Seeing that his son had broken through rank 20 and become a Soul Grandmaster, and had even managed to hunt down a 1,000-year soul beast by himself, Lin Yuan’s parents finally felt at ease about letting him leave home.
And so, Lin Yuan packed his luggage, brought along the dry rations his parents had prepared for him, and, under their watchful gazes, embarked on his “journey of study” to Suo Tuo City.
To prevent his future actions from implicating his parents, Lin Yuan did not immediately rent a carriage.
After leaving the city, he covered his face with black cloth, put on a veil and bamboo hat, and ran several hundred li to another city before renting a carriage.
To make sure no one could identify him, he even put on gloves.
Only after completing all of this did he sit cross-legged and cultivate at ease.
Seven days passed in the blink of an eye.
When the carriage was only two or three hundred li away from Suo Tuo City, a sudden voice pulled Lin Yuan out of his cultivation state.
“Whoever’s inside, get out!
This carriage belongs to this young master now.”
The voice was incredibly arrogant, with an unmistakable air of a spoiled young master.
“My lord, someone is blocking the road.”
The coachman was an honest, down-to-earth middle-aged man.
When Lin Yuan had rented the carriage, the coachman had noticed the Soul Grandmaster badge that Lin Yuan had “inadvertently” revealed and had treated him with great respect ever since.
Lin Yuan lifted the curtain and looked outside.
From a distance, he saw a blond, double-pupiled young man blocking the carriage’s path.
Although the boy’s clothes were clearly luxurious, he looked extremely disheveled, as if he had recently suffered some kind of disaster.
“It really is him!”
In Douluo Continent, someone with double pupils appearing on the road leading to Suo Tuo City at this particular time could only be Dai Mubai.
Lin Yuan couldn’t think of anyone else.
Dai Mubai had obviously noticed Lin Yuan’s black-robed, concealed appearance as well.
Seeing that he still hadn’t gotten out of the carriage, Dai Mubai immediately threatened him.
“Hey, you hiding your face in there!
Get out right now.
If you don’t, don’t blame this young master for being rude.”
As he spoke, the phantom of a White Tiger appeared behind him.
Two soul rings slowly rose beneath his feet, their dazzling radiance swirling around his body.
“I’ll just teach him a lesson.”
With that thought in mind, Lin Yuan said nothing.
He simply stepped out of the carriage.
Seeing Lin Yuan get out, a smug expression appeared on Dai Mubai’s face, as if to say, At least you know what’s good for you.
However, before he could enjoy his victory for long, he saw the black-robed man’s right hand curl slightly.
His five fingers formed a claw, reaching forward through the air.
Blue flames rose from his palm before his hand shot toward Dai Mubai with lightning speed.
“How dare you!”
Dai Mubai was both shocked and furious.
He was shocked by the terrifying speed of his opponent.
After fleeing the Star Luo Empire, he was still going to be bullied by someone else?
Then what had been the point of escaping in the first place?
His muscles immediately swelled.
His ten fingers extended into hooked claws as he rapidly completed his martial soul possession.
Then he struck out with one claw.
Bang!
His tiger claw had been capable of tearing even rocks apart in the past.
Yet the instant it touched the blue flames, its momentum was forcibly halted.
At the same time, immense force and an intense burning sensation surged through his palm.
Crack!
The sound of breaking bones rang out.
The next moment, Dai Mubai’s entire body was sent flying backward like a kite with its string cut.
Before losing consciousness, he saw Lin Yuan walking toward him.
“How…
how can he be this strong…?”
After uttering those words, he crashed to the ground and slid several meters before his eyes rolled back, and he completely lost consciousness.
Dai Mubai wasn’t an idiot.
The reason he had dared to provoke his opponent was because he had sensed that the other party’s soul-power fluctuations were not particularly strong.
At the very least, they were weaker than his own.
Yet he had never expected that a single strike from someone who hadn’t even released their martial soul and whose soul power was lower than his own would knock him unconscious.
The worst part was that he hadn’t even seen his opponent’s face.
