Chapter Ninety: System Benefits — A Full Body of Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings Is Not a Dream (1)

If that is the case, does it not mean that if we kill you here, no one will ever know?

They had expected Lin An to cower after hearing their words, but instead he laughed at them in a tone edged with mockery.

It made them wonder whether fear had quite simply frightened his wits away.

“It seems these country bumpkins do not even understand what a Soul Venerable of the fifty-seventh rank means.”

“Break their limbs first and let them learn the price of offending us.”

Ga Li Ao’s face was full of impatience. Setting aside his background, his fifty-seventh-rank cultivation alone meant that these two were in no position to sneer at him.

Even if he were to kill them outright in town, no one would say a word.

“Lin An, Xiao Zi and I will buy you some time. Find your opening and leave at once. Escape if you can, and survive if you can...”

The Grandmaster clenched his teeth and sighed, then stepped directly in front of Lin An.

He did not want to watch Lin An die before his eyes. Besides, he had little left to hold on to now; if he died, then so be it.

“Don’t worry, Grandmaster. Since this trouble was caused by me, I’ll settle it myself.”

“These trash? To be honest, I have never taken them seriously.”

Lin An was touched in spite of himself. He had not expected that a chance acquaintance would drive the man to go this far for him.

If the opportunity ever arose in the future, he would help him resolve his troubles.

“Hahaha...”

“You heard him, did you not? You?”

One of the men at rank twenty-nine looked at him with utter disdain, as though he had just heard the funniest joke in the world.

“You talk far too much.”

As he spoke, a green lotus appeared instantly in Lin An’s hand, carrying a terrifying surge of energy. The man did not even react before a streak of emerald light split the sky and pierced straight through his body.

In his disbelieving stare, his body staggered back a few steps under its own weight, then vanished into ashes, not even a trace left behind.

“You actually killed Chen Feng. Do you know who he was? You have brought down a catastrophe on yourself...”

Chen Feng’s instant death left everyone stunned. None of them had imagined that Lin An still hid such a trump card. A rank-twenty-nine cultivator like Chen Feng had not even had time to react before dying by Lin An’s hand.

“Trash like that dies, then let him die. Besides, you were already thinking about how to kill me. Do you really think there is any greater matter than that?”

Lin An looked at the group with the same expression one reserves for fools.

In their minds, it was always only they who could kill others; others were not allowed to kill them.

[Received Soul Ring Years +50!]

[Received Soul Spirit Points +10!]

The sudden notification startled Lin An. He had not expected that in this world, not only would the people he killed provide him with soul spirit points, they would also drop soul ring years.

The matter of soul ring years piqued his curiosity, and he hurriedly asked the system what exactly it meant.

[Soul ring years obtained by the host may be stored within the Hall of Hell. When the host obtains a soul ring, these years may be added freely to any of the host’s soul rings. In addition, the host may bestow soul ring years upon the emissaries of the Hall of Hell who have been taken in within the world of Douluo.]

After hearing the system’s explanation, Lin An finally understood.

If that was the case, did it mean that when fusing soul rings, he did not necessarily have to follow the Grandmaster’s theory and search for soul beasts whose years and soul rings both suited him?

After all, even if it were only a ten-year soul beast, so long as it matched his martial soul, he could later increase the years of the soul ring himself—hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands... perhaps even a hundred thousand years?

Just imagining that, when he fought in this world and the soul rings he revealed were all over one hundred thousand years old, was enough to shock everyone.

What mattered most was that the benefits brought by higher-tier soul rings were truly terrifying.

A faint smile surfaced at the corner of Lin An’s mouth without his noticing.

“At a time like this, you still have the leisure to drift off? Today I’ll make you a complete cripple, then bring you back to the Spirit Hall to face its judgment!”

Ga Li Ao looked at Lin An before him. From the beginning to the end, the man had never taken them seriously.

Now, after killing one of them, he still continued to ignore them, and that he found intolerable.

Soul rings emerged one by one beneath his feet, and at the same time, his martial soul manifested behind him as well.

It was the Windshadow Wolf, a beast martial soul commonly seen across the land of Douluo. Not only was its speed unmatched, its claws were also terrifying weapons, capable of easily rending refined iron. If struck by it, one would be maimed at the very least, if not killed.

And that was to say nothing of the fact that Ga Li Ao was now a Soul King of the fifty-seventh rank.

“Master, what is going on with them? Can beasts still burst out of a body?”

From the very beginning, Xiao Zi had been filled with doubt. This place did not seem to be the Dou Qi Continent, but rather an unknown and mysterious world.

She had already thought Lin An mysterious enough, and had even considered that he might come from some top clan in the Central Plains, yet who could have imagined that her master was not even from the Dou Qi Continent at all, but from another world?

After wandering through the Forest of Soul Hunting for so long, and seeing that humans were also hunting the so-called soul beasts, she found the whole thing absurd, yet she had basically come to a conclusion.

“Speaking human words? You are not a low-tier soul beast...”

Ga Li Ao was instantly frightened by Xiao Zi’s words. Soul beasts that could speak human language were generally extremely powerful, at the very least stronger than a Soul Venerable like him.

“You’re the low-tier soul beast! Your whole family is low-tier soul beasts!”

If Lin An had not given the order, she would have swallowed him whole by now.

Back in the Magical Beast Mountains, no one would have dared address her in such a tone.

She did not know just how powerful a fifty-seventh-rank Soul King truly was, but in her eyes, she could still kill him with ease.

The few people behind Ga Li Ao were beginning to panic as well, retreating uncontrollably. A soul beast that could speak human language and possessed intelligence no different from a human was not ordinary in the slightest.

“Master Ga Li Ao, why don’t we... why don’t we leave first? This... brother may have killed Chen Feng, but Chen Feng provoked him first. If Chen Feng had not provoked him, this brother would not have killed him.”

“He should be considered to have gotten what he deserved, a consequence of his own making!”

One of them, being especially cowardly, hurriedly washed his hands of the matter.

The others quickly echoed him. Though Chen Feng was dead, given their identities, at worst they would suffer some punishment when they returned. It would not cost them their lives.

But now, if Lin An wanted to kill them, they would truly die.

“What kind of nonsense are you saying...”

Ga Li Ao was nearly driven to spitting blood by the students he had brought with him, yet on closer thought, there was some truth in what they said.