Chapter 49

The Seven Treasures Glazed Sect was located in the mountains near Heaven Dou City.

In the southwest corner of the conference hall, west of the sect's plaza, there was a bustling main hall. The Crown Prince of the Heaven Dou Empire, Xue Qinghe, lived here.

Sect Master Ning Fengzhi would usually teach Xue Qinghe in this main hall when he was teaching.

That night, Xue Qinghe, who was reading a book, seemed to sense something. He stood up and walked to the window.

Soon, a pure black bird swooped down from the sky and landed beside the window.

Xue Qinghe took a secret letter from the bird's feet and opened it to read.

At first, he was all smiles, but after reading it, he frowned slightly.

The letter said that after half a year of secret investigation, they had locked onto a target in a small town in the Soul-Hunting Forest in the southern part of the empire!

The target's name was Thanos. He was about eighteen years old and should be a Soul King.

These two points didn't mean much, but the most important thing was that the mask worn by this person called Thanos was exactly the same as the one given by Xue Qinghe!

Because of this, the investigators immediately locked onto Thanos.

But the problem was that this Thanos had suddenly disappeared!

No one knew where he went. Only a person called Black Tiger Ah Fu said that he was his assistant!

In this letter, it was asking if they should capture Black Tiger Ah Fu directly.

Capture or not, these two choices would have completely different results!

If they chose to capture him, they might be able to obtain some information, but they would become enemies with Thanos and alert the enemy!

This wasn't what Xue Qinghe wanted to see. The reason why he chose to secretly investigate Lin Feng was because he wanted to interact with him!

After all, he also wanted to befriend such a young genius. He might even become a key part of his future plans!

If they chose not to capture him, they could only wait for Thanos to appear.

After pondering for a moment, Xue Qinghe finally chose not to capture him. He wrote down the order and returned it to the black bird.

After the black bird flew into the sky, Xue Qinghe looked at the starry sky and sighed. "If you don't show up, I'll personally look for you when the days of learning in the Seven Treasures Glazed Sect are over!"

Lin Feng was such a genius, but the most important thing was that Xue Qinghe couldn't find any organization that had such a person. In other words, Lin Feng was very likely a free soul master!

To Xue Qinghe, this kind of person was like a firefly in the dark night, so eye-catching!

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Lin Feng didn't know that Xue Qinghe's decision had saved him some trouble.

Just like that, the days passed steadily and surely.

Half a year later, taking advantage of the holidays, Lin Feng came to the Setting Sun Forest once again!

This time, Lin Feng wasn't as cautious as before. His fourth soul skill was an extremely powerful AOE skill, and its power was comparable to a grenade's explosion.

Furthermore, after a year of practice, its power could still be adjusted. Once, Lin Feng tested it in a secluded place and poured all of his soul power into it.

Tsk tsk, that power was comparable to a small missile!

Unfortunately, pouring all of his soul power into it and causing it to explode couldn't be used in a real battle.

Because pouring in soul power required time, in that one or two seconds, the opponent would run away as soon as they sensed the danger. It couldn't hit at all, and could only be used for sneak attacks or target practice.

But even so, a direct soul skill was already very powerful, and Lin Feng wasn't afraid of being surrounded by ten thousand year soul beasts.

In this place where ten thousand year soul beasts roamed, Lin Feng walked steadily into the depths of the forest as if he was strolling in his own garden.

Lin Feng's goal was very clear, and he needed a skill that could be used to escape or pursue.

Therefore, Lin Feng's target was around thirty thousand year soul beasts that could fly or were fast.

Thirty thousand year soul beasts were even rarer than ten thousand year soul beasts, but Lin Feng's luck was pretty good. After three days, Lin Feng found a suitable soul beast for him!

It was a thirty-five thousand year Netherworld Civet. If he remembered correctly, this soul beast was Zhu Zhuqing's martial soul, and it was extremely fast.

This cat was extremely fierce. As soon as it saw Lin Feng, it turned into a shadow and attacked Lin Feng before Lin Feng could show any hostility.

Lin Feng slid down. He wasn't good at speed, and if this cat wanted to run, Lin Feng wouldn't be able to do anything about it. He didn't expect it to deliver itself to him.

At the same time that he used his third soul skill, Lin Feng's fourth black soul ring also became dark and shiny!

In the next second, a blazing fire lotus flew straight towards the Netherworld Civet. The latter's hair stood on end as it sensed danger and quickly retreated!

However, it was too late!

The fire lotus exploded, and a blazing energy surged in all directions, flipping the cat over!

The Netherworld Civet was close to thirty thousand years old. Its speed and attack were extremely powerful, but its defense was extremely low, and it suffered quite a bit of damage.

Lin Feng wanted to take advantage of its weakness to take its life!

As soon as the cat flew through the air, Lin Feng's second soul ring began to shine. Dark purple balls of energy flew out and quickly wrapped around the cat!

The cat struggled nonstop, but in the face of the machine-gun-like firepower, it couldn't escape!

Ever since he'd failed to defeat the Fireweaver Monkey, Lin Feng had made up his mind to upgrade this soul skill to a ten thousand year soul ring.

Finally, a month ago, Lin Feng had accumulated enough experience to upgrade it to a ten thousand year soul ring.

That's right, he'd spent over three million experience points to upgrade it!

He'd spent a million to upgrade it from a nine thousand year soul ring to a ten thousand year soul ring, and a little over two million to upgrade it from a three thousand year soul ring to a nine thousand year soul ring!

There was nothing he could do about it. Upgrading a thousand year soul ring required three hundred experience points. Although it was expensive, for the sake of increasing the soul skill's power, it was worth it.

Just now, the Netherworld Civet seemed like it wanted to run away.

If it weren't for the fact that Lin Feng's second soul ring had increased its speed, he wouldn't have been able to catch it!

Of course, the main point of upgrading his second soul ring to a ten thousand year soul ring wasn't its speed, but rather its ability to attack multiple targets.

As long as Lin Feng wanted to, he could stand in a crowd and instantly bind them from all angles!

No matter how fast his hand speed was before, it couldn't compare to his current ability.

Furthermore, his steal attribute had increased from 10% to 15%, and his paralysis effect had also increased!

If Lin Feng's previous attempt to steal other people's attributes to challenge Douluo was a delusion, then with this new soul skill, that delusion might actually become a reality!

After thinking so much, the bound Netherworld Civet finally stopped struggling and stopped moving.

Lin Feng's heart didn't waver in the slightest. He even used Shadow Bind on the cat a few more times.

Sure enough, the cat began to thrash about violently. A faint black light emerged from its body, as if it wanted to assimilate the net of energy.

"Duang!" Lin Feng's staff smashed into the cat's body.

"Little thing, you're still playing dead!" Another strike. This time, the cat was completely silent.

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