Jade-Faced Exquisite

Not only the driver, but even the passersby secretly watching through the gaps in the windows were stunned by Hu Liena's soul ring.

A thousand-year soul ring—could she be a three-ring Soul Elder?!

"No, that's not right. You're not a Soul Elder, so why do you only have one ring?!"

The driver felt his entire worldview being challenged.

How could there possibly be such a freak in this world whose first soul ring was a thousand-year one?!

"Cough, cough. The little beauty's fists sure are hard. Cough, cough. I almost couldn't take it."

Qin Xiao wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and staggered out of the fruit stall.

"You actually made me bleed. Then tonight, little girl, I'm afraid you'll have to leave something behind on my bed."

Qin Xiao looked at Hu Liena with a vicious gaze.

However, he was just as shocked when he saw Hu Liena's thousand-year soul ring.

"Hm? Am I hallucinating?"

Qin Xiao rubbed his eyes, but no matter what he did, he could not change the fact before him.

It was a genuine thousand-year soul ring.

"Interesting. This is the first time I've seen a woman like you. You have both beauty and talent—you're simply perfect for me!"

Thud!

Qin Xiao kicked off the ground and shot into the air!

"Just watch me knock you out and take you back to be my wife! Once I take your first time, you'll be my woman from then on!"

Meng Xuanji covered his face helplessly.

"What a simple-minded idiot. Why is his way of thinking still stuck in ancient times? Does he think raping a girl will make her belong to him? He's both stupid and beastly."

Qin Xiao's crude words completely enraged Hu Liena.

"You're courting death!"

"First Soul Skill, Jade-Faced Exquisite."

Hu Liena's figure rapidly changed. In the blink of an eye, she had transformed into Qin Xiao, even copying the hammer in his hand.

The base attributes of this copied martial soul were only sixty percent of the original owner's, but they would gradually increase according to the difference in their spiritual power, eventually approaching—or even surpassing—the original owner's.

"You can transform too? Heh, I suddenly like you even more. First Soul Skill, Thunderclap Hammer!"

Qin Xiao raised the Thunderbolt Hammer high and came crashing down from above!

Bang!

Blinding lightning burst from beneath the shattered floorboards, shooting toward Hu Liena like a barrage of spears.

"First Soul Skill, Thunderclap Hammer."

Unwilling to be outdone, Hu Liena directly copied Qin Xiao's soul skill exactly.

"What?!"

Qin Xiao's eyes widened, and he even wondered if he had seen wrong.

"Isn't this First Soul Skill a little too overpowered?!"

Qin Xiao was truly unlucky. If his martial soul had not been lightning-attributed, Hu Liena would not have been able to copy it at this stage.

Yet Hu Liena could currently only copy lightning-attributed martial souls, and he just happened to run into her.

Bang!

The giant hammer crashed down!

Infused with both Meng Xuanji and Hu Liena's soul power, the giant hammer unleashed several even fiercer bolts of violet lightning. Like a massive web of thunder, they effortlessly intercepted the lightning spears.

"Violet Lightning."

Hu Liena held the hammer in one hand while condensing a violet lightning sphere in the other.

Smack!

Like she was playing baseball, Hu Liena gave the lightning sphere a beautiful home-run swing!

As they said, anything that could be chained together was a move. No matter where one went, powerful mechanics never went out of style.

"So fast!"

Qin Xiao had nowhere to dodge and could only take the lightning sphere head-on.

With a bang, the lightning sphere exploded!

A violet electric field covered Qin Xiao's entire body, crackling thunderously.

"Aah!"

Qin Xiao let out a miserable scream, white smoke rising from his charred body.

As the damage from the lightning field faded, Qin Xiao stood there like a blackened statue, his limbs already too numb to move.

"Hmph, now you've seen how amazing I am."

Hu Liena tossed away the hammer and returned to her original enchanting, beautiful appearance.

With her hands on her slender waist, Hu Liena proudly turned to Meng Xuanji.

"Well? Aren't I amazing?"

