The Battle of Titled Douluos

"Bad!" Bai Qinchen's expression changed, and he quickly sheltered Xiao Wu in his embrace while releasing his Martial Soul, with two yellow Soul Rings and two purple Soul Rings revolving around his body.

Bai Qinchen had only taken Liu Erlong as a woman so far, and he had only copied her Martial Soul and Soul Ring.

Liu Erlong's Martial Soul was no ordinary Martial Soul, but rather the mutated Fire Dragon Martial Soul of the top beast martial soul Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon, and its amplification for attack power and defense power was extremely formidable.

However, a level-forty-one Soul Ancestor facing the aftermath of a battle between two Titled Douluos was still blasted flying.

"Pfft!" Bai Qinchen spat out a mouthful of fresh blood, which splashed onto Xiao Wu's snow-white, tender face.

"Bai Qinchen!" Xiao Wu dazed for a moment, then shouted anxiously.

She had not expected that Bai Qinchen would disregard his life to protect her, and even after suffering such heavy injuries, he still remained unwilling to let go of her.

"Y-you, are you alright?" Bai Qinchen opened his eyes weakly, gazed at Xiao Wu whose face was filled with concern, and gave a faint smile.

"I'm fine, y-you, how are you? Are you alright?" Xiao Wu shook her head repeatedly, the gaze she directed at Bai Qinchen filled with thick worry.

"I..." Bai Qinchen wanted to say something more, but his eyes went black and he simply passed out.

Chapter 16: The Battle of Titled Douluos

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

In the woods, a thirty-meter-long, water-vat-thick, azure-green giant snake was confronting a refined, pretty, exquisitely featured and curvaceous belle wearing a light yellow dress.

Every time the two clashed, it inevitably whipped up a gale, the ground cracked inch by inch, and the soil surged up like giant waves slamming against the shore, causing countless avian birds to beat their wings and flee.

"Hiss-hiss-!"

A piercing snake hiss escaped from the giant snake's mouth, and its whole body radiated an icy chill as circles of azure-green poisonous mist enveloped it.

"Dugu Bo, I don't want to fight you right now, get away quickly, or else don't blame me for being impolite." The belle's delicate brows furrowed slightly, her tone carrying a trace of displeasure.

"Humph! Leave? Every single time, this old man gets played in the palm of your hand by you, and I refuse to believe that there isn't a single time I can gain the upper hand against you," Dugu Bo said while flicking his snake tongue, his body surface covered in a layer of thick scales, radiating an intimidating might across his whole body.

As a Titled Douluo, Dugu Bo had his pride and dignity; why should the jianghu rumors claim that he, Dugu Bo, was the weakest Titled Douluo.

He was unclear about the Star Luo Empire, but within the Spirit Hall and the Heaven Dou Empire, the female Titled Douluos he knew of were only Bibi Dong and this belle before him.

He didn't dare to compare himself to Bibi Dong, nor did he dare to provoke her, because no matter what, the other party was the Pope of Spirit Hall, and her strength was also unfathomable; he still had self-awareness.

Yet as for the belle before him, he refused to believe he couldn't beat her.

Although it was rumored that the other party was rank ninety-six while he was only rank ninety-two, and he had tasted failure countless times, he simply refused to concede defeat, firmly believing that one day he would be able to defeat her.

"Sigh!" Hearing this, a look of worry appeared on the belle's face. She truly did not want to fight, because due to her identity, very few people in the outside world knew news of her, and she also wanted to live a low-profile life, not hoping to cause any trouble.

However, alas, there were always flies coming to harass her, plunging her mood into extreme wretchedness.

"Hm?" Suddenly, the belle's delicate brows furrowed, and she abruptly raised her head to look into the distance.

"Dugu Bo, stop quickly, someone got hurt because of our fight," the belle cried out in a deep voice.

"Injured then injured, what business is it of mine?" Dugu Bo was unconcerned; he always acted solely according to his own preferences, completely ignoring the life or death of others.

"Dugu Bo, human lives are at stake, how can this be child's play? If you remain obdurately unrepentant, I will have no choice but to be impolite with you." A trace of anger flashed in the belle's beautiful eyes.

