Douluo: Soul Shadow King

The next morning, just after dawn, many families had already started to cook.

Smoke rose from the cooking stoves, and two figures walked together on the loess road, preparing to leave the mountain village.

These two people were none other than Cheng Xiao and Ye Lingling. At this moment, they both looked at each other a little embarrassedly.

When Cheng Xiao woke up in the morning, he was surprised to find that he and Ye Lingling had somehow slept together.

And what was more coincidental was that when he woke up, Ye Lingling also woke up, so the two looked at each other for a while, then tacitly turned away their eyes and hugged each other without saying a word.

And this hug lasted until Old Man Cheng made breakfast and called them to get up and eat.

After breakfast, Cheng Xiao told Old Man Cheng about his next plan. Knowing that Cheng Xiao was leaving after staying for one night, Old Man Cheng was a little reluctant, but he also knew that his grandson was now at the golden age of cultivation, so he didn't say much.

Just remind Cheng Xiao that it would be best to bring him a grandson when he comes back next time. This request naturally made Ye Lingling, who was drinking porridge with her head down, blush.

After leaving a part of his own gold soul coins for old man Cheng, Cheng Xiao took Ye Lingling away. After all, he had other things to do this time.

"Lingling, what happened in the morning..." Cheng Xiao scratched his head awkwardly. As a virgin, this was his first time experiencing such a scene, so...

"I hugged you too, we're even." Ye Lingling was too shy to look at Cheng Xiao's face. This was the first time she boldly hugged a boy. Although she had a good impression of the boy in front of her, it was too shameful for her.

Hearing this, Cheng Xiao quickly changed the subject and said, "Lingling, I have another thing to do. Do you want to go with me?"

"Yes." Ye Lingling nodded slightly, which was considered an agreement.

"Okay." Cheng Xiao nodded, and then took Ye Lingling and left Chengjia Village quickly.

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Outside the Holy Soul Village, in a remote valley.

A giant dragon that covered the sky flapped its wings, and the violent airflow rustled the forest below, like a roaring wave, spreading throughout the valley.

A moment later, the figure of the giant dragon gradually shrank, and the figures of Cheng Xiao and the other two appeared on a mountain outside the forest.

"It should be here, right?" Cheng Xiao looked down and saw a waterfall cascading down in the lush forest not far away.

This time, Cheng Xiao planned to take the Blue Silver Emperor and its soul bone into his pocket. After all, this is a top-level plant-type soul beast. After transforming it into a shadow soldier, with the Blue Silver Emperor's recovery ability, his soul power consumption should be reduced a lot.

Otherwise, once the shadow soldier dies, the soul power consumed is too much. If a protracted war is fought, he will be the only one who suffers.

"Cheng Xiao, where is this?" Ye Lingling looked at the valley opposite with doubtful eyes. There was only a waterfall here except for the trees. The only attraction was the beautiful scenery.

Cheng Xiao turned his head and looked at Ye Lingling and said, "I have heard a legend before, saying that there is a seriously injured 100,000-year-old soul beast here. If this is true, with the ability of my martial soul, I might be able to transform it into a soldier. At that time, we will have an extra layer of insurance in the competition."

Hearing this, Ye Lingling nodded in surprise. She didn't expect that Cheng Xiao's purpose was to transform the 100,000-year-old soul beast into a shadow soldier.

Cheng Xiao had already told everyone in the Royal Fighting Team about the shadow soldiers, so it was not a secret to Ye Lingling.

"Let me see where the soul beast is first." A touch of purple flashed across Cheng Xiao's eyes, and then several black smoke rushed out from his shadow. In just a moment, no less than ten shadow soldiers appeared in the entire valley.

As Cheng Xiao's order was issued, these shadow soldiers also searched quickly, determined to find the 100,000-year soul beast that the king mentioned.

With the shadow soldiers helping to find, Cheng Xiao was not in a hurry. He took Ye Lingling's hand and sat down on a bluestone, waiting for the shadow soldiers' report.

After a while, the searching shadow soldiers conveyed the information to Cheng Xiao, and Cheng Xiao, who knew the specific location, directly hugged Ye Lingling into his arms, and then, amid the latter's exclamation, he started the shadow exchange.

After exchanging positions with the shadow soldiers, Cheng Xiao and Ye Lingling also stood under a waterfall, and just behind the two, the shadow soldiers who had searched before also stood here in unison.

"It seems that this is it." Gently releasing Ye Lingling's soft waist, staring at the waterfall that was rushing down, Cheng Xiao's mouth curled up a little.

"Cheng Xiao!" Ye Lingling said with a blush on her pretty face: "You...can you tell me in advance next time?"

"Hmm? What?" Cheng Xiao was stunned for a moment, looking at Ye Lingling with a puzzled look, and then he understood it immediately. He coughed lightly and said: "Be careful next time, be careful next time."

Just then, the shadow soldier Ghost Leopard came over and said respectfully: "Your Majesty, there seem to be some blind soul beasts rushing towards this side nearby. Should we kill them immediately?"

As soon as the voice fell, a series of low roars came from the valley, and then a group of soul beasts with green bodies, ferocious looks, and exuding a fierce aura, similar to the Qingming Wolf, flashed out from the forest and surrounded Cheng Xiao and others in an instant.

Looking at the soul beasts that surrounded him, Cheng Xiao raised his eyebrows and said to the shadow soldier Ghost Leopard: "Kill them, just in time to expand the city army."

"Yes, sir." The shadow soldier Ghost Leopard responded, then turned around and attacked these thousand-year soul beasts that looked like Qingming wolves but were stronger than them.

As soon as the Ghost Leopard moved, the rest of the shadow soldiers followed suit, and immediately, a fight began.

"Why are there soul beasts here?" Looking at the one-sided slaughter of the shadow soldiers, Ye Lingling frowned slightly and asked in confusion: "This place is so far away from the soul beast forest where the empire keeps captives. In theory, there shouldn't be soul beasts here, right?"

"We'll know whether they appear or not in a while." Although Cheng Xiao was confused, he didn't care. Since he didn't know why they appeared here, he could just kill them and transform them into shadow soldiers. By then, everything would be known.

A minute later, Cheng Xiao, who was looking at the corpses of thousand-year-old soul beasts on the ground, snapped his fingers lightly. The next moment, there were bursts of wailing sounds, and black shadows kept emerging from the bodies of these dead thousand-year-old soul beasts.

Ye Lingling looked at this scene in shock. It was the first time she saw the ability of Cheng Xiao's martial soul. On weekdays, the latter had almost never shown such an ability except for summoning shadow soldiers, or in other words, he couldn't summon.

Summoning is simple, but Cheng Xiao can't kill all the soul masters and soul beasts, right? If he did that, he would probably have to kill everyone on the continent, right?

"Tell me, how did you end up here?" Cheng Xiao asked the shadow soldiers in front of him.

"Your Majesty, we were captured by human soul masters." The thousand-year-old soul beast lowered his head and explained, "We didn't originally belong here, but the power of that human soul master was too strong and we couldn't resist."

"Okay, I know who you are talking about." With a wave of his hand, the thousand-year-old soul beasts suddenly turned into black smoke and dissipated, and Cheng Xiao's eyes fell on the waterfall.