Life Infusion

"Just hold on to these two Soul Bones."

Su Ling stuffed the two inherited Soul Bones of the Clear Sky Sect back into Tang Xiaosan's hands, then took back the cloth bag in her arms.

"These Soul Bones are too young. I'll give you better ones when we find some."

Tang Xiaosan raised her head to look at him. Her eyes were red, but she didn't cry. Her fingers tightened around the two Soul Bones.

She had to grow stronger as quickly as possible and protect Su Ling properly.

"Su Ling, I don't want Tang as my surname anymore. I want to take Mom's surname, Ah."

Ah... Ah San?

Su Ling didn't laugh.

Xiao Wu, who was pretending to sleep beside them, burst out laughing.

"Hahaha! What kind of ridiculous name is that? You're killing me!"

Xiao Wu roared with laughter, instantly plunging Tang Xiaosan into embarrassment.

Ah San? Ah Xiaosan? They really did sound awful. But her original name, Tang Xiaosan, sounded awful too. Tang Hao had clearly picked it at random to save himself the trouble.

A boy would be called Tang San, and a girl would be called Tang Xiaosan.

"Xiao Wu, you! You were pretending to sleep!"

"Says who?"

Xiao Wu looked thoroughly wronged. "You were the ones making so much noise you woke me up."

The two bickered for a while longer before falling asleep.

Su Ling also felt deeply exhausted. He had initially lain in Tang Xiaosan's arms, but she was so hard that it hurt his head.

Then he moved into Xiao Wu's arms. Though she wasn't as soft as he had imagined, she was just the right balance of soft and firm.

Xiao Wu obligingly wrapped her arms around Su Ling, and in the end, Tang Xiaosan also crawled into Xiao Wu's embrace.

Su Ling had originally been sleeping in the middle, but now Xiao Wu was.

"Big news! Big news!"

Su Ling and the others had gone to sleep rather late, so by the time Wang Sheng and the others had finished their day's work as work-study students, Su Ling and Tang Xiaosan were still blissfully suckling the rabbit.

In her dream, Xiao Wu had become a mother and given birth to two baby rabbits, and she was nursing her children.

Su Ling and Tang Xiaosan, meanwhile, dreamed that they had turned into little rabbits.

All three were awakened by Wang Sheng's voice.

"Why are my clothes so wet?"

Xiao Wu discovered two wet patches on her clothes, while Su Ling and Tang Xiaosan hastily changed the subject.

"What big news?"

"If there's nothing going on, you're going to have a problem."

Tang Xiaosan clearly had something of a temper when woken up, and she had just dreamed that her mother was holding her and nursing her.

Although she had sucked very hard, she hadn't gotten anything.

"It's definitely big news." Wang Sheng patted his chest, and several other children gathered around.

Although the news that Grandmaster had castrated himself had spread widely yesterday, Wang Sheng and the others had been out working part-time, so they hadn't heard it firsthand.

"When I was cleaning the park today, I heard two teachers say that Grandmaster castrated himself yesterday afternoon."

"What!"

That wasn't in the original story! Had Grandmaster decided his little brother was holding him back, and resolved to strive for greatness and cultivate like mad?

"Tch. What does whatever happens to that old man have to do with us?"

Tang Xiaosan waved impatiently, then lay back down and fell asleep.

Xiao Wu was already groggy with sleep, and she went back to sleep too.

"There's one more thing!"

Tang Xiaosan and Xiao Wu, who had just lain down, sat up again and looked at Wang Sheng with even greater impatience.

"If you spout any more nonsense, I'm going to beat you up!"

"I also heard that Grandmaster's little brother is only two centimeters long!"

The people around him all burst out laughing. Even Little Yellow, whom everyone in the dorm raised together, was more of a man than Grandmaster.

"How boring."

Xiao Wu and Tang Xiaosan glared fiercely at Wang Sheng, then turned over and went back to sleep.

But a question also arose in their minds.

How big was Su Ling?

