"Who's in charge here? Come out and see me."
The Spirit Hall premises had been caught in the earlier battle and had already collapsed into rubble.
But they were farther away, so the people there probably had not been hurt too badly.
At the very least, they could not all be dead.
Mo Lin certainly could not carry Tang Hao's corpse around with him, so he could only have someone deliver it to their door.
At Mo Lin's shout, a fat, middle-aged man came scrambling and stumbling up to him.
"I am Ao Debiao, the steward of Spirit Hall in Suotuo City. What are your orders, Your Eminence?"
"Ao Debiao? Can you haul bananas?"
Ao Debiao froze at Mo Lin's sudden question, then hurriedly nodded.
"Yes, yes! Your Eminence, your discerning eyes burn like torches. My Martial Soul is indeed a banana."
As he spoke, he conjured a golden-yellow banana in his hand, then presented it to Mo Lin with both hands.
Mo Lin did not take it. He merely glanced at it and continued.
"Do you guarantee this banana is ripe?"
Here we go again.
Xiao Hei grumbled inwardly. Apparently, this was not her first time seeing a scene like this.
Whenever Mo Lin asked that question, it meant he was about to start messing with someone.
"Huh?"
"What do you mean, huh? I'm asking whether you guarantee this banana is ripe."
Mo Lin's tone grew harsher, frightening Ao Debiao so badly that his fat body quivered like a bouncing ball.
"Useless. Does Spirit Hall take just anyone these days? You can't even answer whether a banana is ripe."
With that, Mo Lin turned around, only to hear a thud.
When he looked back, Ao Debiao was already kneeling on the ground, looking at him with tears and snot streaming down his face.
"Your Eminence, please just tell me what you want to say. I can't take a scare like this!"
What the hell did a banana being ripe have to do with anything? What kind of underworld code was that? He really couldn't understand it.
If he answered wrong, wouldn't the other man just cut him down?
With the other man's strength, if he cut him down, he really would have nowhere even to cry for justice. He would have died for nothing.
"Ugh, disgusting. Stay away from me."
Mo Lin looked thoroughly disgusted, then tossed Tang Hao's corpse in front of him.
"Take this thing back to your headquarters. Remember, hand it over to the Worship Hall, not that idiot Bibi Dong. Did you hear me clearly?"
Ao Debiao nodded nonstop after hearing that, terrified that if he nodded too slowly, he would lose his head.
"Yes, yes, yes! I'll do exactly as Your Eminence says."
"Also, take this token, in case some blind fool tries to intercept it."
As he spoke, Mo Lin took a token out of his pocket.
Like the one he had given Zhu Zhuqing earlier, it had come from Qian Renxue, except this one represented the status of a worshipper of the Worship Hall.
An [Eight] was engraved on it, representing the identity of the Worship Hall's eighth worshipper.
The Worship Hall had originally had only seven worshippers. Qian Renxue had prepared this eighth position for Mo Lin.
Mo Lin had not agreed, but he had accepted the token.
After all, there was no reason to turn down something delivered right to his door. It might come in handy someday.
And now, sure enough, it had.
He tossed the token onto the ground along with Tang Hao's corpse.
Mo Lin turned to leave.
"Oh, right. Pass along a message for me while you're at it. Tell them I've done the job, so they'd better pay me in full. Otherwise, don't blame me for turning on them."
After leaving those words behind, Mo Lin and Xiao Hei vanished from the spot.
Only the still-shaken Ao Debiao and Tang Hao's corpse lying beside him remained.
"Phew, job done. Time to wander somewhere else."
"Oh, right. I still need to send this thing over to Good Side."
He tossed the ring-shaped Storage Soul Tool in his hand. Inside were the Soul Bones stripped from Tang Hao's body.
All six Soul Bones were there, but keeping them did him little good.
The main problem was that he could not absorb Soul Bones. It was not as though he had never tried before; his body simply rejected them.
His body, empowered by the Twelve Talismans, would not accept fusion with foreign things like Soul Bones at all.
But honestly, Soul Bones really were not much use to him anyway.
A Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone only gave two skills, and they were fucking random.
Even a full set of Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones would only give twelve Soul Skills, matching the Twelve Talismans in number.
But in terms of effects, they were utterly crushed.
Good Side wanted Soul Bones purely for research, wondering whether these things could be artificially produced.
Or whether they could be upgraded, making the skills fixed or cramming a couple more skills into them.
Of course, all that could wait. What he needed to do now was get the items into Good Side's hands.
"Got it."
His gaze swept around before finally settling on Ye Lingling nearby.
He did not trust anyone else, but there would be no problem letting his wife take them back.
At that moment, Qin Ming was gathering the scattered students of Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
The earlier battle had scattered everyone. After counting them and finding that not a single person was missing, Qin Ming finally breathed a sigh of relief.
None of these people had ordinary backgrounds. If anything happened to even one of them, he would be left with more trouble than he could handle.
"Well, this trial is ending early. We..."
Before he could finish, Mo Lin dropped straight out of the sky and landed in front of everyone.
"Hi, everyone. We meet again."
Mo Lin waved enthusiastically at them, smiling as though he wanted to make himself look a little more kindly.
But it had little effect. The moment everyone saw him, they still could not hide the fear in their eyes.
There was no helping it. Qin Ming, Ye Lingling, and Dugu Yan had not seen what had happened.
But they had witnessed the whole thing.
Was this guy even fucking human? One swing of his sword had reduced the entire city to rubble.
If they had not run fast enough, they probably would have been turned to ash on the spot.
Seriously, if you're this strong, say so sooner! Playing the pig to eat the tiger really tests people's nerves.
The moment Dugu Yan saw Mo Lin, she shrank behind Ye Lingling, not daring to look at him, afraid he would notice her.
Helpless, Ye Lingling could only steel herself and greet Mo Lin.
"Um... hello."
Such a distant greeting made Mo Lin freeze.
Fuck! All that goodwill I'd built up was for nothing.
"Don't be so polite. Um, I'm actually very easygoing. I just took a job, that's all. I'm not normally like this."
Mo Lin wanted to explain, but he was not very good with words.
After all, he had not rehearsed beforehand, so he did not know what to say.
Xiao Hei, however, could not stand watching any longer. She hopped straight over to Ye Lingling and tugged at the hem of her clothes with a paw.
"Big sister, Boss has something for you."
Ye Lingling lowered her head to look at Xiao Hei, then looked back up at Mo Lin, confusion showing on her face.
"Me?"
"Mm-hmm!"
Xiao Hei nodded furiously, then turned to Mo Lin, signaling for him to hurry up and give her the item.
After all, if this continued, the truth would slip out.
As one of the few who knew Mo Lin's true identity, Xiao Hei had spotted the flaws he was exposing at a glance.
It was only because Ye Lingling had not noticed. Otherwise, he really would not be able to explain it away.
At Xiao Hei's prompting, Mo Lin immediately caught on.
He placed the ring containing the Soul Bones into Ye Lingling's hand.
"Help me take this to him. I have other things to do, so I won't disturb you anymore."
A special restriction had been placed on the ring. No one but him could undo it.
And after that battle, presumably no one would dare set their sights on Ye Lingling.
"No, that's not quite safe enough. I need to find a bodyguard."
Mo Lin thought it over, then set his sights on Flender, who was alone.
At that moment, Flender was standing alone at the edge of the ruins, staring into space.
He was thinking about what came next.
"Hey, all alone? What a coincidence, so am I. How about we have a chat?"
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