Hao Te's Squad Wiped Out, Inspecting the Storage Rings
"Keep your voice down, I can see you." The burly man at the head of the group glanced disapprovingly at the middle-aged man beside him.
As soon as the Ice-Horn Mad Rhino's horn was removed, Huo Lei put it into his Storage Ring.
The fifteen men moved swiftly, arriving before Huo Lei in just a few breaths.
"Who... who are you? Don't come any closer." Huo Lei feigned a look of terror, holding a dagger in his right hand, and questioned the fifteen strange men who had suddenly appeared only ten meters away from him.
"Young man, why are you wandering alone in this Frozen Forest? Where are your companions? And how did you kill these two Ice-Horn Mad Rhino?" The leading burly man fired off a series of questions.
"Who are you? We don't know you, why should I tell you! I'm warning you, don't even think about messing with my Soul Beast." Huo Lei didn't answer the big man's question, still holding his dagger, pretending to be very wary.
The burly man at the head of the group glanced around, then looked at Huo Lei, his previously slight smile turning cold. "The dead don't need to know who we are."
Huo Lei remained terrified, his right hand holding the dagger trembling slightly. As he retreated, he warned the fifteen men, "I advise you to leave quickly, or I won't be polite."
A middle-aged man sneered at Huo Lei with an excited expression, "Hahaha! You little brat, you haven't even grown your hair yet, and you dare to spout such nonsense. How are you going to make us pay the price? Come on! Let us see!"
The middle-aged man's words caused the other fourteen people to burst into laughter.
"This is what you asked for, so don't blame me." Huo Lei's expression suddenly turned cold, and his left calf instantly shone with purple light, with purple electricity surging wildly. He lightly lifted his left foot and stomped down heavily, and the purple Lightning spread rapidly, instantly turning a fifty-meter radius around Huo Lei into a sea of Lightning.
The Huo Lei were unleashed by the Left Leg Bone skill Thunder Domain.
"Oh no! It's Soul Bone Skill! Everyone, run!" the leading burly man exclaimed in alarm.
The leader had barely finished speaking when, before anyone could react, purple Lightning engulfed them all. Fourteen out of the fifteen were instantly electrocuted. The leader, however, only managed to hold on for a single breath longer before collapsing, his face unrecognizable.
"Hmph! A bunch of trash, with such meager skills, you still dare to rob others. Now it's my turn to reap your harvest." Huo Lei looked at the fifteen charred bodies on the ground and sneered.
With a flick of his right hand, Huo Lei, holding the dagger, collected the bodies of the two Ice-Horn Mad Rhino. Then, dagger in hand, he walked towards the fifteen bodies on the ground.
A moment later, Huo Lei stood beside a charred body and said, "Oscar, rest in peace! I'll soon have the rest of the Shrek Seven Monsters Devils join you. Oh! And those Shrek teachers too, they'll go with you too. Year after year you toiled and struggled, only to have your efforts benefit others. I've taken all your Storage Ring; let's see just how much you've plundered. Too bad! Not a single Soul Bone among you."
After Huo Lei finished speaking, he quickly left the scene.
Afterwards, Huo Lei hunted down several Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, but failed to obtain Soul Bone. He then gave up the hunt and returned directly to Iceforest City.
When Huo Lei returned to the Northern Conquest Marquis Estate, it was already dark. He arrived just in time to have dinner with everyone, and all six of them were present.
After dinner, the six of them chatted for a while. Huo Lei recounted his process of hunting Soul Beast to find Soul Bone and gave Xue Wu the horn of the Ice-Horn Mad Rhino that he had already taken.
As the event was about to end, Yunxiang made a request: to borrow some of the crowd's blood to make white Strawberry.
Yunxiang, quite casually, took out four Xiao Bai jade bottles, each with a name already labeled, and gave one to each of Huo Lei, Jin Shan, An Jun, and Shui Bing'er.
