[In the end, she did run into Tang San, only to really get herself sent straight to the afterlife!]
[Calling you an idiot would be insulting to idiots; even paramecia would think you were beneath them.]
[All you had to do was stay put between the Titan Giant Ape and the Sky Azure Bull Python, your two bodyguards. Unless Bibi Dong came in person, even if Chrysanthemum and Ghost Douluo gave their lives, they wouldn't be able to touch a hair on your head.]
[Yet out of countless ways to stay alive, you somehow picked the deadliest path with your toes. Your aim was so precise it took your breath away.]
[If I've committed a crime, then strike me with heavenly lightning. Don't stuff me with a plot this brain-dead and leave me with a splitting headache.]
[Or had you gotten sick of living long ago, and picked an auspicious day to wrap yourself up and gift yourself to Spirit Hall, so you could go keep company with your poor, wrongly killed mother?]
[Short of that kind of self-destructive explanation, I couldn't come up with a single decent reason, even if I squeezed every last drop of brain matter out of my head.]
[All I can do in the end is offer one piece of advice: never expect anything from a rabbit's brain.]
[Whenever you think she's already hit rock bottom, she'll dive straight through the earth's core and crush your worldview to powder with an even more idiotic move!]
After reading it, all the characters were speechless.
At that moment, they seemed to understand why this girl called Xiao Wu was even dumber than the four female characters before her.
Just hearing the description was enough to make them furious.
[ Bibi Dong of Douluo I ]: "Well, I almost got mad just listening to that."
[ Bibi Dong of Douluo I ]: "Compared to this girl, I really am a small-time player. Not bad, not bad. She truly deserves fifth place among the dumbest women."
[God of Evil of Douluo I]: "There's nothing wrong with this ranking. Every time, I think, surely it can't get any dumber."
[God of Evil of Douluo I]: "But then the next one always manages to surprise me. Each one's dumber than the last!"
[Asura God of Douluo I]: "Sigh. Are there no normal people in the lower realm of the Douluo Continent?"
[Asura God of Douluo I]: "It feels like the average intelligence across the entire Douluo Continent isn't very high..."
[Qian Renxue of Douluo I]: "Utterly foolish! She ended up getting herself killed, and I'm afraid her Soul Ring and Soul Bone both fell into Bibi Dong's hands, didn't they?"
[Bibi Dong of Douluo I]: "So what!"
[Bibi Dong of Douluo I]: "It seems I really don't need to rush. Even if I don't catch her now, it won't be hard to find that rabbit later."
[Xiao Wu of Douluo I]: "Could I really be that stupid..."
[Wang Dong'er of Douluo I]: "So this is my mother? Sigh..."
Every character was utterly speechless.
Even Xiao Wu herself was probably furious enough at her own actions to die.
Douluo Era 1.
On the outskirts of the Star Dou Forest.
"I'm stupid. I really am stupid."
Xiao Wu's voice was so hoarse it barely sounded human, like sandpaper scraping across metal.
"The Light Screen was right. I knew perfectly well that I was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, yet I still dared to enter the Continental Advanced Soul Master Tournament. I even dared to use my Soft Bone Rabbit Martial Soul in front of so many Soul Masters. What was that if not asking for death?"
She crouched on the ground, her head buried between her knees, her shoulders shaking violently.
Tears and snot smeared her face, but she didn't care.
"When Tang San absorbed his fourth Soul Ring, I actually wanted to die with him..."
"How could I have thought of something like that?"
"When my mother died, I swore I'd avenge her."
"But all I could think about was Tang San, Tang San, Tang San. I even forgot who I was."
"Sister Xiao Wu!"
The Titan Giant Ape paced anxiously in a circle. Its thick arms rose and fell several times, but it didn't dare touch her.
"The Light Screen was talking nonsense!"
"That thing might not even be true!"
"Sister Xiao Wu, what's wrong with you..."
"But everything it said is something I would do."
Xiao Wu suddenly lifted her head. Her eyes were bloodshot, but she wore a smile more awful than crying.
