Douluo: Contracting the Heartmoon Fox, Selling Gangzi at the Start
Chapter 11

Hsin: Junior, You Can't Handle the Opportunity Here [Two-in-One, 4,300-Character Chapter]

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Hearing her Rider ask her to guess what he was thinking,

Hsin swished her tail back and forth, a blush spreading across her face.

"Rider, are you thinking about what positions to put Hsin in later?"

"Or perhaps Hsin could conjure many clones, turn them into other people, and serve Rider together with them."

"Mm, a little horse pulling a big cart would be fine too."

"Rider is at his most tender right now."

"..."

Xu Qing stared at the big fox lost in her fantasies, his face full of question marks.

Wait, what are you thinking about, you fox spirit?

Before I transmigrated, thinking about it was all I could do.

After all, who doesn't have fantasies about their two-dimensional wife?

But now, all I want is to get stronger quickly.

And here you are, switching on your dirty mind?

Also, who are you calling most tender?

It would be one thing if I were still the old wanderer, whose age was impossible to fathom.

But now, my real age is only in my twenties.

Besides, I have a child's body now.

Just as I thought.

Someone like you needs a serious electric shock, don't you?

"Rider, if you like electricity, that's fine too. It would be a novel way to play."

Hsin looked down at Xu Qing and blinked.

"Mm, I can even shock myself, as long as it makes Rider happy."

"..."

Xu Qing narrowed his eyes at the big fox before him.

This big fox knew what he was thinking.

"You fox spirit, you can read minds."

"It's clearly called having hearts that beat as one. It proves that your humble servant and Rider are of one mind."

Hsin crouched down and cupped Xu Qing's face, speaking with utmost seriousness.

"Guess whether I believe you."

Xu Qing reached out, pinched the fox spirit's cheeks, and pulled them apart, making her originally alluring, beautiful face look a little comical.

"Mmm, but it's true! Your humble servant and Rider have hearts that beat as one," Hsin insisted stubbornly, pouting.

"If our hearts beat as one, are you still going to say you weren't teasing me just now?"

"Switching on your dirty mind, were you?"

"Putting you in all sorts of positions, huh?"

"A little horse pulling a big cart, huh?"

"I'm at my most tender right now, huh?"

"You fox spirit, you need to be hooked up to the national power grid and given a serious shock!"

Hsin's face stiffened, and her eyes flickered.

Oh no.

Rider caught me fooling him.

"Rider, your humble servant knows she was wrong."

A pitiful look appeared on Hsin's face.

Xu Qing didn't release her cheeks. Instead, he pulled them apart again.

"You know you were wrong? What did you do wrong?"

"Hsin shouldn't have deliberately teased Rider."

"What else?"

"Hsin shouldn't have passed mind reading off as having hearts that beat as one."

"So you can read minds after all."

"No, that's not it. It isn't mind reading."

Hsin hurriedly waved her hands.

"Hsin could just sense that something was off with Rider's emotions. I can get a rough feel for your thoughts too, but I can't hear the details."

"Just now, Rider's desire to get stronger quickly was especially strong, so Hsin sensed it."

"Besides, Rider is too easy to read."

"Even without sensing your emotions, your humble servant can tell with one look."

Xu Qing let go and looked at her.

The Xinyue Fox's authority was Myriad Fractals, and there were also the hard requirements of deduction and computational power needed for mechanism arts.

This big fox was born with the ability to read people.

By observing fleeting expressions and combining them with context, body language, tone, and so on, she could deduce a person's true emotions and intentions.

How was that not another kind of mind reading?

"So you were deliberately teasing me with all that joking around at the start."

Hsin gave an awkward laugh, both ears flattening sideways like airplane wings.

"Rider was still on edge, and Hsin couldn't bear to see it."

"If Hsin teased Rider and let you scold me a little, you wouldn't be so tense anymore."

Xu Qing looked at her expression, which seemed to say, "I was wrong, but I'll do it again next time," and finally couldn't hold back a laugh.

Hsin's ears instantly perked up, and she leaned close to him.

"Rider, you're not angry anymore?"

"Why would I be angry? I should be thanking you."

Hsin's eyes sparkled in an instant, like those of a big dog hearing praise from its master.

"Actually, you don't have to do this."

"As heaven moves ever vigorously, so must a gentleman strive without cease."

"My goal of growing stronger is perfectly clear."

He must have changed his goal just now,

Making this fox spirit, who was good at reading people and prone to overthinking, think of something, which led to all this.

But, you silly fox, too clever for your own good,

You're a little foolish, but cute.

Doing this will only make me want to grow stronger even more.

Weakness is the original sin.

What does my destruction of you have to do with you?

When power is offered to you, you must seize it at all costs, grow stronger, and become stronger still!

From the moment he had understood his own heart just now, he had already made his decision.

This was the path he had to follow.

And the responsibility he had to shoulder.

He must not wait until disaster struck and he was powerless to resist before feeling regret.

