Spirit City.
Xiao Wu was truly dumbfounded at this moment.
She looked at Liu Erlong and the others, who were also staring back at her with strange expressions.
Xiao Wu asked, "If you were in my place, would you fall for Tang San?"
Huo Wu said with exasperation, "Don't joke around. Who hasn't heard sweet talk before? What'stepping over my dead body'?
"Even a dog wouldn't believe that!"
Liu Erlong, Jiang Zhu, and Meng Yiran all nodded in agreement. Given their looks, they certainly weren't lacking in suitors back at the academy.
How could they not have heard similar lines?
Xiao Wu said indignantly, "Are you saying I'm worse than a dog?"
Huo Wu's expression turned awkward. She hugged Xiao Wu and replied, "Don't get caught up in the details. From now on, listen to me.
"If anyone dares to bully you, Xiao Wu, they'll have to do it over my dead body. I won't let anyone hurt you."
Xiao Wu said, deeply moved:
"Really?"
"Thank you, Huo Wu. You're such a good sister.
Jiang Zhu suddenly added, "She has her eyes on your spirit ring."
"Ahem."
Liu Erlong and Meng Yiran choked on their laughter.
Huo Wu also burst out laughing. "Liam's writing is still too reserved, way too reserved! Hahaha!"
"You're asking for a beating!"
Xiao Wu finally caught on. The two of them started chasing and play-fighting in the street.
Just as their playful scuffle reached a street corner, Huo Wu suddenly stopped and said:
"Xiao Wu, look over there!"
"That person's... courage is truly impressive, not one bit weaker than Zhuqing's."
"What?"
Xiao Wu ran over and followed her gaze.
In the distance was a girl with exquisite, beautiful features, skin as fair as jade, and a figure so good it seemed against the rules—truly summed up by one word: big.
"Rare,"
Xiao Wu muttered.
They wouldn't have paid attention to this before, but ever since being overshadowed by Zhu Zhuqing, they'd started noticing such things from time to time.
"What are you two looking at?"
Liu Erlong, Jiang Zhu, and Meng Yiran walked over and asked.
"Look over there,"
Huo Wu said.
The three of them looked and were visibly shocked.
So big.
This person actually possessed the courage to rival Zhuqing's. Whose subordinate was she?
"Wait."
Liu Erlong suddenly frowned and said:
"That girl is in danger. Someone is following her."
Huh?
Xiao Wu and the others looked at Liu Erlong, puzzled.
Liu Erlong's expression turned serious.
"You wouldn't notice them. They're two Spirit Emperors over level sixty."
Hearing this, Xiao Wu said:
"Aunt Erlong, should we go help her?"
Huo Wu also nodded emphatically.
Jiang Zhu looked at Liu Erlong and said, "Dean, do you sense any other powerful experts? If there are, we should go to the Spirit Hall for backup first."
Liu Erlong shook her head. "There shouldn't be any others. That girl's strength isn't that high; there wouldn't be experts in their seventies or eighties.
"I can handle it."
"Let's follow from behind for a while and assess the situation. If there are more experts, we'll get backup. If not, we'll intervene."
"Okay!"
Huo Wu spoke up:
"It's fine. This is the central area of Spirit City, and I have a weapon Liam developed."
"One signal flare, and a thousand troops will come to our aid."
As she spoke, she took out a firecracker and showed it to Liu Erlong and the others.
Liu Erlong and the others exclaimed in surprise:
"Where did you get that?"
"Have you already secretly won over Liam?"
Huo Wu pouted. "I wish that were the case.
"Auntie Ling Yuan gave this to me. As long as I'm within the vicinity of Spirit City, if I use this firecracker to send a signal, a Spirit Hall Elder will come to our rescue."
Liu Erlong and the others nodded slightly, their eyes curious. "Your relationship with Spirit Kite Douluo seems really close!"
"What exactly is your connection?"
Huo Wu chuckled. "Well—my father and Auntie Ling Yuan are good friends, similar to Flender and Aunt Erlong."
Oh my goodness.
Liu Erlong and the others were instantly shocked. It really wasn't Liam's fault; this was indeed the Douluo Continent, where simps were everywhere!
Speaking of which, the woman they had spotted was Zhu Zhuyun, who had secretly fled from the Star Luo Empire. Unfortunately for Zhu Zhuyun, Zhu Zhuqing happened to be absent.
As for those following her, they were people sent later to bring her back.
Meanwhile, Zhu Zhuqing was having a tough time.
She had completely collapsed into Liam's arms.
"Sis... Sister Lengleng."
"I want... I want to switch places with you."
"Oh."
Ye Lingling, who had been admiring the scenery below, heard Zhu Zhuqing's plea and, without a second thought, swapped places with her, sitting down in front of Liam.
Thus,
the seating arrangement became: Ye Lingling at the very front, Liam behind her, followed by Bibi Dong, Zhu Zhuqing, Gu Yuena, Zi Ji, Ah Yin, and Bi Ji.
Ye Lingling hadn't yet realized the severity of the situation!
Thump.
As soon as she switched seats, she realized Liam was... still driving.
And driving with both hands.
So that's how it was. No wonder Zhuqing wanted to switch seats—he was being mischievous.
Ye Lingling blushed and lowered her head.
If it were just Liam, Bibi Dong, and Hu Liena, it might have been fine. But with Gu Yuena and the other three present as well, she couldn't exactly react.
But things weren't looking good.
Although the Phoenix-Tailed Crested Serpent was fast, the distance to the seaport was considerable. Bored, Liam decided to rant—no,
to write something good.
[The road is long. Besides driving, all I can do is write in my Diary.]
[I've ranted about Xiao Wu so much, I've decided to praise her a little. Personally, I think before meeting Tang San, Xiao Wu was actually decent—loyal, capable, daring to stand up for injustice and defend her classmates.]
[After meeting Tang San, aside from her looks, she seemed to have nothing left. Always picking fights and causing trouble; the only way to describe her is absurd, utterly absurd.]
[But then again, later on, even after Xiao Wu died, finally ending her life as an accessory, reincarnating into another world and starting a new life, Tang San still clung to her?]
[If I were Xiao Wu, I'd tell Tang San: You've been pestering me for tens of thousands of years. Wasn't loving you until my death enough? I've been reborn; must you still interfere with my life?]
"Pfft."
Bibi Dong couldn't help but burst out laughing when she read this.
Funny.
So much fun.
Well, that's what Liam wanted to say.
Ye Lingling was struggling to hold back!
[Strictly speaking, without Tang San, Xiao Wu could have lived her own life.]
[Before meeting Tang San, Xiao Wu was quite cautious, deliberately choosing remote rural areas. After all, even the son of the Nuoding City lord had a white spirit ring—surely there were no experts there who could expose her, right?]
[Following that pace, with her talent, she could have laid low for eight or ten years and reached maturity without issue.]
[Of course, that would be a different life. Becoming a god would be impossible, but breaking through to Titled Douluo and living freely on the Douluo Continent for a few hundred years would have been doable.]
[That kind of life would have spared her from following Tang San, dying and reviving over and over, giving birth to a daughter only for Tang San to mess things up with chastity locks and splitting her apart.]
[As I've said before, Tang San could manage without Yu Xiaogang, but without Xiao Wu, he'd truly be useless.]
[Xiao Wu brought Da Ming and Er Ming, contributing three sets of hundred-thousand-year spirit rings and Spirit Bones. Even Tang San's mother would feel ashamed in comparison!]