"All right, Lang Lei, it's time for you to rest now."
"Aili, just let me practice a little longer. This body is truly far too frail..."
"No way~?"
"Even if Lang Lei says so, you still have to pay attention to balancing work and rest~?"
"Fine."
Lang Lei helplessly put down the huge boulder in his hands. The boulder crashed into the ground, emitting a loud sound. It was hard to imagine that this six-year-old child had just been exercising while lifting such a massive rock.
"Honestly, with Lang Lei training like this, aren't you afraid you won't grow tall?"
"Of course not. Besides, Aili, you know me; I'm not that concerned about something like height." Lang Lei shrugged. "If anyone laughs at me in that regard, I'm confident that after they chop off their own head, they won't still be taller than me."
"Geez, why is a kid saying such creepy things? Lang Lei isn't being good~?"
"Aili, don't tell me you don't know my real age. Although I'm not as old as you, I can't exactly be called a kid anymore." Lang Lei said somewhat helplessly.
"Discussing a pretty girl's age is an absolute taboo option! And... doesn't Lang Lei look really cute right now~?"
"If we can't talk about age, does that mean we have to talk about weight?" Lang Lei put on a pensive look. "I remember it's fifty-five kilograms, right?"
"It's fifty-four point eight kilograms, and rounding up is not allowed!"
Listening to what sounded like a somewhat flustered voice coming from the depths of his mind, the corners of Lang Lei's mouth curved upward in an amused arc.
Teasing Elysia on a daily basis had already become one of Lang Lei's few hobbies that he had persisted with until now, and of course, both of them quite enjoyed the process.
"Oh well, who tells Miss Fairy to be so magnanimous that she won't stoop to the level of little Lang Lei~" Elysia's energetic voice sounded in Lang Lei's mind once again. "Speaking of which, today seems to be the day of little Lang Lei's martial soul awakening. To be honest, I'm quite curious about what little Lang Lei's martial soul is~?"
"Aili, please be sure to drop that 'little' in front of my name."
"Mm-hm~?"
Lang Lei shook his head helplessly, not dwelling on it any further. Since Elysia liked calling him that, he would just let her call him that; at most it was just like this anyway, and as long as she was happy, that was fine.
"It's about time to go back. If we're any later, Sister Xue and Sister Bing are going to start worrying."
"And then twist little Lang Lei's ear?"
"Aili, can we please not bring that up?"
"All right, let's hurry up and go~?" Elysia's cheerful voice sounded once again, seemingly jumping for joy at her own victory. "It's getting late, and little Lang Lei hasn't eaten breakfast yet, right?"
"..."
"Sister Xue, Sister Bing, I'm back!"
The names slipped smoothly out of his mouth, and Lang Lei didn't feel a shred of embarrassment.
After all, whether it was the six years of nurturing grace, or the age that he still couldn't surpass even when counting his past life, it didn't seem inappropriate at all for Lang Lei to call them that.
"Oh, Lang Lei is back. You've come just at the right time; your Sister Xue and I were just considering what clothes would be appropriate for you to wear to awaken your martial soul. Come over and take a look yourself." Seeing Lang Lei walk into the courtyard gate, Ice Empress immediately tossed her emerald hair and pulled Lang Lei into the house.
"Sister Xue, Sister Bing, this... is there any need for that?"
Looking at the clothes from his wardrobe dragged out all over the floor, and even seeing a few items in the mix that he had never laid eyes on before, the corners of Lang Lei's mouth twitched.
"There is very much a need!" ×3
Elysia in his mind had practically uttered the words simultaneously with Snow Empress and Ice Empress.
Lang Lei felt that their tacit understanding seemed to have been wasted on something utterly useless...
In the end, Lang Lei still failed to win against Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and Elysia, obediently putting on the clothes they wanted him to wear.
Of course, it wasn't women's clothing.
When it came to things like women's clothing, there were only zero times and countless times, and they'd have to beat him to death before he would ever wear it.
After Lang Lei was fussed over and dressed up with a look of utter despair on his face, the three of them finally left the courtyard and arrived on the street.
As early as six years ago, considering that Lang Lei was a human infant, Snow Empress and Ice Empress decided to move out of the Extreme North core area, bringing Lang Lei to live in a nearby human town so that Lang Lei could grow up more normally.
After all, apart from boundless snow as far as the eye could see, the Extreme North had virtually no intelligent living beings, which would undoubtedly be extremely detrimental to a child's growth.
A hundred-thousand-year soul beast in human form needed to contact human society to grow quickly, to say nothing of Lang Lei, who was a human to begin with.
That being said, Lang Lei seemed not to need these things in the first place; after all, he was not a true infant.
Along the way, the group of three naturally received quite a few gazes of attention. After all, Snow Empress and Ice Empress's stunning looks and appearances were right there, and very few people could manage to ignore them, though hardly anyone dared to come up and strike up a conversation or anything.
The reason wasn't very complicated either: when Snow Empress and Ice Empress first arrived, they taught a few scoundrels a lesson, and subsequent harassment became very rare.
Now, everyone in the entire town knew that Snow Empress and Ice Empress were distinguished Lord Soul Masters, and extremely powerful ones at that, so naturally not many people dared to court disaster with them. However, there were also quite a few who attempted to get their children on good terms with Lang Lei in order to forge a connection—this might also have been intentional on the part of Snow Empress and Ice Empress.
The three quickly arrived at the Spirit Hall branch established in this town. The place was not large, but it was more than enough for waking the martial souls of six-year-old children of appropriate age.
After all, the town was not particularly large, and coupled with the fact that it was near the Extreme North, very few households settled down here, so there still weren't very many children of the appropriate age of six each year.
Even the children who frequently swarmed around Lang Lei were mostly not of the same age, or rather, not locals.
Soon, the queue reached Lang Lei. Snow Empress gently patted Lang Lei on the shoulder to show encouragement. Although Ice Empress acted like she didn't care, her gaze still couldn't help following Lang Lei.
After all, with six years of companionship, even a stone would develop feelings...
To say he wasn't nervous would be impossible. Since he had come here, before possessing the strength to shatter all rules, he had to abide by the rules of this world.
Even though he had a few hidden cards of his own up his sleeve, none of those could be used as conventional enemy-defeating methods.
Besides, in his past life he was himself a Pathstrider of The Hunt and the Trailblaze, or rather... an Emanator. Although, according to Paimon, it was a bit too strange, the bottom line carved into his heart remained unchanged.
As the Spirit Hall soul master poured Soul Power into the Martial Soul Awakening Stone, Lang Lei's martial soul quickly manifested.
A cluster of green and purple intertwined light enveloped Lang Lei, and a name simultaneously surfaced in Lang Lei's heart -- Genesis Radiance!
"Oh, Lang Lei, your weapon is back~?"
A trace of a smile curved the corners of Lang Lei's mouth. Of course he knew.
Ambition of Patrolling Stars and Expanding the Universe, his old partner...
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