In Douluo Continent, there is a proper way to die.

Chapter 113 A Kitten Like You...

Yinlan doesn't have the habit of sleeping at night. For the past six years, she has spent her free time cultivating the Xuan Tian Gong. Combined with her body being strengthened by immortal herbs and the Life Gold, her cultivation level has now reached level seventy-two.

She also practiced the Tang Sect's eye-training method, the Purple Demon Eye, every day. Although her spiritual power was strong, the little bit of purple energy she absorbed each day had a negligible effect on her spiritual power, even less than her naturally growing spiritual power. But after all, she didn't have a spiritual-type martial soul like Huo Yuhao, and she wasn't very good at using spiritual power. This was one of her major weaknesses. The Purple Demon Eye was at least a way to use spiritual power, which made up for her previous shortcomings of only being able to use spiritual power to smash people like Tianmeng.

Because she hadn't slept, Yin Lan sensed the group that launched the night raid from a great distance. When she cultivated, she always activated both the Blue Silver Domain and the first soul skill of the Blue Silver Emperor Martial Soul simultaneously, making the group as conspicuous as light bulbs in her perception.

Yes, her Blue Silver Emperor Martial Soul already has its first spirit ring, but that's all she has. Although she estimates that her physical attributes are strong enough to withstand both Martial Souls being fully equipped with spirit rings, this is just wishful thinking on her part. In an era without spirit spirits, the only person in the world who knows how to cultivate twin Martial Souls is Bibi Dong.

Yinlan has always been very bold, but this matter concerns her own life, so she has to be cautious. To avoid any accidents, it's best to follow the plan step by step, just like Tang San and Bibi Dong in the original history, and raise her cultivation to at least the Title Douluo level, or have a full set of soul bones before adding new soul rings to the Blue Silver Emperor.

Originally, Yinlan's plan was not to give Blue Silver Emperor any spirit rings. After reaching the above standards, she would then start adding spirit rings to Blue Silver Emperor. However, this spirit ring came from an accident.

A year ago, after Yinlan reached the bottleneck of level 70 and made preparations, she planned to connect with the life force of the Blue Silver Forest in the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Eye, where the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was abundant, with the help of "Blue Silver Domain - All Rivers Run into the Sea", in order to provide herself with the continuation of soul power recovery.

She needs to condense two soul cores simultaneously, and the formation of the soul cores must be completed in one go. This means that she needs to have a sufficiently large amount of soul power. Therefore, the combination of Xuan Tian Gong, Blue Silver Domain - All Rivers Run into the Sea, and the soul power endurance affected by environmental factors has become of paramount importance.

Even so, Yinlan wasn't entirely confident. Based on her calculations, she might still not be able to condense a soul core, and there was even a danger of affecting the lives of everyone in the Blue Silver Forest. Therefore, on the other hand, Yinlan prepared to use the divine gift level she had accumulated from the Goddess of Life and the God of Destruction after passing the divine test as a reserve of soul power.

However, an unexpected event occurred in the first phase of the operation: after Yinlan used the Blue Silver Domain - All Rivers Run into the life force of the Blue Silver Forest, the large amount of spiritual energy she absorbed stimulated her bloodline, causing her to further resonate with the entire Blue Silver Forest. Ultimately, with the help and guidance of the Blue Silver Forest, she condensed her first soul ring.

She understood the entire principle of spirit ring formation under "Creative Mode." The way this spirit ring was formed was actually quite similar to the principle of Tang Wulin's "Blood Qi Spirit Ring." She originally wanted to use this experience to research a method that would allow other spirit masters to condense their own spirit rings. However, ordinary spirit masters did not have bloodlines as strong as hers and Tang Wulin's, making it difficult for them to condense their own spirit rings through replication. It seemed that there was still a long way to go to achieve this goal. However, she could consider letting Qian Renxue try this method.

The lifespan of this first spirit ring, which is similar to the "blood and qi spirit ring," will automatically increase according to Yin Lan's body's maximum endurance. Since it is her natal spirit ring, there is no risk of prematurely attaching a spirit ring to her second spirit, exceeding her body's endurance and causing her to explode.

Yin Lan possesses the million-year-old Heavenly Dream external soul bone Ice Butterfly Wings, as well as a god-level synergistic torso bone, making her physical attributes ridiculously high. Now, her Blue Silver Emperor first soul ring has a lifespan of 480,000 years, and the Heavenly Dream first soul ring of the Clear Sky Hammer has also been unlocked to this extent. It's just that she didn't reveal the soul ring during the battle at night.

With so many people and eyes around in the troupe, she didn't want to expose herself so early, otherwise she would miss out on a lot of fun. Anyway, she didn't need her first soul skill to deal with those small fry. A group of fragile agility-type attackers whose attacks were only good at scratching and whose speed wasn't much, would be a matter of a few slaps for her.

