"You… do you know…?" Xiao Wu asked in a trembling voice.
She even had killing intent towards Rayne for a moment. But seeing those vibrant blue eyes, all her killing intent vanished, as if being doused with a basin of cold water.
Xiao Wu didn't know why she had the illusion that she definitely can't win against him. Logically speaking, she shouldn't feel this way against a six-year-old boy, when she herself has almost thousands of years of experience in combat and survival.
"You don't have to look at me like that. I don't really have any interest in your soul ring and soul bone. Your's are too low level for me. I've seen better ones." Rayne said with a wry smile.
"…!!" Xiao Wu had a shocked expression and immediately turned around to run. She was truly scared now.
But before she could take a step, a hand was placed on her shoulder, it was so firm and strong, making her unable to escape.
Rayne's voice sounded from close behind her, almost next to her ear.
"You don't have to be so scared of me. I have some connections to soul beast race, so I'm trying to help you a bit. If you agree with me, I'll take you with me and provide you protection till you enter your mature stage which is above level 60."
Xiao Wu didn't fully believe in Rayne's words. But she did stop trying to escape, since she figured out that she couldn't escape from him.
"If you don't mean any harm to me, then why do I have to follow you? If you keep it a secret, no one will know. Stop lying to get me to follow you. You obviously have some other devious intention towards me."
"Well, does raising you to be my future bride count?" Rayne asked teasingly.
"Wha?! You!!" Xiao Wu was startled and blushing. She glared at Rayne with a shy and angry expression.
Rayne: "Don't look at me like that with such an expression. Please remember that your appearance only six-year-old now. Such an expression on a loli makes me feel criminally guilty."
"Leaving this matter aside for now, let's get down to business."
As Rayne said that, he gently injected his energy into Xiao Wu, and his Six Eyes martial soul was shining with a blue-silver light.
Under Xiao Wu's shocked eyes, she felt a great part of her soul power leaving her. At the same time, a hazy silhouette of soul energy resembling Xiao Wu was formed next to her.
What shocked her even more was that, a great amount of blood red energy was leaving her and attaching itself to the clone like figure made of her soul power.
This blood red energy is the divine energy, that is carefully hidden within Xiao Wu. And the owner of this blood red divine energy is Asura God. Rayne is quite familiar with this energy. Back when he was God of Infinity, he has picked a fight with Asura God and beat him up more than a couple of times.
Because of its hidden state, the energy, which is a higher dimensional energy of a God, was not affecting the surroundings. Otherwise, this divine energy that embodies the concept of Slaughter will have catastrophic effects on the mortal plane, if left unsupervised.
"Wha.. What is this?! Why is it in me?! You, what are you doing to me?!"
Xiao Wu inquired in a panicked tone and expression. Everything felt odd. It all came too suddenly, and she was getting very scared.
Seeing her panic, Rayne said softly, while still continuing what he's doing.
"This is a powerful energy someone very strong had left in you. It's purpose is to subtly influence your mind to match his purpose. And in some situation, this energy can outright manipulate your memories. This energy will also act as an anchor, if that certain someone wants to temporarily possess your body to accomplish his goals."
Xiao Wu: "What?! Someone is targeting me?! Since when?!"
Rayne: "Don't panic so much! While this energy is something even level 99 half-gods can't sense, much less deal with it, it's not an issue for me. I can easily separate this energy from you without alerting the owner of this energy."
Xiao Wu: "… Really?"
Rayne: "Yeah! This energy doesn't even have any Divine consciousness attached to it. Dealing with this is child's play for me."
Soon, a blue humanoid figure with a great amount of blood red energy condensed in the heart region, appeared before Xiao Wu and Rayne.
Rayne clenched his hand, and the blue humanoid energy figure condensed into a football-sized orb with mostly blood red energy.
Looking at this big ball of super condensed energy, Rayne thought.
'That's quite a bit of divine energy. Now I am level 20. After getting two soul rings for my Blue Silver Grass, I can raise my soul power level by at least three to four levels by absorbing all this divine energy.'
"And it's done." Rayne stored away the energy by simply bending space and hiding it. He didn't directly keep it into Gate of Ashburn treasure storage because, it will disconnect the connection between this energy and Asura God.
It's not that he is afraid of Asura God. If anything, with a full power attack of God of Infinity in his hands, Rayne can kill literally anyone in this world.
So, Rayne doesn't care about Asura God's attitude towards him.
But what he is truly trying to avoid is being found by Goddess of Life Sheng Ming and Goddess of Kindness Shan Liang. His two wives in Divine Realm.
Right now, he is quite weak. At least, he doesn't have the strength to confront a God, much less a God King.
If he is found by them, it is very likely that he'll be directly taken to Divine Realm, and maybe even locked up and raised in captivity.
His harem will be almost impossible to create, if he is found by his two God King wives. In the past, it was only because of his supreme strength that, the two God king wives and the two Dragon King wives agreed to him having a relationship with all four of them at once.
