Douluo Continent: The Ice King's Resurrection

Chapter 88, Section 87: The Hunt, The Fourth Soul Ring (Part 1)

Nothing happened that night. When Ling Bingtian woke up the next day according to her biological clock, Ling Yongsheng had already disappeared into the cave.

Ling Bingtian knew that this meant that Ling Yongsheng would not intervene in the next operation unless he encountered a completely insurmountable danger.

However, this was exactly what Ling Bingtian wanted.

Having fought in the northern border of the empire for so long, he had never experienced a combat environment like the Star Dou Great Forest.

Today, we can finally give it a try.

Ling Bingtian first stretched, then used his soul power to condense ice water to wash himself before walking out of the cave.

The rising sun peeks out from behind the eastern mountains, casting its warm rays upon the earth and giving the continent new life.

Looking at the direction of the sun, and combining that with the approximate location he had noted down when he arrived at this time yesterday, Ling Bingtian immediately had a clear idea of ​​the situation.

The cave he's currently in is located in the outer center of the Star Dou Great Forest. To reach the mixed zone where the Three-Eyed Ice Foxes live, he'll have to carefully explore his way there.

Fortunately, the area where the Three-Eyed Ice Fox was active in the Star Dou Great Forest was closer to the Star Luo Empire, which gave Ling Bingtian a good excuse to move closer to the Star Luo Empire.

Having already prepared a plan, Ling Bingtian did not rush to his destination. Instead, he took out various items from his storage soul tool to arm himself.

This includes, but is not limited to, specially made combat boots, monoculars, animal repellent, and insect repellent.

In just a couple of minutes, Ling Bingtian had put on all his gear.

Finally, Ling Bingtian did one last thing. He found dozens of common Blue Silver Grasses, plucked them, crushed them into juice, and applied it to his body.

Blue Silver Grass, being the lowest-level creature on the entire Douluo Continent, is often the easiest to overlook by humans or beasts.

The instructor in the training camp who was in charge of training camouflage and looked like a gangster had once taught Ling Bingtian this trick.

If you cover yourself with the juice of Blue Silver Grass, high-level soul beasts generally won't bother with you unless they see through your human identity.

In their limited wisdom, they assumed that anything covered in Blue Silver Grass sap couldn't possibly be anything powerful...

After thoroughly applying the Blue Silver Grass juice all over her body, Ling Bing finally found her bearings and began to run in one direction.

Under Ling Bingtian's deliberate control, his rapid movements produced only a very faint sound.

The most typical example is that Ling Bingtian, while moving at high speed, even passed by a very wary You'er Rabbit without disturbing it in the slightest.

Watching Ling Bingtian's skillful armed movements and movements, Ling Yongsheng, who was hanging far behind him, couldn't help but show a gratified smile.

Ling Bingtian's performance has shown that his time in the training camp was worthwhile, and he must have completed all the training tasks perfectly or even exceeded expectations.

Watching Ling Bingtian's departing figure, Ling Yongsheng smiled with satisfaction while keeping up closely with him.

The purpose was to train Ling Bingtian, but if something were to happen to him because of his own mistake, Ling Yongsheng felt he would find it hard to accept.

This is also related to a poignant piece of news that Ling Yongsheng recently obtained through the Ling family's intelligence network.

I heard that a few years ago, an elder from Shrek Academy led a team to hunt soul beasts at the border between the mixed zone and the core zone of the Star Dou Great Forest.

But not long after he went inside, the old man got separated from the students.

To make matters worse, the student group ran into a 100,000-year-old soul beast at its peak at that time.

That battle was extremely fierce, and almost the entire student group was wiped out.

According to the Ling family's intelligence system, it is unknown how many students survived, but it is certain that Zhang Lexuan, the senior sister of Shrek Academy's inner court, is very likely one of the survivors from back then.

Therefore, no matter how great the temptations they encounter along the way, Ling Yongsheng will never abandon Ling Bingtian and leave her alone.

Ling Bingtian didn't think about that at the moment. He kept his head down and rushed forward, carefully avoiding all kinds of soul beasts that might appear.

Ling Bing will only act when there is no way to avoid a situation. If the situation is weak, she will stun it; if the situation is strong, she will temporarily slow it down and wait for it to leave before moving forward.

The reason for stunning rather than killing was also for the sake of future generations.

If this generation wipes out all the younger-age soul beasts, the profession of soul master will be lost forever.

Therefore, apart from low-level Soul Masters who make a living by hunting Soul Beasts, very few people would specifically hunt Soul Beasts.

Ling Bingtian is a member of a great noble family and does not need to hunt soul beasts to obtain resources, so he will not and is unwilling to kill low-age soul beasts.

After all, Ling Bingtian was not a man who killed indiscriminately; killing did not bring him any joy.

Along the way, Ling Bingtian hardly stopped. His three years of training camp experience not only taught him the discipline of a soldier, but also honed his physical abilities to be far superior to those of ordinary people.

Three years of uninterrupted basic body training, plus the current cultivation of the third level of "Nine Revolutions" and the peak of the fourth level of "Frosty Heavenly Ice Technique".

With his current physical condition, as long as he's not in a state of intense combat, Ling Bingtian could run all day without feeling tired.

According to the Ling family's calculations, Ling Bingtian's physical attributes have reached the level of a typical Soul Saint. This is also the reason why Ling Bingtian dares to absorb Soul Rings ranging from 40,000 to 60,000 years old.

The only problem is that the Star Dou Great Forest is too vast. The distance Ling Bingtian needs to travel is not just a few kilometers or tens of kilometers, but hundreds of kilometers away to the Star Luo Empire's mixed zone of the Star Dou Great Forest.

With the start of the Shrek Academy semester approaching, Ling Bingtian didn't have much time to waste.

Aside from the daily necessities of eating, drinking, relieving oneself, and sleeping, Ling Bingtian maintained a fairly high speed throughout the journey.

Because of the storage soul tool and the Ice God's small space, Ling Bingtian would never lack supplies.

The only thing that kept him stuck for a long time was when he was sleeping at night.

Retrieving and storing supplies is one thing, but if Ling Bingtian were to fully activate the Divine Seal, he feared that the ferocious beasts from the most dangerous areas of the Star Dou Great Forest would come out and attack.

So at night, he found a relatively safe place and had a light sleep.

In the middle of the night, he also killed a century-old stone tree viper that had crossed the beast-repelling powder and was attempting to attack him.

It took Ling Bingtian two days to reach the place he wanted to go.

Looking at the icicle-like droppings beneath a giant tree, Ling Bingtian realized that he had arrived in the area inhabited by the Three-Eyed Ice Fox.

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