A little incident along the way: when you kill, kill them all [Dear readers, please keep reading]

"Changqing, your strength's been improving so fast!!"

Ma Xiaotao walked closer to Mu Changqing with her arms folded across her chest. Puffing out her cheeks, she nudged his arm with her right elbow and teased him.

The five-person Soul Beast hunting team did not fly there. Star Dou Great Forest was not far from Shrek City, so they went on foot.

Yan Shaozhe walked at the front, while Elder Gong brought up the rear. Between them were two girls and one boy. They had just reached Shrek's eastern city gate.

Their appearance drew quite a few passersby and vendors over to watch.

"My first Soul Ring was already two thousand years old. On top of that, I consumed plenty of heavenly treasures over the past year and spent a year training under Elder Xuan!!"

"Of course my Soul Power increased quickly, but once I reach rank thirty, it'll improve at a turtle's pace."

Mu Changqing patiently explained to Ma Xiaotao beside him, nudging her right arm back with his elbow.

"That's true!!"

As though she had suddenly figured something out, Ma Xiaotao smiled, put her hands behind her head again, and moved closer to Mu Changqing.

Ever since Ma Xiaotao and Mu Changqing had begun living under the same roof, she had often heard Yan Shaozhe praise him. She had heard it so much that her ears were about to grow calluses.

Ma Xiaotao had also seen all the effort Mu Changqing had put in over the past year. Wind or rain, he remained disciplined every day.

Sometimes, seeing Mu Changqing's cultivation talent also left Ma Xiaotao secretly dejected. His Soul Power improved so quickly that it dealt her a blow.

The quality of Ma Xiaotao's Martial Soul could be considered top-tier. Because her Evil Fire Phoenix Martial Soul also contained evil fire, she had to spend some of her time suppressing it apart from cultivating. Otherwise, she would have become a Soul Elder long ago.

On the Douluo Continent, strength reigned supreme, so it was understandable for Ma Xiaotao to think that way. However, after spending so much time together, she had stopped comparing herself to Mu Changqing.

Her talent was not to blame. If anything was to blame, it was her insistence on comparing her talent with Mu Changqing's. There was still a Silver Dragon King to come in the future.

Seeing Ma Xiaotao draw closer and closer, Mu Changqing immediately moved away and walked over to Zhang Lexuan. Ma Xiaotao stamped her foot at the sight.

"Sister Lexuan! What are the Soul Beasts you're hunting this time called?"

Curious, Mu Changqing took small steps up behind her and asked in a quiet voice.

"Hmm..."

"The Soul Beast I need for my sixth Soul Ring this time is a fifty-thousand-year Dark Moon Demon Wolf, while Xiaotao needs a four-thousand-year Wind Flame Falcon for her third Soul Ring!!"

"What about you?"

Hearing Mu Changqing's question, Zhang Lexuan slowed her steps and turned her head toward him to explain.

"Me? For my second Soul Ring, I'll choose either a Darkgold Terrorclaw Bear under five thousand years old or a Golden Earth Crocodile under five thousand years old!!"

When Zhang Lexuan turned the question back on him, Mu Changqing immediately answered with a smile. Ma Xiaotao also came over to join the conversation, and the three chatted on and off.

Time flew as they chatted, and the five had already arrived at the outermost edge of Star Dou Great Forest. Besides their group, several other Soul Beast hunting teams were there.

"Boss!! Look how pretty those two chicks in that team are. How about when we head inside later...!!"

Not far from Mu Changqing, a short, sleazy-looking middle-aged man in one of the hunting teams muttered to a tall, bald man, a glint of greed flashing through his eyes.

"Yang Wei!! Your eyes are as sharp as ever!!"

"Haha!"

"Wait until I'm done... You get to go second!!"

"Yes, yes, yes! You're right, Boss!"

The bald man patted the bowing Yang Wei with his large hand. His gaze shifted to Zhang Lexuan's beautiful, fair-skinned legs, and he nearly drooled, wiping the saliva from his lips.

The bald man completely disregarded Yan Shaozhe and Gong Changwei. In his eyes, he was a quasi-Soul Douluo, while those two plainly dressed old men were, at most, Soul Sages.

