Chapter 10: Justice Will Be Exacted by My Own Hands, a Fateful Encounter!?
The smoke of battle in the depths of the canyon had yet to dissipate, and Lin Sheng, having reined in the lingering heat of Shiranui, was about to leave quietly with Long Aotian.
However, a faint sound of air being torn apart rang out behind him.
Immediately following that, a wave of spirit power, as cold and gentle as moonlight, enveloped him once again.
"Please wait a moment."
Zhang Lexuan's figure had appeared at the cave entrance at some unknown moment.
Her white robes were slightly disheveled, and although she had put away her moon blades, the shock in the depths of her eyes remained impossible to shake off.
Given her cultivation level, the moment she rushed out of the cave... she had sensed the extremely concentrated sensation of mental burning lingering in the air, as well as the two Evil Soul Masters who had been blasted into a bloody mess.
"He... helped me?"
Zhang Lexuan immediately understood what had happened.
Lin Sheng stopped in his tracks, his back as straight as a sword, yet he did not turn around.
"About what just happened... thank you."
Zhang Lexuan's voice was clear and cold, carrying a trace of sincerity.
She was very clear that if this youth hadn't intervened in secret, once those two terrifying spirit tool bombs exploded...
Even if she could save her own life... she would certainly have been injured. After all, it would have been while caught unaware; in that situation, facing the Evil Soul Masters alone would undoubtedly have been fraught with danger!
"It was just to return the favor for you saving me from the Soul-Splitting Tiger's claws earlier."
Lin Sheng did not even look back, his voice so cold that no emotion could be detected.
"Now, I don't owe you anything."
Looking at the youth's slightly thin but aloof-looking back, Zhang Lexuan hesitated for a moment.
In the end, she gritted her teeth and asked the question that had been in her mind: "Um... although it might be presumptuous, I still want to ask, I don't know why you have such great hostility toward Shrek?"
"If Shrek has ever inadvertently harmed you, you... can tell me. I am a student of the Shrek Inner Court."
"I can report this matter to the Sea God Pavilion Elders, and they will certainly investigate the truth and secure justice for you."
Zhang Lexuan asked tentatively, but she was also worried that Lin Sheng would fly into a rage because of this...
Upon hearing the word "justice," Lin Sheng seemed to have heard the funniest joke in the World, his shoulders trembling slightly as he let out a low, mocking laugh.
He slowly turned his head.
That pair of scarlet Three-Tomoe Sharingan emitted a heart-palpitating red light under the twilight of the moonlight: "Justice?"
"Is the justice of the Sea God Pavilion just charity built upon carelessness and negligence?"
Lin Sheng turned his face.
His gaze was like a cold scalpel, piercing straight into the depths of Zhang Lexuan's heart.
"You don't need to worry about me. The justice I want, I will exact myself. This matter has nothing to do with you."
Zhang Lexuan was stunned for a moment, shaken by the hatred in those eyes.
What on earth was this grudge...
That kind of hatred was too pure, too deep.
It was definitely not something that could be resolved in a few words!
Seeing Lin Sheng take a step to leave again, she impulsively called out: "Then... can you tell me your name?"
Lin Sheng's figure paused.
After remaining silent for about three breaths, he softly spat out two words: "Lin Sheng."
As his voice fell, his and Long Aotian's figures disappeared into the dense forest like Gui Mei.
Zhang Lexuan stood where she was, murmuring with a complex expression: "Lin Sheng..."
"Senior Sister! Are you alright?"
Just at that moment, a scorching red light tore through the sky, crashing to the ground like a burning meteor.
"Boom—!"
The flames dispersed, revealing a girl with a hot figure and a head of red hair; it was Shrek's other genius, Ma Xiaotao.
She had sensed the spirit power fluctuations here and had rushed over in a hurry.
Ma Xiaotao looked at the empty canyon and Zhang Lexuan's thoughtful expression, asking confusedly: "What happened?"
"Where is that group of Evil Soul Masters? I think I felt a very strange wave of mental force just now."
Zhang Lexuan came back to her senses and shook her head gently.
She concealed the trace of worry in her eyes: "It's nothing, they've already been dealt with. Let's go, we're returning to report."
...In the deep night of the Star Dou Great Forest, everything was silent.
In another hidden forest far away from Zhang Lexuan and the others, the battle had already concluded.
"Finally... found a suitable Spirit Beast."
Beside the corpse of a massive, ten-thousand-year-old Earth-Shaking Divine Bull covered in thick stone armor, Long Aotian was sitting cross-legged, absorbing with all his might that fourth spirit ring, which was emitting a rich radiance!
This was the spirit ring that Lin Sheng, relying on the extreme insight of the Sharingan, had found for Long Aotian, which was most compatible with his power attributes.
Lin Sheng stood guard to the side, not closing his eyes to rest.
"..."
He leaned quietly against an ancient tree, his pair of blood-colored Sharingan appearing exceptionally eerie and terrifying in the pitch-black night.
Three tomoe slowly rotated within his pupils.
Constantly analyzing every trace of weak elemental flow in the surroundings.
"Insight, analysis, genjutsu, the principles of all things..." Lin Sheng whispered softly.
As his mental force improved, the Sharingan's perception of this World became increasingly detailed.
Suddenly, Lin Sheng's pupils contracted sharply, and his gaze was cast fiercely toward a bush not far away.
In his vision, the light elements there were actually so dense to an abnormal degree that they even masked the forest's original wood-attribute aura.
"A special aura, the power of fate?"
"Who's there?"
Lin Sheng's voice was cold.
That bush trembled slightly, and then, a small head cautiously poked out.
It was a small beast covered in bright golden fur.
Its size was not large, looking like a small lion, but its four claws were as sharp as dragon claws.
Even more strangely... on its forehead, there was a closed vertical eye.
"Uh... why is it this little guy?"
Lin Sheng's expression changed slightly.
At this moment, this golden little beast was trembling, its golden eyes filled with terror and curiosity, timidly sizing up the youth before it who was exuding a terrifying blood-colored aura.
Lin Sheng and the little beast locked eyes, and in that instant, he felt his Sharingan actually produce a kind of... slight resonance with this power of fate?
"Three-Eyed Golden Lion... surely this little guy doesn't have some bodyguard following it, right?"
A feeling of helplessness welled up in Lin Sheng's heart.
He recognized at a glance this existence that held a special status on the Douluo Continent, the Emperor Auspicious Beast.
"His eyes... are so scary..."
"Wuwuwu, where is Di Tian? Come save me quickly, this human won't eat me, will he?"
On the surface, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion was not afraid of Lin Sheng.
But its claws were already trembling faintly...
For a time, the human and the beast fell into an eerie standoff in the depths of the gloomy Star Dou Great Forest.
Lin Sheng's blood-colored eyes stared at the Golden Lion, while the Golden Lion, amidst its fear, revealed a trace of strange closeness, cautiously moving a small step toward him.
"Uh..."
Lin Sheng retracted his Sharingan, then softly said: "You... do you need something?"
"Wuu... human..."
The Three-Eyed Golden Lion shook its head, ran away a distance in fear, and then began to size up Lin Sheng from not far away.