Meeting Tang Ya and Bei Bei

"Hrrk-ptooey!"

"You liked eating, didn't you? Eat till you burst, you bastard!"

"Hahahaha!"

"I, Lord Hui, am a genius!"

Hui Ye plopped down on the ground and threw his head back, laughing.

Only at this moment did he feel the meaning of being alive, the value of life.

He made up his mind: he had to hurry and max out the progress of his first Soul Skill, Immortal Body!

The striped lizard was also a type of Soul Beast capable of regenerating severed limbs, making it a perfect match for the Soul Skill's attribute requirement.

Hui Ye sat down cross-legged where he was and meditated, hastening to restore his Soul Power.

As the striped lizard's Soul Ring gradually dimmed, Hui Ye opened his eyes just before it dissipated.

By now, he had recovered well over half his Soul Power.

He used his Soul Power to draw the Soul Ring in front of him slowly into his body.

It took him only a few minutes to finish absorbing it.

The Soul Ring's progress increased by about 7%.

Just then, Hui Ye felt the Soul Power within him stir.

"This is... a breakthrough!"

Overjoyed, Hui Ye immediately began circulating his meditation technique.

At a certain moment, Hui Ye's whole body shuddered as he smoothly broke through from level 12 to level 13.

In the days that followed, Hui Ye's actions grew even crazier.

In just two days, he slaughtered a vast amount of ten-year Blue Silver Grass, raising the gray Soul Ring's progress to 50%.

Hui Ye could clearly sense the change in the gray Soul Ring: its grayness had grown deeper and richer.

He even felt that, if his head were chopped off, he could grow a new one as long as he activated "Immortal Body" within ten seconds.

Hui Ye touched the hilt of his blade and made a snap decision. He set the blade against his neck, preparing to kill himself...

"Stop!"

At the critical moment, a loud shout rang out, stopping Hui Ye from carrying through with his next move.

Hui Ye halted the blade and looked toward the source of the voice.

In the distance, a man and a woman were rushing toward him.

The woman was youthful and beautiful, with a fresh, unworldly grace.

The man was dashing and refined, with a gentle, cultured manner.

For some reason, two names came to Hui Ye's mind.

Tang Ya and Bei Bei.

"Hey, what's got you so upset that you want to kill yourself?"

Tang Ya stepped forward and seized his wrist.

Half a step behind her, Bei Bei swept his gaze over their surroundings. Something struck him as strange, but he couldn't put his finger on what.

A Soul Beast had died, so flesh and blood scattered across the ground were understandable. But what was with all these scraps of human flesh and bones?

Bei Bei couldn't work out the reason, and his guard rose a little.

Hui Ye had been about to say that he was only killing himself for fun, just testing a Soul Skill.

But when the words reached his lips, he changed his answer. "Yeah..."

"Then why do you want to kill yourself?" Pity showed in Tang Ya's eyes.

Hui Ye said, "Because my parents are both dead."

Tang Ya's heart tightened. She couldn't help thinking of her own departed parents, and she patted Hui Ye on the shoulder, as if comforting both him and herself.

"My condolences. The dead can't come back to life."

"They were killed by Evil Soul Masters when I was three."

"Evil Soul Masters deserve to die."

"Yes, they do. But there are people who deserve it even more!"

Bei Bei asked instinctively, "Who?"

"Certain nobles, Soul Masters, and other high-ranking people who stand above commoners."

Hui Ye's words touched a sensitive spot in Bei Bei's heart, leaving him somewhat uncomfortable.

"Your thinking is too extreme. They haven't done anything wrong."

Hui Ye raised his brows. "Nothing wrong?"

Tang Ya nodded. "You're being too general."

Hui Ye snorted coldly:

"If the people at the top hadn't let Evil Soul Masters run free, how would they have become so rampant today!"

"Shrek Academy has always been taking action to root out Evil Soul Masters," Bei Bei explained.

Hui Ye felt like laughing.

Always taking action?

Don't joke with Lord Hui!

If they really had always been taking action, why were there more and more Evil Soul Masters, growing ever more rampant?

Ultimately, Shrek simply hadn't taken the matter to heart. It hadn't touched their interests, so of course they wouldn't truly concern themselves with it.

Ten thousand years ago, Shrek had emerged as the greatest power after the destruction of Spirit Hall. Its failure to nip evil in the bud was a sign that it had failed in its duty.

Hui Ye said displeasedly:

"Shrek? If they really cared, they'd have organized the whole continent to hunt down Evil Soul Masters long ago.

Sitting in high positions and doing nothing-how is that any different from being accomplices?"

Hui Ye added another sentence in his heart.

