"It’s true."

Revin glanced at the butler and got the information he wanted.

He licked his lips and said, "The butler’s soul carries loyalty, familial love, and regret... hmm, quite delicious. Are you sure you don’t want me to help you clear out the trash?"

"No need." Lin Ke waved his hand, "He’s still useful... By the way, brother-in-law, can you help me identify everyone in the city? I want to find those rats."

"Identify? Millions of people?" Revin’s eye twitched, "I could drain the souls of the entire city in an instant for you."

"Alright." Lin Ke shook his head, "What if it’s just ten thousand people? I suspect there are traitors mixed in among the city hall staff."

"Ten thousand people?" Revin stroked his chin, "I can do that, but you’ll have to compensate me... you know, I’ve been staying here with you for quite a while."

"What kind of compensation? As long as it’s within my abilities, I will..." Lin Ke asked earnestly, but seeing Revin staring intently at his lips, he swallowed his words and corrected himself, "...I’ll have someone other than me fulfill your requests."

"Tch, boring." Revin rolled his eyes, then thought for a moment and said, "How about this, you let me take a look at the ’Artist’ profession, and while you’re at it, get me a few musical instruments... I remember you’re quite good at getting instruments, right?"

"No problem!" Lin Ke readily agreed, "I can tell you the details of the ’Artist’ profession now, though my version might be quite different from those in Gula Kingdom."

"I know." Revin replied nonchalantly, "The ’Artists’ I’ve seen are dull; yours, however, are invigorating." His gaze seemed to wander over Lin Ke again.

Oh my, lsp!

Feeling like a girl, those pervy eyes were terrifying!

"Okay." Lin Ke didn’t want to talk more with Revin, although Revin was good to him, getting too close to Revin might not be good for his backside.

"Let’s go now then." Revin headed out towards the balcony, where they could reach the top of the Great Wilderness Tower.

Before he got far, he suddenly turned back and said, "Actually, I could do the whole city too, as long as you..."

"No need." Lin Ke’s heart raced.

Revin was incredibly handsome. If he didn’t speak, you might not even discern his gender.

He looked like a tall, statuesque blonde beauty, but once he spoke, he turned into an enchanting golden-haired handsome guy.

"Haha, your expression is adorable." Revin laughed heartily and then vanished.

Lin Ke hurriedly chased after him, reaching the tower top.

Only to see Revin already floating mid-air with his eyes closed, nearly transparent threads extending from his fingers, winding around a spire next to him, "Give it to me."

Lin Ke handed over the little shadow snake from before.

The snake was sucked into Revin’s hand, and as if slurping noodles, Revin swallowed it whole.

Suddenly, he opened his eyes wide, pupils dilating, turning pitch-black, and spat out a few words:

"Malicious extraction."

Legendary skill!

The Soul Manipulator energy on Revin surged violently, countless gray threads shot from the Great Wilderness Tower towards the entire Great Wilderness City.

Millions of them!

Then, Revin swiftly descended, pulling out a black whip from his Space Ring.

This whip was entirely black, emanating a mysterious aura. Just looking at it, Lin Ke felt as if his soul was about to be sucked away until he noticed some unknown liquid on it.

Lin Ke’s eyebrows twitched wildly.

"Relax, it’s the blood of some unidentified creature." Revin had the leisure to explain.

I didn’t even ask... Lin Ke’s heart shivered again.

"I know you didn’t ask, but I wanted to answer anyway." Revin whistled.

"Are you reading my thoughts?!" Lin Ke widened his eyes.

Revin gave Lin Ke a meaningful look and said, "How else would I know so many ways to play... Oh wow, you’re quite playful, the pain can enhance pleasure? Hmm, this position is quite good... Uh? You’ve watched two guys as well..."

"Shut up!" In an instant, Lin Ke raised seven or eight shields in front of him and simultaneously used optical invisibility.

"Hehe, the wonderful scent of your soul, I can smell it across dimensions." Revin laughed disdainfully, "For someone who truly understands souls, your invisibility is useless... Oh, by the way, if I wanted to, with just a gentle suck, you’d become my delicacy."

Lin Ke’s form reappeared, his face looking unpleasant.

"What? Realized your weakness?" Revin chuckled, "Why haven’t you made a breakthrough yet? Are you afraid of becoming an elemental being? I heard you were pretty brave before, leading charges and all, wow! Leading charges, so cool!"

Revin made a gesture of raising a lance, then laughed, "When I was at level thirteen, I was already learning Soul Defense Magic from my brother, otherwise, he could have read from my memory about me peeping at him bathing and getting aroused..."

What did he see? Insane... Lin Ke only felt his brother-in-law was a bit terrifying, and also that the Mist Princess was quite pitiful.

"And you? Have you even trained your soul abilities? Such a delicious and sweet soul, if discovered by those Soul Masters, tsk tsk, they’d have a rare feast to savor."

Revin was saying this while whipping the air with the long whip, creating crisp cracking sounds in the air.

"Can’t I learn now? Soul Defense Magic?" Lin Ke asked doubtfully.

Having his innermost thoughts exposed by Revin had given him a fright.

He was unknowingly having his thoughts stolen!

"You can, of course you can, the question is... do you have the time?" Revin looked deeply into Lin Ke’s eyes, then casually said, "I once planted three trees, tending to them meticulously every day, wanting to give them the best fertilizer, the best care, hoping they’d flourish and bear sweet fruits."

"Three trees?" Lin Ke raised an eyebrow.

Revin chuckled at him and continued, "My family was poor, but other kids could only have one tree, and only in very rare cases would a kid have two trees. But I had three."

"I thought, I was young and strong, very talented in cultivation, perhaps extremely talented, maybe even on par with someone like Andrew, standing outside the peak."

"But, later I found, trying to grow three trees at once, to the same height, was actually very difficult! Because they were different species, and I needed to invest not only fertilizer and water into each but also the relevant knowledge of each."

"So, finally I decided to do this... nurture one tree first, let it grow well, bear fruits, then move to the next..."

Hearing this, Lin Ke narrowed his eyes and asked, "Why trees? And why three?"

"Oh! I was just giving an example, it doesn’t have to be trees, it could be anything else, like my case is a river, a free-flowing river."

"Unfortunately, my river, I can see its beginning and end."

"Whereas a tree, it can have a beginning, and grow..."

"Without an end!"