Chapter 5: Hunting Soul Beasts
"Why are there so many people, only me to hunt soul beasts?" Lin Song asked angrily.
"Hmph, this is arranged by the city lord, you go to the city lord and ask!" Old Tucker sneered.
Lin Song had already heard from Uncle Peake, in fact, the city lord didn't care about this, it was old Tucker who was making trouble.
Lin Song clenched his fists, his nails digging deep into his palms, and angry flames burned in his chest.
"What? Don't you obey the assignment? Then you can only leave Xibe City and become a traveler!" Old Tucker is not afraid of Lin Song's anger, he still can't ask for it! If Lin Song is noisy now, he has just a reason to drive Lin Song out of Xibe City.
Hearing the words "traveler", Lin Song slowly calmed down. Traveling on the Soul Star Continent is even more dangerous than hunting soul beasts. And he has to take care of his grandfather, and he can't leave Xibe City.
"What about hunting soul beasts, I accept this profession!" Lin Song sneered, took the badge that proved his profession, and walked out of the City Lord's Mansion.
Old Tucker looked at Lin Song's back, and there was a sinister glint in his eyes. Hunting soul beasts is very dangerous and has no income, even if Lin Song didn't lose his life, how could he afford to buy cultivation potions without income. A year later, his son Tucker will surely take revenge with his own hands.
Lin Song walked out of the City Lord's Mansion, his heart was very depressed, he worked in the mine, and he knew that soul beasts were creatures. Soul beasts are soul-like beings that feed on substances that contain soul power. Soul crystals are their favorite food, and occasionally attack humans. Lin Song had seen a miner who was attacked by a soul beast and his soul was eaten.
Because they are soul bodies, these soul beasts can shuttle through mountains and rocks, which is extremely difficult to guard against. The city lords in all parts of the Soul Star have hired monks to hunt them specifically to prevent them from devouring soul crystals and destroying soul stone mines.
The income from hunting soul beasts is very low, and the reward is the corpse of the soul beast. Because the soul beast's body contains soul power, it is similar to the soul of soul cultivation, and it can be refined into the most famous will seed in the soul cultivation control system, which is very valuable. So despite the dangers of this work, there are many monks who do it.
However, it was too dangerous for a junior disciple like Lin Song to hunt soul beasts, and it was no different from sending them to death in vain.
Lin Song thought in his heart, what if he didn't hunt soul beasts, but relied on his ability to see through soul stones to make money? Although he didn't go mining, there were also places in the city to sell soul stone mines.
Lin Song quickly dispelled this idea, the medicinal energy consumed by the disciple's cultivation was very large, and a bottle of the soul-enhancing elixir used by the disciple would cost at least one hundred ounces of soul crystals. It is not enough to rely on the perspective of the soul stone, after all, this soul stone is no better than the jade rough stone on the earth, and you can make a fortune by betting on it right once.
Moreover, he relied on the perspective soul stone to cultivate, but he was afraid that it would arouse the suspicion of others, and Lin Song still understood the truth of his guilt.
I had to go to the guild that hunted soul beasts first.
Lin Song walked along the bustling street, the street is wide and smooth, there are many shops on both sides, people come and go, very lively. Xibe City has a population of tens of thousands, and it is considered a medium-sized city in the entire Soul Star Continent.
Lin Song walked to a large stone house and stopped, there was a sign hanging on the stone house, which read, "Soul Beast Hunting Guild." ”
Walking into the house, it is filled with large and small cages and nets, which look like mousetraps and fishing nets on the earth. However, these are not ordinary artifacts, but authentic Horcruxes. It can be stimulated through soul power, and it is specially used to capture soul beasts.
I saw a buyer come in, and the shop owner worked hard to demonstrate. I saw him stuff a translucent mass into a cage. The mass floated up and down in the cage, trying to break out of the cage. But every time I hit the cage, I screamed and was bounced back.
This screaming sound is not a real sound, but a kind of soul fluctuation, which can be directly perceived by the soul. Lin Song knew that this was a soul beast, a soul body creature. They can't break out of the cage because the cage is engraved with special runes that specifically imprison all kinds of souls.
Lin Song wanted to see more clearly, so he cast a spell that the initial control could use—Soul Perception. Wherever the soul power went, all non-soul things disappeared, leaving only many large and small light clusters or flames, which were the souls of the people around them.
Lin Song concentrated his soul power in the cage and saw the appearance of the soul beast clearly. The soul beast resembles the appearance of a tuna, more than a foot long, with a long pointed beak, a long tail, and a streamlined body. A pair of small eyes gleam with fear, obviously very scared of the humans outside the cage.
Lin Song felt that the soul power strength of this soul beast was about the same as his own, and it was also a soul beast at the level of a controlling apprentice. Soul cultivators classify soul beasts according to the level of human cultivation, and they are also controlling apprentices, controllers, controlling masters, and so on.
Generally, the capture is a soul beast at the level of the controller, and if it is at the level of the controller, it requires a large team of beast hunters, and sometimes even needs to be led by the city lord.
