The Tang Family
Tang Wuyue lay sprawled on the sofa,
while Lang Yue had just finished applying medicine to her little bottom.
Lu Chuan stood nearby,
feeling rather rueful.
It was his first time spanking someone,
and he hadn't known quite how hard to hit.
Of course,
the real culprit was that
this stuff was seriously addictive...
After Tang Ziran had lectured Lu Chuan,
he took Lang Yue back to their room,
leaving the living room to the two siblings.
"All right, I'll buy you a lollipop tomorrow. Don't be mad anymore, okay?"
Lu Chuan sat at the other end of the sofa, trying to tempt her with a lollipop and break the standoff.
Usually, this trick never failed,
but this time it didn't work.
The burning pain in her bottom came in waves,
and it had managed to cure Tang Wuyue of her sweet tooth.
"Hmph! I don't want your lollipops!"
Faced with Lu Chuan's temptation, Tang Wuyue turned her head and buried it in the sofa.
Like a sulky little cat, she refused in a muffled voice.
Lu Chuan smiled at the sight,
in no hurry.
He still had a way to handle Tang Wuyue!
He leisurely pulled a strawberry popsicle from his pocket.
It was Tang Wuyue's favorite flavor.
He peeled off the wrapper,
and the sweet, fruity aroma instantly spread through the living room.
Tang Wuyue's nostrils twitched.
Two sniffs were all it took for her to recognize her favorite Häagen-Dazs popsicle,
and her mouth began watering like a burst dam.
Just then,
Lu Chuan's tempting voice came from beside her.
"Aw, my little sister's all grown up. She doesn't like lollipops anymore, and she probably doesn't like ice cream either. Guess I'll just have to enjoy this myself. Oh, that's sweet~"
In an instant,
Tang Wuyue couldn't hold back any longer!
She shot up from the sofa,
snatched the popsicle from Lu Chuan's hand,
and began licking it.
Though she still looked fierce,
her words had already softened a little:
"Y-You think this'll make me stop being mad? Hmph, I'm still angry!"
Seeing that even this hadn't won the little girl over, Lu Chuan helplessly spread his hands.
"Then what would make you stop being mad? If it's something I can do, I'll do whatever you want. How about it?"
At his words, Tang Wuyue's eyes lit up, and her voice turned cheerful.
"Then let me beat you up too! I just got my first Soul Skill, and I haven't tested it in a real fight yet! Bro, stand there and let me hit you, okay?"
"Sure."
Lu Chuan agreed without hesitation.
If not for the spanking incident,
he would have already taken Tang Wuyue for a spar,
to see her first Soul Skill.
Now that the little girl had suggested it herself,
he couldn't have been happier!
Only,
Tang Wuyue had no idea what Lu Chuan was thinking.
When she heard him agree without a second thought,
she froze for several seconds,
then stared at him suspiciously for a long while,
before asking in disbelief:
"Bro, you mean it? You're not tricking me?"
"When have I ever tricked you?"
Lu Chuan spread his hands, looking completely sincere.
Tang Wuyue tilted her head and thought it over.
It seemed Lu Chuan really had never tricked her.
Her heart immediately brimmed with delight,
and she'd already thought of how to torture Lu Chuan!
She would use Blue Silver Grass to hang him from a tree,
then lash his bottom with a whip braided from Blue Silver Grass vines!
"Once I finish my popsicle, we'll fight!"
Tang Wuyue happily took a big bite of the popsicle, her cheeks bulging like a little squirrel with its mouth full of nuts.
Lu Chuan didn't hurry her. Instead, he went out to the yard to clear a space for their fight.
A short while later,
in the courtyard,
moonlight spilled over the yard, and a breeze swept through, bringing a hint of coolness.
Lu Chuan and Tang Wuyue stood at opposite ends of the yard.
The fight was about to begin!
"Bro, I won't go easy on you!"
Tang Wuyue rolled her wrists a few times, brimming with fighting spirit!
Lu Chuan was just as ready.
A One-Ring Soul Master facing a three-ring Soul Elder.
Even without using Soul Skills,
this fight
was bound to be a sparring lesson.
But even a lion had to use its full strength to catch a rabbit,
so Lu Chuan decided to take the fight seriously!
"Bring it on!"
Lu Chuan let out a low growl.
Tang Wuyue didn't hesitate either.
