Doudou, You Wouldn't Want...

The next day.

A breeze swirled fallen leaves through the woods, and the air was thick with an indescribable desolation.

Zhang Lexuan sat cross-legged not far away, Soul Power surging around her as the hundred-thousand-year-old Soul Ring of the Silver Moon Wolf King slowly merged into her body.

Meanwhile, Bibi Dong had already removed the Soul Bone from the enormous wolf corpse and was casually wiping the blood from her fingertips.

The Shrek group silently packed their things. No one spoke, and no one dared to raise their voice.

After a night in which their faith had crumbled, these once-proud inner-court disciples were like eggplants struck by frost, utterly wilted.

Every so often, someone would glance toward Bibi Dong, their eyes filled with nothing but awe and complicated emotions.

Ma Xiaotao quietly called Chen Doudou aside, away from everyone else.

She crouched down and pinched Chen Doudou's cheek. Her tone was still stern, but it had lost its usual edge. "Doudou, next time you're with your senior, you're not allowed to go running off again."

Chen Doudou blinked. "I didn't run off."

"And you say you didn't? If you hadn't run off, how would you have fallen from the sky and run into us? Good thing your senior caught you, or else..."

Ma Xiaotao rolled her eyes at him.

Chen Doudou wanted to argue, but then he realized he really had been teleported here... Still, he couldn't take the blame for that.

She was silent for a moment. Then, suddenly, she leaned down and gently kissed Chen Doudou's smooth forehead.

The touch was warm and soft, carrying a faint fragrance.

Chen Doudou froze, staring up at her with wide eyes.

Ma Xiaotao took half a step back, her cheeks faintly red. In a voice only the two of them could hear, she warned him fiercely:

"Brat, the next time we meet, you'll see that I've gotten a whole lot bigger!"

Chen Doudou: "..."

His entire body stiffened, and his little mouth formed an O.

Wait...

What kind of wild talk was that?

Big in Soul Power and cultivation, or...

Seeing the thunderstruck expression on Chen Doudou's face, Ma Xiaotao's mood inexplicably lifted. Humming a little tune, she turned and walked away, leaving Chen Doudou to stand there in the wind, completely bewildered.

"Why are all the bad women these days so vicious..."

Bibi Dong watched from a short distance away, the faintest hint of a smile tugging at her lips.

That little girl was rather interesting.

"All right, Doudou."

Bibi Dong came over and took Chen Doudou by the hand, then climbed onto Zeus. "It's time for us to go, too."

At the same time, in the Divine Realm.

Watching Ma Xiaotao lean down and kiss Chen Doudou on the forehead, the Rakshasa God trembled with rage.

"Outrageous! A toad dreaming of eating swan meat! Doudou's still so little, and that girl's already got her eye on him!"

"Asura, contact Bibi Dong right away and tell her to protect Doudou. Better yet, don't let those bad women anywhere near our Doudou. Oh, and you don't object, do you?"

The Asura God's mouth twitched. "No, of course not."

Chen Doudou: Wait, I object!

After they left the Star Dou Forest, Chen Doudou couldn't help asking as the surroundings grew increasingly unfamiliar, "Sister Dong, where are we going?"

"I don't know. The world down below has changed a lot in the past ten thousand years. I've never been here, either."

"Then should we ask someone for directions?"

"No need."

Chen Doudou: "..."

You don't know where we're going, so how can you just set off like that?

And you're so serious about it, too.

Why did Sister Dong seem so unreliable?

At last, after half a day of traveling,

the two of them and their horse finally arrived at the gates of a bustling human city.

The moment they entered, Chen Doudou was so hungry his stomach was practically touching his back. Spotting a woman selling boxed meals in the distance, he looked up and asked, "Um, Sister Dong, did you bring any money?"

"What for?"

"To buy food."

Bibi Dong felt her pockets, and a faint blush appeared on her lovely face. She tapped him on the head in annoyance. "You dummy! Your mother's the Rakshasa God. Does the God of Evil Thoughts have to pay for food?"

Chen Doudou mumbled weakly, "So you mean we should steal it? That doesn't seem right."

Looking at Chen Doudou's timid expression, Bibi Dong sighed and pressed a hand to her forehead.

Getting Doudou to turn from good to evil was clearly going to be a long road.

In that case, the first step toward becoming bad could be stealing a meal!

So Bibi Dong's lips curved into a meaningful smile. "Doudou, I was sent down by your parents to make sure you do bad things, you know!"

"Doudou... You wouldn't want Lord Asura God and Lady Rakshasa God to find out you haven't done anything bad, then drag you back to the Divine Realm and put you under house arrest, would you?"

Her voice was like a devil whispering in his ear.

Chen Doudou stiffened, a chill shooting from the soles of his feet straight to the crown of his head.

Sister Dong, who seemed to be having a pretty good time, please calm down!

Looking at her beautiful face, which was written all over with ill intent, Chen Doudou could no longer appreciate it at all. He timidly took a step back. "Waaah, Sister Dong, can you please not do this? I'm scared..."

Bibi Dong stepped closer until her face was almost pressed against his. Dangerous light gleamed in her violet eyes. "Oh? Not do what?"

She raised a slender finger and gently tipped up Chen Doudou's chin, her voice tender yet full of menace. "Doudou, you'd better be a good boy and do as I say."

"You should know, your parents aren't here. I'm your guardian now!"

Chen Doudou: "Waaah..."

I regret everything. Who said Bibi Dong was nice?

Bibi Dong was way too mean!!!

"Sister Dong, please don't!"

Chen Doudou tried to climb onto Zeus for one last desperate attempt to resist. "Zeus, save me!"

But...

Pegasus Zeus simply walked off to the side, closed his eyes, and trembled.

Young master, it's not that I'm disloyal...

It's just that, as you know, the White Tiger is the natural enemy of our Pegasus clan—not to mention she's a tigress.

"Don't what, don't!"

"Sister Dong, if you keep this up, I'm going to scream!"

"Go ahead. Scream until your throat breaks—no one's coming to save you."

"Sister Xue'er, help me!!!!"

"Ke ke ke, Doudou, you'd better be a good boy and do as I say! And you're not to tell anyone about this, understood?"

Bibi Dong didn't want anyone else finding out she'd threatened a child. How could she ever show her face in the Divine Realm again?

Little did she know, all the gods in the Divine Realm had already seen every last bit of it.

The Asura God and the Rakshasa God were clutching each other and sobbing, so moved they could barely hold themselves together.

"Waaah! Honey, look! Doudou's finally growing up!"

The Asura God wiped his tears.

"Exactly! He's finally starting to do bad things! Wonderful! I knew our boy couldn't be this pure!"

The Rakshasa God excitedly pounded her thigh.

"..."

The God of Destruction, who had been sitting nearby eating seeds and watching the show, silently picked up his little stool and moved several feet away from the crazy couple.

What rotten luck. Absolutely rotten luck.

Qian Renxue's mouth twitched as she silently grumbled, Mom, you're just too... amazing!

"Ahhhhhhh!"

If Mom had threatened her like this back then...

Qian Renxue imagined something too unspeakable to put into words, and her face instantly turned bright red, even the tips of her ears flushing pink.

Doudou, you're on your own. Your sister can't save you... because she's jealous, too!