Lin Song withdrew the spell, and suddenly his heart moved, his jade pendant can see through the soul crystal, so is it effective for soul beasts!
Lin Song decided to give it a try, turned around and walked out of the guild hall, the shopkeeper who was trying to show the cage just now was very dissatisfied, and muttered in a low voice, "If you don't buy anything, what are you looking at?"
Lin Song stood outside the stone house, and at this time, there was a thick stone wall, and neither soul scanning nor soul perception could see the situation on the other side of the wall. Soul power can't penetrate such a thick stone wall.
Lin Song pierced his fingertips and dropped a drop of blood onto the jade pendant. In an instant, that state of clarity reappeared. Lin Song tried his best to look at the stone wall, and after a while, a miracle appeared, Lin Song clearly saw the soul beast in the cage on the other side of the stone wall, in addition, on the other side of the stone wall, the souls of all the people in the hall were also clearly seen by Lin Song.
Lin Song couldn't help but get excited again, this jade pendant is really a super soul power perception instrument.
Lin Song withdrew the spell and walked into the house again, and said to the shopkeeper just now, "I want to buy a cage and a net." ”
"Five hundred soul crystals!" the boss was pleasantly surprised.
These two Horcruxes were so expensive, Lin Song gritted his teeth to pay the bill and bought two Horcruxes.
Suddenly, a person next to him accosted him and said, "Little brother, are you going to hunt soul beasts?"
Lin Song looked up and saw a middle-aged man with a kind face.
"Yes!" Lin Song nodded in agreement. Don't catch soul beasts, buy these horcruxes for what!
"Little brother, do you know that capturing soul beasts is a very dangerous thing? Well, you are a junior apprentice, and your cultivation is too low, not only will you not be able to capture soul beasts, but you will also lose your life. This middle-aged man obviously also used a soul perception on Lin Song, and found that Lin Song's cultivation was just a junior master.
"We are an animal trapper with a high chance of success and few casualties!" the middle-aged man continued.
Lin Song looked behind him and saw seven or eight men tall and short.
"This is Captain Jinkai, I'm Vice Captain Sterling!" Sterling gestured to a muscular young man in the group. Jin Kai just nodded, very arrogant.
"How to divide it?" Lin Song asked, this was what he was most concerned about.
"Jin Kai and I are senior controllers, and we take half of the income. The remaining half is divided equally among you, with two percent for intermediate apprentices and one percent for early apprentices. Sterling explained.
Lin Song thought about it, but still shook his head and refused. Generally, the beast trapping team can only catch one or two soul beasts a day, and each soul beast can sell for one hundred ounces of soul crystals. According to their algorithm, they can earn a maximum of ten ounces a day, and this income can only barely make ends meet, where is there any surplus wealth from cultivation.
"Hmph! A junior disciple is so arrogant, I really don't know how thick the sky is. Jin Kai was a little unhappy, "Let's go, let him go hunting beasts by himself, and when he suffers a loss, he will know how powerful the soul beast is!"
Jin Kai and Sterling walked away with their men, and there were still a few beast hunting teams in the hall, and when they saw that Lin Song refused Sterling's solicitation, they didn't come forward to ask.
Junior monks like Lin Song who don't know the depths, they have seen a lot, and when they suffer losses, if they are lucky enough to leave a life, they will take the initiative to find the beast hunting team to join.
Lin Song came to the mine with a cage and a net, this place Lin Song is very familiar with, after all, he has been working here for two years.
There are many potholes on the surface of the mine, leading to the depths of the mine. These caves are connected to each other like cobwebs, and it is easy for those who are not familiar with the roads to get lost. However, Lin Song didn't have this trouble, he was very familiar with the terrain here, and the map was in his heart, which was an advantage of Lin Song!
Lin Song walked into the depths of the mine, and it was dark in the mine. However, this was not difficult for Lin Song, for all soul cultivators, darkness did not matter. Because the spell of soul scanning can see everything in the dark, like a bat.
Lin Song walked to the intersection of several mines, which were very spacious, like a hall. Lin Song vaguely remembered that there had been soul beasts here, and one of his co-workers was killed by soul beasts when he was mining here.
However, now the hall is very lively, and there are several beast hunting teams gathered here, and it is obvious that everyone knows the news of the soul beast infestation here.
Lin Song found a place and put the cage on the ground. Suddenly, he saw Jin Kai coming over and said coldly: "This is the territory of our beast hunting team, you go find another place!"
Unexpectedly, the beast hunter also bullied and dominated the market, and Lin Song was very helpless. Looking around, I saw that this hall was divided among several large animal trappers, and when they encountered a lone trapper, they sent people to drive them away. These solo hunters did not dare to say anything when they saw that the other side was outnumbered, so they could only walk away silently and go to find other places.
Lin Song put away the cage, but did not walk away, but stood in a corner to watch how these beast trappers hunted.
These beast trappers placed many cages on the ground, and placed many soul crystals in the cages, and soul crystals were the favorite food of soul beasts. This kind of hunting scene is very similar to catching rats or birds on the earth, luring them with food and then setting traps.