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Spring departed and summer arrived; the joy of summer vacation was fast approaching.
Roughly four months had passed since the start of the term, and it was now July. During this time, while Xiao Lin and Tang San were busy researching Soul Tools, they hadn't let their cultivation progress slip much.
Currently, Xiao Lin is at Rank 25, Tang San is at Rank 23.5, and Xiao Wu is at Rank 24. Both Xiao Lin and Xiao Wu had risen by two ranks, while Tang San had only risen by one and a half.
This was because Tang San not only needed to forge metal but also had to manufacture Soul Tools.
Now that the summer break was starting, both Xiao Lin and Tang San prepared to head home. They planned to use the Mutated Evil Eye Demon Tree to train their mental power. If nothing else, that mutated tree's mental paralysis control was quite formidable.
Inside Room Seven.
Xiao Lin and Tang San were packing their clothes, while Xiao Wu sat alone on the bed, looking dejected. She kicked her legs back and forth, watching them. Since all three were now Soul Grandmasters, it would be difficult for them to reach Rank 30 by the next holiday.
Therefore, Xiao Wu didn't feel the need to go home yet to secretly arrange Soul Beasts for them. Moreover, for Xiao Wu, as great as the Star Dou Forest was, it wasn't as fun as being by their side—even if Xiao Lin occasionally knocked her on the head and called her a "stupid rabbit."
Watching Xiao Lin and Tang San prepare to go home made Xiao Wu think of her mother. They both had families to return to, but she didn't. Furthermore, the training sessions with Da Ming and Er Ming were simply too painful; even now, the thought made her a bit fearful.
Gravity Domain plus Slowness Domain...
She clearly said she would practice for one hour, yet Da Ming and Er Ming kept adding more time and increasing the gravity.
"Xiao Wu, holiday starts tomorrow. Aren't you going home?"
Tang San, who slept in the bed next to Xiao Wu's, noticed her expression.
She looked completely different from her usual lively and cheerful self, so he asked out of curiosity. During the last break, Xiao Wu had been very eager to go home. Upon hearing Tang San's words, Xiao Wu's face instantly pulled into a grimace.
Go back to the Star Dou Forest just to be trained by Da Ming and Er Ming?
That was way too tiring, and there wasn't even any good food there.
"I'm not going home. Hey! Little San, isn't your and Brother Lin's home very close to the school? How about I go to your place?"
Xiao Wu had been somber just a second ago, but in an instant, her eyes lit up and she became excited. She was very impulsive, acting on whatever thought popped into her head.
"My house is very small; there's only one bed," Tang San said hesitantly.
Would they have to share a bed again? Men and women should maintain proper distance.
Besides, if Xiao Wu was there, his progress in researching Soul Tools would surely fall behind. This was Tang San's real concern. Over the months of research, he had discovered an objective law: his efficiency was much higher when working with Xiao Lin.
When they were tired and resting in the basement, Xiao Lin would chat about strange topics—random bits of astronomy, the political relationship between the Heaven Dou Empire and the Star Luo Empire, and critiques of the Heaven Dou Empire's feudal slave society.
Fortunately, at the end of it all, Xiao Lin would discuss development directions for Soul Tools.
By now, Tang San had already built two Soul Tools.
The first was the Azure Steel Sword Soul Tool, forged using the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer Technique. It featured complex formation circuits engraved within, resulting in a ten-year offensive soul skill Soul Tool.
When soul power is channeled into it, the tool transforms the energy into a sharp blade. For Soul Masters with poor soul power control or Support System Soul Masters, it was an excellent tool.
Tang San had originally intended to give it to Xiao Wu so her second soul skill could have a qualitative leap. With the Azure Steel Sword's offensive skill, she would essentially have a "Blade of Thunder."
However, Xiao Wu didn't like the sword; she preferred the idea of a Soul Tool that could hide blades inside her shoes so she could catch opponents off guard. Nevertheless, as the first Soul Tool Tang San ever made—and a gift for her—she accepted it.
