My Martial Soul is My Fiancée in Douluo

"Could it be that I miss Xiao Nai so much that I'm hallucinating?"

Touching the fair, cute cheek of "Xiao Nai" once more, Zheng Li intended to retract "Xiao Nai"—well, to calm himself down.

"It seems that while you aren't dead, your brain has developed some issues," the female voice sounded again. "Your body also seems to have a problem."

The body she referred to was, naturally, Zheng Li's shrunken state.

"!!" Zheng Li's eyes widened abruptly. "Xi... Xiao Nai!!!"

He saw it; he saw "Xiao Nai's" lips move.

"No need to be so loud, I can hear you," Xiao Nai looked at Zheng Li calmly and said in a flat tone.

"You, you, you! System!! What is going on here?!" Zheng Li hurriedly asked aloud.

"System?" Although it was a question, Xiao Nai's voice remained indifferent. She looked at Zheng Li and said, "It seems you have encountered something extraordinary."

Zheng Li: "..."

To be so calm even after knowing of the system's existence, it really is Xiao Nai, isn't it...

"Ding! Host, are you surprised? Are you shocked?"

"Surprised? Shocked? My foot! Explain yourself quickly."

Xiao Nai: "So you aren't surprised to see me."

"No, no, no! That's not it, not at all!" Zheng Li hurriedly waved his hands to explain.

Xiao Nai stared at Zheng Li without speaking; there was no emotion on her face or in her eyes.

Seeing Xiao Nai like this, Zheng Li shivered all over. "Xiao Nai, could you please stop staring at me like that? It's very scary."

Xiao Nai remained unmoved.

At this moment, the system provided an explanation: "Host, what you thought before was correct. When performing a Martial Soul fusion, even if the host thinks of a sentient being, it will not possess sentience after becoming your Martial Soul. Even if you had thought of the Sea God Tang San, it would be the same."

"Of course, this does not affect the existence of the original entity. Theoretically, this belongs to a copy that is then transformed into the form of a Martial Soul."

"A copy?" Zheng Li had some ideas. "Then if I copied the Ancestral Dragon or something, and it was given to me directly without being transformed into a Martial Soul, wouldn't that make me invincible?"

"Host, your way of thinking is incorrect. Each World Gift Pack only contains items from its corresponding world. Even if it isn't, it will manifest in the form of an item from that corresponding world."

"Take a phoenix, for example. If the host does not choose it as a Martial Soul, it will become a Spirit Beast and then become your contracted Spirit Beast. Afterward, there will be two outcomes: one, the strength of the contracted Spirit Beast grows alongside the host; two, the strength of the contracted Spirit Beast will be limited to the level of a hundred, and it will recover the strength of its original form at the time of copying as the world level increases."

Zheng Li's eyes brightened slightly. "The second one is pretty good! If you calculate it that way..."

"I must ask the host not to try and find loopholes. The strength of the contracted Spirit Beast does not count toward the host's own strength! The host must reach level one hundred themselves."

Zheng Li rubbed his chin. "That's also quite good. Like a guardian, letting it find some heavenly treasures to push me to the peak..."

"Level one hundred means becoming a god, with combat power at the level of a God Official. Are you sure that if a Spirit Beast with divine combat power appears in the lower realm, the God Realm won't intervene once they discover it? Even if they don't kill it, it will be taken away! God Realm Enforcer warning!"

Zheng Li: "...Then what are you good for, System?"

"After the World Gift Pack is issued, the system only protects the host's soul from being destroyed. The host's contracted Spirit Beasts and the like have nothing to do with the system."

"This... this is really..." Zheng Li shook his head and didn't say anything more, while looking at Xiao Nai with a gentle gaze, feeling alert in his heart.

Judging by the system's meaning, it would only protect him; Xiao Nai's fate was irrelevant to it, so he would have to be the one to protect her.

Wait.

"By the way, what is the situation with Xiao Nai?"

"When the system was copying and shaping her, it discovered that the Xiao Nai the host was thinking of had already died, and her soul was about to dissipate soon. Therefore, the system took the opportunity to pull Xiao Nai's soul over and made her your Martial Soul."

