Afraid of Thunder?

Chen Jianshu watched Na'er with sparkling eyes. On Blue Star, before he transmigrated, dragons had been nothing but legends. He had never even seen what a dragon looked like, let alone touched one.

It would be great if he could touch a dragon's horns or tail. Of course, getting a few bites in would be nice too. He was also curious about what it felt like to lick Dragon Scales, a Dragon Tail, Dragon Feet, a Dragon Horn, Dragon Claws, and a Dragon Body.

At his request, she instantly turned to stone. The confidence on her face froze.

She had thought she could catch this human coveting her Soul Rings and Soul Bones and win their bet, but the reversal took her completely by surprise.

The "Na'er" before him immediately covered her head with one hand and her butt with the other. Her face flushed crimson as she cursed, "Pervert! Get lost!"

Faced with her furious glare, he also felt that he might have gone a little too far. Still, he hadn't expected to actually get to touch a Dragon Tail, so he didn't dwell on it.

"All right... and here I was really looking forward to it."

He sighed, his face full of regret. Then Wu Siduo's figure flashed through his mind. He really wanted to touch the fluffy Cat Ears on her head too...

Damn it! Weren't Cat Ears, Cat Tails, Dragon Horns, and Dragon Tails made to be touched? Why can't I touch them?

Seeing the regret on his face, Gu Yue was instantly overcome with anger. Impudent human! How dare you covet my body! A mere Two-Ring Soul Grandmaster dares ask to touch my Dragon Horns and Dragon Tail.

When you reach three rings, will you want to lay eggs with me? Impossible! Absolutely impossible!

Gu Yue turned and stalked away, half-dead with anger. This human really didn't covet Soul Rings or Soul Bones, but he coveted her body! Damn humans really were born evil!

At Eastsea Manor, having lost the bet, she could only separate Na'er from herself and use the Silver Dragon Spear as a vessel to grant her temporary freedom.

"You won. But if that human ever harms you, I will kill him."

"Hmph, Brother Jianshu isn't that kind of person."

Looking at Gu Yue's dark expression, Na'er's eyelashes curved slightly. She looked delighted. After all, she had won the bet, gained temporary freedom, and even gotten the better of her main body. Just thinking about it was fun.

"I'm going to find Brother Jianshu. You were so mean to him at the end just now. What if Brother Jianshu hates me because of it?"

With that, Na'er eagerly started toward the door to find him. Gu Yue had been so fierce just now; it would be bad if she'd left Brother with a poor impression.

"Hey! Come back! We need to set three ground rules!"

Seeing her about to leave, Gu Yue immediately grabbed Na'er and said they needed to set three ground rules. She promptly held up one finger.

"First, don't let that human put his hands on your tail or Dragon Horns."

"Second, don't reveal my existence or any of my plans."

"Third... remember who you are. You are my other half. Keep your distance from that human. There can be nothing between you."

After the three conditions were laid out, Na'er thought for a moment. But to keep Gu Yue from harming Brother, she could only agree.

"I understand..."

Only after Na'er agreed did Gu Yue let her go. Then she began her world-shaking plan, devised with her world-shaking wisdom.

Meanwhile, Chen Jianshu returned home and looked at his Character Cards. He discovered that Na'er's Affection Points had reached four hundred, earning him another Character Card.

He only needed one more to combine them into another two-star Na'er Character Card. He also looked at Gu Yue's and Gu Yuena's Affection Points beside it. Both were around negative sixty.

"Ugh... this Silver Dragon King really is troublesome. But she should have left by now, right?"

Chen Jianshu thought to himself and sighed. Gu Yue and Na'er had probably already split apart.

If he used the Color Projector again, it probably wouldn't drop so many things all at once.

It looked like he could only find a way to project Tang Wulin. After all, there were only a few people on Douluo Continent worth projecting and copying at the moment. If he was going to copy someone, he had to copy the best.

While he was thinking, someone suddenly knocked on the door. Puzzlement flashed in his eyes, and he immediately got up to open it.

"Who is it? Na'er?"

As soon as he opened the door, a silver figure came into view. Who else could it be but Na'er?

"Brother Jianshu, I'm sorry. Na'er was mean to you just now..."

Just as he was wondering why she had come, Na'er lowered her head and apologized to him. That caught him off guard. Then he waved it off.

"It's okay. My request was too much. Dragon Horns and Dragon Tails should count as private parts, after all..."

He didn't blame Na'er. After all, how could the adorable little Na'er possibly call him a pervert?

Still, just imagining Na'er scolding him somehow made her seem even cuter.

"Come in."

