Loli and Giant Beast? Wrong! It Was Loli and Giant Beast!

The wind swept across the lake, stirring fine ripples and fluttering the hem of Lin Qing's clothes.

He could sense that the Sky Azure Bull Python was deep in thought.

After a long while.

The Sky Azure Bull Python—Da Ming—slowly lowered its enormous bull head, its deep azure eyes staring at Lin Qing from close range.

That gaze seemed capable of piercing through flesh and reaching the depths of his soul.

"Human, Lin Qing."

Its voice rolled across the lake like muffled thunder, slow and heavy.

"Everything you have said concerns time and the future. It is far too inconceivable. I cannot fully believe you based solely on a single scale and your words."

Two streams of white breath tinged with moisture puffed from its enormous nostrils.

"Unless you can bring the child you mentioned, Big Sister Xiao Wu's daughter Lin Wu'er, here. I must see her with my own eyes and verify it myself."

Hearing this, Lin Qing's heart settled, and he instead felt relieved.

As long as they had demands, things would be manageable. What he feared was someone utterly unmoved by reason or persuasion.

"That won't be a problem."

"I came this time precisely because I hoped to earn your trust. That way, I can bring Wu'er to see you later. She also misses you two uncles very much."

"Uncles..."

The Sky Azure Bull Python's expression shifted.

A strange feeling suddenly welled up within it.

Having played the emotional card to this point.

Lin Qing promptly changed the subject and raised the practical difficulty.

"However, Da Ming, I hope that you can meet us when I come next time."

"I don't even have a Soul Ring right now, and my strength has been greatly reduced. Bringing Wu'er alone into the depths of the Star Dou Great Forest would be far too risky."

He was telling the truth.

On his way here, he had needed to carefully take many detours just to avoid those terrifying Soul Beasts over seventy or eighty thousand years old.

Traveling with a child would truly have him on edge every step of the way.

"Fine."

The Sky Azure Bull Python agreed almost without hesitation.

It turned its head toward the Titan Giant Ape beside it, who was still fuming and did not quite understand the situation, and instructed:

"Er Ming, you will escort him out of the forest later. As for the rendezvous point..."

It shifted its gaze back to Lin Qing.

"You decide. Once you have chosen it, tell Er Ming."

Joy immediately appeared on Lin Qing's face.

With Er Ming, the "King of the Forest," personally escorting him both ways, his sense of security would be maxed out!

At the very least, within the Star Dou Great Forest, probably not many Soul Beasts would dare come looking for trouble.

"Then it's settled."

Time flew by.

Another seven days passed.

At the edge of the Star Dou Great Forest, a figure entered with three tiny shadows in tow.

It was Lin Qing, who had returned after leaving.

This time, however, three exquisitely adorable little lolis chattered around him—his three daughters, Rou Rou, Qing Zhu, and Wu'er.

"Dad, the trees here are so tall and huge! They're way, way bigger than the woods behind the academy!"

Lin Rourou's curious eyes were wide open.

She looked left and right, filled with wonder at everything around her.

Lin Qingzhu, meanwhile, quietly followed at Lin Qing's side. Her little hand clutched the hem of his clothes as she warily observed the dark surroundings.

She softly asked, "Dad, what exactly are we here to do?"

Lin Qing held Qing Zhu's hand and answered with a smile.

"Mainly, I brought you here to obtain your First Soul Rings. There are many kinds of Soul Beasts here, so we can find the ones most suitable for you."

He paused, lowered his head toward Lin Wu'er, who was hopping and skipping on his other side, and rubbed her little head.

"Of course, there's also a special mission. Wu'er, do you want to see your Uncle Da Ming and Uncle Er Ming?"

"Uncle Da Ming? Uncle Er Ming?!"

Lin Wu'er abruptly stopped and lifted her small face, surprise shining in her eyes.

"Really, Dad? Can we really see them? Now? Here?"

She had always thought she would have to return to the "future" before she could see her two uncles again!

Lin Qing smiled mysteriously and pointed deeper into the forest.

"Come on. You'll know once we get there."

Based on the direction he had previously agreed upon with Er Ming.

Lin Qing led his three daughters toward that concealed rendezvous point.

It was a small clearing located within a valley.

Towering cliff walls and ancient trees surrounded it, making it relatively secluded.

As they drew near.

They could see from afar a pitch-black figure like a small mountain, sitting idly atop a massive boulder in the center of the clearing.

The Titan Giant Ape, Er Ming, had clearly sensed their approach as well.

Its enormous head immediately turned toward the direction Lin Qing and the others had come from.

Its previously lazy eyes instantly sharpened with vigilance, and a faint yet ferocious aura radiated from its body.

But when it saw that the visitor was Lin Qing—and especially when it saw the three little girls beside him.

When it precisely caught that familiar and affectionate aura from Wu'er, the girl with the scorpion braid and lively eyes and brows, the terrifying aura around its body abruptly froze.

And when Lin Wu'er saw the Titan Giant Ape.

She first froze.

Then an incomparably radiant smile bloomed across her face.

She broke free from Lin Qing's hand and ran toward that "black mountain" like a joyful little deer.

As she ran, she waved her little hands, her clear cry echoing through the valley:

"Wow! Uncle Er Ming! It really is Uncle Er Ming!!!"

The little girl's voice was filled with pure joy and the delight of reunion.

The Titan Giant Ape, Er Ming, visibly stiffened.

It lowered its head.

Its lantern-sized eyes stared blankly and unblinkingly at the tiny figure cheering as she ran toward it.

Those eyes and brows, that smile, and Xiao Wu's distinctive, familiar aura... though it was much fainter and mixed with a human scent.

Yet the core feeling was unmistakably Big Sister Xiao Wu!

She... was the child Big Brother had mentioned, Big Sister Xiao Wu's daughter?

Er Ming's limited brain capacity processed the information.

Its enormous head tilted in confusion, and for a moment, it did not know how to react.

Looking at the tiny child who had already run to its feet and was gazing up at it with a smile.

Er Ming lowered its body with extreme care and gently laid its enormous palm, as large as a house, flat upon the open ground before Lin Wu'er.

The movement was so gentle that it hardly resembled the Forest Overlord capable of smashing a small hill with one slap.

Lin Wu'er was clearly extremely familiar with this routine.

With a cheer, she climbed onto Er Ming's palm using both hands and feet, its surface covered in thick calluses and coarse fur.

After finding her footing.

She happily waved toward Er Ming's enormous face as though she were standing on flat ground.

"Uncle Er Ming, it's me, Wu'er! Look, I've grown a tiny bit taller!"

That familiar and intimate attitude completely dispelled the last trace of doubt in Er Ming's heart.

She really was Big Sister Xiao Wu's child!

She knew me!

She wasn't afraid of me!

Though this was his first time meeting her, she felt extraordinarily dear to him.

A strange emotion, mixed with sorrow, delight, and tenderness, surged into the Titan Giant Ape's simple mind.

It could not speak.

"Roar..."

It could only emit a few low growls from its throat, no longer carrying any anger. Instead, they sounded somewhat clumsy and gentle, like a giant beast's reply.

Lin Rourou and Lin Qingzhu also widened their eyes at this moment.

Their little mouths hung slightly open as they watched the bizarre scene of "loli and giant beast" before them in shock.