Douluo Continent: Crossing Over to Battle Through the Heavens, Starting with a 100,000-Year Soul Rin

Chapter 95 Persuading Cai Lin

He gently patted Xiao Cai's head and then spoke in a tender tone.

The little guy nodded as if he understood, then closed his eyes. With a flash of seven-colored light, the colorful scales appeared in front of him.

"What do you want with me?" Cai Lin looked at Xiao Wujiu coldly, without much of a friendly expression. She didn't even try to fight Xiao Cai for control of her body, just to avoid Xiao Wujiu and avoid having much interaction with him.

Because she gradually noticed something was wrong, especially her feelings towards Xiao Wujiu. Even though this man had forcibly taken her away and placed a restriction on her, she couldn't bring herself to hate him. Instead, a strange emotion lingered in her heart.

This made her instinctively feel that something was wrong. She thought it was Xiao Cai's influence on her or that Xiao Wujiu had tampered with the seal, but later she found that it was neither. So she panicked and stayed deep inside her body, unwilling to have too much contact with Xiao Wujiu, for fear that this feeling would surge up in her heart again.

However, after meeting Xiao Wujiu this time, she did not feel any aversion towards him, but her pride did not allow her to bow down to him like that, so she maintained that wary and unapproachable demeanor.

"I've refined the Spirit Fusion Pill; you should be well aware of its effects, right?"

Xiao Wujiu raised his hand, gesturing to the jade bottle in his hand that emitted a fragrant aroma.

Cai Lin looked at Xiao Wujiu with a strange expression: "Why did you do this? Are you really that willing to part with her?"

Although she deliberately went into a deep sleep, she could occasionally wake up and see Xiao Cai and Xiao Wujiu interacting outside her body. She was certain that their relationship was very close, and that Xiao Cai even had a deep attachment to Xiao Wujiu. She couldn't believe that Xiao Wujiu would be willing to give her the Spirit Fusion Pill, because then Xiao Cai would disappear.

"Do you think I'm the kind of cold-blooded, ruthless person who only cares about power?" He seemed to see through Cai Lin's thoughts and directly exposed what she was thinking.

"Aren't you one of them?"

Upon hearing this, Xiao Wujiu simply smiled and did not get angry. Instead, he took the initiative to explain to Cai Lin, "That's not the case. After my confirmation, the effect of the Fusion Pill is not to fuse two souls together. Because your situation is rare, the Fusion Pill is not tailor-made for you. It only has a certain effect on your situation."

"After taking it, your soul and Xiao Cai's soul will indeed merge to some extent, but that does not mean that the part of Xiao Cai's soul has disappeared."

Cai Lin then suddenly realized what was going on and asked, "And then what are you going to do next?"

"Once I am strong enough, I will extract Xiao Cai's part of her soul for you. I will then reshape a body for her. After taking the Spirit Fusion Pill, you will be relatively free and can unleash your full potential."

"For Xiao Cai, keeping her soul as pure as possible will be very beneficial for reshaping her body and adapting to the new one. So, giving you the Spirit Fusion Pill is a decision I've made after much consideration."

After saying that, Xiao Wujiu handed the pill to Cai Lin.

"Take it, and I will protect you."

Perhaps it was a rebellious streak at play, but Cai Lin pursed her lips, turned her head slightly, and said, "This king refuses."

He wasn't surprised by this, nor did he intend to indulge her. He walked towards Cai Lin, who wanted to back away, but found that she couldn't move. She could only stand obediently in place, waiting for Xiao Wujiu to walk in front of her.

He slowly brought his head in front of her. When she thought Xiao Wujiu wanted to bully her like this again, she tightly closed her eyes to show her resistance. But then she felt a slight breath brushing against her earlobe.

Then she heard the other person's deep voice in her ear: "You mean, you want me to treat you like that before you'll eat it?"

When he brought it up, she remembered the time when Xiao Wujiu forcibly kissed her. She subconsciously pursed her lips and then said something that shocked even herself.

"I just don't want to eat."

When she uttered those words, even she herself didn't expect it. Originally, the words themselves were nothing special, but given that the other party had spoken first, this refusal was now a signal for Xiao Wujiu to launch an attack.

"Wait, I'm eating..."

