We Will Meet Again

Bai Xiao's consciousness gradually began to blur from the pain, but the Devouring did not stop. This was his body's instinctive Devouring; Bai Xiao had no control over it.

"Why...?"

That was the last thought that surfaced in Bai Xiao's mind before his consciousness sank into darkness.

Crack~ Crack~

Bai Xiao's body now looked like some alien creature, twisted beyond recognition, no longer even humanoid.

A yellow Soul Ring shrouded the space above his head, as though it were controlling everything.

The yellow Soul Ring flickered continuously, blooming with a faint glow in the night...

After a long while, the corpse in Bai Xiao's embrace had disappeared.

At this moment, Bai Xiao's body had become even more twisted. A lump of flesh had appeared on his back and was constantly swelling.

"Roar~"

The patrolling Hou nearby noticed the abnormal changes around Bai Xiao.

The grass around Bai Xiao gradually began to wither, spreading outward without end.

The Hou fled into the distance. It could feel a terrifying suction devouring the life force in the surroundings.

"Ha~"

The lump of flesh on Bai Xiao's back made a sound. Looking closely, one could discover that it was actually a head!

Ferocious!

That was the state of Bai Xiao's body at this moment. He was like a cicada shedding its old shell.

Thud~

The sound of a heavy object hitting the ground rang out.

A blood-covered figure appeared behind Bai Xiao.

By the moonlight, one could see that his profile bore a seventy to eighty percent resemblance to Bai Xiao's.

The figure spoke in a childish voice:

"You've worked hard. Let me carry these pains and keep living from here on out! Rem, take care of him for me!"

"Okay." A young girl's voice answered him.

The bloody wound on Bai Xiao's back began healing at a rate visible to the naked eye.

"Mm..."

The figure silently watched everything unfold.

After Bai Xiao had fully recovered, he raised his head and looked at the moonlight, muttering to himself, "Become a god? Mm... To become a god, I will meet you all again at the end..."

He looked at the moonlight once more, then turned and walked in another direction.

"Roar?"

The Hou ran over from afar, staring at the figure in confusion.

"Little Hou, I'm leaving. We'll meet again..."

He affectionately stroked the Hou's head, then walked away without looking back...

"Roar?"

The Hou remained where it was, gazing at the figure in confusion. Then it remembered Bai Xiao and ran back to look for him.

At dawn the next day,

"Mm?"

Bai Xiao shielded his eyes from the dazzling sunlight with one hand as he groggily woke up from the grass.

He looked around in confusion. At the moment, his mind was completely blank.

In a daze, Bai Xiao touched his tattered clothes.

Seeing Bai Xiao awaken, the Hou hurriedly shoved its face close.

Bai Xiao looked at the Hou beside him, wearing an utterly sycophantic expression, and felt the hot breath coming from its mouth. His expression instantly turned strange...

"Get lost!!"

"Roar?!!"

Bai Xiao slapped the Hou beside him flying.

Rubbing his head, he asked in anguish, "I feel like I've forgotten something! What is it? Why does my heart feel so empty?!!"

Bai Xiao roared helplessly!

"Yesterday, you were thinking about Soul Bones and accidentally fell asleep."

A young girl's voice answered Bai Xiao's question.

"Mm?"

Bai Xiao's emotions gradually settled down. He did not doubt it; Rem was the most loyal person in this world to him...

Bai Xiao muttered to himself, "Where did I get to yesterday? Oh, right! Sects!"

If one spoke of superpowers, there were only six on Douluo Continent: Sea God Island, Martial Soul Hall, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, the Clear Sky Sect, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect, and the City of Slaughter.

Of those six, the Clear Sky Sect had sealed itself away, while the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect was extremely arrogant. Bai Xiao did not like such a sect.

As for Martial Soul Hall, its Pope was someone who wanted to destroy Martial Soul Hall, its Saintess had even infiltrated the Heaven Dou Empire and become a prince, and there was that old scheming bastard, the Peerless Douluo Qian Daoliu.

Sea God Island was somewhere Bai Xiao simply could not reach right now, much less join.

The City of Slaughter—entering it with his current six-year-old body would be seeking death.

And the wealthiest, easiest sect to join was the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

If Bai Xiao obtained the Immortal Herbs in Dugu Bo's possession, he could make up for the flaws in their sect's Martial Souls. One had to know that such a favor was no small matter.

Bai Xiao felt that rather than tell the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect that Dugu Bo's Qiluo Tulip could make up for the flaw in the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Martial Soul, it would be better for him to let Ning Rongrong consume the Qiluo Tulip himself and have her tell her sect that the flaw in her Martial Soul had been repaired. The value of the latter favor was clearly greater than the former.

The next question was how Bai Xiao could obtain the Qiluo Tulip in Dugu Bo's possession.

When Dugu Bo first appeared, he was seventy-eight years old, and Tang San had been thirteen at the time. Tang San was now six, so Dugu Bo was seventy-one. Dugu Bo had become a Title Douluo at seventy, and on that same day, his son had been poisoned to death by his own Martial Soul and the poison techniques he cultivated. Only he and his granddaughter remained, relying on each other for survival. Bai Xiao's target was Dugu Bo and the Immortal Herbs in his medicinal garden, but if he wanted to obtain them, he had to go through one person—Dugu Bo's granddaughter, Dugu Yan.

A plan slowly surfaced in Bai Xiao's mind.

Half a month later, on a street in Heaven Dou City, pedestrians made way for a colossal creature. Quite a few people began discussing the youth atop the giant beast.

On the beast's back lay a youth with his eyes slightly narrowed. One arm supported his head, the other rested over his chest, and his legs were crossed, looking utterly carefree.

The young man wore moon-white robes, his waist-length black hair draped behind him. His handsome features matched perfectly with his snowy skin, while his blue eyes, bright as stars, hid behind his lashes, making people unable to help but say, "What a handsome young man."

Yet the giant beast beneath him was equally powerful. Its extraordinarily thick, sturdy limbs and nearly perfect body curves, combined with silver streaks embedded in its black fur, gave the beast a strange, divine beauty.

One man, one beast—one elegant, one wild—yet they blended together so perfectly.

From the giant beast, one could see its affection for the person on its back. Every step it took was exceedingly steady, as though afraid of disturbing the youth above it.

Yet within the hidden eyes of the youth atop the beast seemed to lurk a kind of madness, as though the awakened youth would be a savage beast.

Everything seemed like some illusion. The youth did not awaken, and the giant beast continued onward.

Only when they reached Heaven Dou Imperial Academy did the giant beast stop.

Clearly, the giant beast was the Hou, and the youth on its back was Bai Xiao. Their purpose in coming here was to join Dugu Yan's school, Heaven Dou Imperial Academy.

To put it bluntly, in order to get close to Dugu Yan, Bai Xiao had even gone out of his way to dress up. He had unsealed his looks and was preparing to use the Handsome Man Technique.

He had now transformed his Body Martial Soul to one hundred percent. Polishing his skin, removing blemishes, whitening himself—such things were so easy for Bai Xiao!

It had not been in vain that Bai Xiao had watched so many historical dramas back on Blue Star. His looks had now absolutely reached the ceiling of attractiveness on Blue Star.

Bai Xiao thought, If I sacrifice such stunning beauty of mine, can I really fail to seduce that little girl Dugu Yan?