[Lu Chen: Coming here in the middle of the night instead of sleeping, disturbing people's sweet dreams.]
[Lu Chen: The local Soul Beasts really have no manners.]
[Lu Chen: Don't you agree, Xiao Wu?]
The women: ?
The notebook's sudden update drew every group member's attention.
[Little Princess (Little Demoness): Wait, can someone explain what happened while I was studying my exclusive mission?]
[Yanzi (Leftover Woman): +1. Why did that Lu Chen suddenly mention Xiao Wu?]
[Angel (Can't Give It Away): Could it have something to do with Xiao Wu's exclusive mission?]
[Little Fox (Failed to Give It Away): Makes sense!]
[Yanzi: Got your teacher sorted out?]
[Little Fox: Ahaha~ Anyway, everything's fine. Let's see what Lu Chen writes next.]
In the papal bedchamber, Hu Liena had changed into pale purple pajamas and was kneeling primly on the bed, her alluring little face full of ingratiating smiles as she looked at her teacher. Clearly, she had no intention of leaving tonight either.
Bibi Dong glared at her. She was her own disciple, after all, and in the end, she could not harden her heart enough to punish her.
Teacher and disciple turned their attention back to the notebook, waiting for a certain someone to continue updating.
Lu Chen did not disappoint them. A picture was uploaded to the notebook immediately afterward.
[Lu Chen: A six-year-old girl traveling alone in the dead of night.]
[Lu Chen: A genius with innate full soul power who lost out to the shady dealings of someone with connections.]
[Lu Chen: Does Xiao Wu think humans are all as dumb as she is?]
[Lu Chen: Attached image-A drifting, destitute orphan.jpg]
Through the open doorway in the picture, they could see a girl in a pink dress standing in the moonlight. Framed by the lamplight, she looked like a fairy who had stepped out of a forest in a fairy tale.
[Yanzi: Pfft~ Hahahaha! What kind of drifting, destitute orphan keeps herself this clean?]
[Angel: This is Xiao Wu, the human form of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast?]
[Little Princess: @Xiao Wu @Xiao Wu @Xiao Wu, something's off about the angle of this picture. Don't tell me you...]
At that moment, Xiao Wu also saw the black-haired boy standing behind the human old man.
He's so good-looking~
His well-proportioned, slender build, his sunny, handsome features-even that half-smiling look in his eyes was so...
Wait, what's with the way he's looking at me?
Sensing someone tagging her in the group, Xiao Wu still reflexively glanced at the messages, and then her vision went dark.
[Xiao Wu (Soft Boned Rabbit): Oh no, I think I delivered myself right to his doorstep!]
[Yanzi: You disturbed the reincarnated God King!]
[Netherworld (Vassal): Just a reminder: Lu Chen has no restrictions whatsoever, so you'd better pray he isn't interested in your Soul Ring and Soul Bone.]
[Xiao Wu: Is that really possible?]
Giving up a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and Soul Bone delivered right to his doorstep?
That was four top-grade Soul Skills plus a massive increase to every attribute!
With the chat group's restrictions in place, she could not even fight back. Er Ming, hiding in the mountains to provide support, was clearly distant water that could not quench an immediate thirst.
By the time he realized something was wrong and rushed over, she might already be cold!
Besides, Xiao Wu kept having the feeling that even Er Ming could do nothing to Lu Chen. He was a reincarnated god, after all!
This was truly a case of stereotypes getting people killed.
[Spirit Cat (Vassal): Perhaps things aren't that bad yet.]
[Back to That Day (Gives a Lot): The chat group bears him goodwill. Since we were chosen by the chat group, there should at least be a possibility of peaceful coexistence with him.]
[Angel: Besides, most of what he wrote in the notebook was teasing. Maybe he thinks you're adorably stupid?]
[Little Princess: Xiao Wu really is very cute!]
Xiao Wu: ...
I'll take those as compliments.
Forcing herself to calm down, Xiao Wu felt that her groupmates seemed to have a point.
Lu Chen doesn't know the chat group exists, nor does he know we can read his notebook, so the notebook contains his real thoughts.
So he simply thinks I disturbed his sleep, that visiting at night is rude, and that I'm stupid?
He's so awful! Am I really that stupid (╯°□°)╯︵┻━┻?!
"Grandpa, it's late. We can't let her leave alone in the dark. Why don't we let Xiao Wu stay here for the night?"
Lu Chen stepped forward and nudged the old man, who still wanted to say something, then persuaded him:
"Whether we're helping her enroll or punishing those people with connections, it'll have to wait until daylight."
