Xuan Zi glanced at the Wolf Bandit sentry, snorted softly, and took a fierce bite of the chicken leg in his hand. Then he said,
"There really is a beast out there that isn't afraid to die. Stay here and guard them. This old man is going to stretch his legs."
After saying that, Xuan Zi took a swig of wine and vanished from where he stood.
Watching Xuan Zi act with such swift resolve, Yan Shaozhe nodded in satisfaction. At this point, Xuan Zi had yet to make a grave mistake, and Yan Shaozhe had always held him in high regard.
By taking the initiative to do the work, Xuan Zi was also helping shoulder some of Yan Shaozhe's burden.
When Xuan Zi wasn't slacking off, he was still that Super Douluo. Although this band of Wolf Bandits was quite strong, and their leader was even an 80,000-year-old Purple-Plumed Wolf Bandit,
against Xuan Zi, they were no different from a few dogs that could stand upright.
Wolf Bandits were creatures born from the union of humans and wolf-type Soul Beasts, so they had an extremely unusual family system.
Xuan Zi deliberately spared one of the Purple-Plumed Wolf Bandit's children, a purple-haired Wolf Bandit that had only just reached roughly the 3,000-year level. He knocked it unconscious and brought it back to Yan Shaozhe.
"Elder Xuan, what are you doing?"
Yan Shaozhe's voice was full of confusion and bewilderment. Xuan Zi replied,
"Can't you tell? This is a whetstone ready to hand. Didn't that boy Mu Yueye want a thousand-year Soul Beast? This is just right for testing whether he's up to it."
Xuan Zi patted the Wolf Bandit's head smugly, then tapped a finger against its forehead. The Wolf Bandit shuddered, and the moment it opened its eyes, it charged at Xuan Zi.
Xuan Zi smiled, then reached out and hurled the lunging purple-haired Wolf Bandit toward Mu Yueye.
At that moment, Zhang Lexuan and Mu Yueye were resting in the bear cave. They had agreed to take turns keeping watch, with Mu Yueye taking the first half of the night.
Just as Mu Yueye was preparing to change shifts and let Zhang Lexuan take over, a purple, half-human, half-wolf thing dropped from the sky, giving him a fright.
Mu Yueye hurriedly woke Zhang Lexuan, who was already beginning to stir, and pointed at the purple half-human, half-wolf thing ahead.
Zhang Lexuan jumped in fright when she saw it and whispered to Mu Yueye,
"Is that a Wolf Bandit? Judging by its age, it's a thousand-year Wolf Bandit, too! I just don't know exactly what kind it is."
Mu Yueye loosened his limbs and said to Zhang Lexuan,
"What kind it is doesn't matter anymore. The important thing is that it looks like it wants to come at us."
Zhang Lexuan laughed at Mu Yueye's words, then said to him,
"If it wants to come at us, we can't let him off."
Mu Yueye nodded, then stepped forward. A golden Radiant Sacred Dragon appeared behind him at once, and he said to Zhang Lexuan,
"Then let me take him on. Sister Lexuan, watch from behind me."
Zhang Lexuan nodded but said nothing. Instead, she stared blankly at the illusory Radiant Sacred Dragon behind Mu Yueye.
After a long while, Zhang Lexuan looked at Mu Yueye, who was facing off against the Wolf Bandit, and said,
"Your Radiant Sacred Dragon seems a little different from your great-great-grandfather's... But yours is clearly purer. Is this ultimate light?"
The corners of Mu Yueye's lips curled up, and he said to Zhang Lexuan,
"Sister Lexuan, if you keep drowning in the past, you won't be able to go on living. Let's deal with the problem in front of us first."
Zhang Lexuan came back to her senses and looked at the Wolf Bandit ahead.
Mu Yueye once again unleashed his first Soul Skill-Light of Dawn.
The instant Light of Dawn was unleashed, everything within thirty meters of Mu Yueye was bathed in light and became warm.
The moment the Wolf Bandit stepped within that range, it screamed in pain, as though invisible whips were lashing its body.
Mu Yueye's body seemed to change form, a golden halo enveloping him from head to toe.
Mu Yueye's bearing rose with it. Light of Dawn was not only an area-of-effect attack Soul Skill, but also a standard strengthening Soul Skill.
The thousand-year Wolf Bandit before him clearly hadn't expected Mu Yueye to have such fighting power. His already somewhat panicked heart was now in complete disarray.
Individual Wolf Bandits were not particularly strong fighters to begin with. It was only by relying on the strength of their group that they could carve out a place for themselves in the Star Dou Great Forest.
A purple Purple-Plumed Wolf Bandit like this one was an individual that had evolved a certain degree of intelligence.
Its own strength was not formidable; it could only use tools with greater dexterity.
When Xuan Zi knocked it out, he had not returned its knife to him.
Mu Yueye gave the Wolf Bandit little time to catch its breath. Just as it was about to retreat from the range of Light of Dawn around him, he bent his legs as though preparing for a running start and launched himself forward in a single step.
The Wolf Bandit clearly hadn't expected anyone to charge at him of their own accord.
Until now, his life had been spent running rampant through the Star Dou Great Forest, relying on his tribe's overwhelming advantage in numbers and the perfect plans laid out beforehand by the older generation.
Driven into a desperate corner, the purple Wolf Bandit jerked up his left hand and clawed at Mu Yueye's chest.
This was not really a fighting technique. It was a necessary method the wolf pack used to divide and devour their prey after every battle.
Although Wolf Bandits were not lacking in intelligence, asking them to make their own eating utensils with their bare hands, especially sharp utensils for cutting, was still a bit too much.
Mu Yueye had no intention of indulging the Wolf Bandit. He swung his hand up sharply, golden dragon scales growing over his left hand, and met its left hand with his own, gripping its palm.
The instant Mu Yueye seized its palm, he yanked it forward and threw a punch with his other hand.
With the physique granted by his twin sacred dragon Martial Souls, plus the nearly fifty percent boost from Light of Dawn,
the power of Mu Yueye's punch was already worthy of the words "terrifying to such an extent" for someone his age.
Mu Yueye's punch tore a huge hole straight through the tough wolf hide. His fist pierced from its chest through to its back, killing the purple-haired Wolf Bandit in an instant.
Warm blood spurted out and landed on Mu Yueye's face, but it gave him no unusual sense of reality.
The purple Wolf Bandit opened his wolf jaws wide, fear of death in his eyes, and slowly collapsed to the ground.
Mu Yueye wiped his hand, then lowered his head to look at the purple-haired Wolf Bandit.
Zhang Lexuan came out at that moment and looked at Mu Yueye with a smile. She gave her a thumbs-up and said,
"Very good, Xiao Ye. This counts as the first Soul Beast you've killed. Great job."
Mu Yueye nodded, then looked at the Wolf Bandit's corpse on the ground with a complicated expression. He crouched down and reached out to move its head, frowning slightly as he looked into its somewhat vacant eyes.
Zhang Lexuan couldn't see clearly what Mu Yueye was doing, so she walked forward, a little curious...