"I'll let you off this time."
"If there's a next time, we won't go easy on you!"
Beside the lake, blue as the sky, stood two barefoot beauties who looked like twins.
They rested their smooth, fair little feet in a rectangular pool of ice.
Wang Qiu'er and Wang Dong'er both had a lovely blush on their faces.
Huo Yuhao stood beside them with a grin, holding a white object in his hand.
Wang Qiu'er washed her little feet. "It's all your fault. What if they start to smell?"
Wang Dong'er's lovely brows knit together. "Why is your ice so cold? Yuhao, standing on it feels awful."
Wang Qiu'er seemed to enjoy standing in the water. "No, it doesn't. It's cool and comfortable!"
"Oh, I know. You're usually too lazy to exercise and neglect your physical fitness."
"There, see? You lazy little late sleeper. Now everyone can tell how weak you are."
Wang Dong'er looked unconvinced. "What are you talking about? I could already handle a Thousand-Year Soul Ring for my Second Soul Ring."
"My physical fitness is better than 99% of people my age. How can you say I'm weak?"
Wang Qiu'er spread her hands. "You can't even handle this cold, and you're saying you're physically fit?"
"And you're proud of having a Thousand-Year Soul Ring as your Second Soul Ring? As if nobody else has one."
"My Third Soul Ring is a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring. Can you manage that?" Wang Qiu'er shot Wang Dong'er a challenging look.
Wang Dong'er retorted, "What's so impressive about having a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring as your Third Soul Ring? It's not like I can't do that."
"Just you wait. When I come back after the semester ends, my Third Soul Ring will definitely be a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring."
"Ooh, ooh, ooh!" Wang Qiu'er gave a cheeky flutter of her pretty eyelashes.
"I'd almost forgotten. Your Second Soul Ring is at the same level as mine and Yuhao's."
"But you're still only a Soul Grandmaster. That's pretty pathetic!"
"With the talent you've shown, you should have no trouble becoming a Soul Elder by now, as long as you put in the effort."
"If you're still a Soul Grandmaster, that means you're all talk and no action. You clearly don't care about cultivation at all!"
In her ten-thousand-plus years, Wang Qiu'er hadn't exactly spent much time cultivating.
But with her long life behind her, Wang Qiu'er said all that without batting an eye.
Wang Dong'er had no comeback. Her cultivation habits were just as Wang Qiu'er had described—or even worse.
"You... Don't get cocky. The east may be down today, but the west will rise tomorrow. Don't look down on a girl just because she's poor."
"Your cultivation is higher than mine now, but who knows what the future holds?"
Wang Qiu'er shot back, "The future is the future. The present is the present!"
"My cultivation is higher than yours right now, and I'm physically stronger than you."
"Besides, isn't it a bit ridiculous to argue based on the future?"
"You... Drink my foot bath water, then!" Seeing she couldn't win the argument, Wang Dong'er stamped her snowy foot on the ice.
The clear lake water instantly splashed across Wang Qiu'er's white dress.
"Are you crazy?" Wang Qiu'er wiped the water from her face and glared at Wang Dong'er.
Wang Dong'er planted her hands on her hips triumphantly. "Heh, heh! Looks like my foot bath water works pretty well. That shut your big mouth right up!"
Wang Qiu'er gave a soft snort. "You think you're the only one who can splash water?"
"Try getting a taste of this!" Wang Qiu'er raised her long, shapely leg high and stamped on the ice.
Wang Qiu'er put at least half her strength into the stomp, drenching Wang Dong'er from head to toe.
"You brat, you're way too vindictive! I only splashed you a little!"
Wang Dong'er was so angry that she immediately activated Martial Soul Possession. The Light Goddess Butterfly's wings swept over the water, sending up a huge splash.
Now Wang Qiu'er was drenched, too. She was soaked from head to toe.
Wang Qiu'er wasn't about to let herself be outdone. "You splashed me twice, and I only splashed you once!"
With her Golden Dragon Martial Soul possessed, Wang Qiu'er swiped at the water, soaking Wang Dong'er completely.
The two of them were thoroughly riled up, neither willing to back down as they splashed water at each other.
Huo Yuhao quietly connected a pipe from the ice pool to Sea God Lake.
As Huo Yuhao poured in Soul Power, the clear water from Sea God Lake kept flowing into the pool where Wang Dong'er and Wang Qiu'er were.
Huo Yuhao watched the water fight between Wang Dong'er and Wang Qiu'er with keen interest.
At the same time, he activated his Spirit Eyes' first Soul Skill, Spirit Detection Sharing.
If anyone came near, Huo Yuhao would immediately whisk away the two soaked girls.
Huo Yuhao took in Wang Dong'er and Wang Qiu'er as they were now.
The colors underneath weren't much different from those on the outside. One had a cartoon bear printed on it, while the other's looked a bit like a dragon.
That was normal enough for girls their age.
But it wouldn't do once they got a little older. Huo Yuhao would have to pick out suitable ones for them himself.
Gradually, Wang Dong'er and Wang Qiu'er realized something was wrong as they splashed water at each other.
They'd splashed each other dozens of times, if not a hundred, so why hadn't the water level dropped at all?
That was strange!
Wang Qiu'er and Wang Dong'er temporarily called a truce and glanced around at the same time.
Huo Yuhao was so engrossed in watching the little red dots that he didn't notice the two had stopped.
"So that's it! While the snipe and clam fight, the fisherman profits!"
"Huo Yuhao, how dare you pull something so rotten behind our backs!"
When Wang Dong'er and Wang Qiu'er saw the pipe feeding water into the pool, they immediately understood what had happened.
Furious, they used their Soul Power to drag Huo Yuhao over.
"Now you can have a taste, too!"
Huo Yuhao hadn't been prepared at all. Wang Qiu'er and Wang Dong'er pinned him in the icy water, right beside their feet.
"Drink up!"
"Take big gulps!"
Pinned between the two of them, Huo Yuhao was dunked in and out of the water. He wasn't a strong swimmer and choked on several mouthfuls.
"A man can be killed, but not humiliated!"
Huo Yuhao began to fight back. Excitement was written all over Wang Qiu'er and Wang Dong'er's faces. The more he struggled, the more determined they were to make him pay!
The two pushed Huo Yuhao even deeper, until he was submerged past their smooth feet.
Huo Yuhao kept struggling with all his might, though Wang Dong'er and Wang Qiu'er occasionally felt a sudden tickle on their toes.
But they were so absorbed in "tormenting" Huo Yuhao that they paid no attention to the details. Wang Dong'er and Wang Qiu'er were having far too much fun.
Just then, a red dot appeared and disappeared in the distant mist above Sea God Lake.
Under its glow, the hazy mist began to evaporate at an alarming rate.
Before long, a dark red figure shot toward Huo Yuhao and the others with incredible speed.
Huo Yuhao and the two girls were having such a good time that they only sensed the astonishing aura a second before it arrived. All three turned to look.
A cloud of flame, red as a rosy cloud, was rushing toward them.
"Careful! Something seems to be coming!"
"Everyone, get ready!"
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