Sunlight filtered through the dense branches and leaves, leaving mottled specks of light deep within Donghai Park. The branches swayed in the wind, and those spots of light kept changing shape.
The flowers, grass, and trees around them were completely unharmed, as if everything that had just happened had been an illusion.
Xie Xie was still unconscious on the ground, while the Golden Trident in Tang Wulin's hand had long since vanished. His expression was dark to the extreme.
"Why? Why would my Ten Thousand Year Plan suffer such a mistake?! I had three chances to act, and I just used two of them. The last chance to act is deeply tied to my grand plan of ten thousand years, so I can no longer use it lightly."
"These Soul Beasts are truly shallow and ignorant, destroying their own foundation. If the Douluo Plane is devoured by the abyss, how could any of you have room to survive?" Tang Wulin snorted coldly, sounding rather exasperated. Yet he had never considered that the Soul Beasts' current living environment had already been squeezed by humans until almost nothing remained. Even the Star Dou Great Forest now only had its core region left.
After slightly calming the fury in his heart, Tang Wulin settled down and tried to communicate through Divine Sense with his father, who had already become the Douluo Continent Plane Master, but he never received Tang Hao's response.
The wise and mighty Tang God King had miscalculated once again, and the expression on his face was exceptionally vivid.
"Impossible?! How could this be?!"
On the other side, Gu Yue had already returned to the eastern coast of Eastsea City, accompanied by the woman in the green dress.
Di Tian, Xiong Jun, and the others were kneeling on one knee behind her, their faces pale and their auras listless. Although they had joined forces earlier to force Tang San into using two chances to act, they had also suffered severe injuries.
It could be said that in the end, both sides had been bluffing. Tang San did not dare use his final chance to act lightly, while Di Tian and the others were equally wary of the power of Tang San's Divine Sense.
Taking their lord's prior instructions into account, Di Tian did not lead Xiong Jun and the others into a desperate fight against Tang San's Divine Sense, choosing instead to retreat.
Gu Yue had her back to everyone as she gazed out at the boundless Azure Sea and murmured softly, "It has already fallen, but the bloodline power contained within its Divine Core was sealed by Tang San inside that human's body."
"So that is it!" Di Tian and the others' eyes lit up at once. Then, as if they had thought of something, they asked with great concern.
"Then, my lord, did you come here because you sensed its bloodline power?"
Gu Yue only shook her head gently, her gaze going momentarily absent.
Back then, when she had lost her memories and come here, it had not been because she had sensed the Golden Dragon King Bloodline Aura, but because she had been drawn here by something in the unseen. It was the pull of the Douluo Plane Consciousness Spirit. The Douluo Plane Consciousness Spirit had emerged even earlier than her previous self, the Dragon God, and there was an extremely close connection between them.
Because the Dragon God had been born on the Douluo Plane, and he was also the first God King born on the Douluo Plane.
Only, although the aura of this Douluo Plane Consciousness Spirit felt familiar to her, it had already become extremely faint. Moreover, the Douluo Plane Consciousness Spirit had guided her here as if it held some intense appeal and hope.
Seeing their lord remain silent, Di Tian and the others did not dare say more.
After a long while, Gu Yue suddenly said with a cold expression, "Bi Ji, treat Di Tian and the others first. Do not touch that human for now. Ten Thousand Demon King, go gather information about that human. If you find a suitable opportunity, directly extract the bloodline inside his body."
Among all the Fierce Beasts, the Ten Thousand Demon King's abilities were the strangest. Earlier, she had discovered that although Tang San's Divine Sense was powerful, it was not his true body descending, after all. Besides, he seemed to have reservations and was faintly conserving the power contained within his Divine Sense. He had not even released his Divine Sense outward to perceive her presence.
In that case, with the Ten Thousand Demon King's abilities, he might really be able to find an opportunity.
"Yes, my lord!" Everyone answered respectfully and withdrew.
A moment later, Gu Yue once again looked toward the deep blue sea and sneered coldly to herself, "Selfishness, greed, and endless conflict and schemes. Is this the Human World you like? The feelings between humans are even more worthless."
At the same time, at Shrek Academy, on Sea God Island.
A young girl around Gu Yue's age was also standing by the shore, gazing out over the lake. Her long silver hair drifted in the wind, and her deep purple eyes were as clear as amethyst. Her delicate features were flawless, as if she were the darling of heaven and earth. Before her, even the sun, moon, stars, and constellations seemed to lose their radiance.
The Silver Haired Girl smiled, a smile that stirred the soul.
"If you really thought human feelings were worthless, then I would never have appeared. Admit it. The richness of human emotions is something we completely lack, and that is why I exist. Although those two humans just now were fighting, Gu Yue, did you notice? The human who held the advantage clearly held back."
"So what?!" Gu Yue's expression was cold.
"You also know that Divine Sense just now belonged to Sea God Tang San, who became a deity twenty thousand years ago. But do you know why, in the ten thousand years after him, not a single one of those human Soul Masters was able to become a god again? It was because of his countless interventions. Only when that person who stole the Auspicious Beast Bloodline and fortune appeared later did a deity manifest in the world once more. And behind that incident, Tang San's shadow was everywhere as well. That person's wife was even Tang San's daughter. Now that the God Realm has disappeared, he still has not forgotten to stretch his demonic hand into the Douluo Plane, sealing the Golden Dragon King's bloodline power inside a human. For someone to perfectly carry the power of his Divine Sense, this person can only be his direct descendant."
"Tang San, that despicable man, is plotting against us at every moment. If not for the guidance of the Douluo Plane Spirit, and under the influence of the Golden Dragon King Bloodline Aura, do you think the one we first encountered might have been him?"
The more Gu Yue thought about it, the more she felt that Tang San's mind ran deep, and the expression on her face grew increasingly ugly. If the one who had made them experience the emotions of the Human World had been Tang Wulin, she definitely would not have been able to let Di Tian, Xiong Jun, and the others act against him as decisively as before.
The smile on the Silver Haired Girl's face vanished, and she gave a rare nod of agreement.
"Gu Yue, perhaps you are right. Among humans, not everyone is as upright and kind as Teacher and Mistress. What do you plan to do next?"
Na'er's words, in truth, also meant that both sides had made a compromise.
"I will temporarily stay in Eastsea City, then find an opportunity to directly extract the bloodline inside his body. For the sake of our plan, I cannot stop here. I do not believe Tang San's Divine Sense can protect him forever, and besides, the Golden Dragon King's bloodline never belonged to him in the first place," Gu Yue said expressionlessly.
"And as for the pull of the Douluo Plane Spirit..."
I'm honestly convinced. After getting off work, I went and revised this chapter like crazy. The logic in the original work is really something else, constantly devouring its own settings and constantly lowering everyone's intelligence. Even when writing fanfiction, I still have to rack my brains helping patch the holes.
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