What good would regret do?

The victor became king; the loser was reduced to ashes!

For this, Xu Qing's conviction grew firmer, the Soul Power within him boiled more fiercely, and his presence rose.

His level increased again, reaching level 18.

"Another breakthrough?"

Xu Qing felt the greater power within him and felt refreshed.

A firm conviction could also increase one's strength.

The feeling reminded him of a line from "Ultra Beast Force."

The height of a fountain would never exceed its source, and an Ultra Beast warrior's supernatural power would never exceed the conviction in their heart.

The stronger your conviction, the stronger the power you could unleash.

Hsin sensed her Rider's presence, and a joyful smile spread across her face. "As expected of my Rider. You even leveled up from that."

"The firmer the conviction, the greater the strength."

"But I still have you to thank for it."

"This is clearly what Rider deserves."

Hsin hugged Xu Qing and kissed him on the cheek a few more times. "Hehe, my Rider is the best."

"All right, enough about that. Let's get going, or it'll be dark."

"Yes."

Hsin raised a hand and snapped her fingers, and red energy cubes gathered beside them.

With a series of clicks, a motorcycle appeared on the spot.

Its body was white, gold, and red. Although it was a motorcycle, its outline resembled a fox.

Hsin got up, climbed onto it, patted the seat, and looked back at him.

"Rider, hop on. Hsin will take you to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well."

Although she didn't know exactly where the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well was,

Her Rider did.

Xu Qing stared at the fox head at the front of the bike.

"...Why does your bike look like your fox form?"

Hsin swished her tail behind her, her eyes curving into a smile.

"Because Hsin made it. Of course things Hsin makes look like Hsin."

"I want to drive too."

Xu Qing was quite interested in the motorcycle when he saw it.

But in his current tiny body, his legs didn't seem long enough to reach the foot pedals and such.

"Rider, you can steer. Your humble servant can sit behind you."

"We can control the motorcycle together."

Xu Qing hurriedly swung himself onto the bike and sat in front of Hsin.

Hsin pressed close to Xu Qing, wrapping both arms around his small chest.

Breathing in Xu Qing's scent, she felt more at ease than ever before.

Rider, Rider. He was her very own Rider.

A vast evil pressed against Xu Qing's back, letting him feel its considerable weight.

But at that moment, Xu Qing's attention was on the motorcycle.

He twisted the throttle, and the engine roared like an awakening beast, making his blood surge at the sound.

A motorcycle! What man wouldn't like one?

"Go ahead and drive, Rider. Hsin will keep it under control."

Xu Qing nodded and twisted the throttle. He immediately did a burnout start, the front wheel shooting up as the bike sped off in one direction, leaving only a red afterimage behind.

Watching the trees flash past and the excitement on Xu Qing's face, Hsin felt truly happy at that moment.

Rider, Rider.

My Rider.

Evening.

In the heart of Sunset Forest, a red streak of light sped in and finally landed on a tall mountain.

Hsin climbed off the motorcycle with Xu Qing in her arms.

"Rider, is Hsin's motorcycle good?"

"Mm-hmm, it's amazing."

Xu Qing looked at the motorcycle, his eyes shining.

It was hundreds of kilometers from the Star Dou Great Forest to Sunset Forest, and they had arrived in an hour.

The motorcycle had practically been flying.

No, it really was flying. It just flew close to the ground. What's wrong with that?

"Rider, I'm glad you like it."

Hsin's tail whipped back and forth, making her special effort to construct the motorcycle worthwhile.

"Rider, the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well is just ahead."

"Old Poison is there too."

Hsin pointed to a valley ahead, shrouded in a poisonous barrier.

When they had set out, her spiritual power had already covered Sunset Forest.

A poisonous barrier and valley that conspicuous couldn't have been easier to find.

"Then let's go in."

Holding Xu Qing, Hsin stepped through the air toward the valley ahead.

Her powerful spiritual power tore a huge opening in the poisonous miasma, and she entered in plain sight.

But such an ostentatious act also provoked a certain old gardener into an uproar.

"Who goes there?! How dare you trespass on this old man's territory!"

In an instant,

A gigantic Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor burst out from beneath the poison barrier. Clad in dark green armor, his head covered in white hair, Dugu Bo stared fixedly at Xu Qing and Hsin.

But when he saw a breathtakingly beautiful woman holding a child, uncertainty and suspicion filled his heart.

When had a female Titled Douluo appeared in the Heaven Dou Empire?

How had he never heard of her?

"Your territory?"

"Junior, a treasured land belongs to the capable. It's not yours to lay a finger on."

Hsin looked down at Dugu Bo from on high, but her words sent Old Poison into a rage.

It was an utter inversion of heaven and earth!

She had actually called him junior!

And she wanted to seize his treasured land!

Outrageous!

"Woman, you..."

Before Dugu Bo could finish, Xu Qing spoke.

