the Soul Hunting Forest.

Overjoyed, he hurried toward the source of the sound.

Roar!

While Lin Chen was still on his way, another deafening beast roar came from the same direction as the white tiger.

There was no need to think about it. It had to be the invader arranged by the system.

Anyone daring to invade a Geng Metal White Tiger's territory was surely no weakling. This was the perfect chance for him to go over and pick up the leftovers.

With that thought, Lin Chen quickened his pace, afraid that if he arrived too late, the Geng Metal White Tiger would be killed.

Over twenty minutes later, Lin Chen reached his destination.

He saw a white tiger over five meters long fighting a flood-dragon-type Spirit Beast of similar size on a plain.

The battle was already nearing its end.

The flood-dragon-type Spirit Beast was clearly no match for the Geng Metal White Tiger. Covered in blood, it was being pinned to the ground and bitten by the white tiger.

But the Geng Metal White Tiger wasn't doing much better.

Its white fur had long since been dyed red with blood, and horrifying wounds covered its body. In some places, white bone could even be seen beneath the flesh.

Crack!

With a crisp sound of breaking bones, the flood-dragon-type Spirit Beast's spine was bitten through by the white tiger, and its entire body went limp on the ground.

Roar...

The Geng Metal White Tiger threw back its head and roared, as though proclaiming its victory.

At that moment, Lin Chen moved.

As he shot forward, his Martial Soul, the Dragon Roar Sword, appeared in his hand.

It was worth mentioning that—

The Dragon Roar Sword was very small, but it happened to suit his height perfectly. There was no issue of the blade being too long for him to wield properly.

This was also a major advantage of tool Martial Souls.

Their length changed according to the Spirit Master's height. Otherwise, if a six-year-old child awakened a spear over two meters long—

How would they even use it?

Roar!

Seeing Lin Chen, the white tiger let out a low growl and pushed off with all four legs. Its enormous body shot forward without showing the slightest fatigue from its previous battle.

It wanted this damned human to know that even injured, it wasn't someone he could provoke.

As both sides charged toward each other, the distance between them quickly shrank to ten meters. The white tiger leaped into the air and extended its right forepaw, swiping it straight at Lin Chen.

Endless Phantoms!

As Lin Chen circulated his spirit power, his body suddenly split into nine phantoms, which attacked the white tiger from different directions at once.

The phantoms were incredibly lifelike. No matter the angle, there was no discernible difference between them.

At that moment, a trace of human-like panic appeared in the white tiger's eyes.

Though it was in midair, its eyes darted left and right, as if it had no idea which phantom to attack.