Call Me Brother Xuan, What a Massive Haul

"Sister Xiao Wu, who is he?"

Er Ming watched Chu Xuan warily.

A person had appeared out of nowhere. How could he not be worried?

In his experience, human Soul Masters really were no good.

They were enemies of the Soul Beast Clan.

Human Soul Masters entered the forest to hunt Soul Beasts, causing a great many Soul Beast deaths every year.

Some human Soul Masters also slaughtered indiscriminately.

They did not even spare Soul Beasts with low cultivation ages.

So when he saw Chu Xuan, his first reaction was hostility.

If Xiao Wu had not been there, he probably would have already attacked.

Chu Xuan did not answer. Instead, he sized Er Ming up and down.

Judging by the original novel's description, he was a simpleton.

His strength was impressive, but his brains were lacking.

He was the all-brawn-and-no-brains type.

Da Ming was a little smarter by comparison!

Now, could he trigger some choice missions?

Just as he was thinking that, the system prompt appeared.

[Ding! God-Level Choice mission triggered. Please select one option!]

[Option one: stand on the Titan Giant Ape's head and shout, "I am the king of the forest!" Reward: increase the First Soul Ring's age by twenty thousand years. A feud is highly likely!]

[Option two: introduce yourself and let Da Ming and Er Ming know you are a good person. Reward: increase the First Soul Ring and Second Soul Ring's ages by twenty thousand years!]

[Option three: put your arm around Xiao Wu and tell Da Ming and Er Ming that you are Xiao Wu's closest friend and that they can call you Brother Xuan. Reward: increase the first three Soul Rings' ages by twenty thousand years, God-Level Alchemy, Golden Sacred Dragon Essence Blood ×2, Deity Contract Fragment ×2!]

Good grief, the three choices left him stunned.

Was the first choice a joke, or was it just there to make up the numbers?

Why did the second choice look a little like something a cuck would do?

As for the third, if he really did that in front of Da Ming and Er Ming, wouldn't it provoke them badly?

After all, he knew that Da Ming and Er Ming had other feelings for Xiao Wu.

They simply never spoke of them, nor did they dare to!

Xiao Wu's mother had raised them both, and after spending so many long years together, their feelings had grown complicated.

Fortune favors the bold. Option three!

The corners of Chu Xuan's mouth rose. With rewards this generous, wouldn't it be a terrible waste not to get them?

Let's do it!

With Xiao Wu there, Da Ming and Er Ming would not dare do anything to him.

Besides, the gods of the Divine Realm were watching!

He decisively reached out and pulled Xiao Wu, who was still standing in a daze beside him, into his arms.

"Let me introduce myself. I'm Chu Xuan, Xiao Wu's closest friend. You can call me Brother Xuan."

Hmm?

Da Ming and Er Ming froze.

Xiao Wu stood rooted to the spot too, her mind in a muddle.

Her mood, which had been a little off just now, instantly became fantastic.

He hugged me? Chu Xuan actually hugged me?

This guy actually said he was my closest friend?

So do closest friends need to hug like this?

All sorts of strange thoughts popped into Xiao Wu's head.

If this had been before she saw the truth, she might not have thought so much about it.

But after seeing the truth in the Wheel of Time, she had learned a few things, and her thoughts naturally began to mature.

This was not how closest friends behaved at all. It was more like how lovers acted.

So what exactly did Chu Xuan mean?

Chu Xuan paid no attention to what she was thinking. All he knew was that his rewards had arrived.

The ages of his first three Soul Rings rose to fifty thousand years, and all the information on God-Level Alchemy flooded into his mind.

He grasped it all in an instant, mastering every alchemy skill and technique.

Combined with God-Level Medical Arts, he could now refine many kinds of pills himself.

The Golden Sacred Dragon Essence Blood and Deity Contract Fragments were in the system space.

This round of rewards was an incredible haul.

Da Ming and Er Ming finally came to their senses. They stared at the hand Chu Xuan had placed on Xiao Wu's waist, their fury surging to the heavens.

They had guarded her for so many long years, only for someone else to come along and pick the peach?

"Brother Xuan?"

Er Ming gritted his teeth. Chu Xuan smiled and nodded.

"Yep~ You catch on fast."

At that, Er Ming threw back his head and roared.

You've gone too far, bullying an ape like this!

"Er Ming, you're so noisy!"

Ack~

The roar stopped dead. Er Ming still had his head thrown back and his mouth open, but the sound had vanished completely. His body stiffened as though he had turned to stone.

Wait, what did I hear?

Sister Xiao Wu thinks I'm noisy?

He lowered his stiff head and saw Xiao Wu in Chu Xuan's arms, glaring up at him in displeasure.

In an instant, he lost his nerve. He bent over and lowered his head, looking deeply aggrieved.

Da Ming could not help shaking his head. Er Ming really was completely under Xiao Wu's thumb.

"I was talking about him, not you, right? Da Ming, where are your manners?"

"It wasn't easy for me to bring a friend home, and this is how you bully him?"

Da Ming: "..."

She's changed. Sister Xiao Wu really has changed!

She was actually displeased with them because of an outsider.

In the end, our devotion was misplaced~

"Chu Xuan, I'm sorry. Da Ming and Er Ming are wary of strangers, so I apologize on their behalf."

Xiao Wu turned her head and spoke with a red face.

Chu Xuan had no intention of letting go. Smiling, he said, "I accept the apology. Now it's time for you to tell them something."

Only then did Xiao Wu remember.

She had almost forgotten about it.

She had come back this time to make them more vigilant, and Chu Xuan was the key person.

Once he brought out the Wheel of Time and they saw the truth within it, they would understand.

Before that, she had to prepare them for it.

"Da Ming, Er Ming, Chu Xuan has a divine artifact that can show the past and the future. He'll bring it out to show you some things. You must believe them!"

"I've already verified it. It really is true."

Hearing this, Da Ming and Er Ming exchanged a glance.

A divine artifact?

The past and the future?

It sounded far-fetched.

But since Sister Xiao Wu said so, they obediently accepted it.

Seeing this, Chu Xuan took out the Wheel of Time.

He turned the Wheel of Time, and images began to play.

Da Ming and Er Ming were immediately drawn to them.

The first images showed Da Ming and Er Ming's lives in the Star Dou Great Forest.

From when Xiao Wu's mother adopted them in their youth to their adulthood.

Those familiar images made them believe it at once.

But as the subsequent images appeared, Da Ming and Er Ming were so angry their lungs nearly burst.

Sister Xiao Wu had actually sacrificed herself!

And they had sacrificed themselves to that sinister, treacherous man named Tang San as well?

Xiao Wu had been schemed against, and so had they.

In the images, Tang San came to the Star Dou Great Forest looking for Xiao Wu. After learning of the Spirit Hall's plans, he clearly had plenty of time to leave and take Xiao Wu away from the Soul Hunting party.

Yet he did not do so. Instead, he kept following the Soul Hunting party and even guided them.

Without Tang San's guidance, the Soul Hunting party could not have found Xiao Wu's trail so quickly.

In the end, he staged a grand drama, fighting to the death in front of Xiao Wu.

Xiao Wu ultimately gave her life for him!

Although those events would not happen until the future, seeing them still filled the two with towering rage.

The images that followed showed Tang San entering the Star Dou Great Forest again.

Why had he gone there?

For Soul Rings!

It was also because Tang San had long set his sights on their Soul Rings.

Once again, it was a grand performance, ending with him tearfully accepting their Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings and Soul Bones.

"Where is that damned Tang San? I'm going to tear him apart alive!"

Er Ming pounded his chest, the rage in his eyes seeming fierce enough to set the forest ablaze.