The Surgery Was a Success; You're a Girl Now

Damn it!

Xiao Wu glared furiously at Qian Renxue before her, but just as Jiang Li had said, Qian Renxue was currently only a soul body. Xiao Wu could not do anything to her at all.

So Xiao Wu turned around, opened her mouth, and bit down on Jiang Li's arm. "I'll bite you to death!"

This perfectly illustrated the saying: even a rabbit would bite when cornered.

Jiang Li pinched Xiao Wu's tender, almost dripping cheeks with one hand. "Wait, why are you biting me?"

"I'm biting you, you big liar!" Xiao Wu said indistinctly with her cheeks being pinched.

"Go on, little rabbit. Bite little Jiang Li to death and rise up to become the master," Qian Renxue fanned the flames from the side, delighted by the chaos.

Jiang Li first shot Qian Renxue a glare, then asked Xiao Wu, "How am I a big liar again?"

"You said you'd help me find my mother!" Xiao Wu said righteously, staring at Jiang Li.

What, did Xiao Wu come from tadpoles or something?

Of course, Jiang Li only muttered that to himself and did not say it in front of Xiao Wu.

Otherwise, Xiao Wu would probably rush over and try to bite him again.

"I never said I wouldn't help you." Jiang Li wiped sweat from his brow. "But think about it. The two of us together don't even have thirty levels of Soul Power. With these scrawny arms and legs, getting out of Notting City would be hard enough. At the very least, we need to wait until we're a little older."

"You're not lying to me, are you?" Xiao Wu asked suspiciously, staring at Jiang Li.

Jiang Li could not help rolling his eyes. "Why would I lie to you?"

Xiao Wu thought about it and realized that seemed true enough.

She was a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast who had taken human form, and she was no match for Jiang Li. Yet Jiang Li had not acted like other Soul Masters, trying to kill her for her Soul Rings and Soul Bones once he discovered her identity.

Instead, he had made that strange contract with her. And there was also that hateful woman called Qian Renxue, a Limit Douluo who had somehow fallen to such a state, who had signed the same contract with him.

Still, Xiao Wu was not entirely reassured, so she held out her little finger to Jiang Li. "Then let's make a pinky promise."

"Sure, sure. Pinky promise."

Jiang Li could not help laughing at the sight. He had not expected Xiao Wu to have such a childish side.

Still, he extended his little finger and hooked it with Xiao Wu's, as though humoring a child.

"Pinky promise, hang by the hook. One hundred years—no, one million years without changing. Anyone who lies has to swallow a thousand, no, ten thousand needles." Xiao Wu looked at Jiang Li with complete seriousness.

Seeing the earnest expression on Xiao Wu's face, Jiang Li did not know whether to laugh or cry. "Is that enough now?"

Only then did Xiao Wu nod. She lay back on the bed in satisfaction and urged Jiang Li, "Jiang Li, I'm hungry."

Qian Renxue immediately popped out to tease Xiao Wu. "How about braised rabbit head?"

"Bunnies are so cute, why would you eat bunnies?" Xiao Wu snapped. She grabbed the pillow from the bed and hurled it straight at Qian Renxue. "Get lost!"

Naturally, it could not hit Qian Renxue in her soul-body state.

"Alright, alright, stop arguing. I'll go make food now." Jiang Li picked up the pillow from the floor, dusted it off, and spoke before turning toward the kitchen.

Qian Renxue made a face at Xiao Wu. Ignoring Xiao Wu, who was sulking, she followed Jiang Li into the kitchen and said in surprise, "Little Jiang Li, you can actually cook?"

In the year since she had attached herself to Jiang Li's Martial Soul, this was the first time she had seen him cook for himself.

"What's so surprising about that? Children from poor families grow up early. What's so remarkable about knowing how to cook?" Jiang Li teased.

As a transmigrator from China, he had begun learning to make home-cooked dishes from a young age. His cooking was not exceptionally good, but it was naturally far better than the average person's.

And after transmigrating to Douluo Continent, he had been an orphan. He had only survived until the day he awakened his Martial Soul by relying on his decent cooking skills and occasionally working in restaurants around Notting City.

But after awakening his Martial Soul, his desire for strength, along with the Soul Master stipend he could collect every month from Spirit Hall, naturally left him with no desire to cook for himself.

Of course, there was an even more important reason: why go through all that trouble when he was only cooking for himself?

It did not take long before a fairly lavish spread of four dishes and a soup was ready.

Only Jiang Li and Xiao Wu sat at the dining table.

As for Qian Renxue, she could not eat due to being a soul body. After Xiao Wu mocked her over it, she hid inside Jiang Li's Martial Soul, the Summoning Grimoire, and vanished from sight.

"By the way, Xiao Wu, do you remember that Tang San from earlier?" Jiang Li suddenly asked Xiao Wu.

"Tang San?" Xiao Wu, who had been busily eating with her head lowered, was momentarily stunned by Jiang Li's question before recalling who Tang San was. "That little bastard you beat earlier?"

Though she remembered him, Xiao Wu did not understand why Jiang Li was bringing up that annoying guy during a meal.

"Remember to stay away from him in the future. His father is a Title Douluo," Jiang Li said casually.

"Huh?"

As her chopsticks clattered to the floor, Xiao Wu finally processed what he had said. She hurriedly said, "Then we need to run away quickly."

In the Soul Master world of Douluo Continent, there was a ranking for the most precious things, called the Soul Master Dream Rankings.

The two things tied for first place were Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Rings and Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Bones.

And Xiao Wu was a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast capable of producing Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Rings and Soul Bones.

Although she had now taken human form, her situation had instead become even worse. Not only had she lost the power of a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, but before her Soul Power reached level seventy, even a Title Douluo could see through her identity as a Soul Beast.

This was undoubtedly extremely dangerous for her.

Yet Jiang Li had just told her that a Title Douluo was living in this tiny Notting City?

How was that any different from telling her there was a bomb hidden in a rabbit warren?

Xiao Wu was so frightened that her heart nearly stopped beating.

"What are you scared of?" Jiang Li said as he looked at Xiao Wu's pathetic appearance.

"That's a Title Douluo! Do you have a way to deal with him?" Xiao Wu was nearly crying from anxiety.

"No." Jiang Li spoke unhurriedly. "But you have me. After signing the contract with me, the Soul Beast aura on you completely disappeared."

"What do you mean?" Xiao Wu hurriedly asked.

"Do you remember that little pink rabbit that floated out of your body when you signed the contract with me?" Jiang Li did not immediately answer Xiao Wu's question, instead asking one of his own.

Xiao Wu nodded.

"That was the power in your body that originally belonged to the Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, the Soft-Boned Rabbit. But that power belongs to me now." Jiang Li spoke meaningfully.

"Huh?" Xiao Wu froze upon hearing that.

"In other words, you're no longer considered a Soul Beast. Even if you stood before a Title Douluo, he would not discover that you are a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast that took human form."

Jiang Li joked, "Congratulations. The surgery was a success; you're a girl now."