No Time to Fox Around with You (Monthly Tickets Requested)

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Wu Feng angrily chewed on the Snow Pig meat, shooting Su Wen a "vicious" glare from time to time, while the latter was chatting with Ning Tian with great interest, occasionally flashing Wu Feng a "provocative" smile.

"And he says he's not interested in the young miss. Hmph, how is he any different from those guys in the sect!" Wu Feng said hatefully.

In her field of vision, Su Wen looked more and more like a bewitching fox, making the young miss laugh happily, waiting until the young miss lowered her guard, then looking for a chance to do something wicked. Mm, that had to be it!

But when the time came, the young miss's most loyal knight would definitely make her entrance, expose this guy's conspiracy at the critical moment, and then...

Just as Wu Feng was foolishly fantasizing about the hero making her grand entrance and the young miss falling in love with her...

Su Wen kindly handed over a wet wipe, then turned to Ning Tian with a smile. "It isn't easy being a young miss either. Even when you go out, you have to bring an idiot along."

Ning Tian covered her face. Looking at the drool that had nearly fallen onto the table from Wu Feng's mouth, she stared at Wu Feng with a dark expression, her silver teeth lightly clenched. "Wu Feng!!!"

"Mmph, young miss, he's bewitching you!" Wu Feng hurriedly wiped away her drool and said with an earnest, heartfelt expression.

"Pfft~" Su Wen couldn't hold it in.

As the loyal maid at the heroine's side, this one's performance as an idiot was truly unmatched.

"Wu Feng!!!"

"Say any more nonsense and you're going out!" Ning Tian clenched her fists, her beautiful eyes filled with anger.

"Oh..."

Wu Feng drooped her head like a defeated rooster and, looking aggrieved, stuffed more Snow Pig meat into her mouth.

"Judging by your age, you should be about the same as us, right?" Ning Tian took a deep breath, only then barely recovering a trace of a lady's bearing as she asked with a smile.

"Eight," Su Wen said with a nod.

"Then are you also traveling to the Land of Extreme North with your senior?" Ning Tian tucked a few loose strands of hair behind her ear and asked with interest.

"No, I'm obtaining a Soul Ring," Su Wen said with a light smile.

"Obtaining a Soul Ring?"

Ning Tian's beautiful eyes froze for a moment.

She was also eight, but because she had been born with Innate Grade 9 soul power, she had reached her first bottleneck three months after awakening her martial soul, which was around the age of six.

But she had no intention of looking down on Su Wen.

She just felt slightly regretful. His talent was probably somewhat poor, after all. Even Wu Feng, who had innate soul power at Grade 7, had obtained her first Soul Ring last year.

"Ahahahaha, with that tone of yours, anyone who didn't know better would think you had Innate Full Soul Power! Turns out you're just a rookie." Wu Feng finally seized on Su Wen's weakness, her face full of smugness.

In this world, strength was supreme.

Soul power and battle prowess were what best displayed a person's identity and status.

Without strength, everything was empty talk.

"Fools have foolish luck. That's pretty good." Su Wen did not explain anything. The look he gave Wu Feng carried a trace of indulgent fondness.

"You, you freaking..." Wu Feng's pretty face flushed bright red.

"Ah, what a coincidence. You're all here..." Yan Shaozhe appeared beside the dining table. Seeing the little ones bickering, he smiled gently. "Do you need me to introduce you?"

"No need, Uncle Yan," Su Wen said with a nod.

"Capturing a Soul Beast is more important. I don't have time to fox around with this silly child."

"Hehe, so this is Xiao Wen. I've long heard your great name." Another thin old man dressed in white robes chuckled.

"Grandpa Zhu!" Ning Tian's red lips parted slightly, and a trace of astonishment entered her beautiful eyes.

Clearly, she had not guessed that the elder Su Wen spoke of would actually be the Dean of Shrek Academy's Martial Soul Department!

A person even Grandpa Zhu had to treat with respect was actually personally accompanying a junior to the Land of Extreme North to obtain a Soul Ring?!!

