Ah Yin's Unspoken Request

In Heaven Dou City, Zhang San and Li Si had gone to contact the Heaven Dou Empire's official representatives.

The young people from Spirit Hall rarely got to see such a huge city outside, so they had all run off to have fun. Thousand Jun Douluo and Demon Subduing Douluo, those two old geezers, were instead scowling as they urged Xu Yu to finish investigating Tang Hao's affairs and leave as soon as possible.

As for the Third Elder's group, they seemed to have gone to Shrek Academy to meet someone.

There would be a welcome ceremony tonight, jointly hosted by Heaven Dou City's Spirit Hall and the Heaven Dou Empire's officials. The banquet was said to be grand, and Xu Yu had to attend. Then again, four Titled Douluo had arrived at once—there was no way it could be anything but grand!

After all the running around and exhaustion of the past few days, things had finally become somewhat peaceful.

Yet on this rare peaceful morning, Moss Head had finished making the dungeon meant for Xu Yu.

With a wail, Xu Yu rolled out of bed and shot a resentful look at Moss Head, who had come to deliver the dungeon with an innocent expression. Moss Head scratched the lush green Hulunbuir Grassland atop his head, then inexplicably burrowed back in to sleep.

However, Xu Yu did not notice that while he held the dungeon and studied it curiously, the Summoning Tome had not been drawn back into his body.

Like the other dungeons, the one Moss Head had given him was also a lush green leaf. But compared to the others, his had been exquisitely carved from high-grade jade, beautiful beyond compare.

Fireproof, waterproof, and lightning-proof. That was exactly what this jade leaf was. Other dungeons did not have such excellent quality.

Refining it with a drop of blood was a process Xu Yu had long mastered.

After completely refining the jade leaf, Xu Yu found himself troubled. Aside from the first four special Soul Rings, he could only summon the soul beast from his Fifth Soul Ring. But the soul beast of his Fifth Soul Ring was that Blue Whale Fish which had once wanted to reap the benefits without lifting a finger. Where was he supposed to find such a vast stretch of sea to summon it?

He could not possibly put it on land, could he? Xu Yu was not cruel enough to do that. Besides, even if the Blue Whale Fish did not die on land and was merely injured, he would not fare well either.

Since he could not study the Blue Whale Fish, he might as well study the first four Soul Rings.

Xu Yu had already developed some ideas over the past few days. He was not far from uncovering the truth behind those first four Soul Rings.

Those four Soul Rings were empty. The lingering will of the soul beasts within had long been washed completely clean by the Power of Time and Space. There was nothing inside them, but that was not a bad thing for Xu Yu. On the contrary, it had given him an opportunity.

What opportunity? Naturally, the opportunity to choose again.

Since they had been washed completely clean, did that mean he could choose anew which soul beasts—or perhaps people—would reside within those four Soul Rings? Before time and space, humans and soul beasts would not be treated differently.

Just as before the world, humans and soul beasts were equal.

His Illusionary Talent showed signs of advancing toward the "True World," which was also why "Six Senses" could contain humans.

I'll try it later, Xu Yu thought. At the same time, he threaded a string through the jade leaf and wore it around his neck. This thing could neither be stored inside his body nor placed in a Soul Tool, which was rather troublesome.

He went back to sleep, slept until noon, got up to brush his teeth, then summoned A Lan to play for a while until evening.

Wait, speaking of A Lan, why had the Summoning Tome remained open instead of entering his body to sleep?

Fuck.

As Xu Yu was puzzling over this, a sorrowful figure sitting on the chair beside his bed gave him such a fright that he nearly jumped. He had thought those two old geezers from Spirit Hall had somehow snuck silently to his bedside to murder him.

"Ah Yin, it's you!"

Even the vibrant sea-blue dress could not conceal her graceful, curvaceous figure. Her delicate skin brimmed with life and vitality, and her perfectly proportioned body was flawless. Ah Yin had always been beautiful, but the tragic memories in her mind had left an unshakable sorrow in her eyes, making her especially pitiful.

