A Showdown Between Two Transmigrators

Especially Meng Baichuan. Whether it was his combat technique or his control over his soul skills, both were impeccable.

But this level of strength was still within an acceptable range.

In a one-on-one fight, he could at most contend with a Soul Ancestor.

If he encountered a Soul King, defeat would be inevitable.

What Lin Yuan truly cared about, however, was how the two fought together.

Their coordination far exceeded his expectations.

Lin Yuan believed that he could quickly deal with an opponent one-on-one, but facing two at once would multiply the difficulty several times over.

And that was without the two of them using their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Dragon Snake Combined Strike.

Their spiritual powers are linked during battle, allowing their minds to communicate. I should observe them more. Once I break through to Soul Elder, it won't be too late to look for an opportunity.

Lin Yuan suppressed his impulse inwardly.

For the time that followed, aside from staying at Suotuo City Intermediate Soul Master Academy, visiting the library, and reading books unavailable at Nording Academy,

he cultivated.

Any academy was tolerant of outstanding students.

Thanks to Lin Yuan's exceptional talent, even if he skipped class, no one held it against him.

He only needed to participate in the weekly practical combat drills.

Almost every time, Lin Yuan achieved the excellent result of "third place."

This way, he would neither let the academy's classes delay his cultivation nor attract too much attention.

After all, he had enrolled under the identity of a twelve-year-old.

A twelve-year-old at level twenty-four was rare, but not to the point where such a genius could not be found anywhere in the entire Soul Master world.

Outside of cultivation, Lin Yuan would occasionally visit the Soul Fighting Arena to observe the siblings Meng Yiran and Meng Baichuan.

After nearly two years of observation, Lin Yuan had finally figured out the abilities of this pair of siblings.

Like Huo Zhongxian's Third Division's Hundred-Percent Martial Soul Fusion Skill, they could share each other's cultivation results and increase their cultivation speed.

As for whether Meng Baichuan possessed a second Martial Soul, that remained unknown for the time being.

However, Lin Yuan could more or less guess his purpose from the fact that he had not bullied Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai too badly.

He was probably planning to become the eighth and ninth monsters alongside Meng Yiran, then follow Tang San on the path to godhood.

Lin Yuan was already eleven years old by then.

After breaking through to Soul Grandmaster, he no longer increased his Soul Power by one level roughly every two months as he had in the Soul Master stage. Still, gaining a level every two and a half months was an astonishing cultivation speed.

After one year and eleven months of arduous cultivation, Lin Yuan had reached level thirty-five.

His third soul ring had come from a Golden Sword Bamboo more than seven thousand years old.

It also happened to be time for Flender's annual trip through the surrounding villages to conduct business—intercepting talented young Soul Masters.

During this period, most children of the appropriate age had already awakened their Martial Souls.

The Soul Masters studying at Junior Soul Master Academies had also returned to their villages.

With a little inquiry, it was easy enough to find them.

That fat Ma Hongjun had been picked up by Flender from Phoenix Village in exactly this manner.

Flender simply gave Ma Hongjun, Dai Mubai, Meng Yiran, Meng Baichuan, and the other Shrek students a month off.

Ma Hongjun naturally went off to visit brothels.

After being robbed by Lin Yuan, Dai Mubai still owed Shrek Academy ten Gold Soul Coins for enrollment and one hundred Gold Soul Coins for tuition.

On top of that, he had yet to break through to Soul Elder.

As a result, as soon as Spirit Hall issued his monthly subsidy of ten Gold Soul Coins, Flender took most of it away to repay his debt.

He was even poorer than Ma Hongjun.

Yet he could not bring himself to lower his standards and pursue those "common beauties."

Meng Yiran suited his tastes, but while he fancied her, she had no interest in him.

In order to enjoy life while he could, he had no choice but to follow Ma Hongjun into the grass nests in search of phoenixes.

As for Meng Baichuan, who prided himself on keeping himself clean, he naturally went home with Meng Yiran to visit their grandparents, just as they had done the previous year.

