“Is it really a good idea to say all that with this young lady standing beside you?”
A trace of mockery flashed through Lin Yuan’s eyes.
“None of that matters anymore.
I’ll only ask you one thing—are you going to agree or not?”
Meng Baichuan was growing impatient.
Faced with his proposal, Lin Yuan asked only one question.
“If our positions were reversed and you had discovered me first, would you have let me go?”
Meng Baichuan froze for a moment before smiling.
“No.
But if you hand over the cultivation techniques you’re using, I can consider letting you live.”
Clearly, after talking with Dai Mubai, he had already figured out that Lin Yuan might possess some powerful cultivation technique.
Otherwise, it would have been impossible for him to instantly defeat Dai Mubai without even using his martial soul, despite Dai Mubai having higher soul power.
In Meng Baichuan’s eyes, after transmigrating to the Douluo Continent, he had everything he could possibly want.
He had talent.
He had looks.
He had a powerful background.
The only thing he lacked was a cultivation technique.
If he had one, why would he need to follow Tang San?
He could simply carve out his own path.
Hearing the words “cultivation technique,” Lin Yuan could finally confirm that the other party truly hadn’t arranged for anyone to come and support them.
After all, cultivation techniques were often the foundation on which transmigrators established themselves.
Even the people closest to them might not be told about them.
But Lin Yuan still made one final probe.
“You didn’t ask anyone from the Dragon Serpent Clan to come meet you.
You didn’t even choose to travel by carriage.
Instead, you openly left Suo Tuo City on foot.
All of this was to lure me out, wasn’t it?”
A smug expression appeared on Meng Baichuan’s face.
“That’s right.
I did the same thing last year.
I even had my grandparents waiting outside the city to back me up.
Unfortunately, you didn’t take the bait.”
“So, to lure you out this time, I was willing to put myself at risk.”
“Fortunately, you showed up in the end.”
“And thanks to your appearance, I’ve gained something I never expected.”
“Originally, I thought I could only reach the rank of First-Class God at most and spend my entire life beneath Tang San.”
“But because of you, I can now be my own master.”
“I don’t have to eat beef anymore.”
As he spoke, his expression gradually became crazed.
“Once I return, I’ll have my grandparents go and deal with that old poisoner.
They only need to keep him occupied.”
“Then the Immortal Herbs, the beauties, and the god position will all be mine.”
“And you…”
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Meng Yiran was completely confused by their conversation.
Her anger from being ambushed at the beginning had already turned into utter bewilderment.
She looked at Meng Baichuan with a face full of confusion.
“Xiaochuan, what are you two talking about?
What’s a fellow transmigrator?
What’s a cultivation technique?
What god position?
What beauties?
What Immortal Herbs?
What exactly are you two talking about?”
“Sister, don’t worry about it.
This person came here to kill us.
Hurry up and attack him.”
Meng Baichuan pointed at Lin Yuan.
Although Meng Yiran couldn’t understand a single thing they were talking about, she completely trusted her younger brother.
Without the slightest hesitation, she attacked.
Four soul rings, one yellow and three purple, rose from beneath her feet.
After sharing their cultivation speed for the past two years, Meng Yiran had already broken through to the Soul Ancestor level.
She held a Serpent Cane more than two meters long and charged toward Lin Yuan.
At the same time, Meng Baichuan raised both hands.
A Dragon Staff appeared in one hand, while a Serpent Cane appeared in the other.
Three soul rings, yellow, purple, and purple, soared into the air before floating above his head and overlapping one another.
A pillar of light descended, enveloping Meng Baichuan’s entire body.
“A self-infused martial soul fusion skill?”
A trace of surprise flashed through Lin Yuan’s eyes.
His gaze shifted toward Meng Yiran.
“First Soul Skill: Serpent Shadow Assault!”
When she was less than three meters from Lin Yuan, Meng Yiran’s first soul ring lit up.
She gripped her Serpent Cane and unleashed a series of rapid thrusts.
Five serpent shadows immediately extended from the tip of the staff, locking onto Lin Yuan’s four limbs and left shoulder, respectively.