Something was wrong!

But Su Wen had no reason to lie to her. A guy who was only obtaining his first Soul Ring at eight years old—was he someone with connections? Or was his martial soul rather special?

Or could it be his second Soul Ring?

Impossible! As the Sect Master of the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School, she had resources handed to her until her hands went numb, and her talent was even hailed within the sect as a genius rare in a thousand years, yet she had only broken through to rank sixteen yesterday...

Ning Tian shook her head, casting that absurd thought out of her mind.

The Land of Extreme North.

Wind and snow filled the sky.

The group stepped across the snowy ground, advancing forward.

Yet strangely enough, while the wind and snow howled around them, they were not affected in the slightest. Their clothes remained clean, as though an invisible barrier wrapped around them, also isolating them from the "harsh environment" outside.

Over ninety degrees below zero.

Calling it a forbidden zone for humans was no exaggeration.

No wonder humans rarely set foot in the Land of Extreme North and preferred running off to the Star Dou Great Forest instead. In this kind of brutally harsh climate, even someone in the Spirit Saint Realm would be affected quite a bit.

"Ice Jade Scorpion? Is your Martial Soul Ice Attribute?" Ning Tian asked curiously.

The young girl's curiosity only grew stronger.

"No." Su Wen smiled and shook his head.

The Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School had sent more than one person on this trip—over a dozen in total. It was said that they had also come to the Land of Extreme North to do some business on the side, negotiating with the Lord of An Yang City over the Cold Crystal Mine. This visit was for an on-site inspection of the Land of Extreme North.

The thin old man leading the group, however, had left the team and was talking with Yan Shaozhe.

They let the rest of the party follow the people from the Lord of An Yang City to the mining site for the inspection...

Ning Tian was at a loss.

Soul Rings condensed from Ice Element Soul Beasts gave special bonuses to Spirit Masters with Ice Attribute Martial Souls, but for other Spirit Masters, calling them useless would not be an exaggeration.

Wu Feng gave a light snort and crossed her arms over her chest.

If not for a big shot like Yan Shaozhe being present, she would definitely have mocked him a few times.

"Something's up."

Yan Shaozhe stopped in his tracks.

He looked at Su Wen with a hint of delight in his eyes. "What a coincidence. I didn't expect to run into a clan of Ice Jade Scorpions even on the outskirts of the Land of Extreme North. There are only a few dozen of them, but they all have cultivations of a hundred to a thousand years—just right for your second choice."

"Let's go take a look!" Su Wen's eyes lit up.

Without another word, Yan Shaozhe picked up Su Wen, and his figure flashed.

When Su Wen opened his eyes again, he saw a long trail of marks left across the vast white snow in the distance. At the end of the trail, a large group of jade-green, crystal-like scorpions were crawling across the ground.

Ice Jade Scorpion

Cultivation: 134 years
Attribute: Ultimate Ice
Potential: None

Cultivation: 534 years
Attribute: Ultimate Ice
Potential: 1

Su Wen swept his gaze over them.

A flash of surprise crossed his eyes.

As expected of the Ice Jade Scorpion clan. Among these dozens of Ice Jade Scorpions, Su Wen discovered a full three whose potential field was not "None." Although they all only had 1 point, that ratio was already terrifying.

One had to know that in the Star Dou Great Forest, among Soul Beasts below ten thousand years, finding even one with potential was practically one in a thousand.

Of course, a yellow Pokeball meant that as long as it was a hundred-year Soul Beast, it could be captured—even one that was nine hundred and ninety-nine years old.

But that was of little use to Su Wen. At most, it expanded his range of choices. After all, even if it was a ten-thousand-year Soul Beast, after binding with him, it would still synchronize to Su Wen's strength realm...

"Keep going."

Su Wen shook his head.

"These Ice Jade Scorpions all have too little potential."

"Good!"

Yan Shaozhe wasted no words either. The Spiritual Power of a Super Douluo spread out, searching for the next group of Ice Jade Scorpions.