Everyday Life at Home: Xiao Wu Treated Yue Xi Like a Little Sister!

The construction of the wooden houses went much faster than Xiao Wu had imagined.

With Zhu Mao and Feng Qie, the two "super workers," hard at work, three small, exquisite wooden houses rose from the valley floor in only half a day.

Though the wooden houses were simple, they had everything they needed.

Lu Ming even had the leisure to ask Feng Qie to carve some simple patterns into the windows with wind blades.

"Wow! So pretty!"

When Xiao Wu saw the little house that belonged to her, she could not help but exclaim in admiration.

Is this what human life is like?

The house was not large, but it felt cozy.

There was a bed made of vines and soft leaves, a small wooden table, and some unknown wildflowers on the windowsill, giving off a faint fragrance.

All of it gave her a feeling called "home"...

"Do you like it?" Lu Ming asked with a smile, leaning against the doorframe.

"Mhm!" Xiao Wu nodded vigorously, her large eyes curving into crescents as she smiled. "Thank you, Lu Ming."

"No need to be so polite." Lu Ming waved a hand. "We'll be neighbors from now on."

After settling in, their lives gradually became regular and pleasant.

Every morning, Lu Ming sat cross-legged in the center of the valley, circulating Myriad Essence Life-Eater and absorbing the forest's life energy to cultivate.

His soul power steadily and rapidly advanced toward level twenty-two.

Zhu Mao, meanwhile, prowled around the edge of the valley like a silent ghost, clearing away every potential threat.

Feng Qie's task was to go out and find food. He was fast and had a sharp sense of smell, so he always returned with all sorts of novel wild fruits and edible plants.

And Xiao Wu naturally became Yue Xi's "full-time nanny," taking her around the valley to play every day.

They chased butterflies together, caught fish in the stream together, and wove flower crowns from wildflowers together.

With Xiao Wu's company, Yue Xi gradually became more cheerful as well.

She no longer always hid behind Lu Ming. She began taking Xiao Wu's hand on her own initiative and even called out in her soft, sweet voice, "Sister Xiao Wu."

Whenever that happened, Xiao Wu's heart melted from how adorable she was, and she could not resist pulling her into her arms and planting a hard kiss on her.

She realized that she truly liked this little sister from the bottom of her heart.

Yue Xi was very well-behaved, obedient, and exceptionally kind.

Whenever she saw an injured little animal, she would take the initiative to stretch out her hand and use her weak healing ability to treat its wounds.

That gentle white light was filled with the breath of life, making Xiao Wu feel incredibly close to it.

Yue Xi... she really has retained the kindness of a Moonlight Deer.

Xiao Wu sighed inwardly.

She increasingly felt that what Lu Ming was doing did not seem to be the kind of "evil experiment" Er Ming had described!

If it truly were evil, how could it create a life as pure and beautiful as Yue Xi?

By the stream.

"Sister Xiao Wu, look!"

Yue Xi excitedly raised both hands. Several little fish swam merrily in her palms, seemingly not afraid of her at all.

"Yue Xi, you're amazing!" Xiao Wu praised her with a smile.

Just then, Yue Xi's stomach gave an ill-timed rumble.

The little girl's face instantly turned red, and she lowered her head in embarrassment.

Xiao Wu laughed at her adorable appearance and rubbed her head. "Are you hungry? Come on, I'll take you to find something to eat."

She took Yue Xi's hand and brought her to the little tree hollow where Feng Qie stored the food.

The hollow was piled full of fruits of all colors.

Xiao Wu picked up a bright red fruit and handed it to Yue Xi. "Try this one. It's very sweet."

Yue Xi took the fruit and began taking small bites, her eyes narrowing into happy slits.

Xiao Wu picked one up for herself as well and was just about to eat it when her gaze inadvertently fell upon Feng Qie, who was practicing punches not far away.

Feng Qie was bare-chested, his bronze skin covered in smooth, defined muscle.

Every punch he threw carried a sharp whistle of wind and explosive power.

Xiao Wu's gaze lingered on him for a moment before her pupils contracted slightly.

She saw it.

On the left side of Feng Qie's chest, close to his heart, was a fist-sized black hole.

That hole seemed capable of swallowing all light.

She had seen an identical hole on Zhu Mao's chest before, though Zhu Mao had been wearing a shirt at the time, so she had not seen it clearly.

And Yue Xi...

Xiao Wu instinctively lowered her head and glanced at Yue Xi, who was concentrating on eating her fruit.

She remembered clearly that when she had held Yue Xi while sleeping, there had also been a small hole like this on Yue Xi's lower abdomen...

What exactly is this black hole?

Why do all three of them have such strange holes on their bodies?

Xiao Wu had an intuition that this hole was likely the key to Lu Ming's bizarre transformation ability!

Was it the "price" they had to pay to gain human forms and intelligence?

Without changing her expression, Xiao Wu withdrew her gaze and stuffed the fruit in her hand into her mouth. Inwardly, she had already made up her mind.

She had to find out exactly what this "hole" meant!

What she did not know was that while she observed Feng Qie, Lu Ming, who was cultivating cross-legged at the other end of the valley, pressed his lips together slightly.

He had deliberately made Feng Qie take off his shirt and train somewhere Xiao Wu could see him.

He wanted Xiao Wu to see that "Hollow Hole."

The bait had already been cast.

Now, it depended on when Xiao Wu, this curiosity-filled "fish," would take the initiative to bite.

Lu Ming knew very well that since Xiao Wu had not shown panic or disgust upon seeing the Hollow Hole, it meant that she had already begun accepting Zhu Mao and the others from the bottom of her heart...

She did not see them as "monsters"!

That was a very good start.

As long as he continued influencing her subtly, letting her see Zhu Mao and the others' way of life and feel the perfect fusion of the remaining "humanity" and "beast nature" within them—

When the time was right and the truth was revealed, Xiao Wu, Da Ming, and Er Ming would be more accepting of it.

Only then could his Arrancar Legion plan truly take root and flourish in this Star Dou Great Forest...

Night spread across the skies above Star Dou Great Forest like spilled ink.

In the valley, the bonfire crackled, its orange-red flames illuminating everyone's faces.

Feng Qie had brought back a plump wild chicken, which was now roasting over the fire, sizzling as fat dripped from it. The rich aroma of meat filled the air.

"Come on, come on, try my cooking!" Feng Qie offered Xiao Wu a golden-brown roasted drumstick as if presenting a treasure. "I guarantee you'll want more after one bite!"

"Thank you." Xiao Wu accepted it with a sweet smile.

She took a bite. Crisp on the outside and tender on the inside, it was bursting with savory flavor and truly delicious.

But her mind was nowhere near the food.

Over the past few days, she had focused nearly all her attention on the black holes in the chests or abdomens of Zhu Mao, Feng Qie, and Yue Xi.

She had probed Feng Qie indirectly, asking why he had such a "scar" on his body.

Feng Qie had merely scratched his head and answered as though it were perfectly natural, "I was born this way. Isn't Zhu Mao and Yue Xi the same? It's the mark of our race!"

The mark of a race?

Those words stirred up no small amount of turmoil in Xiao Wu's heart.

A completely new race? A race transformed from soul beasts, marked by that hole?

She increasingly felt that she was touching upon a world-shaking secret.

And the core of that secret was undoubtedly Lu Ming, the seemingly harmless youth who was currently resting with his eyes closed...