Lin Yuan had seen Meng Yiran use this soul skill countless times at the Suo Tuo City Great Soul Arena, so he was extremely familiar with it.
It had been obtained from a snake-type soul beast that was around 500 or 600 years old.
Unlike the single-target attack skill Tongue Blade from the original story, this was a multi-target attack skill.
Each serpent shadow could be used to bind and bite an enemy.
Anyone bitten by one of them would be afflicted with a neurotoxin, causing paralysis, slowed movements, and eventually complete loss of mobility.
In severe cases, it could even be fatal.
It was somewhat similar to Orochimaru’s Hidden Shadow Snake Hands.
Normally, the final serpent shadow should have been aimed at Lin Yuan’s head.
Instead, Meng Yiran had targeted his shoulder.
“Has she gone soft-hearted?”
Lin Yuan muttered inwardly.
“And Meng Baichuan…
He actually thought of using his own sister to buy himself time.
I’ve underestimated him a little…”
The instant the five serpent shadows lunged toward him, Lin Yuan’s figure flashed.
When he appeared again, he was already beside Meng Yiran.
Blue flames rose from his right palm.
He struck out with one palm.
This was an ability Lin Yuan had gained after cultivating both the Supreme Holy Qiankun Skill and the Five Thunder Heavenly Heart Art to the fourth layer.
When activating either one of the two techniques, he could achieve a speed comparable to teleportation.
Lin Yuan called this ability Flash Step.
It was similar to the astonishing speed Shangguan Yunque had displayed when fighting the Underworld Emperor Zhu Yougui in the Hua Jianghu: The Unruly World.
If he activated both techniques simultaneously, his speed would become even faster.
Meng Yiran saw her opponent suddenly disappear before her eyes and froze for a moment.
By the time she reacted, pain had already exploded across her back.
At the same time, Meng Baichuan’s self-infused martial soul fusion skill was complete.
He transformed into a strange four-clawed dragon nearly seven meters long.
Yet he showed absolutely no concern for Meng Yiran’s safety.
The monster charged straight toward Lin Yuan and Meng Yiran.
Everywhere it passed, the grass and flowers withered.
Clearly, its body was filled with potent poison.
Lin Yuan knew very well that if his palm landed solidly, Meng Yiran would undoubtedly die.
But at the same time, he himself would also be struck by the four-clawed dragon formed from Meng Baichuan’s martial soul fusion skill.
With no other choice, Lin Yuan withdrew half of his palm force.
His figure flashed, disappearing from his original position and narrowly avoiding the four-clawed dragon’s charge.
Meng Yiran, having endured half of Lin Yuan’s palm force, spat out a large mouthful of blood.
The Serpent Cane flew from her hand, while her entire body was thrown forward uncontrollably.
The four-clawed dragon was about to crash into Meng Yiran.
At the critical moment, however, it noticed Lin Yuan’s figure flash to the side.
It immediately abandoned her and lunged toward Lin Yuan instead.
Only then did Meng Yiran narrowly escape disaster.
Even so, the four-clawed dragon’s tail struck her back as it turned.
Most of the clothing covering her back was corroded by the venom, making her already serious injuries even worse.
Fortunately, Meng Yiran’s Serpent Cane martial soul gave her a certain natural resistance to poison.
Otherwise, she would have died on the spot.
Lin Yuan continued using Flash Step to evade the monster’s claws while sneering mockingly.
“You don’t even care about your own sister’s life?”
The four-clawed dragon spoke with a human voice.
“You don’t seriously think I actually regard her as my sister, do you?”
“I have looks.
I have talent.
And I even brought her cultivation to the Soul Ancestor level in such a short period.”
“I helped her achieve accomplishments far beyond what she could have achieved at this point in the original story.”
“But she repeatedly rejected my advances simply because of this so-called blood relationship.”
“Do you really think I still care about her?”
“As long as I can obtain the cultivation technique you possess, forget about a mere Meng Yiran.”
“Even if it were Pope Bibi Dong or Sea God Douluo Bo Saixi, I’d dare make them go on maternity leave.”
As he spoke, he intensified his assault on Lin Yuan.
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