The Unlucky Rabbit

With the Blue Silver Emperor supplying Soul Power without end, Lin Yang soon repaired the lower half of his body.

He came up to Dai Ziming's corpse, and the Flesh Thorns easily devoured every last scrap of flesh and blood.

Without Soul Power to sustain them, these thorns would soon turn to ash, leaving not a single trace behind.

In addition, Lin Yang found a storage bracelet on Dai Ziming.

The space inside this bracelet was even larger than that of his ring, roughly a dozen cubic meters, and a huge pile of Gold Soul Coins lay inside.

He rubbed his chin. Sure enough, robbery and plunder were still the quickest ways to make money.

He had already spent most of the thirty thousand Gold Soul Coins from selling the Soul Bone, only to have another several tens of thousands delivered to him right afterward.

And that did not even include those Gold Soul Coin cards.

Although he did not know how much money they held, someone from the Star Luo Imperial Family presumably had quite a fortune.

Thank heaven for this gift!

Lin Yang casually muttered those words, then happily put the bracelet away.

Besides that, it contained various clothes, bottles, jars, and other personal belongings.

I'll find somewhere to get rid of this junk.

Then Lin Yang found a gold token inside the bracelet, engraved with the name "Dai Ziming" in three large characters. Judging by his title, he had even been a prince of the Star Luo Empire.

It was rather funny, really. Only after their fight to the death had ended did Lin Yang learn his enemy's name.

Tossing the token back into the storage bracelet, Lin Yang turned and walked over to the Soul Bone, picked it up from the ground, pressed it back against his right leg, and immediately refined it.

Once he had cleaned up the battlefield, Lin Yang concealed his figure and appearance and approached the caravan's three carriages covered in black cloth.

He pulled the black cloth off in one swift motion.

Sure enough, there were several girls inside the cages, all exceptionally pretty at a glance.

But when he saw one particular girl's face, Lin Yang froze for a moment before the corners of his mouth slowly lifted.

"Well, well. We really are fated to meet."

"Lin..."

Xiao Wu was just about to call out Lin Yang's name, but she seemed to remember something and forcibly swallowed the rest, saying instead,

"I know it's you. Hurry up and let me out."

Lin Yang raised an eyebrow. Had this stupid rabbit gotten smarter in the few months since they had last met?

"No rush!"

Lin Yang brushed her off casually, then turned his gaze toward the other girls in the cage.

Seemingly sensing his gaze, they all desperately shrank back, terror in their eyes.

Xiao Wu could not help saying, "Hey, you're not thinking of..."

"Shut up," Lin Yang snapped quietly as a bright yellow Soul Ring rose from beneath his feet.

He did not want to slaughter innocents, but he had no choice. He could not afford to provoke the Star Luo Imperial Family yet.

So the best solution was to make them forget this entire experience.

"First Soul Skill, Invisibility!"

The Soul Skill Invisibility still had great potential for development. At the very least, it was currently his only Soul Skill capable of mobilizing spiritual power.

A glimmer of blood-red light flashed through Lin Yang's eyes.

His spiritual power instantly invaded one girl's mental world. After skimming through her memories like viewing flowers from horseback and finding no problems, he began weaving memories.

He did not crudely delete this memory. Instead, he implanted a false one.

In this memory, they had been saved by a powerful expert.

As for who exactly that person was, they did not know. All they remembered was a hammer capable of destroying heaven and earth and a dazzling red Soul Ring.

Within this memory, the terror of being abducted was real, and being rescued was also real. He had merely replaced one short stretch of memory with a vague one.

Everything was as seamless as a heavenly robe!

Following the same procedure, all the other girls except Xiao Wu underwent this brainwashing.

When they woke again, they found that they had been sleeping inside a carriage, driven by a middle-aged man wearing a large hood whose features they could not clearly see.

But they immediately realized that he was the benefactor who had saved them and hurriedly knelt and kowtowed.

This benefactor was simply not fond of speaking. After telling them to get up, he said nothing more, silently driving the carriage and taking them to the nearest city.

