It's Your Fault for Hugging So Tight!

Ye Yuan carried little Ye Xue back to the main hall.

"Your constitution is weak and your talent is poor. If you want to keep up with others in your future cultivation, you must change your physique."

"Teacher will go prepare a medicinal bath for you first; stay here and be good."

Before leaving, he ruffled Ye Xue's hair, making her already messy locks even more disheveled.

However, Ye Xue felt no resentment at all; instead, she closed her eyes and enjoyed it like a little kitten.

A moment later.

Wuneng walked in, carrying a meal in his hands.

Ye Xue's nose twitched. "It smells so good!"

"This is the meal the Master just prepared. He was worried you might be hungry, so he made some food for you first."

"Go ahead and eat."

Ye Xue took the food; she couldn't remember the last time she had eaten meat.

She picked up the bowl and spoon and began to eat in large mouthfuls. Perhaps because she was starving, she felt it was the most delicious thing she had ever tasted.

"The handsome teacher's cooking is truly delicious."

In no time at all, Ye Xue had polished off everything in the bowl.

"What kind of person is Teacher?" Ye Xue asked Wuneng, who was standing nearby.

"The Master is the only god in this world, a benevolent god!" Whenever Ye Yuan was mentioned, Wuneng's eyes filled with endless admiration.

He looked at Ye Xue and said, "You are the Master's disciple; you will understand in time."

"You only need to know that the Master is a very, very good person."

"It is our honor to be able to follow the Master."

Ye Xue nodded. It seemed her teacher held quite a significant position in the hearts of these people.

At this moment, Ye Yuan walked in.

"The medicinal bath is ready. Little Xue, come with me."

"Mm!"

Ye Yuan led Ye Xue into a room where a giant wooden tub was placed, just large enough to hold her small frame.

"This is the medicinal bath I prepared for you. Go on in."

No sooner had Ye Yuan finished speaking than the little girl quickly stripped off her clothes and jumped into the bath.

He covered his forehead in exasperation.

He walked behind Ye Xue and began to use his soul power to guide her meridians, helping her absorb the medicinal properties.

"Hiss!" The medicinal bath began to improve her physique, and the wounds on her body started to heal, but the intense pain made her cry out.

"Hold on. It will be painful at first, but it will get better later," Ye Yuan said slowly.

"Mm, Little Xue can endure it," Ye Xue said firmly.

As time passed, Ye Xue could clearly feel the pain subsiding.

Ye Yuan began to chat with Ye Xue. "In the future, you must not let other men see your body, do you understand?"

"Teacher was still here just now; you should have waited for me to leave before taking off your clothes and getting in."

Ye Xue knew this, of course, but she only felt comfortable doing so because it was in front of Ye Yuan.

Although she understood the logic, she still feigned innocence and asked, "Why?"

Ye Yuan paused for a moment. It seemed this child's past experiences were not very good if she didn't even understand this.

He said softly, "A girl's body should only be seen by her future partner—the person who will protect you for a lifetime and cherish you above all else."

"A lifelong partner..." When she was still Qian Renxue, she had never thought about such things.

She only wanted to lead Martial Soul Hall and fulfill her grandfather's wishes.

"Then will Teacher protect Little Xue for a lifetime?" Ye Xue asked.

Ye Yuan hesitated. He planned to break through to level one hundred and leave once he had handed everything over to Ye Xue.

Naturally, he couldn't protect her for a lifetime.

However, he didn't want to dampen the child's spirits, so he said, "Of course I will. Who else's disciple are you if not mine, Ye Yuan's?"

Something began to sprout in Ye Xue's heart.

"I won't do it again in the future. Little Xue will only let Teacher see," she said, submerging half of her little head into the medicinal bath and blowing bubbles.

A faint flush appeared on her face, perhaps caused by the high temperature.

Ye Yuan was startled by these words, but seeing Ye Xue's innocent eyes, he assumed she was just young and didn't understand.

It's fine. The child will understand when she grows up, Ye Yuan thought to himself.

"While you absorb the medicine, listen to Teacher explain the formula for this bath."

"The formula for this medicinal bath was developed by that old poison master and me."

Most of the medicinal herbs inside also came from the vicinity of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well; if Dugu Bo didn't owe Ye Yuan a favor, he probably wouldn't have been able to get them.

"Although this formula isn't difficult, it has extremely high requirements for the age and quality of the herbs, so listen carefully."

This was the origin of the medicinal bath formula that Qian Renxue had just given to Ye Yuan.

Ye Yuan slowly woke up from his slumber.

He looked around in a daze; Qian Renxue had already left.

"While I was unconscious, I suddenly felt quite good, I don't know why."

Ye Yuan's head ached a little, so he stood up and put on his white robe.

"What a realistic dream..."

Just now, while he was unconscious, he had an extremely realistic dream.

In the dream, when he was driven out of the imperial city of the Star Luo Empire, he didn't meet Qian Renxue, but he still survived.

After Tang San and the others ascended to the upper realm, he established the Heavenly Court and even took on an apprentice named Little Xue.

In the end, he broke through to level one hundred and headed to the God Realm, only for Tang San to bring people to intercept and kill him.

In that battle, he chopped off Dai Mubai's limbs and snatched his godhood.

He wiped out his entire family, leaving no one behind.

But in the end, he also died under the siege of Tang San and the others.

Ye Yuan felt that this wasn't a dream; it felt like something from a past life.

"Could it be that there really is a past life?" He now suspected that this wasn't his first time coming to the Douluo Continent.

Perhaps the Little Golden Man in his mind knew something.

Ye Yuan's head was splitting with pain; rather than a dream, it was more like he had witnessed that person's life as a spectator.

"I must make plans early."

"Regardless of whether it's real or not, I absolutely cannot let things turn out like they did in the dream."

"With the two God Kings of the God Realm watching, what can I do?"

"That's right, even if Tang San has the favor of the God Kings, if he fails the inheritance trials, it won't matter how much those two think of him."

Ye Yuan planned to start with the woman by Tang San's side, Xiao Wu.

At the very least, he must not let him obtain those three hundred-thousand-year soul rings.

"Tang San, since you and I are destined to be mortal enemies, don't blame me."

Now, Ye Yuan planned to go see Dugu Bo first.

He would start by getting the medicinal herbs to improve his aptitude from him.

If possible, he would also pull that old poison master into the camp of the Martial Soul Hall, even though he had some grudges with those two elders of the Martial Soul Hall.

But that didn't matter; Ye Yuan had plenty of ways to handle it.

"You're awake." A female voice came.

Ye Yuan turned to look; it was Qian Renxue.

"Yes, Teacher."

"Teacher, why are your lips a bit swollen?"

Qian Renxue's face flushed red, and she complained inwardly: It's all because you hugged me too hard!

She felt that Ye Yuan was just like a pig, never getting enough to eat.

"It's nothing, I just went to rinse my mouth."

"What do you plan to do next?" Qian Renxue asked.

Ye Yuan didn't hide anything and said frankly, "I plan to go visit the senior Dugu Bo first."

Qian Renxue's expression tightened; it seemed Ye Yuan had remembered something.