"Xiao Nai died?" Zheng Li couldn't believe it. "How could that be?"

Even if he wanted to see Xiao Nai, he didn't want it to be like this!

From the moment he started talking to the system, Zheng Li hadn't hidden anything. Xiao Nai heard it clearly; although she couldn't hear the system's voice, she could analyze what the system had roughly said.

"I have indeed died," Xiao Nai confirmed the system's words.

"Xiao Nai..." Hearing Xiao Nai's words, Zheng Li's mind went into chaos for a moment, his thoughts jumbled. He thought of many things, even suspecting that Xiao Nai had been murdered!

Anger surged into his heart!

"Xiao Nai, what is going on? Did someone harm you?"

Xiao Nai seemed not to hear the anger in Zheng Li's tone and replied flatly: "Yes."

Instantly, Zheng Li was furious: "Who was it?"

The flames of rage burned, making him want to go back right now and finish off the person who had harmed Xiao Nai!

Xiao Nai looked at Zheng Li, who seemed to be on the verge of losing control, and her flat blue eyes flickered slightly.

"It was a jerk! A jerk whom many people thought had run away from the wedding! I didn't believe it! I knew he wouldn't! I went to look for him, and there was a car accident..."

"..."

Xiao Nai's words were like a basin of ice water poured onto his rage.

"It was... me." In just an instant, Zheng Li's voice turned hoarse.

Following that, feelings of self-reproach and guilt surged into Zheng Li's heart.

Many people did not look favorably upon his relationship with Xiao Nai. His parents were fine with it, but some of his relatives had quite a few complaints, and even his older brother and younger sister were the same.

Because of Xiao Nai's emotionless face and flat tone—which remained the same in front of his family and relatives—gossip naturally began to spread from their very first impression, and people even went as far as to discuss the height difference between them.

And since he had gone missing three days before their wedding, he imagined that some people must have thought he couldn't stand Xiao Nai anymore and had run away from the marriage.

Gossip and rumors are always spread without a trace, and he could imagine what kind of mood Xiao Nai must have been in when she found out back then...

"Xiao Li," Xiao Nai called out flatly.

"Hmm?" Zheng Li hurriedly responded.

Xiao Nai did not speak immediately; instead, she pulled the now-shrunken Zheng Li into her embrace. She lowered her head slightly and whispered into his ear:

"You were always the one holding me before, but now I can hold you once too. Do you know? When I closed my eyes for the last time, I had one wish, and that was to see you again... Now, that wish has come true."

When she said these words, Xiao Nai's voice was no longer flat; it even trembled slightly.

A lack of expression does not necessarily mean a lack of heart.

This left Zheng Li feeling both touched and somewhat surprised. He opened his mouth to say something but didn't, because he didn't want to, nor was he willing to, ruin the current atmosphere.

"It's really good to see you again..."

Xiao Nai closed her eyes, the corners of her mouth curling up slightly.

At this moment, Xiao Nai was beautiful, but Zheng Li did not see it.

He stroked Xiao Nai's long white hair and said:

"I feel the same way. It's really good to see you again!"

Chapter 5, Xiao Nai: Your Wish Can Be Considered a Success

After a long while, the two of them separated from their embrace.

Calming her emotions, Xiao Nai was the first to speak: "Xiao Li, is it that so-called system that turned you into this appearance?"

"Yeah, that's right. It reduced my age to ten, and my body naturally changed along with it," Zheng Li nodded.

Xiao Nai looked him over carefully and said, "I didn't expect you to be quite cute at ten years old."

"I don't mind you saying that, but..." Zheng Li paused and continued, "could you add some emotion?"

"Why is that a question?"

Zheng Li laughed: "Isn't this me asking for your opinion? So, do you agree?"

"No."

"Uh... I knew it."

"But back to the point, my appearance has turned into what I looked like at ten. I didn't expect you to be able to recognize me, Xiao Nai." Zheng Li sighed.

