System, Am I Really That Weak?

What kind of outrageous thing was this little girl saying?

Xuanyuan Sheng gave her a sharp flick on the forehead.

She clutched her head and looked at him with teary eyes. "Xiao Sheng, I'm telling Big Sis! All I did was ask you to summon your Martial Soul, and you went and bullied me."

Xuanyuan Sheng suddenly understood. So she meant his Martial Soul.

He'd thought she meant his Martial Soul.

It couldn't be helped. In his eyes, this little girl's image had completely fallen apart. As far as he was concerned, if he'd gotten the wrong idea, she was mostly to blame.

"You still haven't told me why you wanted me to summon my Martial Soul." Xuanyuan Sheng wasn't falling for her act. He went straight to the point.

Xiao Xiao, crouching with her hands over her head, suddenly spoke much more softly.

As expected of the man she'd set her sights on. His difficulty level was sky-high. Love Mentor, let me finish the time-limited task first.

I'll use Love Tips a little later.

Xiao Xiao stood up, her black hair fluttering in the breeze. With a mysterious air, she said, "You'll find out once you summon it."

Actually, Xiao Xiao was curious about Xuanyuan Sheng too.

Normally, a Soul Master who had awakened their Martial Soul would give off Soul Power fluctuations that others could sense. But the boy in front of her showed no such fluctuations, as if he were an ordinary person.

If not for the mark on the Love System showing his Martial Soul,

Xiao Xiao, who had spent so much time with him, really would have treated him like an ordinary person.

What an infuriating riddler.

Xuanyuan Sheng raised his hand, holding the Xuanyuan Sword horizontally.

Its imposing presence struck Xiao Xiao's heart.

"Th-this is way too cool."

Xiao Xiao had never imagined that a sword could look so handsome. Just like its owner, it was exactly her type.

And the aura emanating from it was immensely alluring to Xiao Xiao.

She opened her palm, and the Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron appeared in her hand.

Light radiated from them both. Xuanyuan Sheng shone with brilliant gold, while Xiao Xiao glowed black.

Their auras seemed to Mega Evolve, and the many streams of light radiating from them fused together.

A closer look, however, revealed that the golden light around Xuanyuan Sheng made up most of the streams.

Xiao Xiao closed her eyes. The Martial Soul in her hand flew toward the Xuanyuan Sword Xuanyuan Sheng held horizontally, then transformed into an inscription on its hilt.

Xuanyuan Sheng swung the sword a few times, then forcibly ended the state.

Unlike him, who hadn't changed at all, Xiao Xiao looked as if she'd been drained dry. She toppled toward Xuanyuan Sheng.

He caught her securely.

Xiao Xiao blinked her long lashes, then rested her cheek against his chest.

"Xiao Sheng, we actually have a Martial Soul Fusion Skill."

"Yeah, how surprising."

Xuanyuan Sheng had been looking forward to seeing what strange thing Xiao Xiao had meant, something that would open his eyes. But all he'd seen was how weak she was afterward.

"Xiao Xiao, girls have kidneys too. You should start taking care of them while you're young. You're a little weak."

But the truth could be hard to hear.

This time, Xiao Xiao's face flushed red with anger rather than embarrassment.

If that accusation stuck, it would be more than just humiliating.

"Nonsense! I'm not weak!"

But the next moment, Xiao Xiao was complaining to the Love System.

She asked if it had anything to help nourish her kidneys. She thought she might really need to take some supplements.

Otherwise, how could her Soul Power have been completely drained in less than two seconds of Martial Soul fusion?

But a young girl's dignity could never be allowed to crack.

Xiao Xiao hurriedly said, "Maybe it's because of the Martial Soul fusion. Anyway, it's not my fault."

Xuanyuan Sheng looked at Xiao Xiao strangely. At that moment, she sounded like she was protesting too much, repeatedly pointing out the reason.

Of course, he was only teasing Xiao Xiao.

With the Xuanyuan Sword in the lead, even a Titled Douluo would have to leave with the title of Saintly Weak Young Master after exhausting all their Soul Power.

Xiao Xiao was still savoring the fusion. "I feel like our Martial Souls reached a state of one hundred percent fusion. It's really amazing!"

She thought it was a secret only the two of them shared, and she was a little excited about it.

But Xuanyuan Sheng couldn't bring himself to shatter her belief.

As the Holy Sword of Humanity, the Xuanyuan Sword could achieve a hundred percent compatibility with anyone. The only exception would be if that person wasn't human.

And there were records of Martial Souls on the hilt of the Xuanyuan Sword.

They depicted the arts of farming and animal husbandry, and the strategies for unifying the world.

To put it simply, it was made for people, and all of that was recorded on its hilt.

So Xuanyuan Sheng really couldn't imagine what kind of Martial Soul wouldn't be able to perform a Martial Soul Fusion Skill with his.

In the end, he could only nod along. "Mm-hmm, we're amazing."

Xiao Xiao saw that Xuanyuan Sheng really believed her explanation that she wasn't weak, and only then did she relax.

[Don't worry. If you want to nourish your kidneys, I'll make sure you get exactly what you need.]

The Love System twisted the knife at just the right moment.

She was utterly devastated. Even the Love System was saying that.

"Hey, have I completed my time-limited task?"

Xiao Xiao shouted at the Love System in her mind. She could only change the subject now.

She felt that the so-called blessing of Humanity's Luck had to be the reward. If she couldn't complete the task—

Her clever little head couldn't come up with anything else, so she might as well give up.

[Time-Limited Task: Status (Completed)]

The voice sounded.

Zhang Lexuan returned to the little attic after finishing her teaching assistant duties.

She, too, heard a mission-completion notification from the system that was usually silent.

"Hm? What task is this?"

With her mind on nothing else, Zhang Lexuan promptly forgot about the task.

Never mind. She'd better think about what to make Xiao Sheng for lunch.

But after thinking for a while,

Zhang Lexuan's ears turned red, and she murmured to herself,

"Maybe I could act cute and get my little brother to make it."

She'd never done anything like that before. The sudden idea left her so bashful she couldn't put it into words.

Her expression gave her away. She was really looking forward to it.

As for Xiao Xiao, she was staring closely at the line saying the task was complete.

Where was her reward?

She hadn't seen any information about a reward at all.

Xiao Xiao remembered the Love System saying it was something she'd like most, so she was still looking forward to it.

Thinking about it, the Love System's reward would definitely be something related to romance.

So...

Was it hypnosis?

[No.]

Was it stopping time?

[No.]

Was it apathy?

[No.]

The little girl completely lost it. None of those, and none of these either—what could it give her?

It wouldn't even give her skills essential for romance. She really had thought too highly of it.

She'd been so excited thinking about the reward, only for the thing to pull this on her.

Xuanyuan Sheng, with Xiao Xiao lying against his chest, stared pensively at her face as her expressions shifted wildly.

A damp handprint on his chest stood out conspicuously.

A familiar voice suddenly appeared in Xiao Xiao's mind.

[So this little girl really is kidney-deficient.]