The second Soul Tool was a defensive one in the shape of an umbrella.
It was very small, only about ten centimeters. When opened and infused with soul power, it would project an umbrella-shaped shield in front of the user. Its power was also at the level of a ten-year defensive soul skill.
Xiao Lin, however, had labeled this tool "tasteless"—meaning it was useless to eat but a pity to throw away. Eventually, Tang San sold it to the Soul Master Su Yuntao. He later heard that Su Yuntao gave the tool to a girl named Si Si.
A simp!
This was the first time Tang San clearly understood what Xiao Lin meant by the term "simp." He had originally thought it was just because Su Yuntao's Martial Soul was a Lone Wolf.
If Tang San were to stay with Xiao Wu, all he could imagine were the nights in Room Seven where she would greedily ask him for snacks or tell him which shops had the best treats.
"Zero nutritional value," was Tang San's internal evaluation.
As his thoughts raced, cold sweat actually began to break out on his forehead.
"It doesn't matter. I, your Sister Xiao Wu, am not afraid; what are you afraid of?" Xiao Wu had very little human sense of shame.
She saw nothing wrong with a young girl and a boy sharing a room alone.
"But I am afraid!" Tang San blurted out with the bluntness of a straight man.
A second later, he realized he had misspoken. By the time he looked at Xiao Wu, she was already lunging at him with claws out.
"Ahhh!"
"Little San, there's no harm in Xiao Wu coming home with us. It's a good chance for her to train her mental power as well."
Xiao Lin had been watching their "plot interaction" for a while and stepped in to invite her. Xiao Wu's relationship with them was quite good now; she had officially entered his and Tang San's inner circle. All that was missing was a formal title.
Furthermore, Xiao Lin kept the fact that Xiao Wu helped them find Soul Beasts in his heart.
He had also gained inspiration for the Soul Core cultivation method from her words—concepts like rotational compression, gravitational compression, using treasures to activate elemental attributes to aid condensation, and using mental power to interfere with soul power rotation...
Since Xiao Wu had made these contributions, Xiao Lin no longer treated her as an outsider.
"Great! Brother Lin is still the best." Hearing Xiao Lin's words, Xiao Wu bounced off the bed and immediately started packing her things.
Night fell.
The bright moonlight shone down on a patch of grass in Holy Soul Village.
Xiao Lin, Tang San, and Xiao Wu were huddled together, looking excitedly at three small cups of wine before them.
"Brother Lin, what is this for?" Although Tang San and Xiao Wu knew what Xiao Lin was about to do, they still voiced their confusion at his strange movements.
"It's nothing. I'm just drawing a figure to act as a witness." Xiao Lin looked at the "Chibi-style" Guan Yu he had drawn on the grass and smiled proudly.
"Alright. Once we drink this wine, we will be three siblings. Witnessed by Heaven and Earth, the Moon, and him—no one shall ever part us." Xiao Lin raised his small bowl high and looked at Tang San and Xiao Wu.
"Good! From now on, we are siblings."
"Wait, I'm Sister Xiao Wu!" Xiao Wu suddenly interrupted.
"Forget it! You're a silly rabbit and the youngest. You want to flip the natural order?" Xiao Lin gave her a stern look, making Xiao Wu cover her head in mock fear.
Even though his knocks didn't hurt, she just didn't like being hit.
"I, Xiao Lin."
"I, Tang San."
"I, Xiao Wu."
"From this day forth, we become sworn siblings. We seek not to have been born on the same day, month, or year, but we seek to die on the same day, month, and year."
"Second Brother Little San, Third Sister Xiao Wu."
"Big Brother Xiao Lin, Third Sister Xiao Wu."
"Big Brother Xiao Lin, Second Brother Little San."
As they spoke, a wave of awkwardness washed over the three of them.
Addressing each other like his felt a bit silly. Fortunately, in the end, their usual nicknames didn't really change, except that Xiao Wu began calling Tang San "Third Brother."
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