Having lived two lifetimes, this was Lin Yuan’s first time coming into contact with a corpse.
To say he wasn’t afraid would be impossible.
However, compared to the temptation of obtaining something that could very well change the course of his entire life, that fear was nothing.
Yan Beifei was surprisingly heavy.
Especially now that he was a corpse, he felt even heavier.
Fortunately, Lin Yuan had trained his body.
Otherwise, he really wouldn’t have been able to carry him more than a few steps.
Luckily, Lin Yuan had never intended to take Yan Beifei all the way to Emperor Soul Village.
After all, he didn’t have the strength to carry someone his own age for more than ten miles.
Moreover, someone like Yan Beifei was clearly a lone wolf who had come out on his own.
No one knew that he had gone to Nuoding City.
Even if he died somewhere outside, the people of Emperor Soul Village wouldn’t know.
And even if they did find out, no one would dare cause trouble at Nuoding Academy.
Therefore, Lin Yuan had nothing to worry about regarding Emperor Soul Village.
As for Tang Hao…
He was wholeheartedly guarding his precious son, who had only become so important to him because he had awakened twin martial souls.
He certainly wouldn’t care about the life or death of a “nobody” like Yan Beifei.
After using every bit of his strength to carry Yan Beifei to a mountain stream, Lin Yuan finally began searching the corpse.
First, he checked the four pockets of his clothes and trousers.
There was nothing inside.
Then he checked all four cuffs.
Still nothing.
Lin Yuan became frustrated
“Could this guy’s cheat be some kind of system?”
Just as Lin Yuan was feeling depressed about it, he suddenly noticed a ring hanging around Yan Beifei’s neck on a thin string.
A black gemstone was embedded in it.
A soul tool?
Those words instantly appeared in Lin Yuan’s mind.
Without hesitation, he reached out to grab it.
But the moment his fingers touched the ring, a bloodstained hand suddenly grabbed his wrist.
Lin Yuan was badly startled.
His entire body instantly tensed.
Yan Beifei wasn’t dead.
Or rather, he hadn’t completely died.
He had merely entered a state of suspended animation earlier.
However, his breathing was already extremely faint.
“Save…
save me…”
Lin Yuan shook off his hand and ignored him.
He then released his soul power and probed into the ring. This chapter was taken from g.com without permission.
It really was a soul tool.
Its storage space was roughly two or three cubic meters, making it quite a high-quality soul tool.
Lin Yuan had no idea where Yan Beifei had obtained it.
Compared to the ring itself, however, Lin Yuan cared much more about what was inside.
There was a bag of gold soul coins, along with some common medicinal herbs such as lingzhi and wild ginseng.
Most of them were around a hundred years old.
And then there was a Palm Heaven Bottle.
Yes.
You heard that right.
It was the Palm Heaven Bottle.
Moreover, it was the exact same Palm Heaven Bottle Lin Yuan remembered from the anime adaptation of Record of a Mortal’s Journey to Immortality in his previous life.
Inside it was a small piece of translucent, cloth-like material.
It looked somewhat like a fragment of a magical treasure Han Li had used to conceal the Palm Heaven Bottle.
“Yan Beifei must have relied on this thing to obtain innate soul power.
These 100-year-old medicinal herbs were probably also cultivated with the help of the Palm Heaven Bottle.”
“My martial soul is a plant as well.
I’ll gladly take this.”
As this thought flashed through his mind, Lin Yuan’s gaze toward Yan Beifei gradually became dangerous.
Completely unaware of what was going through Lin Yuan’s mind, Yan Beifei continued to beg desperately for his life, driven by his instinct to survive.
His voice grew weaker and weaker.
Lin Yuan naturally couldn’t let him keep living.
After carefully placing the ring inside the watch pocket of his school uniform, he twisted Yan Beifei’s neck.
Then he kicked him into the mountain stream.
After a series of heavy impacts against the rocks, Yan Beifei completely lost his breath.