Whether they intended to return home afterward or find a way to support themselves was up to them.

Without question, this was an illusion Lin Yang had created by using Invisibility to distort these girls' vision.

After he sent them away, Xiao Wu, who had been holding her tongue inside the carriage all this time, finally opened the floodgates. She had far too many questions to ask.

"Lin Yang, weren't you in Nuoding City? How did you end up in the Star Luo Empire?"

"How did you defeat that damn pervert?"

"Isn't your Martial Soul a saber? Could you have Twin Martial Souls?"

"You're already a two-ring Soul Master? That's way too fast."

"Where are we going? Why don't we hurry up and run? That damn pervert seemed to be someone pretty important."

Listening to the endless chatter beside his ears, Lin Yang rolled his eyes. Was this rabbit really so quick to make herself at home?

Did she not know that she had only just escaped the tiger's den to enter the wolf's lair?

Or was she certain he would not kill her?

"Quiet!"

The moment Lin Yang spoke, Xiao Wu fell silent. She merely lay inside the carriage, propping her head on her hands and watching him intently.

Lin Yang averted his gaze and said calmly,

"I told you before never to appear in front of me again..."

"It's not like I wanted to," Xiao Wu said, puffing out her cheeks and pouting.

"I ran all the way to the Star Luo Empire. Who knew I'd still run into you?"

According to this little rabbit, after her identity had been exposed, she had left Nuoding City without stopping for breath.

Following behind a caravan, she had somehow ended up in the Star Luo Empire.

Eventually, she had settled in a small city and enrolled at the local junior Soul Master Academy.

But while she was at the academy, a noble boy had harassed her, so she had taught that bastard a thing or two.

Xiao Wu casually made a tiny gap between her fingertips, indicating that she really had gone easy on him. She had only left that bastard bedridden for a year or so.

As a result, when Dai Ziming happened to pass through, that noble had reported her to him.

When Xiao Wu learned that someone wanted to capture her, her first thought was that her identity had been exposed, and she wanted to grease her soles and slip away.

Instead, a Five-Ring Soul King came-and he was a damn pervert to boot.

She had been captured on the spot, then locked inside a prison carriage until she met Lin Yang.

It was thanks to Lin Yang, too. Otherwise, she had no idea where she would have been taken.

Lin Yang gave a soft snort. "Little rabbit, I saved you this time. Shouldn't you show some gratitude?"

Hearing that, Xiao Wu immediately grew nervous. "Y-you... what do you want?"

"I happen to need a Soul Ring," Lin Yang blurted out.

"Hmph, don't even think about it!"

Xiao Wu silently backed away a little, wrapped her arms around her legs, and huddled in a corner, her eyes wary.

"Grandma Su Xi won't let you do that."

The corners of Lin Yang's mouth lifted. She was actually using Grandma to keep him in line?

"Grandma isn't here. How would she know?"

Xiao Wu immediately fell silent. But a moment later, she still raised her head and said softly,

"You won't."

"What?"

Xiao Wu raised her voice. "I said, you won't kill me."

Her voice rang clear and certain in the cramped carriage. Her pink eyes stared at Lin Yang, holding no fear, but rather a peculiar certainty.

Lin Yang met her gaze for a few seconds, then scoffed.

"Don't jump to conclusions so quickly. You make it sound like you know me so well."

"Grandma Su Xi told me a lot about you," Xiao Wu said, her voice softening, though her tone remained earnest.

"She said you're cold on the outside but warm on the inside, and very easy to get along with."

Lin Yang said nothing. He merely flicked his wrist, and the whip cracked crisply through the air before landing on the horse's rump.

"How are Grandma's injuries now?"

Xiao Wu's voice carried concern.

"She's recovered," Lin Yang said evenly.

"That's good!"

Xiao Wu breathed a sigh of relief.

After that, the two chatted on and off. As the sun sank in the west, the simple carriage swayed along, rolling onward into the gathering dusk.