Ye Qiu grabbed the hand she offered, "Take it, I'm not giving it to you for free! Besides, with my abilities, would I lack soul bones?" He
'd find something better sooner or later!
"What do you mean?"
"You do me a favor, and this will be your reward. Besides, you absorbed its soul ring, so you're clearly a better match for it!"
"Do you a favor? What is it!" Since Ye Qiu didn't want it, she didn't hesitate and accepted it. With his monstrous abilities, he certainly wouldn't lack anything.
"Help me acquire the soul ring first, then I'll tell you." Ye Qiu stroked his chin. In his view, Zhu Zhuqing would definitely go to Soto City in the future. Giving her the external soul bone was like finding a bodyguard for Xiao Wu!
"Go absorb it first, maybe it can even increase the age of my soul ring!" Ye Qiu wanted to see how much this soul bone could increase her strength. If possible, he could even appropriately increase the age of the three-thousand-year soul beast he had originally envisioned!
"Hmm, I'll absorb it now." Looking at Ye Qiu, who seemed a bit eccentric, Zhu Zhuqing didn't know what he wanted her to do, but she was quite satisfied with this soul bone—it was an external soul bone!
She sat down cross-legged again and began absorbing the soul bone. The external soul bone floated up and slowly sank into her spine,
embedding itself into her flesh little by little.
"Ah~!" The excruciating pain made her scream, cold sweat pouring down her body. *Pfft*
—a jet-black spider leg stretched out from her back, followed by a second, a third.
"Ah!" After a high-pitched scream, all eight spider legs emerged, lifting Zhu Zhuqing up.
"All absorbed?" Ye Qiu looked up at her, but unexpectedly, she ran towards him. "Hey, hey, hey, are you trying to stab me to death?" Before
he could even get close, a spider spear stabbed at him. If he hadn't dodged in time, he would have been stabbed right through the heart!
"I'm sorry! I can't control it right now." Zhu Zhuqing was also very uncomfortable suspended in the air, stumbling and staggering.
"Don't be nervous, take a deep breath!" Ye Qiu quickly used his Divine Might Illusion, standing still and guiding her. "It's a part of you, slowly feel its presence."
"Ah~" Amidst her exclamations
, after a flurry of poking around in the cave, she finally calmed down, her body drenched in sweat.
*Swoosh!* She put away the eight spider spears, nearly collapsing from exhaustion, but Ye Qiu caught her.
"Looks like you'll need some time to adjust." He picked her up again.
"Yeah, just wait a few days!" Zhu Zhuqing leaned against him, still slightly out of breath.
A vortex appeared, and Ye Qiu carried her into the Divine Might Space...
Three
days later, at noon, in a small valley, from a distance, it looked like a thin spider was constantly moving among a pack of wolves.
Under a tree beside the valley, Ye Qiu rode the Wolf King, gnawing on wolf meat, leisurely watching Zhu Zhuqing's performance.
A figure with eight spider legs on its back leaped towards Ye Qiu.
*Swoosh!* Spider legs pierced the tree, and Zhu Zhuqing hovered in mid-air, facing Ye Qiu.
Her eyes were full of confidence and joy. "Ye Qiu, I've almost mastered the Shadow Spider Spear!"
The Shadow Spider Spear was a name Zhu Zhuqing gave herself. After absorbing it, her soul power broke through again, now reaching level 25. However, with the amplification of the Shadow Spider Spear, her speed and attack power had greatly improved.
She felt that she could defeat her ruthless sister even if she faced her alone now!
"Then congratulations!" Just as Ye Qiu had expected, the quality was slightly inferior to Tang San's Eight Spider Spears, but it was still quite good!
"When do we set off to hunt souls for you?"
"Let's wait until you recover your soul power!" Ye Qiu patted his mount.
"Awoo~" The wolf king howled, and a mother wolf ran over from afar.