"A-Amazing," Meng Xuanji said, holding his waist and pretending to be somewhat weak.

"Miss, you should absorb a little slower. You almost drained all my soul power."

Fortunately, Meng Xuanji's total soul power was greater than normal due to his twin martial souls. Otherwise, this little seductress Hu Liena would have drained him dry on the spot.

"Ah? S-Sorry. I got angry and a little carried away, so I forgot I was using your soul power." Hu Liena came over and held Meng Xuanji's arm.

"Are you okay? Do you want to rest for a while? Sorry, I'll absorb more slowly next time."

"Cough, cough. I suspect you two are making dirty jokes, but I have no proof," the Symbiotic Blood Lotus said.

Ice Soul Ghost Shadow: "Mm, agreed."

Meng Xuanji could only suppress the helplessness in his heart as he looked at Hu Liena acting coquettishly beside him.

There was nothing to be done. A man had to spoil his own woman. Meng Xuanji had been the one to ask Hu Liena to sign the contract, but before he could have the main course, he had been taken advantage of first. It was no big deal.

"Sigh, I'll forgive you this time."

Meng Xuanji looked up at Qin Xiao, who had already lost his ability to fight.

"If that guy doesn't get treatment in time, he'll probably die, right?"

"You! You've got some nerve! He's the mayor's only son! By doing this, you've made enemies of the entire Heavenly Spring Town, do you understand?!"

The driver ran over to Qin Xiao and hoisted him onto his shoulder. Afraid that Meng Xuanji and the others might stop him, he could only flee while leaving behind threats.

"Just wait! The mayor will definitely come for you!"

"That guy!" Hu Liena condensed another lightning sphere in her hand, but when she saw that the driver had already run far away, she could only helplessly withdraw it.

"He runs so fast, just like a horse. If he'd run a little slower, I'd definitely make him pay."

"Don't worry. There's plenty of time. Besides, he'll come back for us, didn't he say so before running away?"

After recovering somewhat, Meng Xuanji slowly walked toward the collapsed fruit stall.

"Excuse me, is the owner here?"

Meng Xuanji looked at the smashed fruit scattered all over the ground and sighed in regret. "Sigh, they were ruined before I even got to eat them. Is the owner here? We're willing to compensate for all the damage we caused."

A burly middle-aged man wearing a wide straw sunhat slowly stood up from the corner.

"No need to compensate me. You should hurry and run for your lives. Sigh, what two pitiful children." Lu Quan sighed.

"My four children are about the same age as you. Seeing Qin Xiao set his sights on you at such a young age makes me feel sorry for you too. But now that you've made an enemy of him, Qin Xiao will never let you go."

"If you don't want the mayor to throw you into prison and torture you, leave quickly."

As Lu Quan spoke, he cleaned up his ruined fruit stall.

Seeing Qin Xiao driven away, the other merchants resumed their business as well.

People had to eat to live. Once the excitement was over, they had to go back to facing life. That was only natural.

Meng Xuanji silently sensed the soul power within the man, only to discover that it was merely level three.

However, the key was that Meng Xuanji vaguely noticed soul power fluctuations in the man's arms.

From the Symbiotic Blood Lotus's perspective, the man's arms possessed far more abundant vitality than the rest of his body. It was as though he had been born with immense strength, capable of supporting a solid wooden fruit rack with one hand.

Adding the fact that his surname was Lu and that he had four sons around Meng Xuanji's age, it was not difficult to guess his identity.

If nothing unexpected happened, this man's martial soul should be a body martial soul.

"Sir, may I ask what your martial soul is?"

"Martial soul? Hehe, don't joke around. I'm just a cripple who doesn't even have a martial soul. How could an ordinary person like me possibly have one?"

Lu Quan lowered his straw hat, like a man whose faith had been crushed by society lowering his pride.

"I don't want to get too involved in matters between soul masters. Right now, I only want to support my family and live on together with my four sons. That's all."

"If you want to learn about martial souls, you can go to the nearest Martial Soul Hall branch. I'm sorry, but an ordinary person like me can't help you with anything."