Stuffing a Soul Beast to Death
On the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest.
A ten-year-old boy sat cross-legged on the grass, absorbing a ten-year Blue Silver Grass Soul Ring.
A wolf-shaped Martial Soul stood behind him.
Its entire body was dark gray. It wore an orange patched hat on its head and a yellow scarf around its neck. A straight scar ran across its face, and the corners of its mouth curled into a wickedly charming smile.
The boy's name was Hui Ye, and his Martial Soul was Wolffy.
Before long, he finished absorbing the Soul Ring, and a pale gray Soul Ring rose around him.
Its color was faint, almost transparent.
It was completely different from a normal Soul Master's Soul Ring, giving it a somewhat eerie appearance.
He felt the changes in his body, and a flicker of excitement flashed in his eyes.
The next second, he slashed his arm open with a knife, and blood welled out.
"First Soul Skill, Immortal Body!"
With Hui Ye's low shout, his Soul Skill surged, and the wound swiftly healed.
Hui Ye glanced at the pale gray Soul Ring. Its progress had barely reached 0.1%.
To raise his first Soul Skill to 100%, he would have to kill Soul Beasts with a combined age of at least ten thousand years.
"The burden is heavy and the road is long," Hui Ye sighed softly.
That little bit of progress was barely enough to let him use the ability to heal wounds.
Compared to a true Immortal Body, it still had a long way to go.
There were requirements for the type of First Soul Ring the Wolffy Martial Soul could absorb. Not just any Soul Beast's Soul Ring would do.
It had to match the attributes of the first Soul Skill: Soul Beasts like earthworms, geckos, salamanders, and Blue Silver Grass, which could regenerate severed limbs and possessed powerful vitality.
All of Hui Ye's Soul Skills were fixed and unchangeable, determined from the moment his Martial Soul awakened.
First Soul Skill: Immortal Body.
Second Soul Skill: Infinite Stamina.
Third Soul Skill: Wonderful Transition.
Fourth Soul Skill: Wolf Castle Technology.
With the ability to heal wounds at his disposal, Hui Ye's subsequent Soul Beast hunts became much easier.
In just two and a half days, Hui Ye successfully filled the gray First Soul Ring's progress bar to 20%.
At the same time, his Soul Skill unlocked the ability to regenerate severed limbs.
Without the slightest hesitation, Hui Ye chopped off his left arm with a single stroke.
Blood gushed from the stump, making for a gruesome sight.
Yet Hui Ye merely frowned.
The first Soul Skill had another passive effect: pain reduction. It reduced the pain of injuries by 90%.
To him, the pain of losing a limb was only comparable to a kick in the chest.
"Immortal Body!"
As Hui Ye's Soul Power surged, a brand-new left arm quickly grew back.
He swung his fist, felt the surging strength in his left arm, and nodded in satisfaction.
Not only had his left arm returned to normal, but it was even thicker and harder, and its skin had become much fairer and smoother.
"Damn, that's awesome. As expected of Wolffy's ability. It really is amazing," Hui Ye marveled.
At that moment, he seemed to think of something. He lowered his head, and a bold idea somehow occurred to him.
After hesitating for only three seconds, Hui Ye became Eunuch Lin for a moment...
During this period of hunting, most of the Blue Silver Grass Hui Ye killed was around ten years old. As far as he was concerned, it was enough as long as he could raise the progress bar.
After all, Blue Silver Grass came in enough abundance to fill anyone up.
Of course, the main reason was that Blue Silver Grass was closely connected to Tang San.
Hui Ye was a little tired now, and his hands were sore. Lying on the grass, he cursed.
"Dog San, you're unworthy of being a son of man."
After arriving in the Douluo World, he had discovered that he was in the Douluo II era, in the same age as Huo Yuhao.
In this era, awakening a Martial Soul cost money, and ordinary people simply couldn't afford it.
The one who had started all of this was Tang San!
After becoming a god, he had completely ignored the suffering of the mortal world.
To awaken his Martial Soul, Hui Ye had been forced to sell his old rural courtyard, barely scraping together enough to pay the awakening fee.
Ever since Tang San had liberated Slaughter City and destroyed the Spirit Hall, Evil Soul Masters had multiplied by the day, forming a massive dark force.
Not only had Tang San failed to carry on the Spirit Hall's tradition of free awakenings, but he had also ignored the existence of Evil Soul Masters.
Hui Ye's parents in this life had been killed by rampant Evil Soul Masters.
All of this had left him an orphan at the age of three. Afterward, he had only managed to grow up to ten by eating at the tables of countless families in the village.
"Gurgle~"
Hui Ye rubbed his sunken stomach, looked at the roasted Soft Bone Rabbit beside him, picked it up, and reluctantly took a bite.
"Crunch! Crunch!"
Although Soft Bone Rabbit was juicy, it was easy to get sick of eating too much meat.
What humans needed most was carbohydrates.
Since Hui Ye had no money to buy grain, he had been filling his stomach with roasted rabbit meat these past few days.