Only then did Lin Yuan finally relax his tense nerves.
This was the first time he had truly killed someone.
His heart was pounding violently inside his chest.
But when he thought about the Palm Heaven Bottle inside the ring he now possessed, something that could completely change his fate, his mind quickly settled down again.
Lin Yuan picked up Yan Beifei’s tattered clothes and threw them into another mountain stream.
That way, even if someone discovered Yan Beifei’s corpse in the future, no one would pay much attention to it.
After all, this world wasn’t nearly as peaceful as it appeared on the surface.
Dead people were a common occurrence.
By the time Lin Yuan returned to Nuoding Academy, it was already evening.
Throughout the campus, students were whispering about what Yu Xiaogang had done that day.
He had actually blasted someone to death with a fart.
Of course, the person he had killed wasn’t a student.
He was merely a “bandit” who had trespassed into the academy and attempted to harm its students.
Clearly, the dean had already cleaned up the mess for Yu Xiaogang.
Lin Yuan could only sigh inwardly.
No matter where one went, the lives of ordinary people were worthless.
He returned to his single dormitory, took out the soul tool ring from his watch pocket, replaced its string, and carefully stored it away. New chapters come out on g.com first.
He then took a shower, changed his clothes, and went to the cafeteria for a simple meal.
Only after that did he head toward Dorm Seven, where the work-study students lived.
Lin Yuan guessed that Lin Tian, the first transmigrator he had discovered, should have gone there.
Sure enough, when Lin Yuan reached the entrance of Dorm Seven, he happened to see a familiar scene.
Lin Tian, whose appearance was exceptionally handsome and whose eyes were bright and lively, was sparring with a young girl.
The girl looked about the same age as Lin Tian, though she was nearly half a head shorter.
Her delicate face was fair with a rosy tint, her scorpion braid hung past her hips, and her large eyes were bright and watery.
Those three characteristics immediately allowed Lin Yuan to identify her.
Xiao Wu.
Xiao Wu bent her right knee and suddenly shot her foot forward, kicking straight toward Lin Tian’s chin.
Her speed was so fast that Lin Yuan’s eyes blurred just watching her.
Yet Lin Tian merely shifted his body slightly to the left and effortlessly avoided the attack.
At the same time, he grabbed Xiao Wu by the ankle.
While dissipating the force behind her kick, he gently swung her aside and sent her flying onto the bed.
“Damn it!
I refuse to accept this!
Why do I lose to you every time?
I can’t even last three rounds against you!”
Xiao Wu pouted, her face full of unwillingness.
Lin Tian smiled dotingly.
“Even if it were Xiao San, he could do the same.”
Tang San shook his head from the side.
“Forget it.
I can’t beat you.”
As he spoke, he subconsciously touched the silent sleeve arrow hidden inside his sleeve.
When Lin Tian noticed Tang San’s movement, a strange glint flashed through his eyes.
Lin Yuan observed the expressions of both people.
It was clear that Tang San had lost to Lin Tian before.
Although he said that he couldn’t beat Lin Tian, he clearly wasn’t convinced in his heart.
He believed that if he used his hidden weapons, Lin Tian wouldn’t be his opponent.
Lin Tian obviously understood what Tang San was thinking as well.
He simply saw through it without saying anything.
“He has already become so close to Tang San and Xiao Wu?”
Lin Yuan had secretly observed Lin Tian for several years.
He knew that this person was calm and composed, and definitely wasn’t easy to deal with.
The fact that Lin Tian had chosen to become friendly with Tang San and Xiao Wu instead of immediately competing with Tang San over Xiao Wu showed that he had a brain.
Of course, it couldn’t be ruled out that he was simply a bootlicker.
After all, there had been quite a few Tang San fans back on Blue Star.
While the group was talking, Lin Yuan knocked on the door of Dorm Seven.
“Is Lin Tian here?”
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