Especially Shrek's supreme leader, the old man Mu En, who had let Ye Xishui go time and again, allowing her to fall and become the Holy Spirit Cult's supreme leader and wreak havoc on the world.

Bei Bei's expression darkened. Shrek was his home, and also his faith.

He was a true Shrek man, with roots as red as they came, and might even have a chance to inherit the position of power in Shrek one day.

Hui Ye's words grated on his ears, and Bei Bei instinctively retorted.

"Shrek has its own plans for how to do things. It's not your place to point fingers. Rooting out Evil Soul Masters isn't as simple as you make it sound."

"Oh? What, are you from Shrek?"

Hui Ye said disdainfully, "If you've got what it takes, come hit me."

Hit him?

Bei Bei remained unmoved.

Hui Ye had just been about to kill himself, so why should Bei Bei bother raising a hand?

If he killed Hui Ye in front of Tang Ya, he would only leave her with a bad impression of him.

Tang Ya was uncharacteristically silent, saying nothing.

She had her own scales in her heart. Hui Ye's words reminded her of her own situation; though the circumstances were different, the principle was the same.

Shrek, which had once shared glory and stood together with the Tang Sect through thick and thin, now had no intention of lending a hand, leaving the Tang Sect to wither away.

That lofty Shrek, heh... Tang Ya thought self-mockingly.

Bei Bei took Tang Ya by the wrist. "Xiao Ya, let's go. There's no need to pay this madman any attention!"

The two left.

Hui Ye stood quietly where he was, watching their receding backs.

If he hadn't yet obtained the complete Immortal Body,

he would have dared to launch into a furious tirade about Bei Bei's great-great-grandfather right in front of him.

For now, though, he could only make a few sarcastic remarks to get it out of his system.

He had a certain measure of confidence behind his decision to mock Shrek in front of Bei Bei.

Although his first Soul Skill's energy wasn't full yet, its ability to regenerate severed limbs was enough to let him withstand several rounds of attacks.

If all else failed, he could simply play dead after the other party cut him down.

Besides, he was very familiar with the nearby terrain. As long as he got a chance to slip into the dense forest and hide, it wouldn't be so easy for the other party to find him.

Meanwhile.

Bei Bei thought over Hui Ye's various actions just now, unable to shake the feeling that something was wrong.

The dead striped lizard beside Hui Ye, as well as the bones, flesh, blood, and vomit covering the ground, all pointed to something unusual.

"Xiao Ya, I keep feeling that what happened just now was a little strange."

Tang Ya asked in puzzlement, "What was strange about it?"

Bei Bei speculated, "If he wanted to kill himself, why would he do it in the Star Dou Great Forest?

And that dead Soul Beast on the ground shows that he was the one who killed it.

If he wanted to die, why go to all that extra trouble?

Wouldn't it have been quicker to let the Soul Beast eat him?

And then there was the way he was hostile toward Shrek Academy for no reason.

In short, everything just now was too strange!"

Tang Ya pondered for a moment. Recalling the scraps of flesh all over the ground, she too realized something was odd.

"What you say seems to make some sense.

Bei Bei, do you think...

he might be an Evil Soul Master?"

Bei Bei shook his head. "It's hard to say. In any case, we'd better stay away from him. I just have a feeling he's very dangerous..."

After that brief interlude, Hui Ye's miserable life of hunting continued.

Seven days later, Hui Ye finally filled his First Soul Ring to overflowing.

The gray Soul Ring's energy was quite solid. On closer inspection, he could sense the terrifying presence contained within it.

All of Wolffy's Soul Skills were conceptual skills, a kind of existence that transcended common sense and defied the laws of logic.

By now, Hui Ye's Soul Power had also broken through to level 15.

Now, even if he were crushed into a mosaic or burned to ashes,

he could revive at full health within one minute!

Moreover, his reduction of injury and pain had reached a controllable level, with a maximum reduction of 99%.

He was almost completely immune to pain!

This also included all abnormal conditions, such as poisoning, burns, freezing, petrification, charm, and soul control. He could use Immortal Body to quickly recover from them all.

Of course, the amount of Soul Power consumed differed. Removing one abnormal condition consumed only 1% of his Soul Power.

A complete resurrection from nothing consumed roughly 10% of his Soul Power.

In other words, he could currently revive at least ten times, or even more.

For now, Hui Ye's resurrections were still limited. To become truly undying and indestructible, he would have to see what his second Soul Skill could do.

His second Soul Skill was "Infinite Stamina." As its name suggested, combined with his first Soul Skill, it would let Hui Ye revive an unlimited number of times. No matter who came, they couldn't kill him.

Not even a god!