Trouble in the Soul Hunting Forest—Seeking Investment

Trouble in the Soul Hunting Forest—Seeking Investment

White-Grade Weekly Task: Drink a cup of water in one go

Task Reward: Increase the age of a designated Soul Ring by one year

Failure Penalty: Lose 10 jin of body weight

Yellow-Grade Weekly Task: Run 100 meters

Task Reward: Increase the age of a designated Soul Ring by five years

Failure Penalty: Lose 1 jin of body weight

Purple-Grade Weekly Task: Massage the shoulders of the Child of Destiny, Xu Changqing

Task Reward: Increase the age of a designated Soul Ring by ten years

Failure Penalty: Soul Power decreases by half a rank

Black-Grade Weekly Task: Confess to the Child of Destiny, Xu Changqing

Task Reward: One fragment of a component from a 100,000-year Soul Bone Set that suits you (10 fragments can be combined into one complete Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Bone component)

Failure Penalty: Choke whenever you drink water for seven days

Red-Grade Weekly Task: Sleep while embracing the Child of Destiny, Xu Changqing

Reward: 1 drop of Martial Soul Evolution Fluid (100 drops can be combined into one complete portion of Martial Soul Evolution Fluid)

Failure Penalty: Dark circles for three days

The System reminds you once again: The above tasks refresh once every week. Please complete them as soon as possible. If task progress remains incomplete by next week, the task penalties will become irreversible. Please treat every task with caution.

Xiao Wu: ???

Xiao Wu, who had been about to head out to find Xu Changqing, froze on the spot.

What kind of strange thing was this Supreme God King System?

And these tasks...

Aside from the first two, why were all the rest related to Changqing Gege? What kind of tasks were these?

They were way too embarrassing, weren't they?

Curious, Xiao Wu tapped the seven eye-catching words "Child of Destiny Xu Changqing," which the System had deliberately highlighted in red. A profile picture immediately popped up. Wasn't the figure in it Xu Changqing? Below it was an introduction to the Child of Destiny.

Child of Destiny: A chosen one born in response to calamity. After enduring countless hardships, they will often ultimately restore peace and clarity to the world, bringing harmony under heaven.

After reading the introduction, Xiao Wu was stunned!

So Changqing Gege was actually a Child of Destiny?

"Wait! This System... isn't trying to fool me, is it?"

Though Xiao Wu was carefree, she was not stupid. She still harbored some suspicion toward the System's origins. To verify whether it was real, she immediately poured herself a glass of water and drank it in one gulp.

Ding!

The White-Grade Weekly Task, Drink a cup of water in one go, has been completed.

The task reward has been distributed to the System Space.

After checking the reward she had just received in the System Space, Xiao Wu immediately chose to use it.

When she noticed that her first Soul Ring had indeed gained one year in age, and that a small new stream of Soul Power had appeared within her body, Xiao Wu had no choice but to believe it.

"It's actually real!"

"Does Changqing Gege himself know about being a Child of Destiny? No, I have to go tell him!"

With that thought, she immediately ran out of her room and knocked on Xu Changqing's door across the hall.

Xu Changqing, who had just finished absorbing the Soul Bone, was sitting on his bed, marveling at how efficient the second Sub-system host was at completing System tasks. She had only been bound for such a short time and had already completed one task. She was far better than the first Sub-system host.

Then he heard a burst of urgent knocking.

There was no need to guess. It had to be Xiao Wu. Su Yuntao was not that rash.

"The door isn't locked," he said.

Bang! The door was shoved open, and Xiao Wu rushed in impatiently. Her face brimming with delight, she said, "Changqing Gege, I discovered a huge secret!"

"?"

Xu Changqing was baffled. "What huge secret could you possibly have discovered?"

"I... I! I..."

Just as Xiao Wu was about to tell him about obtaining the System and show off a little, a current suddenly burst from her body. With a crackling zzzzt, zzzzt, it shocked her so badly that she could not even speak properly, and her body began convulsing repeatedly.

This strange scene startled Xu Changqing. He hurried over, intending to examine her and see what was going on.

Who would have thought that the moment his hand touched Xiao Wu, a numbing sensation surged from his palm into his body, and all his Soul Power was suppressed in an instant.

Well, that was just great.

The two of them were immediately shocked into convulsing nonstop on the spot, their eyes rolling back.

