Permanence

"All right, sisters, to the Meeting Room! Let Detective Ye Suyi personally unveil Fu Xi's mysterious veil!"

A mysterious smile curled at the corner of Ye Suyi's lips.

Fu Xi's truth! I have deciphered it!

"Fu Xi, silently choose to leave the Challenge Arena first. After that, select the Meeting Room, or I can invite you again."

Ye Suyi briefly explained the process to Fu Xi, and everyone's projections immediately vanished from the Challenge Arena!

[Leaving Challenge Arena...]

[Ye Suyi (Group Owner) invites you to the Meeting Room for discussion. Go?]

Fu Xi did not answer, because!

The moment he returned to where he had been, he was swept into the arms of a silver-white figure.

"So fragrant, it's Mama!"

Fu Xi sniffed. Though he had not seen the person's face, he knew that the one holding him was Gu Yuena!

"Where did you go?"

Gu Yuena asked gently.

As Fu Xi was once again overcome by a dizzying whirl...

His pants were pulled down, and he was laid face-down over a large rock.

"Wait!"

Smack!

"Ah!"

Fu Xi's little face twisted as he squeezed his legs together, his little butt instantly turning red.

"I can explain! I can explain!"

Fu Xi swung a small hand behind him, shielding his butt.

"Talk."

Gu Yuena, nearly frantic with worry, coldly watched Fu Xi lying there.

With a wave of her hand, she informed the ferocious beasts searching for Fu Xi.

She had nearly gone mad enough to stir up a beast tide.

"It wasn't my fault..."

"I joined some weird Chat Group..."

Fu Xi plaintively recounted what had just happened to him.

As for the meeting, or the consequences of exposing the Chat Group, he had long since thrown all that to the back of his mind...

"Why hasn't he come yet?"

In the Chat Group's Meeting Room, Ye Suyi sat bored in the seat of honor, looking at a spot beside her.

"Well, he's a child. Maybe something delayed him..."

Qian Renxue said casually. For all they knew, his mother might be spanking him right now! (¬‿¬)

"Forget it, let's talk first. We can send them a copy in the group later."

In truth, Fu Xi was not the only one absent. Tang Yuehua, who had been blacklisted, the Blue Silver Emperor, who was still a little grass, and Bibi Dong, who did not want to face Qian Renxue, had not come either.

"Perhaps I was influenced by my first impression. I mistook him for Fu Hua from Honkai Impact 3rd."

"Not long ago, when I saw Fu Xi's panel, I suddenly remembered!"

"There is also someone named 'Hua' in another world!"

"Simply put, we can call that world Honkai: Star Rail."

"That world is filled with madmen, while geniuses roam the Milky Way."

"Within a major Xianzhou faction somewhere in that Milky Way, there is a Marshal Hua."

"Actually, since I don't know much about the later story, I don't know much about her either."

Ye Suyi gave a dry cough and took a sip of water to moisten her throat.

"I'll share one of my guesses..."

"In that Milky Way, an item once appeared."

"True Fire Feather..."

"It said that on certain ignited planets, such tail feathers could always be found."

"And many Xianzhou characters have close ties to undead birds, phoenixes, and birds of fire."

"Considering the relationship between the mortal Lan and Suihuang, I suspect that this Fu Xi is very likely Marshal Hua's 'Suihuang'!"

"He may very well be that phoenix, that bird of fire, said to have lived for endless ages!"

Ye Suyi explained the settings of Honkai: Star Rail bit by bit, gradually leading to her conclusion.

"Then why does his gender have a question mark after it?"

Wu Feng asked curiously.

She only treated all this as a story. What she was truly most curious about was Fu Xi's gender.

"In the legends of my hometown, divine beasts born of heaven and earth like this generally have no gender."

"His male identity is probably just his own self-perception."

Ye Suyi chose her words carefully. She was only guessing as well.

There was actually one thing she had kept hidden: the word "Permanence" within Fu Xi's martial soul.

Thinking about it, the Vidyadhara's rebirth in Honkai: Star Rail felt somewhat out of place, but changing it to a phoenix's nirvana made everything flow much more smoothly.

Considering that in the new story, Aha had stolen Voracity's primal force, Ye Suyi could not help wondering whether the "dragon" had taken Fu Xi's Permanence.

"That's what happened..."

Seeing Gu Yuena fall into thought, Fu Xi hurriedly pulled his pants back up.

He also took out a small, crystal-clear Soul Ring.

"Absorb it. I'll have Di Tian find some Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts for you to undergo soul sacrifice."

Hearing Fu Xi's explanation of the Chat Group, Gu Yuena felt her mind overload.

She waved her hand, deciding to think about it later.

Then, Fu Xi sat cross-legged on the ground and placed the Infinite Spirit Ring he had received from signing in onto his martial soul.

Whoosh!

As the Soul Ring flashed with white light, it directly turned into a black Soul Ring among Fu Xi's rings.

"It wasn't as difficult as Mama said?"

Fu Xi looked strangely at Gu Yuena. Just now, Gu Yuena had said that absorbing Soul Rings would be very difficult.

"Looking for a beating!"

Gu Yuena's purple eyes widened as she shot Fu Xi an embarrassed glare.

How was she supposed to know what that Infinite Spirit Ring was? She had only been judging it based on a God-bestowed Soul Ring!

(The God-bestowed Soul Rings in Douluo common knowledge differ from the God-bestowed Soul Rings in the Chat Group. The Chat Group ones can increase in age along with the user.)

"Your Soul Power Level didn't increase?"

Gu Yuena reined in her emotions and gave Fu Xi a surprised look.

"Mm, all the energy went into my stomach. My body got a little tougher too."

Fu Xi scratched his head.

In reality, for Fu Xi, most Soul Power would first pass through his body due to its lack of purity.

Only the refined Soul Power burned by the Origin Flame could be used to raise his level, while the impurities directly became nourishment for his body's growth.

But Fu Xi had not developed much intelligence yet, so he could not explain that principle clearly.

"I see... Although soul sacrifice allows you to absorb Soul Rings without meeting the requirements, with your current physical condition, absorbing ferocious beast Soul Rings is still somewhat too much..."

Gu Yuena sighed softly and stroked Fu Xi's little white hair.

"No, I don't want to absorb Sister Zi Ji, Uncle Di Tian, Uncle Bear Lord..."

Fu Xi shook his head.

"My group even sells God-bestowed Soul Rings. They can reach up to a million years."

Fu Xi argued his case with reason.

Though he was young, he knew that after a soul sacrifice, nothing would remain!

"That works too. For your early cultivation, just absorb some Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings. Later, you can use the Chat Group's God-bestowed Soul Rings to overwrite them."

Gu Yuena nodded. This was good too. After all, having those ferocious beasts who had followed her for so many years undergo soul sacrifice...

She truly could not bear it.

"Come on. Di Tian has already found the Soul Beasts. I'll take you to have a look."

Gu Yuena gently gathered Fu Xi, whose butt still hurt, into her arms.