Xiao Wu murmured that she had remembered Luo Mo saying he would erase the Soul Beast Aura from her, but she hadn't felt anything at the time and wasn't sure whether he had really done it.
She hadn't expected him to actually erase it.
Brother Luo Mo really had done it for her?
And according to what Erming had said, the aura on her had apparently been transferred onto Tang San.
Although she didn't understand why Luo Mo and Tang San clearly didn't get along, and she wasn't sure whether the two were enemies, since Luo Mo had told her not to mention it, she wouldn't.
Besides, she had to protect their little secret.
"Luo Mo transferred the Soul Beast Aura from me to Tang San. This matter concerns his safety, so I hope you can keep it secret."
Daming and Erming already knew that her Soul Beast Aura was now on Tang San. Rather than risk a misunderstanding, it was better to be frank and ask them to keep it quiet.
Luo Mo smiled, then looked at Xiao Wu.
This little girl seemed to have quite a few secrets.
"Don't worry, Sister Xiao Wu. I, Luo Mo, would never let it slip." He thumped his chest with a promise, then turned to look at Daming, a hint of amusement in his eyes.
"You're Luo Mo?"
"Ah, Erming. It's been a long time since you took human form. I almost didn't recognize you." Luo Mo smiled and greeted him as though they were old friends.
"Who are you?"
Erming seemed not to recognize him.
"I'm that green bull python you invited to your home as a guest. Have you forgotten?"
Luo Mo knew Daming and Erming were wary of strangers, so he used the identity of a soul beast he had once pretended to be.
"Huh? You're that guy who ran off with Sister Xiao Wu?"
"Heh, that was the green bull python." Luo Mo corrected him.
Erming's eyes narrowed. "You little brat. Green bull python or Titan Giant Ape, I don't care. You took Sister Xiao Wu away and made me search all over for her!"
As he spoke, he looked ready to attack.
But Xiao Wu immediately stepped in front of Luo Mo and shielded him.
"Erming, don't be like that. Luo Mo was the one who taught me how to transform. He helped me a lot..."
Meanwhile, Xiao Wu had also brought up her own "secret."
From inviting Luo Mo home as a guest, to erasing her Soul Beast Aura, and then blending into the human village, she had now even entered an academy...
After they heard everything, Daming and Erming decided not to bring up the matter of her running away with Luo Mo, out of consideration for all he had done for Xiao Wu.
Still, they couldn't help feeling a little displeased.
She called me Sister Xiao Wu, but Sister Xiao Wu calls you Brother Luo Mo. What am I supposed to call you?
"By the way, Sister Xiao Wu, recently a terrifying old monster appeared in the Star Dou Great Forest. It turned the forest upside down, all to find an ice silkworm."
Daming suddenly let out a sigh.
"Ice silkworm?" Xiao Wu exclaimed in her heart.
There was no mistake. The old monster she had seen in the spatial rift was probably looking for that ice silkworm.
The silkworm's family had already formed an alliance with Luo Mo...
Couldn't she tell Luo Mo about it?
Fortunately, no one else knew. That old monster probably wouldn't come looking for them.
In the sea of Luo Mo's consciousness, Tianmeng Ice Silkworm was shaking in terror. "What do we do? What do we do? It's still after me! I'm done for!"
"Calm down. You already died once. It can't find you." Luo Mo tried to reassure it.
"But what if it finds you?"
"What are you afraid of? I'm not in the Star Dou Great Forest."
"That's because you announced your name so loudly earlier. How could it possibly not find you?"
Luo Mo fell silent. "Don't worry. It doesn't know you're with me."
"Huh? Tianmeng was shocked for a moment. "That's right. It couldn't possibly find me."
Tianmeng's face lit up. "Ah, I feel much better now."
Luo Mo turned to Daming. "Daming, what does that old monster look like?"
Daming gave Xiao Wu a sidelong glance, displeased.
You can even ask that about her name?
Still, for Xiao Wu's sake, he didn't make a fuss.
"It's an external-eyed demon. Its strength is far greater than mine, and its origins are difficult to fathom."
Luo Mo was startled. An external-eyed demon king?
One of the Ten Great Ferocious Beasts, ranked fifth. It had cultivated for more than fifty thousand years and was the strongest plant-type soul beast in the Star Dou Great Forest.
He hadn't expected the Demon Eye Tree King to have appeared so early.
"By the way, how did you find the Soul Beast Village?" Luo Mo asked curiously. He wondered if he had left any clues.
Daming was surprised too.
"That old monster kept looking for an ice silkworm. Somehow, it got involved with a black-clothed man. I followed the black-clothed man's trail."
"I kept following him, but I ended up at a plantation. I didn't find the black-clothed man or anything related to the ice silkworm. Instead, I happened to learn about Xiao Wu's whereabouts, and followed her here."
Luo Mo was astonished.
That black-clothed man was Tang Chen?
It couldn't have been you.
He'd been careless and exposed Ah Yin's identity as a soul beast, which brought on one disaster after another. In the end, his wife became a soul ring, his father died of rage, and the Clear Sky Sect was forced into seclusion.
He was still learning from his mistakes.
Then, because he'd been careless again and drawn the Demon Eye Tree King's attention, it was fortunate that he'd been at the Soul Beast Village. Otherwise, he would have ended up in a life-or-death struggle with Tang Chen.
Suddenly, he thought of a brilliant plan.
He looked toward Daming and Erming. "Were you following a black-clothed man earlier?"
Luo Mo had already pulled his thoughts together, but he wasn't certain of the whole story.
Still, judging by how fierce their aura was and how they'd described the old monster, it seemed they had run into Tang Chen and even fought him. Tang Chen couldn't have stood by and watched the two giant beasts attack him, so the encounter must have become a fight that shook half of the Star Dou Great Forest.
"I see."
"Then could you tell the old monster where you found the black-clothed man?"
"No." Daming shook his head.
Although they'd found the black-clothed man, they didn't know whether he was the one the Demon Eye Tree King was looking for. And since the old monster's search involved Xiao Wu, it was best not to reveal anything.
In any case, it would find the black-clothed man in the direction it had been searching.
Luo Mo rubbed his hands together. "I want you to reveal a little more."
"Hm?" Daming didn't understand.
Luo Mo reminded him, "When you go back, you can tell it where you found the black-clothed man."
"Just say that you followed the man's tracks to a plantation and then followed him into the Star Dou Great Forest. You fought him but lost. During the fight, though, you discovered that he used the Clear Sky Hammer, and suspect he belongs to the Clear Sky Sect."
"This way, you won't be punished for failing to catch him, and you might even earn a reward. Best of all, you won't have to keep searching for the ice silkworm like a headless fly."
Daming: "!!!"
Erming: "!!!"
The two soul beasts looked at Luo Mo in alarm.
They didn't care about the reward. But if they could avoid getting beaten—and even avoid having to search for that silkworm—that would be great.
Daming narrowed his eyes and looked at Luo Mo suspiciously. "What do you have against that man?"
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