"We're already going to fight, so why bother with talk no jutsu?"

"Yes, Driver."

A cold smile curled Hsin's lips. She pointed with a delicate hand, and red energy cubes formed in the air.

In an instant, a gigantic cuboid pillar fell from the sky like a meteorite.

Dugu Bo's expression changed drastically.

"Eighth Soul Skill: Time Freeze!"

Grayish-white light erupted from his body and rapidly spread in every direction. Everything it touched came to a standstill.

The meteorite, however, did not slow in the slightest and continued to crash down at him.

"How could..."

Before he could finish, the enormous cuboid pillar smashed Gu Bo and the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor out of the valley.

Boom!

The earth trembled, and a huge crater appeared in the ground.

"Tsk, tsk, I guess that counts as Planet Befall."

"It's just a shame it can't petrify anything."

"Otherwise, it would truly live up to the name."

"Petrification?" Hsin looked thoughtful, then smiled.

"Then I can just learn a petrification ability later."

"You could. This world has plenty of strange abilities, so you can learn one."

Xu Qing glanced at the enormous cuboid pillar below.

A lot of the abilities in "Douluo Continent" worked like online game mechanics.

Although people always called it the bottom of the xuanhuan barrel,

He had to admit that its Soul Skills were pretty impressive.

There were plenty of percentage-based and mechanic-based skills.

Invincible Golden Body could only be broken by a god-level power or above.

Immortal Body could not truly be killed by attacks below the god level.

Eternal Wound ignored defense and inflicted endless wounds that spread and would not heal. The victim could only keep expending Soul Power to resist it until they ran out and died.

There was also the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's Life and Death Arena.

It could drag an enemy into a different dimension, forcibly turn them back into a six-year-old, and fight them in a duel to the death.

In any case, a lot of the skills in "Douluo Continent" were quite useful.

If he could learn those skills and make them permanent,

Could he still use them after leaving Douluo Continent?

But the most important thing was to make them completely permanent, turning them into his own abilities.

Otherwise, it would be like using the previous dynasty's sword to behead the current dynasty's officials.

If another world did not recognize the ability, he would not be able to use it.

"We can give it a try."

Hsin was quite interested in learning new abilities.

However weak this world was, there was still plenty to learn.

Stones from other mountains could polish jade.

Her abilities could grow stronger too.

"But is Old Poison dead?" Xu Qing looked down at the enormous cuboid pillar.

"Not yet. He's unconscious. If you want to kill him, Driver, you can do it now."

"Leave him for now. We'll decide after we come out."

Xu Qing looked away.

People always said that meeting Dugu Bo was like getting an Immortal Herb redemption code.

But ordinary people could not redeem that code.

In the original story, when Tang San said that Old Poison had poison in his body, the latter's first thought was that he could not let it get out.

Tang San had used provocation, and Yu Xiaogang and the others had come over as well, yet he had only just kept his life.

Even after Old Poison learned that Tang San was Tang Hao's son, he had shown killing intent toward him more than once.

Only after Tang San passed his tests one after another and was forced to swallow the poison pearl from Old Poison's body did he finally put his mind at ease.

As for casually entering an Immortal Herb redemption code in a fanfic and getting Old Poison to hand over the Immortal Herbs, forget it.

But he had his big fox Hsin. With her strength, suppressing Old Poison was as easy as turning over her hand.

So why bother with a redemption code?

Besides, the Soul Skills of Douluo Continent had little or no effect on beings above the god level.

His eighth Soul Skill, Time Freeze, barely even affected a Super Douluo, let alone Hsin's Pseudo Planet Befall.

Hsin took Xu Qing into the valley.

Below, the enormous cuboid pillar dissolved into red energy cubes and vanished. At the center of the crater, only Dugu Bo remained, embedded deep in the earth, his breath as thin as a thread.

"The Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well really is aptly named."

"Driver, are these the Immortal Herbs you mentioned?"

Hsin landed in the valley and looked around. Flowers and plants of all kinds covered the area.

"Mm. This place was formed after two God King Level dragon kings fell."

"The most precious things are still down below."

"God King Level dragon kings?" Hsin's eyes lit up.

"Driver, are we going to dig them up now?"

"Not yet. Let's eat the Immortal Herbs first."

Xu Qing's gaze fell on the ice and fire Immortal Herbs.

The area around the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well was filled with extraordinarily dense, extreme power.

Only plants could remain here for long. No animal could stay long, or the opposing extreme powers of ice and fire would clash and make it explode.

Old Poison was able to stay only because he had poison in his body. The extreme powers that entered him happened to help suppress the toxins.

But even so, he could only remain here briefly.

That was to say nothing of the even more terrifying ice and fire spring water.

It could harm a Titled Douluo.

But this was also an excellent treasured land for cultivation.

There was surging ice and fire energy, as well as the even more terrifying ice and fire spring water.

However, to cultivate here safely, one had to consume the ice and fire Immortal Herbs.

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