You Refuse? Plenty of Soul Beasts Would Be Willing

Surgery was a success? What surgery?

Listening to Jiang Li say things she did not understand right in front of her, Xiao Wu only felt like her mind had gone blank.

"But I was a girl to begin with!" Xiao Wu said blankly.

Congratulations, blind one. You finally spotted the obvious.

"I never said you weren't," Jiang Li replied.

"No, no. You just said that my Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast power was already yours. What did that mean?" Xiao Wu shook her head and hurriedly asked.

"What's the problem?" Jiang Li asked in return.

"Of course there's a problem!" Xiao Wu suddenly stood up, planted her hands on her hips, and raised her voice so sharply that she nearly made Jiang Li jump. "That's the power I painstakingly cultivated for a hundred thousand years! What gave you the right to say it's yours?"

"So what?" Jiang Li raised an eyebrow, then said with complete justification, "Did signing a contract with me mistreat you?"

"Do you know how dangerous it is for a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast that has taken human form to stay in human society before reaching level seventy?"

"I merely took away power you couldn't use in the first place. I even turned you into a real girl, so you won't have to worry about Soul Masters discovering your identity."

"You can ask the other Soul Beasts. If losing all their power meant becoming a real human and never having human Soul Masters discover their true identity, how many of them do you think would be willing?"

"You refuse? Plenty of Soul Beasts would be willing!"

At that, Jiang Li paused before continuing, "Besides, it's not like I won't give it back. As long as you stay by my side, every time you advance a Soul Power realm, my Martial Soul can return a portion of your power to you in the form of a Soul Ring through our contract."

"How is that any different from before you made the contract? It can even keep a Title Douluo from discovering your true identity. You've struck it rich, all right?"

Jiang Li was not lying to her. Everything he said was true.

He had only discovered this after contracting Xiao Wu. If the contracted target was an ordinary Soul Master or Soul Beast, the Summoning Grimoire naturally could not forcibly take their power.

It could only borrow their power when Jiang Li used his Martial Soul in battle. However, if the contracted target was a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast in human form like Xiao Wu,

then the power hidden within Xiao Wu's body, which she could not control on her own, would be seized by his Martial Soul, the Summoning Grimoire.

Only by remaining at his side and slowly leveling up could she gradually reclaim her own power.

Still, this was not without benefits for Xiao Wu.

The benefit was that even if Xiao Wu's true identity as a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast in human form was discovered in the future and she was killed,

she would not drop a Soul Ring or Soul Bone.

Instead, she would become like Qian Renxue and henceforth attach herself to Jiang Li's Martial Soul, the Summoning Grimoire, in soul form.

However, Jiang Li had no intention of telling Xiao Wu about that.

"No, no..."

Xiao Wu kept shaking her head. What Jiang Li said seemed to make a lot of sense, yet she kept feeling that something was wrong.

But she simply could not say what exactly was wrong.

So she could only keep shaking her head.

"Tell me yourself, what's wrong with it? You want to gain something without giving anything in return? How could there be such a good deal in this world? Right?" Jiang Li asked when he saw that.

"Th-this..."

Xiao Wu stammered, unable to say a single word. She could only put both hands on her head and scratch furiously.

Her scalp felt so itchy, as if something were about to grow out of it!

Unfortunately, although Xiao Wu was a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast in human form, she had never communicated with humans before.

From childhood to adulthood, the only ones around her she could communicate with were her mother, Da Ming, the Azure Bull Python, and Er Ming, the Titan Giant Ape.

How could someone as pure-minded as her recognize the trap hidden in Jiang Li's words?

If Xiao Wu had been a transmigrator like Jiang Li, she would have understood that Jiang Li's words were no different from a boss dangling empty promises to manipulate employees.

"All right, we've finished eating. I cooked, so it's only reasonable for you to wash the dishes, right?"

"If you still can't figure it out, go wash the dishes in the kitchen and think while you wash. Tell me when you've figured it out," Jiang Li said.

Although Xiao Wu's mind was still a little muddled, she listened to Jiang Li and gathered the bowls and chopsticks before heading into the kitchen.

Jiang Li, who watched Xiao Wu enter the kitchen, did not sit idle. He raised a hand and summoned his Martial Soul, the Summoning Grimoire, then called into the air, "Xiao Xue!"

A black figure drifted out of the Summoning Grimoire like a ghost and flew behind Jiang Li.

"Xiao Xue?"

Jiang Li turned his head to the left, and Qian Renxue behind him hid to his right. He turned his head to the right, and Qian Renxue hid to his left. In the end, Jiang Li still could not see her.

Jiang Li thought for a moment, then directly tilted his head back and bent his body backward.

"Hehe."

A pretty upside-down face immediately entered his view. With bright eyes, white teeth, and delicate features, Qian Renxue's beautiful face did not lose the slightest bit of its charm even upside down.

Qian Renxue bent down close to Jiang Li. Her light-purple eyes were right before him, clear and distinct.

He vaguely seemed to catch a faint, indescribable fragrance of a young girl drifting into his nose.

Jiang Li quickly straightened up, rubbed his slightly itchy nose, and turned to look at Qian Renxue.

"Is little Jiang Li embarrassed?" Qian Renxue teased him.

"Embarrassed, my ass!"

Naturally, Jiang Li would never admit it. He merely brushed it off before saying, "Stop fooling around. Let's continue today's training."

"Little Jiang Li is still so amusing. No matter how much I tease you, I never get tired of it."

Qian Renxue looked at Jiang Li with smiling eyes, but when she saw his expression grow increasingly unfriendly, she immediately swallowed the rest of her words.

She raised her hands in surrender toward him. "All right, all right, I'll stop. Is that okay?"

"Fine. Then let's begin today's training."

With that, she had Jiang Li sit on the bed and began guiding him through that day's training.

However, what they practiced was not some powerful self-created Soul Skill, but an inconspicuous self-created Soul Skill unique to Spirit Hall even in the original Douluo Continent story.

It was also the foundation that allowed Qian Renxue to impersonate the Heaven Dou Empire's crown prince, Xue Qinghe.

It was a self-created Soul Skill capable of disguising one's Soul Power level, altering the appearance of one's Martial Soul, and even falsifying the age of one's Soul Rings.

Although achieving the best results required several precious medicinal ingredients as aids,

Jiang Li did not need the best results. It was enough if he could disguise his Soul Power level and Soul Ring ages to a certain extent.

As for his Martial Soul, he had already registered it with Spirit Hall in order to receive the Soul Master subsidy, so there was no point in hiding it anymore.