With that, a sandalwood fan appeared in the belle's hand, while nine Soul Rings-yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black, black, black, black-quietly spiraled outward.

The yellow Soul Rings radiated brilliant light, the purple Soul Rings radiated bewitching light, and those black Soul Rings were as profound as an abyss of ten thousand zhang, filled with a startling deterrent force.

"Hiss~~hiss~~"

"Finally going to make a move, are you?" Dugu Bo flickered his snake tongue, mad battle intent leaking from his eyes as he stared unyielding at the belle.

"Humph!" The belle let out a cold snort, gently fanning the sandalwood fan in her hand while the ninth Soul Ring revolving around her flashed brilliantly.

"Ninth Soul Skill! Azure Flood Dragon Nine Fans!" The belle cried out charmingly, and nine huge azure hurricanes instantly formed around her body, completely destroying the surrounding vegetation and reducing it to fragments.

Meanwhile, those azure hurricanes slowly coalesced in the air, gradually forming nine antique fans that were crystal-clear throughout, each fan engraved with patterns of nine lifelike flood dragons.

Moreover, those nine antique fans radiated intimidating Soul Power fluctuations.

"Holy shit! Using the ninth Soul Skill right off the bat!" Watching the belle directly employ her strongest fatal move, Dugu Bo did not dawdle either, deciding decisively as his ninth Soul Skill flashed at the same time.

The Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor's body turned completely translucent, just like genuine jade carving, and a poison possessing terrifying corrosive power instantly spread outward.

Yet before the poison he radiated could spread to the belle's vicinity, it was blown thoroughly clean by the terrifying gale whipped up by those nine giant fans.

After scattering the poison, the gale did not stop there, but instead continued to sweep toward the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor.

"Humph!" The belle snorted coldly, her right foot heavily stamping onto the earth, her body abruptly soaring into the air and stepping through the void, graceful and elegant, exceptionally nimble.

"Hiss-hiss-!" The Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor emitted a hoarse, shrill cry once more.

"Eighth Soul Skill! Wind Tide, Jade Waves!" The belle waved her sandalwood fan once more, and the nine giant antique fans instantly radiated dazzling brilliance, one green wave storm after another sweeping outward, carrying monstrous vital energy as they roared toward Dugu Bo.

The nine huge wave storms swept across heaven and earth, blotting out the sun and sky as if enveloping the entire forest within them.

"Bang!" Dugu Bo's huge snake body was heavily struck by this wave storm, instantly producing thunder-like explosive sounds, and his massive torso retreated several hundred meters out before stopping its backward movement.

"Hiss~hiss~hiss~" Dugu Bo raised his snake head and hissed, his snake mouth wide open as a jade-green bead was spat out from his mouth.

A bizarre scene occurred: the belle floating suspended mid-air actually froze still at this very instant, and everything around her-even the wind whipped up by the belle's sandalwood fan-paused mid-air.

Everything had solidified.

"Humph! Always using these petty tricks every time!" Just as Dugu Bo prepared to use his eighth soul skill Time Freeze, a cold snort came from the belle frozen mid-air.

"Crack!" As the belle's voice fell, that stagnated air shattered with a loud crash.

The belle resumed her movement, and continuing to wave her sandalwood fan, she unleashed the eighth Soul Skill Wind Tide, Jade Waves that she had released earlier once again, continuing to charge toward Dugu Bo.

"Damn it! Still no good, huh!" The Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor's massive body instantly turned transparent and vanished, transforming into Dugu Bo whose body hovered suspended mid-air as he clenched his fists tightly, his complexion ashen.

"Don't get too full of yourself! Next time I will definitely let you suffer!" Dugu Bo glared resentfully at the belle, then transformed into an azure-green afterimage and rapidly fled away.

"Finally gone!" The belle looked at Dugu Bo's fleeing back, sighed, and did not pursue him, instead looking toward the other end of the forest.

"Whoosh!" The belle's figure vanished from the spot, and when she appeared once again, she was already standing before Bai Qinchen and Xiao Wu.

Watching the two of them unconscious and injured from the aftermath of her and Dugu Bo's battle, thick worry surfaced on the belle's pretty face. She hurriedly checked them over and only breathed a sigh of relief upon discovering they had merely fainted.

