Douluo Continent: I am the true master

Chapter 7 Hunting Moment (Newbie asking for votes!!! TvT)

Ye Wen bowed gratefully to the old guard, and then led Ah Yin into the Soul Hunter Forest.

Watching the two little ones leave, the old guard sighed with a hint of sadness in his eyes, while the young guard next to him asked the old guard a question curiously.

"Why are you being so kind today, Lao Li? I've never seen you so helpful before."

"We commoner soul masters are suffering so much. I really can't bear to see people suffer like this. I'll help these two helpless children as much as I can."

Upon hearing this explanation, the young guard said nothing, merely shrugged listlessly, and continued standing there unconcerned. The two men then began to chat idly.

After walking for about an hour in the Soul Hunter Forest without encountering a single soul beast, Ye Wen and his companion couldn't help but relax and complain.

"This Soul Hunting Forest is in a slump. We've been walking for so long and haven't encountered a single soul beast."

"Yeah, now I'm starting to wonder if this is just an ordinary forest?"

Sha sha sha~

Suddenly, a sound came from a patch of blue-silver grass not far away, and the two who had been relaxed suddenly tensed up. They quickly took out their crossbows from their storage space and watched warily in the direction from which the sound came.

But after a while, no sound came from the bushes, making Ye Wen wonder if it was just a gust of wind that made the sound.

"Whether you have dates or not, give it a try."

For the sake of safety, and adhering to the principle of "better to kill the innocent than let the guilty go free," Ye Wen pulled the trigger directly.

"Chirp chirp chirp—" A painful scream came.

Ye Wen secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, he hadn't guessed wrong; there really was something hidden in the bushes.

However, Ye Wen did not relax. He quickly reloaded his crossbow and nocked an arrow.

Upon closer inspection, a pale figure vaguely emerged from the grass, struggling frantically.

"A needle-haired rabbit with less than a hundred years of cultivation? It's good that we found it. If it had been ambushed by its needle-haired fur, I would probably have been seriously injured."

After confirming their target, Ye Wen immediately pulled Ah Yin away. Ye Wen had no interest in the soul rings of such a low-age, unsuitable soul beast, even after its death. Besides, apart from the rabbit meat, the rabbit's fur, judging from its species name, was hard and prickly, so Ye Wen didn't intend to take it.

Moreover, to avoid attracting other soul beasts with the squirrel's screams, Ye Wen did not intend to stay here for long.

After walking for a while, they finally arrived at the stream the old guard had mentioned. Ye Wen then led Ah Yin to hide in a tree some distance away, using the dense foliage to conceal their figures. He also took out the deodorizing powder he had prepared beforehand and sprinkled it on the two of them.

Because it was getting dark, and the most dangerous time in the forest is precisely when night falls.

As the sun began to set and dusk approached, Ye Wen and his companion peacefully enjoyed the tranquility of the day.

"Ah Yin, you said that rabbit at noon didn't bother us, but I shot it dead with an arrow. Don't you feel a little uncomfortable about that?"

Ah Yin looked at Ye Wen with a strange expression and said, "Why do you have such a strange idea?"

"I killed one of your own kind right in front of you, don't you have any thoughts about that?" Ye Wen explained.

"No, that's not true. Although I was a 10-year-old Blue Silver Emperor before I took human form, I also grew up step by step from Blue Silver Grass. As the lowest level of existence in this world, our race has suffered from the world's harm since we sprouted. Even though we did nothing wrong."

So when I became the eternal Blue Silver King, I understood the essence of this world: the survival of the fittest.

Instead of hoping for the pity of the strong, it's better to become strong yourself.

So brother, you don't need to feel guilty at all. And although people see me as a soul beast, I don't see myself that way. Because the definition of a soul beast was never set by our Blue Silver Grass clan, but by yours. Although I will have a soul ring after I die, just like other soul beasts, we don't consider ourselves as one of them.

"And frankly speaking, even if spirit beasts become extinct, do you think our Blue Silver Grass clan will become extinct, brother? Unless the world is destroyed, our Blue Silver Grass clan will definitely remain with this land."

Hearing Ah Yin's explanation, Ye Wen smiled with relief. After all, shooting that needle-haired rabbit was the first time he had killed a living creature since he came into this world, and Ye Wen subconsciously thought that the other party was Ah Yin's kin.

But upon closer examination, this is a flawed logic; how could grass and rabbits be related?

However, it was the guilt of taking a life for the first time and the remorse towards Ah Yin that made Ye Wen realize that something was wrong with him. But after listening to Ah Yin's explanation, Ye Wen also realized that he had fallen into a mental trap.

After all, Ah Yin is Ah Yin, not the mischievous rabbit from the original story. At the beginning, she kept asking Tang San not to hunt soul beasts, but after becoming a god, she turned a blind eye to Tang San's persecution of the soul beast race. She's really a classic green tea b*tch.

"Hey! Bro, look, isn't that the soul beast you wanted?"

Upon hearing Ah Yin's voice, Ye Wen turned his gaze towards her.

A furry, sheep-like spirit beast appeared fifty meters away from the two of them.

Ye Wen narrowed his eyes, carefully examining the beast before him. The soul beast before him was undoubtedly the Qingnang Beast he was looking for. The method for identifying such soul beasts within a thousand years was by observing the sharp horns on their heads. Each horn would grow a segment every 100 years, and the Qingnang Beast before him had exactly four segments on its horn.

Although Ye Wen couldn't immediately ascertain the exact age of the Qingnang Beast due to the great distance, he couldn't miss the opportunity.

Let the hunt begin!!!

Ye Wen raised his hand and summoned the crossbow. With the crossbow's sights and his training over the past few days, Ye Wen could hit the target every time he shot at a mere fifty meters. He shot the arrow without hesitation.

The Qingnang Beast stiffened and collapsed to the ground.

It turned out that Ye Wen's arrow pierced through the Qingnang Beast's eyes in an instant, piercing through both of its eyeballs and killing it instantly. It didn't even have time to scream before it died of brain death.

After a while, a yellow halo solidified in mid-air, and a hundred-year soul ring suddenly formed.

However, the two did not rush to collect their spoils. Instead, they waited and observed silently in the tree. After all, their sneak attack on Lao Liu was not their exclusive practice. Some solitary carnivorous soul beasts liked to ambush weak and lone soul beasts in such places.

(End of this chapter)