Chapter 40

"So what if she's a classmate? He is him, and Tang Hao is Tang Hao! Do you really think Tang Said can influence Tang Hao's mind?" Fei wished he could saw open Xiao Wu's head to see if her brain was made of a walnut kernel. "Why are you getting so angry? I was just speaking casually." Xiao Wu turned and left the small grove, walking toward the dormitory building. "Where are you going?" Fei asked with a frown. "To pack my bags, of course." Xiao Wu looked back, her pupils reflecting Fei's figure. Hearing this, Fei sighed. He knew Xiao Wu had made her decision to choose to return to the Star Dou Great Forest. Still, the same old saying applied. Even though he, Fei, was handsome and kind-hearted. It was impossible for him to strap Xiao Wu onto his body and carry her around everywhere. This was not only a form of torture for Xiao Wu, but it even tortured himself. "When you become a Soul Sage, come back to the human world to play." Fei said with a faint smile. "With my ability, even with diligent cultivation, it will still take eight or nine years for me to break through to a Soul Sage. Besides, the cultivation of a Soul Beast Transformation requires exposure to human aura, or else my cultivation will stagnate." Xiao Wu said with a bitter smile. Fei rolled his eyes and said indifferently, "Isn't that a few too many conditions? If I were you, I wouldn't transform into a human! Being a human isn't particularly great either!" Fei crossed his arms over his chest, tilting his head slightly to look at Xiao Wu, and asked, "Then if you just go back like this, aren't you afraid of running into danger? You're a human now, and the Star Dou Great Forest isn't peaceful either." A trace of disdain flashed in Xiao Wu's gaze. "I'll be careful, and that place is my home; I'm familiar with everything there. Once I arrive there, Da Ming, Er Ming, and the others will all be able to sense my aura and come to meet me." "Sigh... Fine, let me be a good person to the end and send you back to the Star Dou Great Forest. That way it'll be faster, too." Fei smiled slightly, stepping past Xiao Wu to take the lead. "A Fei, thank you." Xiao Wu wore a complicated expression, gently biting her thin lower lip. "Stop dawdling and let's go already. Since you made a trip to the human world after all, buy some local specialties on your way back for your two little brothers. For example... bananas or something." Fei said with a smile. A smile couldn't help blooming on Xiao Wu's pretty face. "Your humor is going too far. Even though Er Ming is a Titan Giant Ape, it doesn't eat bananas anymore." ... Three days later. The Star Dou Great Forest. The "Illusory Unicorn Flash Dash" carried both Fei and Xiao Wu on its back, with a large black bag hanging from underneath that loosely held many items. "We've reached the Star Dou Great Forest, why hasn't your little brother come to welcome you yet?" Fei glanced sideways at Xiao Wu behind him and asked with a puzzled look. "We're still too far away, and we're also flying too high. Fly a bit lower and go deeper inside." Xiao Wu said with a furrowed brow. She lowered her head slightly to look at the forest below, only to feel her scalp go numb. Gazing out at the endless scenery ahead, she had never felt that the Star Dou Great Forest was so vast. "It's so nice to be able to fly..." Just as Fei landed and switched to low-altitude flight, he heard Xiao Wu's soft murmur and didn't quite catch it clearly. "What did you just say?" "Nothing..." Xiao Wu shook her head. Suddenly, a cluttered patch of forest appeared ahead, and she cried out hastily, "Hey! Stinky A Fei, look in front!" "Lightning Drift! Blade Overtake!" Fei maneuvered the "Illusory Unicorn Flash Dash" to thread through the woods by a hair's breadth, drifting right along the edge. "Let me show you what real skill is!" "Yee-haw!" "Stinky A Fei! I'm not going to let this go!" Xiao Wu felt completely dizzy and disoriented; if not for her homemade safety belt, she would have already tumbled down. "Oh boy, what on earth is that?" Fei looked at the huge black shadow that suddenly appeared, and upon closer inspection, discovered it was actually a purplish-black spider of considerable size. The "Illusory Unicorn Flash Dash" could not dodge in time. Fei's operation wasn't quite at the master level yet. Added to the fact that the purplish-black spider was also charging straight toward him at that moment. "Bang!" Following a loud crash. After spinning twice, the "Illusory Unicorn Flash Dash" backed up a little and slowly came to a halt suspended in mid-air. Under the immense force of the "Illusory Unicorn Flash Dash", that purplish-black spider was also sent flying backward out of control, quite unluckily crashing into the trunk of a giant tree. "Oh no, we