Douluo Continent: This Soul Master is Too Bizarre and Unpredictable

Chapter 8 'Surprise'

"Alright, Xiaoyang, it's getting late. Let's eat something and go to sleep. We'll go back tomorrow."

Huo Lie glanced at the night sky and said to Mu Yang.

My eldest nephew has been frail and lacking in energy since childhood. He spent half the morning in a carriage and half the afternoon walking with me in the forest. Now it's late at night, and I hope he doesn't get too tired.

Afterwards, Mu Yang ate some dried meat that he had prepared before setting off to hunt souls, along with some water, and then turned around and went into the tent next to him to rest.

As for keeping watch?

Even if Mu Yang offered to keep watch, Huo Lie would not agree.

Just kidding. If we let a mere first-level food-type little Karami stand guard, he might just get snatched away by a passing soul beast.

The next morning, after the Soul Hunt was over, Huo Lie and Mu Yang set off back to Blazing Fire City.

"Awoo—" "Awoo—" "Awoo—"

However, less than half an hour after they set off, they heard a wolf howl coming from a distance ahead.

Even though Mu Yang's strength was low, he still sensed the intense soul power fluctuations coming from ahead.

It was obvious that there was a pack of wolves fighting ahead, but Mu Yang had no idea whether the other side was other spirit beasts or human spirit masters.

"Let's go take a look!"

Without much hesitation, Huo Lie scooped up Mu Yang beside him, tucked him under his arm, and with a light tap of his feet, quickly rushed forward.

If there are only wolf howls and no other beast roars, then the wolf pack's opponents are most likely not the soul beasts in the forest, but soul masters who have come to hunt souls.

Since he was a human Soul Master, and was in the direction the two of them had returned from, and given that his own strength was enough to dominate the entire Sunset Forest, Huo Lie naturally didn't mind going to see what was going on.

If a human soul master is in danger, they can lend a hand.

However, perhaps one man's fists are no match for four hands, and one side found themselves surrounded by wolves. Before Huo Lie and Mu Yang could arrive, the fighting in front of them subsided.

A moment later, when Huo Lie and Mu Yang arrived, what came into their view was a pack of twelve fire wolf soul beasts, each two or three meters long, devouring the corpses of two soul masters.

The two corpses were mangled and their faces were unrecognizable, but their clothing indicated that they were a man and a woman.

Upon seeing this bloody scene, Mu Yang immediately felt uneasy.

"Hmph~, how dare this beast be so insolent?!"

With a frown and a sharp shout, he put down Mu Yang, who was tucked under his arm. The Fiery One-Horned Fire Tyrannosaurus Martial Soul was activated, and the surging fire-type soul power surged. As the soul rings shone, more than a dozen blazing fireballs suddenly condensed and then accurately fell towards the pack of fire wolves, whose individual ages ranged from seven or eight hundred years to one or two thousand years.

"Boom boom boom—"

A series of loud explosions rang out, and all twelve fire wolves were sent flying into the sky in earthen planes.

From the perspective of a Soul Master, although Soul Beasts are a renewable resource, their regeneration time is undoubtedly very long, with high-level Soul Beasts taking tens of thousands of years.

In order to maintain sustainable development, many Soul Masters will not kill Soul Beasts indiscriminately, and will let them go if they can, unless they are really blind.

But if you don't see a soul beast that kills and eats people, that's fine, but since you have seen it, you definitely can't let it go.

Having annihilated the pack of fire wolves in an instant, Huo Lie glanced at the two corpses on the ground not far away and couldn't help but shake his head.

After thinking for a moment, Huo Lie unleashed crimson soul power from his hand and struck the ground beside him repeatedly, gradually forming a deep pit.

At this moment, Mu Yang noticed that the female corpse not far away was wearing a necklace-like soul tool around her neck.

"I've got a storage soul tool!"

Suddenly, Mu Yang thought of a solution to a problem that had been bothering him for a long time. He immediately suppressed his discomfort and stepped forward to remove the soul guide storage necklace from the female corpse's neck.

Glancing at his uncle who hadn't noticed him, Mu Yang quietly channeled a wisp of soul power into the storage necklace, which was now ownerless and whose owner had died, thus completing the recognition process.

Then, with the speed of someone who had been single for six years, he quickly took out several pages of paper filled with writing from his soul guide storage bracelet and put them into the storage necklace he had just acquired.

After completing this operation, Mu Yang once again released the binding of the Soul Guidance Storage Necklace and walked to Huo Lie's side, who had now blasted a deep pit.

"Those two have a storage soul tool on them."

As he spoke, Mu Yang handed the Soul Guidance Storage Necklace in his hand to Huo Lie.

How can we reasonably give the "Extreme Flame Meditation Method" to Huo Wu and the others?

After much thought, Mu Yang realized he couldn't come up with a reasonable excuse or find a good opportunity.

However, if we disregard rationality and completely absolve ourselves of responsibility, then rationality becomes irrelevant.

As for how Huo Lie will react after inspecting the soul-guided storage necklace and discovering the "Extreme Flame Meditation Method" inside, that's none of Mu Yang's business.

Anyway, the dead can't talk. As long as he doesn't say anything, who would know that he secretly put the "Extreme Flame Meditation Method" in there?

Upon seeing the soul-guided storage necklace that Mu Yang handed over, Huo Lie raised an eyebrow, glanced at the soul-guided storage bracelet on Mu Yang's left wrist, then nodded and stuffed it into his pocket.

He could tell that the bracelet on Mu Yang's wrist was a storage soul tool.

Since Mu Yang already has one, there's no need to get a second one.

Moreover, since he avenged these two and collected their bodies, preventing them from ending up in the bellies of soul beasts after death, this soul guide storage necklace and its contents should be considered his due reward.

Of course, Huo Lie also knew that these two couldn't even defeat a pack of fire wolves that were about a thousand years old, so their strength was not great. Their storage soul tools probably didn't contain anything good either, and it was very likely that they were not even as valuable as the soul tool storage necklace itself.

However, what Huo Lie didn't know at the time was that this soul guide storage necklace was originally quite ordinary, but after someone's little trick, it could bring him a huge surprise.

After burying the two bodies, Huo Lie led Mu Yang on their journey home again.

After Mu Yang returned to his home in Blazing Fire City and washed off the dust that had settled on him during his soul-hunting journey, it was already dinnertime.

Inside the restaurant, Mu Yang, Mu Xiyue, and Huo Lie were having dinner.

As for Huo Wu and Huo Wushuang, they went to Blazing Fire Academy long after Mu Yang awakened his martial soul.

Blazing Fire Academy has a simulated training ground suitable for fire-attribute soul masters. In addition, Blazing Fire Academy is located outside Blazing Fire City. Although the distance is not too far, the two usually live in the academy.

Moreover, it wasn't just Huo Wu and Huo Wushuang; Huo Lie, the dean of the Blazing Fire Academy, was also involved. On the other hand, Mu Xiyue, one of the vice deans of the academy, would often return home to cook for Mu Yang herself.

Fortunately, the Huo family was well-off and had many servants in the mansion. Otherwise, if the elders were often away from home, young Mu Yang might have had trouble even getting food.

(End of this chapter)