You're Really Stupid

Ah Yin took several steps back, keeping what she thought was a safe distance. "What do you want? How are Brother Hao and Brother Xiao?"

Qian Xunji thought for a moment. "Tang Hao and Tang Xiao? If I've calculated correctly, they should be getting back on their feet and making their way back to the Clear Sky Sect by now."

"All right. Take this and return to Spirit Hall with me."

In Qian Xunji's hand was an ordinary-looking white flower. It was the size of a palm and shaped like a peony, with no leaves. Its stem was connected to a large stone, black all over.

This flower was extraordinarily heavy. Even with Qian Xunji's cultivation, the veins on his wrist bulged as he held it one-handed.

"What is this? Why can I sense such enormous energy from it?"

Ah Yin's beautiful eyes widened. The energy contained within this white flower was actually more astonishing than her Soul Beast inner core.

As a Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor, she knew of many precious herbs in this world. Yet they were all herbs below the Immortal Herb grade. Aside from the Treasure Basin, even the spiritual energy of heaven and earth within the Lake of Life in the Star Dou Great Forest could not cultivate Immortal Herbs.

Thus, when it came to heavenly treasures below the Immortal Herb grade, Ah Yin was an unrivaled expert. But regarding Immortal Herbs and anything beyond them, she knew nothing at all.

"Lovesick Heartbreak Red. It'll conceal the Soul Beast aura on your body. Though it hasn't recognized you as its master and can't fully display its effects, it's enough to keep Titled Douluo from seeing through your Soul Beast aura. You don't want to return to Spirit Hall with me and have over a dozen pairs of eyes watching you hungrily every day, do you?"

Qian Xunji tossed the Lovesick Heartbreak Red in his hand. Ah Yin instinctively caught it with both hands. Under the flower's effect, she indeed felt her Soul Beast aura being concealed. It worked even better than her Blue Silver Domain.

Qian Xunji stared at Ah Yin. As his Spiritual Power continued to increase, he could still vaguely detect the Soul Beast aura she emitted. However, the two Guardian Douluo by his side could not perceive it. As long as the Titled Douluo of Spirit Hall's Hall of Elders and Worship Hall could not sense it, that was enough.

Though those two Guardian Douluo had also reached rank 95, unlike Qian Xunji, they did not have the enhancement of a head soul bone.

"Why are you giving this to me? Don't you want my soul ring and soul bone?"

Ah Yin could not understand. When soul masters discovered a Hundred-Thousand-Year transformed Soul Beast, they would surely keep it captive directly. Yet Qian Xunji's actions almost seemed like he was protecting her.

"Blue Silver Emperor, after living for so many years, you should know how humans came to exist, right?"

Ah Yin naturally knew. The earliest humans had been a race gradually born from some transformed Soul Beasts reproducing over generations. Thus, tens of thousands of years ago, human beast martial souls could all be found among Soul Beasts. Those tool martial souls had emerged and developed from the long-term mutations of beast martial souls.

Back then, humans were merely food for Soul Beasts, no different from the food chain of the Soul Beast world. But when the rules of the God Realm appeared, allowing soul rings to emerge from slain Soul Beasts, the first human to absorb a soul ring grew powerful, and everything began to reverse, all the way to the present.

"Children can inherit their parents' talents. Transformed Soul Beasts are basically born with Innate Full Soul Power, and your martial soul even comes with its own domain. That makes it a top-tier martial soul. A life-attribute Blue Silver Emperor pairs quite well with a Six-Winged Angel, so you understand."

"You wouldn't dare!" Ah Yin was startled by the way Qian Xunji stared at her so openly. No matter how foolish she was, she understood that Qian Xunji wanted her to bear his child. How could that be possible? How could she bear a child for a villain like Qian Xunji? If she were to have a child, it would be for her Brother Hao.

Qian Xunji raised a brow. "What? Soul Beasts have to cultivate, forage for food, and avoid being hunted by natural enemies. Staying alive already takes effort, so do you still bother with so-called love? If I remember correctly, you Soul Beasts usually force yourselves on one another, then go your separate ways after venting your animal urges."

"Don't compare me with ordinary Soul Beasts!" Ah Yin shouted. After remaining in the Blue Silver Forest for a hundred thousand years, she had transformed and left. She had never even considered the issue of survival.

"You injured Brother Hao and Brother Xiao, and you even killed a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast like me. Even if I die, I'll never bear you a child!"

Qian Xunji was in no hurry. "Judging by the order in which you call their names, you prefer Tang Hao, don't you?"

Ah Yin continued to roar, her face filled with determination. "That's right! My heart already belongs to Brother Hao. Even if I die, I won't let you succeed!"

Qian Xunji sneered. "How foolish. A Hundred-Thousand-Year transformed Soul Beast like you actually fell for Tang Hao? Do you know how many Soul Beasts Tang Hao and Tang Xiao have slaughtered?"

Ah Yin retorted loudly, "Nonsense! I spent a year with Brother Hao and Brother Xiao. Other than killing one Soul Beast to obtain Brother Hao's Eighth Soul Ring, they never hunted any Soul Beasts!"

"Then let me ask you: what rank was Tang Hao when you met him?"

"Why are you asking that?"

Qian Xunji said impatiently, "Answer me now, or I don't mind using force. Do you think you can resist me with only the cultivation of a Soul King?"

"Rank 79! So what?" Ah Yin covered her delicate body with both hands and fearfully drew her dress tighter around herself.

"Eight ranks in two years. What terrifying cultivation speed." Qian Xunji clapped his hands, the corner of his lips curling upward. "Blue Silver Emperor, I can tell you with certainty that when Tang Hao left to gain experience, he was going to obtain his seventh soul ring. The major families throughout the soul master world all knew about it."

"After obtaining that soul ring, he would have been only rank 71. There are only a few things that can raise a soul master's cultivation: soul rings, soul bones, and resources. You should know about resources after spending a year with him. He absorbed a soul ring and rose one rank, so that leaves only soul bones."

"Even if Tang Hao is the Clear Sky Sect's once-in-a-century genius, at the Soul Sage realm, I'll count it as one and a half ranks a year. That's three ranks in two years. For the remaining five ranks, guess how many soul bones he absorbed? How many Soul Beasts did he slaughter to get them? If you calculate it, the number I killed probably doesn't even amount to a fraction of his."

"This is your precious Brother Hao. You, a dignified transformed Soul Beast, actually fell for someone like him. Don't you find that laughable? Or do you mean that only the lives of Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts matter, while every other Soul Beast deserves to die?"

"I didn't! Don't lie to me! I don't believe Brother Hao and Brother Xiao are people like that!" Ah Yin covered her ears, her voice already trembling with tears. She refused to believe Tang Hao and Tang Xiao had done something so cruel.

At first, she had transformed because she wanted to see the outside world. Later, she had wanted to reconcile the relationship between Soul Beasts and humans, which was why she had traveled across the continent practicing medicine. If Tang Xiao and Tang Hao had done such things, then what was the point of everything she had done?

"Do I need to lie to you? Things gained through lies will sooner or later be exposed by those same lies."

Qian Xunji walked up to Ah Yin and gently lifted her chin with his hand. Ah Yin blankly met Qian Xunji's blue eyes. She wanted to resist, but the Soul Power restraining her body left her unable to do so.

"You don't believe me, do you? Your profession in the human world is that of a physician, and Heaven Dou City, the capital of the Heaven Dou Empire, happens to be nearby. Why not go there, practice medicine, and ask around?"