Taking Xiao Wu Away, Repaying the Ye Family

Gu Ping'an was simply too curious.

How could a Soft Bone Rabbit possess such broken abilities as Teleportation, Invincible Golden Body, and Void?

Under normal circumstances on the Douluo Continent, only top-tier soul beasts of certain species with extraordinary bloodlines could possess abilities that defied the usual limits.

That was why he had always suspected that Xiao Wu and her mother were unknown creatures that merely looked like Soft Bone Rabbits.

Just like an Imposter, which looked human but was not truly human.

The same applied to Xiao Wu and her mother: they looked like Soft Bone Rabbits but were not actual Soft Bone Rabbits.

"What... did you just say?"

"You want me... to prove I'm a Soft Bone Rabbit?"

Xiao Wu had even ignored Gu Ping'an's earlier mention of her being a hundred-thousand-year soul beast.

Her entire rabbit brain froze, and she almost failed to grasp what Gu Ping'an meant.

He wanted her, a Soft Bone Rabbit, to prove she was a Soft Bone Rabbit?

Wasn't her martial soul a Soft Bone Rabbit?

Didn't she look like a Soft Bone Rabbit?

Suddenly, Xiao Wu's large pink eyes widened slightly, as though something had occurred to her.

"Can you prove you're human?"

Xiao Wu looked at Gu Ping'an smugly.

If he wanted a rabbit like her to prove she was a rabbit, she would make a human like him prove he was human.

Human?

Gu Ping'an furrowed his brows.

Was he human?

An ordinary human shouldn't be able to cross spacetime from one world into another, should they?

Wouldn't a normal human soul either be annihilated or torn apart upon encountering Spacetime Energy?

He had not only crossed spacetime but also absorbed Spacetime Energy and gained Spacetime Power.

Then he recalled animals from his previous life that had been raised among dogs.

Foxes, lambs, and the like.

Because they had grown up with dogs, their perception became skewed, and they believed they were dogs too.

Could he be the same?

An unknown creature with a body resembling a human's, but a mistaken perception of what he was?

"Hey! Hey! Hey!"

"Don't tell me you really can't prove you're human?"

Xiao Wu wriggled as she looked at Gu Ping'an. Seeing his brows knit tighter and tighter, she began to grow frightened instead.

It was like getting into an argument with someone.

You asked, "Are you even human?"

Then the other person actually began seriously considering the question.

Would you still dare to keep arguing with them?

Xiao Wu simply couldn't understand it. All she had done was ask whether he could prove he was human, and he had sunk into deep thought.

How was that any different from her doubting whether she was a rabbit?

Among their Soft Bone Rabbit tribe, that was called being a mad rabbit.

Such rabbits would be shunned and driven out of the group.

"I can't prove I'm human."

After a long silence, Gu Ping'an looked at Xiao Wu and spoke slowly.

"I imagine you can't prove you're a Soft Bone Rabbit either, can you?"

It's over!

He's a mad human!

Watching Gu Ping'an draw closer, Xiao Wu wriggled backward in fear.

"What do you think of Tang San?"

"Huh? What?" Xiao Wu froze again.

A moment ago, he had been asking her to prove she was a Soft Bone Rabbit. Now, in the blink of an eye, he was asking what she thought of Tang San.

"I'm asking what you think of Tang San. Do you like him?"

Gu Ping'an stared quietly at Xiao Wu. If she had already fallen for Tang San, she couldn't blame him for showing prejudice against a rabbit.

"Like him? No. I just find his presence a little familiar." Xiao Wu shook her head, looking slightly bewildered.

"Really? Then see if you can pluck this."

Gu Ping'an took a vivid red flower growing on a jet-black stone from the bracelet Storage Soul Tool on his left wrist.

"Think of the person you love, then force out a drop of your heart's blood and drip it onto the flower."

Xiao Wu looked at Gu Ping'an, then at the Lovesick Heartbreak Red, and finally back at Gu Ping'an before asking timidly:

"I don't have anyone I love. Who am I supposed to think of?"

"..."

"Why don't you try thinking of Tang San?"

He held the butcher's knife, and she was the rabbit on the chopping block. Xiao Wu dared not refuse.

She spat a mouthful of blood onto the Lovesick Heartbreak Red, but the flower did not budge.

"Eww..."

Gu Ping'an wiped the blood off the Lovesick Heartbreak Red in disgust.

"Little rabbit, you're coming with me from now on.

"If you try to run, don't blame me for taking your Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone," Gu Ping'an said fiercely.

Xiao Wu's eyes widened slightly. Only then did she remember that he seemed to have exposed her identity earlier.

"Fine! But you can't bully me."

Xiao Wu nodded in agreement, though a sly gleam flickered in her pink eyes.

Pretending not to notice, Gu Ping'an raised his hand and dispersed the Blue Silver Grass binding her.

"Brat, watch Sister Xiao Wu slaughter you with her Eight-Stage Throw!"

