A Curious Misunderstanding

"My Xiao Wu!"

As soon as the girl Ah Rou finished speaking, the giant "Soft Bone Rabbit" lying behind her couldn't wait to speak up.

Ah Rou shook her head helplessly, but a strangely incongruous look of doting affection flashed across her tender face and eyes.

Seeing that Ah Rou didn't say anything, the giant "Soft Bone Rabbit" named Xiao Wu immediately raised its head, its long ears stood up, and tilted towards the "Titan Giant Ape" next to it, pointing as if to introduce, "This is Er Ming."

The "Titan Giant Ape" Er Ming, who was called out, did not make a sound. He just stared at Ling Yi and the hollow metal sphere that was split in two behind Ling Yi with his lantern-sized crystal yellow eyes.

It felt a sense of novelty towards the metal ball it had just held in its hand.

The feel and the weight... well, they're very comfortable to hold!

If Ah Rou hadn't just told it to put it down, it would have really been reluctant to let go.

"How strange, would someone like you really be born in the [Water Wood Duchy]?"

Ah Rou tilted her head slightly, looking at Ling Yi with a questioning gaze.

In her understanding, a place capable of giving birth to Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast must be a treasure land imbued with the essence of heaven and earth. Only such a place could support Soul Beast to grow to a cultivation level of 100,000 years.

As for the [Water Wood Duchy], sorry, neither her tens of thousands of years of life as Soul Beast before, nor her nearly six years of life in human society afterward, have there been any rumors about any large-scale Soul Beast settlements there.

As far as Ah Rou knows, the three major gathering places of Soul Beast in the Douluo Continent, namely the Star Dou Great Forest, the Lost Track Grand Canyon, and the Land of the Far North, all have Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast in their core areas.

In addition, the Heavenly Spirit Mountain Range, the largest mountain range in the Douluo Continent, and the deep sea overseas also have the potential to give birth to Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.

However, within the small human principality of the Water Wood Duchy, there are no large mountain ranges stretching for hundreds of miles, nor dense forests stretching for hundreds of miles. Let alone Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, even Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast would be difficult to be born.

This transformed Soul Beast Ling Yi couldn't possibly be a sea Soul Beast located right next to the territory of the [Water Wood Duchy], could it?

Not to mention the strange phenomenon of feeling a high-level aura and paying homage to the individual "Blue Silver Grass" plants in the "Star Dou Great Forest" before, even when she, Xiao Wu, and Er Ming were secretly observing, the small blue-green grass in this guy's hand was clearly a variant of "Blue Silver Grass," not seaweed from the sea.

"In addition..."

Before Ling Yi could say anything, Ah Rou's gaze once again swept back and forth between Ling Yi's "Azure Wood Battle Armor" and the two hollow metal hemispheres behind him:

"Your methods are so unconventional. In all my years out there, I've never seen anything like this before..."

"Oh?"

Ling Yi's mind had completely calmed down. He reached out and put the two hollow metal hemispheres into his Storage Soul Tool, a familiar and warm smile appearing on his face.

"Unconventional? I don't think it's any bad. As a Healing System Soul Master, these external items can greatly improve my safety..."

"Healing System?!"

Ah Rou exclaimed in surprise, interrupting Ling Yi's words. Her crystal-clear eyes stared at Ling Yi as if he were an idiot. "You actually chose the Healing System path?!"

"What's wrong?" Ling Yi looked bewildered. "Is there something wrong with the Healing System?"

"You," Ah Rou looked Ling Yi up and down, noting his handsome face, his height of 1.85 meters, and his tall, slender figure, "How old are you now?"

Ling Yi remained silent for a moment, seemingly slightly uncomfortable with the abrupt change in Ah Rou's topic, before finally replying, "She'll be twenty-four soon."

"Twenty-four years old?" Ah Rou's eyes widened, and she blurted out, "You haven't cultivated to the Soul King yet, have you?"

When she was observing him secretly, she not only saw Ling Yi's Martial Soul, but also the four Soul Ring, two yellow and two purple, under Ling Yi's feet.

Clearly, Ling Yi is still a Four-Ring Soul Ancestor.

Originally Ah Rou thought Ling Yi was seventeen or eighteen years old because of his Wushuang face, but she didn't expect him to be twenty-four!

"At this age, you haven't even reached the Soul King level yet... tell me... what have you been doing all these years?!"

Giving Ling Yi a somewhat disappointed look, Ah Rou asked irritably, "Do you know that support-type Soul Master, like those specializing in Healing System or Food System, cultivate much slower than combat-type Soul Masters?!"

"I know," Ling Yi nodded in response.

"You knew?!" Ah Rou's voice rose a few decibels. "Knowing that, you still chose the Healing System route?!"

"You're already twenty-four years old and not even Soul King yet. How old do you think you'll be before you cultivate to level sixty and become Soul Emperor?!"

"How old will I have to be to become Titled Douluo?!"

After glaring fiercely at Ling Yi's "Azure Wood Battle Armor," Ah Rou once again spoke out in angrily:

"Our cultivation time is already extremely limited. Instead of focusing on how to improve your strength in the shortest amount of time, you're busy with these external things. That's putting the cart before the horse!!!"

Following Ah Rou's impassioned speech, Ling Yi awkwardly touched his nose.

He used to find it jarring when reading novels that the protagonist would touch his nose all the time, wondering how anyone could keep touching their nose.

But now, in this slightly disoriented situation, when he didn't know what to do with his hands, Ling Yi discovered that raising his hand to touch his nose was a very good way to cover up his unease.

"Idiot! Idiot!"

Beside them, "Soft Bone Rabbit" Xiao Wu, always eager for a good show, chimed in with Ah Rou's words, her narrowed red eyes practically begging to jump up and down.

Fortunately, Ah Rou turned around in time and gave it a sidelong glance, which immediately made Xiao Wu, who was about to become excited, obedient and quiet.

"Never mind~"

Ah Rou turned her gaze away from Xiao Wu and looked at Ling Yi again, shaking her head and saying, "Although you are not young now, as long as you cultivate diligently, you still have a chance to continue on your path."

"However~"

At this point, Ah Rou's delicate eyebrows furrowed slightly, and her expression became serious. She asked Ling Yi, "How did you end up with that Soul Douluo?"

"Don't you know that you're just a Soul Ancestor, and a Healing System Soul Ancestor at that, with no combat ability at all? How dare you team up with Soul Douluo? Are you tired of living?"

"Have you been struck by lightning and gone mad?"

Ah Rou held back from saying the last complaint, but her eyes clearly conveyed that meaning.

Ling Yi, who had been listening to Ah Rou almost the entire time since emerging from the metal sphere, fell silent.

Looking at the human girl Ah Rou with a stern face in front of him, then at the giant "Soft Bone Rabbit" Xiao Wu behind him whose ears twitched from time to time, and the silent "Titan Giant Ape" Erming beside Er Ming, Ling Yi knew that he needed to choose his words carefully.

Otherwise, things might get complicated.

Ling Yi: "..."

To be continued tomorrow, goodnight everyone~