Charm Buff Strengthened!

Du Busi turned to look at the bronze-colored cauldron.

Before the cauldron stood a petite figure, resolutely holding her ground.

Xiao Wu trembled slightly all over, her eyes tightly shut as she stood directly in front of the cauldron.

The protective barrier the cauldron had released earlier was already badly shattered. Any random attack could destroy it.

Du Busi frowned slightly. Soul Power surged around him, drawing in the scattered poison and gathering it all in his palm.

He walked past Xiao Wu expressionlessly and said calmly, "That man has already escaped!"

As soon as he spoke, Xiao Wu's tense body suddenly went limp, unable to hold on any longer.

"Thud—"

A dull sound echoed as she hit the ground.

Xiao Wu collapsed straight onto the ground and fainted immediately.

Although the cauldron's barrier had protected her, it had fallen apart by the end.

Just a trace of the residual force from Du Busi and Tang Hao's battle had severely injured her!

With a sweep of his hand, Du Busi tossed Xiao Wu directly into the cauldron.

The space inside the cauldron was vast enough to hold two six-year-old children with room to spare.

By now, the medicinal liquid inside had turned transparent.

The originally violent medicinal power had long been exhausted during the earlier tempering process. All that remained was pure, gentle life force, flowing in wisps through Xiao Wu's open pores and slowly entering her body.

The warm liquid gently wrapped around Xiao Wu's limp body, steadily supporting her within the cauldron.

Du Busi stood outside the cauldron with his hands behind his back, his gaze resting on the two sleeping children inside as some of the indifference in his eyes quietly faded.

Notting City had already been thrown into complete uproar.

A group of Spirit Hall deacons gathered outside Notting Academy.

An elderly man stood before the Dean of Notting, discussing something with him.

The old man wore a neat Soul Master uniform, and the standard three-sword insignia on him showed that he was a Soul Grandmaster-level battle Soul Master.

"Ma Xiunuo, you already understand the general situation!"

The Dean of Notting looked grave. "That lord has said that no one may set foot on the back mountain within three days."

The old man called Ma Xiunuo nodded slightly.

He looked at the middle-aged man beside him and ordered in a deep voice, "Report to Spirit Hall immediately. An unknown Title Douluo possessing three Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings has been discovered, and he is suspected to have engaged Tang Hao in a fierce battle."

After giving his instructions, he nodded to the Dean of Notting and left with the entire Spirit Hall group.

After the Spirit Hall group had gone far away, the Dean of Notting took out a sealed letter and handed it to a teacher beside him, repeatedly warning, "Present this letter to His Majesty immediately. You must deliver it personally."

"Yes!" the academy teacher answered solemnly.

At the same time, two figures quietly left Notting City in opposite directions.

Night fell. The dense forest on Notting Academy's back mountain was utterly silent. Only the Bronze Cauldron stood quietly in the middle of the clearing, shrouded in a faint white warm mist that blocked out every sound of wind and movement from the outside world.

After an unknown amount of time, Lu Xiao, who had lain silent in the cauldron, lightly twitched a finger.

The soreness throughout his body faded, replaced by a vast, gentle power that filled every limb and bone.

Lu Xiao slowly opened his eyes. He instinctively wanted to raise a hand to rub his swollen forehead, but the instant he moved, he froze.

The warm medicinal liquid slid across his skin without the slightest barrier of clothing, making the naked sensation incomparably clear.

Startled, he abruptly lowered his head.

His entire body was bare, without even an inch of cloth covering him from head to toe.

The clothes he had originally been wearing had been unable to withstand the high heat and energy shock, burning away completely without leaving a trace.

Lu Xiao stiffened awkwardly and instinctively tried to cover himself.

In his panic, he suddenly caught sight of the petite figure in front of him from the corner of his eye, and his movements froze.

It was Xiao Wu!

Lu Xiao's face instantly turned bright red.

Fortunately, Xiao Wu's clothes were still on, or this would have been far too sinful!

Xiao Wu's eyes were tightly shut, her brows slightly furrowed as her soft hair floated loosely through the medicinal liquid.

Good, she had not woken up.

Lu Xiao carefully shifted his body, slowing every movement for fear of waking Xiao Wu.

What he did not notice was that the girl's ears had already quietly been dyed a faint blush, the pink hue gradually spreading.

Even her slender shoulders and neck were covered in an alluring rosy glow.

When he climbed out of the cauldron, Du Busi appeared beside him with a brand-new set of clothes.

"You're awake?"

Du Busi handed him the clothes while checking Lu Xiao's body.

