Little Black Little White

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"Not bad, little junior brother. You're pretty impressive."

Being thwarted twice in a row did nothing to shake Hu Liena's confidence.

Although Hu Liena was the same age as Su Chen, she had received professional Soul Master training since childhood.

Even if her soul skill was ineffective, she could still rely on the most basic hand-to-hand combat.

With a sharp cry, Hu Liena lunged forward, her hands shaped like claws.

"Senior Sister, calm down!"

Su Chen was still figuring out his first soul skill. Caught off guard, he was immediately pounced on by Hu Liena.

Fortunately, the bed was right behind him, so he was not hurt.

"Call me Senior Sister~"

Straddling Su Chen, Hu Liena looked like a triumphant victor.

She lightly ran a slender finger across the tip of his nose, then leaned close to his ear and whispered.

"If you call me big sister, there'll be a reward~"

"..."

Their eyes met, and Su Chen's face instantly turned red.

"Se... Senior Sister, stop messing around."

Sure enough, even without taking her martial soul into account, Hu Liena herself was a natural beauty.

"Alright, Nana. Get down. Stop teasing him."

Bibi Dong shook her head helplessly. This little girl was still so young, yet she was already acting like this.

Who knew what she would become when she grew up?

Imagining what Hu Liena would look like as an adult, Bibi Dong could not help sighing inwardly.

Martial souls really had quite an influence on people. This little Nana was becoming more and more improper.

"Teacher, you're no fun. It wasn't easy getting a little junior brother, and you won't even let me play with him."

After being stopped by Bibi Dong, Hu Liena reluctantly climbed off Su Chen and stood to the side.

"I was just playing around. What could possibly happen?"

Hu Liena pouted, clasping her hands behind her back as she argued unhappily.

She had already thought of all sorts of ways to tease this newly arrived little junior brother.

So what if big sister can't beat you? Can't I still deal with you?

"Su Chen, what is your first soul skill? Have you mastered it?"

Generally speaking, one would master a soul skill after absorbing a soul ring.

However, Su Chen's martial soul was unusual, so Bibi Dong could not be certain.

"I think... probably."

Sitting up from the bed, Su Chen once again tried to activate his soul ring.

Unexpectedly, the entire soul ring began to rotate slowly.

One black, one white.

Two Soul Power spheres the size of ping-pong balls flew out from the soul ring.

Then...

Then there was nothing else.

"Is there no other effect?"

Bibi Dong asked speechlessly. He had made such a huge fuss just to release Soul Power, and this was the soul skill?

"I'll try again."

Continuing to channel his Soul Power into the soul ring, Su Chen attempted to use his first soul skill.

But the soul ring merely continued rotating slowly, with no new changes.

Instead, the black-and-white Soul Power spheres began to change.

The Soul Power spheres, originally only the size of ping-pong balls, gradually grew larger.

Then, they actually opened their eyes and began circling Su Chen affectionately.

"What are these?"

Looking at the two adorable Soul Power spheres, Bibi Dong's maternal instincts flared up at once.

With great interest, she extended a finger, wanting to touch the two little fellows.

"Ah~ mm."

"Ah~"

But the moment Bibi Dong's finger drew near, the two little ones—one black, one white—immediately pounced on it.

Then, one on each side, they clamped onto Bibi Dong's fingertips and began to suck.

"Enough nonsense."

The sensation of having two Soul Power spheres suck on her fingers was peculiar, like infants nursing from their mother.

It made Bibi Dong, now a mother herself, recall those unbearable memories once more.

Her master, whom she had always respected, had actually done something so shameless to her.

It had dealt the Bibi Dong of that time a devastating blow.

However, Bibi Dong quickly realized something was wrong.

Though their actions were no different from infants nursing, what they were sucking away was Soul Power.

Relying on her formidable Soul Power of over level ninety, Bibi Dong casually waved her hand and sent the two little ones flying.

"Wuwu..."

The two little ones knew they could not contend with the woman before them.

They could only fly back to Su Chen with innocent expressions, whimpering as if they were complaining.

"Alright, alright. You mustn't randomly absorb other people's Soul Power next time."

Gently stroking the little heads of the two Soul Power clusters, Su Chen comforted them.

"How about I call you Little Black and Little White from now on?"

They should have felt extremely sinister and cold, yet in his hands, they unexpectedly gave off a warm sensation.

"These two little ones feel strangely familiar."

Lacking any talent for naming things, Su Chen gave them two simple, straightforward names, but that was enough to make the two little ones extremely excited.

However, their forms soon began to fade away, returning to nothingness.

"Nana, take Su Chen around Spirit City first. I've arranged for him to hunt a Soul Ring tomorrow."

Bibi Dong was, after all, the Pope and had many affairs to attend to.

She could not possibly spend too much time with the two children, and she left soon afterward.

"Come, follow your big sister. I'll show you around our Spirit City properly. You should know that this is the most prosperous place on the entire Douluo Continent."

The moment Bibi Dong finished speaking, Hu Liena impatiently grabbed Su Chen's hand and dragged him out.

Hu Liena was not exaggerating.

Spirit Hall had built Spirit City largely to display its strength, using it to intimidate the Heaven Dou Empire and the Star Luo Empire and secure its position.

As such, the entire Spirit City was incomparably prosperous; even the capitals of the two great empires paled in comparison.

Spirit City was not large, roughly equivalent to a medium-sized city.

It stood at the border between the two great empires and was a power independent of both.

Its city walls stood eighty meters tall, constructed entirely from granite. The cost was naturally beyond calculation.

After Hu Liena pulled him out, Su Chen did not rush to go sightseeing. Instead, he first obtained a map, then came to the city wall to carefully study the magnificent structure.

Spirit City differed somewhat from ordinary cities. Most cities were quadrilateral, but Spirit City had actually been built in a hexagonal shape.

It was said that this design echoed the formation used to awaken martial souls.

"Does every section of the city wall have Soul Master patrols like this?"

Raising his head to look toward the city wall, Su Chen asked as he watched the flags fluttering above it.

"Of course. Every section has a patrol team. I think the weakest among them are at least level forty."

Having lived in Spirit City since childhood, Hu Liena did not find this unusual at all.

"Every section of the wall has a patrol team of at least thirty people. Every one of them is at minimum a Soul Ancestor."

Su Chen muttered to himself. Only then did he truly understand the terrifying strength of Spirit Hall.

"You really don't know how shocking it is until you see it for yourself."

A full one hundred and eighty Soul Ancestors—even the Upper Three Sects could not easily produce such a force.

And this was merely the tip of Spirit Hall's iceberg, not even counting the Soul Masters stationed in its branch halls across the land.

"Alright, alright, stop worrying about that stuff. What kind of person ignores a beautiful girl right beside him just to ask about these things?"

Hu Liena shook Su Chen's arm in dissatisfaction, habitually beginning to act coquettishly.