Sunset Forest, the closest Soul Beast forest to Heaven Dou City, is home to countless Soul Beast, though it is slightly inferior to Star Dou Great Forest in both quantity and quality.
The towering canopy of trees blocked out the sky, and sunlight struggled to filter through the gaps in the branches and leaves, casting dappled and fragmented light. As far as the eye could see, there were only thick and straight tree trunks, with hardly any low shrubs in sight. Underfoot lay fallen leaves that had accumulated for who knows how many years, making a soft rustling sound when you stepped on them.
As Lin Kong walked, he admired the scenery, but the calm in his eyes gradually faded, replaced by an increasingly intense fighting spirit.
"Senior, have you found it?" Lin Kong asked, looking at Dugu Bo was leading the way.
Dugu Bo paused, glanced at him with a half-smile, and asked, "Do you know what I'm looking for?"
"Yes." Lin Kong stretched out his arms and took a deep breath of the fresh forest air.
Soul Beast! What else could it be?
Dugu Bo's eyes shifted several times before finally settling on Lin Kong, as if trying to see right through him. "Twelve years old, level twenty-one Soul Power. Kid, do you know your talent is quite ordinary?"
He didn't calculate the four-level increase in Soul Power after obtaining the External Soul Bone. Well, it would be pointless to calculate it anyway, since nobody in the world understands the details of Lin Kong's Soul Power Level increase!
"Not ordinary." Lin Kong slowly shook his head, a self-deprecating smile curving his lips.
Normal? Don't make him laugh!
His talent is absolutely garbage!
The Dark Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul has only level one Innate Soul Power, and its cultivation speed is as slow as a tortoise's pace. In any faction, this talent would be eliminated.
Lin Kong's current achievements are not due to any extraordinary talent, but rather to his repeated adventures and desperate struggles on the brink of life and death, his repeated use of his foresight to seize opportunities, and his repeated use of wisdom far exceeding that of his peers to navigate complex situations. Only in this way can he have forged a near-perfect path!
Dugu Bo had no way of knowing these deep-seated past experiences. He was merely speculating based on common sense: how high could the Innate Soul Power of a twelve-year-old Soul Master who was only at level twenty-one be?
"Not ordinary?" Dugu Bo scoffed, his tone full of disdain. "What? Are you perhaps Innate Full Soul Power? A talent for cultivation one in ten thousand? Then how come you only reached level twenty-one at twelve? Have you wasted all these years?"
"Is it really necessary?" Lin Kong his eyes and said irritably, "I just slightly attracted Yanzi's attention, do you have to be so sarcastic towards me, senior?"
"Is it really necessary? Is it really necessary?" Dugu Bo suddenly stopped, his eyes wide, the air around him turning cold, his tone filled with anger. "I'm being lenient by not breaking your legs on the spot! Tell me, is it really necessary?"
This guy actually dared to snatch Yanyan away from him, and even made the girl look at him with such reluctance. At that moment, Dugu Bo felt an overwhelming urge to kill!
He snorted coldly, his tone even more sarcastic. "I bet your Innate Soul Power is at most level six, maybe seven at best. Such trashy talent is simply not good enough for my Yanyan!"
Lin Kong stopped, his gaze sharp as he looked ahead. Several faintly visible figures of Soul Beast lay in wait, their low roars echoing in the distance.
He unbuttoned his shirt, put it into his Storage Soul Tool, and Eight Spider Lances burst forth from his body. The Spider Spear, gleaming with cold light, stretched out, and a chilling aura spread out, ready for battle.
"So, senior wants to test me, to let me kill a few Soul Beast and prove my strength, right?" Before he finished speaking, Lin Kong's figure shot towards the group of Soul Beast ahead like an arrow.
"Not just a few!" Dugu Bo stood still, watching his retreating figure, a meaningful smile playing on his lips. His voice carried on the wind, tinged with a hint of mockery, "It's dozens!"
In the forest ahead, there was a group of Fang Rat.
These are typical social Soul Beast. The leader of the swarm has a cultivation level of 1,600 years, while the rest are ordinary Fang Rat with a cultivation level of 100 years. They look almost the same as ordinary rats, except that they are many times larger. The only distinctive feature is their two white canine teeth, which protrude from their mouths like two sharp daggers, gleaming coldly in the dappled light.