My groupmates weren't lying. He's so nice (⁄⁄•⁄ω⁄•⁄⁄)!
Although Lu Yun did not believe Xiao Wu's story at all, he trusted Lu Chen. Besides, Xiao Wu had even summoned her Martial Soul just now to prove she was telling the truth.
She was only a prospective Soul Master who had not even obtained her first Soul Ring. Even if everything else was false, her weakness was real!
Lu Yun smiled and said, "Xiao Chen is right. Now that you're at Grandpa's place, make yourself at home. The guest rooms have all been cleaned, so you can stay right away."
"Are you hungry after your journey? Shall I have Xiao Chen make you something tasty?"
Xiao Wu's eyes lit up. Food from the human world!
Grandpa is nice too!
From a distance, they watched Xiao Wu turn into a devoted eater at the dining table, holding a plate of carrot-and-egg fried rice and shoveling it down, occasionally turning back to give the two of them a sweet, innocent smile.
Old Lu Yun finally could not hold back his questions. He nudged his grandson with his elbow and asked:
"Xiao Chen, do you know where this child comes from?"
Lu Chen smiled mysteriously. "Grandpa, you know I've always been very sensitive to the bloodline origins hidden within Martial Souls, right?"
Lu Yun nodded solemnly.
Sensitive was an understatement... That night six years ago, while still an infant in swaddling clothes, Lu Chen had unconsciously awakened the dragon bloodline origins hidden within his and his younger brother's Martial Souls.
Without that, neither he nor his younger brother could have undergone Martial Soul Evolution. This had always been a secret buried in the hearts of all three of them.
So this little girl with innate full soul power can undergo Martial Soul Evolution too?
A Martial Soul with innate full soul power evolving again...
Hiss!
Lu Yun sucked in a cold breath. How powerful would that be?
No wonder Xiao Chen hinted that I should take Xiao Wu in. He wants to recruit her as a helper.
But that means I'll have to use my connections to investigate her background thoroughly. I'll go back to my room and write to Little Tian later.
Lu Chen shook his head and said, "Grandpa, Xiao Wu's situation is different from ours."
"How so?" Lu Yun's mind was filled with his subsequent plans, and he replied offhandedly.
But what Lu Chen said next nearly made him release his Martial Soul on the spot:
"A human Soul Master's Martial Soul comes from the mysterious power hidden within their bloodline and soul, but Xiao Wu is different."
"Her Martial Soul Origin is her own self."
"Xiao Wu is a Soul Beast that has taken human form."
"What did you say?!"
Lu Yun did his utmost to keep his voice down. When he looked at Xiao Wu again, his gaze was already full of danger.
Throughout history, only Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts could take human form.
And a Soul Beast that had only recently transformed and just awakened her Martial Soul... was an opportunity that came once in a thousand years!
That was four top-grade Soul Skills, plus an enormous increase to every attribute!
Lu Yun knew his talent was insufficient; he was not worthy of something so precious.
But his younger brother and grandson were different. One was about to break through to level 90, while the other possessed terrifying, unprecedented talent. The Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and Soul Bone were a perfect fit for the two of them!
"Grandpa, stop those dangerous thoughts." Lu Chen gently patted the old man's back and said quietly, "Xiao Wu is a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast who has only just taken human form, yet she appeared in Dragon Soul Village in clean, tidy clothes. Do you think something else might be watching us from the shadows?"
Grandfather and grandson huddled together and whispered for quite a while, finally ending with Lu Yun shaking his head and returning to his room.
Young people's ideas are really wild these days. I'm old. I can't keep up with their thinking anymore~
I'd better let Xiao Chen handle it himself.
Returning to the dining table with a smile, Lu Chen poured a glass of water for Xiao Wu, who was wolfing down her food, and handed it to her. After she thanked him, took it, and gulped down a large mouthful, he sat down opposite her.
At the same time, the notebook updated again.
[Lu Chen: Xiao Wu really has a poor sense of caution. She even dares to eat food given to her by a stranger she's meeting for the first time.]
[Lu Chen: No wonder Tang San easily fooled her into becoming his in the original timeline, and she even died several times in succession.]
[Lu Chen: A Soul Beast's sacrifice apparently burns away everything, including their soul. Just thinking about it hurts...]
Clatter~
A spoon fell to the floor. Reading the words displayed in the notebook, Xiao Wu fell into a complete stupor.
Someone tricked me into becoming his?
And I sacrificed myself?
I even died several times in succession?
Tang San?
Tang San!!!
The women: ???
The chat group erupted as well, messages constantly refreshing.
Seriously, who on earth counted their deaths? Did Soul Beasts really know how to play like that?
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