Outside Notting Academy.
A pretty little girl approached from afar. Her lovely face was fair with a rosy flush, tender and pink like a ripe peach, making people want to take a bite.
Although her clothes were plain, they were very clean.
Her long black hair was braided into a scorpion braid that hung past her hips. Her large, watery eyes brimmed with curiosity.
"You're Xiao Wu, right?" Jiang Li immediately stepped forward and asked.
"Who are you?" Xiao Wu watched the human boy who had approached her with some wariness.
She did not quite understand. She had only recently transformed from a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast into human form and left the Star Dou Great Forest for human society.
Why did this human boy know her name?
"You're Xiao Wu?" Since she had not answered directly, Jiang Li asked again.
Though she did not understand what was going on, Xiao Wu nodded and admitted her name.
The timing matched, her appearance matched, and she had admitted it herself.
"That's right, it's you." Jiang Li's eyes lit up. He grabbed Xiao Wu's little hand and said, "Come with me."
Xiao Wu did not resist. Having arrived in human society for the first time, she was curious about everything beyond the Star Dou Great Forest.
Although she did not know why this human boy knew her name, she wanted to see what tricks he was trying to pull first.
She, Sister Xiao Wu, was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast. She was not so easily frightened.
Jiang Li pulled Xiao Wu into an empty corner before stopping. Looking down at Xiao Wu, who was a head shorter than him, he said with ill intent, "Xiao Wu, you wouldn't want anyone to discover that you're a Soul Beast, would you?"
"Y-you..." Xiao Wu's eyes widened instantly as she stared at Jiang Li in shock.
If he had merely known her name, it might have been a coincidence. But now, he even knew her identity as a Soul Beast.
Xiao Wu suspected that he might be a Soul Master from Spirit Hall, the organization that had killed her mother.
Perhaps after killing her mother, they had still not been satisfied. Perhaps they had waited in the cities around the Star Dou Great Forest for her to walk right into their trap.
At that thought, her crystal-red eyes turned even redder.
The next second, a pink rabbit phantom appeared behind Xiao Wu.
It was the true form of her Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast self, the Soft Bone Rabbit. However, since she had transformed into a human, the Soft Bone Rabbit had now become her Martial Soul.
"Martial Soul Possession!"
As Xiao Wu's words fell, a pair of fluffy pink rabbit ears sprang up from her head.
The already adorable little girl immediately looked even more lively and playful.
"Die, bad guy!" Xiao Wu shouted. The yellow Soul Ring rising beneath her feet blazed brightly. "First Soul Skill, Waist Bow!"
"You went and messed around, and now you've gotten yourself into trouble, haven't you?" Qian Renxue's phantom floated out from behind Jiang Li, teasing him with a gleeful expression.
Jiang Li ignored the gloating Qian Renxue and continued watching Xiao Wu, who had suddenly attacked him.
There was not the slightest hint of panic in his eyes. Since he had dared to threaten Xiao Wu in such a domineering manner, he naturally was not afraid that she would attack him because of it.
"Dark Six-Winged Angel, Martial Soul Possession!"
Jiang Li raised his hand and skillfully summoned his Martial Soul. The Summoning Grimoire flipped open to its first page without any wind, and a black angel phantom merged into Jiang Li's body.
The entire process was smooth and fluid, as though he had done it countless times before, without the slightest pause.
Watching Jiang Li use her Martial Soul so skillfully, Qian Renxue had long since gone from being stunned in disbelief at first to feeling numb about it after a year.
She had already accepted the reality that Jiang Li was more adept at using the Dark Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul than she was.
She then turned her gaze toward Xiao Wu.
Xiao Wu's First Soul Skill was called Waist Bow. When used, it increased her waist strength by one hundred percent and her body's flexibility by fifty percent.
It could be considered the prerequisite skill for her later Soul Skill, Explosive Eight-Stage Slam. Still, Jiang Li did not think much of either Waist Bow or Explosive Eight-Stage Slam.
Xiao Wu's body bent backward, curving into the shape of a full moon like a drawn bow.
It looked remarkably like a finishing move used by an anime character named Ye Lingyun whom Jiang Li had seen in his previous life: Moon-Extinguishing Calamity.
And on the Douluo Continent, perhaps only a Soul Beast like Xiao Wu, a Soft Bone Rabbit with a body as supple as boneless flesh, could perform such a difficult movement.
"First Soul Skill, Angel Strike!"
Jiang Li's movements were not slow in the slightest. Strands of black angel Soul Power gathered in his hand.
The two attacked almost simultaneously.
Bang!
Black and pink Soul Power collided, and countless threads of Soul Power exploded outward from the center.
The fierce gust of wind blew Xiao Wu's bangs into disarray.
Yet the outcome was obvious. Although Xiao Wu had transformed from a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast,
her Soul Power Level was currently lower than Jiang Li's, and the quality of the Soft Bone Rabbit Martial Soul within her was likewise inferior to Qian Renxue's god-tier Dark Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul.
"Hmm..."
Under the powerful attack, Xiao Wu was knocked back against the wall. She let out a muffled groan, her back pressed against it.
For some reason, the Soul Power within her felt hollow, as though it had vanished.
Jiang Li, on the other hand, remained calm and composed, looking as though he had never fought at all.
Seeing this, Xiao Wu's heart immediately sank into despair.
She had given up the power of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and transformed into a human, intending to avenge her mother once she had cultivated enough strength.
Yet not long after leaving the Star Dou Great Forest, she had encountered a human Soul Master lying in wait for her outside.
"Kill me, then!" Though the corners of her eyes were red, Xiao Wu still spoke to Jiang Li with unyielding resolve.
"Kill you? When did I ever say I wanted to kill you?"
Jiang Li was a little baffled. Just what had this Xiao Wu imagined in that little head of hers?
Xiao Wu said, "If you don't want to kill me, are you planning to make me sacrifice myself to you? Impossible! Absolutely impossible!!"
"Alright, alright. Hurry up and sign your name here!" Jiang Li did not care what Xiao Wu had imagined. He directly flipped the Summoning Grimoire Martial Soul to the blank second page and held it before her.
For other Soul Masters, a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast's sacrifice was indeed extremely tempting.
But to Jiang Li, compared to gaining a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring and Soul Bone, the Soul Skills on Xiao Wu were far more tempting.
If he remembered correctly, after Xiao Wu sacrificed herself to Tang San in the original story, the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring he received had two skills. One was Void, which granted immunity to physical attacks and reduced incoming attacks by fifty percent, while the other was Xiao Wu's ultimate move, Explosive Eight-Stage Slam.
Whether those would be the two Soul Skills he received if Xiao Wu sacrificed herself to him was another matter.
But if that happened, the rest of Xiao Wu's Soul Skills would go to waste.
There was no need to mention the Soul Skills gained after her sacrifice. In the original story, after Xiao Wu was resurrected, her later Soul Rings still possessed those two Soul Skills.
Even more absurd were Xiao Wu's third and fourth Soul Skills. One was Teleportation, allowing her to move freely within a five-meter radius, while the other was Invincible Golden Body, which provided absolute defense against attacks below god-tier for three seconds.
Who knew why Xiao Wu, a weak Soft Bone Rabbit Soul Beast transformed into a human, possessed several such ridiculously powerful Soul Skills?
Jiang Li would have to have water in his brain to choose to kill Xiao Wu. As long as he contracted Xiao Wu, once her level rose, wouldn't all those Soul Skills become his?
As for Xiao Wu's tendency to fall head over heels in love, that was even easier to solve.
Wouldn't it be enough to make her fall head over heels for me?!!
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