Obviously, for women of their strength and status, they aren't willing to share their husband with other women. If they find him in his current weak state, he'll most likely be locked up by Sheng Ming and Shan Liang.
Although Goddess of Life Sheng Ming is very kind and tolerant towards him, it is not the case with the Goddess of Kindness Shan Liang.
Different from Goddess of Life Sheng Ming, Water Dragon King Gu Shuiying and Fire Dragon King Gu Huoling, who are willing to coexist with each other and live with Rayne peacefully… Goddess of Kindness is different. She desires to have Rayne to herself. It's not out of selfishness, but rather for her own view of true love.
Despite loving Rayne wholeheartedly and being dedicated to him, Shan Liang has never agreed with his philanthropic view of love. To her, true love between a male and a female should be dedicated to just between them, and not be shared to other individuals. Sharing true love with more than one person is tarnishing the sacredness of this type of love.
It's mostly her fault that Rayne couldn't add his three female disciples to his harem, despite being convinced by their feelings for him.
So yeah, although it is quite selfish and bad, he's determined to not be found by the his God King wives. Especially Goddess of Kindness Shan Liang.
"That's it? So I won't be targeted by that person again?" Xiao Wu finally snapped out of her daze and asked Rayne hopefully.
"Yeah, I suppose so, unless he breaks the rules to directly come to Douluo continent to deal with you." Rayne also came back to his senses, and replied to Xiao Wu.
"… Can I ask you a question?" Xiao asked somewhat hesitantly.
Rayne: "What?"
Xiao Wu: "Are you like… a descendant of God of Contracts?"
Rayne: "…"
Xiao Wu: "I had once seen God of Contracts from a certain distance. Other than different hair and eye color, you look very similar to God of Contracts. Now that I think about it, you seem to have the same name as that God. So? Are you really related to that God? What generation of descendant are you?"
"…" Rayne stayed silent.
Although he had received such remarks in the simulated life, from Di Tian who commented how he looked very similar to God of Infinity.
Rayne chose to stay silent for the time being. He can't go around saying that he is both the God of Infinity and God of Contracts.
Although it feels very awkward to be called the descendant of himself, Rayne could still ignore it for now. Such remarks aren't any harmful to him, and are even the innocent remarks of those ignorant of his true situation. He isn't unreasonable enough to get angry at such a small thing.
"I'm not the descendant of God of contracts. But I do have some connection." Rayne said and started to walk away. He hooked his index finger at Xiao Wu, indicating her to follow him.
[Ding! A normal quest has been triggered.
Task: Reveal to Xiao Wu that she has already been spotted by a Titled Douluo.
Reward: Mysterious Heaven Skill.
No Penalty.]
"…" Rayne was speeches by the reward of this sudden quest. He even had the urge to curse.
He has more than a few dozen cultivation techniques that surpass Mysterious Heaven Skill. This thing isn't of much use to him. Maybe it can be used for some research reference?
'No. Tang San considers Mysterious Heaven Skill his greatest treasure. So… I will publish this skill worldwide, after I successfully create the 'Artificial Spirit Soul Creation World' Soul Tool that I had invented back in Divine Realm. I would love to see Tang San's expression, when he sees his most precious Mysterious Heaven Skill become a common cultivation technique, that's accessible to everyone.'
Rayne thought as the corners of his lips raised a bit.
He then turned to Xiao Wu and said.
"By the way, there is also a Titled Douluo eyeing you."
"What?!" Xiao Wu, who had somehow calmed down, was once again panicked.
"Well, calm down. He doesn't seem to be intending on killing you anytime soon. But he probably won't allow you to get out of sight." Rayne said with a sneer on his face.
"…Why am I targeted everywhere?" Xiao Wu looked at Rayne in disbelief.
Then she continued to mutter in depression.
"Just why am I so unlucky to be targeted by two dangerous people?"
[Ding! Normal Quest completed.]
[Mysterious Heaven Skill has been rewarded.]
Rayne suddenly looked into a far distance, and what appeared in his spatial perception was the huge energy that represented Tang Hao, moving towards the teacher's dormitory. Most likely Yu Xiaogang's place.
"Hmm." An amused smirk appeared on Rayne's face as he thought of an interesting method of dealing with Tang Hao.
"Why are you smiling like that? It's creepy." Xiao Wu saw Rayne's smile and immediately shuddered in fright.
She knew even without thinking that, Rayne was thinking about something that is definitely not good.
…
At the same time, in Yu Xiaogang's dormitory.
A robust man dressed in black robes and a black hood hiding his true appearance, was standing in front of Yu Xiaogang.
Yu Xiaogang had his right hand in cast, his upper body was covered in bandages, and his face also had signs of injuries.
"Grandmaster, how is Xiao San doing?" The black robed man asked.