He invited her inside, and she walked into the little villa with practiced ease. Three and a half years had passed, and Chen Jianshu now had a house of his own. This wasn't her first visit either, so she moved with the ease of someone returning to her own home.

"Oh, right, Brother Jianshu, aren't you starting school at Eastsea Intermediate Academy tomorrow?"

Na'er sat on the sofa, her head resting on his shoulder. She happened to notice the Eastsea Academy recommendation letter on the table. Then she looked up at the calendar and saw that it was indeed tomorrow.

"Yes. I'll be busy again after that. Not only do I have to go to school, I also have to study the sword, the spear, Elemental Control, and Forging. My schedule is completely packed."

Chen Jianshu looked at his schedule, and Na'er followed his gaze. Seeing the densely packed list of things to do, she immediately broke into a sweat.

"Brother Jianshu, you work so hard..."

"Mm... how about I play with you on Sundays when I'm off?"

He patted her head and said he would play with her later. At the same time, Chen Jianshu noticed that Na'er's eyes seemed to have changed from purple to silver, confirming his belief that she had split from Gu Yue.

That was good. It would make farming Na'er's affection easier. Once he farmed little Na'er's golden five-cost Character Card up to three stars, he could instantly kill the heavens, the earth, and even the air.

"Okay."

She nodded obediently, very understanding, but her gaze fell on the Eastsea Academy recommendation letter, and a hint of cunning flashed in her eyes.

Rumble!

Around eight that evening, a downpour suddenly began outside. Chen Jianshu looked at the sheets of rain and hesitated before speaking.

"Na'er, is someone coming to pick you up? It's raining really hard outside."

"No, I sneaked out."

Na'er shook her head, saying she had sneaked out and no one was coming to pick her up. Then she put on a pitiful expression and pleaded, "Brother Jianshu, it's raining so hard that Na'er can't go home. Could you take Na'er in?"

"Uh... I don't mind..."

Meanwhile, outside the villa, Zi JI sat in silence in a black sedan.

A thunderstorm raged that night.

Chen Jianshu cultivated in the master bedroom, while Na'er slept in the guest room next door.

Boom!

The next moment, a tremendous peal of thunder rang out, and daylight instantly lit up the dark room, shining on him.

...Tap, tap, tap.

After the thunder, footsteps sounded outside, approaching from a distance before seemingly stopping at his door.

"Knock, knock, knock."

The sudden knocking echoed through the room, where the only other sound was the pouring rain outside. Chen Jianshu slowly opened his eyes and looked toward the door, frowning slightly.

"Who is it?"

"Brother Jianshu, it's me..."

Na'er's reply came from outside. The doorknob turned slightly, and the door opened. An incomparably cute little silver-haired head peeked through the gap.

A trace of haziness flickered in her silver eyes. She seemed not to have recovered from a fright.

"What's wrong, Na'er? Can't get used to sleeping here?"

Seeing her come to him, he thought something serious had happened and immediately asked with concern. The silver-haired girl clutched a pillow and answered as though frightened by the thunder.

"Brother, Na'er wants to sleep with you. The thunder is so scary..."

Her body trembled slightly as she spoke, her eyes misty with tears, like a startled fawn. Looking at the frightened little girl before him, he felt the protectiveness she always stirred in others and wanted to gather her into his arms and care for her.

He froze for a moment when he heard the reason. Would one half of the dignified Silver Dragon King be afraid of this?

But on second thought... Na'er's mind was now like that of an ordinary human child. It seemed perfectly normal for her to be afraid of thunder.

Besides, what the Soul Beast Clan feared most was Heavenly Tribulation. After all, that fear was etched deep into their bloodlines. Soul Beasts feared Heavenly Tribulation, and even divine beasts had to undergo Divine Tribulation.

Thinking of it that way, it made sense at once. He couldn't be too hard on Na'er. She was his big thigh, after all, and he was still counting on taking Na'er to the very peak in the future.

He immediately patted the large bed beside him, indicating that she could sleep there with him if she was afraid.

"Thunder? Then sleep in my bed. I'll stay with you."

"Okay, thank you, Brother!"

At that, a lovely, adorable smile immediately blossomed on Na'er's face. She entered the room, closed the door, and walked over barefoot.

"Huh? Na'er, where are your slippers?"

Noticing that she had come over without slippers, he immediately asked. After all, it would be such a shame for those ice pops to get dirty.

"I... I think I was in too much of a hurry and forgot to put them on..."

Na'er gave an awkward smile. Her exquisitely delicate little feet, with their plump, crystal-clear toes, immediately curled slightly like a mimosa.