"Mm!"

Lu Xiao quickly put on the clothes. Looking around at the destroyed surroundings, he asked in confusion, "Master, what... exactly happened here?"

"Nothing much. I just exchanged a few moves with a rat that possessed the Clear Sky Hammer Martial Soul!"

Du Busi spoke casually, clearly not taking Tang Hao seriously at all.

Lu Xiao's mouth twitched as thoughts raced through his mind.

Tang Hao came?

Why had he fought Master?

What was his target?

Thinking of this, he turned to look at Xiao Wu, who was still "unconscious" inside the cauldron.

"Master, Tang Hao isn't dead?"

Lu Xiao looked around but did not find any corpse.

The look he gave Du Busi became strange. In his eyes, Du Busi's strength should have completely crushed the current Tang Hao!

"What kind of look is that?"

Du Busi's old face reddened. He smacked Lu Xiao on the head and snapped irritably, "Although I didn't kill him, that fellow's cultivation was damaged. He probably won't be able to make any breakthroughs for the rest of his life!"

As he spoke, he tossed the Soul Bone that had fallen from Tang Hao to Lu Xiao.

Du Busi had been summoned across worlds by the system and already possessed Soul Bones in all six slots. This Soul Bone was useless to him.

Lu Xiao rubbed the Soul Bone in his right hand, able to feel the immense power contained within it.

"This Soul Bone is of high quality. Its age is probably no less than sixty thousand years!"

Du Busi reminded him calmly, "With your current cultivation, you probably can't absorb it!"

Lu Xiao nodded and stored it in his Soul Tool.

He had never intended to absorb this Soul Bone. He had greater ambitions!

After finishing his instructions, Du Busi gathered firewood from the ground, took out two Soul Beasts from his Soul Tool, and set them over the fire to roast.

Lu Xiao sat nearby, staring intently at the bonfire. Then he suddenly said, "Master, for my first Soul Ring, I want to find a Soul Beast with the True Dragon Bloodline!"

Du Busi did not ask Lu Xiao for the reason and merely nodded calmly.

It was only a Soul Beast with the True Dragon Bloodline, not a true dragon!

It would merely be a little harder to find!

As time passed, a rich, savory fragrance of roasted meat instantly spread throughout the entire back-mountain clearing.

The night breeze carried the tempting scent of meat into the cauldron in wisps, slipping precisely into Xiao Wu's nose.

Xiao Wu, who had deliberately been pretending to sleep, suddenly had her eyelashes tremble violently.

She had already been starving after sleeping for so long. Now, the rich smell of roasted meat immediately made her empty stomach let out a clear, soft growl.

She quietly opened her eyes and, seeing that Lu Xiao and Du Busi were not nearby, climbed out of the cauldron like a thief.

The moment she stood on the ground, she noticed a dry towel and a set of brand-new, clean clothes placed nearby.

The scene she had seen inside the cauldron surfaced in Xiao Wu's mind, and her little face instantly turned crimson.

For some reason, she felt that Lu Xiao's scent smelled even nicer now...

At the thought of Lu Xiao, her heart began pounding wildly.

She did not dare think further. She hurriedly picked up the towel, dried the moisture from her body, and quickly changed into the clean, soft new clothes.

After changing, Xiao Wu finally calmed her chaotic, shy emotions somewhat and lightly patted her burning cheeks.

The clearing was quiet. The bonfire was still burning, yet neither Lu Xiao nor Du Busi was anywhere to be seen.

Xiao Wu obediently walked over and sat beside the blue stone near the bonfire. Her little hand gently fanned the evening breeze as her eyes settled on the sizzling, dripping roast meat, filled with anticipation.

She sat quietly where she was and waited, while images from inside the cauldron occasionally flashed through her mind...

Before long, two light sets of footsteps sounded from the forest.

Two figures slowly emerged along the woodland path. They were Lu Xiao and Du Busi, who had finished scouting the area.

Lu Xiao looked at Xiao Wu and thought, This girl actually didn't run away?

Earlier, Du Busi had told him that all the acupoints on Xiao Wu's body had been unsealed.

He had thought Xiao Wu would take the chance to leave and escape his "clutches."

Du Busi was not surprised by this in the slightest.

According to the historical records of the Body Sect, one of its former sect masters had possessed this kind of physique.

In that senior's personal biography, before he could freely control this side effect, women from young wives to little girls had clung to him obsessively...

Yet Lu Xiao, the "culprit," had no idea just how terrifying the Charm buff on his body truly was!