Xiao Wu, Do You Really Have a Mother?

Xiao Wu sternly refused, "Impossible!"

Although she had no idea what trick this human boy was trying to pull, she knew full well that he was her enemy now.

And the more her enemy wanted her to do something, the less she could do it.

"Stunned, huh?" Qian Renxue took advantage of Xiao Wu's inability to see her and openly snickered at Jiang Li from behind.

Jiang Li scratched his head. Things had gotten a little troublesome.

Who knew what Xiao Wu had imagined in her head? She was now practically treating him like the murderer of her mother.

Wait, the murderer of her mother?

Jiang Li instantly thought of a way to break the deadlock.

He said to Xiao Wu, "Xiao Wu, you came out of the Star Dou Great Forest because you wanted to avenge your mother, right?"

Xiao Wu said nothing, but the slight tremble at the corner of her brow showed that Jiang Li was right.

Before she became love-brained, her mother was undoubtedly Xiao Wu's greatest weakness.

And now, Jiang Li had seized that weakness. "As long as you sign your name on it, I'll tell you what I know about your mother."

Xiao Wu's red lips parted slightly. She was clearly tempted, but Jiang Li's words were not enough to persuade her.

Qian Renxue advised, "Give it up. Getting a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone wouldn't be so bad, actually."

No matter how absurd Jiang Li's Martial Soul was, signing a contract still required the other party's consent.

Given the situation, Xiao Wu did not look like she would be willing.

As for a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, unless Xiao Wu was willing to sacrifice herself, even if Jiang Li killed her, his weak body would not be able to withstand the force of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring. In the end, he would only obtain a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone.

Jiang Li remained unmoved. He glanced at Qian Renxue. He had waited at Notting Academy for a year for Xiao Wu to arrive; how could he give up so easily?

"Xiao Wu, let me ask you something." Having thought this far, Jiang Li immediately changed his approach and said to Xiao Wu, "Do you..."

"Do you really have a mother?"

The moment those words left his mouth, Xiao Wu bristled. "You're the one without a mother!"

Xiao Wu glared fiercely at the hateful guy before her. If Jiang Li's strange Soul Skill had not dissolved every trace of Soul Power in her body earlier—

She would have dearly loved to hit him with another Waist Bow.

"Hahaha..."

Qian Renxue shook with laughter at the side, nearly laughing herself into a cramp.

Xiao Wu's mother was already dead, yet Jiang Li had to rub salt in the wound. That was downright vicious!

"Ahem, ahem, sorry, sorry." Jiang Li coughed dryly twice and reorganized his words. "I phrased that badly. Let me take it back and say it again."

"Xiao Wu, did your mother truly exist?!"

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

Existing and being alive had never meant the same thing. In Douluo Continent, Xiao Wu's mother had originally been killed by Bibi Dong of Spirit Hall.

But in the sequel, she had died in the depths of the Star Dou Great Forest, supposedly at Di Tian's hands.

In a novel, these were merely settings. Naturally, the author could revise them however they pleased.

But Douluo Continent was real now, and Xiao Wu truly existed. Reality could not be changed and fabricated as recklessly as a novel.

Thus, a question arose in Jiang Li's mind: did Xiao Wu truly have a mother?

"Xiao Wu, a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Soft Bone Rabbit who took human form, with two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast younger brothers in the Star Dou Great Forest—the Sky Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape—and also a dead Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast mother."

Jiang Li did not answer directly. Looking into Xiao Wu's eyes, he spoke each word clearly.

"So what?!" Xiao Wu said.

"Have you ever considered this? The Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape are both ancient mutant species. Once they reach ten thousand years of cultivation, they can rival ordinary Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts."

"As an ordinary Soft Bone Rabbit Soul Beast, how exactly did your mother protect the three of you?" Jiang Li asked.

Xiao Wu snapped, "My mother was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast!"

"Then a new question appears. We know that if a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast does not take human form, it can live for only a few thousand years at most before facing a terrifying lightning tribulation."

"And after choosing to take human form, if it cannot become a god, it has only a few hundred years of life at most."

"How, then, did your mother protect the three of you for a hundred thousand years?"

At that moment, Jiang Li voiced his greatest doubt regarding the existence of Xiao Wu's mother.

Of course, Xiao Wu's mother might have been a two-hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast. After enduring her first lightning tribulation a hundred thousand years ago—

Perhaps fear had kept her from facing the second one, so she chose to take human form and follow the path of a Soul Master, only to die tragically for some unknown reason.

But none of that mattered to Jiang Li right now, because his greatest reason for saying all this was still to make Xiao Wu sign a contract with him.

As for Xiao Wu's mother, he could investigate that later.

Provided Xiao Wu was willing to sign a contract with him.

"Xiao Wu, do you really have a mother?" Jiang Li asked Xiao Wu the same question again.

"This..."

Unlike when Jiang Li had asked the first time and she had immediately bristled, Xiao Wu hesitated upon hearing the same question this time.

After hearing what Jiang Li had said, Xiao Wu only felt as though her mind was a tangled mess.

Could her mother really not exist?

But?

The memories of her mother protecting her, Da Ming, and Er Ming as they grew up, and the memories of her mother combing her hair—were they all fake?

Emotionally, Xiao Wu desperately wanted to say Jiang Li was talking nonsense, but her mind kept feeling that what he said made sense.

Seeing this, Jiang Li took Xiao Wu's soft little hand and whispered temptingly like a demon, "As long as you sign your name on it, whether your mother truly existed or not, I will uncover the truth for you."

As he spoke, Jiang Li once again handed Xiao Wu his Martial Soul, the Summoning Grimoire.

"Really?" Xiao Wu raised her head, her eyes reddening as though she were about to cry.

Seeing Xiao Wu like this, Jiang Li's heart trembled violently.

Bullying even a little girl—he was practically inhuman.

Then he reconsidered. She was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast in human form; her true age was older than even his ancestors.

"Of course!" Jiang Li said firmly.

Jiang Li was not deceiving her either. If Xiao Wu truly agreed to sign a contract with him, he would not mind helping her investigate her mother's affairs someday.

"Fine, I'll sign!"

Xiao Wu gave Jiang Li a long, hard look, as though she wanted to carve his appearance deep into her mind. Then she nodded heavily and wrote her name in Jiang Li's Summoning Grimoire.

As Xiao Wu completed the final stroke, a three-inch pink rabbit floated out from her body.

It crashed into the page of the Summoning Grimoire where Xiao Wu's name was written.

At once, new information appeared on the formerly blank page.

[Xiao Wu!]

[Soft Bone Rabbit!]

[Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast!]

[Level 12 Soul Master!]

Looking at the updated information in the Summoning Grimoire, Jiang Li revealed a trace of delight.

New contractor Xiao Wu, acquired!