Tang San was able to surpass Bai Chenxiang, who had the cultivation of a Soul Master, in a short-distance speed contest purely based on his physical abilities, with the combination of the Purple Demon Eye and Ghost Shadow Tracking (he even used all four of his Soul Skills but still couldn't catch up). Yin Lan could naturally easily deal with a group of Hakimi, whose speed was definitely not as fast as the four-ring Bai Chenxiang.

She had practiced the Ghostly Shadow Technique before, but to be honest, it wasn't very effective. It was good for dodging enemy attacks and was indeed unexpected, but it was not suitable for speed competition. Tang San had only managed to keep Bai Chenxiang from touching him. If it came to long-distance speed competition, Bai Chenxiang would have left him in the dust in no time.

When facing enemies, why should Yinlan need to dodge?

It was always others who avoided her sharp edge.

Although her natal soul ring has a lifespan of 480,000 years, it only provides one soul skill called "Spirit Breath," which allows the Blue Silver Grass she controls to gain an extremely exaggerated ability to gather spiritual energy from heaven and earth.

The gathered spiritual energy of heaven and earth can not only be used to generate new Blue Silver Grass and strengthen it for combat, achieving the combined effect of Silver Luo's first soul skill, Rooting, and second soul skill, Growth, but it can also be used to amplify a target, enhancing its all-around recovery capabilities, including vitality, stamina, soul power, and mental power. It can even be used to increase cultivation speed.

Combined with the Blue Silver Domain, it expands the range of Blue Silver Grass under its control. Then, through the ability of "Blue Silver Domain: All Rivers Run into the Sea," it connects all Blue Silver Grass and Silver Waves within the domain. With the combination of the two, this soul skill can even achieve a perfect infinite loop, with an exaggeratedly terrifying upper limit.

Yin Lan used this method to maximize her endurance and continuously replenish her soul power. Finally, she successfully condensed two soul cores, which were yin and yang complementary (one rotates clockwise and the other counterclockwise). In terms of difficulty, it was only slightly lower than when Huo Yuhao condensed his third soul core. For more than half a year, she kept gathering the spiritual energy of heaven and earth from the outside world and compressing it into her body. Fortunately, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth in the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Eye was abundant enough.

If Yinlan's Clear Sky Hammer martial soul is a numerical monster route, then her ideal life-oriented Blue Silver Emperor martial soul is a mechanical monster route.

Even Yinluo's rebuilt soul skills were formed at Yinlan's suggestion.

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The attack came suddenly and ended just as suddenly. Zhu Zhuqing finally breathed a sigh of relief, but when she saw the lower half of the still-bleeding "2.5 Cat" not far away, and the other attackers' corpses turned into crystal shards all around, a feeling of nausea surged up and made her want to vomit.

Most of the passengers in the troupe were ordinary people, and most of them had never seen such a "restricted" scene. In the end, this was just an ordinary international trip. No one expected that someone would actually dare to attack the Spirit Hall's troupe. The troupe's guards also began to comfort the frightened passengers.

Lin Xiaole helped Zhu Zhuqing sit down in an open space in front of a bonfire. After a while, he came over with a kettle that had been boiled and poured her a cup of slightly cooled hot water. After drinking a few cups, the warm feeling finally suppressed the discomfort and made her feel much more at ease.

"Xiaoqing, sit here and rest for a bit," Lin Xiaole patted her head, then got up and left. "I'm going to check on the others."

"...Mmm." Zhu Zhuqing responded softly, not daring to look at the other person, staring blankly at the flames in front of her.

The attackers came for her; they were lured there by her.

If it weren't for the presence of strong individuals within the Phantom Troupe, then Aunt Owl and the others...

Zhu Zhuqing's body trembled slightly, and her hands gripped the still-warm cup tightly.

"Is this the first time you've seen a dead person?" After an unknown amount of time, a clear and melodious voice came from not far away, bringing Zhu Zhuqing back to her senses. She looked over and saw that it was the powerful woman who had killed all the attackers earlier.

Behind the other girl were two other girls. The younger one, a silver-haired girl, was comforting another girl who looked pale and appeared to be the same age as Zhu Zhuqing.

Seeing that she didn't react and seemed stunned, the woman added, "Or perhaps, the corpse over there in fear?"

"...Yes." Zhu Zhuqing lowered her head, not daring to meet the other person's gaze. She could clearly see her own small figure reflected in the other person's eyes by the faint firelight.

"How shameful," Yinlan glanced back at Bai Chenxiang with an annoyed look. "You all heard it too. If I don't kill them, they won't let everyone here go so easily. Soul Masters are a bloody profession. If you dare to make a move, you have to be prepared to be killed in return."

Therefore, in such a dog-eat-dog world, the Spirit Hall, which has always been committed to maintaining peace on the continent and is willing to give ordinary weaklings a way out, is so rare and highly respected by the world.