got into a car accident..." "It's all your fault for talking just now and distracting me." Fei drove the "Illusory Unicorn Flash Dash" in a slow approach, looking down at the purplish-black spider from a position of superiority. "My fault? Clearly, it's your own mistake!" Xiao Wu gave a light huff. "If it weren't for you... ugh..." Xiao Wu wanted to continue speaking, but the dizziness, compounded by Fei's earlier driving maneuvers, turned her stomach completely upside down, causing her to retch on the spot. "Even if I die, I, Xiao Wu, will absolutely never ride your "Illusory Unicorn Flash Dash" again in the future." "So dramatic." Fei handed a tissue to Xiao Wu, then resumed examining the purplish-black spider. "This soul beast seems to be a Man Faced Demon Spider, right? Its traits are somewhat similar to what was described in the textbooks." Fei eyed the human-face-like pattern on the abdomen of the Man Faced Demon Spider. It was precisely because of this human-face-like pattern that the Man Faced Demon Spider had earned that name. "So uncultured, truly terrifying! You don't even recognize a Man Faced Demon Spider; I really don't know how you managed to get through your studies these past few years!" Xiao Wu wiped the saliva from the corner of her mouth, her face full of disdain. "Look at you showing off, I don't think you're that smart either." Fei curled his lip. Noticing that the Man Faced Demon Spider was already down to more exhales than inhales, he couldn't help crying out in surprise. "A sin, what a sin!" "I didn't intend to kill you, but alas, you grew all those eyes for nothing and still didn't watch where you were going while walking. You even chipped the paint on my "Illusory Unicorn Flash Dash"." "Just let me end this ugly life of yours." I have to admit. This Man Faced Demon Spider was truly ugly. Fei's fifth soul ring suddenly flared brilliantly. He placed both hands at his waist with his fingers spread outward, and crimson energy condensed and appeared in an instant, dazzling like the sun. "Fifth Soul Skill · Radiant Flame Strike!" Fei pushed forward with both hands, and a pillar of fire erupted from his palms, instantly engulfing the entire body of the Man Faced Demon Spider. "Stinky A Fei, be careful not to set the forest on fire!" Xiao Wu reminded him. Feeling that the Man Faced Demon Spider should be pretty much done for, Fei stopped his movements and pulled back his hands. "I killed this Man Faced Demon Spider, aren't you heartbroken?" Fei asked with some curiosity. "Why on earth would I be heartbroken for it! Just a lousy spider, even if you hadn't made a move, I would have taken care of it! This Man Faced Demon Spider is practically the public enemy among soul beasts; I'd have to be sick in the head to feel bad for it!" Xiao Wu rolled her eyes, looking filled with righteous indignation. "Is this soul beast's reputation that bad?" Fei was somewhat surprised. At that moment, he suddenly noticed that where the Man Faced Demon Spider had been cremated by his fire, there was actually a streak of purple light that had not dissipated. "What is this thing? A bone?" Fei scooped that cluster of purple light into his hand and observed it with curiosity. At first glance, the bone consisted of a trunk spine connected to eight small bumps, presenting a very bizarre shape. "This is a soul bone, you country bumpkin, utterly uncultured!" Xiao Wu said dismissively. "A soul bone?" Fei's eyes lit up. He had certainly heard of this thing before! The legendary Treasure of the Blood River! Earlier, Tang Hao had even pulled out a emerald-green soul bone and given it to that stinky old man by Ning Rongrong's side. "I heard that soul bones have six parts, which are the head bone, trunk bone, and four limb bones. Is this soul bone a trunk bone?" Fei asked doubtfully. "This... it probably is..." Xiao Wu said somewhat uncertainly. "Come to think of it, soul beasts are truly strange. After dying, not only do they produce soul rings for humans to absorb, but they can also yield soul bones that match human body parts..." Fei furrowed his brow in thought. "Whatever, I'm not thinking about it, gives me a headache." Fei tossed his red hair, packed the soul bone away in a sack, and casually tied it to the back of the "Illusory Unicorn Flash Dash". "It looks like I'll have to find some time to figure out how to get a Storage Soul Tool to play with." "Things can't go on like this." "That's easy." Xiao Wu said with a smile. "I didn't understand back before I entered the human world, but thinking about it now, my mother left me a lot of soul tools and gold soul coins, and Da Ming, Er Ming, and the others have plenty of them too, which have always been stashed away without being touched. I'll give them to you next time."