Chapter 31: The Unlucky Rabbit
With the Blue Silver Emperor continuously providing Soul Power, Lin Yang quickly repaired his lower body.
Walking up to Dai Ziming's corpse, the Flesh Thorns easily devoured the flesh until nothing remained.
Without the support of Soul Power, these thorns would soon turn into fly ash; when that time came, not a single trace would be left behind.
In addition, Lin Yang found a storage bracelet on Dai Ziming's person.
The space inside this bracelet was even larger than his ring's, roughly ten cubic meters, and it contained a large pile of gold coins.
Rubbing his chin, he thought that indeed, robbery was the fastest way to make money.
The thirty thousand gold coins from selling the Soul Bone earlier had already been mostly spent, yet a turn of events had sent him tens of thousands more.
And this didn't even include several gold coin cards.
Though he didn't know how much was in them, as a member of the Star Luo Imperial Family, his wealth was likely substantial.
Thank you for the gift from heaven!
Lin Yang muttered a casual word of thanks and happily put the bracelet away.
Besides that, there were various clothes, jars, and other personal items inside.
He would just find a random place to dispose of this junk later.
Then, Lin Yang found a gold medallion inside the bracelet engraved with the three characters 'Dai Ziming'; based on his status, he was actually a Prince of the Star Luo Empire.
It was actually quite funny; only after their fight to the death ended did Lin Yang learn his enemy's name.
Tossing the medallion back into the storage bracelet, Lin Yang turned to the Soul Bone, picked it up from the ground, pressed it against his right leg, and immediately began refining it.
Once the battlefield was cleaned up, Lin Yang concealed his appearance and approached the three merchant caravan carriages covered in black cloth.
He yanked the black cloth away.
As expected, there were several girls inside the cages, all of whom were very beautiful at a glance.
But when he saw the face of one of the girls, Lin Yang was momentarily stunned, and the corners of his mouth slowly curled up.
"Oh my, we really are fated."
"Lin..."
Xiao Wu was just about to shout Lin Yang's name, but she seemed to remember something and forced herself to swallow the rest of the sentence, saying instead,
"I know it's you, let me out quickly."
Lin Yang raised an eyebrow. Had this stupid rabbit become smarter after not seeing her for a few months?
"Don't be in such a hurry!"
Lin Yang gave a casual reply and then turned his gaze toward the other girls in the cages.
Sensing Lin Yang's gaze, they all shrank back desperately with terrified eyes.
Xiao Wu couldn't help but say, "Hey, you aren't thinking of..."
"Shut up," Lin Yang barked quietly, and a bright yellow Soul Ring rose beneath his feet.
He didn't want to kill the innocent, but he had no choice; he couldn't afford to provoke the Star Luo Imperial Family for the time time being.
So the best way was to make them completely forget this experience.
"First Soul Skill, Blindfold!"
The Blindfold soul skill still had great development potential; at the very least, it was currently his only soul skill capable of mobilizing mental force.
A faint blood-red light flashed in Lin Yang's eyes.
His mental force instantly invaded the mental World of one of the girls. After skimming through her memories and finding no issues, he began to weave a new memory.
He didn't crudely delete the memory, but instead implanted a false one.
In this memory, they were rescued by a powerful expert.
As for who exactly it was, they weren't sure; they only remembered a hammer capable of destroying heaven and earth and a dazzling red Soul Ring.
In this memory, the panic of being captured was real, and being rescued was also real; he just replaced a small segment of the memory with a blurred one.
Everything was seamless!
Following the same pattern, all the other girls except for Xiao Wu were subjected to this brainwashing.
When they woke up again, they found themselves sleeping inside the carriage, and the person driving was a middle-aged man wearing a large hood whose face they couldn't see clearly.
But they immediately understood that this was the benefactor who had saved them, and they hurriedly knelt to kowtow.
However, this benefactor didn't like to talk; after telling them to get up, he didn't say a word and just silently drove the carriage to the nearest city.
As for whether they planned to go home or find a livelihood for themselves afterward, that would be up to them.
Undoubtedly, this was an illusion created by Lin Yang using Blindfold to distort the girls' vision.
After sending them away, Xiao Wu, who had been holding back in the carriage, finally opened the floodgates; she had far too many questions to ask right now.
"Lin Yang, weren't you in Nuoding City? How did you end up in the Star Luo Empire?"
"How did you defeat that pervert?"
"Isn't your Martial Soul a blade? Are you actually a user of twin spirits?"
"You're already a second ring Soul Master? That's way too fast."
"Where are we going? How about we run away quickly? That pervert's status seemed very unusual."
Listening to the constant muttering in his ear, Lin Yang rolled his eyes. Was this rabbit really this familiar with him?
Didn't she know she had just escaped the tiger's den only to enter a wolf's lair?
Or was she certain he wouldn't kill her?
"Quiet!"
As soon as Lin Yang spoke, Xiao Wu instantly shut up, but she just lay in the carriage, propping her head up with her hands, watching him with burning eyes.
Lin Yang looked away and said calmly,
"I told you before never to appear in front of me again..."
"I didn't want to appear either," Xiao Wu pouted with puffed-out cheeks.
"I ran all the way to the Star Luo Empire, who knew I'd run into you again."
According to what the Little Rabbit said, after her identity was exposed, she had left Nuoding City without stopping.
She followed behind a caravan and somehow ended up in the Star Luo Empire.
Eventually, she settled in a small city and enrolled in the local Junior Spirit Master Academy.
However, while at the academy, a noble child harassed her, so she gave that bastard a lesson.
Xiao Wu casually gestured with her fingers to show she had been very gentle, only making that bastard stay in bed for half a year or so.
As it happened, that noble reported her when Dai Ziming was passing through.
When Xiao Wu learned someone wanted to catch her, her first reaction was that her identity had been exposed, and she wanted to slip away.
But a five-ring Soul King came, and he was a pervert too.
She was caught on the spot and then locked in a prisoner carriage until she met Lin Yang.
It was also thanks to Lin Yang; otherwise, she wouldn't have known where she was being taken.
Lin Yang gave a light snort. "Little Rabbit, I saved you this time, shouldn't you show some gratitude?"
Hearing this, Xiao Wu immediately grew nervous. "What... what kind of gratitude do you want?"
"I'm just short of a Soul Ring," Lin Yang blurted out.
"Hmph, don't even think about it!"
Xiao Wu silently backed away, wrapping her arms around her legs and shrinking into a corner, her eyes showing a wary look.
"Grandma Su Xi wouldn't let you do that."
Lin Yang's lips curled up. She was actually using Grandma to pressure him?
"Grandma isn't here, how would she know?"
Xiao Wu fell silent for a moment, but after a while, she still raised her head and said softly,
"You won't."
"What?"
Xiao Wu raised her voice: "I said, you won't kill me."
Her voice was clear and certain in the narrow carriage, her pink eyes staring at Lin Yang without fear, but with a strange kind of certainty.
Lin Yang locked eyes with her for a few seconds, then let out a sneer.
"Don't jump to conclusions so quickly; you talk as if you know me so well."
"Grandma Su Xi told me a lot about you," Xiao Wu's voice softened, but her tone was serious.
"She said you're cold on the outside but warm on the inside, and that you're a very easy person to get along with."
Lin Yang didn't speak, but with a flick of his wrist, the horse whip cracked in the air and landed on the horse's rump.
"How is Grandma's injury now?"
Xiao Wu's voice carried concern.
"She's already recovered," Lin Yang said flatly.
"That's good!"
Xiao Wu breathed a sigh of relief.
Afterward, the two of them chatted idly as the sun set, and the simple carriage swayed along, heading into the darkening twilight.