Meng Yiran's death

Chapter 29

Meng Yiran's death (reset)

"That bastard was finally dead for good."

Only after watching Meng Baichuan explode did Lin Yuan let out a long breath and leap down from the bamboo tip. He raised a hand, drawing the golden, armor-shaped soul bone into his grasp.

Indeed, although this armor was only the size of an adult's palm, it bore quite a resemblance to Barbarian Beard's Imperial Scale Armor.

No wonder Meng Baichuan had given it that name.

After carefully putting the soul bone into his Storage Soul Tool, Lin Yuan drew Meng Baichuan's Soul Tool over as well.

He discovered that, although the man had not been as wealthy as Dai Mubai, he had owned quite a few books on soul beasts and soul master theory.

The collections at Nouding Academy and Suotuo City Intermediate Soul Master Academy were limited, after all.

Obtaining these books was an unexpected windfall.

"Time to deal with the other one."

Lin Yuan looked toward Meng Yiran. In all honesty, he did not particularly want to kill her.

Otherwise, he would not have intended to knock her unconscious at the beginning.

But she already knew the secret of the transmigrators.

Even if she could not make sense of it yet, she would understand once she encountered other transmigrators in the future.

So he could only go down and send her to join Meng Baichuan.

With that thought, Lin Yuan raised a hand and snapped his fingers. All the lone bamboo he had released earlier disappeared.

Lin Yuan darted toward Meng Yiran.

When he arrived, Meng Yiran was lying gracefully on her back, her lifeless gaze and unfocused pupils fixed on the sky. Perhaps her injuries were too severe for her to move, or perhaps her heart had turned to dead ashes and she knew fleeing would be pointless.

Sensing Lin Yuan's arrival, she showed no fear. Instead, she asked with relief, "My brother... no, the demon who took over my brother's body. Is he dead?"

Lin Yuan said nothing, merely nodding.

"Good. That's good. Now I can rest in peace." Meng Yiran glanced at Lin Yuan and said bleakly, "There's a piece of ten-thousand-year whale rubber in my Soul Tool. I originally intended to give it to my brother as a gift, but there's no need for it now. You can have it. All I ask is that you stop targeting the Dragon Snake Family."

"As long as another Meng Baichuan doesn't appear, I can agree to that..." Lin Yuan finally spoke.

"Thank you. If there's another life, don't let me meet any of you again..." As Meng Yiran spoke, she somehow found the strength to take a throwing knife from the Storage Soul Tool she carried and end her own life.

Lin Yuan froze at the sight.

He had never expected Meng Yiran to be so unyielding, ending her life after exchanging only a few words with him.

She seemed to have lost all attachment to this world.

He had no idea what blows she had suffered during his battle with Meng Baichuan.

But even without guessing, he could imagine the despair of being betrayed by someone dear to her, then finding herself marked by an unfathomably powerful killer with no hope of escape.

Although it left him somewhat unsettled, Meng Yiran taking her own life was just as well. Otherwise, deciding how to deal with her would have given him quite a headache.

After all, she had never seen his true face and did not know his martial soul.

As for Meng Yiran knowing about transmigrators, five of them had appeared so far.

Yan Beifei, Lin Tian, Meng Baichuan, the boy in Notting City who had asked about whale rubber, and Lin Yuan himself.

Even though the first three were dead, the boy who had asked about whale rubber remained, along with any other unknown transmigrators who might appear.

"We had no grievances between us, but struggles between transmigrators have always been a matter of life or death. You can only blame your ill fortune. If one day I have the last laugh and ultimately become a god, I will give you back a life without transmigrators."

Shaking his head, Lin Yuan sighed inwardly before stepping forward to check Meng Yiran's pulse.

There was no pulse, and all the soul power in her body had dissipated. The throwing knife had slit her throat, leaving her with no signs of life whatsoever.

Then a golden arc of electricity shot from his hand and struck Meng Yiran's corpse. The ground exploded with a thunderous crash, and her body dissolved into specks of light and disappeared.

Naturally, Lin Yuan did not stand on ceremony when it came to taking the Storage Soul Tool Meng Yiran had left behind.

A brief sweep with his spiritual power revealed that there was indeed a piece of ten-thousand-year whale rubber inside. Its quality was considerably better than the piece at the auction house in Balak City.

After dealing with everything, Lin Yuan left behind the Star Luo Imperial Family token he had taken from Dai Mubai.

But then he remembered that the Star Luo Imperial Family knew a masked man in black like him had robbed Dai Mubai. Leaving it here could easily allow Dragon Duke and Snake Granny to follow the trail to him, turning his clever scheme into a blunder.

So he put the token away again.

He also cleaned up the scene.

He made it difficult for anyone else to determine what type of soul master had struck.

Once he had finished, Lin Yuan flickered back to the cliff from earlier.

Lin Yuan swept down the cliff and slipped into the cave leading to the underground river, taking out the Soul Tools belonging to the siblings Meng Baichuan and Meng Yiran.

After emptying them of money, books, and whale rubber, he threw them into the underground river, along with his black clothes, black gauze hat, and the Star Luo Empire token. Then he swam underwater until he soon reached the lake connected to this underground river.

After washing himself clean, Lin Yuan put on ordinary clothes.

He took a wide detour before heading toward Suotuo City like an ordinary traveler.

Now that Meng Yiran and Meng Baichuan were dead, Dragon Duke and Snake Granny had lost two talented descendants who had been almost certain to become Titled Douluos. The couple would inevitably erupt in thunderous fury and search everywhere for the killer.

As the saying went, the most dangerous place was the safest.

Even if Dragon Duke and Snake Granny racked their brains until their heads split, they would never imagine that their two gifted descendants had died at the hands of a student from an intermediate soul master academy.

After all, Lin Yuan's current identity was still that of a somewhat talented student at Suotuo City Intermediate Soul Master Academy.

He had never told outsiders that he had advanced to Soul Elder.

Every time he participated in a practical combat exercise at the academy, he used his cultivation method to conceal his aura and his second soul skill, Mirage, to turn his second soul ring yellow while hiding his third.

No one would suspect a mere "Soul Grandmaster" like him.

Even if they investigated, they would investigate students who had gone home for the holidays.

They would never think that the killer was still at the academy.

And, as it turned out,

things went exactly as he had predicted.

Several days later, the sounds of fierce fighting rang out beyond Suotuo City, deafening everyone who heard them.

Many people were astonished.

Soon afterward, all of Suotuo City was placed under lockdown.

An elderly couple carrying dragon-headed and snake-headed staffs escorted a bruised and swollen-faced Flender, along with Li Yusong and the other teachers from Shrek Academy, through Suotuo City, searching and questioning every household.