A Clash with Liu Erlong!

Heaven Dou City, Star Soul Guidance Shop.

Inside the studio, Chu Men watched Liu Erlong and Xiao Wu locked in a tight embrace—unsure if it was a display of sisterly or mother-daughter affection—and felt a wave of nausea.

In the livestream chat, the female fans were moved to tears, leaving Chu Men to grit his teeth as he watched this cliché-ridden emotional drama unfold before him.

"My parents... they are all gone~~"

Xiao Wu's expression turned visibly sorrowful, her soft, whimpering sobs enough to melt Liu Erlong's heart.

Liu Erlong pulled the petite Xiao Wu onto her lap, stroking her trembling shoulders with tenderness, offering silent comfort.

Her fingers tightened involuntarily, her eyes lowered, a flicker of imperceptible sadness flashing in their depths.

Meanwhile, the heartless Chu Men standing to the side rolled his eyes.

A mother tyrannosaurus and a hooligan rabbit, actually getting all cozy. And with you crying like that, it makes me, the kidnapper, look like some heinous villain!

Feeling the increasingly bone-chilling coldness drifting from Liu Erlong's eyes, Chu Men felt that even the frost of midsummer couldn't be any colder.

"Poor child. Don't cry. Xiao Wu, right? From now on, stay with big sister. I will teach you myself, and I won't let any bad guys bully you again!"

After saying this, Liu Erlong shot a pointed glare at Chu Men.

This guy is the bad guy! Let's stay away from him!

"Oh, wow!"

Chu Men wasn't about to take that lying down.

After all this, he had essentially been working for free. He had traveled thousands of miles, taken such huge risks, and had the label of "kidnapper" firmly slapped onto his head in front of the entire livestream audience. In the end, he had just snatched an apprentice for someone else? He'd lost his shirt on this deal! And the "big sister, big sister" talk—hiss, it gave Chu Men goosebumps!

"No way!"

Chu Men stretched his limbs and spoke with a firm, resonant voice. Although he was exhausted from flying through the night, he couldn't let the reputation of his Star Soul Tool Shop be tarnished! Want to steal his prize? Not a chance!

Seeing Chu Men's unwilling attitude, Liu Erlong knew this brat was looking for a beating again. She gently placed Xiao Wu on a seat, patted her back, took out a black silk handkerchief to carefully wipe away her tears, and placed it in her palm.

"Big sister will vent your anger for you!"

Liu Erlong glanced at Chu Men and turned her back to him with a flourish. Follow me!

Chu Men understood perfectly; with a tacit understanding, he followed right behind Liu Erlong, striding into the courtyard with his head held high. He had already faced Tang Hao, so why would he be afraid of this mother tyrannosaurus?

The two stood still in the courtyard. A morning breeze blew, and a green leaf drifted between them. For them, there was no argument that couldn't be solved by a fight.

[Are they about to fight?] [A Spirit Ancestor against a Spirit Saint, are you kidding me?] [Wishing the streamer gets beaten to a pulp! (And gifting a Wish Fulfillment Talisman!)]

The heat in the livestream began to rise.

"The usual rules?" Chu Men asked.

"The usual rules!" Liu Erlong replied.

Their eyes locked, and Chu Men activated his Spirit Avatar! Two yellow and two purple spirit rings rose into the air. Four streams of light flew from the rings into the Inversion Pen in Chu Men's hand, which he then jabbed into his own chest.

Strong Effect: Damage Inversion!

The harder you hit, the stronger I get!

Buffs first!

This was the standard procedure for their sparring sessions, and Liu Erlong didn't strike first, waiting calmly for Chu Men to finish his preparations.

Over the past few months, Chu Men and Liu Erlong had sparred at least eighty times, if not a hundred.

They knew each other's spirit soul efficiency, combat styles, and even the typical flow and outcomes of their bouts by heart.

It was less of a duel and more of a special training session, the results of which were predetermined from the start.

Chu Men let out a muffled shout, pushed off the ground with his calves, and flashed forward, throwing a vertical punch that whistled through the air toward Liu Erlong's face.

Perhaps due to an increase in his spirit power, Chu Men was a fraction faster than usual.

Liu Erlong didn't even manifest her spirit soul; she caught his fist with her fair palm, remaining completely unmoved.

This was absolute suppression through raw power!

[It's on! It's on!!]

[Sister Erlong, teach this guy a lesson! Make him regret bullying Xiao Wu!]

