Who Ordered the Parent-Child Rice Bowl?

After Xiong Jun left, Di Tian slowly spoke.

"Who was that woman with the Six-Winged Angel martial soul in the Sea God Pavilion just now? You seem never to have mentioned a Limit Douluo secretly helping you. And how did she disappear without my noticing?"

Di Tian was not someone who liked prying into others' affairs, but Ye Chenxing was the human favored by the auspicious beast. If Ye Chenxing seemed like a potential danger to him, he had to make the auspicious beast cut ties with Ye Chenxing.

"I did not mean to hide it." Faced with Di Tian's barrage of questions, Ye Chenxing explained, "Because she is not some powerful expert secretly helping me. She is my martial soul, so naturally, I can recall her into my body whenever I wish."

"What did you say?!"

This time, it was Di Tian who could not believe his ears.

"Your martial soul?!"

A human who had only just awakened his martial soul and had not even obtained his first soul ring—his martial soul... could actually summon a Limit Douluo on par with Di Tian?!

Di Tian's first reaction was: Impossible!

He stared fixedly at Ye Chenxing's face, as though trying to find traces of a lie there.

But he failed.

Seeing Di Tian's reaction, Ye Chenxing found it rather amusing.

"Well, Beast God? Are you amazed by my talent?"

Provoked by Ye Chenxing, Di Tian felt somewhat embarrassed and hurriedly coughed twice, returning to his usual expression.

"Heh heh, it is nothing much. A mere Limit Douluo is not enough to make me take notice."

This old black dragon really knew how to put on an act.

Ye Chenxing grumbled inwardly.

Though his words were tough, Di Tian remained deeply shocked inside.

If anyone else had told him that someone's martial soul could directly summon a Limit Douluo, he would certainly have shown that person the consequences of making fun of Di Tian.

But—

This answer did explain everything that had just happened.

A youth who had only just awakened his martial soul already possessed ultimate combat power... What if he obtained his first soul ring? His fifth? What would his martial soul true body be like?

Di Tian did not even dare to imagine it.

Seeing that Di Tian had no further reaction, Ye Chenxing shrugged boredly and continued, "More precisely, she is an existence summoned by the rules of my martial soul, the Hall of Heroes. Speaking of which, where is the auspicious beast? Why do I not see her? She also deserves credit for my successful summoning this time."

As soon as he finished speaking, a sudden rustling came from the distant forest.

"Chenxing! You're finally back!"

Accompanied by a clear, delighted cry, a dazzling golden figure shot out from the bushes and pounced directly onto Ye Chenxing, knocking him onto the grass. Her fluffy head rubbed affectionately against his chest with abandon.

"Alright, alright, auspicious beast, stop fooling around." Ye Chenxing's face was covered in fur from all the rubbing. Helplessly, he patted her golden mane. "I was only gone for three days. Get up already."

Only then did the Three-Eyed Golden Lion reluctantly move her head away. Her golden eyes were full of curiosity. "Tell me quickly, is the human world fun?"

"That can wait. We have something important to do first."

Ye Chenxing put away his smile, sat upright, and looked at the auspicious beast's fluffy face. "That feeling of being watched I asked you about before—do you still feel it now?"

"Watched?" Di Tian's expression immediately darkened. He strode forward. "Auspicious beast, is what he says true? You once felt someone secretly watching you?"

The auspicious beast obediently nodded. "Mm. It probably started around ten years ago? Not that long ago. And the feeling was very faint. If Chenxing had not reminded me earlier to carefully sense it with the Eye of Destiny, I would never have noticed it at all."

Di Tian's expression instantly turned grim to the extreme.

To silently observe the imperial auspicious beast carrying the fortune of the soul beast race within the core region of the Star Dou Great Forest, even right under his nose... absolutely no one on the entire Douluo Continent could accomplish that.

Unless...

Seeing Di Tian's ugly expression, Ye Chenxing waved his hand. "Di Tian, don't get worked up yet."

"Auspicious beast, close your eyes and sense carefully again. Has that unpleasant feeling disappeared now?"

The auspicious beast obediently closed the Eye of Destiny. After a while, she opened her eyes in surprise. "It really has! Chenxing, that feeling is completely gone!"

"That's good." Ye Chenxing smiled.

Then, he lightly beckoned at the air with his hand.

Amid a gathering of dazzling golden motes, Saber appeared once more out of thin air, clad in golden armor with six wings on her back.

