With a kick of his leg and a blink of his eyes, Lin Xuan's consciousness slowly subsided. When he awoke again, he found himself in a forest.
"The air here is so fresh!"
Lin Xuan lazily stretched. This simulated Star Dou Great Forest had a different feel compared to reality.
Except during riot periods, the Spirit Ascension Platform usually teleports randomly, and Lin Xuan was the only one nearby.
"Squeak!"
A piercing sound rang out, and a large white rat flew down from a tree in front of Lin Xuan. Its body was round and plump, and its ears, even larger than its body, thumped on either side.
"Flying Ear Rat! Looks like a hundred-year-old soul beast, not bad luck!"
Lin Xuan smiled slightly, manipulating the Green Leaf Sword Grass to entwine around it, forcing the Flying Ear Rat into a pile of branches. His giant sword flew out, piercing the rat directly.
A beam of yellow spiritual light entered its body, increasing the age of the Green Leaf Sword Grass by another five years.
This was already quite good; during his worst period, he hadn't encountered a single hundred-year-old soul beast for three whole days.
Lin Xuan waved his hand, retrieving the giant sword that the Green Leaf Sword Grass had coiled back into his grasp, and walked away.
After walking another ten miles or so, Lin Xuan killed five or six ten-year-old soul beasts, but didn't encounter a single hundred-year-old soul beast.
"Damn! I thought it was a lucky start, but it turns out it's a peak from the very beginning. Life is truly a rollercoaster!"
Lin Xuan sighed, finding no sense of superiority as the protagonist here.
"Ah! Little doggy, let's talk this over, shall we go our separate ways and go home?"
A somewhat weak voice came from dozens of meters ahead. Hearing this, Lin Xuan leaped onto a treetop.
In a clearing ahead, in the center of a two- or three-meter-high rock, a little girl of about eight or nine years old was squatting on it.
The little girl looked pitiful, clutching an ice staff taller than herself tightly in her arms, her bright eyes fixed on two soul beasts circling in the distance.
"I'm fierce! Don't come any closer, or I'll knock you all out!"the little girl said fiercely, but her weak and powerless tone sounded more like a pout.
"It's her! But why is she here alone?"
Lin Xuan recognized the little girl at a glance. The little girl was Xu Xiaoyan from the brother and sister pair from before; her older brother, Xu Xiaoyu, seemed to be missing.
"Roar!"
The two soul beasts roared in unison, but hesitated to approach, instead watching each other warily.
The Ice Flame Demon Wolf and the Flame Maple Wolf were mortal enemies. The Spirit Ascension Platform not only imitated the environment of the Star Dou Great Forest but also initially transplanted its ecosystem.
After a standoff, the smaller Ice Flame Demon Wolf retreated and disappeared into the forest behind it.
A hint of smugness flashed in the Flame Maple Wolf's eyes as it arrogantly walked towards Xu Xiaoyan on the rock.
"Don't come any closer! It's really dangerous,"
Xu Xiaoyan said to the approaching Flame Maple Wolf, her tone this time carrying a hint of sincerity.
The Flame Maple Wolf couldn't understand what Xu Xiaoyan was saying. With two leaps, it reached the boulder, and then… the ground sank.
"Bang!"
With a thud, it fell into a pit three or four meters deep.
Immediately afterward, a flaming fruit was thrown down from above, and with a loud bang, the Flame Maple Wolf was blasted to the ground, lying motionless.
"Hehe, I told you not to come over. You wouldn't listen."
The fear on Xu Xiaoyan's face faded, replaced by a sly smile. She climbed down from the rock, approached the unconscious Flame Maple Wolf, and raised her ice staff.
A yellow spirit ring rose, and an ice spell condensed above the staff, slowly dissipating after a long while.
"Xu Xiaoyan! You're so useless."
A hint of annoyance appeared on Xu Xiaoyan's cute face.
She tossed the ice staff aside and used all her strength to push the Flame Maple Wolf into the deep pit in front of her.
Then Xu Xiaoyan pulled out a large pile of things from behind the boulder—pink liquid, black powder, and all sorts of strange objects—and threw them into the pit.
"Hallucinogenic flower dew, soporific pollen…"
Lin Xuan pulled the sword from the Ice Flame Demon Wolf's body, looking at Xu Xiaoyan with a strange expression.
These weren't exactly respectable things, and Xu Xiaoyan's practiced movements showed she'd done this many times.
"Alright! It shouldn't wake up for at least a day now."
Xu Xiaoyan clapped her hands in satisfaction, preparing to climb back onto the rock to squat.
But then, a white sword aura flew from the sky into the pit, followed by a yellow spiritual energy that entered Lin Xuan's body not far away.
"Hmm?"
Xu Xiaoyan stopped, watching Lin Xuan's departing figure, her eyes suddenly lighting up, and she hurriedly followed.
"Hey! Wait for me!"
Xu Xiaoyan caught up with him on her short legs, blocking Lin Xuan's path.
"Big brother! Can I stay with you for a day? Please, just one day!"
Xu Xiaoyan clasped her hands together, her cute big eyes blinking brightly.
"No time!"
Lin Xuan glanced at Xu Xiaoyan and said indifferently.
He was here to enhance his soul spirit, not to be a babysitter, and besides, no one would actually die here.
Lin Xuan bypassed Xu Xiaoyan and disappeared into the forest ahead.
"Okay..."
Xu Xiaoyan said disappointedly, watching Lin Xuan disappear. Her mentor had run away; she'd have to figure out how to survive today.
"Come on! Xu Xiaoyan, survival is victory!"
Xu Xiaoyan clenched her little fist to cheer herself on. Originally, she was just a nobody in the Xu family, living a carefree life of eating and sleeping.
Until recently, during the family's test, the elders discovered her talent, ending her lazy lifestyle.
Before that, the Xu family hadn't raised Xu Xiaoyan as a Soul Master because she was timid and couldn't bring herself to kill Soul Beasts.
To change this, the Xu family threw her in here alone, her task being to survive for one day.
Failure would result in the deduction of her allowance for the year.
Several hours later, Lin Xuan sat on the ground, questioning his life.
How could his luck be so bad?
Since entering, he had killed fifteen ten-year Soul Beasts and three hundred-year Soul Beasts. Except for the first hundred-year Soul Beast, the other two were killed when he encountered Xu Xiaoyan.
"Aaaaaah~ Help!"
Just as Lin Xuan was having a headache, a familiar voice faintly drifted over, accompanied by the roars of beasts.
"A hundred-year-old soul beast!!!"
Lin Xuan's eyes lit up, as if he had seen gold, and he jumped up and ran towards it.
On a tree over a hundred meters tall, Xu Xiaoyan was wrapped in her arms around the trunk, stuck in the middle of the tree.
Below, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight soul beasts were circling around Xu Xiaoyan.
Xu Xiaoyan's arms went limp, and her body slid down a bit from the tree, but upon hearing the roars of the soul beasts below, she scrambled back up like a caterpillar.
"Someone save me! Waaaaah..."
Xu Xiaoyan cried out in despair.
In the few hours since she and Lin Xuan had separated, she had been relentlessly chased by soul beasts, as if she had disturbed a soul beast's den.
As a support-type Soul Master, how could she possibly defeat so many hundred-year-old Soul Beasts? She even saw a few thousand-year-old Soul Beasts. If she hadn't been quick-witted and ran away fast, her allowance would have been gone long ago.
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