This outcome made Xiao Wu beam with joy, grinning from ear to ear. She vaguely guessed the reason behind it.
She bounced happily over to Zhao Ling and planted a loud kiss on his cheek, leaving him completely baffled.
After the two returned to the mansion, the soul ring configuration released by Xiao Wu made Ah Yin and Xiao Rou so envious their eyes turned red.
Both of them had started from Level 10 after transforming into humans from hundred-thousand-year soul beasts and had to slowly cultivate up.
But this child Xiao Wu directly started at Level 37, and her second soul ring was already a thousand-year soul ring — talk about a great deal!
Ah Yin even gave Zhao Ling a resentful look, wondering why he hadn't found her before she took human form. If he had given her one of those pills, who knows how high her soul power would be by now?
Of course, she also knew that even if her husband had found her before she transformed and had a transformation pill, she wouldn't have been able to take it.
After all, before she took human form, she was just a Blue Silver Emperor plant without even a mouth — how could she possibly take a pill?
What would he do, melt it in water and pour it on her roots for absorption? What if such a precious pill had no effect?
As the peaceful days passed, the relationships between Zhao Ling, Xiao Rou, Xiao Wu, and even Tang Wutong grew closer day by day.
Xiao Rou, Xiao Wu, and Tang Wutong all found themselves increasingly unable to be apart from Zhao Ling and even wanted to take the initiative to get closer to him.
Among them, Xiao Wu was the most forward. She had always been in rabbit form before and loved being held in her mother's arms.
Now she preferred being cuddled by Zhao Ling instead.
And on the day she transformed, she already thought Zhao Ling looked incredibly handsome and couldn't resist kissing him on the cheek and lips — and her mother didn't scold her for it.
So now, this girl shamelessly took advantage of Zhao Ling with no psychological burden at all.
Tang Wutong, seeing her own mother snuggled up in Zhao Ling's arms all the time, began to imitate her and tried to dive into his embrace as well.
She couldn't help it. After all, she had been summoned into this world by Zhao Ling using a character summon card, which gave her an initial favorability rating of over 60. With the effect of "Lady Killer Lv.1", it jumped to over 80.
After spending time with him, her affection had soared past 90. Compared to Xiao Wu, she had an even stronger desire to get close to Zhao Ling.
But every time she tried to jump into his arms, Xiao Rou would grab her by the back of the collar and sternly warn her:
"Xiao Qi, you're still too young. Don't imitate your mother throwing herself at Brother Ling. It's not appropriate."
Of course, even though Xiao Rou said that, when she looked at Xiao Wu in Zhao Ling's arms, her eyes were full of envy, jealousy, and frustration.
She actually wanted to snuggle into Zhao Ling's embrace too. But as a widow, taking the initiative like that didn't feel quite right.
Over the past ten days or so, Sister Yin and Sister Long had been trying to talk her into "sharing the burden" with them.
Xiao Rou was somewhat shocked. According to Sister Yin and Sister Long, even when they teamed up, they were often defeated and overwhelmed by Zhao Ling — and that wasn't even his full strength.
It was said that Zhao Ling had once single-handedly crushed three elite fighters, including them, forcing one of them to flee in disgrace all the way back to Sea god Island.
Xiao Rou had been living alone with her child in Star Dou Forest for several years. With ah Yin and Erlong constantly working on her, it was only a matter of time before she gave in to temptation.
Then one day, Zhao Ling left the mansion, saying he was going to Spirit Hall for a few days. Naturally, Ah Yin and Liu Erlong knew he was going there to spend time with Sister Dong'er.
He ended up being gone for five full days, and Xiao Rou felt like every day without him was as long as a year.
Finally, on the 22nd day after Xiao Wu's transformation, Zhao Ling returned.
What stood out most was that all the women noticed Zhao Ling seemed even more handsome than before and significantly more attractive.
Indeed, on this trip to Spirit Hall, Zhao Ling had complained a bit to the system and received a slight increase in his appearance, along with a 20-point boost in his Charm stat.
As a result, Zhao Ling's attractiveness increased from 90 to 91, and the passive skill "Lady Killer Lv.1" upgraded to "Lady Killer Lv.2".
[Lady Killer Lv.2 (Passive): Activated when Charm reaches 400%. With this passive, the user's first impression on unfamiliar women increases favorability by 30% and reduces negative impressions by 30%. Long-term interactions with women also become significantly more effective than at Lv.1.]
The most noticeable effect of Lady Killer Lv.2 was that as soon as Ah Yin and Liu Erlong saw Zhao Ling return, they couldn't help but rush into his arms and kiss both sides of his cheeks like crazy.
They looked like cats who'd just smelled catnip. Zhao Ling was kissed so aggressively that he felt overwhelmed and hurriedly called out in his mind:
"System! System, get out here! Can you optimize the Lady Killer Lv.2 effect? Yin'er and Long'er are going crazy!"
Before the system even responded, Xiao Wu squeezed in and dived into Zhao Ling's embrace, kissing him greedily on the lips.
With three women kissing him at once, Zhao Ling started to question his very existence. To make it worse, the other maids in the courtyard were all staring at him with hungry eyes, sending chills down his spine.
He roared again in his mind:
"You damned system! Don't play dead! If you don't optimize this Lady Killer Lv.2 skill right now, I swear I'll fight you to the death! Don't push me!"
Perhaps realizing Zhao Ling was truly serious this time, the system interface finally popped up:
[Due to the host's strong personal will, the system will now optimize the Lady Killer Lv.2 effect. After optimization, the effect will only apply to women the host has genuine affection for and will be weakened for women who are already intimate with the host, converting into deep, unwavering love instead.]
[Optimizing Lady Killer Lv.2... 3, 2, 1... Optimization complete.]
After the optimization completed, Zhao Ling noticed that the greedy gazes from all directions were gone, replaced by respectful looks.
He let out a sigh of relief. Ah Yin and Liu Erlong blinked in confusion and simultaneously let go of him.
They felt puzzled. Just a moment ago, they were utterly mesmerized by how handsome their husband looked — he seemed like the most attractive man in the world, and they had desperately wanted to claim him as theirs alone.
Both of them shuddered, realizing their previous thoughts had been a bit too insane.
If they had really tried to monopolize Zhao Ling, they would probably be the ones crying later. After all, their husband's insane physical stamina was just... terrifying.