The instant the Blue Silver Grass fell away, Xiao Wu sprang up, aiming to clamp her legs around Gu Ping'an's neck.

"You dared threaten Sister Xiao Wu? I'll beat your face into a pig's head!"

Seeing that she was about to succeed, Xiao Wu grew even more brazen, a smile spreading across her face.

Gu Ping'an quietly watched her attack as Blue Silver Grass rose behind him.

The instant they made contact, Xiao Wu's expression changed sharply.

There was no sensation of striking anything solid. She could only watch as she crashed into the net woven from Blue Silver Grass behind Gu Ping'an.

"Blue Silver Devour!"

Bound once more, Xiao Wu had been about to struggle when a sudden sense of dread rose within her.

Her life essence and soul power drained away in an unending stream, leaving her limbs powerless as she collapsed to the ground.

"Either die or become my servant!"

Gu Ping'an slowly turned to look at Xiao Wu behind him, whose face was growing steadily paler.

"I..." Xiao Wu weakly raised her head toward Gu Ping'an, her vision already beginning to double.

"A servant... I'm willing to become your servant."

"First Soul Skill: Healing!"

Seeing Xiao Wu nod in agreement, Gu Ping'an stopped devouring her energy and activated his First Soul Skill.

Healing could not restore the vitality Xiao Wu had lost. It could only make her feel a little better.

Still, the vitality he had devoured was negligible compared to the hundred-thousand-year soul beast essence within her.

She only needed a little time to recover.

The Blue Silver Grass dispersed again. Xiao Wu slowly climbed to her feet, a measure of fear now entering her gaze as she looked at Gu Ping'an.

Having felt her own vitality drain away so clearly, she had almost believed she was truly going to die.

"Let's go! Don't even think of running. Believe me, you can't escape.

"If there's a next time, I'll have no choice but to take your soul bone."

With that, Gu Ping'an walked slowly away.

Tears welled in Xiao Wu's pink eyes. She stared at Gu Ping'an's retreating back for a moment, then forced her body to catch up.

She was certain that if she didn't follow him, she would die.

"Where are we going?" Xiao Wu asked after they had walked some distance.

Having only just had her vitality drained, she was exceptionally weak and could not endure a long walk at all.

"Heaven Dou City!"

Gu Ping'an tilted his head slightly to glance at Xiao Wu, reached out to grab her, and vanished from the spot with her.

Using Teleportation, even with time spent resting, the two reached Heaven Dou City from outside Nuoding City in less than an hour.

Whenever he ran out of soul power, he drew it from the surrounding Blue Silver Grass and trees. Whenever he grew tired, he cast Healing on himself; even without wounds, it could ease his fatigue.

"The Ye Residence? What are you doing here?"

Xiao Wu looked up at the antique ebony plaque directly above the vermilion gates—the Ye Residence.

Repaying a kindness?

That didn't seem to be it!

"You could call it compensation. I took some things from their family."

Under Spacetime Isolation, Gu Ping'an led Xiao Wu slowly into the Ye Residence.

Originally, he had also intended to compensate the Breaking Clan somewhat later on.

But after learning at the Ye Residence that the Breaking Clan had put out a wanted notice for him and circulated his portrait throughout Heaven Dou and the Star Luo Empire, he abandoned that idea.

With it circulating throughout Heaven Dou and the Star Luo Empire, forces such as the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Spirit Hall must have received the information.

A child of around six had infiltrated the Breaking Clan without alerting a single person and then withdrawn at his leisure.

Gu Ping'an did not believe they would be uninterested.

Especially since the Breaking Clan had joined the Tang Sect in the original story.

"Good evening, everyone!"

In the Ye Residence's dining hall, Gu Ping'an found Ye Lingling, her mother, and several others.

"Who are you?"

The unfamiliar voice that suddenly rang out immediately alerted the guards outside the dining hall.

"All of you, leave."

Recalling the way Gu Ping'an had appeared, Ye Lingling's mother immediately issued the order.

"You leave too." Ye Lingling's Mother turned toward the people dining at her table and nearby.

In the end, only three people remained.

Ye Lingling, Ye Lingling's Mother, and a young man.

"Who might you be...?" Only after everyone else had left did Ye Lingling's Mother look at Gu Ping'an.

"It's me!"

As the words fell, Gu Ping'an returned to his original appearance, with his long silver-white hair.

"Huh? So this is what you really look like?" Xiao Wu stared at Gu Ping'an as though she had discovered a whole new continent.

Gu Ping'an reached out and pulled Xiao Wu aside, clearing his view, then looked at the little girl before him, Ye Lingling.

"You made things easier for me a few days ago. Today, I've come to bring you a fortuitous opportunity."

His right hand brushed over the bracelet on his left wrist, and a gleaming golden tulip appeared.

"The immortal herb Aromatic Silk Beauty. It can improve a martial soul's quality and may break the restrictions on the Nine Heart Begonia martial soul."