Ah Yin: "..."

You only noticed now?

I've been sitting here for ages, ignored for ages.

Originally, she had wanted to ask Xu Yu whether he could restrict that little girl A Lan's ability to freely enter and leave the tome. But when the words reached her lips, she simply could not say them. Though the two shared one body, what right did she have to restrict A Lan's freedom? That would be far too selfish.

It was just that, as the tome's owner, Xu Yu slept like the dead every night. He definitely did not know that ever since A Lan had gained the freedom to enter and leave the tome, she would secretly sneak out in the middle of every night, when no one was around, and crawl into his arms to sleep with him.

A little girl sleeping while hugging her big brother was perfectly normal, of course.

But she had a share in this body too.

Every time she woke in the middle of the night and found herself in a man's arms, she felt deeply guilty.

Although Xu Yu said she was a new life, a new beginning, those memories truly felt as though she had experienced them herself. How could she possibly forget them so easily?

Conflicted, sorrowful, complicated, lost.

That was Ah Yin's state of mind at the moment.

"Are you still agonizing over those memories? Once I become a Titled Douluo, I'll take you to see Tang Hao. I'll also take you back through the places in those memories that left the deepest impressions and see whether that can offset them."

During the first half of the night, he held the innocent A Lan as he slept. During the second half, he held the mature Ah Yin. Since he slept like the dead, it was naturally impossible for him to notice. Seeing the sorrow and confusion in Ah Yin's eyes, he assumed she was still troubled by those memories.

But in Xu Yu's heart, he still believed that this Ah Yin was that Ah Yin.

After all, if your memories were filled entirely with another person's memories, then you were obviously that other person.

Unless some great expert could distinguish their souls and determine whether the two souls were composed of the same thing, what difference was there between them?

It was like how he carried all the memories of his previous life. Naturally, Xu Yu was the Xu Yu from his previous life, not the Xu Yu of Douluo Continent.

When he awakened, he had first possessed all his memories from his previous life. Only afterward had his original body passed on some scattered memories, which might as well have been nothing. Naturally, he was one hundred percent an Earthling.

Besides, he had the Summoning Tome to verify his identity. There was no way it could be wrong.

But Ah Yin was different. She had been reborn, not transmigrated. There were no clear traces of two worlds, so either interpretation worked.

So... ahem, ahem. Since Xu Yu preferred to think of her as a newly born generation, then naturally he chose the latter explanation.

Still, this made Xu Yu understand why transmigrators always had cheats. Without some peerless treasure protecting their original memories, what difference would there be between them and the natives even if they transmigrated? Transmigrators without cheats were natives. He had uncovered the truth.

Mm! That's the truth! Xu Yu pinched his chin, praising and affirming himself.

Watching Xu Yu secretly lose himself in thought, Ah Yin's eyes revealed a hint of helplessness. Couldn't he just have a proper conversation with her? What was he daydreaming about?

With a sigh, Ah Yin went back to sleep, her body gradually shrinking as A Lan emerged.

The moment she came out and saw Xu Yu, A Lan jumped onto the bed, stood over him, and sprawled across his back, waving her tiny hand in front of his eyes.

Once he came to his senses, Xu Yu let out a miserable howl.

How had the mature, beautiful Ah Yin vanished in the blink of an eye?

"Bad guy, I'll bite you." A Lan saw the look in Xu Yu's eyes perfectly clearly and immediately got angry.

Wasn't he just looking down on her for not being grown up yet? Once she reached a hundred thousand years of cultivation, she would have a body like Sister Ah Yin's too—the kind of figure bad guys liked.

But he dared to dislike her? Absolutely not. She was going to bite him.

"Alright, alright. I'll take you out to buy lollipops. Be good and don't be angry."

Xu Yu gave up on sleeping as well. With A Lan biting his ear, there was no way he could sleep anyway. Helplessly, he could only abandon this perfectly good morning for sleeping.