None of the four said anything, and each of them generously squeezed a few drops of blood into the small jade bottle. Yunxiang thanked each of them gratefully and carefully put away the four jade bottles as if they were precious treasures.
When giving Yunxiang bottle, Huo Lei gave her some advice, telling her not to use the second Soul Skill of her Lightning Martial Soul lightly. The reasons were simple: first, this Soul Skill consumes a lot of Soul Power; second, to prevent her from misjudging the situation and causing accidental injury.
At the same time, Huo Lei gave one of the Ice-Horn Mad Rhino's ice horns to Xue Wu.
After the event ended, everyone returned to their respective rooms. Huo Lei, far from being sleepy, was actually full of energy. There weren't many things that interested him. One was checking the Soul Beast's body; the other was checking his Storage Ring, since he had acquired fifteen Storage Ring during the day.
Huo Lei took out fifteen Storage Ring from his pocket, arranged the colorful Storage Ring in a row on the bed, and then put them on the index finger of his left hand one by one to examine them.
A quarter of an hour later, Huo Lei finished inspecting all the Storage Ring in front of him, and muttered to himself with a smile, "Hao Te truly lives up to his reputation as the captain of the mercenary team. His Storage Ring contains the most items, and also has the largest storage space. He has five Gold Soul Card alone, and the total Gold Soul Coin on the cards amount to 100,000, making him the richest among the fifteen."
Oscar's Storage Ring wasn't very large, only five cubic meters, and it didn't contain many items, mostly necessities: a dagger; two tents; three changes of clothes; several bottles and jars containing seasonings; two Gold Soul Card, one with 10,000 Gold Soul Coin and the other with 5,000 Gold Soul Coin; a money pouch; and most notably, two Godly Zhuge Crossbow.
As for the Storage Ring of the other thirteen people, they were nothing special. Apart from some essential items for the wilderness, the rest were all miscellaneous items. Each of them had a Gold Soul Card, and their Gold Soul Coin added up to more than 100,000.
"Haha! What a great harvest. It's time to clean out my Storage Ring again. As the cultivation level of the Soul Beast increases, their size also increases accordingly. Soul Beast with cultivation levels of over ten thousand years are getting bigger and bigger, and two Storage Ring are no longer enough to meet their needs. This golden Storage Ring from Hao Te is quite nice. I like the color, and the internal space is also decent, a full ten cubic meters. Three Storage Ring should be enough." A thought flashed through Huo Lei's mind.
Having made up his mind, Huo Lei put the golden Storage Ring on the ring finger of his right hand. At the same time, he put away the remaining fourteen Storage Ring.
Huo Lei looked at the three Storage Ring on his right hand—red, blue, and gold—with satisfaction. He didn't cultivate; instead, he drifted off to sleep.
The next day, after breakfast, Huo Lei did not choose to sell the Soul Beast bodies in his Storage Ring. Instead, he found An Beichen Huo Lei gave him all the ice and snow attribute Soul Beast after removing the horn from the other Ice-Horn Mad Rhino. Only the Azure Shadow Mouse King, which had not yet been inspected, remained.
Huo Lei felt a sense of relief after emptying his Storage Ring.
Everyone had their own things to do. Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu were cultivating; Yunxiang was making Impression White Strawberry; An Jun was meeting with old friends as usual. Huo Lei, out of boredom, examined the body of the Azure Shadow Mouse King in his room.
The Azure Shadow Mouse King, which had been stored for four years, did not disappoint Huo Lei, producing a Right Leg Bone for him. Huo Lei was overjoyed and, instead of selling the Azure Shadow Mouse King's body, found a place in the wild to bury it.
After lunch, Huo Lei gave Shui Bing'er the horn of the Ice-Horn Mad Rhino. During lunch, Xue Wu shared some exciting news: she had broken through to Level 60, meaning she could now attach her Sixth Soul Ring.
After discussion, everyone reached a consensus and decided to set off for the Frozen Forest and the Far North tomorrow to add Soul Ring to Xue Wu and An Jun.