I'm a Woman, and You Want Me to Take a Wife?

"Mmph, mmph, mmph."

Seeing Xiao Wu still struggling, Xiao Hei reached out a paw and patted her forehead.

When the struggling Xiao Wu sensed the evil aura unique to the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger emanating from Xiao Hei, her expression instantly changed in alarm.

"Don't move. If you keep squirming, I can't promise what I might do to you."

As she spoke, Xiao Hei extended her claws and rested them lightly against Xiao Wu's delicate cheek.

The sharp claws brushed her skin, bringing a faint stinging sensation.

Watching this, Flender neither intervened nor even spared it another glance. He simply looked at Mo Lin with a fawning expression and spoke respectfully.

"Your Eminence, I've brought you the person you wanted. Do you have any further instructions?"

Since he had already done it, he would follow this road all the way into darkness. As for Tang San...

If not for Yu Xiaogang's sake, he would have killed him right now to cut off any future trouble.

Of course, there was also the fact that he wasn't quite sure what the person before him had in mind. Since Mo Lin hadn't acted, he couldn't very well act recklessly either.

What if he was keeping Tang San around for a reason?

The strong always liked to toy with the weak for amusement.

"Nothing else. Remember what I told you earlier. Do a good job, and there'll be something in it for you."

It had been a long time since he had encountered someone so adept at trimming his sails to the wind. Keeping him around as a dog wouldn't be bad.

There were some things the Good Side couldn't conveniently do in Heaven Dou City. He could have this fellow handle them instead.

A Soul Saint lackey was a little conspicuous, but still fell short compared with the Upper Three Sects. He would make do for now.

Flender brightened at those words. He hadn't expected an unexpected windfall.

"Thank you, Your Eminence."

"All right. Take him back safely, then go to Heaven Dou City and find a shop selling Soul Tools. It's called the Mo Lin Workshop."

"Find the owner there. He'll give you your reward."

"But remember, you'd better treat him with respect. Otherwise, you might die a very ugly death."

The Good Side was still pretending to be useless. A fellow like Flender, who treated people according to their status, had better not go courting death the moment he arrived.

Compared with offending him, if Flender offended the Good Side, he might not even know how he died.

He, at least, could give Flender a quick death.

"Yes, yes, yes. I'll remember."

Seeing how serious he sounded, Flender silently committed the name to memory.

It seemed the shop's owner had quite an unusual relationship with the person before him.

"Get lost. Stop being an eyesore."

Mo Lin waved a hand, and Flender promptly got out of there.

With the nuisance gone, only Mo Lin, Xiao Hei, and Xiao Wu remained.

Glancing at Xiao Wu, who lay bound on the ground, Mo Lin crouched down, removed the rag stuffed in her mouth, and held her face as he examined it from side to side.

"Little rabbit, we meet again."

The last time they met had been when he slapped Dai Mubai. This was their second meeting.

"Shameless! Kill me or carve me up, do as you please."

The moment Flender captured her, Xiao Wu had already known how she would end up.

Clearly, he had discovered her identity. Probably nothing but death awaited her.

Unfortunately, she had yet to avenge her mother.

At that thought, tears involuntarily spilled from Xiao Wu's eyes.

There was regret, unwillingness, and reluctance to part.

"What the hell are you crying for? Is that any way to talk to the boss? Don't you know the rules?"

Xiao Hei stepped forward and slapped her, knocking away the sorrow that had just welled up in Xiao Wu's heart.

"Boss, leave this rabbit to me. I guarantee I'll whip her into complete obedience."

Xiao Hei looked excited. After having traits farmed on her so many times, she had finally made it through.

Now it was her turn to farm traits on someone else.

Mo Lin shrugged at the sight. How could he not see what Xiao Hei was thinking?

Still, he really wasn't interested in training this rabbit. Since Xiao Hei was interested, he would let her do it.

As long as she didn't kill her, anything else was fine.

"All right, but we need to leave first."

The earlier commotion had been too great. Staying any longer would make it easy for others to set their sights on them.

Xiao Hei nodded, then instantly grew larger, picked Xiao Wu up from the ground in her mouth, and vanished from the spot with Mo Lin.

With their departure, the events in Suotuo City came to a close.

Yet from that day onward, the name "Heaven-Defying Sword God" spread across the continent like a virus.

Heaven Dou City.

Inside Mo Lin's shop, Qian Renxue looked at Mo Lin wiping dust off the counter with a white cloth, utterly unable to remain calm.

"You really killed Tang Hao?"

She had only just received the news. She had never imagined he would act so quickly.

It hadn't even been half a month, had it? And the mighty Clear Sky Douluo had already been slaughtered.

Apparently, he had been completely overwhelmed throughout the fight, and in the end, a single sword strike had even split all of Suotuo City in two.

By now, Tang Hao's corpse had already been delivered to Spirit Hall.

That corpse was fake, but according to the accounts of Spirit Hall's people at the scene, Tang Hao was indeed dead.

After all, Mo Lin hadn't hidden from anyone while digging Soul Bones out of the rubble.

"Oh."

Mo Lin's reaction was bland. To him, this was no great matter.

Tang Hao's death had long been within his expectations. There was nothing surprising about it.

"How did you do it?"

Qian Renxue was truly curious. Mo Lin clearly hadn't left Heaven Dou City, so who had killed Tang Hao?

Heaven Dou City was extremely far from Suotuo City. Even a Titled Douluo specializing in speed would need several days.

Making the round trip was simply beyond what a person could accomplish.

Unless he could create a duplicate of himself-but what sort of duplicate could accomplish something like that?

And if even his duplicate could slaughter Tang Hao, just how strong was his real body?

She was finding the person before her increasingly impossible to fathom.

"That isn't something you should concern yourself with. Qian Renxue, you've overstepped."

Mo Lin stopped what he was doing, his tone icy.

Qian Renxue's heart tightened at his words, and the flicker of restlessness within her instantly died out.

She understood that he was not someone she could control.

If he dared to kill Tang Hao, killing her would be no different.

"Sorry. I was presumptuous. Here are the hundred million Gold Soul Coins you wanted. I've brought them."

Taking the Gold Card she had prepared earlier from her pocket, Qian Renxue held it out to Mo Lin.

Mo Lin didn't take it and merely continued his work.

"Put it down. Oh, right, you should receive a gift in a few days."

Judging by her traveling pace, Zhu Zhuqing should be arriving soon.

"A gift? What gift?"

He was actually giving her a gift? That really was unheard of.

"The fiancée of Dai Mubai, the Star Luo Empire's third prince. Her name is Zhu Zhuqing. She'll come looking for you with the Imperial Family Token you gave me. When she does, all you have to do is take her as a concubine."

Zhu Zhuqing could forget about being the principal wife. The Heaven Dou Imperial Family wouldn't agree to that.

But if she were a concubine, that would be another matter.

Then they would see how the Star Luo Empire reacted.

After hearing him out, Qian Renxue froze completely.

"You want me, a woman, to take a wife?!"