Ye Qiu looked up, "Zhu Zhuqing! Come down quickly, why are you hanging in the tree? My neck is sore!"
"Hehe." She chuckled, put away the spider spear behind her, and landed on the mother wolf's back. "Where to?"
"Let's go to the vicinity of the target first. At this speed, you should be almost recovered by then!" The two rode the wolf side by side and slowly walked into the distance.
"Ye Qiu!"
"What?"
"Just call me Zhu Qing from now on if you consider me a friend!" A gentle breeze ruffled her hair, her dark eyes glancing at Ye Qiu beside her out of the corner of her eye.
"Friend? No problem!" Ye Qiu nodded; it was just a form of address.
"Okay!" Hearing his response, Zhu Zhu Qing stared straight ahead, saying nothing, only feeling the warmth of the breeze.
These past two weeks had been the most pleasant time of her life!
...
Zhu Zhu Qing's soul power had fully recovered. After sending the two wolves back, Ye Qiu led her to the outside of a cave.
Inside was his new target, a nearly four-thousand-year-old soul beast, the Jade-Eyed Cloud-Winged Tiger!
"Roar!" Soft roars echoed from within the cave.
"Zhu Zhu Qing, you wait here!" Ye Qiu's Sharingan flashed; he was going to go in first and lure it out!
"Call me Zhu Qing!" She frowned slightly. This girl...
Her voice made Ye Qiu pause, turning back to reply, "Okay, Zhu Qing! Uh... I'll be careful next time!"
She reminded him before leaving. "By the way, the Jade-Eyed Cloud-Winged Tiger is huge. Once it comes out, lure it into the forest; it won't be able to maneuver there."
"I understand!" Zhu Zhuqing nodded in satisfaction, unsure if it was because of Ye Qiu's reminder or his way of addressing her.
She watched Ye Qiu enter the cave, not knowing what he was doing.
"Roar!" Suddenly, a violent roar rolled out from the cave, echoing hundreds of meters away.
Ye Qiu quickly ran out, followed by a five-meter-long, robust white tiger.
It had a "king" character stripe on its forehead, its eyes were emerald green, and it had transparent wings on its back for low-altitude gliding. A three-meter-long tail trailed behind it.
'This guy is so fast!' Ye Qiu was about to lure it into the forest as planned.
"Roar!"
A tiger's roar suddenly echoed in his mind, and Ye Qiu felt a little dazed, his running motion freezing.
The Jade-Eyed Cloud-Winged Tiger seized the opportunity to glide down from a height of four meters, slamming a paw heavily onto Ye Qiu's head!
Boom! The land shattered, and dust billowed everywhere.
"Ye Qiu!" Zhu Zhuqing's worried voice rang out from afar.
"I'm alright!" Whoosh! Ye Qiu emerged from the dust, realizing his carelessness. He hadn't expected this soul beast to possess mental attacks; anyone else would have been dead!
Even Ye Qiu had almost been caught off guard.
He quickly rejoined Zhu Zhuqing. "Zhu Zhuqing! When the battle starts, cover your ears with your soul power as soon as you see it open its mouth; its voice carries a mental attack!"
"Got it! By the way, what happened to it? Why is it so crazy?" Zhu Zhuqing turned around, looking at the tiger relentlessly pursuing them, killing other soul beasts with a single swipe of its claw and knocking down trees in its path—it was utterly insane and brutal!
Ye Qiu chuckled awkwardly, realizing it wasn't quite right to tell a girl. "Um, well... hehe, actually I didn't mean to. I was worried it wouldn't cooperate, so I used a hidden dart to stab it in the back. Who knew it would suddenly stick its butt out and then... it shot right there, cough cough!"
"Disgusting!" Ye Qiu glared at him, her face flushed with anger, and with a burst of speed, she left him behind.
As the saying goes, you can't touch a tiger's butt, let alone poke it!
Today! The Jade-Eyed Cloud-Winged Tiger and humans are locked in a life-or-death struggle!