Three minutes later, this strange electric current that had appeared out of nowhere vanished just as inexplicably as it had come.

Both of them were left seeing stars from the shock, yet outwardly, they were completely unharmed, as though nothing had happened at all.

"Xiao Wu! What the hell are you doing?"

Having recovered, Xu Changqing looked as though his whole worldview had collapsed. He was certain that no one had ambushed them just now. If that was the case, then there was only one possibility: Xiao Wu had caused this electricity.

The problem was, he did not remember Xiao Wu having an ability to discharge electricity.

You're a Soft Bone Rabbit, not Pikachu!

"I-I don't know either..."

Xiao Wu replied blankly, her eyes somewhat dazed. Then, as though she had suddenly remembered something, she immediately looked through the System introduction and finally understood.

Electrotherapy!

So this was electrotherapy.

That meant she could not tell anyone about obtaining the System, or this System would give her the same electrotherapy treatment as before?

For Xiao Wu, whose urge to share was overflowing, this left her heart itching miserably. She looked as though she wanted to speak, stopped herself, then wanted to speak again.

Xu Changqing gave her a suspicious look. "Are you really all right?"

"No..." Xiao Wu opened her mouth, but in the end shook her head. Her head hung low, and she looked dispirited.

"Fine! If you don't want to say it, I won't ask." Xu Changqing put the incident behind him and said, "Come on, let's find Tao Shu. We agreed to go out for a meal together."

On the way, Xu Changqing asked with a smile, "Judging by how happy you looked when you came in just now, I'm guessing you've decided to stay, right?"

At the mention of this, Xiao Wu perked up a little. She nodded. "Changqing Gege, I've thought it through. Over the past year, if you had wanted to do anything bad to me, you would've had plenty of chances. You're different from other people. I believe you."

Xu Changqing grinned and scared her on purpose. "That's hard to say. Maybe I've just hidden it well, planning to raise you up before eating you?"

Xiao Wu immediately rolled her eyes. Walking ahead, she skipped and spun in circles, then huffed, "Then what can I do? I can only accept it."

Si Si Jie's house covered quite a large area. After searching for a long time, the two still could not find Su Yuntao. They had no idea where he had gone.

Just as Xu Changqing was about to forget about him and take Xiao Wu out for a lavish meal, he spotted Su Yuntao at the front gate, speaking hurriedly with a soldier clad head to toe in armor and holding a gleaming silver Long Spear.

"How is that possible!"

"There were clearly two Soul Elders leading the team! Tell me, how could something still have happened!?"

Su Yuntao gripped the soldier's shoulders so hard that the armor was nearly deformed. His expression was both shocked and furious.

"My lord, I don't know either. I was only ordered to notify you to immediately gather at the Martial Soul Branch Hall," the soldier said fearfully.

"Bastard!"

Su Yuntao cursed loudly and turned to run toward the Martial Soul Branch Hall. He happened to see Xu Changqing and Xiao Wu standing at the gate, and quickly said, "Little Changqing, I have an emergency mission. You and Xiao Wu stay at home."

With that, he ran off without looking back, moving at astonishing speed.

Xu Changqing frowned. From what the two had just said, it seemed that the Soul Master team sent to clear out the Soul Hunting Forest this year had encountered trouble. It had nothing to do with him, but Si Si Jie was also in this year's Soul Master team!

Anyone else could get into trouble, but not Si Si Jie!

"Xiao Wu, I'm heading out. Stay home by yourself. If you're hungry, go eat outside," Xu Changqing quickly instructed.

"I'm going too!" Xiao Wu grabbed his arm.

"No! You're still too weak. Stay home and behave. Don't run around!"

Now was not the time to waste time pulling back and forth. Xu Changqing snapped at her, then leaped upward. In the next moment, a Golden Divine Dragon nearly twenty meters long and as thick as a water vat roared out from the center of the Century Soul Ring, catching the falling Xu Changqing perfectly.

Man and dragon vanished into the distant horizon in the blink of an eye, moving at an unbelievably strange speed.

Xiao Wu stomped her foot on the spot.

How dare he yell at me!

And say I'm weak!

Puffing out her cheeks, she went back to study the System. With the System in hand, she decided that next time, she would hang Xu Changqing up and beat him, so he would know how formidable she was.

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