Di Tian's gaze sharpened. At such close range, he could sense it even more clearly.

This was indeed the fluctuation of a summoned martial soul.

The auspicious beast, meanwhile, was completely stunned.

"She... who is she?" The Three-Eyed Golden Lion widened her eyes. This was only the second time in her life that she had seen a human. Curiously, she circled Saber and inspected her.

She looked at Ye Chenxing, then at Saber's incomparably beautiful face.

"Chenxing, is she... your mother?"

"Pfft—"

"Of course not! Auspicious beast, what on earth is going on in that little head of yours for you to reach such a conclusion?"

The auspicious beast tilted her head, looking entirely justified. "Uncle Di Tian told me that both soul beasts and humans have mothers. Only I was born from the plane of the Star Dou Great Forest, so I thought..."

The auspicious beast's train of thought: an adult female human, with a young human cub, and the two carried the same aura—

Mm, that meant they were mother and child. Perfect logic. Nothing wrong with it.

Several black lines seemed to hang over Ye Chenxing's forehead as he was mistaken for a little kid. He glanced sideways at Saber beside him. This Six-Winged Angel, usually cool and imposing, also looked slightly uncomfortable at the moment.

"Ahem..." Ye Chenxing hurriedly coughed twice and forcibly steered the topic back on track. "Auspicious beast, she is my martial soul. The current contract is still somewhat unstable. I need to absorb a soul ring to completely stabilize it, and that is where I need your help."

"Human, I warn you." As if a trigger word had been activated, Di Tian immediately spoke up. "You had better not harbor any improper thoughts toward the auspicious beast."

It could not be helped. To Di Tian, the words "soul ring" and "auspicious beast" appearing in the same sentence were far too sensitive.

"Don't worry. I am merely helping the auspicious beast remove certain people's methods from her body."

"No!" Di Tian hurriedly reached out to stop him. "Even I have not detected the slightest trace of the abnormality in the auspicious beast. Do you understand what lies behind this—"

Ye Chenxing smiled faintly. "Di Tian, have you considered that if the God Realm could still cause me trouble, then the one who drained the Golden Tree and prevented us from leaving just now would not have been merely a Limit Douluo."

Di Tian's heart shook violently. That was right. He had been shocked by Ye Chenxing's successful actions, yet he had overlooked a crucial question.

Shrek Academy had countless ties to the Sea God.

Yet Ye Chenxing had easily taken away the Golden Tree, Shrek Academy's most important treasure, and they had done nothing at all.

Had something happened in the God Realm? But even if that were the case, how had Ye Chenxing known?

Under Di Tian's exceedingly grave and shocked gaze, Ye Chenxing raised his right hand, pressed his index and middle fingers together, and lightly touched the closed Eye of Destiny on the auspicious beast's forehead.

His fingers slowly pulled backward, forcibly stripping a translucent bead radiating strange golden light from between the auspicious beast's brows.

Di Tian stared fixedly at the bead. Through the layer of golden light, he abruptly saw that within it slumbered the soul of a rare human girl with pink-blue hair!

As the bead completely left the auspicious beast's body, Ye Chenxing suddenly brought his hands together and pulled them apart in the air.

The bead containing the fragment of divine consciousness instantly shattered and reassembled, gradually condensing into a special soul ring flashing with dazzling golden light.

The purpose of this first soul ring was of vital importance. It had to possess an extremely high degree of compatibility with the catalyst used to summon Saber—the auspicious beast's golden fur.

Therefore, from a purely theoretical perspective, directly killing the Three-Eyed Golden Lion to take her soul ring was undoubtedly the most perfect way to break the deadlock.

However, whether by sentiment or reason, Ye Chenxing could never do such a thing.

Yet Tang Buddha's super dismantling had solved this major problem for him.

A forcibly separated soul fragment had lurked within the auspicious beast's body and merged with her for more than a decade. It had long formed an extremely deep bond with her.

At this moment, this hidden move originally meant to steal the fortune of the Star Dou Great Forest had instead become the only perfect soul ring choice to replace the auspicious beast's sacrifice! Moreover, it contained a trace of exceptionally pure "divinity."

"Sorry about this, Tang Buddha."

"I never expected that not only A Yin, but even a fragment of Tang Wutong would fall into my hands."

"Looks like I'm definitely having this parent-child rice bowl."