Qiu Wanxi's secret

"My name is Bai Dachun. Young miss, just call me Dachun."

Dachun swallowed the Twin Flame Spirit Pill without the slightest hesitation. He was a smart man and knew this was his only way to survive.

"The chief-ptui, that beast's greatest treasure is in his right leg. It's a Soul Bone he obtained while exploring a pirate treasure hoard in his younger days."

"He never dared tell anyone. I only found out by accident."

Xiao Yao walked over to the sailors' chief and gave him a light tap. The entire ice sculpture shattered into crumbs, showing just how ruthless the Soul Spirit had been.

The only part that remained intact was the right leg. Xiao Yao melted the ice, and dense Soul Power immediately gushed out.

"Such powerful Soul Power fluctuations! This must be a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone! An ordinary sailors' chief actually had a treasure this good?"

Dachun nodded and bowed. "We Sea Soul Masters had our glorious days too. Ten thousand years ago, there were quite a few pirate crews. It's hard to say how their strength compared to today's Upper Three Sects, but their wealth definitely matched or surpassed theirs."

"But no one knows where the treasures they left behind have scattered to. If you're interested, young miss, you could search for them."

"Not interested."

Xiao Yao waved a hand and gave the Soul Bone to Shui Bing'er. "A water-attribute Soul Bone doesn't suit me. If you don't like it, you can give it to Yue'er when we get back."

Shui Bing'er accepted it delightedly. "I like it. I like anything you give me."

Bai Dachun went to repair the ship. Although having only one person made things much slower, it was also more reassuring.

Xiao Yao and Shui Bing'er stayed beside Qiu Wanxi. It took a full three hours before she woke up.

"Director Qiu, you're awake?"

"What happened just now?"

Shui Bing'er recounted everything that had happened after she fainted, including the sailors' betrayal and how another Ice-Overriding Curse-Mark Demon Fox had appeared and slaughtered all around it.

This left Qiu Wanxi silent.

Xiao Yao could not help asking, "Director Qiu, what's the story with that Soul Spirit?"

"Soul Spirit? Do you mean the Ice-Overriding Curse-Mark Demon Fox? That name does fit."

Qiu Wanxi wanted to skip the question, but she could not withstand Shui Bing'er's wheedling offensive.

Xiao Yao also literally added fuel to the fire, secretly using the Fallen Heart Flame.

Qiu Wanxi felt a stir within her, and her mental defenses opened as a result.

"You probably don't know this, but my Martial Soul used to be the Lord of Water passed down in my family, not the demon fox it is now."

"Gasp-could it be?"

Xiao Yao thought of a possibility.

But how could that be?

The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm ten thousand years later had a million years of cultivation, which allowed him to create a Second Martial Soul while absorbing the Ice Empress as a Soul Spirit.

Could the Ice-Overriding Curse-Mark Demon Fox willing to become Qiu Wanxi's Soul Spirit have reached that level of cultivation too?

But what Qiu Wanxi said next proved his guess wrong.

"That's right. It was the first Ice-Overriding Curse-Mark Demon Fox on the Douluo Continent with over ten thousand years of cultivation. In fact, its cultivation exceeded thirty thousand years."

"But its lifespan had reached its limit too. It was powerless to break through any further."

"It met me before its death, so it sacrificed itself to me, becoming my Soul Spirit and giving me an External Soul Bone as well."

"So that's how it was."

Before Xiao Yao could finish breathing a sigh of relief, an even more astonishing fact stunned him.

A demon fox with forty thousand years of cultivation had actually accomplished something only the million-year Sky Dream Ice Silkworm could do?

You're the Dragon God's illegitimate child, aren't you!

If I were the Divine Realm, I'd have banned your account too.

After that, the three returned to the mainland and encountered no further obstacles on their way back to Heaven Dou City.

Xiao Yao hurriedly bade the two women farewell and returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy. He had promised Xiao Wu he would return in two months, and he was already well overdue.

