Ling Cage: I am a spiritual master, devouring source matter to become a god.

How dare a commoner attack a superior?

Upon seeing this, the other hunters immediately pointed their guns at Jing Yuan.

At this moment, a hunter walked over, pointed his gun at Jing Yuan, and said, "The common people are attacking the upper class, I can execute you on the spot!"

"What mortal?" Jing Yuan glanced at the other party, took out his identity card, and said, "I am a commoner. It's just a commoner fighting another commoner. It's just a normal dispute."

The residents' identity tags have their names on them.

The other person asked in confusion, "Jing Yuan? Do we have someone like that in our team?"

"Jing Yuan?" A pretty red-haired girl ran over, looking at Jing Yuan with a puzzled expression, almost not recognizing him. "Jing Yuan, it really is you! Why are you wearing civilian clothes?"

Jing Yuan didn't even notice Erica in the group. He and Erica were classmates before. Because of Erica's superb skills in piloting gravity vehicles, she was recruited into the Wilderness Hunters at the age of 16.

Now at 18, he's already a veteran who's been with the team for two years.

“Erica!” Jing Yuan recognized Erica as well. Although she looked petite and cute, she was quite voluptuous in all the right places.

"Why are you wearing the clothes of a commoner?" Erica asked.

Jingyuan walked up to Erica and whispered, "I asked Captain Mark to take me down here to see what it's like, but I'm not a team member, so it's not convenient for me, you understand?"

Jingyuan spoke vaguely, but the naive Erica did not doubt him.

But Donnie, who had just been kicked away, wasn't so easy to talk to. He angrily ran over, drew his pistol, and pointed it at Jing Yuan.

Jingyuan is dressed in the clothes of a commoner; even if he gets beaten to death now, he has no one to blame but himself.

Seeing this, Jingyuan had a sudden thought and slightly deflected the pistol.

boom!

The bullet hit the ground.

Jingyuan rushed over and punched Donnie in the stomach.

The intense pain made Donnie unable to straighten up, and Jingyuan then pressed Donnie to the ground.

"I've already told you I'm a citizen of the upper class, are you still going to kill me?"

Upon seeing this, several hunters rushed over.

"Garlic Bird, Garlic Bird, it's all a misunderstanding!"

Donnie roared from the ground, "He's a commoner posing as a superior being! He deserves to die!"

Jingyuan slapped Donnie on the head and laughed, "Whether I'm a commoner pretending to be a superior person, or a superior person pretending to be a commoner, is that up to you?"

The slap was weak, but Donnie felt deeply humiliated.

Erica quickly said from the side, "Let it go! Jingyuan, since it's a misunderstanding, let's not make things unpleasant."

Jing Yuan didn't want to cause trouble, but for Erica's sake, he said, "I don't mind. Let's see what this guy's attitude is. What if he tries to kill me after I let him go?"

At this moment, the blonde girl beside him also advised, "Donnie, let it go..."

"impossible!"

Before the blonde girl could finish speaking, Donnie yelled at her.

Jingyuan slapped Donnie on the head again and yelled, "Impossible? What are you trying to do? He was just trying to give you some advice, why are you yelling at him?"

"Your name is Jing Yuan, right?" The blonde girl looked at Jing Yuan and said cautiously, "Donnie hit you earlier, it was his fault! I apologize to you on his behalf!"

"He didn't hit me, he wanted to kill me!" Jing Yuan looked at the blonde girl. Although she looked two or three years older than him, she had a very good appearance, temperament, and figure.

Jing Yuan asked, "Who are you?"

“My name is Penny, and I am… a member of the Wilderness Hunters.”

Donnie was pinned to the ground, unable to move, and had to rely on a woman to plead for him; he felt extremely humiliated.

Jingyuan noticed this as well, and said to Penny, "You don't need to apologize for him." Then he looked down at Donnie and asked, "I'll give you two choices. First, you go back to the Lighthouse and report me to the Law Institute, saying that I'm a Dustman pretending to be an Upper Citizen. As for how the Law Institute handles it, that's their business. Second, you and I have a duel, just a fistfight. Win or lose, this matter will be over. Which one do you choose?"

