Nuoding City, North Gate.
On the official road not far away.
A little girl in a simple pink dress was walking toward the city gate.
The little girl looked soft and pink.
Her little face was rather pretty, fair with a rosy glow, like a ripe peach that made people want to take a bite.
A pair of pink rabbit-ear ornaments sat atop her head.
Beneath the rabbit-ear ornaments was a head of jet-black hair, braided into a long scorpion braid, with a carrot ornament hanging from its end.
Slung across her shoulder was a carrot-shaped carrot bag, hanging at her slender waist.
The little girl seemed lively and restless, bouncing and skipping all the way.
Every so often, she stopped to perform a Rabbit Kick, bending her legs and springing forward as though those legs were not meant for walking, but specifically for hopping.
Her long scorpion braid hung past her buttocks to the backs of her knees, swaying wildly up, down, left, and right with every hop.
The little girl looked only six years old. No adult accompanied her, and her large pink eyes were filled with mischief as she curiously looked around.
This little girl was none other than Xiao Wu, the Hundred-Thousand-Year Human-Form Spirit Beast and Rogue Rabbit who had narrowly escaped Bibi Dong's Hunt the Rabbit operation four years ago.
Several months ago, Xiao Wu suddenly recalled something her mother, Ah Rou, had once told her.
When Human-Form Spirit Beasts turned six, they had to go to the human world to awaken their Martial Souls and become Spirit Masters like humans.
Then, they had to live and cultivate as humans did. Only then could they continue to grow.
And she was about to turn six.
But she had once been hunted by a human Title