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Aquipeia Forest.
Endless and lush, a verdant expanse for miles around, this was the paradise of soul beasts.
Luo Yu strolled through the forest.
As if an emperor on an outing, surrounded by six uniquely graceful and stunning beauties.
After observing for some time, Zhu Zhuqing made a peculiar discovery.
The surrounding soul beasts all kept their distance from them, not daring to approach.
She couldn't help but curiously glance at the handsome young man beside her.
"Brother Yu, why does it feel like all the soul beasts around us are afraid of us?"
Ning Rongrong nodded along.
"I've noticed it, too. Brother Yu, what's going on?"
Luo Yu just shrugged with a smile.
"Not really, are you sure you aren't feeling it wrong?"
"How could we feel it wrong?"
Zhu Zhuqing pouted, pointing towards the huge canopy of an ancient tree beside them.
There, hidden away, was a spotted leopard.
Logically, that leopard should have already pounced to attack, but now it was trembling behind the tree, watching them warily and full of dread, as if fearful of something unknown.
Luo Yu chuckled, "Perhaps it is wise and senses the strength of our team, so it doesn't dare to come any closer."
"Just keep bluffing,"
Zhu Zhuqing rolled her alluring eyes at Luo Yu.
"None of us have deliberately released our Soul Power aura. How can it possibly judge whether we're strong or not?"
"It also wouldn't be this scared."
"And it's not the only soul beast to have shown fear on our way here."
Hearing Zhu Zhuqing's analysis, Ye Lingling and Zhu Zhuyun also curiously leaned their heads in closer.
Luo Yu spoke mysteriously, "Do you want to know what's going on?"
"Mhm, mhm."
Apart from Ah Wu Mother and Daughter, the four girls all nodded in unison.
"Then come closer, I'll tell you."
The one man and four women formed a circle, and Luo Yu could even smell the unique scent of each woman.
Luo Yu whispered.
"Actually, you know, I have a bit of a reputation in Star Dou Forest. These soul beasts see me passing by and give me some face, so they don't attack us."
"Pfft..."
The women hissed, instantly dispersing.
Zhu Zhuqing curled her red lips, too exasperated to retort, "Brother Yu, could you make up something a bit more believable? This just sounds too fake."
Zhu Zhuyun simultaneously rolled her eyes in a flirtatious manner.
"Exactly. If you're going to tease us, at least make it sound real. Even if you were a Titled Douluo, soul beasts wouldn't just give you face like that."
Ning Rongrong chimed in, "Brother Yu, if you said you were famous in the human world, we would definitely believe you. But famous in the world of soul beasts, we can't believe it even if you killed us."
Ye Lingling laughed and lightly scolded.
"You three are really something. Brother Yu is just joking with us; why must you take it so seriously? Do you want to get spanked?"
"Sigh."
Luo Yu shook his head and sighed, spreading his hands in a gesture of helplessness.
"You're the ones who asked me, and when I tell you the truth, you don't believe me."
"Brother Yu, take a look at me," Ning Rongrong said.
Luo Yu was puzzled. "Look at you for what?"
"Do I look like a fool to you?" Ning Rongrong pursed her peachy lips. "I'm not that easy to fool, okay?"
Luo Yu's face was lined with frustration.
He had been mindful not to scare the girls and purposely kept his explanation low key.
But no one believed him, and they all took it as a joke.
That was rather awkward...
"Giggle, giggle."
Zhu Zhuyun covered her mouth to hide her laughter, teasing and mocking him.
"Master, I've heard there are two supreme rulers among the soul beasts of Aquipeia Forest, one is the Titan Ape, and the other is the Azure Oxpython."
"According to what you said, should they consider you a brother after swearing fealty to you?"
Just as Luo Yu was about to speak,
Ning Rongrong playfully interrupted, "Those two little soul beasts of the brother level, how could they be worthy of being Brother Yu's brothers? It would be pretty good if they could be his little brothers."
"Brother Yu, am I right, heeheehee?"
Luo Yu glared.
Ning Rongrong thought the man was about to get angry and lash out.
Timidly shrinking her snow-white neck, she quickly cooed in an attempt to soften him.
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"Brother Yu, Rongrong was just joking, you can't get mad and scold her, okay?"
"I'm not angry with you," Luo Yu shook his head, "I just didn't expect you girl to guess so accurately, those two guys really are my little brothers."
