CHAPTER 54: CHAPTER 54: SPATIAL DISLOCATION

Young Beastmaster?!

Following the sound, the three people were delighted. Guan Yang and his team previously had two skeletons in their possession, and with this one, they now had ten.

Looking ahead again, they saw a young girl staring blankly at them. She looked rather ordinary but had an ethereal aura...

However, she appeared somewhat melancholic.

"Let me handle this. I’m the gentlest among us, you guys can be too heavy-handed." Cai Yuanji said as he was about to take action, but Lin Chen stopped him.

"Brother Lin, what’s the matter?"

"She... doesn’t have a Spirit Beast," Lin Chen said.

Cai Yuanji shook his head back and forth, actually noticing that the other party didn’t have a Spirit Beast.

But how could this be possible?

The 101 individuals from back then were all young Beastmasters.

"My brother and Brother Su Yu are missing, can you help me find them?"

The girl repeated her words. Unlike the other young Beastmasters, she didn’t shout the words for the Demon Beasts to leave Zhongnan City.

Ning Zimo was a cold person, but Cai Yuanji was different. He gently asked, "Where is your brother, can you take us to him?"

"My brother and Brother Su Yu are missing, can you help me find them?"

"I know, I’m asking you..."

Cai Yuanji was halfway through before he suddenly realized what Lin Chen had said earlier, that a Resentful Spirit often repeats a single phrase. He asked Lin Chen, "Am I being an idiot?"

For once, Lin Chen didn’t ridicule him but rather looked in the direction of the girl and said:

"Qin Shaoshao..."

The sister of Qin Hao.

Although there was no record of Qin Shaoshao’s image in the files, upon understanding their relationship, it became easy to guess.

Qin Shaoshao was not aggressive towards them, so Lin Chen stood still and explained it to them.

Upon hearing this, Cai Yuanji, though sympathetic, still asked, "Should we kill it?"

Lin Chen and Ning Zimo were evidently indifferent people and were ready to take action, but as Lin Chen approached her, the girl again said:

"My brother and Brother Su Yu are missing, can you help me find them?"

At that moment, Lin Chen had to admit he felt a bit hesitant, so he said to Ning Zimo, "You do it."

Ning Zimo turned his head to the other side.

Lin Chen then said to Cai Yuanji, "You..."

"When there’s a good deed, you never look for me?" Cai Yuanji said, angrily.

Lin Chen thought for a moment and said to Qin Shaoshao, "Can you come with me? I’ll take you to find your brother."

Both of them were surprised and looked at Lin Chen incredulously, asking, "Are you really going to take her along?"

"If she can really follow us, I’ll first help her fulfill her wish by finding Qin Hao and Su Yu, and there will be time to kill her later," Lin Chen said. "Besides, searching for Qin Hao and Su Yu was something we needed to do anyway."

"Alright."

The two nodded.

Then, the three of them moved forward and found to their surprise that Qin Shaoshao was indeed following behind them.

"By the way, what Spirit Beast does she have?" Cai Yuanji curiously asked Lin Chen.

"It wasn’t recorded in detail..." Lin Chen replied. "The book only mentioned that Qin Shaoshao had just learned Beast Taming and then went to the battlefield with her brother."

They proceeded leisurely, not in a hurry.

Because they sensed that this relic might not contain any ancient treasures, but something here was akin to a cheat for Beastmasters.

That would be Spiritual Qi.

The Spiritual Qi here was extraordinarily abundant, to the extent of being somewhat absurd.

For humans, this was an excellent training ground, and for Spirit Beasts, the effects were not shabby either.

Lin Chen once speculated that this might be a case of space displacement.

The time of the Youth Corps’ great battle coincided with the Late Taichu, a period when the Spiritual Qi of Blue Star was rapidly declining but not yet depleted.

Later, after the Youth Corps sacrificed themselves, their Beast Taming Space began to layer, forming the present-day relic site.

However, they might have merged the space from that time, meaning there was still Spiritual Qi present here.

Although comparing it to the peak Era of Spiritual Energy would be unfathomable, it’s a blessing compared to the "drought" of the Celestial Beast Era.

Lin Chen and the other two began greedily absorbing this Spiritual Qi, each reaching a new level.

Perhaps due to Lin Chen previously consuming Meridian-Loosening Water, his Spiritual Qi surged, and after breaking through Level 5, he surprisingly hit a bottleneck in just two days.

Along the way, Lin Chen also encountered two Inner Courtyard teams: one targeting their skeletons, the other drawn by Qin Shaoshao.

But these two teams couldn’t even compare to Guan Yang’s team and were handled easily.

"Worthless effort, why are you so weak, not even possessing a skeleton?"

The second team, without any skeletons, was scorned by Cai Yuanji before being let go.

However, the first team’s haul wasn’t bad, so now including Qin Shaoshao, whom they could count on at any time, Lin Chen had fifteen skeletons in hand.

"My brother and Brother Su Yu are missing, can you help me find them?"

"Got it."

Cai Yuanji was exasperated. Qin Shaoshao was like an alarm clock, repeating the sentence every hour.

Lin Chen laughed heartily after hearing it and said, "Brother Cai, human nature is to be a broken record."

"A what?"

Cai Yuanji was puzzled, while the three departing students glanced at Qin Shaoshao and quickly left.

...

Not far away, a team with two men and one woman was moving swiftly. They had a fast marching speed and bore few scars.

The leading man was named Ye Yun, likely the strongest contender for the top spot on this year’s Inner Courtyard Hundred Stars Chart.

Hence, Ye Yun’s team was also known as the First Team.

"Hold on." Ye Yun suddenly stopped, scanning the distance.

There was a three-person team fleeing rapidly, and upon being intercepted by Ye Yun, they were shocked and said, "I don’t have any skeletons, they were all taken by the Monster Hunter Team."

Hearing the term Monster Hunter, Ye Yun’s eyes narrowed with intrigue.

Ye Yun, with an ostentatious personality since childhood, liked to be in the spotlight, which was related to his family’s position.

His family held significant authority in Jiuxing City; as the saying goes, wealth can’t surpass power, so Ye Yun grew up in a flattering environment.

Currently, the Inner Courtyard regards him as the new king, but he’s still lacking some prestige and reputation.

Reputation would come soon; he already had twenty skeletons in hand, securing his top place on the Hundred Stars Chart.

As for prestige, it still needed to be established.

Lin Chen’s external team was an excellent target.

"Where is he?" Ye Yun thought he needed to take action, though he knew the teams sent by the Monster Hunter Guild were different from those sent by the Beast Tamer Guild.

The former was tough to crack, while the latter mostly put on a show.

"Over there." The team that had just been reprimanded immediately pointed: "They are strange, there’s a Resentful Spirit following them."

Ye Yun nodded, then swiftly left.

But after taking a couple of steps, a team member beside him asked, "What if we’re deceived?"

Who would have thought Ye Yun would calmly say:

"Don’t worry, he wouldn’t dare deceive me!"