The Rebirth of the Supreme King Dong'er

"But..." Xiao Xiao's voice sank. "So Shrek Academy was actually like this..."

At Xiao Xiao's words, Huo Yuhao's expression darkened considerably as well.

He had originally pinned all his hopes for revenge on Shrek Academy, but what he had experienced now told him that Shrek Academy did not seem to be a good place for him.

But if he did not study at Shrek Academy, where else could he go?

Even Tang Ya and Bei Bei, the only other two members of the Tang Sect he had joined, were students of Shrek Academy.

Wang Dong'er patted Xiao Xiao on the shoulder and asked, "Xiao Xiao, are you willing to trust me?"

Hearing Wang Dong'er's question, Xiao Xiao immediately became emotional. "You were willing to do so much for me, Dong'er. How could I possibly not trust you?"

"Go ahead. As long as it is something I can do, I will do it at any cost."

"Then tell me what doubts you have harbored ever since entering Shrek Academy."

From the original novel, Xiao Xiao seemed to have little of note about her. She had ordinarily encountered the protagonist group and ordinarily joined Shrek Academy and the Tang Sect.

But from Wang Dong'er's observations over the past few days, Xiao Xiao also seemed to have some unspeakable troubles behind her, perhaps related to her background.

Hearing Wang Dong'er ask this, Xiao Xiao fell silent. After a long while, she finally said, "I didn't expect you to see through me, Dong'er."

"Actually, I had already guessed that your identity was far from simple. But I truly never expected you to be a successor of the Clear Sky Sect, and for even Dean Yan to be wary of you."

"You've seen my martial soul. It actually mutated from the Soul Suppressing Cauldron and is called the Three Lives Soul Suppressing Cauldron."

"I come from a branch family of a great clan. For certain special reasons, our branch was not valued by the main family."

"Originally, everyone in our clan cultivated within the clan itself. They would never come to a place like an academy to cultivate..."

As Xiao Xiao slowly told her story, Wang Dong'er finally learned about the past Xiao Xiao had kept hidden.

It was quite a cliché story. Like many fantasy novels, Xiao Xiao's clan had various branch families and a main family that held absolute control over them.

And the branch Xiao Xiao belonged to happened to be the weakest and the most despised within the clan.

When she awakened her martial soul, Xiao Xiao's mutated Three Lives Soul Suppressing Cauldron was not regarded by the clan as a symbol of strength. Instead, it was considered a "calamity."

And the reason was merely an old family precept: "The soul-suppressing cauldron must not be divided; if divided, the clan will fracture."

Xiao Xiao had also concealed her second martial soul, the Nine Phoenixes Auspicious Flute, when it awakened and had not revealed it.

Since she was considered a calamity, naturally no one treated her kindly, even though her Innate Soul Power was fairly good.

Within her own branch family, she was further bullied by the clansmen because both her parents had long since died. They claimed that it was Xiao Xiao's birth that had caused their branch to fall to the bottom, and that she had even brought death upon her parents.

In the end, it was Xiao Xiao's only remaining relative, her grandfather, who helped her leave the clan and sent her to Shrek Academy.

That was why Xiao Xiao would rather waste the talent of her second martial soul than risk failing the examination and being unable to remain at Shrek Academy.

But in that case, the plot where she impulsively gambled one of her legs seemed even more absurd.

Wang Dong'er would rather believe that the Great Buddha Tang had cursed Xiao Xiao after seeing that she possessed Twin Martial Souls...

No matter what, Xiao Xiao had now laid herself completely bare before Wang Dong'er.

"If one day in the future, I come into conflict with Shrek Academy, Xiao Xiao, would you be willing to stand behind me?" Wang Dong'er looked at Xiao Xiao and asked.

"I would!" Xiao Xiao answered without the slightest hesitation, looking seriously at Wang Dong'er.

"Dong'er, actually, I was curious about you from the very first time I saw you." At this point, Xiao Xiao blushed slightly. At first glance back then, she had thought Wang Dong'er was a handsome young gentleman.

"Anyway, I'm someone with nowhere to call home. Your family is so wealthy, Dong'er—one more mouth to feed won't make much difference, hehe." Xiao Xiao giggled, concealing her disappointment.

Someone with nowhere to call home.

Those words deeply pierced Huo Yuhao's heart. Although their circumstances were different, he and Xiao Xiao were extremely alike in some ways.

But the next moment, Wang Dong'er turned her attention toward Huo Yuhao.

"Huo Yuhao, what was with that golden soul ring of yours earlier?"

Ma Xiaotao's attack had happened to expose the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm within Huo Yuhao. Wang Dong'er could use this as a stepping stone to force both the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and Electrolux out into the open.