Several beautiful girls' eyes flickered, and there was a sudden silence.
After thinking a bit, Luo Yu corrected himself:
"Actually, to be strict, they aren't exactly my little brothers. There is a ferocious beast that rules over them, so it would be more appropriate to say they are like my brothers amongst brothers."
"Eh..."
Ning Rongrong reached out her small hand to touch the man's forehead, her eyes showing bewilderment, "Strange, Brother Yu you don't have a fever, so why are you suddenly talking nonsense?"
Zhu Zhuyun looked at the fiery beauty with the baby face beside her, "Sister, have you learned it yet?"
"Learned what?"
Zhu Zhuyun smiled slightly, "Talking nonsense with a straight face; I think I still need to learn from the master."
"With that poise, that confident tone-of-voice, even if I knew it was fake, I almost believed it."
"Pfft!"
The cheongsam-clad beauty really did not want to laugh, but she couldn't hold it in any longer.
She had been quietly watching for quite a while.
Seeing the man telling nothing but the truth, yet being treated like the big bluff, she found it very amusing.
Xiaowu also covered her mouth, trying to hold back her giggles.
Luo Yu gave the beautiful mother and daughter a speechless glare.
"Hey, the two of you just pick up laughs over there, don't you? You don't even come over to help me clear things up, to be witnesses."
Xiaowu moved her silky legs clad in stockings as she walked over.
Luo Yu thought she was going to bear witness for him, but soon the corner of his mouth twitched.
Because this woman was obviously here to muddle the waters even more.
Xiaowu stood with the girls, looking set for a "shared enemy" stance.
"Brother Yu, it's not that the sisters don't believe you, it's just that what you've concocted is too preposterous."
"If a soul beast overlord could be your little brother, then wouldn't my mother and I have to be hundred-thousand-year soul beasts of the Aquipeia Forest to make sense?"
"Am I right, sisters?" Xiaowu's charming eyes sparkled with mischief as she chimed in teasingly.
"Exactly, exactly."
"Xiaowu is right."
"Brother Yu, what you made up is too outrageous."
Ning Rongrong and the other girls, chiming in one after another, saw the man looking deflated and seemed to have found a source of joy, continuously letting out playful and endearing laughter.
Luo Yu had given up struggling.
Now, if he were to claim Xiao Wu and her mother were soul beasts, he guessed the girls would say he was even more preposterous, more fantastical.
The girls laughed for a while, but when they saw Luo Yu with a dejected expression,
the smiles froze, and they nervously crowded around him.
Ning Rongrong hugged the man's arm and affectionately rubbed against it, "Brother Yu, don't be down, we all know you were just joking earlier."
Zhu Zhuyun came over to hug his other arm, pressing her voluptuous form against him unabashedly, "Master, we won't laugh anymore, won't you stop being angry, please?"
Zhu Zhuqing also ran over to placate him.
"Maybe we got a bit too excited on our first trip out with Brother Yu, truly a bit carried away; we were really just playing with you."
Luo Yu said irritably, "What is this, do I look like such a petty person?"
Ning Rongrong shook the man's arm and playfully stuck out her tongue, "Hehe, I knew Brother Yu is the best. We won't use you as our joke next time."
Luo Yu said numbly, "I'll say it one last time; everything I said just now is true. Do you believe me?"
Ning Rongrong instantly replied.
"Yes!"
"I believe!"
"I believe too!"
Luo Yu's face instantly fell.
The girls' tone sounded just like they were placating a child.
In their eyes, there was an unmistakably patronizing look, their faces clearly written with disbelief.
Ning Rongrong laughed, "Brother Yu, see, now we all believe you."
After all, they were young girls, bursting forth with high spirits the moment they were out.
Luo Yu indicated he didn't want to talk and silently added these "despicable" girls to the chat's "blacklist".
Watching the man's aggrieved little look, the cheongsam-clad beauty kept laughing beside him, her luscious lips bright and tempting like a blooming rose, dazzling and seductive, inviting a kiss.
"Boom boom boom!!"
Far away, the birds in the forest were startled into flight, the ground was shaking violently.
A horrific surge of energy spread.
It seemed as if some terrifying creature was approaching rapidly from a distance.
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The update is late again, I owe you all an apology; I've been a bit too tired recently, my spine is uncomfortable, but the five chapters will be late, but they won't be skipped.