Xiao Yuanshan and his wife panicked at once. "A... a Soul Beast that can talk? It couldn't be a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast, could it?"
Chen Doudou was taken aback too.
A Soul Beast that could talk, and it was golden?
Could it be the Emperor Auspicious Beast, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion?
Bibi Dong narrowed her eyes, pressing down a little harder with her fingertips. She sneered, "I don't care who you are. Behave yourself. Since you dared to target us, don't blame me for being ruthless."
The golden Soul Beast grimaced in pain, but still refused to back down. "Y-you dare lay a finger on me, and Di Tian will never forgive you!"
"Di Tian? I've never heard that name, but..."
Bibi Dong's eyes suddenly turned dangerous.
She looked over at Chen Doudou, a hint of amusement in her voice. "Doudou, how many moves do you think Di Tian could withstand?"
Chen Doudou hadn't even answered.
The Three-Eyed Golden Lion was already starting to panic.
What was going on?
Were humans this bold nowadays?
They weren't even afraid after she brought up Di Tian?
Bibi Dong might not know who Di Tian was, but Xiao Yuanshan did.
His face turned deathly pale. He hurried over to dissuade her. "Senior, you mustn't hurt it! Di Tian is the ruler of the Soul Beasts in the Star Dou Forest—a super Ferocious Beast who's the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King, with a cultivation of over eight hundred thousand years!"
At that, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion snorted at Bibi Dong and raised her head haughtily. "Human, you have no idea how powerful Di Tian is!"
Bibi Dong scoffed and tightened her grip. "Eight hundred thousand years? I know some damn guy who's even hunted a Million-Year Soul Beast. Today, I'll kill an eight-hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast right in front of you."
The Three-Eyed Golden Lion: "..."
Oh no, children. I think I'm a little bit dead.
Just then, Bibi Dong seemed to realize something too. She looked at the beast in surprise. "A third eye on your forehead, golden fur all over, and your fortune practically spilling out of you. If I remember correctly, you're this generation's Emperor Auspicious Beast, aren't you?"
The Three-Eyed Golden Lion was glaring viciously at Chen Doudou. "So what if I am? You despicable humans!"
In her not-so-bright mind, it was all this hateful human's fault for attracting her. Otherwise, she wouldn't have ended up captured.
Chen Doudou was immediately annoyed. "Hey, hey, you were the one who attacked us first. We're the victims here!"
The Three-Eyed Golden Lion bared her teeth. "No, I wasn't! I just saw you couldn't find a Soul Beast, so I sent one over to give you a Soul Ring, okay?"
"What???" X4.
Chen Doudou wasn't the only one dumbfounded by that.
Bibi Dong and the Xiao Yuanshans were stunned too.
The dead Terrorclaw Bear: 666. You've gotta have a conscience when you do things.
So you were the one who led the imperial army over?
Bibi Dong burst out laughing. "Oh, so you're actually that nice, huh? Should we thank you, then?"
The Three-Eyed Golden Lion stared hard at Chen Doudou. "Hmph, there's no need to thank me. Human, just order this despicable woman to let me go, and I'll..."
Chen Doudou asked, "You'll what?"
The Three-Eyed Golden Lion said haughtily, "I won't call Di Tian over. How about that?"
After all, if Di Tian came, he'd surely go on a killing spree. Chen Doudou would die then.
Where else would she find a chance to study a human who could make Soul Beasts offer themselves as sacrifices?
This was one of the few interesting things she'd managed to discover in her dull life as a beast.
Chen Doudou picked at his ear. "Please. It's not about whether you want to spare us. It's about whether we want to spare you."
The Three-Eyed Golden Lion bristled with anger. "You! Despicable human! I knew you were just like those humans who hunt Soul Beasts without a second thought! And after I even sent you a Soul Ring!"
"Hold on. Did I say I was going to hunt you?"
Hunting the Auspicious Beast would do nothing but infuriate the entire Star Dou Forest and bring trouble down on his head. There was basically no benefit to it.
The Three-Eyed Golden Lion looked incredulous. "Y-you're not going to kill me?"
"Sister Dong, let her go."
Chen Doudou decided to set an example and prove it.
"Let her go? Don't be ridiculous. I've heard the Auspicious Beast has a special ability...I wonder if it's true."
Bibi Dong pursed her lips, then tried to press the Three-Eyed Golden Lion's forehead against Chen Doudou's, as if she were holding a little kitten.
The Three-Eyed Golden Lion realized something was wrong and struggled frantically.
But Bibi Dong paid her no mind, pinning her firmly in place with overwhelming strength.
The next moment, golden light blazed, and the power of fate surged within it.
Their memories were exchanged.
An immense flood of the power of fate poured in, and Chen Doudou's Sea of Consciousness expanded violently. His spiritual power surged at a speed visible to the naked eye.
A moment later.
The golden light slowly faded, and silence returned to the forest.
The Three-Eyed Golden Lion landed on the ground, but didn't immediately flee.
She simply stood there, stunned. Her lively eyes were filled with emotions she'd never experienced before as she stared blankly at Chen Doudou.
In her tiny head, fragments glimpsed from Chen Doudou's memories were replaying like a storm-tossed sea.
The birth of a noble God King's son, held close in his parents' arms as the people around them showered him with heartfelt blessings and unreserved warmth.
The astonished, envious cries of the crowd when his martial soul awakened; all eyes on him, the glory of being the center of attention.
The carefree trust of childhood, slinging an arm around Tang Wutong's shoulder, laughing and fooling around, playing pranks together with not a trace of distance between them.
The heart-fluttering moment in the middle of an intense battle, when his fingertips touched those of a girl named Ma Xiaotao.
These feelings were so real and passionate!
Compared with the Three-Eyed Golden Lion's life over the past ten thousand years, spent mostly eating and sleeping while Di Tian and the other Ferocious Beasts fussed over her—a life that was noble, yet monotonous and lonely...
Chen Doudou's short six years of life.
It was like a magnificent painting, rendered in the most dazzling colors.
It was filled with experiences she'd never known.
So this... was what the human world was like?
An emotion called "envy" quietly twined around the Three-Eyed Golden Lion's heart like a vine.
She suddenly felt that her identity as an Auspicious Beast and her long life seemed, in a way, rather... pale and lonely.
It was like a tribesman from the African grasslands suddenly catching sight of the splendor of a city.
The one thing that left the Three-Eyed Golden Lion baffled was why this guy seemed so particularly fixated on human women's chests...
What a strange hobby...
The Three-Eyed Golden Lion didn't understand it, but silently labeled Chen Doudou a "weirdo."
Nearby, Chen Doudou was also getting a taste of what it was like to be a Soul Beast.
What left him a little speechless was that, aside from hunting, catching butterflies, and eating and sleeping, this girl's life had barely involved anything else.
She was basically a lazy fish who did nothing but eat and sleep!
No wonder she'd lived so long but only had fifteen thousand years of cultivation. She'd never even tried to cultivate.
Seeing Chen Doudou wake up, Bibi Dong hurried over and asked, "How do you feel, Doudou? Notice any changes?"
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