Damn, boxed in!

Huo Yuhao knew that hastily asking the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to act might have drawn attention, so he had already prepared himself mentally. He immediately said, "It was an effect of my mutated soul skill. My first soul ring came from a ten-year Wind Baboon..."

"I see." Xiao Xiao nodded in understanding.

I got through it... Huo Yuhao thought to himself, but he still felt that Wang Dong'er's gaze carried a deeper meaning.

"Xiao Xiao, you should go back first. I want to ask him a few more things," Wang Dong'er said to Xiao Xiao.

Compared to Xiao Xiao, both Wang Dong'er and Huo Yuhao carried significant secrets. With Xiao Xiao here, Huo Yuhao would be highly guarded.

Just as before, Xiao Xiao trusted Wang Dong'er completely. She did not ask what Wang Dong'er wanted to discuss, merely said goodbye and left.

Only after Xiao Xiao had left did Huo Yuhao belatedly realize that his explanation had not fooled Wang Dong'er at all.

"Brother Sky Dream, what do we do now?" Huo Yuhao was somewhat nervous and could not help asking the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm in his mind.

"How would I know what to do? If your teacher weren't such trash, would I have needed to act?" the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm said irritably.

"Huo Yuhao, there are two other people's souls inside you, aren't there?" Wang Dong'er gave Huo Yuhao little time to react. Her opening move was a complete bombshell, leaving both Huo Yuhao and the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm in his Sea of Consciousness stunned on the spot.

"This is strange. How does she know I'm inside your Sea of Consciousness?" The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm was filled with confusion as well. "No, she even knows about that thing competing with me for space?"

"Enough. Huo Yuhao, let me handle her!" As he spoke, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm once again took control of Huo Yuhao's body.

Although he knew Sky Dream Ice Silkworm meant well, the feeling of not being in control of his own body still made Huo Yuhao instinctively uneasy.

"Little girl, tell me—how did you know I was here?"

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm asked through Huo Yuhao's body.

"I don't just know that you're parasitizing Huo Yuhao. I also know that you're a million-year spirit beast named Sky Dream Ice Silkworm."

"Wait, wait, wait." Only then did Sky Dream Ice Silkworm realize that Wang Dong'er even knew his name.

"Why do you know my name is Sky Dream Ice Silkworm? I came up with that name myself, and I only ever told Huo Yuhao."

If Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had lived in the world of Wang Dong'er's previous life, he would definitely have blurted out, "Damn, the box!"

As he spoke, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm asked Huo Yuhao in the Sea of Consciousness, "Yuhao, before I woke up that day, did you tell anyone about me?"

"Brother Sky Dream, you..." Huo Yuhao had never expected Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to suspect him of revealing his existence.

"Sigh, I was muddleheaded for a moment. Don't blame me, Yuhao, don't blame me." Sky Dream Ice Silkworm did not return control of the body to Huo Yuhao. Instead, he continued questioning Wang Dong'er, this time finally taking her seriously.

"Why exactly do you know these things?"

"You don't need to ask why I know. In fact, I don't just know this. I also know that you want to raise Huo Yuhao into a god in hopes of attaining immortality, and that you also like Ice Empress..."

"Wait, I get it. You don't need to say any more." Sky Dream Ice Silkworm hurriedly stopped Wang Dong'er.

"Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, you only know that humans can become gods, but I have truly seen a god," Wang Dong'er said.

"Her spiritual fluctuations don't seem fake... She's actually seen a god?!" Sky Dream Ice Silkworm said in shock within the Sea of Consciousness.

"Could the one you mean be that person from ten thousand years ago?" After recovering from his shock, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm took the initiative to ask.

"Ten thousand years ago? Isn't that the legend of Sea God Tang San? So the legend was true." Within the Sea of Consciousness, Huo Yuhao listened to their conversation and pieced the information together for himself.

"Ten thousand years ago?" Wang Dong'er scoffed. "That was merely a false god."

"Not him? Then who could it be? It can't possibly be the even more ancient Dragon God, can it?"

"Neither." Wang Dong'er shook her head. "In any case, you only need to know that I not only know the origins of you and the other soul, but also possess even more information."

"None of it is a lie..." Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had been watching Wang Dong'er's spiritual fluctuations the whole time, yet he could not detect the slightest sign that she was lying.

With the spiritual strength of a million-year spiritual-type spirit beast, there was no way Wang Dong'er could deceive him. That meant it could only be true.

Not only was the eavesdropping Huo Yuhao utterly confused, but even Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's mind was in a haze.

"Then what exactly do you want?" Unable to make sense of the situation, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm could only address the heart of the matter.