As for why, in the original history, after Tang San overthrew the Spirit Hall, none of the people who had received favors from the Spirit Hall remembered the good deeds of the Spirit Hall, but instead began to thank the Sea God for his great kindness.

That's because the Spirit Hall is truly dead, and there really is a living, walking "Sea God" in the mortal realm. This isn't because people are ungrateful, but because under these circumstances, who would dare to speak ill of the Sea God? How can mortals rebel against a god?

If Tang San is given a few years, the new generation of children, like blank sheets of paper, will not know what they have lost. They will only remember that there was once an ambitious and evil force called the Spirit Hall in history, and the Sea God who saved people from suffering.

"...I'm sorry, Sister Lan." Bai Chenxiang said weakly. She was born after the Min clan fell into decline, and she had seen many people from other forces come to cause trouble, but they were usually just verbal conflicts and rarely fought. She had never seen bloodshed either.

"Don't apologize to me," Yinlan rolled her eyes at her. "If you don't prepare yourself soon, you won't even have the chance to apologize later. What's the use of being afraid? You'll only be apologizing to yourself."

"...I don't want to be afraid anymore," Zhu Zhuqing suddenly said.

"Hmm?" Yinlan turned back to look at her, looking at her with great interest.

Although this attack also originated from Zhu Zhuqing, the root of the problem was not with her, but with the bizarre rules of the Star Luo royal family. Even if Yin Lan were in the same position as Zhu Zhuqing, she would be helpless. Zhu Zhuqing's future was already determined by her birth. As the saying goes, you can't expect a "black cat" with only a level seven innate soul power to do anything.

However, Zhu Zhuqing's performance that night did indeed satisfy Yin Lan. She did not intend to run away, but instead fought to the death for the people in the camp. Whether it was because she felt there was no hope of escape or for some other reason, she did not abandon the people in the camp and run away directly.

"I don't want to learn how not to be afraid only after I've become a corpse," Zhu Zhuqing said in a muffled voice, hugging her knees, lowering her head, and burying her chin in her chest.

She wanted to live; she was young, and she didn't want to die like this... She craved power.

"Do you know how old I am this year?" Yinlan suddenly asked.

Upon hearing this, Bai Chenxiang and Zhu Zhuqing looked over at the same time. Bai Chenxiang only knew that Yin Lan had asked her to call her "sister," which meant she was probably older than her. However, it was difficult to guess her exact age from her appearance alone, since Soul Masters naturally develop faster than ordinary people.

"I'm twelve years old this year," Yinlan smiled, "the same age as you."

Bai Chenxiang's eyes widened suddenly, and Zhu Zhuqing's thoughts also froze for a moment.

At only twelve years old, he managed to kill so many attackers and then instantly reduce the Soul King to a "2.5 cat" with a single finger?!

If possible...

Zhu Zhuqing took a few deep breaths. She understood Yin Lan's implication. No, rather than an "implication," it was almost an "explicit statement." She looked down at the cup in her hand, stood up abruptly, mustered her courage, and walked up to Yin Lan to meet her gaze. She was already tall and slender, no shorter than Yin Lan, and her development was extremely exaggerated.

"Please..." Zhu Zhuqing bowed deeply to Yin Lan, her ample bosom trembling slightly, "Teach me how to become stronger! I want to be like you, a powerful Soul Master!"

"The attackers are here to kill you, aren't they? Netherworld Cat, I wouldn't misjudge you," Yinlan didn't answer her directly, but instead asked, "Are you one of the candidates for the Zhu family in this generation, nominated by the Star Luo Royal Family?"

"...Yes." Sweat streamed down Zhu Zhuqing's face. She didn't shy away. It was all her fault, and she should give the other party an explanation.

"You're quite honest," Yinlan chuckled. "I can give you the chance to decide your own destiny. If you want it, come and take it yourself. You should have known this rule long ago."

She gave Zhu Zhuqing a meaningful look, then turned and left with Yinluo and Bai Chenxiang.

But Zhu Zhuqing instantly understood Yin Lan's implication once again. The other party specifically mentioned "Star Luo Royal Family" and "Zhu Family," which meant that if she wanted to be trained by the other party, she had to make the right choice and demonstrate sufficient value.

The days of living in fear and anxiety are coming to an end.

"Miss, I have never thought of vying for the throne. I only want to live without having to live in such fear," Zhu Zhuqing's voice rang out behind Yin Lan. She made up her mind and bowed again to Yin Lan, who had her back to her. "Please give me the power to decide my own life! I am willing to follow in your footsteps for the rest of my life!"

A moment later, Yinlan's voice came from ahead.

"Aren't you coming?"

Zhu Zhuqing's face lit up with joy, and she quickly followed.

Yinlan's lips also curled up slightly.

Kittens like you were born to be eaten by me!

(End of this chapter)