"Duel! I want to duel you!"

Chapter 9 The Devouring Beasts Attack

Donnie has lost his mind. He can't wait to report it at the lighthouse; he has to settle things here.

Jingyuan released him and took a few steps back.

Donnie flipped himself up and, before he could even steady himself, threw a punch at Jing Yuan.

Jing Yuan smiled dismissively, stepped back, and dodged the punch.

After his body was enhanced, Jing Yuan was so fast that only Mark could keep up with him throughout the entire Lighthouse; everyone else paled in comparison.

Donnie regained his footing and charged at Jingyuan again.

Jingyuan, however, remained calm and yielded.

Jingyuan's anger from that kick and punch had subsided, so he didn't intend to retaliate against Donnie.

But things had already come to this point, and the more Jing Yuan didn't intervene, the more Donnie felt he was being humiliated.

"This kid's got pretty good skills!"

The hunters nearby began to discuss among themselves.

One of them asked Erica, "What's his name? What's his background?"

Erica replied, "His name is Jingyuan, and he is a student of the 'Teaching Together with Children'!"

"Still a trainee? How did he get down?"

"I heard that Captain Mark brought him down for the trial," Erica blurted out her guess.

"Jingyuan! It's him!"

Suddenly one of the team members said, "That's him. He took down more than a dozen priests and city guards yesterday."

"I heard about it too, so it was him!"

"Haha, Donnie's done for now, he definitely can't win."

Originally, everyone came just to watch the fun, but now they've all become laughing at Downey.

"I think we should just let it go!" Jing Yuan said, backing down as he did so. "You've seen it yourself, you're no match for me!"

"Ah!" Donnie felt increasingly humiliated, and finally he pulled out a dagger.

Caught off guard, Jingyuan's arm was slashed by Donnie with a dagger.

His constant concessions only emboldened the other party. Enraged, Jing Yuan punched Donnie in the face, knocking him unconscious.

The fact that he knocked Downey down with a single punch surprised many of the Hunters team members.

"Donnie!" Penny rushed over and breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that Donnie had only fainted.

Penny called over another member of the hunter team to help Donnie into the car to rest.

After a while, Penny walked toward Jingyuan with the medicine and bandages.

"Feel sorry……"

"You didn't do it, so there's no need to apologize!"

"Give me your hand! I'll bandage it for you."

Jingyuan looked at his arm. Although it was just a superficial wound, it would be safer to bandage it.

"Thank you!" Jingyuan reached out to Penny, who skillfully bandaged his wound.

Jingyuan looked at Penny; her appearance wasn't stunning, but she was very pleasing to the eye.

In addition, her mature age gives her a charming, womanly appeal.

"Could she have already been to the Hall of Dawn?"

Jingyuan looked at Penny, his mind wandering to all sorts of random thoughts.

"Speaking of which, what is her relationship with Donnie?"

"Penny? Downey?"

Jingyuan seemed to remember something.

In the original work, the two seem to be a couple.

Of course, the lighthouse doesn't allow people to talk about feelings, so they only talk about them in secret.

Human emotions trigger the production of a strong odor from the life essence, thus attracting the Devouring Beasts.

Therefore, at the very beginning of the original work, these two people died because the scent emitted by the Life Source Clan attracted the Devouring Beast.

This also resulted in heavy losses for the hunter team.

“Donnie didn’t do it on purpose. Anyone would have stopped you if they saw you wearing commoner clothes.” Penny still felt a little dissatisfied, after all, in her heart, Donnie was a good man.

Jing Yuan was silent for a moment, then asked, "Do you also believe that commoners are born with a lowly fate and can be beaten and scolded at will?"

This question startled Penny.

"He wanted to remind me, but all he had to do was say something. Instead, he chose to attack. I only glanced at him, and he slapped me across the face. When I fought back, he tried to kill me. Just because I was wearing the clothes of a commoner? What if I really were a commoner? Would I deserve to die?"