Meng Yiran's Little Schemes, the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent Walks into a Trap

As early as two days ago, the Shrek group had crossed paths with Chao Tianxiang and Meng Yiran, the grandmother and granddaughter.

At the time, both sides had come up empty-handed while searching for Soul Beasts.

At Meng Yiran's request, Chao Tianxiang and Zhao Wuji agreed to keep an eye out for suitable Soul Beasts for each other.

Chao Tianxiang naturally knew that her granddaughter wasn't simply being kind or trying to make friends with other Soul Masters.

She had clearly taken a liking to that silver-haired youth in the other party's group, the quiet one who kept cultivating!

Seeing that Qian Ni could remain wholly focused on cultivation even within the Star Dou Forest,

even setting aside his appearance, Chao Tianxiang couldn't help feeling satisfied with her granddaughter's taste.

He's still too young. In a place like the Star Dou Forest, cultivation can wait. Staying alert to the surroundings should come first.

But considering Qian Ni's age and the fact that his teammates were nearby, Chao Tianxiang was much more forgiving about it.

Young people could be excused for a few small mistakes.

Today, whether it was truly a coincidence or not, Meng Yiran and her grandmother had found Shrek's camp once more.

That made Zhao Wuji frown.

In the wilderness, Soul Masters rarely helped one another unless they were teammates.

It was already good enough if they didn't kick you while you were down. Help you keep an eye out for Soul Beasts? What wishful thinking!

The Star Dou Forest was so vast. Wasn't hunting Soul Beasts the same anywhere? Why did they have to crowd together?

Whatever this grandmother and granddaughter were plotting, Zhao Wuji planned to leave this area first thing tomorrow morning.

Perhaps the feng shui here was bad, and no Soul Beasts had settled down nearby.

They might find more Soul Beasts after changing locations!

Out in the wild, strangers who were Soul Masters could be just as dangerous as Soul Beasts.

But for now, he first had to deal with Snake Granny.

Having made up his mind, Zhao Wuji began making polite small talk, steering the conversation here and there.

Who knew Chao Tianxiang had been thinking the exact same thing!

While the two of them went back and forth, Meng Yiran smiled and walked toward Qian Ni.

Before the several Aliens could react, Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong had already moved first.

"Please stop there, Miss Meng."

Like guardian deities flanking a gate, they blocked Meng Yiran five meters away from Qian Ni.

Zhu Zhuqing said, "Master is cultivating. He shouldn't be disturbed."

After several days of getting used to it, the title came more and more naturally to her lips, and her sense of shame had gradually faded away.

Especially now that Qian Ni had entrusted even the Universal Capsule to her management, a sense of pride welled up within her!

She had learned to KFC herself!

That made Ning Rongrong's gaze toward her increasingly subtle.

"Master?" Meng Yiran gave Zhu Zhuqing, dressed in a maid outfit, a puzzled once-over.

When her gaze passed over that impossible-to-ignore fullness, she pursed her lips with envy.

Her own figure was quite impressive too, but it lacked the shocking impact of Zhu Zhuqing's absurdly enormous proportions.

"I only wanted to say hello to little brother Qian Ni. Though we met by chance, it still counts as fate."

As she spoke, she secretly glanced at Qian Ni again, a faint blush tinting her cheeks.

"Sister Zhu Qing, Sister Rongrong, little brother Qian Ni cultivates so diligently. His Soul Power Level must be quite high, right?

"My grandfather is a Soul Douluo. If you need it, you can ask him for help finding Soul Rings in the future!"

Her intentions couldn't have been more obvious.

She had clearly set her sights on Qian Ni and wanted to reel him in, using roundabout questions to pry into information about him.

Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong exchanged a glance. There wasn't the slightest hostility in their hearts, only a trace of pity.

Forget it, little sister. Even if you throw yourself at him, you'll only become one more lackey.

That asshole may be godlike in some ways, but when it comes to this, he really isn't the casual type.

Zhu Zhuqing recalled that night at the Rose Hotel.

She had secretly eaten a piece of Ninety-Thousand-Year Whale Rubber, and the medicinal power dissolved on its surface had driven her so hot she felt like she was burning up.