"It's simple. Your chances of successfully creating a god are no more than thirty percent, but I can raise that probability to above ninety percent."

"Ninety percent?! Are you joking?" Sky Dream Ice Silkworm grew agitated. He had pondered for tens of thousands of years before devising a method of creating a god with less than a thirty percent chance of success, yet now a human had suddenly appeared and told him the odds could be over ninety percent?

What kind of joke was that?!

Yet Wang Dong'er's spiritual fluctuations could not be faked, and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm could clearly sense her confidence.

Unless...

"Are you a spirit beast undergoing cultivation anew? Or a god reincarnated?"

Wang Dong'er rubbed her forehead. "Neither. Besides, so-called spirit beast recultivation is nothing but a scam."

"What scam? You're saying spirit beast recultivation is a scam—what do you mean?" Sky Dream Ice Silkworm asked.

"When the Dragon God died, he used his status as Lord of the Star God to lay down a curse: unless the Dragon God reappears, spirit beasts will never be able to become gods."

"Moreover, the God Realm also has a rule that spirit beasts may not become gods."

"Your original race was simply too weak, so you bypassed those restrictions by devouring Cold Marrow. Otherwise, why do you think you could become a million-year spirit beast without the heavenly tribulation coming for you?"

"So spirit beast recultivation really is a scam..." Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's voice was somewhat low.

Just as Wang Dong'er and Huo Yuhao thought Sky Dream Ice Silkworm was grieving or enraged by this revelation, he suddenly burst into laughter.

"Hahaha! Doesn't that prove even more that my judgment and luck are unmatched in this world?"

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"Hmph, I'm the first million-year spirit beast in history, and I never even faced a heavenly tribulation. I never considered transforming into human form and cultivating anew, either. Instead, I came up with a plan to create a god with the help of humans. Doesn't that show just how damn brilliant and talented I am?"

Wang Dong'er was defeated.

"Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, have you ever considered what would have happened if the first spiritual-type soul master you encountered hadn't been Huo Yuhao, but someone else?"

"What do you mean?" Sky Dream Ice Silkworm froze.

"The spirit beasts of Star Dou Forest would suck you dry. Do you really think soul masters would definitely coexist with you peacefully?"

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm was left speechless.

Let me recommend a friend's Investiture of the Gods novel. He's an established author with over ten thousand subscriptions, so fans of Investiture of the Gods can check it out: Durian Old Wine's I Grind Proficiency in the World of Investiture of the Gods. The synopsis and link are below:

Zhou Qing transmigrated into the world of Investiture of the Gods as a stalk of green bamboo. He took Shen Zhengdao as his master and awakened a proficiency panel. Once his proficiency was maxed out, his cultivation techniques would automatically upgrade—

Breathing Technique → Heaven-Devouring Earth-Eating Scripture

Fire-Control Technique → Great Sun World-Burning Purifying Divine Flame

Celestial Steps → Roaming the Grand Void Cosmos

From then on, he cultivated, gathered herbs, leveled up, traveled Qingqiu with Xuanyuan, helped Yu the Great control the floods, and witnessed the Dark Bird descend to give birth to Shang...

He had once accompanied his master to Kunlun Mountain for an examination, and had also been invited to Golden Turtle Island to lecture on the Dao;

he had once traveled west through Hangu Pass and witnessed the Old Lord transform the Hu into Buddhists;

and had also taken charge of the Jixia Academy, witnessing the rise and fall of the Hundred Schools of Thought...

Many years later, when he looked back in sudden realization, he discovered that he had unknowingly already reached the pinnacle!

Electrolux Awakens

Back then, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had barely escaped from the depths of the Star Dou Forest. His life was nearly at its end, and he had only been anxious to find a soul master and carry out his plan as quickly as possible. How could he have thought so much about it?

But after Wang Dong'er put it that way, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm could not help feeling a lingering fear.

Wang Dong'er was indeed right. He had been lucky to encounter Huo Yuhao. Whether Huo Yuhao would repay his kindness in the future was uncertain, but at least he had harbored no ill intentions at the time.

Had he encountered another soul master, he might have suffered a terrible fate.

"Still, the god I want to create is Huo Yuhao. You said you have a ninety-percent chance of success—are you willing to help me create a god?"

"Don't overthink it." Wang Dong'er rolled her eyes. "I was talking about myself. Why should I help you create a god?"

As she spoke, an aura flashed past. Sky Dream Ice Silkworm immediately lost control over Huo Yuhao's body and was forced to return control to Huo Yuhao himself.

"What's going on? How could she possibly remove my control?" Sky Dream Ice Silkworm was still shouting in the Sea of Consciousness, while Huo Yuhao, having regained control of his body, opened his mouth, his voice slightly hoarse.