[Sister Erlong is mighty and domineering!] ×999

[May you reign for ten thousand years and unite the world!] ×99

[Damn, are you guys from the same hype squad that supported Sister Xiao Wu earlier?]

"Hah! Inversion of Strength!"

Chu Men's spirit soul transformed into a phantom, tapping steadily against Liu Erlong's palm.

The effect was immediate!

Liu Erlong's figure began to tremble slightly, and the strength in her hand weakened by more than thirty percent, yet she still held his fist firmly in her grip.

Within a few breaths, the strength in Liu Erlong's hand began to recover, and the playful look on her face grew even more intense.

"Your spirit power is still not enough!"

Chu Men sighed inwardly, his gaze turning resolute once more as the phantom of the Inversion Pen began to dance around Liu Erlong like a ghost.

He didn't expect this spirit soul to break through her defenses head-on, but it was quite useful for pulling tricks and creating distractions.

"This damn little thing again!"

Liu Erlong had a love-hate relationship with Chu Men's spirit soul.

She remembered their first spar, where Chu Men had bizarrely inverted the opacity of her clothing, and afterward... she had spent three days in bed, while her spirit power had leveled up twice.

Since then, Liu Erlong's special training for Chu Men was both a way to vent her frustration and a means to improve the agility of her Fire Dragon spirit soul.

Chu Men didn't hold back; the Inversion Pen darted nimbly through the air, brewing all sorts of strange and marvelous inversion effects amidst the glow of his spirit power.

He was waiting for Liu Erlong to let her guard down!

Meanwhile, Chu Men, facing her head-on, parried and blocked, struggling to keep up with Liu Erlong's rhythm while dealing with the immense force behind her strikes.

Liu Erlong hadn't even used her spirit power, and she was still distracted by the erratic Inversion Pen, yet even so, Chu Men was gradually losing ground.

"Inversion of Gravity!" Chu Men shouted, feinting an attack!

Liu Erlong retracted her fist as expected, crouching slightly to stabilize her stance.

Now was the time!

The phantom of the Inversion Pen, weaving between them, coordinated with Chu Men's frontal feint to graze the tips of Liu Erlong's hair.

The angle was tricky, and he retreated the moment he struck!

Inversion effect activated—

He successfully provided the recording spirit tool that Chu Men had set up in the courtyard with a precious image of "Liu Erlong's Afro."

The battle in the courtyard came to a bizarre, several-second standstill!

The audience in the livestream was overjoyed.

Even the usually quiet Lin Xiaoyu covered her lips to stifle a giggle.

The amusement in her eyes was impossible to hide!

[That afro is truly top-tier!]

[Haha, Sister Erlong must be furious right now!]

[No wonder Liu Erlong said the streamer plays dirty; this is really something else!]

Liu Erlong raised a hand to touch her perfectly uniform, sea-urchin-shaped hair. The temperature at her fingertips soared, and a dark red crack appeared on the stone slab beneath her feet.

The stone slab began to hiss with rising heat.

She arched her brows and manifested her spirit soul!

Two yellow, two purple, and three black spirit rings rose up, accompanied by the phantom of a crimson Fire Dragon appearing behind her!

[Damn, it's Sister Erlong's Fire Dragon spirit soul!]

[Isn't the streamer's spirit soul too bugged? Can it invert anything?]

[The top-tier spirit soul has arrived. Waiting for the streamer to be beaten into a pulp.]

Seeing Liu Erlong manifest her spirit soul, Chu Men immediately felt immense pressure:

"Dean, calm down, calm down... Damn! Temperature Inversion!"

The Inversion Pen tapped with pinpoint precision onto Liu Erlong's flame-wreathed fist, yet it consumed nearly half of his soul power!

Even so, it failed to stop the blow from slamming heavily into Chu Men's abdomen!

The Fire Dragon's flames were rapidly converted into piercing ice shards, their explosive power significantly dampened.

Yet, the bone-chilling cold still penetrated Chu Men's soul power barrier, its momentum remaining entirely undiminished!

Chu Men urgently dodged to the side, but he was still eroded by the frigid air.

The biting ice rapidly congealed across Chu Men's torso, forming a transparent turtle shell in a mere few seconds.

The breath Chu Men exhaled was filled with shards of ice.

"Invert! Invert!"

As his resistance to ice increased, less than twenty percent of Chu Men's soul power remained!

Fighting a Soul Saint above his own rank was simply too draining!

Liu Erlong watched as Chu Men appeared to be encased in a crystal turtle shell, shimmering brilliantly under the sunlight.

For a moment, her feet felt a little itchy...