"Although the injuries aren't very heavy, it's still because of me that things led to this; I'll take them back to be treated." The belle sighed, waved the sandalwood fan in her hand, and an formless wind instantly enveloped Bai Qinchen and Xiao Wu, carrying them up to fly away and vanishing into the woods in the blink of an eye.

Chapter 17: What Do You Want to Do

"Mmh..." Xiao Wu whimpered and opened her eyes.

She felt her head aching slightly, and just as she wanted to get up, she discovered she was held in a warm embrace. Raising her head in puzzlement, when she saw it was Bai Qinchen, she instantly dazed.

What is going on? Why am I sleeping together with this bastard Bai Qinchen?

Xiao Wu was startled at once, but very quickly, she recalled that she had been injured by the aftermath generated from the battle of two Titled Douluos and had fallen unconscious.

This bastard, he wouldn't take advantage of her unconsciousness to do any bad things to her, would he?

The possibility suddenly arose in Xiao Wu's heart, and she promptly sat up, hurriedly checking her body.

Upon seeing that her clothes were worn intact without loss, Xiao Wu breathed a sigh of relief.

"Er..." Bai Qinchen was woken up by Xiao Wu's sudden sitting movement. He rubbed his sleepy eyes, looked around in a daze, and subsequently asked, "Where is this?"

"Hm? Xiao Wu, why are you on my bed?" Only then did Bai Qinchen notice that Xiao Wu was actually beside him, and his eyes widened instantly, wearing a shocked expression of utter disbelief.

"I, I don't know either; when I woke up, it was like this," Xiao Wu said, shaking her head.

"You wouldn't have climbed onto my bed yourself, felt embarrassed, and then said you didn't know?" The corners of Bai Qinchen's mouth revealed a faint smile as he teased.

"W-who would proactively climb onto the bed of a scumbag like you!" Hearing this, Xiao Wu immediately flushed her pretty face red, glared angrily and annoyedly at Bai Qinchen, and hammered his chest a few times with her small fists, speaking with puffed-up cheeks.

"Hiss~~~" Bai Qinchen clutched his chest and sucked in a breath of cold air.

"Are you alright?" Startled, Xiao Wu only then remembered that Bai Qinchen's body was originally severely injured in order to save her, and she hurriedly extended her small hand to help Bai Qinchen massage his chest.

Bai Qinchen hastily grabbed Xiao Wu's small hand. The boneless, tender tactile sensation made his entire body feel immensely comfortable, and he said with a beaming smile, "Hehe, are you worried about me?"

Although he was injured yesterday to protect Xiao Wu, most of his injuries were on his back, and his chest had not sustained any real injuries.

Moreover, the injury on his back wasn't hurting very much right now either.

"W-who's worried about you!" Xiao Wu's pretty face turned red, and she hurriedly wanted to retract her small hand, but it was still held firmly in Bai Qinchen's grasp.

"Y-you, let go quickly!" Xiao Wu's pretty face grew even more rosy as she struggled shyly.

"Tell the truth, were you worried about me just now?" Bai Qinchen leaned close to Xiao Wu's ear and murmured in a low voice.

"You got hurt because of me after all, so it's normal for me to worry just a little bit..." Xiao Wu lowered her head and said weakly.

"Oh?" Bai Qinchen wore a half-smile, his eyes fixed straight on Xiao Wu.

"What are you looking at!" Stared at like this by him, Xiao Wu instantly felt a bit bashful and chided coquettishly.

"Xiao Wu, why are you so pretty?" Bai Qinchen couldn't help extending a hand to stroke Xiao Wu's white-as-jade cheeks, his eyes filled with burning fervor.

"You... what are you doing..." Gazed at by his fervent, scorching gaze, Xiao Wu instantly felt a sweltering heat throughout her body, her heart beating exceptionally fiercely.

"I want to hold you." Bai Qinchen slowly drew close to Xiao Wu, and when he was a mere zero-point-one centimeters away from the tip of Xiao Wu's nose, he halted abruptly and smiled evilly.

