Chapter 152

Xiaowu?

Hearing this name, Zhou Heng was stunned for a moment; he first thought of a certain hundred-thousand-year-old hooligan rabbit, and only then realized this was the name of the dragon-human girl before him.

On the Douluo Continent, it is actually normal for commoners to have no surnames.

For example, Old Jack, the village chief of Holy Soul Village in the original work, is one such case.

He is just called Jack; he has no surname, and even his name is passed down from generation to generation.

The small one is called Little Jack, the young one is called Jack, and the old one is called Old Jack.

If there is a brother, then a number is added, changing it to Big Jack or Second Jack.

This kind of thing is actually quite normal, it's just that Zhou Heng, no matter what, was born into a noble family in this life, having a surname and a clan, so he was a bit unaccustomed to it.

"My mother had no surname. She said that when she had just awakened her martial soul at six years old, she was abducted by human traffickers and given to an old man. The old man toyed with my mother for a year, then had people dispose of her.

My mother ran away secretly, and when she ran, she was already pregnant with me.

After returning home, she passed away not long after giving birth to me, and my grandparents didn't like me very much either.

After I awakened my martial soul, I became a monster, and then a few days later, my grandparents sold me to the village chief, and then the village chief sold me again to a noble master in the city. I escaped under the cover of night and wandered in the forest.

I don't know what happened, but later I was caught by a group of Spirit Masters and then sent into an auction house?"

If not for the accident during her martial soul awakening, the term "auction house" should not have appeared in her world; even now, she didn't quite understand what kind of place an auction house was.

"I am really not some monster, I don't have, there is nothing to study!"

The girl named Xiaowu was a bit agitated, but she didn't dare to let it out, and could only repeat over and over that she was not a monster.

Just at this moment, the little tail following behind finally couldn't help but jump out.

Ning Rongrong, wearing pink clothes, pretended she had just happened to pass by, walked out from behind the door elegantly, came to the side of Xiaowu and Zhou Heng, and greeted the group.

Seeing Ning Rongrong appear, Xiaowu looked as if she had seen a savior, her eyes filled with tears as she looked at Ning Rongrong. Although her body could already fit several Ning Rongrongs and looked much more mature than the current Ning Rongrong.

Yet she still gave people the feeling of a poor little puppy about to be abandoned.

Ning Rongrong stood next to Xiaowu and reached out to pat Xiaowu's, uh, buttocks or tailbone? It counted as comforting the agitated Xiaowu.

Watching this scene, Zhou Heng explained with a wry smile: "I don't think you are some monster; I am just a little curious. I think I should have a way to solve your condition and let you cultivate like a normal Spirit Master."

After hearing Zhou Heng's words, Bone Douluo's expression changed slightly, and the look in his eyes as he watched Zhou Heng was somewhat intrigued.

Although he was also a Spirit Master with a dragon-type martial soul, he wouldn't dare say he could cure this young girl's problem.

A top-tier dragon martial soul plus innate level nine soul power plus a martial soul mutation—this talent was already slightly stronger than his own had been back then.

If it could really be cured, allowing her to recover her ability to cultivate, that would be a seedling for a Protector Douluo. It would also be perfect for her to become his disciple.

Hearing that her problem could be solved, Xiaowu immediately became excited.

For her, her current appearance was the root of everything.

She had thought more than once about cutting off the parts of her body that were different from normal people, and had even taken action.

But even if she endured the intense pain to pull out the scales on her body, the scales would grow back again. As for the tail behind her that felt like her own leg, she wished she could pull it off directly, yet she was afraid she would die or become disabled because of it.

"Come, give me your hand." Zhou Heng smiled at Xiaowu. Xiaowu looked at Ning Rongrong to the side, and after Ning Rongrong nodded, she cautiously raised her arm covered in scales.

Zhou Heng gripped Xiaowu's pulse, slowly injecting the soul power and spiritual power within his own body into Xiaowu's, feeling her condition.

Zhou Heng had encountered many Beast Spirit masters using Martial Soul Avatar, but this was the first time Zhou Heng had seen this kind of situation.

These dragon-like parts on Xiaowu's body were no longer purely a martial soul, but a part of her body that had grown under the guidance of the martial soul.

If it were when the martial soul had just awakened, Zhou Heng might have been able to remove them all.

But over these years, these dragon-like parts had become flesh and blood in the truest sense; forcibly eliminating them would be no different from cutting one's feet to fit the shoes, doing more harm than good.

And as his soul power and spiritual power entered the dantian area, Zhou Heng finally understood why she couldn't cultivate.

Her current state was somewhat special; she didn't look much like a Spirit Master, but rather a bit like a Spirit Beast.

The mutated part of her martial soul caused her to be unable to actively absorb external soul power like a Spirit Master and store it in her dantian, but the human part of her body caused her to be unable to increase her level through the passage of time like a Spirit Beast.

She was currently in an awkward state of being neither here nor there; the bug in her martial soul and her body structure formed a new bug, and her ability to stay alive was entirely thanks to this bug.

If the structure were damaged, it was very likely she would die right then and there.

However, as it happened, Zhou Heng already had some experience with things like fixing bugs.

After all, since coming to this world, Zhou Heng seemed to have been moving forward with the goal of fixing bugs.

He hadn't looked at all those secret manuals in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well for nothing; although restricted by the rules of the Douluo World and unable to manifest them directly, they were still important wealth.

The Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower and the Fiery Apricot Delicate, the fire-attribute laws contained within them were already more than enough for him to handle the current matter.

Zhou Heng used his Extreme Fire soul power to slowly inject it into Xiaowu's dantian, gathering and purifying the fire dragon power within her body, then secretly used his Spirit Eye to imprint his own mark inside Xiaowu's body, directly correcting the origin of her martial soul.

Martial Soul: I think I'm going to collapse!

Zhou Heng: I don't think you will.

With Xiaowu's current ability, she couldn't feel it at all even after being marked by Zhou Heng.

As of now, all the conditions within her body no longer belonged to her, but to Zhou Heng.

If her martial soul and body wanted to collapse, they would have to ask Zhou Heng if he agreed first.

With Zhou Heng's current capacity, controlling a martial soul origin that didn't even reach the level of a Spirit Master was simply too easy.

Under Zhou Heng's manipulation, the origin of the fire dragon martial soul was activated, and the impurities were removed.

The phenomenon manifested externally was that Xiaowu's body trembled, her face flushed, she kept emitting soft moans, the pair of dragon horns on her head emitted a crimson light, and a faint dragon might surged from within her body.

Zhou Heng opened his hand and withdrew his soul power and spiritual power.

Xiaowu's body swayed slightly, and just when it looked like she was about to fall, she was supported by Ning Rongrong at her side.

Although there was a big difference in build between Ning Rongrong and Xiaowu, Ning Rongrong was a Great Soul Master after all; although the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda did not increase one's own attributes, there was no problem at all in supporting Xiaowu after enhancing her body with soul power.