The cheerful atmosphere abruptly came to a halt.
The smile on Xiao Wu's face gradually froze as well.
At the same time, a powerful sense of unease and fear rose deep within her.
She was uneasy because her identity had finally been exposed.
Her fear wasn't that she would be captured or hunted down.
Rather, she was afraid the boy beside her would hate her because of it.
Or even leave her side!!
"A... A-Mo, wh... what are you saying... I... I didn't mean to hide it from you... please don't be angry..."
Seeing how serious the boy looked, Xiao Wu's voice grew quieter and quieter until it was almost inaudible.
She lowered her little head even further, not daring to meet his eyes.
She looked just like a little girl who had done something wrong.
"Pfft~ Silly girl, I'm not angry. What are you so nervous about?"
Seeing her reaction, Lin Mo couldn't help laughing.
He had thought she would be afraid of being killed once her true identity was exposed.
Instead, she was worried he would get angry?
She was adorably silly.
"Hmph~! If you're not angry, why put on such a sour face? You scared me half to death!!"
Seeing the boy smile, Xiao Wu immediately puffed up her cheeks and complained.
She even pounded Lin Mo's chest wildly with her little bunny fists.
She looked like an entirely different person from a moment ago.
She truly switched seamlessly between sweet and mischievous.
"Hehe~ I knew your true identity the first time I saw you. Did a little rabbit really think she could fool my eyes?"
Lin Mo gave a dismissive chuckle and pinched the girl's little cheeks as he spoke.
That was the truth, too. With his Eye of Myriad Phenomena, one glance told him what was real!!
"You jerk~! A-Mo, are you after my Soul Ring and Soul Bone?"
With her little act exposed, Xiao Wu stopped pretending and put on a fierce expression to "interrogate" him.
But she looked just as harmless as her little rabbit form.
"Heh~ I certainly have my eye on you. After these years with me, your little bottom and chest have developed quite nicely. I've had my eye on them for ages."
Lin Mo made no attempt to hide it, speaking with a broad smile.
Perhaps it was his imagination, but he kept feeling that the girl before him had developed even more.
At least, judging by the little rabbit's appearance in his memories.
She shouldn't have been this full.
"Y-you shameless pervert!"
Under the boy's brazen gaze, Xiao Wu's pretty face flushed, and she scolded him.
She covered her chest with one hand and her little bottom with the other, watching him warily.
"Hehe~ Don't worry. I'm not interested in your Soul Ring or Soul Bone, little rabbit, because you're too weak."
Lin Mo shook his head with a laugh, speaking without a care.
To him, a Soft Bone Rabbit's Soul Ring and Soul Bone really were too weak.
She was neither a pure combat-type soul beast nor anything particularly special.
Her only advantage was her considerable age.
And that was all.
Copying them with the Eye of Myriad Phenomena was fine, but there was no need to take them outright.
"Hmph! I'm not weak! I'm really strong!!"
Hearing the boy call her weak, Xiao Wu immediately bristled and puffed up her cheeks in protest.
Only then did she realize that the scoundrel before her really did have his eye on her.
But he wasn't after her Soul Ring or Soul Bone.
He was after her body!!
"Yes, yes, yes. My stomach's practically shriveled up from hunger. Let's get moving."
Lin Mo continued onward, waving a hand as he spoke casually.
Seeing this, Xiao Wu pursed her little lips.
But she couldn't hide the smile on her face.
Everything she had worried about vanished like smoke in the wind.
"Wait for me!"
The little rabbit skipped after him and hooked her arm around his.
She pressed her other two little bunnies right against it.
Her little mouth began chattering away without stopping.
"A-Mo~ Are you going to the Star Dou Great Forest later? My home is there~ Want me to show you around? I can introduce you to my two little brothers while we're there."
Xiao Wu looked at the boy with sparkling eyes as she spoke.
Since her identity had already been exposed, she no longer intended to hide it.
Keeping it bottled up had been uncomfortable anyway. She might as well let it all out freely.
"They're hundred-thousand-year soul beasts too, right? They won't hurt your dear big brother, will they?"
Enjoying the little rabbit's softness, Lin Mo asked with the corners of his mouth slightly raised.
He looked like a crafty old fox whose scheme had succeeded.
"Don't worry! I'm their boss! They wouldn't dare hurt you!"
Xiao Wu patted her little chest and solemnly guaranteed it.
She didn't pay much attention to the boy's smile.
After all, hadn't the scoundrel always been like this?
Lin Mo nodded slightly and said nothing more.
His plan was already more than halfway to success.
The reason he had revealed so much information.
Was naturally to meet Da Ming and Er Ming.
That would give him a chance to copy their Soul Rings and Soul Bones.
There was some risk, but compared with the rewards, it was nothing!!
As long as he pulled this off.
He would slay any god or Buddha that stood in his way!!
The mixed zone of the Star Dou Great Forest.
Two extremely young figures traveled side by side.
They moved so fast that their figures had already vanished by the time the branches began to sway.
"A-Mo! The core zone is just a little farther ahead. We need to be careful."
Xiao Wu, who was keeping pace beside him, warned him with a grave expression.
She looked as though they might encounter some great terror at any moment.
"Why do you look so nervous? Didn't you say you were the boss of the Star Dou Great Forest?"
Seeing the little rabbit's frightened expression, Lin Mo instinctively asked.
Although she had taken human form again and couldn't use her hundred thousand years of cultivation.
Surely there was no need to be this terrified?
"Y-you don't understand! Deepest inside the core zone, in the forbidden zone of life, there's a place called the Lake of Life. There are beings there even more terrifying than hundred-thousand-year soul beasts!!"
Her cheeks slightly flushed, Xiao Wu lowered her voice and warned him cautiously.
She even kept glancing around, as though afraid other soul beasts might overhear.
"The Lake of Life? Is your home near there?"
Lin Mo frowned and asked curiously.
Naturally, he knew perfectly well what was in the Lake of Life.
Several ferocious beasts and the Silver Dragon King!!
Those terrifying beings were all near the Lake of Life.
"I wouldn't dare live near the Lake of Life~ The lake where I live is only a little offshoot called Star Lake."
Xiao Wu hurriedly shook her head and explained.
Her little head shook like a pellet drum.
What a joke. She didn't want to be made into a spicy rabbit head.
Whoever wanted to visit that terrifying place could go right ahead!
"Roar, roar, roar~!!"
Shortly after the two entered the core zone.
A roar rang out, shaking heaven and earth.
Every bird and beast nearby fled in panic.
Xiao Wu's face, however, lit up with delight, and she said excitedly:
"Wonderful! That's Er Ming's voice!!"
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