"Senior Dragon Duke, absorb the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring here. I'm going inside to help your granddaughter exercise."
After the Dragon Duke obtained the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, Xiao Yexuan took him to the Simulation Pod in the guards' room.
There would be no danger in absorbing the Soul Ring here.
As for him, he was taking Meng Yiran for ten consecutive draws.
The Dragon Duke had been overjoyed to be able to absorb a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, something every Soul Master yearned for.
But Xiao Yexuan's words... made the muscles in his face twitch.
He looked as though he were watching a blond punk with a souped-up scooter flick his hair while hitting on his precious granddaughter right in front of him.
Who understood how a guardian felt?!
"Lord Landlord, I want to challenge my limits today. Could you use greater force and keep exercising me, without stopping no matter how much I cry stop and beg for mercy..."
Meng Yiran spoke with a fiery gaze.
She really wanted to finally collapse helplessly, leaving her body entirely under her lord landlord's control.
"Well... of course. Sometimes, only the limits can bring out a person's greatest potential."
Now Xiao Yexuan felt he could play to his heart's content.
Ahem...
Be serious!
Time hurried by, and the Dragon Duke finally finished absorbing the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.
This mighty power, this incomparable red Soul Ring, delighted him.
He really wanted to take a tour of the Soul Master World and face those long-established Titled Douluo.
He would make his mighty name resound across the entire continent!
Yet he went to find Xiao Yexuan instead. What was all that nonsense about making a name across the continent? It really wasn't as comfortable as being a humble security guard at Maple Forest Evening.
Once Xiao Yexuan hired the Dragon Duke as a guard, Maple Forest Evening's security rating rose by one star.
It also gained the ability to open a branch.
But, just as Xiao Yexuan had expected, opening a branch required a great many points-as many as ten thousand!
He had been saving up his points all along.
Maple Forest Evening's reputation was currently level two.
Each tenant could rent for a maximum of two hundred years.
At twelve points a year, that amounted to 2,400 points.
He hadn't spent any of the rental points from Tang Yuehua and Ah Yin. Together with the points he had previously saved and those from the tenants' positive reviews over the past few days...
He only had a little over seven thousand points.
That meant he only needed one more tenant before he could open a branch in Heaven Dou City!
Next, he only needed to wait for Liu Erlong to come deliver experience.
On the seventh day, everyone completed the check-in event.
Each received a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone, and the women were so excited they could have flown into the sky.
Then they all slipped into the Simulation Pods to absorb their Soul Bones.
That left Xiao Yexuan with only the maids to play with.
Rem's ample embrace was still more relaxing.
"Hello, Landlord. I'm Bai Chenxiang. Is Aunt Yuehua here?"
He waited and waited for a tenant, but instead of the Liu Erlong he had been hoping for, Bai Chenxiang arrived.
Tang Yuehua had long been planning to capture Tang Hao, so she had contacted the Four Single-Attribute Clans.
Although the Speed Clan were Tang Hao's relatives, Tang Yuehua had laid bare all the crimes Tang Hao had committed.
The Speed Clan couldn't even scrape together a few hundred Gold Soul Coins these days. Their lives could hardly have been more difficult.
Hearing there was a way to return to the Clear Sky Sect, the Speed Clan's patriarch had decisively agreed to Tang Yuehua's proposal.
He had also brought his granddaughter to Suotuo City.
Looking at the girl before him with her pale-purple twin ponytails, Xiao Yexuan was delighted.
Once she paid all her rent, he would have enough points to unlock the Star Dou Great Forest instance.
"Hello, miss. Sister Yuehua is here. Let me take you to her."
Xiao Yexuan spoke gently, his expression kindly.
"Aunt Yuehua said this place was wonderful and hoped I could stay here? I don't see... anything special? I could fly several laps around this place in one breath. And you charge a Gold Soul Coin a day for this?"
Bai Chenxiang's gaze was haughty. Although she spoke as though the place were small, her beautiful eyes roamed about, interested in everything around her.
"My place is indeed a little small. But, miss, you'd better not fly back and forth here. It wouldn't be good to disturb the others' lives."
Bai Chenxiang's Martial Soul was the Sharp-Tailed Swift, a pure-speed Martial Soul. She had an extremely strong sense of pride and considered her Martial Soul the noblest of all.
She was somewhat haughty.
Haughty was good. Xiao Yexuan liked knocking proud girls like this down a peg most of all.
"Disturb others? Landlord, my Martial Soul is a top-tier speed Martial Soul. I fly incredibly fast and without a sound. Are you sure they could even notice me?"
Bai Chenxiang raised her chin and gave a soft snort.
"What a coincidence. The whip I use to exercise people is incredibly fast too. Anyone who passes in front of me takes at least five lashes!"
Xiao Yexuan's tone was provocative.
Sure enough, with Bai Chenxiang's pride being so strong, how could she put up with Xiao Yexuan challenging her to a contest of speed?
"Then what if I say... I'm going to fly here anyway?"
The corners of her lips rose, and her figure moved like the wind. She was already behind Xiao Yexuan.
She was just about to raise her hand and pat Xiao Yexuan's back when he vanished in an instant, and a hand landed on her fragrant, soft, fair shoulder.
Bai Chenxiang shuddered all over and hurriedly moved away, frowning deeply. How had Xiao Yexuan done that just now? How was he so fast?
"Hmph! Let's see how you catch me this time!" Unconvinced, Bai Chenxiang released her Martial Soul as she spoke. Her legs came together, and a pair of light wings spread from either side of her body.
After rising into the air, she flew toward the building like a streak of light.
A lightning whip appeared in Xiao Yexuan's hand. Lightning Five Consecutive Whips!
"Ah!"
Before Bai Chenxiang could reach the building, her body went numb, and she dropped from the sky, trembling all over.
On her bottom...
Five pale-red whip marks could be seen.
"Huh? Brother Yexuan, why are you discharging electricity in broad daylight? You've made me all tingly."
Ning Rongrong poked her head out of the window and spoke with puffed cheeks.
"Then come down and help me take her back to wash her. I'll reward you with a few sets of ten consecutive draws!"
Xiao Yexuan said with a faint smile.
"Brother Yexuan, you said it!"
Ning Rongrong stepped straight onto the windowsill and jumped down from upstairs.
She looked utterly excited.
"Who's this?"
After coming down, Ning Rongrong looked at Bai Chenxiang twitching on the ground and rubbed her with a hand as she asked.
"She's here to see Tang Yuehua. Hurry and take her back to wash her. Meet me at the front desk in a bit."
Xiao Yexuan got up to prepare the rental contract.
Had he known Bai Chenxiang was so weak, he would have gone easier on her.
This delayed his plan to open a branch in the Star Dou Great Forest for a while.
"Brother Yexuan, then what about my..."
Ning Rongrong hadn't forgotten the reward Xiao Yexuan had mentioned.
"Wait until tonight. Body tempering has both internal and external aspects. Only exercising the outside won't do. There's more to my whip techniques than this, you know~?"
Xiao Yexuan gave a soul-stealing smile.
Ning Rongrong licked her lips. "Then can I... eat it?"