He dismissed Ma Xiaotao and Mu Changqing even more thoroughly. How powerful could two children be?

The five were wearing their own everyday clothes rather than Shrek Academy uniforms today, which was why Yang Wei and the others dared to plot so loudly. Had they known these people were from Shrek Academy, they would not have dared even with a hundred times the courage.

"Tch...!"

As a quasi-Soul Emperor, Zhang Lexuan could naturally hear them, and they were not very far away. Her brows furrowed, and she stopped walking, clenching both fists as she stared fixedly at the bald man's team.

Mu Changqing stopped curiously, as did Ma Xiaotao.

"Boss Chu Sheng, look at them..."

Before Yang Wei could get the words out, his head suddenly exploded. Blood scattered in an instant, splashing onto the bald man and their teammates.

"Someone's been killed!!"

One of the Soul Masters present cried out in terror.

"Kneel!!"

Yan Shaozhe stepped forward, his Super Douluo pressure erupting as nine Soul Rings circled beneath his feet: yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black, black, black, black.

Yan Shaozhe had heard someone planning to target their Shrek Academy students. They truly had gall swollen fat with audacity, and even dared to look down on him.

Yan Shaozhe was dressed very plainly today, but what angered him was that Yang Wei had dared to harbor such thoughts about Zhang Lexuan and Ma Xiaotao. Death was too good for him.

The instant Yan Shaozhe unleashed his pressure, the entire place fell silent.

"A Titled... Douluo!!"

"I was wrong...! I deserve to die!!"

Trembling all over in terror at Yan Shaozhe, Chu Sheng immediately knelt in the mud and hammered his head against the ground, blood streaming from his forehead.

Chu Sheng truly feared death!! It was all Yang Wei's fault for insisting on provoking them for no reason.

"This has nothing to do with you! Disperse!!"

Elder Gong shouted to drive away the onlookers. The passersby stopped lingering and left, while Chu Sheng's teammates also vanished without a trace.

"Lexuan, you decide how to deal with him!!"

Yan Shaozhe turned to look at Zhang Lexuan behind him, her hands clenched into fists, and let her make the decision.

"Teacher, cripple him...! If someone like him keeps his Soul Power, he'll only harm ordinary people!"

Zhang Lexuan ultimately abandoned the idea of killing him. Crippling the cultivation he took such pride in would be worse than killing him.

"No...!!"

Chu Sheng's face filled with terror. Before he could react, the dantian inside his body was destroyed, all his cultivation vanished, and he was reduced to an ordinary mortal.

He lay on the dirt like a dead dog, his eyes vacant.

Yan Shaozhe's Soul Power cultivation was that of a rank ninety-five Super Douluo. Destroying a quasi-Soul Douluo's dantian was effortless.

Just as Yan Shaozhe and the others prepared to head deeper into Star Dou Great Forest, Mu Changqing possessed himself with his Martial Soul and walked toward Chu Sheng.

"Changqing, what are you doing!!"

Ma Xiaotao cried out.

Mu Changqing said nothing. His Golden Dragon Claw closed around Chu Sheng's neck, and with a squeeze, Chu Sheng croaked for good. Mu Changqing tossed him into the bushes.

Yan Shaozhe and Elder Gong merely watched in silence. Zhang Lexuan had not expected Mu Changqing to kill him, and her pupils contracted.

"Mu Changqing, you...!!"

Ma Xiaotao covered her mouth and backed away several steps. Having lived in the Sea God Pavilion for so long, she had never witnessed a killing. She had not expected Mu Changqing to kill without batting an eye.

"Even if you destroy someone like that's cultivation, his physical strength is still there. He'll take revenge on ordinary people like a madman!!"

"Leaving a beast like that alive will only bring harm!!"

Mu Changqing pointed his Golden Dragon Claw at the corpse and spoke calmly, as though killing a person were no different from slaughtering a chicken.

Yan Shaozhe led everyone toward the Moonlit Night Demon Wolves' habitat, which lay mainly deep within the Mixed Zone.

"Changqing, don't you feel any psychological pressure when you kill someone?"

Ma Xiaotao thrust her face toward him.