A Mysterious Beautiful Woman

Inside Lin Yan's Sea of Consciousness.

In the empty, boundless white void, a woman's figure had appeared.

The woman wore a magnificent purple gown in an ancient style. She had full breasts, wide hips, and a stunningly beautiful face. Her fair, rosy skin and languid eyes gave her a hint of seductiveness just standing there.

"Who are you? How did you get into my Sea of Consciousness?"

Lin Yan was bewildered and on high alert.

This was his Sea of Consciousness!

Why had a strange woman barged in?

"Oh? Didn't you call me here? Have you forgotten so soon?"

"I called you here?"

"Wait! You're... the deity the system gave me?"

Early the next morning.

At this hour, students from every grade at Nuoding Academy would usually have been making their way into their classrooms.

But today, a large crowd had gathered on the training ground.

Dean Notting stood at their head, his face clouded with worry.

Lin Yan had been missing all night. The dean had been organizing students and teachers to search the area since last night, but they had found nothing.

He was now reassigning search areas to the teachers and students, determined to get a result.

Suddenly...

A piercing eagle cry rang out over the academy.

Everyone looked up at the cry and saw a figure leap from an eagle's back, descending from the sky.

Boom!

The figure landed, leaving two small pits in the green-brick pavement and kicking up a small puff of dust.

"Lin Yan?!"

Dean Notting's eyes widened, and irrepressible excitement spread across his face.

"Where did you go, Lin Yan? I was worried sick!"

The dean ran over and felt Lin Yan all over, checking his body as if terrified he had suffered the slightest injury.

"Dean, I was abducted by a mysterious person."

"That mysterious person took an interest in my First Soul Ring and wanted to get the method for absorbing a Soul Ring beyond my level out of me."

"But what method could I possibly have? All I knew how to do when I absorbed the Soul Ring was grit my teeth and endure. In the end, he couldn't get anything out of me, so he let me come back."

Lin Yan gave the dean the explanation he had prepared beforehand.

The dean's expression went blank for a moment.

"He let you come back?"

"Forget it!"

"As long as you're back, as long as you're back!"

"You don't know how worried I was all night. Thank goodness nothing happened to you."

Dean Notting was, after all, only a Soul Ancestor with limited horizons. He assumed some important figure had wanted Lin Yan's secret, then let him go after an interrogation yielded nothing.

Murmurs gradually spread through the crowd on the training ground.

Xiao Wu, who stood at the head of the students, glanced at Lin Yan, then grumbled reluctantly.

"Tch~"

"You made everyone search for you all night. You really know how to cause trouble."

"Wait!"

"Is that the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, Blue Silver Emperor Ah Yin?"

Xiao Wu's little mouth fell wide open, her gaze fixed on the little blade of grass wrapped around Lin Yan's arm.

It was Ah Yin, whom Lin Yan had brought back from the cave.

That presence—it's Ah Yin!

He... how did he find Ah Yin?

Didn't Ah Yin sacrifice herself to a human Soul Master six years ago?

Xiao Wu was stunned!

She truly hadn't expected to run into an old acquaintance here.

As fellow Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts from the Star Dou Great Forest, Xiao Wu and Ah Yin couldn't merely be called close; they knew each other inside out.

Both were "kind Soul Beasts" and had fought side by side many times.

It wasn't until Ah Yin chose to take human form, and word later came back that she had sacrificed herself to a human Soul Master, that Xiao Wu completely lost contact with her.

She hadn't expected the two of them to meet here.

"Everyone, you can disperse."

While Xiao Wu was still in shock, Dean Notting addressed the crowd.

"Thank you all for your hard work last night. All academy classes will be postponed by a day. Get some good rest today; classes will resume as usual tomorrow."

"Lin Yan, I've already had someone repair the dormitory. I still need to make a report to the Spirit Hall Branch, so go back and get some rest first."

"However, someone from Spirit Hall may come to ask you some questions later, so be prepared."

"All right! Thank you, Dean."

Dean Notting had helped Lin Yan unconditionally time and again, and Lin Yan was not an ungrateful person.

He had decided... once he made it big, he would bring the little old man along with him.

Before long.

Everyone went their separate ways, and Lin Yan returned to the dormitory.

As soon as he entered, he flopped down on the sofa.

"Phew~"

Lin Yan let out a long breath, as if trying to expel all the exhaustion from his body.

He was finally done!

During this one night...

He had crippled Tang Hao, reducing him from a Titled Douluo to a Soul Saint, and made him swear on his Martial Soul to acknowledge him as his master.

Afterward, he had also taken in Ah Yin, which was equivalent to obtaining an encyclopedia of the Soul Master World.

Finally, he had fused with the Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor right leg Soul Bone, gaining one [Flight] skill and one [Healing] skill...

"Fusing with a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone actually raised my Soul Power by six levels in one go!"

"I'm already level nineteen. That was fast!"

Lin Yan murmured softly and raised his right hand, clenching it into a fist. He felt a surge of strength well up within him.

Just then, the voice in his mind sounded again.

"Little guy, that little rabbit has already noticed you."

"Shall I start your Divine Trial now?"

Hearing this, Lin Yan closed his eyes and immersed his consciousness in the Sea of Consciousness.

Soon, he saw the woman again.

"Yes!"

"Then sorry for the trouble, Sister God of Love."

The woman let out a delicate laugh.

"Hehe~"

"It does sound nice when you call me sister, but..."

"If you don't complete the Divine Trial, your big sister will have to give you a big punishment~"

The God of Love's eyes were seductive, and her movements flirtatious.

In a place like the Sea of Consciousness, she wrapped herself around Lin Yan with even less restraint, looking utterly, soul-meltingly seductive.

That was right!

The random inheritance offered by the system's second option had landed on the God of Love.

And she was the God of Love from the Douluo II era, who had already been erased and fallen at Tang San's hands.

With the system as the medium, this encounter across time and space took place in Lin Yan's Sea of Consciousness.

"Sister God of Love, go ahead and bestow the Divine Trial. I'm confident I can complete it."

Lin Yan spoke to the God of Love, determination in his eyes.

The amusement in the God of Love's eyes immediately faded, replaced by a hint of admiration and resentment toward Tang San.

"All right!"

"Remember: this is both the process of you completing the Divine Trial and the process of me recovering my power."

One moment, the God of Love had been like a wanton hussy seducing Lin Yan; the next, she became solemn and dignified.

Her voice even began to take on a divine quality.

"Lin Yan!"

"God of Love's First Trial: break up the couple, Tang San and Xiao Wu."

"Time limit: six years!"

"Reward for completion: a permanent increase of five levels of Soul Power!"