"It's okay. Come on up, the floor is cold."

"Okay, Brother!"

Na'er answered, then tossed the pillow in her arms onto the bed and climbed up after it.

The next moment, daylight pierced the darkness and illuminated the two people in the room. A thunderous roar swept in right after it.

As if startled into action, Na'er launched herself straight into Chen Jianshu's arms. The impact knocked him onto his back on the bed.

"Na'er?"

Looking at the silver-haired girl who had fallen with him while holding him, he finally believed she really was afraid of thunder.

"It's okay, don't be afraid. It's just lightning, as if I don't have some myself."

Chen Jianshu lay on the bed, stroking her head with one hand to comfort her. With the other, he found the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Character Card and equipped it. Electric light flashed.

"Sorry, Brother. I didn't hurt you, did I?"

After coming to her senses, Na'er immediately got up and hurriedly lifted his clothes to check his body. His firm, perfect eight-pack came into view. He was instantly speechless and held her down.

"I'm fine. All right, go to sleep. If children don't sleep for too long, they'll get dark circles, turn ugly, and won't grow tall."

After confirming that he was fine and hearing that she would turn ugly and not grow tall, Na'er obediently got off him and slipped under the little quilt.

Chen Jianshu also prepared to sleep. To keep his big thigh from being afraid, he could only coax her.

In his eyes, Na'er was a rich loli. He only had to farm her affection to gain immense power, so of course he had to curry favor with her.

Looking at the silver-haired girl lying on his arm, seemingly quite at ease, he checked her Affection Points again and found that they had risen by another ten. As expected, obedient little Na'er was the easiest to coax.

Then he checked Gu Yue's Affection Points. They had fallen to negative seventy. She probably hated him to death by now. After all, he had lured away her other half, meaning thirty percent of her strength and the divine weapon, the Silver Dragon Spear.

But it wasn't a major problem. He would take things one step at a time. With Na'er around, nothing would happen to him. He didn't have the Golden Dragon King Divine Core either, so Gu Yue had no reason to fall out completely with Na'er and kill him.

The next day.

When the two woke in the morning, the first thing they saw was each other. Afterward, they brushed their teeth and washed up together, then ate breakfast.

Later, Na'er accompanied him to the gates of Eastsea Intermediate Soul Master Academy and watched him enter.

A black sedan followed the two of them the entire way. Inside, a purple-haired woman with a sizzling figure sat quietly in the driver's seat, questioning her very existence.

Is this really the lord of our Soul Beast Clan? Why is she like an ordinary young girl first awakening to love?

At that thought, he sighed. Fortunately, their Soul Beasts had encountered the First Generation Spirit Transmission Douluo ten thousand years ago. Otherwise... just thinking about the leader of their Soul Beast Clan being like this made the future seem hopeless.

The Soul Beast Clan's future was bleak. Still, it was just as well that My Lord had lost her memory now. The current era was pretty good, after all. There was food and entertainment, and even Zi JI's subordinates, the Deep Purple Demon Dragons and Deep Red Demon Dragons and the like, had grown to more than fifty.

Back then, Sub-Dragons, Earth Dragons, and the like had already been scarce in the Star Dou Great Forest. With humans frequently hunting them as well, there would only have been fewer after ten thousand years.

Because of the appearance of that First Generation Spirit Transmission Douluo, the Soul Beast population had grown considerably, and its overall strength had increased by who knew how much.

The only ones who had probably suffered were the successive generations of Divine Craftsmen. Not only did they have to forge Heavenly Forged Metal for Shrek, the Tang Sect, the Spirit Pagoda, the Federation, and the War God Temple,

they now also had to forge Heavenly Forged Metal for the Soul Beasts of the Star Dou Great Forest, the Far North, the Sunset Forest, the Evil Demon Forest, and the seas. They had truly suffered.

Aside from them, everyone else had benefited, and the Soul Beasts had benefited most of all.

That was why she had been somewhat worried when she heard that My Lord had emerged and intended to destroy humanity. Now that My Lord had lost her memory, that was just as well. These days, most Soul Beasts and humans were tired of war.

They had come to love this peaceful life, and Zi JI was one of them. Even Xiong Jun had fallen.

Before:

Xiong Jun: "Humans are evil! They are on the Path to Death!"

The human side: "Lord Xiong Jun, this is Queen Bee Honey produced by the artificially raised queen bees we developed, along with Queen Bee Honey Wine, Queen Bee Honey Pie, and Queen Bee Honey Cake."

Xiong Jun: "On second thought, humans are beneficial insects."

PS: The first and second updates for July 16, combined into one large chapter of four thousand characters.