As she spoke, Xiao Bai walked up to Su Yu in a few strides. Paying no heed to anyone else's gaze, she extended her slender fingers and tentatively squeezed his arm.
Firm flesh met her fingertips. The strength contained beneath those muscles made her raise her eyebrows slightly, and she thought:
Hmm, he does feel pretty strong...
But no sooner had that thought settled than she raised her hand and gently poked Su Yu's cheek, as though still unwilling to give up.
"But these are clearly the Soul Power fluctuations of a Soul Douluo!"
Xiao Bai frowned, her voice full of bewilderment and her clear eyes wide and round.
"How could a Soul Douluo possibly hurt me... that's impossible!"
The tiny scales on her cheeks glimmered with her fluctuating emotions, and her elfin ears twitched unconsciously.
With that utterly baffled look, she seemed a little less wary and a little more childish.
Standing nearby, Ning Rongrong and the others could not help smiling at Xiao Bai's behavior.
They had never expected the notoriously fearsome hundred-thousand-year Demon Soul Great White Shark to have such an adorable disposition in human form.
Su Yu let her do as she pleased. Watching her earnest, bewildered expression, he wore a faint smile as he raised his hand and gently stroked her head.
Her long gray hair felt soft, carrying a trace of seawater's cool dampness.
"A Soul Master's strength isn't reflected in Soul Power alone."
Before his words had fully fallen, Xiao Bai abruptly covered her head and retreated half a step, her eyes widening as a faint blush rose on her cheeks.
"Hey! Who said you could touch my head? Patting my head will stunt my growth!"
Bristling like that, she looked just like a kitten whose forbidden scale had been touched; even her