25: C25 Blue Silver King,
Soft Bone Charming Rabbits were herbivores with low standards for food.
To them, the ubiquitous Blue Silver Grass was a natural delicacy.
You prepared in secret, ready to fight if Xiao Wu really wanted to make you her extra meal.
Xiao Wu’s mother, however, had some insight.
Although she didn’t know the specific age classification and level of the Blue Silver Grass clan, she could tell from your extraordinary appearance alone that you were no ordinary Blue Silver Grass—and that your age was considerable.
She guessed that you had already developed intelligence and persuaded Xiao Wu to give up the idea of eating you.
Xiao Wu reluctantly gazed at your dazzling blue-gold leaves shimmering in the sunlight.
In the end, under her mother’s persuasion, she walked away with many backward glances.
You breathed a sigh of relief and continued to seize every moment to cultivate, preparing for the breakthrough to the hundred-thousand-year mark.
Moreover, if you chose to transform into human form, you would face another problem.
After transforming into human form, you would be a fragile child.
Forget about reaching the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well—even surviving long enough to leave the Star Dou Forest would be uncertain.
Your subjects were only ordinary Blue Silver Grass—they had no intelligence, and their combat power was negligible.
They couldn’t possibly protect you.
After a hundred-thousand-year soul beast transformed into human form, it was extremely vulnerable.
Without companions to protect it, survival was very difficult.
…
Another month passed.
During this month, Xiao Wu would occasionally run over, squat at the base of the cliff, drool while staring at you, and satisfy her cravings by simply looking.
And you had finally made up your mind—your target was Xiao Wu and her mother.
After all, in the original story, Xiao Wu’s mother was a being so kind she bordered on saintly.
She had sheltered the Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape, and had even let a human soul master go after he accidentally entered the core area and discovered her identity—ultimately leading to her death at the hands of the Spirit Hall.
You looked down at Xiao Wu, who had been staring at you all this time, and finally spoke: “Stop staring.
You’re drooling again.”
In truth, you were already craving spicy rabbit head, but for the sake of your plan, you forcibly kept your tone calm.
Xiao Wu’s rabbit eyes widened as she looked around frantically, thinking a human soul master had arrived.
“Stop looking.
I’m up here.” You used your spirit to condense an illusory spiritual projection—a young boy with blue-gold hair, androgynously beautiful features, exceptionally delicate.
“You’re that Blue Silver Grass?” Xiao Wu was even more incredulous, and a flash of admiration crossed her eyes.
You nodded slightly and asked, “I have something to discuss with your mother.
Could you deliver a message for me?”
Xiao Wu looked at you in a daze, about to agree readily, when suddenly her eyes darted slyly and she said, “Hmm…”
“I’m not opposed to helping you, but I don’t do it for free…”
In the end, you paid the price of one of your leaves to secure her help.
If Xiao Wu’s mother hadn’t stopped coming after she discovered you had intelligence, you wouldn’t have had to take the initiative to ask Xiao Wu for help.
Watching Xiao Wu leave while licking your blue-gold leaf, you felt a bit unsettled.
As the Blue Silver King, your main body was your roots.
Your leaves were equivalent to human hair—as long as you didn’t lose too many, it wouldn’t affect you much.
Before long, Xiao Wu returned with her mother.
After you explained your current predicament and request, Xiao Wu’s mother agreed without hesitation.
After making your arrangements, Xiao Wu’s mother left with Xiao Wu, who was still clutching and licking your leaf.
You began cultivating with all your might, breaking through to a hundred thousand years…
Because you chose to transform into human form, the heavenly tribulation did not descend.
Your massive original body began to dissipate, transforming into pale limbs, torso, and head.
Your hundred-thousand-year cultivation base converted into the foundation of your human form.
Your martial soul was Blue Silver King, with innate full soul power.
Finally, you completed your transformation!
You became a boy with blue-gold hair and eyes, delicate and exquisitely featured.
Xiao Wu’s mother, as promised, took you under her protection, sheltering your newly transformed human form in the Star Dou Forest.
Before long, Xiao Wu also transformed into human form.
The three of you lived together at the edge of the Life Lake.
One day, an injured human soul master accidentally wandered into this core area and witnessed humans (transformed hundred-thousand-year soul beasts) and soul beasts coexisting in harmony.
Xiao Wu’s mother calmed down the Azure Bull Python, who wanted to kill the intruder, and intended to let him go.
You warned her that this human soul master had discovered something amiss.
If she let him go, it could bring other Titled Douluo to hunt you all down.
After all, transformed hundred-thousand-year soul beasts in human form were easier to hunt than other hundred-thousand-year soul beasts.
You wanted to protect Xiao Wu’s mother for two reasons: first, you actually liked her—she had helped you; second, as a fellow soul beast with great compassion, she would do her utmost to protect you and was your current pillar of support.
To make your point, you even brought up Xiao Wu.
If they were exposed and Titled Douluo came to hunt them, what would happen to Xiao Wu, a newly transformed, weak soul beast?
They wouldn’t spare her either.
Hearing this, Xiao Wu’s mother, who had been resolute about letting the man go, hesitated.
Her kindness made her unwilling to harm others, but her maternal instinct made her want to protect her child and eliminate any potential threat.
Unable to decide whether to release or kill the man, Xiao Wu’s mother could only imprison him for the time being.
But the next morning, the man was gone.
Xiao Wu came in happily holding a sparkling hairpin, asking her mother to braid her hair.
That soul master had tricked Xiao Wu—a naive little girl who looked easy to fool—into letting him go…
You looked at the warm woman before you.
“You will regret this.”
Xiao Wu’s actions might have fooled you, a “child” who hadn’t even started cultivating, but they absolutely couldn’t fool this woman who had reached Soul Emperor level.
You couldn’t understand her reasoning, and you finally understood what it meant to have a teammate who was dead weight.
The woman just smiled.
“I don’t want my daughter to think I’m a bad person.”
You knew that before long, this soul master would return with people from the Spirit Hall.
After some futile persuasion, you decided to leave the Star Dou Forest.
Looking back at this kind, gentle woman, you knew she was doomed.
Unless the ferocious beasts deep within the Life Lake intervened, no one could save her.
But those ferocious beasts wouldn’t act.
They hadn’t even stirred when the Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape were near death—why would they come to save a transformed hundred-thousand-year Soft Bone Charming Rabbit?