"So you still remembered to come back? You promised two months. How long has it been now?"

"Three and a half months."

Xiao Wu brandished a long whip, frightening Xiao Yao into answering in an aggrieved little voice.

He felt that the Douluo Continent must have plenty of perverts. Otherwise, why was everything else underdeveloped and more like ancient times?

Yet special things like miniskirts, black stockings, high heels, and hotels were so damned developed. (Although ordinary people could not enjoy them.)

Wasn't Xiao Wu's current outfit precisely the sort of dominatrix attire reserved for certain adult videos?

Her tight red leather outfit covered only her soft breasts on top, while the shorts below made her pert bottom look even more lifted.

The cutout running from her chest down to her abdomen was covered by a layer of sheer red gauze.

The long whip she brandished was also specifically meant for erotic play.

It seemed Xiao Wu had done plenty of studying while Xiao Yao was away.

"And you have the nerve to say it."

Xiao Wu stamped her feet in anger. "Three and a half months! Do you know how I got through those three and a half months?"

"I don't care. If you do this again, I'll put on a bunny-girl outfit, black stockings, and high heels and go seduce men."

"Absolutely not." Xiao Yao refused flatly, but he was already making plans inwardly. It seemed he needed to find a storage space that could hold people, so he could keep his women beside him at all times.

Otherwise, this vinegar jar of a Xiao Wu would tip over sooner or later.

He wondered whether Old Poison's Wishful Hundred Treasure Purse would work.

Unfortunately, they could not enter his Soul Ring space like Soul Spirits.

Xiao Yao had never considered making Xiao Wu sacrifice herself either. After all, he was different from that heartless, ungrateful father-and-son pair, Tang Hao and Tang Biesan.

"Hmph! Will you dare do it again?" ╭(╯^╰)╮

"No, no! I'll definitely find a way to keep you beside me all the time."

"That's more like it. But though you may escape death, you won't escape punishment. I'm going to teach you a lesson today."

"Heroine Xiao Wu, have mercy! I've been traveling all this way, and I'm exhausted. I can't give you the best service either. How about we rest for a night?"

"I don't care about all that."

The punishment Xiao Wu inflicted was anything but light. She unleashed her First Soul Skill, Waist Bow, and her Second Soul Skill, Charm, one after another, driving Xiao Yao into retreat after retreat and making him beg for mercy incessantly.

But Xiao Wu would not let the matter rest. Having practiced the Soft Bone: Yoga Chapter, her physical capabilities far surpassed an ordinary person's and were no worse than those of a Soul Master who had absorbed a Soul Bone.

Especially in certain situations, she was even more like a fish in water.

Beyond raw strength, Xiao Wu also employed tactics.

After gaining the upper hand in the first wave and routing Xiao Yao until he threw away his helmet and armor,

she feigned defeat to rouse his fighting spirit, then suddenly charged out, nearly wiping him out completely.

But Xiao Yao was not about to let her do as she pleased.

After losing the first two rounds, he directly drew on the innate talents of his Soft Bone Charm Rabbit Martial Soul and began cultivating the Heavenly Fire God-Forging Technique.

As his divine body gradually took shape, Xiao Yao went from being able only to receive her attacks passively to having the ability to fight back.

Not only that, Xiao Yao also discovered that the Divine Soul Chapter could resonate with the Mirror Flower Water Moon Meditation Method, creating an illusion realm that only spiritual bodies could enter.

Xiao Yao pulled Xiao Wu straight into the illusion realm and launched a counteroffensive on both the physical and spiritual fronts.

Before long, Xiao Wu's eyes rolled back under his assault, her tongue lolling out.

She could only let herself be slaughtered, no longer capable of raising an army to invade.

But now Xiao Yao was the one unwilling to sound the gong and cease hostilities. He tied Xiao Wu to the bed, picked up the long whip she had brandished earlier, and began another battle.