Lin Kong's footsteps startled the rats, and a sudden burst of sharp, piercing squeaking filled the air, making one's eardrums ache and causing irritation.
Seeing that Lin Kong's speed did not decrease, but instead charged straight towards the rat swarm, the Fang Rat were immediately thrown into chaos. Just then, a particularly sharp screech pierced through the forest—it was the rat leader giving orders!
The next second, all the Fang Rat pawed at the ground with all four limbs, their scarlet eyes fixed on Lin Kong. They darted towards him like arrows released from a bow. As they ran, their canines continued to grow wildly, becoming long and sharp, gleaming with a bloodthirsty cold light.
These ferocious Soul Beast, once bitten, their sharp canines can pierce straight from the chest to the back. Once the first one succeeds, the second and the third will follow in quick succession. It is estimated that in less than half a minute, they can devour a living person into eighteen pieces, leaving not even bone fragments.
When facing gregarious Soul Beast, the conventional approach is to avoid being surrounded and instead focus on attrition warfare before defeating them one by one. But Lin Kong did not! Instead of slowing down, he accelerated, charging straight towards the swarm of rats.
In the blink of an eye, he had rushed to the front of the rat swarm, his Soul Power surging around him, and two Soul Ring, one yellow and one white, appeared. Then, a large patch of Dark Blue Silver Grass broke through the soil and quickly grew to a height of about one meter, exceeding the height of most Fang Rat.
The sudden appearance of the black grass blocked the Fang Rat ' vision. Even worse, many of the Fang Rat ' claws stepped on the slippery and flexible Dark Blue Silver Grass leaves, and they immediately lost their footing, greatly slowing down their charging speed. Originally, they planned to form a group of Fang Rat to pounce in one round, but then another group of Fang Rat would pounce in the next round, and then another round would begin.
This is one of the few remaining tactics for the low-intelligence, social Soul Beast, the Fang Rat.
But now, there's no chance to use it!
Lin Kong suddenly braked, the Eight Spider Lances on his back swinging nimbly. The last two Spider Spear firmly supported him on the ground, like two sturdy supports, stabilizing his body. The remaining six Spider Spear, like six tempered spears, hovered menacingly on either side of his body, their tips locked onto the Fang Rat that had crossed the Dark Blue Silver Grass and were still charging forward fearlessly.
Pfft!
With a soft sound, the first Spider Spear, swift as lightning, pierced through the head of a Fang Rat, reaching the tip of its tail. The Spider Spear barely paused before retracting to gather its strength, followed by another swift thrust that struck the throat of a second Fang Rat!
This is just the power of one of the Spider Spear!
The other five Spider Spear also moved at the same time, like six flexible arms, waving so fast that they almost left afterimages.
Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!
Sharp piercing sounds rang out one after another, one after another. Before the Fang Rat could even get close to Lin Kong, they were pierced through the body by the Spider Spear, twitched a few times, and then fell silent.
The obstruction of the Dark Blue Silver Grass and the precise hunting of the Eight Spider Lances turned what seemed like a perilous confrontation into a one-sided massacre.
The Fang Rat want to gang up on us?
hehe!
Surround my ass!
With Lin Kong's fluid and skillful maneuvering, these ferocious Soul Beast were simply courting death.
"Squeak!!!"
After the piercing screech that terrified them, the Fang Rat immediately stopped their charge, turned around and scattered, abandoning their idea of eating Lin Kong and prioritizing their survival.
" First Soul Ring, Netherworld Shriek!"
" Second Soul Ring, Growth!"
The Dark Blue Silver Grass, which was originally a little over a meter tall, suddenly grew to more than two meters, trapping the Fang Rat. In desperation, the rats bit down on the Dark Blue Silver Grass blocking their path, biting it off in two or three bites before continuing their escape, thus slowing them down considerably.
Lin Kong followed, taking down a few unlucky ones that lagged behind. He glanced at the few remaining Fang Rat, shook his head, and laughed, "What a trash leader! Not charging ahead, nor bringing up the rear, how can he be a leader?"
Is it solely due to being able to give birth?
Lin Kong stopped, turned around and saw that Dugu Bo had already arrived ten meters ahead, manipulating the Eight Spider Lances. He walked step by step, raising the six Eight Spider Lances diagonally upwards, with dead Fang Rat piercing through them, making it look particularly horrifying!