"Er Ming, tell me. If I really wanted revenge, why didn't I focus on cultivating?"
"Why did I have to show off in the human world?"
"Why, knowing Spirit Hall was looking for me, did I have to run out there on my own?"
The Titan Giant Ape opened its mouth but couldn't say a thing.
Tang San crouched in front of her and held her shoulders.
"Xiao Wu, look at me. You had reasons for making those choices. You entered the tournament to help me..."
"Help you?"
Xiao Wu flung his hands away, laughing so hard her whole body trembled.
"That's right. Help you."
"I helped the man I loved by sending myself down a dead-end road."
"My mother died so horribly, and I hadn't even found out who killed her before I went to help a human boy I'd known for only a few years."
As she laughed, she started coughing again, doubling over until she curled into a ball.
"The Light Screen was right. I'm stupid."
"Hopelessly stupid."
"I don't deserve to be a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast. I don't deserve to be a Soul Beast of the Star Dou Forest. I don't deserve to be my mother's daughter."
Tang Hao leaned against a tree in the distance, his lips pressed into a thin line.
He looked at Tang San's anxious back, then at the girl crying as though she were about to choke to death. He let out a heavy sigh but said nothing.
Tang San was so anxious that sweat beaded on his forehead.
"Xiao Wu, listen to me. The Light Screen only showed fragments. It didn't show your courage or what you did to protect me..."
"Protect you?"
Xiao Wu raised her tear-streaked face, her eyes full of self-mockery.
"If I were really protecting you, I shouldn't have been part of your future at all."
"If I really wanted what was best for you, I should have stayed far away from you."
"But I didn't. I stuck to you like a dog-skin plaster, until Spirit Hall came after us, until you stood against the whole world for me."
Her voice grew softer and softer, until it was little more than a whisper.
"What am I even doing..."
The Titan Giant Ape let out a low whimper.
"Sister Xiao Wu, please stop..."
"Er Ming, thank you. All of you."
"They trusted me so much, but all I had in my head was romance."
Xiao Wu laughed again, and tears ran down her cheeks and into her mouth.
"I didn't even find out how my mother died before Spirit Hall captured me so easily."
"If my mother knew her daughter was this useless, she'd be so angry her Soul Ring would explode."
She curled into an even smaller ball, her voice so faint it was almost inaudible.
"The Light Screen was right to curse me."
"I'm a stupid rabbit, a completely stupid rabbit."
Douluo Era 1.
High above the ground.
The fierce wind whipped Bibi Dong's purple dress, making it snap and billow.
Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo flanked her. The ripples of their Soul Power spread through the clouds in invisible circles.
"Your Holiness, we haven't sensed Tang Hao's presence at all along the way."
Chrysanthemum Douluo's voice was scattered by the wind.
"It seems they really did enter the Star Dou Forest."
Bibi Dong narrowed her eyes slightly and gazed toward the vast green expanse in the distance.
She fell silent for a moment, her fingers unconsciously rubbing the jewel on her scepter.
"Now that we're out here, we can't go back empty-handed."
Her voice was level, revealing no emotion.
"Let's check the outskirts first."
"If we can't sense her, we won't venture deeper."
"We'll hunt that rabbit once we're fully prepared."
Ghost Douluo nodded.
"Your Holiness is right. The terrain deep in the Star Dou Forest is complex. Entering recklessly would indeed be unwise."
Bibi Dong didn't reply. She merely gazed out at the sea of clouds.
The wind rushed into her sleeves, but she didn't seem to notice.
After a long while, she suddenly gave a soft laugh, edged with a blade-like chill.
"You little beast."
She savored the words as though tasting them.
"The Light Screen said you got yourself killed."
"Then your Soul Ring and Soul Bone will belong to me."
Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo exchanged a glance, but neither spoke.
Bibi Dong's tone was mild, but they could hear that what lay beneath it was even more frigid than the fierce winds high above.
"Just you wait."
Bibi Dong's voice drifted away on the wind, as if she were speaking to herself.
"When the time comes, I'll send you to join your mother."
"You and your mother can reunite underground!"
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