His jaws were sore from chewing.
"Crunch! Crunch!"
Another sound followed.
"Craack-!"
Hui Ye abruptly sat upright. That wasn't the sound of his own chewing.
It was...
The sound of someone stepping on a branch!
A creature was approaching!
He sharply swept his gaze toward the source of the sound.
The bushes rustled, and a giant lizard over two meters long suddenly sprang out.
Seeing what had come, Hui Ye's pupils contracted, and the rabbit meat in his hand fell to the ground with a plop.
"A mutated Striped Lizard, five hundred years old. Damn!"
With a single glance, Hui Ye judged the gap in strength between them.
If it were a hundred-year Striped Lizard, he could still put up a fight with his one-ring strength.
But this was a mutated Soul Beast. At five hundred years old, its strength was comparable to that of a thousand-year Soul Beast.
Hui Ye didn't yet have a true Immortal Body. Once the creature set its sights on him, only death awaited him.
Without hesitation, Hui Ye turned and ran.
But the Striped Lizard was faster. With the force of an autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves, it caught up in an instant, opened its enormous bloody maw, and sank its teeth into Hui Ye's thigh.
"Ah!"
Hui Ye let out a scream.
Thanks to the pain reduction, the wound didn't actually hurt much. But faced with the threat of death, intense fear welled up in Hui Ye's heart.
Once this beast got a hold of him, if it caught him off guard and bit his head off, he would surely die.
Hui Ye made a snap decision and swung his knife, severing his own thigh.
Blood sprayed across the Striped Lizard's face, and the stench of blood grew stronger.
Without even chewing, the Striped Lizard swallowed the entire thigh.
Feeling the Soul Power from the flesh in its stomach flow into its body, the Striped Lizard lunged and snapped even more wildly.
Hui Ye quickly used his Soul Skill to regenerate his thigh, but before he could catch his breath, the Striped Lizard pounced again.
"Fine, fine, fine!"
So furious that he laughed instead, Hui Ye swiftly used Martial Soul Possession and charged forward, grappling with the Striped Lizard.
Hmm!
His courage was commendable, worthy of praise.
The next instant, the Striped Lizard bit off one of Hui Ye's arms and swallowed it.
"You like eating, huh? Then I'll let you eat your fill!"
His eyes scarlet, Hui Ye cut off his arm and tossed it into the Striped Lizard's mouth.
The Striped Lizard refused nothing, eating with great relish.
Delicious~
So delicious!
When had it ever eaten food this delicious? The flesh and blood of a human Soul Master was truly...
The Striped Lizard, which had never received nine years of compulsory education, simply couldn't come up with a suitable adjective.
Well~
In any case, it was tasty.
And so, deep in the Star Dou Great Forest, a man and a beast acted out a scene of human and lizard living together in harmony...
Hui Ye fed the Striped Lizard one arm after another.
Each time he cut one off, he used his Soul Skill to restore it.
Then he cut it off again and restored it again.
The Soul Power consumed by the Soul Skill amounted to only one percent for Hui Ye.
The arms he grew were like chives being cut down, growing back again and again without end.
After the ninetieth arm, Hui Ye felt his body struggling to keep up, and his Soul Power was gradually running dry.
Even with 90% pain reduction, he couldn't withstand this kind of ordeal.
At that moment, Hui Ye felt as though his entire arm no longer belonged to him.
Meanwhile, the Striped Lizard let out a loud burp and lost its appetite.
"Burp~"
Seeing this, Hui Ye breathed a sigh of relief.
But when he saw how round the creature had become, he gritted his teeth and once again held his arm up to its mouth.
"Here, eat up!"
The Striped Lizard's eyes shifted slightly, as if it were tempted. But after feeling its swollen belly, it ultimately turned its head away.
Hui Ye frowned, extremely displeased.
"You won't eat? How can that do!"
"Eat!"
"You damn well have to eat!"
Hui Ye's actions thoroughly enraged the Striped Lizard.
For the sake of the feast, it had originally intended to spare him, but he didn't know what was good for him and insisted on courting death.
"Roar!"
The Striped Lizard roared in anger and made to pounce on Hui Ye.
Duang~ duang~
The Striped Lizard's belly bounced twice on the ground. Its stomach was swollen as big as a basketball, and its four limbs couldn't reach the ground, flailing wildly in the air.
Damn it!
For the first time, it regretted eating too much food!
And Hui Ye was still frantically, desperately stuffing his arm into its mouth!
"Mmph! Mmph! Mmph!"
Stop stuffing it in, I can't eat any more...
I'm full.
Too full.
Finally, after the Striped Lizard was forced to swallow two more arms, a sharp pain twisted through its stomach.
Bleurgh-!
Chunks of meat and broken bones sprayed more than ten meters from its mouth, an extremely bloody sight.
When it was done vomiting, the Striped Lizard collapsed on the ground and lay motionless.
A Yellow Soul Ring slowly emerged from its body, quietly hovering in midair.
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