With the Blue Silver Emperor continuously supplying soul power, Lin Yang quickly repaired the lower half of his body.
He walked over to Dai Ziming's corpse, and the Bloodflesh Thorns easily devoured every last scrap of flesh and blood.
Without a supply of soul power, those thorns quickly turned to dust. By then, not a single trace would remain.
In addition, Lin Yang also found a storage bracelet on Dai Ziming.
The space inside this bracelet was even larger than that of his ring—roughly ten-plus cubic meters—filled with a huge pile of gold soul coins.
He rubbed his chin. As expected, robbery was still the fastest way to make money.
The thirty thousand gold soul coins from selling the soul bone had been spent almost completely, and now, right after that, several tens of thousands more had been delivered to his doorstep.
And that wasn't even counting those few gold soul coin cards.
He didn't know how much money was on them, but as a member of the Star Luo royal family, his family wealth was definitely not small.
A gift from the heavens!
Lin Yang muttered casually, then happily put the bracelet away.
Besides that, there were also various clothes, bottles and jars, and other personal items inside.
He would just find some random place to dump that junk.
Afterward, Lin Yang found a golden token inside the bracelet. Three large characters were carved on its face: "Dai Ziming." Judging from it, he was actually a prince of the Star Luo Empire.
Thinking about it, it was kind of funny—only after the life-and-death battle ended did Lin Yang learn his opponent's name.
He tossed the token back into the storage bracelet at random, then turned and walked over to the soul bone. He picked it up from the ground and pressed it back onto his right leg to refine it again.
Once he had cleaned up the battlefield, Lin Yang concealed his appearance and figure, then walked to the three carriages in the caravan that were covered in black cloth.
He grabbed the cloth and lifted it up.
Just as expected, there were several girls in the cages. At a glance, all of them were very beautiful.
But when his eyes fell on one of the girls' faces, Lin Yang froze for a moment, then the corners of his mouth slowly lifted.
"Well now, we really are fated to meet."
"Lin…."
Xiao Wu had just started to call his name, but as if she suddenly remembered something, she forcibly swallowed the rest of the word and instead said,
"I knew it was you. Hurry up and let me out."
Lin Yang raised a brow. They hadn't seen each other for a few months, and this stupid bunny had gotten smarter?
"Don't rush."
Lin Yang perfunctorily replied, then turned his gaze toward the other girls inside the cage.
Sensing his gaze, one after another, they shrank back in terror, their eyes full of fear.
Xiao Wu couldn't help saying, "Hey, you're not thinking of…."
"Shut up." Lin Yang barked in a low voice as a pale yellow soul ring rose at his feet.
He didn't want to kill innocents, but he had no choice. He couldn't afford to provoke the Star Luo royal family yet.
So the best solution was to make them completely forget this entire experience.
"First soul skill, Blindfold!"
The soul skill Blindfold still had a lot of developmental potential. At the very least, right now it was his only soul skill that could mobilize his spiritual power.
A bloody light flashed through Lin Yang's eyes.
In an instant, his spiritual power invaded one of the girls' spiritual world. He skimmed through her memories at a glance, and after confirming there were no issues, he began to weave new memories.
He didn't crudely erase this section of memory, but instead implanted a false segment.
In this new memory, they were rescued by a powerful expert.
As for who that person was exactly, they wouldn't know. They would only remember a hammer capable of destroying heaven and earth, and a dazzling red soul ring.
Within this memory, the terror when they were captured was real, and being rescued was also real. He merely replaced one short section of memory with a blurry one.
Everything was flawless.
Following the same pattern, aside from Xiao Wu, the other girls were all subjected to the same sort of brainwashing.
When they woke up again, they would find themselves lying in a carriage, driven by a middle-aged man in a large hood, his face completely hidden.
But they would immediately understand that this was the benefactor who had saved them, and they would hurriedly kneel and kowtow.
This benefactor didn't like to talk. After telling them to get up, he wouldn't say another word, only silently drive the carriage and send them to the city closest by.
As for whether they would go home afterward or find their own way in life, that would be up to them.
