Actually, I'm the Beast God's Successor

"I hope I can find it."

After traveling some distance into the hills behind the village, Su Lin let out a soft breath, raised his hand to summon the Poké Ball, and channeled Soul Power into it.

The metal ring on the ball's surface trembled slightly with a gentle hum. Then the entire Poké Ball floated up from his palm, the red markings on its surface glowing faintly as it sent out rings of invisible ripples that slowly spread around him.

At the same time, radar-like ripples appeared in Su Lin's mind.

Yes, this was another use he had discovered through experimentation during his seven months of training. How could the Poké Ball be something so inconvenient that it could only capture Soul Beasts? What Su Lin was using now was its ability to detect nearby high-quality Soul Beasts.

With this function, Su Lin could quickly pinpoint the approximate locations of Soul Beasts with sufficiently high base stats within two hundred meters of himself, rather than having to expend so much effort and still rely on luck in the end, as he had when catching Pikachu.

Hum!

After he searched the mountains for a short while, the radar display in his mind suddenly lit up. A rich, mellow azure point of light rested steadily deep within a valley, its glow dense and enduring.

I really found it!

Su Lin stopped in his tracks, delight crossing his face.

After all, the original story had never given a definite geographical location for Ah Yin's Blue Silver Emperor grass seed, so no one could be certain whether it was really near Holy Soul Village.

Besides, Tang San's first semester had already ended by this point. When Su Lin passed through Holy Soul Village earlier, he had deliberately checked, and Tang Hao had already left as well. Even if the grass seed had been here at first, Tang Hao might very well have taken it away by now.

So he had originally come here merely to try his luck, never expecting that he would actually find it.

Following the point of light, he pushed through waist-high bushes. The sound of water drew closer and grew louder, and after he rounded a huge bluestone boulder, the view suddenly opened up.

A cliff dozens of meters high stretched before him. A waterfall like a bolt of white silk poured down from its summit, crashing into the deep emerald pool below and throwing up a skyful of fine mist. Moisture washed over his face. Pale blue wildflowers grew thickly beside the pool, surrounded by lush woods, as tranquil as a paradise forgotten by the world.

"Haozi certainly knew how to pick a spot."

Standing on the rocky bank before the waterfall, Su Lin narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at the snow-white curtain of water.

The signal from the Poké Ball pointed clearly behind the waterfall's curtain, right at the center of the rock face, a little over ten feet above the ground.

Another hidden world lay behind the waterfall.

Without the slightest hesitation, he bent his knees slightly to gather strength, then leaped.

Icy waterfall water drenched him from head to toe. After a brief sensation of hanging in midair, his feet landed on a slippery stone passage.

The passage was dim. Su Lin gathered a ball of soft golden lightning in his palm and walked inward by its light, soon arriving in a stone chamber of roughly ten square meters.

Someone had deliberately chiseled a round opening into the stone ceiling. The midday sunlight poured through it, forming a warm golden shaft that fell precisely upon a slightly raised mound of soil in the center of the room. A stalk of Blue Silver Grass with fine golden lines on its blades grew atop it.

[Blue Silver Emperor]

[Base stats: High]

[Evaluation: A high-grade Pokémon that deleted its account and started over]

Looking at the snark-filled evaluation on the panel, Su Lin could not help grinning.

We finally meet, Ah Yin.

"Where did you run off to? You were gone so long!" At dusk, when Xiao Wu saw Su Lin appear leisurely on the hillside, she could not help wrinkling her nose, her voice carrying a hint of reproach.

He had been gone for nearly half a day. If Sean had not stopped her, she would have gone out to look for him long ago.

"There were so many forks in the mountain paths that I got lost while walking. I wandered around for ages before finding my way back," Su Lin said with a completely earnest expression, all sincerity and innocence.

"Do I look like an idiot? Being so secretive..." Xiao Wu pursed her lips and muttered, but did not ask any more questions.

After spending so long together, she had long since grown used to Su Lin occasionally having little secrets of his own. In any case, she trusted him unconditionally.

After a simple dinner, night fell completely. The mountain wind grew colder, and the guards took turns keeping watch while Su Lin and Xiao Wu returned to the carriage to rest.

The carriage was considerably roomier inside than it looked from outside. Thick cashmere felt covered the floor, and layers of insulating material were embedded in the walls on both sides, keeping the interior dry, comfortably warm even in the autumn night's mountain winds.

The bed that came with it stood against one side of the carriage. Xiao Wu curled up on the inner side. Perhaps tired from the day's activities, her breathing became slow and even not long after she lay down.

Su Lin smiled faintly, closed his eyes, and with a shift of his focus, sank into the Pokémon Space.

In the Thunder and Lightning Forest deep within the space, thunderclouds still drifted slowly at low altitude, while fine strands of golden lightning threaded through the branches and leaves.

On the dampest patch of fertile soil in the forest, a stalk of Blue Silver Grass with fine golden lines swayed gently. Its blades shone with a soft blue glow, considerably brighter than when it had first arrived.

Su Lin sat cross-legged before the Blue Silver Grass and slowly spread his mental perception outward.

Within this space constructed by the Poké Ball's core, his mental power could be amplified to the greatest extent. The faint fluctuations of consciousness he had previously only been able to detect vaguely now became much clearer.

"Who... are you? And where is this?" A gentle yet extremely weak female voice sounded faintly in his mind.

Su Lin was not surprised. As everyone knew, hundred-thousand-year Soul Beasts on the Douluo Continent did not die outright after sacrificing themselves. Instead, all their cultivation dissipated, and they reverted to their original forms, just as Xiao Wu had turned back into a Soft Bone Rabbit after her sacrifice in the original timeline, and just like this stalk of Blue Silver Grass before him.

Their consciousness did not disappear either, but merely fell dormant from weakness. Of course, this recovery process was extremely long. If Tang San had not been the protagonist, and without the Sea God's help, Xiao Wu would not have regained her consciousness so quickly. She would only have been like Ah Yin, who, even after years of nurturing and recovery, could barely receive information from the outside world and could not truly respond.

"My name is Su Lin, and I'm the successor to the Beast God's divine seat." Su Lin spun the tale off the cuff, his tone so steady that he nearly believed it himself. "This is my inheritance space. It can nourish a Soul Beast's origin and help you recover faster."

"The Beast God's successor... why would you be human?"

After a moment of silence, the female voice spoke with a trace of confusion.

This time, it was Su Lin's turn to be stunned. He had gone to the trouble of preparing over a dozen versions of his story, yet he could not hear even the slightest doubt in Ah Yin's voice.

She really believed it!

Were all hundred-thousand-year Soul Beasts who took human form this naive?

After thinking for a moment, Su Lin said earnestly, "Because I will lead humans and Soul Beasts toward coexistence."