When Xiao Wu heard Meng Chen's words, she frowned. "A-Chen, are you saying... we're leaving?"
"Yeah, leaving for now. After all, it'd be too frustrating if my ninth Soul Ring isn't a Red Ring."
Meng Chen rarely blushed.
Why did that sound so arrogant?
Xiao Wu fell silent for a moment.
With A-Chen around, leaving the Star Dou Great Forest wasn't entirely unacceptable.
She agreed. "All right. I'll go with you too... We should tell Da Ming and Er Ming first."
Meng Chen nodded, then went to look for Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing.
Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing had just exited their cultivation state as well.
Ever since arriving at Life's Lake, Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing had been cultivating so devotedly that they forgot to eat and sleep.
An environment this wonderful was something they might never encounter again in their lifetimes.
But doing the same thing for more than a year would inevitably become tiresome.
When she saw Meng Chen approach, Ning Rongrong grinned and teased him, "What? Have you missed us? Want to enjoy the blessings of having two beauties?"
Meng Chen: "..."
Ning Rongrong was still as outspoken as ever.
She often teased Meng Chen, as though it were the only seasoning in her dull and monotonous cultivation life.
Zhu Zhuqing merely blushed shyly, secretly watching Meng Chen's expression.
Meng Chen looked helpless. "I've broken through and need to find a suitable Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast. The ones remaining in the Star Dou Great Forest aren't suitable, so I plan to look elsewhere. Do you two want to return with me? It's fine if you don't. Da Ming and Er Ming will protect you."
He had broken through!
Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing stared at him in stunned disbelief.
Meng Chen's words could only mean one