You punk, are you picking a fight?

"Is it something you can't say? Then I won't ask."

Seeing Xiao Hei in such a difficult position, Ye Lingling realized she might have gone a little too far.

Xiao Hei was his Martial Soul, after all. Asking a Martial Soul what level its master was would be like asking her own Martial Soul to betray her. It was utterly unreasonable.

Hmm? Martial Soul!

"Xiao Hei, if you're here, then what is he fighting with?"

The moment she heard that question, Xiao Hei perked up.

This was a question she could answer.

"Boss has a sword too. It really hurts when he hits you with it."

Of course it hurt. She had tested that herself.

Speaking of which, what was that sword called again?

White Day, I think. What a strange name. That sword was clearly black, so why call it White Day?

Whatever. Boss was always acting strange anyway.

"A sword? Twin Martial Souls!"

Ye Lingling exclaimed. She had been wondering why he had three Soul Rings one moment, yet could fight a Titled Douluo the next.

So he had Twin Martial Souls. Then it wasn't strange at all.

But what kind of sword could fight the Clear Sky Hammer, hailed as the world's number one Tool Martial Soul?

"Mm-hmm, mm-hmm! A really powerful sword."

Earn some goodwill. To avoid getting beaten up later, I have to earn some goodwill.

Xiao Hei could tell that her boss placed great importance on the human girl before her.

If she could coax the girl into a good mood, perhaps she could find another powerful leg to cling to in the future.

Ever since Mo Lin had caught her, she had resigned herself to her fate.

Although he was always doing things no decent person would do, at least she no longer had to hide here and there in the Star Dou Great Forest like before.

She had also had to worry every day about whether those two fellows in the deepest part of the forest would catch her.

Really, hadn't she just eaten a few rabbits? Did a gorilla and a snake have to fight her to the death over that?

Speaking of rabbits, though, there seemed to be one nearby too, and it looked like a hundred-thousand-year-old one.

It seemed to have already taken human form, so it should be easy to handle.

Hehe, once Boss finishes fighting, I'll ask if we can catch it and eat it. Boss seems to like eating rabbit too. He said something about bunnies being so cute that they absolutely had to be cooked with extra numbing spice and chili.

As Xiao Hei thought about it, drool trickled from her mouth without her noticing.

Ye Lingling happened to catch the whole scene.

Especially since Xiao Hei was now entirely in her juvenile form, her adorable appearance set Ye Lingling's girlish heart fluttering.

Wow, so cute. I really want to take her home and raise her.

No!

The moment that thought appeared, Ye Lingling hurriedly rejected it.

This was his Martial Soul. Even if she wanted to raise her, she couldn't.

Xiao Hei and Mo Lin were completely bound together. She couldn't very well abduct him and take him home to raise too just so she could raise Xiao Hei.

Even if she was willing, he wouldn't be.

"Hey, you lot over there! Could you plot any louder?"

Suddenly, Xiao Hei roared at Yu Xiaogang and the others in the distance.

She had only wanted to protect Ye Lingling to begin with. Everyone else was nothing but excess baggage.

If Boss hadn't forbidden her from eating people, every last person here except Ye Lingling would have ended up in her stomach!

But while she couldn't eat people, he hadn't said she couldn't simply beat them to death.

The problem was that Ye Lingling was here. What if she frightened her?

These people were only alive now because they were lucky.

Yet now they were actually courting death, thinking about how to join forces against her.

Were they trying to overturn the heavens? Did they really think she was easy to bully?

"What are you staring at? I mean you, short-haired monkey."

Xiao Hei raised a tiger paw and pointed straight at Yu Xiaogang.

"Pfft! A hairless monkey."

Dugu Yan couldn't hold it in and burst out laughing.

She had to admit, it was quite an apt description.

Yu Xiaogang now looked about six years old. Normally, children that age had thick hair.

For some unknown reason, however, Yu Xiaogang was bald, without so much as a single hair.

With that gleaming, polished bald head perched up there, it was hard not to notice him.

"You!"

Faced with such humiliation, Yu Xiaogang flushed scarlet with rage.

He wanted to attack, but didn't dare.

This was the Life and Death Arena. He was now only a six-year-old child. If he fought a juvenile tiger, she would probably beat the shit out of him.

"I'm warning you, behave yourself. Don't go crying to Mommy when I beat you to tears."

"And another thing, have you been eating too many radishes? Why do you reek of radishes from head to toe? Hurry up and get away from me. Don't stink up my air."

Xiao Hei covered her nose with one paw and waved the other in front of her, her little face full of disgust.

"Hahaha, I can't take it! Lingling, this little thing has such a vicious tongue. Look, that old geezer's face has turned purple from holding it all in."

Dugu Yan really couldn't take it anymore. Those few remarks from Xiao Hei had her rocking back and forth with laughter.

If she hadn't been leaning against Ye Lingling, she probably would have fallen straight to the ground.

From the way she acted, she had completely forgotten the terror Xiao Hei had brought her earlier.

Her carefree, thoughtless nature was truly on full display.

"Dugu Yan, don't say things like that."

"And you're so heavy! You're almost pushing me over."

Both of them were in their childhood forms, so naturally, their strength had become very limited.

As a support-type Soul Master, Ye Lingling was naturally weaker than other Soul Masters.

With such a great lump of Dugu Yan pressing against her, she really was struggling to hold her up.

Qin Ming remained silent at the sight. He wasn't close to Yu Xiaogang, so naturally, he wouldn't offend Dugu Yan for someone he didn't know.

Besides, he wasn't the one being insulted. What the hell did it have to do with him?

As for Flender and Zhao Wuji, they stood to one side, exchanging looks.

Zhao Wuji even subconsciously felt his own head to check whether he was bald too.

Fortunately, he still had some hair, just not much. At least he was much better off than Yu Xiaogang.

As for why Yu Xiaogang was bald, it was most likely because this was the Life and Death Arena's first time holding so many people, and a bug had glitched his hair out of existence.

Forcing down his anger, Yu Xiaogang took a deep breath and looked at Xiao Hei.

"I mean no harm. I only wanted to ask how your master cultivates."

"My Martial Soul is like you too. It's also the kind that can be released outside the body."

Yu Xiaogang wanted to improve far too badly. Even after such verbal humiliation, he could only grit his teeth and endure it.

He still had no idea what was happening outside, but in his eyes, whether Tang Hao or Mo Lin won, neither outcome mattered as much as resolving his current predicament.

"Cultivates? How else would he cultivate? Doesn't he just train normally?"

How would she know how Mo Lin cultivated? He was always stirring up trouble, and whenever he wasn't, he curled up on her and slept. Who the hell knew how he had become so strong?

Could he get stronger just by sleeping?

Holy crap! How outrageous was that?!

Xiao Hei seemed to have suddenly realized something incredible.

Getting stronger just by sleeping-she was so envious she could drool.

She just didn't know whether Boss could teach her that trick. She wanted her combat strength to grow while she slept too.

"Uh... I meant to ask how he trains you."

From eavesdropping on her conversation with Ye Lingling just now, he had learned that Mo Lin had two Martial Souls.

With that foundation of Twin Martial Souls, Mo Lin was certainly beyond anyone he could presumptuously compare himself to.

But surely he could at least learn a little superficial experience.

"How he trains me?"

The moment Xiao Hei heard that, her unpleasant memories came flooding back.

"You punk, are you picking a fight?!"