Stand Up and Pedal!

"What are you doing?!" Ah Rou cried out in alarm, instinctively trying to tighten her legs and crush Ronan completely.

But it was too late.

A terrifying force, like a volcanic eruption, exploded from Ronan's body in an instant!

Bang!

Ah Rou felt an irresistible force surge toward her. Her prized Soft Technique Lock—

Before that absolute power, it was like papier-mâché, forcibly pried apart in an instant!

"Ah!"

Ah Rou cried out as the world spun around her.

The next second, the balance between attack and defense instantly reversed!

Like an awakened mad dragon, Ronan suddenly flipped over!

He seized the initiative and pressed Ah Rou's soft, delicate body fiercely into the pile of fallen leaves beneath him!

One of his large hands clamped around Ah Rou's wrists like iron pincers, pinning them above her head.

His other arm wrapped around her slender waist, pulling their bodies even closer together.

Ronan looked down at Ah Rou beneath him, her face filled with shock as she panted heavily.

Feeling her violently heaving chest and astonishing softness, the wicked grin at the corner of his lips deepened.

By the time the sun was high in the sky.

"Huff... huff..."

Ah Rou lay limply across Ronan's broad, solid chest, her chest rising and falling violently as she greedily breathed in the forest air, thick with the earthy scent of soil.

Her skin, once as fair and flawless as mutton-fat jade, was now covered in fine beads of sweat and a faint blush.

Her smooth black hair lay scattered messily over her pale back. The carefully braided scorpion braid had long since come undone in the earlier storm.

As a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soft Bone Rabbit Spirit Beast who had taken human form and begun cultivating anew, Ah Rou was still in her juvenile stage.

Yet the flexibility, recovery ability, and resilience of her physical body far surpassed those of human Soul Masters at the same level.

However, before Ronan, the Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Beast physique she had been so proud of was nothing more than a joke.

From desperately resisting at first and trying to counter him with her soft techniques—

To steadily losing ground, barely holding on, and finally collapsing completely, sobbing uncontrollably as waves surged and tsunamis rolled!

Throughout the entire process, she had been utterly suppressed by Ronan's domineering, mad-dragon-like strength, without even the slightest room to resist.

Ronan leaned against a thick tree trunk, one hand casually playing with Ah Rou's satin-smooth black hair as he felt the slight trembling of the delicate body in his arms.

At that moment, an unprecedented sense of satisfaction and control welled up in his heart.

So what if she was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Beast?

So what if she had taken human form and cultivated anew?

Before absolute power, she could only obediently submit beneath him and let him do as he pleased, couldn't she?

And Ah Rou's body was so soft, so strong, that she had unlocked quite a few positions even Tang Yuehua had never tried...

After all, with a bicycle, if it was not yours, you had to stand up and pedal it no matter what. That was the only way to go fast and experience the thrill of speed and passion.

With a thought, he took out a cigarette from his Storage Spirit Tool.

With a soft snap, a crimson flame rose from Ronan's fingertips and lit it.

He took a deep drag. Pale blue smoke slowly drifted through the forest, carrying a slightly pungent yet refreshing scent.

"Cough, cough..."

Ah Rou was choked by the unfamiliar smell of smoke and coughed softly twice. She barely raised her head.

Her large eyes, once clear and lively, were now misty with tears, while deep humiliation lay hidden in their depths.

Ronan exhaled a smoke ring, his gaze passing through the haze and settling on Ah Rou's exquisite face.

"As far as I know, at the core of the Star Dou Forest, around the Lake of Life, there are currently three Hundred-Thousand-Year-level overlords."

"One is the Sky Azure Bull Python, one is the Titan Giant Ape, and the other..."

Ronan deliberately dragged out his words, and his gaze turned playful.

"...is a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soft Bone Rabbit. If I'm not mistaken, you belong to the Soft Bone Rabbit lineage too, don't you?"

"What is your relationship with that Soft Bone Rabbit in the core region?"

Ah Rou's heart suddenly clenched, and every muscle in her body instantly tensed.

How could he know so much?!

Let alone a human like him—even Spirit Hall might not know such details!

Yet this man not only knew their species, but even knew their exact numbers!

Ah Rou's mind raced as she began reassessing the situation and Ronan's identity.

He said earlier that Spirit Hall had sent him to scout the way... No, that's not right! He's lying! Ah Rou silently rejected the idea.

Given Spirit Hall's methods, if they truly intended to deal with Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Beasts, the Pope would definitely lead the operation personally, with multiple Titled Douluo forming a formation for the hunt.

How could they possibly send just one Quasi-Titled Douluo alone into the core region? That would be no different from sending him to his death!

Moreover, the unyielding, tyrannical aura of absolute self-confidence around this man bore none of the hypocrisy carried by those from Spirit Hall.

He isn't from Spirit Hall!

Ah Rou reached her conclusion.

The Soul Power fluctuation he erupted with when he subdued me earlier may not have reached the level of a true Titled Douluo!

But he is definitely an eighty-ninth-level peak Quasi-Titled Douluo, and the quality of his Soul Power is terrifying!

A Quasi-Titled Douluo this powerful, traveling alone into the core region of the Star Dou Forest...

There can only be one purpose: he wants to hunt a Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Beast and absorb a Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring to break through the bottleneck at level ninety!

At that thought, Ah Rou instead felt somewhat calmer.

Since his target was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring, and he had not yet killed her, then I probably was not his target!

Although she was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Beast in human form, the bloodline of the Soft Bone Rabbit clan was not considered top-tier among Spirit Beasts.

Compared to the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape, which possessed the bloodlines of ancient exotic beasts, the quality of a Soft Bone Rabbit's Spirit Ring and Spirit Bone was far inferior.

For an ambitious and powerful Quasi-Titled Douluo, the first targets would definitely be Da Ming or Er Ming!

He wants to hunt Da Ming and Er Ming?

Ah Rou could not help letting out a cold laugh inwardly.

What an arrogantly foolish human!

The Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape were the true uncrowned kings of the Star Dou Forest. Not only did they possess terrifying Hundred-Thousand-Year cultivation, they also had extraordinarily monstrous innate abilities and domains.

Even Super Douluo above level ninety-five among humans, in an environment like the Star Dou Forest that favored them—

Could never defeat either of them one-on-one, much less face the two of them together.

Although the man before her was absurdly powerful, Ah Rou believed that if he dared face Da Ming and Er Ming at the same time, he would certainly die without any chance of survival!

Since he wanted to court death, why not go with the flow and use him to kill with another's blade? Not only could she protect herself and Xiao Wu, she could also avenge today's unbearable humiliation!