"Even if you were smaller, I would still be able to recognize you..."

"Xiao Nai..." Inadvertently, Zheng Li was moved once again.

"You haven't changed much from how you looked when you grew up."

"..."

Being moved can also be shattered in an instant.

Zheng Li touched his face; it seemed the saying "a boy changes eighteen times before he grows up" did not apply to him.

Then, Xiao Nai looked around: "A cave... This should be another world, right?"

"Yes," Zheng Li nodded and said, "Do you know about Douluo?"

"I've heard of it."

"This is the Douluo world. By the way, Xiao Nai, how are my parents? How many days have I been missing over there?" Listening to Xiao Nai's words earlier, Zheng Li gathered that more than just one day had passed on the other side.

"It was the third day when I died. After I died, my consciousness was hazy, and I don't know how many days passed. When my consciousness cleared again, I saw you, now shrunken, reaching out to touch my face."

"Cough, cough..." Xiao Nai stating it so flatly made Zheng Li feel inexplicably awkward.

However.

"Three days, huh..." Zheng Li frowned, "Could it be that the time flow between the Douluo world and the original world is 1 to 5 or 6? Or even..."

Xiao Nai's heart tightened slightly. She was an only child; without her, what would her parents do?

"Host, do not overthink it. It is 2 to 1. For every two days that pass in Douluo, one day passes in your original world. The current situation is that your transmigration took some time."

Zheng Li: "...Why does transmigration take time?"

In his impression, wasn't transmigration just a matter of closing your eyes and opening them again?

"Host, does it not take time for you to travel from one place to another by car? It is the same principle; it is just that the system kept you in a sleep state during the journey."

"Alright," Zheng Li didn't dwell on it anymore, then said to Xiao Nai: "Rest assured, it's 2 to 1. Douluo is 2, so as long as I reach the peak quickly, I will still be able to see our parents. By the way..."

As he said this, he also felt a sense of urgency, not only to see his own family again but also for Xiao Nai's family.

Immediately, he explained the functions of the system to Xiao Nai and gave her a rough overview of the Douluo world.

After listening, Xiao Nai nodded to show she understood, and she didn't say anything like telling Zheng Li to cultivate hard, fearing it would add pressure to him.

"Tell me the plotline once more."

"Alright."

Because Zheng Li only recounted some of the important plot points, he finished very quickly.

In fact, he did not remember many of the details either.

After listening attentively, Xiao Nai said quite seriously, "Xiao Li, let's go get the resources!"

Zheng Li: "Hm? What resources?"

Xiao Nai: Stare~

"You really have no ideas? Forget about the Ice Emperor, you can't handle that without that silkworm, but what about the others? The Golden Radiance Left Arm Bone, the Gold of Life, the Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone, the Dark Gold Dreadclaw, the Snow Emperor, the Ice and Fire Yin Yang... even down to the Mysterious Water Pill, the Soul Ascension Pill, and so on."

Zheng Li: "...You're trying to snatch all of Huo Yuhao's cheats!"

"No, this isn't called snatching. These things haven't reached Huo Yuhao's hands yet, so it can't be called snatching," Xiao Nai said indifferently.

Zheng Li nodded, "That's true, but the best ones are still the ones that suit you."

Having said this, Zheng Li hesitated, glancing at the golden ring behind Xiao Nai's head without saying much more.

Xiao Nai was his girlfriend, his fiancée; although he didn't want to talk about it now, she was indeed his Martial Soul, so he could naturally sense the attributes of his own Martial Soul.

Xiao Nai's attribute was Light, which did not match with Ice...

Could quality compensate for the attribute?

The Golden Radiance Left Arm Bone would actually be quite suitable.

As for the Heart of Spirit... Zheng Li reached out and covered his chest. It was a strange feeling, yet it was also a comfortable one; this feeling was something he wouldn't notice if he didn't pay close attention.

He felt that every time the Heart of Spirit beat, a special kind of energy would circulate through his blood and merge into every part of his body. However, he didn't feel like his body had been strengthened or anything, so it still required further research!