"What do you mean? What exactly are you getting at?"
Da Ming and Er Ming were dumbfounded again. Although their intelligence now rivaled a human's, they could not figure out what Zhao Ling was about to say. The brothers stared blankly at him.
Zhao Ling heaved a heavy sigh, then began spinning a tale off the top of his head.
"Ah, this goes back a few years. Back then, I hadn't reached the Titled Douluo level yet, but relying on my exceptional talent, I thought I'd come to the Star Dou Great Forest to train and grow stronger.
"Instead, I accidentally wandered into somewhere called the Great Ferocious Land. There, I met someone who had taken human form from a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soft Bone Rabbit. We hit it off immediately and explored the Great Ferocious Land together, thinking we wouldn't run into danger. But..."
Zhao Ling sighed heavily again, his eyes filled with dejection.
"We completely underestimated how dangerous it was. There were actually two-hundred-thousand-year, even three-hundred-thousand-year Ferocious Beasts there. We encountered one over three hundred thousand years old, and we had absolutely no way to fight it.
"So that one of us could escape, he actually proposed drawing that Ferocious Beast away himself. He made only one request: that after I escaped, I help take good care of his wife and daughter..."
Chapter 185: I'll Kick You Again Next Time
"I tried my hardest to dissuade him, but he wouldn't listen. Relying on his Invincible Golden Body skill, he charged straight out. But I knew that however powerful the Invincible Golden Body Soul Skill was, it probably couldn't buy even ten seconds.
"To keep his sacrifice from being in vain, I fled with all my might. As I fled, I heard his screams. All I could do was run faster..."