Little Mouth, Not a Word

Liu Hao's voice brought everyone back to their senses.

Tang San and Tang Hao exchanged looks, each seeing the horror in the other's eyes.

Were they really going to make an enemy of such a terrifying being? How was that any different from courting death?

"E-eight... you actually have eight more Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings."

Xiao Wu's pretty face turned deathly pale. Her voice trembled, and her beautiful eyes filled with terror.

In her mind, Liu Hao had become a demon who slaughtered Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts as easily as pigs and dogs.

Xiao Wu's affection -5. Current affection: 30 (System: there was a lag just now).

Ignoring the system's lag, Liu Hao saw that Xiao Wu's affection, which had finally climbed to 35 after their long conversation, had now dropped five points simply because his soul rings frightened her. He hurriedly reminded her:

"Little Bunny, haven't you noticed anything strange about my soul rings?"

"Strange?"

Xiao Wu froze. She had only felt how terrifying their aura was and hadn't dared examine them too closely.

Only after hearing Liu Hao's reminder did she calm herself and carefully sense the aura of his soul rings.

Powerful, terrifying, sacred, with an overwhelming surge of energy held in check.

"Huh? How is this possible!?"

Xiao Wu cried out. Some of the fear in her gaze gave way to curiosity as she looked at Liu Hao. "Why don't your soul rings have any of the resentment soul beasts leave behind when they die?"

The corners of Liu Hao's lips curled upward. "Don't rush. Take another look at the soul rings of my first martial soul."

With that, he dismissed his Purple Flame Ultimate Emperor Phoenix martial soul and summoned the Heaven-Reaching Ambrosial Arbor Wooden Stick again.

His soul rings also changed to two purple, three black, and four red.

"This..." Xiao Wu examined them again and said in surprise, "The soul rings of this martial soul don't have any resentment either. What's going on?"

"Hehe, you finally noticed. Naturally, it's because I didn't obtain my soul rings by hunting soul beasts."

"That's impossible!"

Before Xiao Wu could speak, Tang San could no longer hold back. "How could anyone obtain soul rings without hunting soul beasts? That goes against all common sense! My teacher said there's only one way to obtain soul rings: hunting soul beasts!"

"Pfft-hahahahaha..."

At those words, Liu Hao doubled over with laughter, laughing until tears spilled from his eyes.

"Little San, hahahaha... you're hilarious. You actually treat the words of a useless man who hasn't broken past rank 29 at fifty as golden laws and jade commandments? Hahahahaha..."

Tang San's face immediately flushed crimson. "What do you know? My teacher's soul power level can't rise because of a congenital defect. But his mastery of theory is unmatched under heaven. Even Spirit Hall respectfully calls him Grandmaster!"

"Spirit Hall?" Those words brought Hu Liena and Bibi Dong to Liu Hao's mind.

Hu Liena cared about looks, so her affection for his current self could easily drop. That went without saying.

But Bibi Dong's personality happened to mesh perfectly with Gangzi's. That was why a useless man like Gangzi could keep her so firmly captivated while she had no interest in Liu Hao whatsoever.

And yet Yu Xiaogang was utterly useless, completely unworthy of Bibi Dong!

That was also why, even after Qian Xunji violated her and she took revenge and became Spirit Hall's pope, she still hadn't dared get together with Yu Xiaogang.

It had left a peerless beauty like Bibi Dong suffering for so many years.

Just thinking about it made Liu Hao's heart ache. That bastard Yu Xiaogang really deserved to die!

At that thought, even the way he looked at Tang San grew more hostile.

"Hmph! If Spirit Hall's pope didn't have a connection with Yu Xiaogang, why would Spirit Hall ever acknowledge that useless man's pile of worthless theories?"

"What did you say!? Yu Xiaogang has a connection with Spirit Hall's pope?" Tang Hao suddenly cut in.

Liu Hao glanced at him and sneered. "What? You didn't know? Yu Xiaogang is the current pope's first love. You actually dared entrust your son's education to someone with such a deep connection to the leader of an enemy faction? Old Tang, you really do have a big heart~"

Boom!