Needless to say, this was an illusion Lin Yang had created by distorting their vision with Blindfold.
After sending them away, the carriage was quiet for a long time. Xiao Wu, who had been holding her tongue this whole time, finally exploded with questions. Right now, she had way too many things she wanted to ask.
"Lin Yang, weren't you in Nuoding City? How did you end up in the Star Luo Empire?"
"How did you beat that perverted freak?"
"Isn't your martial soul a blade? Don't tell me you have twin martial souls?"
"You're already a two-ring Soul Master? That's way too fast."
"Where are we going now? Shouldn't we hurry up and run? That pervert seemed to have a pretty special identity."
Listening to the endless chatter at his ear, Lin Yang shot her a glance. Did this bunny just treat him like some long-lost friend?
Did she not realize she'd just escaped the tiger's jaws only to jump into a wolf's den?
Or was she that sure he wouldn't kill her?
"Quiet."
As soon as Lin Yang spoke, Xiao Wu immediately shut her mouth, only lying in the carriage with her chin propped in her hands, staring at him with bright, burning eyes.
Lin Yang averted his gaze and said calmly,
"I told you before—never appear in front of me again…."
"I didn't want to appear in front of you either." Xiao Wu puffed out her cheeks and pouted.
"I ran all the way to the Star Luo Empire. How was I supposed to know I'd still run into you?"
According to this little bunny, after her identity had almost been exposed, she had immediately left Nuoding City.
She had followed behind a caravan, muddle-headed, and ended up in the Star Luo Empire.
In the end, she settled in a small city and enrolled in a local primary Soul Master academy.
But while she was at the academy, a noble brat tried to take liberties with her. She merely "taught him a little lesson."
Xiao Wu casually made a little "universe at her fingertip" gesture, to show that she had gone easy on him. She had only made that scumbag lie in bed for "a year and a half" at most.
As a result, when Dai Ziming happened to pass through, that noble had tattled.
When Xiao Wu learned that someone wanted to capture her, her first reaction was that her identity as a soul beast had been exposed, and she wanted to slip away as quickly as possible.
But what arrived instead was a five-ring Soul King—and a perverted one at that.
She was captured on the spot and locked into a prison carriage until she ran into Lin Yang.
Thanks to Lin Yang, otherwise she still wouldn't know where she would have been taken.
Lin Yang snorted lightly. "Little rabbit, I saved you this time. Shouldn't you do something to show your gratitude?"
Xiao Wu instantly tensed up. "Y-You… what kind of 'gratitude' do you want?"
"I'm short one soul ring," Lin Yang blurted out.
"Hmph, don't even think about it!"
Xiao Wu quietly scooted backward, wrapping her arms around her legs and curling up in the corner, her eyes full of wariness.
"Grandma Su Xi won't let you do that."
The corners of Lin Yang's mouth lifted. She was trying to use her grandma to pressure him?
"Grandma isn't here. How would she know?"
Xiao Wu fell silent for a moment. Not long after, she still lifted her head and whispered,
"You won't."
"What?"
Xiao Wu raised her voice. "I said, you won't kill me."
Her voice echoed clearly and firmly in the cramped carriage. Her pink eyes stared straight at Lin Yang, without fear—only a peculiar kind of certainty.
Lin Yang held her gaze for a few seconds, then sneered softly.
"Don't jump to conclusions so fast. It's not like you know me that well."
"Grandma Su Xi told me a lot about you." Xiao Wu's voice softened, but her tone was very serious.
"She said you're cold on the outside but warm on the inside. You're actually very easy to get along with."
Lin Yang didn't respond. He merely flicked his wrist, the whip cracking crisply in the air before landing on the horse's rump.
"How is Grandma's injury now?"
Xiao Wu's voice carried obvious concern.
"She's already recovered," Lin Yang said blandly.
"That's good."
Xiao Wu let out a long sigh of relief.
After that, the two chatted intermittently. As the sun sank in the west, the simple carriage rattled along the road, rolling steadily toward the darkening sky.