She released her Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul!
Immediately after,
she unleashed her first Soul Skill!
Her purple Soul Ring suddenly lit up.
The ground beneath her feet trembled slightly,
and several dark-blue strands of Blue Silver Grass burst from the earth,
winding toward Lu Chuan like serpents.
"Bro, this is my first Soul Skill—Entangle: Shadow Bind!"
With Tang Wuyue's spirited shout,
a shadowy layer began to spread over the Blue Silver Grass she had summoned.
Under the moonlight,
it seemed to blend into the darkness,
and its speed abruptly increased,
as a soft, forceful gust shot straight toward Lu Chuan's legs.
"Not bad. You've inherited the Demon Eye Magic Tree's ambush ability!"
"But that won't be enough to bind me!"
A smile played at the corner of Lu Chuan's mouth.
Faced with the Blue Silver Grass hurtling toward him,
he didn't even take half a step back.
He simply raised his right foot.
"Smack—"
His foot came down, and the ground trembled slightly.
A vast surge of blood and vitality spread outward from him,
rippling in every direction.
Then,
a miraculous sight unfolded.
The strands of Blue Silver Grass Tang Wuyue had sent attacking him,
which were just about to wrap around Lu Chuan's legs,
all stopped dead in midair,
as if they'd struck an invisible wall.
Seizing the opportunity,
Lu Chuan lightly tapped the ground with his toes,
and sprang away like a nimble swallow,
just avoiding the circle of Blue Silver Grass.
"You can counter my first Soul Skill like that?"
Tang Wuyue was clearly taken aback,
but her first failure didn't discourage her.
If anything, it made her even more excited.
"If I can't get him from above, then I'll go underground!"
As a genius mecha designer,
Tang Wuyue's mind was filled with all kinds of wild ideas.
And the move she was about to use
had played out countless times in her mind already!
She took a deep breath,
formed a hand seal,
and her purple Soul Ring lit up again.
This time,
she didn't rush to release her Blue Silver Grass.
Instead, she slowly poured her Soul Power into the ground beneath her feet.
Lu Chuan clearly sensed what Tang Wuyue was doing.
He had a vague idea of what the little girl was planning,
but wasn't certain,
so he simply stood still,
choosing to wait and respond,
meeting change with stillness.
A moment later, the ground began to tremble slightly.
Strands of Blue Silver Grass sprouted from the earth beneath Lu Chuan's feet,
but they didn't wrap around him directly.
Instead, they intertwined,
Wove into a gigantic blue vine net,
it seemed intent on rising from below,
to scoop Lu Chuan straight into the air.
"If it's only this, I can still jump out. Wuyue definitely won't make the same mistake twice, so does she have another trick up her sleeve this time?"
Lu Chuan's mind worked quickly,
but Tang Wuyue moved even faster.
While Lu Chuan's attention was drawn to the Blue Silver Grass vines bursting through the ground,
her figure had already vanished from where she stood!
"Now that's something. Playing hide-and-seek!"
Lu Chuan's gaze sharpened, and his perception spread out in an instant.
He locked onto Tang Wuyue immediately.
The little girl was indeed clever,
using the Blue Silver Grass for cover,
she hid her figure in the shadows cast by the vines.
The moonlight, together with countless Blue Silver Grass vines, sheltered her.
"Using the aura of darkness to conceal herself, then launching a surprise attack within the Blue Silver Grass's coverage... This little girl's got quite a tactical mind."
Lu Chuan's lips curved into a faint smile.
However,
the prerequisite for Tang Wuyue to pull all this off was
that her Blue Silver Grass vines were thicker and tougher than ordinary ones!
On that point,
Lu Chuan had also found the reason.
Water nurtured wood.
Tang Wuyue's Blue Silver Grass contained an additional layer of Water Element compared to that of ordinary Blue Silver Grass Soul Masters.
If nothing else,
it must have been due to the influence of the Origin of the Silver Dragon King!
Lu Chuan understood,
but didn't hurry to point it out.
The moment Tang Wuyue unleashed her underground vine net,
he chose to leap into the air again.
Sure enough,
the instant he rose into the air, a petite figure burst from the shadows of the vines!
Tang Wuyue held a vine whip in her hand,
a Blue Silver Grass vine whip infused with most of her Soul Power,
and lashed it fiercely toward the space above him!
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