But whether he was overly confident, stupid, or had some other reason, he had actually spent two consecutive years not having anyone from the Dragon Snake Family come to escort them, instead choosing to travel alone with Meng Yiran.

That happened to give Lin Yuan an opportunity.

He first carefully surveyed the route they had to take back to their clan.

He confirmed that there were no ambushes or people waiting to meet them.

Then he tailed them for over a hundred miles, confirming it again and again.

Only then did he finally decide to make his move.

This was already the second time he had done something like this. The previous time, Dragon Duke and Serpent Matriarch had been waiting for them outside Suotuo City, so Lin Yuan had not acted.

This time, he had made thorough preparations.

The sun hung high in the sky.

It was just past noon when the siblings Meng Yiran and Meng Baichuan hurried along the road from Suotuo City to the Dragon Snake Family.

As they passed through a bamboo forest, Meng Baichuan suddenly halted and grabbed the back of Meng Yiran's collar, yanking her out of her forward rush amid her startled cry of "Ah!"

The next instant, a pebble flew through the spot Meng Yiran had just occupied.

With a dull bang, it struck the ground at an angle and smashed out a shallow pit.

After recovering from her shock, Meng Yiran saw the shallow pit and was instantly both frightened and furious. "Who is it? How dare you sneak-attack this young lady? Get out here now!"

Meng Baichuan, on the other hand, remained unusually calm. He said coldly, "Come out, friend who robbed us of our Whale Rubber."

As soon as he spoke, mist gradually spread through the surroundings, reducing visibility to less than five meters.

Then, a vague figure dressed in a black robe, with black gauze covering his face and a veiled hat atop his head, emerged from the mist like a ghost.

"You seemed to know I was coming?"

Lin Yuan rarely spoke, and he had already mapped out an escape route and prepared to withdraw at any moment.

Like the great detective Di Renjie himself, Meng Baichuan said gravely:

"At first, I wasn't suspicious. I simply mistook you for Dai Mubai and thought you bought the Whale Rubber as an aphrodisiac."

"But after truly interacting with Dai Mubai, I discovered that he was so poor he had to visit brothels with Ma Hongjun."

"After asking around, I learned that he had been robbed. All his money, along with his Soul Tool, had been taken, naturally including that gold card bearing the Star Luo Imperial Family's insignia."

"Only then did I realize that person wasn't him, but my fellow townsman." He placed special emphasis on the words "fellow townsman."

"She didn't have to die." Lin Yuan smiled upon hearing that.

According to Lin Yuan's original plan, after striking Meng Yiran's sleeping acupoint with a pebble, he would have left her alone.

He only needed to place the Star Luo Imperial Family token found in Dai Mubai's Soul Tool into the dead Meng Baichuan's hand and make it look like an assassination by the Star Luo Imperial Family.

After all, assassinating geniuses from hostile forces was already a common occurrence on the Douluo Continent.

The Dragon Snake Family was located in the Balak Kingdom and was naturally close to the Heaven Dou Empire. It was perfectly reasonable for the Star Luo Empire to assassinate Meng Baichuan, a genius who was only eleven yet already possessed level thirty-nine cultivation and a yellow-purple-purple soul ring configuration.

But Meng Baichuan had pulled her back, allowing her to evade the pebble.

He would inevitably see the battle that followed.

To keep his identity from being exposed, Lin Yuan could only show no mercy to a beautiful flower.

Meng Baichuan looked helpless. "Can't we avoid fighting?"

"With your and my talent and strength, following Tang San to godhood is practically guaranteed. Why fight to the death? The Divine Realm doesn't lack three inheritances of godhood for you, me, and Yiran."

"As for all that double-standard nonsense, or the Tang Family's backyard and whatever else, what does any of it have to do with us? If we really can't stand it, then after destroying Spirit Hall, we can establish an organization capable of replacing Spirit Hall ourselves."

"If you want beautiful women, Qian Renxue, Hu Liena, and even Bibi Dong can all be yours. I only want Ning Rongrong and Zhu Qing."