Cai Lin wanted to say something to make amends, but Xiao Wujiu had already poured out the Spirit Fusion Pill, put it in his mouth, and kissed her red lips directly!

……

After a long while, their lips parted.

She glared at Xiao Wujiu with a blushing expression, then, without caring about anything else, she sat down cross-legged and began to refine the medicinal power.

The latter licked his lips and watched Cai Lin refine the Fusion Pill with a smile, feeling the strange fire within his body stirring.

While Cai Lin was absorbing the medicinal power, he casually refined some pills, including but not limited to Dou Ling Pills and Huang Ji Pills. As for the more precious Po Zong Pill, perhaps due to the limited reserves of medicinal materials, Hu Qian, a peak Dou Huang, was not in a hurry to entrust him with it.

This time, when refining pills, he did not let the strange phenomena of heaven and earth appear. Instead, he used the Creation Cauldron to cover them up. After all, his pill refining speed was basically one pill every half hour. Such a production speed of sixth-grade pills was simply too astonishing. It was as if they were mass-produced, appearing like beans being poured out, which would inevitably cause some unnecessary trouble.

After the quality of the pills improved, he rarely produced more pills from a single batch, as was the case with low-grade pills. Firstly, the medicinal power of the herbs was limited and not enough to refine more pills. Secondly, if he forced the refining of more pills, the medicinal effect might be insufficient.

Therefore, he now refines pills almost one by one, unless he adds multiple ingredients at once, in which case he can refine multiple pills at the same time.

However, this does not mean that he has no advantage in alchemy. In addition to the still effective 100% success rate of pills, the efficacy of the pills he refines is absolutely top-notch. Even alchemists of the ninth rank or above would find it difficult to do better than Xiao Wujiu when refining the same type of pill!

They continued refining medicine until midnight, when Cai Lin finally woke up. Her aura was now perfectly smooth and flawless. Her strength, which had reached the three-star Dou Zong level after consuming rare and precious herbs, was now being fully unleashed!

"It seems that the Fusion Pill is quite effective."

As soon as Cai Lin opened her eyes, she saw Xiao Wujiu watching her from the side. Recalling what had happened before, she felt her heart beat a little faster.

Chapter 96 Zi Yan's Closeness, Su Qian's Imbalance

"Fortunately, the medicine is very effective." After saying that, Cai Lin wanted to get up and leave, trying to calm her emotions.

But how could Xiao Wujiu easily let go of the material that had aroused his strange fire?

As she passed by, Xiao Wujiu grabbed her wrist and pulled her sharply into his arms.

Caught off guard, she was pulled into Xiao Wujiu's arms and held firmly in his embrace.

"You can't leave now. You need to help me figure out how to explain things about you."

Feeling the caress on her ear again, Cai Lin struggled slightly, but seeing that she couldn't break free, she stopped trying: "Don't they know me? What's there to explain? Let me go."

"No, no, no, I'm not just talking about your existence, I'm talking about..."

His voice became very low, almost whispering in her ear, yet every word reached her ears clearly.

In an instant, her face turned incredibly red as she stared at Xiao Wujiu in disbelief, then her expression shifted to a mixture of shyness and anger: "You bastard, how dare you!"

Are you threatening me?

"Then you should test whether I dare to do it or not."

After Xiao Wujiu finished speaking, he picked up Cai Lin around the waist and carried her in a princess carry towards the room where he used to rest.

"Wait, no, you can't do this, you absolutely can't!"

Weren't you just being arrogant?

"I...I was wrong, you can..."

"Can't!"

As the room door closed completely, Cai Lin's pleas for mercy gradually took on a different tone. Although she was still begging, something seemed off...

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Su Qian arrived silently at the back mountain of the inner courtyard, walking on air and looking down at the scene below.

According to the information he received, after Zi Yan met Xiao Wujiu at the medicine warehouse, she came here without stopping and began to cause trouble for those magical beasts.

Besides constantly collecting all sorts of rare and precious materials, she seemed to be searching for something, turning the back mountain upside down!

Naturally, this matter reached his ears, prompting him to make a personal trip to see what Ziyan was doing and how she was doing lately.

