JSCMU-Chapter 166: Soul Realm

Someone’s coming?

Yun Jin couldn’t help but stop talking.

Could it be Zhou Li and Zhou Dai?

As Yun Jin was pondering, at most just a few brief moments passed.

A black figure silently appeared before her.

“System, scan!” Yun Jin said instinctively.

“Scan unavailable,” the system’s mechanical voice rang out. “Forced scanning requires consuming ten advanced simplification attempts.”

Yun Jin was immediately shocked.

Just scanning required ten advanced simplification attempts?

What cultivation level did this person have!

Yun Jin’s whole body involuntarily tensed up. She tried hard to recall the contents of the book.

Was there such a character in the original novel?

Shen Yanye looked at Yun Jin’s wary expression and couldn’t help but smile.

That guarded look was somewhat similar to Gun Gun.

Shen Yanye’s gaze swept across and landed on the barbecue rack Yun Jin had set up.

He said calmly, “Smells pretty good.”

This person didn’t seem to have malicious intent. Yun Jin didn’t lower her guard, but she concealed it inwardly and responded with a smile, “Would Senior like to try some?”

Shen Yanye didn’t decline. He sat down calmly, picked up a skewer, and started eating. While eating, he casually struck up a conversation with Yun Jin, “What are you doing here? Is that person inside your friend?”

Yun Jin glanced toward the cave. Ye Danxia was also curiously peeking in this direction.

She actually went ten whole seconds without generating any Emotion Points.

Yun Jin immediately took out a sound-recording stone and played “The Most Dazzling Ethnic Trend” at the cave entrance.

Ye Danxia: “……”

Shen Yanye: “……”

Yun Jin took out a talisman and cast a soundproofing barrier, then smiled and said, “Yes, she’s my best friend. I was afraid she’d be too lonely being locked up here, so I came to keep her company.”

Shen Yanye turned to look.

Ye Danxia’s expression was twisted, she looked like she wanted to die.

Yun Jin said, “See? Doesn’t she look so happy?”

Shen Yanye couldn’t help but comment, “You look happier.”

Yun Jin beamed, “Of course I’m happy to see my best friend.”

Shen Yanye was momentarily speechless.

But he’s now certain.

This Yun Jin was definitely not the mature and reliable girl Ling Fei described!

He simply lowered his head and focused on eating the skewers.

In order to break through his Tribulation Crossing bottleneck, he was in seclusion for years. Now that he’s tasting mortal food again, he found it surprisingly good.

At first, Yun Jin didn’t think much of it. But when Shen Yanye finished all the skewers in one go, she couldn’t help showing a pained expression.

What kind of senior was this?

Did he come just to steal her skewers?

Unfortunately, his cultivation level was too high. She’s angry, but didn’t dare to voice it.

“Master!”

Suddenly, a voice rang out in Yun Jin’s mind.

A round, chubby body quickly rolled into her arms.

Yun Jin instinctively caught Gun Gun, a bit surprised, “Gun Gun, what are you doing here?”

Ling Fei arrived shortly after. He glanced quickly at Shen Yanye, still holding the last skewer.

Shen Yanye looked a little embarrassed. He offered him, “Want the last one?”

Ling Fei shook his head helplessly.

Shen Yanye quickly pulled it back and finished it in a few bites.

Now Yun Jin could tell.

This senior was acquainted with Senior Ling!

And even stole her skewers!

Shen Yanye noticed Yun Jin’s stare and looked a bit embarrassed. He cleared his throat and said, “You raised your spirit beast well.”

Yun Jin blinked and caught on.

So this was the friend Senior Ling mentioned? Meaning Gun Gun had already fought with the other party’s spirit beast?

Ling Fei said, “Gun Gun beat the Blazing Mantis.”

“Blazing Mantis? Isn’t that a high-grade spirit beast?” Yun Jin blinked. “But Gun Gun is only mid-grade.”

She looked at Shen Yanye with curiosity.

Shen Yanye: “……”

He couldn’t resist coughing a few times, “Your spirit beast’s skills are very solid. My Blazing Mantis hasn’t had enough time to be properly cultivated. It’s not ready to face it yet.”

“Well, it can’t be helped. I’ve been training Gun Gun for almost two months now,” Yun Jin replied seriously.

Shen Yanye’s mouth twitched.

Two months? Is that supposed to be long?

He didn’t even focus that much attention on Blaze Mantis, but over time he put in a fair bit of effort. Now, hearing Yun Jin say that, he couldn’t help but feel like she was mocking him.

“Yun girl,” Ling Fei quickly stepped in, afraid Yun Jin would say something wrong.

“This is Senior Shen. I especially invited him here to help you awaken your beast-taming talent.”

Beast-taming talent?

Yun Jin’s eyes lit up slightly.

In this world, beast tamers were divided into two types.

One kind only formed a contract with a spirit beast. But they didn’t possess any actual beast-taming talent. These were considered false beast tamers.

The other kind, through certain methods, could awaken true beast-taming talent and a beast tamer space. They could then learn secret techniques to cultivate spirit beasts.

Only these were true beast tamers.

And the person before her was a real beast tamer?

A true beast tamer actually lost to Gun Gun?

Seeing Yun Jin’s expression, Shen Yanye felt a bit embarrassed. He gritted his teeth and said, “When Blazing Mantis fought Gun Gun, I didn’t use any of my beast-taming skills.”

Yun Jin immediately understood and said with sincere humility, “So Senior was holding back.”

Her demeanor was so modest that Shen Yanye felt soothed. He nodded and said, “I’ve eaten so many of your skewers. Consider this your reward, I’ll give you a chance to awaken your beast-taming talent.”

Yun Jin’s gaze flickered slightly.

She had wanted to awaken a beast-taming talent for a long time. She just hadn’t found a way yet.

Now that this Senior Shen delivered himself to her door, she had no reason to refuse.

She immediately replied, “Then I thank Senior in advance.”

Shen Yanye nodded, “Before we begin, let me explain a few things. The awakening of beast-taming talent may seem random, but after many cases, we’ve found that people with naturally strong soul power are much more likely to awaken it.”

“Natural soul power?” Yun Jin was curious.

She knew about soul power. Cultivators often needed to cultivate it before breaking through.

But that was something you trained for.

What about natural soul power, how was that measured?

Shen Yanye thought for a moment and explained, “Do you believe in fate? In the river of destiny, some people are born with every step of their future already predetermined. Only a rare few can break that fate and live freely. We call that fate ‘Heaven.’”

“And we cultivators, our path is to defy Heaven. Only by defying fate can we achieve great freedom.”

Yun Jin nodded.

Shen Yanye continued, “Everyone is born with soul power, but for most people, it’s extremely weak. Only a few, the chosen by fate, are born with immense potential in their soul. Their path in cultivating the soul realm will always be far easier than others. So generally, the faster someone improves their soul realm, the more likely they are to awaken beast-taming talents.”

“May I ask, how fast has your soul realm been improving?”