Su Ling, meanwhile, maintained his good habit of going to bed early and getting up early. After breakfast, he went to the back mountain to cultivate.

Although the missions issued by the system occasionally rewarded him with Soul Power, there was currently a mission awaiting completion, and the system wouldn't issue any new missions until he finished it.

"Ah Yin!"

"Mm."

"I'm ready."

Ah Yin wore only a faint layer of gauze. She drew Su Ling into her arms, increasing the area of contact as much as possible.

But since Su Ling was only six and far too short, he could only be buried beneath Ah Yin's enormous Martial Soul.

Su Ling took a deep breath and closed his eyes as the Soul Power of the human and the grass continuously mingled.

This method of resonance was very unusual. Su Ling could feel his Soul Power growing at tremendous speed. Unlike the Martial Soul Fusion between Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong, this felt more like Ah Yin irrigating Su Ling with Soul Power.

The Blue Silver Emperor's Soul Power circulated along his meridians. Ah Yin's vitality was simply too vast; after all, she had the vitality of an entire planet's Blue Silver Emperors behind her.

Su Ling's body tensed. His meridians hurt as they were stretched, as though even his blood vessels were about to burst.

"Don't panic," Ah Yin said gently. "Take it slowly. The first time will be a little painful. It'll be easier after this."

Su Ling gritted his teeth and guided that vitality along the route his Soul Power circulated.

What outrageously suggestive words!

Blue-gold light spread from his body. As that energy brushed over the Blue Silver Grass on the back mountain, it began growing wildly.

The densely packed Blue Silver Grass swayed gently in the wind, as though bowing to Ah Yin.

One hour.

Two hours.

Su Ling's Soul Power climbed at a frenzied pace. After a day, it had shot straight up to rank seventeen!

Ah Yin's vitality was overwhelmingly powerful. As the collective will of an entire planet's Blue Silver Emperor population, her power of origin far surpassed that of any Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast on the Douluo Continent.

Even the original Ah Yin wouldn't have dared do this: infusing Su Ling with vitality, then converting it into Soul Power inside his body. The conversion efficiency of this method was extremely low. Had it been the original Ah Yin, just a few attempts would have reduced her to a wild weed with incomplete sentience.

"Stop."

Ah Yin suddenly withdrew her hands.

Su Ling opened his eyes, panting heavily. Although all his meridians ached with swelling pain, his Soul Power was fuller than ever before.

Rank seventeen.

That meant he could reach rank twenty after another two days of cultivation. He wondered whether Xiao Wu would be willing to become his Second Soul Ring.

"You can't cultivate again for a while," Ah Yin said with a frown. "You're still too young, and your meridians are too fragile. They need some time to recover."

"Understood." Su Ling stood up and moved around a little. Although his meridians ached, there was nothing seriously wrong.

Ah Yin also returned to Su Ling's Sea of Consciousness. A whole day of intensely infusing spiritual power had left her very tired too.

After Ah Yin disappeared, Su Ling discovered a wet patch where she had been, with quite a bit of Blue Silver Grass already sprouting from it.

Although he felt some sympathy for Ah Yin, his spirit was willing but his flesh was weak right now.

By the time Su Ling came down from the back mountain, dusk had already fallen.

From far away, he saw a figure pacing back and forth at the academy gates. It was Xiao Wu. The moment she saw Su Ling, she rushed over.

"Su Ling!"

Her voice didn't sound quite right.

Su Ling's heart sank, and he quickened his pace to meet her. Xiao Wu ran up to him, her chest heaving.

She grabbed Su Ling's arm.

"Something happened to Xiaosan."

Su Ling's face instantly went pale. Something happened? Had Tang Hao come and forcibly taken Tang Xiaosan away?

Tang Xiaosan still had the Soul Bones on her. If Tang Hao saw them, they would probably be difficult to explain.

"What happened to her?"

"She went to a nearby cave this afternoon and said she wanted to try out the Soul Bones. Now she's passed out in there!"

Su Ling grabbed Xiao Wu and ran. He had a rough idea of which cave it was.