Zhu Zhuqing

Among the countless planes, powers related to time were all supreme powers.

The Sea God Trident's second move, Thousand Years of Emptiness, could only make an opponent feel as though they had experienced the passage of countless years. Yet that single effect related to time was enough to make it a Super Divine Artifact.

The Sea God Trident could not even turn back time by a minute, let alone seize someone from ten thousand years in the future and bring them into the present as He pleased.

His strength had upended her worldview once again.

"My lord, why don't we go join Him?" Di Tian said, trembling.

"The gods under Him, Raiden Ei and Nahida, aren't human. Nahida's true form isn't human either. He'll definitely accept us."

"Maybe He really likes dragons."

"Maybe we could even go work as His odd-job hands." It was a brilliant idea he had spent a long time coming up with.

Doing odd jobs for Him was an excellent idea.

"Di Tian, I don't think that's a good idea."

"Maybe He hates dragons!" Xiong Jun retorted.

He didn't know why he said it either. He simply had a premonition that anything with the word "dragon" in its name would never get along with Him.

Besides, he and Di Tian were at odds now.

If Di Tian said east, he would go west.

Di Tian's face darkened. That stupid bear was getting bolder and bolder lately, talking back to him every few days.

The Myriad Demon King watched silently from the side. Doing odd jobs for a being of His caliber would be an honor for them.

After witnessing the series of iconic moments involving Xiao Wu, he finally understood what the damn saying meant: when one person attained the Dao, even their chickens and dogs ascended to godhood.

As long as you had a good big sister, you could become a god while lying down.

Zi JI and Bi Ji neither agreed nor refused.

They were different from the Myriad Demon King. They weren't reeds that bent with the wind.

Di Tian, that fellow, was rather mediocre and incompetent.

As for their lord, Gu Yuena...

Well.

They didn't have much of an impression of her yet, since their lord had spent more than half her time asleep.

"Send someone to ask around," Gu Yuena said after a long moment of thought.

She began considering the possibility Di Tian had suggested.

She had originally wanted to pay Him a visit.

Unfortunately, He was far too mysterious.

At present, all they knew was that His name was Lin Feng and that He liked strolling through the streets.

That was it. Nothing else.

Even if they wanted to do odd jobs for Him, He might not take them.

After all, if He so much as said He needed someone to do odd jobs, even that bunch in the Douluo God Realm would probably be tempted.

The Star Luo Empire.

The palace, in the council hall.

Dai Weisi sat in the seat of honor, grinning so widely he could barely close his mouth. According to the Star Luo Empire's rules, the princes fought one another at regular intervals. The winner inherited the throne, while the losers were imprisoned or executed.

Tang San had fooled Dai Mubai into signing a contract with Lady Rhinedottir, the Ruler of Life, so Rhinedottir had taken him away to participate in her experiments.

The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, Oscar, Ma Hongjun, and others had been taken along with him.

The Star Luo Empire had simply expelled Dai Mubai.

Dai Weisi had won while lying down and become crown prince on the spot.

Zhu Zhuqing and Zhu Zhuyun sat across from him.

"Zhu Zhuqing, you don't blame us for calling you back, do you?" Dai Weisi asked.

"Heh, Dai Weisi, spare me the false concern."

"Even if you brought me back, Shrek Academy is finished anyway."

"Do whatever you like with me," Zhu Zhuqing said coldly.

Ever since the heavenly screen began its revelations...

As for Shrek Academy...

Yu Xiaogang's reputation had been ruined, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had cut ties at lightning speed, Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar had been taken away by Rhinedottir for experiments, Tang San and his father had been afflicted with the Curse of Immortality, and Xiao Wu had returned to the Star Dou Great Forest.

Shrek Academy had long existed in name only.

Dai Weisi fell silent for a moment, glanced at the heavenly screen, then at Zhu Zhuqing. "Zhu Zhuqing, you're my sister-in-law. How could I make things difficult for you?"

"What do you think of His Excellency?"

Zhu Zhuyun couldn't help glancing at her fiancé, Dai Weisi.

According to the Star Luo Empire's rules, the losing woman of the Zhu Family was usually imprisoned or executed.

She hadn't expected Dai Weisi to be considering something like this.

She said nothing, either.

There was nothing wrong with Dai Weisi's decision.

Compared with executing or imprisoning Zhu Zhuqing...

If Zhu Zhuqing could establish a connection with His Excellency, she would be useful in an entirely different way.

How could Zhu Zhuqing not know what Dai Weisi was plotting? The victor was king, and the loser an outlaw.

No one could refuse Him when He was so powerful, but she knew her own worth.

He had so many beauties under Him. Raiden Ei alone surpassed her in both bearing and looks. What did she, Zhu Zhuqing, amount to?

"Heh, Dai Weisi, what a fine scheme you've cooked up."

"Even if you bundled my sister Zhu Zhuyun and me together and sent us to warm His bed as maids, His Excellency might not take us!!!" Zhu Zhuqing said.

When Zhu Zhuyun heard that, a glimmer of light flashed through her black eyes.

If He really took a fancy to her...

That would be wonderful.

How could being an empress compare to gaining a divine position and living forever?

"Uh, you may leave for now, then." Dai Weisi wasn't angry.

His imperial father had already expelled Dai Mubai from the imperial family, so Zhu Zhuqing posed no threat whatsoever.

Zhu Zhuqing was a peerless beauty, with a bearing and figure second to none. It would be such a waste to execute or imprison her.

He might as well use her to try to curry favor with Him.

Even if she couldn't become His concubine, she could still be a maid who poured His water.

Or he could use her to form a marriage alliance with one of the factions in Teyvat.

Zhu Zhuqing gave a cold laugh. "Heh, suit yourself."

"Just don't play with fire and get yourself killed one day."

With that, Zhu Zhuqing turned and left.

Meanwhile.

On the Douluo Continent, in the Star Dou Great Forest.

A spatial rift was torn open.

Three strange-looking creatures ran out of it.

"Tang San, we swear we can't live under the same sky as you!"

The ones who emerged were Dai Mubai and the other two.

To be precise, they could no longer be considered human.

Their heads were still their original heads, but their bodies had been transformed into those of Vishaps.

Dai Mubai looked down at his body, then at Oscar and Ma Hongjun, who had likewise been turned into Vishaps beside him.

"...At least we're still alive." Oscar tried to look on the bright side.

"You call this living?" Ma Hongjun lashed his Vishap tail, snapping a nearby tree in two.

Damn it.

The three of them had risked their lives to escape from the laboratory of Rhinedottir, the Ruler of Life.

They had returned for one reason alone: to take revenge on Tang San.

At that moment.

The image on the heavenly screen refreshed once more, and text began to scroll again.

(A countdown of Xiao Wu's third iconic moment, and also her final iconic moment: saving the nation by an indirect route for the second time, completely revitalizing the Soul Beast Clan with a mortal body.)

(She accomplished something even the Dragon God would never have dared dream of.)

(She brought the Soul Beast Clan to the pinnacle of glory.)

(She led the Soul Beast Clan in invading the Douluo God Realm Residents' Committee.)

(She made a Douluo God King sacrifice his life for her.)