Looking at the handsome and extraordinary countenance pressed right before her, Xiao Wu's cheeks were crimson and her heart thumped wildly.

"Y-you... don't mess around..." Xiao Wu said delicately, feeling her body go numb as if struck by electricity.

"I said, if you don't agree, I won't force you." Bai Qinchen spoke softly, looking at the Xiao Wu before him with eyes flashing with a thick blaze of desire.

"Then, then what are you trying to do?" Xiao Wu asked tremblingly, able to clearly sense the faint masculine scent emanating from Bai Qinchen at this moment.

"Want to do it, but isn't that you not agreeing?" Bai Qinchen smiled seductively, abruptly rolling over to pin Xiao Wu's body beneath him and looking down at her.

Gazing at Xiao Wu's exquisite features close at hand and inhaling the faint orchid-flower scent on her body, Bai Qinchen's breathing grew progressively heavier, his gaze turning profound as if containing an extremely intense aggressiveness, wishing to devour the girl before him entirely.

Xiao Wu's heartbeat accelerated abruptly, and Bai Qinchen's scorching yet domineering gaze made it somewhat difficult for her to breathe.

What is going on here? Why am I feeling this afraid? Could it really be that I've fallen for this guy?

No, impossible. It must surely be because this bastard, this scumbag, saved me yesterday and I harbor gratitude toward him, absolutely not liking him.

The only person I like is Third Brother.

Although Xiao Wu thought this way in her heart, her beautiful eyes closed unconsciously, as if she had already acquiesced to Bai Qinchen's subsequent actions.

"What do you mean by this? Could it be that you're acquiescing?" Seeing Xiao Wu close her eyes, Bai Qinchen immediately smiled, his smile radiant as he lowered his head to kiss Xiao Wu's pink, tender cherry lips.

Finally, I can finally taste Xiao Wu's enticing fragrant charm...

Could it be that I'm really going to kiss him? Xiao Wu's tightly closed eyelashes trembled unceasingly, her heart filled with both anticipation and trepidation...

Xiao Wu...

Suddenly, Tang San's voice appeared in her mind, and right on the heels of that, Tang San's visage also appeared in her mind.

Just as Bai Qinchen was about to kiss Xiao Wu's fragrant lips, Xiao Wu abruptly opened her beautiful eyes, pushed Bai Qinchen away with force, and then sat up.

"Hm?" Bai Qinchen looked at Xiao Wu in puzzlement, not understanding why she had clearly acquiesced just now, yet suddenly gone back on it?

"T-that, we can't do this..." Xiao Wu lowered her head and said in a small voice.

"Hey, you can't play like this. You gave me hope, and now you hit me with a bolt from the blue, which makes me very hurt-don't you think you're going too far?" Bai Qinchen said with a mournful face.

"Humph! I didn't agree to let you kiss me just now! You promised me that without my consent, you wouldn't touch me!" Xiao Wu raised her snow-white chin, pouting her little mouth as she spoke.

"I did promise you, but playing around like this makes me very sad; you have to compensate me!" Bai Qinchen said rightoriously.

"Then what do you want?" Xiao Wu looked at Bai Qinchen with vigilance; this fellow definitely wanted to take advantage of her again.

Bai Qinchen smiled with a chuckle and said, "Of course it's... to touch your legs!"

"No, no way!" Xiao Wu refused outright without even thinking.

She didn't dare let Bai Qinchen touch her; the last time Bai Qinchen touched her leg, it almost caused her to be eaten up by him, and if she let him touch her again, she doubted anyone could interrupt to let her recover her sobriety.

"This won't do, that won't do either, then you have to give me some compensation at least." Bai Qinchen curled his lips and spoke.

"I, I'll help you with my hand..." After hesitating for a long time, Xiao Wu spoke in a weak voice.

Chapter 18: She Proactively Proposed It

"No problem!" Hearing that Xiao Wu was willing to help him with her hand, Bai Qinchen nodded excitedly.

This was even more stimulating than him touching Xiao Wu's legs.

Xiao Wu extended her hand tremblingly to help Bai Qinchen pull off his trousers, and when she saw Bai Qinchen's robust French stick, her small face instantly turned incomparably red, resembling a fully ripened apple.