Yet that lunatic had thrown her into the bathroom and made her dig mines all night.

If it had been someone else, they definitely would've gone with the flow and taken her.

"Since your grandfather is a Soul Douluo, why don't you go deeper into the Star Dou Forest?

"We've searched this area for days and haven't seen a single Soul Beast..."

Ning Rongrong said gloomily.

Meng Yiran shook her head. "Grandfather already went. He said he'd found traces of a Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent.

"My grandmother and I stayed behind just to try our luck a little longer."

No one present believed the latter half of that statement.

After a while, seeing that Qian Ni still hadn't finished meditating, Meng Yiran could only leave regretfully with Chao Tianxiang.

Once their figures disappeared into the distance, the Shrek group began whispering among themselves.

With the expression of someone who had bitten into a lemon, Ma Hongjun said, "Having a handsome face is great! He didn't even do anything, and girls are already coming to him on their own!"

Dai Mubai didn't want to voice any opinion on the matter at all.

His fiancée was already gone. There was no way he could compete.

Fight? Fight with what, his head? He didn't want to say goodbye to his Demon Pill yet.

That was too terrifying. He could still tell the difference between one tree and an entire forest.

As long as he stayed alive and defeated Dai Weisi, no one would object even if he held an empire-wide selection for an empress across all of Star Luo!

Imagining himself trampling Dai Weisi beneath his feet, he regained his spirits.

"Xiao Ao, make two more sausages. I'm hungry!"

Dai Mubai stuffed a sausage into his mouth, then shouted with a frown, "Xiao Ao, why doesn't this sausage have any flavor?"

"Stop shouting, Boss Dai. Eating sausages every day, forget flavor—my mouth is practically shaped like a sausage now. I'm sick of eating them," Ma Hongjun complained nonstop.

At that moment, he even began missing Qian Ni's Happy Water mixed with truth serum.

If someone could put a cup in front of him right now, he'd be willing to reveal more of his dark little secrets!

Only Tang San watched Qian Ni's utter concentration and silently took a deep breath.

"Boss Dai, Fatty, calm yourselves.

"Have you noticed? These past few days, no matter when we looked, Qian Ni was always cultivating.

"He doesn't eat, drink, or rest. Even when he moves, those ferocious beast servants carry him.

"He must have reached a crucial point in his cultivation!"

Tang San sighed inwardly and continued, "He's the same age as me, yet his Soul Power has already exceeded level thirty. That's not something a few Whale Glue Pellets can explain away.

"Qian Ni must have shed countless drops of sweat and put in endless effort where we couldn't see."

Thinking of the three Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Rings on Qian Ni, all seven Shrek Seven Monsters fell silent.

Qian Ni's Twin-Winged Bird martial soul could assist others in cultivation, but it couldn't help his own cultivation at all.

Even with external aids like Whale Rubber, if one didn't work hard, one would still only be trash.

Qian Ni had indeed reached a critical stage, though it wasn't quite that critical.

His mastery of Microscopic Particle Manipulation had already begun to enter its stride.

At first, after transforming, he could only use killing intent. Later, he mastered some Supernatural Ignition.

Now, Qian Ni had begun exploring the reassembly and reconstruction of matter.

His sleepless, tireless experiments over the past few days were merely because he wanted to play with his new toy sooner.

Xiao Wu had returned to the Star Dou Forest, so that Titan Giant Ape would definitely follow her scent and come after them.

Qian Ni could hardly wait to test his modified Whale Bone Spear, filled with acid blood, on a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.

People were always especially patient when doing bad things.

The next morning, the sky had only just begun to brighten.

Tang San stood atop the tree canopy, cultivating his Purple Demon Eyes toward the eastern sky.

Suddenly, a wounded Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent swaggered into the Shrek Seven Monsters' camp with bizarrely flashy footwork.

BANG!

The muddleheaded unlucky snake slammed headfirst into the corner of Qian Ni's villa wall and knocked itself unconscious, startling the exhausted Shrek group awake.

"Xiao Ao! Get out here! Your Soul Ring has arrived!"

Tang San shouted in delight.