Pulling up Froggy's travel log, Su Mo discovered that after leaving Suotuo City, Froggy had wandered all over the place, sometimes hitching rides on other people's carriages, until he eventually reached Heaven Dou City.
He skipped the irrelevant bits and started directly from Heaven Dou City.
[Froggy stood outside Heaven Dou City, gazing at the hundred-meter-high granite walls and the soldiers patrolling above and below them, utterly awestruck. Once inside, he found everything fresh and fascinating, like a country bumpkin...]
"Heaven Dou City, huh..."
Even the log's brief description made Su Mo want to see it for himself.
[While Froggy was wandering around, a little girl suddenly crouched in front of him. She had ear-length hair, skin as white as snow, and rather luxurious clothes. Her big, watery eyes were so adorable they shot right past the heavens, and she looked just like a little princess who had stepped out of a fairy tale...]
Su Mo: "..."
As long as he hadn't run into Snow White.
[Froggy heard the little princess praise him. "Little froggy, you're sooo cute!" He rolled his eyes and thought, Do you even need to tell me that? Obviously, I'm the world's number-one, unbeatable little cutie!...]
"Hehe, my froggy nephew's pretty full of himself."
Tian Meng watched with delight. "But obviously, I'm the cutest!"
Su Mo: "..."
Heh. Two narcissists.
[Froggy then heard the little princess ask, "Little froggy, will you be my friend?" He nodded at once. He never refused to make friends, especially with a little princess. Besides, he wanted to know what would happen when the Frog Prince met Snow White...]
"Pfft!"
Su Mo had been drinking water in his dorm room and sprayed it all out when he reached that part.
"You little brat, you want to turn into a prince?"
[Froggy played with the little princess all afternoon, visiting almost every one of Heaven Dou City's busiest streets and eating plenty of delicious food. Just then, a refined middle-aged man came up beside the little princess and said, "Rongrong, time to go home..."]
"Huh? Rongrong? Could that be Ning Rongrong?"
Su Mo found it unbelievable. What kind of luck did Froggy have?
"Whoa! My froggy nephew ran into the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's little princess!" Tian Meng grew even more curious about what happened next.
Yet Su Mo was starting to get a headache.
"Hopefully, Froggy won't invite Ning Rongrong over. Otherwise, won't the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect blow up?"
Su Mo glanced at the Frog House and confirmed that no extra living person had appeared, breathing a small sigh of relief. But whether Froggy would invite her in the future was another matter.
"Relax. Worst comes to worst, we just send her back."
Tian Meng took it in stride. Hearing that, Su Mo felt that was all they could do for now.
[Froggy heard the little princess answer, "Okay, Daddy!" Then she turned to him with pleading eyes. "Little froggy, can I take you home?" He thought for a moment, then shook his head in refusal. As a traveling frog, how could he become someone else's pet?...]
"Heh, so principled? Why don't I believe that?"
Su Mo sneered and kept reading.
[Froggy saw the little princess suddenly pull out a bag of Gold Soul Coins. "I'll give you money. I have lots and lots more at home." His eyes lit up, and he hastily agreed. After he followed the little princess home, she fetched several bags of Gold Soul Coins from her room and gave them to Froggy as promised...]
"Heh, you little rascal. You think your dad doesn't know exactly what you're like?"
Su Mo smiled smugly at having correctly predicted Froggy's behavior, then immediately checked Froggy's private room in the Frog House.
That room had been prepared for Froggy.
However, Froggy rarely returned to the Frog House to sleep. Usually, he just left things he picked up in that room, such as weapons, pebbles, little toys, strange medicinal herbs...
Aside from a tiny handful of valuable things, most of it was miscellaneous junk.
That was why Su Mo usually couldn't be bothered to look.
"Found them!" Su Mo discovered several bags of Gold Soul Coins in a pile of clutter. He counted them and found nearly ten thousand coins in total.
He had achieved financial freedom in one fell swoop.
"My good boy's really made something of himself..."
[Froggy played with the little princess in the castle every day. Sometimes, he rode on a white-robed grandpa and soared through the clouds. Sometimes, he pulled out a withered grandpa's hair, leaving the old man so heartbroken that tears fell...]
"Could those two old men be Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo?"
Su Mo had a vague suspicion.
[One day, Froggy learned that the little princess had reached rank ten and was preparing to absorb her first soul ring. After some thought, he told her about the effects of whale rubber. Half convinced, she relayed this to her father. After making inquiries and confirming it was true, he immediately began purchasing it in bulk...]
"Tsk. With the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's resources, they could probably snap up quite a lot. Whether they use it themselves or resell it later, they're guaranteed a profit."
Su Mo felt rather envious.
But that was fine. He had resources of his own. Nearly a million three-leaf clovers were a considerable fortune as well.
[Froggy learned that the little princess had absorbed a piece of thousand-year whale rubber. Her physical constitution had improved, allowing her to absorb a Thousand-Year Soul Ring. Extremely grateful to Froggy, the little princess asked what he wanted...]
"Whoa! Is the little rich girl handing out rewards?"
Su Mo and Tian Meng instantly perked up.
[Froggy thought it over. Asking for money was too tacky, and he already had some anyway, so he said he wanted something extremely valuable. The little princess thought for a long time but couldn't decide what was most valuable. In the end, she gave Froggy her sect's exclusive secret technique...]
"An exclusive secret technique?"
Su Mo froze. Did the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect have something like that?
He searched Froggy's room again and found a small booklet. Four characters were written on its cover: "Heart Separation Control."
"So it's this. This really is good stuff."
Delighted, Su Mo immediately told Tian Meng, "Learn the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's exclusive secret technique when you have time. This is a divine skill for beasts of burden... pfft, I mean, a divine skill for overtime. It lets you do multiple things at once."
Tian Meng: "..."
As a million-year-old spiritual soul beast, you think I don't know how?
I'd have to be out of my mind to use it, though.
Am I not exhausted enough already?
Unfortunately, he still couldn't escape in the end. Tian Meng felt that his future was utterly bleak.
[That day, Froggy accompanied the little princess to the Sunset Forest to hunt for a soul ring. The little princess successfully absorbed a Thousand-Year Soul Ring, but a soul beast suddenly attacked. The white-robed grandpa casually crippled it with one stroke of his sword. Froggy went up to deliver the finishing blow, and a Thousand-Year Soul Ring dropped...]
Su Mo: "..."
The corner of his mouth twitched. So this was where the soul ring that had nearly killed him came from.
Froggy was as reckless as ever.
Luckily, Tian Meng had been there back then. Even in that situation, they could still forcefully absorb it.
And now that they had three-leaf clovers, there was even less to fear.
From now on, Froggy, pick up any soul rings you find without hesitation. If you manage to find a hundred-thousand-year one, Daddy will give you a loving father's hug.
[The white-robed grandpa happened to see Froggy absorbing the soul ring. His face filled with shock and suspicion. "Are you a soul master or a soul beast in human form?" Froggy shook his head. Worried that keeping an unknown being beside the little princess would be dangerous, the white-robed grandpa prepared to kill him for a Soul Bone drop...]
"Hiss!"
Su Mo and Tian Meng both sucked in a breath of cold air.
Froggy wouldn't get killed, would he?
At least Su Mo hadn't felt anything yet, which meant Froggy was still safe.
He immediately kept reading-