Like a thunderbolt from a clear sky, the revelation left Tang Hao's head ringing.

He had never imagined that the teacher chosen by his son, who had been sensible since childhood, would have such a background.

And he had even handed the man his Pope Token without taking any precautions.

"No!"

Tang San suddenly shouted, as though he had seen through Liu Hao's scheme. "My teacher treats me very well, and he puts his heart into teaching me. He's taught me so much. He would never hurt me!"

"Sure, sure, sure. Everything you say is right." Liu Hao rolled his eyes at Tang San, unwilling to argue or waste any more time.

"Let's go see what's become of Ah Yin, the Blue Silver Emperor whom Old Tang schemed to death."

Without waiting for Tang Hao to react, Liu Hao waved his hand, and everyone sank into the void.

The sudden change startled Tang Hao and Tang San. They thought Liu Hao was about to attack them.

Yet even after quite some time, the attack they expected never came.

They merely seemed to be floating in a slightly weightless night sky filled with endless starlight.

A moment later, they felt as though they were standing on an invisible platform with a distinctly solid surface.

Of course, there was no platform in the void. It was merely the soul power barrier Liu Hao had released.

Without the protection of his spatially attuned soul power barrier, the others would probably have been instantly annihilated by the dark matter within that space.

For now, Tang Hao and Tang San were pawns in his efforts to win Xiao Wu over. They couldn't die yet.

"Wow, it's so beautiful here..."

Xiao Wu's mind, however, worked differently.

She seemed to have forgotten her predicament entirely, her whole being absorbed in the magnificent starry sky before her.

"This... this is a spatial ability. You're taking us through space!?"

Tang Hao truly lived up to being a Super Douluo. His knowledge was impressive, and his guess was largely correct.

"Who exactly are you? Why do you possess such a legendary ability? Even the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's Bone Douluo, who supposedly has a spatial attribute, can't take people through space."

"Old Tang."

"What?"

"Little mouth."

"Huh?"

"Shut up! Keep babbling and I'll leave you here." Seeing that Tang Hao didn't understand his joke, Liu Hao had to spell it out.

Sure enough, Tang Hao behaved himself immediately, turning into an obedient child who didn't say another word.

"Liu Hao, do you really not have to hunt soul beasts to obtain soul rings?" Xiao Wu's timid voice suddenly broke the silence.

"That's right. Why?"

Xiao Wu's affection +5. Current affection: 30.

"How do you do it?"

"Well, that's a secret. I'll only tell a girl I'm really close to."

"All right..."

Xiao Wu felt somewhat disappointed. She had been thinking that if this method could be replicated, she wouldn't have to hunt soul beasts for soul rings even after entering her mature stage.

Xiao Wu's affection +1. Current affection: 31.

Oh?

Seeing that Little Rabbit's affection could steadily increase, Liu Hao stopped idling around. He ignored the Tang father and son and began chatting with Xiao Wu.

They started with Xiao Wu's home, the Star Dou Great Forest, then talked about Da Ming and Er Ming, and even Ah Yin and Xiao Wu's mother, Ah Rou.

Her affection soared by twenty points, reaching 51.

Xiao Wu's attitude toward Liu Hao also improved noticeably. At the very least, she no longer treated him with cold looks.

Of course, watching this infuriated Tang San.

It felt as though someone were trying to claim his beloved toy right under his nose.

If he could kill with his thoughts, Liu Hao would have died at least a hundred thousand times.

Unfortunately, Tang San didn't even dare reveal a murderous look.

No wonder he could become a God King in the future. His mental fortitude really was something.

"Little Rabbit, do you believe I can resurrect your mother?"

Since they were talking about Ah Rou, Liu Hao naturally wouldn't pass up such an interesting topic.

After all, Ah Rou had once been the person Xiao Wu cared about most.

"Resurrect Mom!?"

Every cell in Xiao Wu's body seemed to awaken, and her eyes shone with excitement.