"Your majesty Tang Hao, Xiao San has absorbed a 400-year-old Datura Snake soul ring. This soul ring has greatly strengthened Xiao San's Blue Silver Grass and has given it poison attributes." Yu Xiaogang said excitedly.
Hearing this, the black robed man Tang Hao nodded in response.
Although he felt a bit odd about why Tang San had to absorb a poison attribute beast soul ring for his Blue Silver Grass, he didn't care about it too much.
After all, Tang Hao's knowledge of martial souls and soul beasts are very limited, and honestly not very reliable. Otherwise, Tang Hao wouldn't have left his son in Yu Xiaogang's care instead of personally teaching Tang San.
Rayne wouldn't have expected that, even with him breaking Yu Xiaogang's hand and injuring, Tang San would still get that 400-year Datura Snake soul ring.
Though what is different is that, this time the dean of Nuoding Academy accompanied Tang San and Yu Xiaogang. Thus, Tang San was able to get his first soul ring without going through a hard battle like in the original work.
Yu Xiaogang, then, went on to say some things about how he intends on training Tang San.
Tang Hao was somewhat touched by the 'dedication' Yu Xiaogang is putting in for training his son. At the same time, he looked at Yu Xiaogang's injured state.
"Grandmaster, tonight I will kill that child of that dead dog Ordeaz. If it is like you said, that child will be a very troublesome existence if he is allowed to grow." Tang Hao said slowly, there was an oppressive aura around him.
"Your majesty Clear Sky Douluo, isn't it inappropriate for you to take action against a child…?" Yu Xiaogang asked in a hesitant tone.
It's not that he cares about the so called righteousness and unfairness of this matter. But that he's reluctant to give up on Rayne, a potential disciple that can help him attain unprecedented fame.
'According to my speculation, that boy Rayne must definitely be a twin martial soul owner like Xiao San. And his second martial soul's quality must exceed even that of Clear Sky Hammer. If I can convince him to be my disciple…'
As he thought to here, Yu Xiaogang was excited and expectant. He was thinking about how to convince Rayne to accept him as a teacher.
"Even if it brings disgrace to my title and status, I will eliminate this child. He already has a parent killing hatred with me. So he cannot be spared." Tang Hao said adamantly.
Not only was he fully intent on getting rid of Rayne, but also the rest of the family members of the deceased Ordeaz.
Ordeaz, father of Rayne in this life. Level 89 Soul Douluo, formerly a guard and high status subordinate of the former Supreme Pontiff Qian Xunji. This Ordeaz had repeatedly caused serious injuries to Tang Hao when he was chased around by Qian Xunji.
At one point, even his fifth limb was burned a bit by the high temperature flames of Ordeaz.
If not for the miraculous healing abilities of Ah Yin, Tang Hao would have died multiple times due to serious injuries. Even his fifth limb would've been permanently crippled if not for Ah Yin. So, even if Ordeaz is dead now, Tang Hao still has great hatred for him.
Yu Xiaogang was speechless and nervous at Tang Hao's determination to kill Rayne.
Yu Xiaogang: "Your majesty Clear Sky Douluo, maybe we can do things a little differently."
Tang Hao: "…"
Yu Xiaogang continued.
"After Xiao San grows up, he'll definitely try to take revenge on Spirit Hall if he learns about what happened back then. But Spirit Hall isn't your average force. So Xiao San definitely needs powerful allies to help him."
Tang Hao: "You think that brat from Spirit Hall can be Xiao San's ally?"
Yu Xiaogang: "Your majesty Clear Sky Douluo, you seem to have a misconception about that child Rayne. He's not exactly a member of Spirit Hall."
Tang Hao: "…Go on."
Yu Xiaogang: "Back then, Shui Xin'er and Ordeaz were brought together forcibly by Qian Xunji, in an attempt to bind Sky Water Academy and Blazing Academy to Spirit Hall. So there is not much emotional relationship between Shui Xin'er and Ordeaz. I learned that because of this, Shui Xin'er doesn't have a positive view towards the Qian family of Spirit Hall. Her only close relationship in Spirit Hall was with the current Supreme Pontiff Bibi Dong."
Tang Hao: "Get to the point."
Yu Xiaogang took a deep breath and continued.
"After Qian Xunji and Ordeaz died, Shui Xin'er directly quit Spirit Hall and returned to Sky Water Academy. Because of her being essentially a half crippled Soul Saint, Spirit Hall didn't stop her from leaving. So, whether it is Rayne or Shui Xin'er, they aren't exactly members of Spirit Hall."
"So, if I can accept Rayne as a disciple, then I can teach him along with Xiao San to enhance their friendship, thus bringing an ally with powerful potential for your son." Yu Xiaogang said eloquently.
Tang Hao was silent for a moment. After thinking about the viability of Yu Xiaogang's suggestion, he asked.
"Grandmaster, how much guarantee do you have in convincing that child?"
Yu Xiaogang suddenly smiled and said with confidence, as if it wasn't him who was beaten unconscious by Rayne.
"Hundred percent."