Actually, the incident started when the elders on duty discovered that Zi Yan's behavior had caused many students in the inner courtyard to be injured. They were also troubled by this brute force queen and didn't know how to deal with her. Although she had stirred up trouble in the back mountain before, she had never looted everywhere like she did today.

Therefore, this matter also attracted Su Qian's attention. After all, the back mountain is also a training ground prepared by the academy for its students, as well as a place where the academy produces medicinal herbs. There are people who are paying attention to the situation here.

Most importantly, he also wanted to find out what exactly happened between Xiao Wujiu and Zi Yan.

He had observed Xiao Wujiu's performance over the past month and was basically certain that he could be trusted. However, an unexpected incident occurred today, so he had to find out the truth. If Xiao Wujiu had slipped up, he would not be lenient with him!

With this in mind, he quickly found Zi Yan, only to find her beating up a fifth-tier magical beast.

After chasing it away, Zi Yan immediately went to the medicinal herbs that the other party was guarding and carefully pulled them out.

"Finally found it! The bitter lotus that Xiao Wujiu needs, I can go to him to help me refine the medicine!"

Looking at the medicinal herbs she had just picked, still covered in a little soil, she breathed a sigh of relief, then smiled and carefully put them away. She then took out a jade bottle, opened it, and prepared to put the pills inside into her mouth.

But as soon as she took it out, she discovered that the jade bottle in her hand had vanished.

"..."

"Ugh! Who is it this time?!"

"You dare steal my pills? I'll teach you a lesson you won't forget!"

As Zi Yan spoke, she looked at the culprit: "So, it was you, Old Man Su!"

She stood with her hands on her hips, pointing angrily at the other person.

"Why did you steal my pills? Give them back!"

Su Qian was at a loss for what to do with this mischievous little guy, but he still had something he needed to investigate. So he opened the jade bottle, held it to his nose, and gently fanned the top of the bottle with his hand.

With a slight twitch of his nostrils, he quickly identified the medicinal ingredients.

"Spirit White Jade Grass, a medicinal herb containing a large amount of energy, has been directly refined into pills, hmm... and it even has a slight fragrance?"

He pondered the meaning behind Xiao Wujiu's actions. Since there was nothing wrong with the items, could it be that he and Ziyan had said something to each other?

"Zi Yan, you..."

"Bring it to you!"

He had just turned his head when he saw Zi Yan rush over quickly, snatch the jade bottle from his hand, and guard against Su Qian as if protecting a treasure.

“You…” Su Qian shook her head, but ultimately didn’t say the words of reprimand. “I’m not going to take your pills. I’m here to ask you what Xiao Wujiu said to you that made you turn the back mountain upside down?”

“Oh, you mean him?” Zi Yan took out a pill and swallowed it in one gulp, feeling the delicious pill transform into pure and enormous energy. She squinted her eyes in satisfaction before slowly answering Su Qian’s question, “He didn’t say anything to me, he is just…”

Then Zi Yan told Su Qian about everything that happened when she met Xiao Wujiu in the medicine warehouse.

"That's roughly how it is. I saw that he seemed to need this bitter lotus, so I thought I'd look for it and ask him to make pills for me. I think it's called something like 'reward'."

"That's payment."

Su Qian sighed helplessly. After listening to Zi Yan's description, it seemed that Xiao Wujiu was indeed fine. However, he still had some questions: "Putting that aside, since you have a clear goal, why did you provoke so many magical beasts?"

After swallowing the last pill, Zi Yan noticed the bottle was empty and pouted in disappointment before saying, "Xiao Wujiu told me not to steal medicinal herbs, and that I should just go to the herb storehouse and take them when I want to eat them, and he'll take them on my behalf. But I was thinking of getting him to refine pills and provide herbs, so I thought I'd just take a few more herbs so I wouldn't have to go to the herb storehouse."

Upon hearing this, Su Qian stiffened and looked at Zi Yan with some surprise.

This usually most mischievous little guy is actually thinking about others now?!

After he brought Zi Yan into the academy, he practically raised her single-handedly. She was usually a little princess, but now she seems to have grown up and started to be sensible and considerate of others. This is a good thing, but all of this is because of Xiao Wujiu, who has only been here for a little over a month!

He started to feel resentful!