One Fish, Two Meals

After dinner, Su Tianxuan saw Qian Renxue and Ye Guyi back to their lodgings, then went out alone.

For him, the real dinner was only just beginning.

The South Sea.

A gigantic Soul Beast, with a human upper body and the twelve-tentacled lower body of an octopus, was foraging in the deep sea.

As a two-hundred-thousand-year-old Ferocious Beast, it faced no resistance from the Sea Soul Beasts around it. They could only let its tentacles tear them apart.

Just as it was eating with gusto, a strange river suddenly came rushing from afar, reaching it at an unimaginable speed.

A river?

What was a river doing in the sea?

Before the Ferocious Beast octopus could figure out what was happening, a long blade shimmering with ripples flew out of the river and plunged into its heart in an instant.

Ah!

The octopus let out a single scream and moved no more. Its consciousness and body had fallen into stasis.

Su Tianxuan slowly walked out of the river and could not help sighing.

Were Sea Soul Beasts this hard to find now too?

Even though the Sun Moon Federation deliberately kept the hunting of Sea Soul Beasts in check, after he, the Demon Empress, the Underworld Emperor and others had taken turns wreaking havoc on them, Sea Soul Beasts were having a fairly hard time of it.

Sooner or later, they would catch up with their counterparts on land.

Su Tianxuan swam to a deserted island with the octopus in tow.

The octopus's time was being ravenously devoured by the Time Blade.

Moment of Devouring Time.

This was his first Soul Skill.

The Soul Skill could be added to any of his attacks, and a portion of the time of any target it struck would be devoured.

This was the move that had given the Ghost Emperor such a terrible headache before.

And by plunging the Time Blade directly into an opponent as he had now, keeping Moment of Devouring Time active, he could devour almost all of their time.

Both their past and their future.

Without a past, their body and soul would become those of an embryo, and they would lose their past memories and abilities.

Without a future, they would instantly die of old age, and no life-extending means outside of time would take effect.

If both were gone, they would become an embryo that had died of old age, no different from a lifeless object, and the remaining time would be difficult to eat.

Watching the octopus age rapidly and then rapidly shrink, Su Tianxuan could not help clicking his tongue.

Why do I look so much like an Evil Soul Master?

Still, it did not matter. He had never cared about good or evil.

He let out a satisfied burp.

His earlier attempt to recreate the Divine Realm with Yun Ming and Chen Xinjie had cost him a good deal of time. He had originally planned to go stuff himself right afterward, but then a system had suddenly appeared, delaying him until now. At last, he had eaten his fill.

A full belly and warm clothes stirred thoughts of lust.

Having eaten his fill, Su Tianxuan leaned against a tree and pondered another matter.

Aside from earning him system rewards, what use could those two angels be?

With their current strength, they certainly could not help him much. Killing that group of Evil Soul Masters had already been the limit of what they could do.

But what if they returned to their own eras?

How could they help him then?

Given the inherent properties of time, the three of them were necessarily from three different parallel spacetime continuums, rather than the same timeline.

No matter what Qian Renxue and Ye Guyi did when they returned to the past, it could not possibly affect his world.

So he could not count on them leaving something behind to help him become a god and having it passed down to the present.

But there was another way they could be of use.

Su Tianxuan looked at the system, a vague idea forming in his mind:

He could have Qian Renxue and Ye Guyi return to the past, find something or some method that could help him become a god, and then have another traveler bring it to him.

It was crazy, but worth a try.

The next day, Su Tianxuan, his belly full, used Reversal to return to Mingdu. He went downstairs to find that Ye Guyi was already up.

She was making breakfast in the kitchen. When she saw Su Tianxuan come downstairs, she greeted him with a smile:

"Morning, Your Holiness. You're back! I made breakfast. Come have a taste."

She had asked Su Tianxuan the night before if she could use the kitchen. He had said he did not mind; he kept the valuable ingredients in the basement anyway.

He had not expected her to use it to make breakfast.

The breakfast on the table could not compare to yesterday's, but she had clearly put care into making it.

Su Tianxuan studied Ye Guyi intently for a while.

Under his gaze, the little angel, wearing an apron with her long hair tied up, turned bright red.

Ye Guyi could not help turning her head away, too embarrassed to look at him. In a soft voice, she said:

"Your Holiness, what's wrong? Is my face dirty?"

"It's nothing. I just thought of something. I might need your help with it later."

Su Tianxuan looked away.

It seemed getting her to agree to that would not be difficult, and she would probably put a lot of care into doing it too.

It was just that Ye Guyi seemed to be showing signs of that.

Tsk, no wonder they call it the Romance Continent. Could that little bit really earn me so much favor?

Forget it. As long as it did not affect him, it was fine. All the love on the Douluo Continent was poisonous.

He, Su Tianxuan, would sooner starve to death, die out in the wilds, or jump from here into the River of Time and drown than leap into that river of love!

"Huh? I can help you, Your Holiness?!"

Hearing that, Ye Guyi raised her head excitedly, her eyes sparkling.

"Didn't you help when we killed those Evil Soul Masters before?"

Su Tianxuan shrugged.

"I didn't really do much."

Ye Guyi lowered her head, looking quite bashful.

Just as they were about to eat breakfast, Su Tianxuan's Soul Guidance Communicator suddenly rang.

He picked it up and saw that Holy Spirit Douluo Ya Li was calling.

"What is it?"

Su Tianxuan asked indifferently.

The area around Ya Li sounded noisy. Her voice sounded tired, but urgent as well:

"Are you home? I want to ask you for help."

"Ugh, no, never mind. Come over, but don't bring any of your..."

Su Tianxuan had just been about to tell her not to bring anyone from Shrek when Ya Li ended the call.

She seemed to be in a great hurry.

"Your Holiness, what's wrong?"

"A troublesome bleeding heart is coming. What a pain."

Su Tianxuan tossed the Soul Guidance Communicator aside, thoroughly annoyed.

To him, Ya Li was the most annoying person at Shrek Academy.

Every day, all she knew was to bother him about saving people.

The thing was, unlike the other people from Shrek, she did not deserve a beating. If he beat her up, she would only endure it in silence and then go right back to begging him.

He could hardly kill her, could he?

Su Tianxuan was not that unreasonable.

"A bleeding heart? Who is she?"

"Someone from Shrek. Come to think of it, her Martial Soul is an angel too, though it's an Angel of Hope. I don't know if it comes from the same line as yours."

Su Tianxuan thought of Ya Li's Angel of Hope Martial Soul.

A healing-type angel sounded like a Mutated Martial Soul of the Holy Angel, but he had not seen anyone from the Yue Family go and claim her as a relative.

It was also possible that it had mutated from another bloodline descended from Qian Renxue's side.

"Angel of Hope?"

Ye Guyi quietly repeated the name.

Six-winged, holy, hope...

That made three kinds of angel. Did His Holiness have some kind of constitution that attracted angels?

There shouldn't be a fourth, right?