When Xiao Wu Learned Everything, the Future Became Uncertain!

Lin Qing placed the Gold of Life on the broken wooden table beside him.

The moment the metal left his hand, the warm yet cool sensation weakened considerably, though a faint aura still continued to emanate from it.

"I still can't completely fuse with the Gold of Life, but using it to assist my cultivation shouldn't be a problem."

He sat cross-legged and closed his eyes.

He began circulating the most basic meditation technique.

Sure enough.

With the Gold of Life beside him, his meditation efficiency clearly improved.

His focus became sharper, and his Soul Power circulated more smoothly.

Even the speed at which he absorbed the energy of heaven and earth increased significantly.

"What a good thing!"

After confirming the effects of the Gold of Life, Lin Qing decided to use it to raise his Spiritual Power first.

A Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring required powerful Spiritual Power to resist the shock to one's soul, while a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Soul Ring demanded even more.

For the sake of the future, he had to prepare in advance.

At the same time.

At the edge of the Star Dou Great Forest.

A little girl with a scorpion braid cautiously emerged from the dense forest.

She looked to be six or seven years old.

Her pink dress was already somewhat torn, and her little face was smudged with dirt, but her large eyes shone with astonishing brightness.

Lively, crafty, and carrying a trace of barely perceptible wariness.

Her name was Xiao Wu.

She was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soft Bone Rabbit that had taken human form from the Star Dou Great Forest.

She had left the forest this time to enter the human world. Only by becoming tainted with human aura could transformed soul beasts grow stronger quickly.

She did this solely to take revenge in the human world for her mother, who had been killed by human soul masters.

"The human world..."

Xiao Wu stood at the forest's edge and gazed at the faint outline of a distant village.

Her eyes were complicated.

There was curiosity, anticipation, and deep hatred.

Just as she was about to step forward,

"Boom!!!"

"Xiao Wu! He's Tang San's father! He's a Title Douluo! He's raising you in captivity to make you Tang San's Soul Ring!!!"

A shrill male voice suddenly exploded in her mind without warning!

That voice was filled with despair and rage.

"!!!"

Xiao Wu's entire body stiffened, and her face instantly turned deathly pale.

A Title Douluo!

Those words made her blood run cold!

As a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast in human form, she understood her situation better than anyone.

Before reaching maturity, a Title Douluo could see through her soul beast aura at a glance.

Once her identity as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast was exposed, she might face endless pursuit.

Moreover, after taking human form, she was actually as weak as an ordinary human child. She possessed none of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast's might; everything had to begin again from zero.

At her current level, forget a Title Douluo—even Soul Grandmasters, Soul Elders, and the like could easily slaughter her.

A Title Douluo was an existence she absolutely could not contend with at this stage!

"Who?"

Xiao Wu trembled as she looked around.

The dense forest was silent, with only the rustling of leaves in the wind.

There was no one around, not even a soul beast. She was the only one standing there.

Then where had that voice come from?

She did not know, nor could she figure it out.

But those words, those warnings, had already been deeply branded into her mind.

Tang San, Title Douluo, captivity... Soul Ring...

Every word sent chills down her spine.

"Tang San..."

Xiao Wu murmured the name, her eyes filled with fear and vigilance.

She remembered it. She remembered it firmly!

Over the next month.

Lin Qing remained in his family's broken wooden house in Emperor Soul Village and barely went outside.

Other than Er Ni bringing him food every day, he saw no one. He simply shut himself indoors and cultivated desperately.

With the assistance of the Gold of Life, his Spiritual Power improved at an astonishing rate.

His Spiritual Power grew every day, while his Soul Power also rose steadily.

Whenever Er Ni came to deliver food, Lin Qing would have her stay in the room a little longer, sitting beside the Gold of Life.

Long-term exposure to the life aura emitted by the Gold of Life was also tremendously beneficial to the body.

At the very least, it could strengthen the body and prolong one's life.

"Xiao Qing, you seem to be in a hurry lately?"

One evening, while delivering food, Er Ni finally could not hold back and asked.

She sat on a broken wooden stool, looking at Lin Qing as he meditated, her eyes full of concern.

Lin Qing slowly opened his eyes. The concern on Er Ni's face warmed his heart.

"Sister Er Ni, as a soul master, one slow step means falling behind at every step, while one fast step means staying ahead at every step. I have to be the fast one."

The key is that I can't afford not to be fast when I'm in the same generation as Tang San.

Before long, Douluo Continent would fall into great chaos. Bibi Dong's evil plan to destroy everything, Tang San and the others becoming gods... and so on.

With all that pressure, he naturally could not take things leisurely.

Notting Academy.

It was the annual recruitment day.

The academy entrance was packed with children and parents from various villages, making the place exceptionally lively.

Xiao Wu stood amid the crowd, somewhat distracted.

She had not been doing well this past month.

The voice in her mind and its warnings clung to her like a nightmare.

Who was Tang San? Who was Tang San's father? Where were they? Had she already been targeted?

Countless questions weighed on her so heavily that she could barely breathe.

Yet she still came to Notting Academy, because this was an extremely remote city and the easiest place for her to blend in.

"Next!"

The teacher in charge of testing called out loudly.

Xiao Wu came back to her senses, stepped forward, and was accepted without any suspense.

Yet there was no joy on Xiao Wu's face. Burdened with worries, she entered the academy and wandered aimlessly along the stone path.

Just as her thoughts ran wild.

"Tang San? Innate Full Soul Power with the useless Blue Silver Grass martial soul? Trying to cheat? Get lost, get lost, get lost!"

A rough male voice came from not far away.

"Tang San?!"

Xiao Wu's entire body stiffened.

Her neck slowly turned toward the source of the voice as if it had rusted.

At the academy gates.

A black-haired youth dressed in plain blue stood there, his face gloomy and his eyes filled with resentment.

He was still holding a stalk of pale blue grass in his hand.

"He's... Tang San?"

Xiao Wu's pupils suddenly contracted, and her heart began pounding wildly.

Was the Tang San mentioned by that voice this very youth?

And Tang San's father... was a Title Douluo?!

That Title Douluo was raising her in captivity to make her Tang San's Soul Ring?

"Boom!"

At that moment, every clue connected.

Xiao Wu's face instantly turned as pale as paper.

She wanted to run.

Immediately, at once—away from here!

Away from this youth named Tang San!

Away from that Title Douluo father who might be hiding in the shadows!

But... she did not dare.

If that Title Douluo was truly watching her from the shadows, then if she turned and ran now, would she immediately be captured and truly raised in captivity, waiting to become Tang San's Soul Ring in the future?

"..."

Xiao Wu stood frozen in place, as though she had fallen into an ice cellar, her entire body cold.

She felt as though the world before her had suddenly lost all color, becoming gray, bleak, and hopeless.

All the excitement and anticipation she had felt upon entering the human world vanished in that instant.

All that remained was... endless fear.

"Mom... what should I do?"

For the first time, Xiao Wu felt an emotion called confusion.