The First Soul Beast Godslayer, Wind Baboon!

The First Soul Beast—Godslayer, Wind Baboon!

"Rustle, rustle~"

A flurry of leaves sounded in the distance. Zhang Lexuan narrowed her eyes slightly and shifted her feet, shielding Su Wen behind her.

A long while passed.

The rustling of the leaves grew more and more intense.

A group of Wind Baboons appeared in their field of vision. They leaped nimbly between the branches of ancient trees, as if their troop was migrating.

The one in the lead seemed to notice Zhang Lexuan. It instantly stopped, its snow-white fur bristling all over as it bared its teeth and growled low in its throat.

"Wind Baboons. The one in the lead has just broken through to a hundred years, while the rest range from a few years to a few dozen years." Zhang Lexuan ignored it and instead looked at Su Wen.

At that moment, Su Wen looked astonished.

He stared at one of the Wind Baboons, his face full of shock.

Wind Baboon

Cultivation: Fourteen years

Attribute: Wind

Potential: 8

Evaluation: Destined Godslayer. The continent has bestowed upon it a unique fate, making it one of the few existences on the continent closest to achieving godslaying. Catching it is pure profit...

"I want that one!" Su Wen pointed at that Wind Baboon without the slightest hesitation.

"Which one?" A trace of seriousness entered Zhang Lexuan's beautiful eyes as she followed the direction of Su Wen's finger.

Silver-white Soul Power surged out from within her. The strength of the Spirit Saint Realm was laid bare, pressing down on this group of Wind Baboons, whose strongest member was only a hundred years old, until they could not move at all and huddled together, trembling.

"That one!" Su Wen could barely hide his excitement.

The Wind Baboons all moved aside, leaving only one bewildered Wind Baboon standing there in a daze.

It looked left and right, then carefully shifted a little to the right, toward the direction of its troop. But that finger seemed to have locked onto it, moving along with its position.

"It's you!"

Su Wen threw with all his strength. The white ball in his hand turned into an arc and flew toward that Wind Baboon.

"Buzz~"

The white ball turned into a pillar of light that enveloped the Wind Baboon. Several seconds later, the enormous beam dispersed, the white ball vanished, and only a Wind Baboon remained in the field, looking utterly disheveled in the wind.

"It worked!" Su Wen said with a smile.

With the capture successful, his first Soul Ring had also become the Wind Baboon. No—it did not seem like a Soul Ring. It was more like his Martial Soul!

"Roar~" The Wind Baboon growled low at its troop, then retreated warily behind Su Wen. When it looked at Su Wen, the blood color faded from its pupils and they returned to normal, even carrying a slightly dazed look.

When he opened the panel again, however, the data had become unusually detailed.

Wind Baboon

Level: 12

Strength: 0.14

Speed: 0.20

Stamina: 0.14

Defense: 0.10

Skill: Wind Blade (Common)

Attribute: Wind (Common)

Potential: 8 (Exceptional)

Next evolution stage: Storm Baboon

It could still evolve?!!

Su Wen looked through each line, and his pupils suddenly shrank. As expected of a Godslayer, this potential was truly absurd. Forget ten-year Soul Beasts—even among hundred-year, thousand-year, and ten-thousand-year Soul Beasts, eight points of potential was extremely rare.

However, how to evolve to the next stage was not mentioned. Whether it required raising his own Soul Power, or raising the Wind Baboon's basic attributes to a certain stage, he would have to wait and figure it out through exploration.

As for the attributes.

They were actually quite easy to understand.

Zero point one four was roughly equivalent to its age limit. In other words, every hundred years equaled only one point in basic attributes. The variations between high and low were due to the reductions and increases in basic attributes caused by the Wind Baboon's weakness—defense—and its advantage—speed.

He nodded in satisfaction. Only then did he have time to size up this Wind Baboon of extraordinary fortune at close range.

It was about one meter tall, covered entirely in white fur. Its arms looked somewhat thick, its legs were visibly short and small, and its claws were exceptionally sharp. If they raked across his skin, they would most likely tear away a chunk of flesh. It looked quite similar to the monkeys from his previous life. The only difference from the other Wind Baboons was that this one's eyes were unusually bright and intelligent.

After capturing this Soul Beast, even his own speed had faintly increased by a small margin.

It seemed the ability to capture Soul Beasts could also feed back to strengthen himself.

"Let's go."

Zhang Lexuan waved her hand.

The pack of baboons bounded across the branches, fleeing as they vanished from the sight of the two people and one baboon.

"From now on, I'll call you Hurricane."

Su Wen chuckled softly, stood on tiptoe, and patted Hurricane's head. Speaking of which, he was only six years old now and around one meter thirty, barely half a head taller.

"Roar~"

Hurricane rumbled happily in a low voice.

A gentle smile touched Zhang Lexuan's lips. She rubbed Su Wen's head. "Let's go, Xiao Wen. Since you've obtained your first Soul Beast, we should return to camp for now. Elder Xuan has left, and if we stay away too long, trouble might break out."

"Okay!" Su Wen nodded.

At the same time, he frowned.

He suddenly thought of that Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast that would soon make its appearance. Since he had already joined Shrek Academy, he naturally could not just stand by and watch people die. But if he wanted to save them, how exactly was he supposed to do it?

He could only stay by Xuan Zi's side.

He pondered.

Based on the Original Work, Xuan Zi had probably drunk himself into a stupor and fallen asleep. Only because he trusted Zhang Lexuan and the others so completely would he have acted like that. But his overconfidence had nearly caused the entire team to be wiped out, which was also one of the biggest points people criticized. Being ranked as Shrek's most unreliable person, bar none—he really did have some skill in that regard.

As for the conspiracy theory—that Xuan Zi was the Holy Spirit Cult's Grand Elder.

The corner of Su Wen's mouth twitched. If that were true, then things would get interesting. That would be dungeon-level difficulty.

He shook his head and threw that absurd thought out of his mind.

This matter was not a hopeless situation. Xuan Zi, one of the strongest people on the continent at rank ninety-eight, was here. Unless a Fierce Beast of five or six hundred thousand years appeared, a mere Soul Beast that had just broken through to a hundred thousand years could not possibly threaten them.

Since that was the case, as long as he kept Elder Xuan steady and made him act at the right time, it would be fine!

Just don't freaking fall asleep like in the Original Work.

Mm, that was it!

A satisfied smile appeared on Su Wen's face.

"Do not spread a word of what happened today. Don't ask about Martial Souls or any other messy nonsense. Xiaotao... forget it, do as you like."

Inside the camp.

Zhang Lexuan looked around, her expression solemn as she spoke.

"Don't worry, Senior Sister. We'll definitely keep our mouths shut." A thin man adjusted his glasses and grinned.

"Tch, give me a break. You've got the biggest mouth here. I bet the moment we get back to the academy, the entire inner courtyard will know." A girl with short green hair and delicate features sneered.

"You, you... how vicious! You're ruining my reputation!" the thin male student snarled angrily.

"Hmph. If you don't like it, bite me," the short-haired girl shot back without yielding.

Watching this scene.

The other Inner Courtyard Disciples wore kindly smiles, but their gazes kept drifting toward Su Wen, their eyes carrying a trace of shock and curiosity.

Sure enough, it was just as expected.

This child's talent was definitely among the very best. Elder Xuan's departure, Senior Sister Lexuan personally taking action to help him capture his first Soul Ring, and this "confidentiality agreement" were the best proof of that.

"The academy is going to produce another monster."

Someone sighed.