"Boss, he's so pale, and his skin looks so smooth!"
The burly man on the left looked at Yu Xiaogang with a beaming smile, his gaze fixed on him.
As though he had spotted some rare treasure.
Watching the three men approach him with sinister grins, Yu Xiaogang felt an inexplicable trace of foreboding rise in his heart.
He kept feeling as though he was about to go through a fierce battle.
But the confidence his rank twenty-nine Soul Power gave him soon steadied him again.
"Hey, hey, hey, you three, tell this Grandmaster where this is. Once you tell me, this Grandmaster will bestow a tremendous opportunity upon you!"
Hearing Yu Xiaogang's words, the three burly men visibly froze for a moment before bursting into laughter.
"Boss, did you hear that? He said he's going to bestow an opportunity upon us!"
"Who on earth arranged to send him here? Why is he so funny? Calling himself a Grandmaster-if he really were a Grandmaster, would he have been sent here?"
The two dark-skinned men clutched their bellies, laughing without restraint.
The corners of the eyes of their leader, Scarface, twitched.
In all his years in this dungeon, this was the first time he had encountered someone so funny.
Of everyone who came here, who didn't beg for mercy and cry that they had been wronged? Yet this fellow with the crew cut opened with-
"I'm going to bestow an opportunity upon you~"
Yu Xiaogang's expression darkened somewhat. Outside, everyone who saw him, Yu Xiaogang, treated him with the utmost respect.
Apart from when he had first awakened his Martial Soul, he had never been mocked like this a second time!
"How dare you! Do you know who this Grandmaster is!?"
An aura that could make "heaven and earth change color" emerged from Yu Xiaogang.
Fluctuations of rank twenty-nine Soul Power poured out of his body, rushing straight toward the three burly men before him.
The three men froze when they sensed Yu Xiaogang's aura.
They hadn't expected the person Spirit Hall sent them this time to be a Soul Master, much less a Soul Grandmaster.
"Hahaha, interesting! Those people at Spirit Hall have finally seen the light. Seriously, what fun were all those commoners before? Soul Masters are what we need."
Scarface laughed excitedly, then slowly stepped forward.
Watching Scarface approach him, Yu Xiaogang immediately felt a trace of panic.
How is this possible? He's completely unaffected by the pressure of a mighty Soul Grandmaster like me. Could he be a mighty Soul Elder!?
Yu Xiaogang backed away a few steps, wanting to put some distance between himself and Scarface.
But after he had taken just one step back, Scarface suddenly lunged forward and tucked Yu Xiaogang under his arm.
At once, a fragrance burrowed into Yu Xiaogang's nostrils, and he took a deep sniff of that enchanting scent.
Mm! That's potent!
"Third Brother, same rules as always. You go first this time too. You are a clean freak, after all."
Scarface turned toward his third brother and beckoned.
The burly man rubbed his hands excitedly and hurried forward.
"Hehe, Boss, you really know me!"
Tucked under Scarface's arm, Yu Xiaogang suddenly softened his tone.
"Um, Boss, what are you going to do? What's all this about going first? And I was only joking with you just now."
Scarface ignored Yu Xiaogang and instead said to the dark-skinned man, "Third Brother, he's all yours. Have some fun with this 'Grand-mess-ter.'"
With that, Yu Xiaogang was shoved hard into the dark-skinned man's arms.
Looking at the burly man before him, who was baring a mouthful of yellow teeth and sizing him up from head to toe, Yu Xiaogang couldn't help shuddering.
"Boss, what are you going to do? Could you please stop looking me up and down like that? I'm scared."
The burly man chuckled, then reassured him, "Brother, there's no need to be nervous. This is our custom here. Every newcomer has to go through it."
With that, he suddenly leaned forward and took a deep sniff of Yu Xiaogang's unique scent.
"Look how filthy you are. You haven't bathed in a long time, have you? As it happens, there's a bucket of hot water over there. Hurry up and wash."
With that, he abruptly released Yu Xiaogang.
Yu Xiaogang gave the burly man before him a sheepish look, quietly breathing a sigh of relief.
Thank goodness, it's only a bath. This Grandmaster was scared to death.
"Hey, wait, I forgot to give you the soap."
The burly man suddenly called Yu Xiaogang back, producing a bar of soap from somewhere.
"Oh, there's soap too?"
Yu Xiaogang spoke happily. He really hadn't bathed in quite a while, and this was a good chance to wash himself thoroughly.
But just as Yu Xiaogang reached out to take the soap from the burly man's hand.
With a smack, the burly man very "accidentally" dropped the soap on the floor.
"Oh dear, little brother, the soap fell. Sorry for the trouble, but could you pick it up?"
Yu Xiaogang had no idea how serious the situation was and actually believed the burly man had dropped it by accident.
"Sure, Boss, I'll pick it up right away."
Yu Xiaogang had only just bent over when he suddenly felt a pair of large hands seize his waist.
"B-Boss, what are you doing?"
"Boss, why are you pulling at my clothes?"
"Boss, don't!"
After three days of travel, Yun Tian successfully reached the entrance to the Sunset Forest.
"As expected of the second-largest Soul Beast forest. Even just the outskirts-actually, this doesn't even count as the outskirts-the Soul Beasts are far better than those in the Soul Hunting Forest!"
Looking at the forest towering into the clouds before him, Yun Tian first bought some dry rations and put them into the Storage Soul Tool on his wrist. Only then did he summon Sang Biao and ride him into the Sunset Forest.
After entering the forest, Yun Tian headed straight toward the place he had asked about beforehand.
For his second soul ring, he planned to absorb an Extreme Cold Swift Wolf around a thousand years old.
His strength and defense had now improved significantly, and his first soul ring's effect was a one-hundred-percent increase in attack power and defense.
The Extreme Cold Swift Wolf excelled most at speed. If, as with his first Soul Skill.
He could obtain a Soul Skill from the Extreme Cold Swift Wolf that increased his speed by one hundred percent.
It would perfectly make up for his lack of speed.
That way, his weakness would be completely remedied in a short time.
After that, he would only need to temper his body and improve his spiritual power.
However, Yun Tian also knew that such Soul Skills could only be encountered by chance, not sought at will.
He was already very lucky that his first Soul Skill granted a one-hundred-percent boost, so he wouldn't insist on so much.
He could also accept a speed-type offensive Soul Skill.
Before entering the forest, while buying dry rations, he had already heard from a Soul Hunting team made up entirely of Soul Elders.
An eleven-hundred-year-old Extreme Cold Swift Wolf had been sighted in the forest's northwest. Whether it was true or not, he wouldn't lose anything by taking a look.
After all, that place was also on the outskirts, so the danger wasn't particularly great.
That was why he rode Sang Biao northwest as soon as he entered the forest.
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