Even if he wanted revenge in the future, he wouldn’t know where to look.
Where could he even go to complain about something like this?
Naturally, Lin Yuan had no idea what Dai Mubai was thinking.
Even if he had known, he wouldn’t have cared.
Ever since cultivating the Supreme Holy Qiankun Skill and the Five Thunder Heavenly Heart Technique, his strength could no longer be judged simply by his soul-power rank or the number of soul rings he possessed.
With his Supreme Holy Qiankun Skill at the third layer, if he couldn’t instantly defeat someone like Dai Mubai, who was merely a Soul Grandmaster, then he might as well stop cultivating.
He could just go home, marry a few wives, and live a comfortable life with his wife and children.
After knocking Dai Mubai unconscious, Lin Yuan habitually walked over to loot his belongings.
The coachman had long since become accustomed to this.
The city they had departed from was quite far from Suo Tuo City, so they had encountered several groups of bandits along the way.
Every time, they were dealt with by the Soul Master before him, after which Lin Yuan would search their bodies and take their money.
The reason the coachman had been willing to accept this job was partly because Lin Yuan had paid him generously.
Another reason was that Lin Yuan had promised to protect him along the way.
After reaching their destination, he had also promised to give the coachman enough money to hire a local Soul Grandmaster to protect him on the journey back to his original city. This story is hosted at novelping . com.
This time, however, perhaps because the person blocking their path had only wanted to steal the carriage, Lin Yuan did not kill him.
Instead, after searching his belongings, he picked him up as casually as one would pick up a dead dog and threw him onto the most conspicuous spot beside the road.
After finishing, Lin Yuan took Dai Mubai’s soul tool and returned to the carriage, continuing on his way.
Inside the carriage, Lin Yuan inspected Dai Mubai’s possessions.
There was a storage soul tool bracelet with a capacity of ten cubic meters.
Inside were roughly two or three thousand gold soul coins, a gold card, a Star Luo Imperial Family token, and several sets of spare clothes.
Lin Yuan casually threw the useless clothes and other miscellaneous items out of the carriage window.
He transferred the gold soul coins into his own soul tool.
As for the token, it might prove useful someday, so Lin Yuan decided to keep it for the time being.
The gold card, however, was rather useless.
It even bore a White Tiger emblem.
“Dai Mubai is a prince of the Star Luo Empire.
Before entering Shrek Academy, he must have people secretly protecting him.”
“As long as I don’t kill or cripple him, those people won’t interfere.”
“As for this gold card, if the people protecting him didn’t follow me, I’ll just take it out and spend it all at once.”
Having made up his mind, Lin Yuan lifted a corner of the carriage curtain and looked behind him.
Sure enough, after the carriage had traveled some distance, several black-clothed figures emerged from a nearby grove.
After resetting Dai Mubai’s broken bones, one of the healing-type soul masters gave him some simple treatment.
Once they had finished, they quickly disappeared back into the shadows as if they had never been there.
“Coachman, take the road on the left.”
When they reached the next fork in the road, Lin Yuan lowered his voice, deliberately making himself sound like an adult.
“But my lord, that road leads to Balak City, the capital of the Balak Kingdom.
It doesn’t lead to Suo Tuo City.”
The coachman glanced at the road sign and hesitated.
“I’m going to Balak City.”
Lin Yuan’s tone left no room for argument.
“Yes.”
The coachman didn’t dare ask any more questions and immediately changed course.
At the same time, Lin Yuan circulated both the Five Thunder Heavenly Heart Art and the Supreme Holy Qiankun Skill.
He concentrated his power into his eyes and carefully observed the surroundings along the way.
To guard against the possibility that one of the people secretly protecting Dai Mubai might be a flying-type soul master, he even paid special attention to the sky.
Only after confirming that no one was following them did he quietly leave the carriage, leaving behind the money for the journey and the fee needed to hire a soul master as protector.
By the time the coachman realized what had happened, the carriage was already empty.
Aside from a pile of gold soul coins, there was nothing left inside.
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