Chapter 143 - Mouth-Chewed Wine? Mandarine Wine?

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The two stared at each other for a long time before Xiao Se finally broke the silence with a gentle smile. "Sorry if I startled you. I mean no harm. Let me introduce myself—I'm Xiao Se. Xiao as in the bamboo flute, Se as in the ancient zither tune. I come from the Douqi Continent. I don't yet know the young lady's name."

"Douqi Continent?" the girl murmured, stunned. A trace of wariness quickly surfaced in her eyes. "Why did you suddenly appear? And how can you control my body?"

"Uh—"

Xiao Se already had a guess as to who she was. Asking further was pointless, so he simply went straight into smooth nonsense.

"In my travels, I accidentally found a relic left behind by an ancient expert. Inside, I obtained a divine wine known as Mandarine Drunkenness. Anyone who drinks it gains a special opportunity. Because of that wine, I suddenly appeared here."

"Mandarine wine? Opportunity?"

The girl was completely confused, but Xiao Se's appearance and clothes definitely didn't match anyone from the Douluo Continent. She then asked the most important question:

"Then when can you leave my body?"

"As soon as the wine wears off."

Xiao Se wasn't entirely confident. He had crossed worlds and even timelines—who knew how long "sobering up" here would take compared to the Douqi Continent?

The girl frowned. "Then can you return control of my body now? I've been stuck in this strange place for hours."

"Of course I can. But first—may I know your name? And what is this place? It doesn't resemble the Douqi Continent I know."

She hesitated for a moment, then said softly, "My name is Bibi Dong. This place is the Douluo Continent."

Xiao Se nodded and returned the control of the body to her.

At the same time, a faint gleam flashed in his eyes.

As expected… I really arrived during young Bibi Dong's era. Then those two outside must be Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo in their youth.

Regaining full control, Bibi Dong finally relaxed a little. The idea of someone else's soul inhabiting her body was beyond terrifying. Even combing through the countless ancient records of Spirit Hall, not a single mention of such a phenomenon existed.

Fortunately, this overwhelmingly powerful soul didn't seem intent on seizing her body. Otherwise… she wouldn't even know where to cry.

She stepped out of the tent and stood before the burnt-out campfire.

Looking at Yue Guan and Ghost Douluo, she hesitated slightly.

Should she tell them there was an extra soul inside her?

Before she could decide, Xiao Se's voice echoed beside her ear again.

"Miss Bibi Dong, I suggest you do not reveal my existence to anyone—not even to those you trust most. I can sense that your world's cultivation system is extremely underdeveloped. You don't even use soul power properly, and your understanding barely reaches shallow spiritual force. Even if you tell them, they won't detect me.

"In return, I can teach you things this world does not have."

Bibi Dong nodded slightly, then addressed her guards:

"Archbishop Yue Guan, Archbishop Ghost."

"Saintess."

Both men bowed respectfully as soon as she appeared.

"Pack up. We continue searching for my fourth spirit ring." she ordered calmly.

"Yes, Saintess," Ghost Douluo replied and began preparing.

Yue Guan, ever the chatterbox, helped him gather things while speaking in his feminine, melodious tone.

"Saintess, the outer region of Sunset Forest doesn't have many high-year soul beasts. If we go a bit deeper, we should find something suitable for your fourth ring."

Inside Bibi Dong's spiritual world, Xiao Se felt his heart leap with excitement upon hearing Sunset Forest.

He barely resisted the urge to take over her body and rush toward the Ice-Fire Yin Yang Well.

No—he needed to earn Bibi Dong's trust first.

Walking through the forest, Xiao Se chatted with her whenever he had the chance.

He told her about the Douqi Continent—its cultures, people, geography.

At first Bibi Dong was impatient, but gradually she became intrigued. A world where one could cultivate without awakening a spirit… without absorbing spirit rings… and whose cultivators were far stronger than Douluo's? She had never imagined such a possibility.

In return, Bibi Dong shared Douluo Continent knowledge with him—most of which Xiao Se already knew.

Night fell again, and still no suitable soul beast appeared.

Inside the tent, just as Bibi Dong prepared to cultivate, Xiao Se's voice came again.

"Bibi Dong, this forest seems to hide a treasure land. Interested in checking it out? It might hold immortal herbs—herbs even rarer than anything in my world."

Bibi Dong's eyes lit up. "Immortal herbs?"

Xiao Se had intentionally explained them to her earlier—how a suitable immortal herb could allow someone to reach Title Douluo ten or even twenty years earlier.

And for those without hope of reaching Title Douluo, a proper immortal herb could create that hope—unless their talent was absolute trash. Otherwise, it basically guaranteed reaching the pinnacle.

"That kind of treasure exists…" she whispered.

"I'll call Archbishop Yue Guan and Ghost—" she said, rising to leave the tent.

Xiao Se immediately stopped her.

"No. Wealth stirs desire. What lies there can create seven or eight future Title Douluo. Even as Saintess, you can't guarantee their hearts won't sway. Besides, there's a great opportunity there specifically for you. I sense two martial souls inside you. With that opportunity, you might unlock your twin spirits much earlier."

"Xiao Se… why are you helping me so much?"

Although shocked that he knew her secret, she accepted it—for he lived inside her body, after all.

But this mysterious boy seemed too kind to her, and she didn't know how to respond.

"Helping you helps me. The 'Mandarine Wine' grants opportunities. And that place should hold something I need as well."

Bibi Dong nodded seriously. "Alright. But with my current strength—level forty, three rings—I cannot slip past my guards or evade the perception of the ten-thousand-year soul beasts deeper inside Sunset Forest."

(End of Chapter)

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