Gu Yue Arrives

The stars and moon shone bright, starlight and moonlight descending from the night sky to the mortal world, as if draping this stretch of heaven and earth in a layer of silver gauze.

Deep within Donghai Park, Tang Wulin woke in a daze and stared blankly at his right hand. It seemed he had just had a dream. He had dreamed of a massive golden dragon. The golden dragon had five claws, its entire body covered in huge golden diamond-shaped scales, with deer antlers and a serpent's body.

It seemed different from the dragon soul beasts on the Douluo Continent. It had no wings on its back, and five claws grew beneath its belly.

After that, a figure formed from gathered golden light had warned him that he had to find three things before he turned ten. Though he could not make out the person's exact appearance, he somehow felt an inexplicable sense of trust toward him.

But all of it was far too unbelievable. Tang Wulin kept feeling that it had only been a bizarre, fantastical dream.

"No, you were not dreaming. The Golden Dragon King's bloodline power is indeed sealed inside your body." A cool voice suddenly sounded in his mind.

Tang Wulin was instantly startled, but he was only nine years old, and the curiosity in his heart far outweighed his fear.

"Who are you?"

"I am only a Divine Sense, a Divine Sense specially left to guide you. I am also the golden figure you saw earlier." That voice sounded somewhat weak.

Tang Wulin thought for a moment, then could not help asking again, "You said I wasn't dreaming just now. Does that mean that golden dragon really exists? It's inside my body?"

"There is no problem with saying that. That is the Golden Dragon King. More accurately, that is where the Golden Dragon King's essence resides. The Golden Dragon King's essence is a double-edged sword for the current you. Absorbing it will make you powerful, but if you become stronger too slowly, once the seal can no longer suppress its power, you will die. Remember, you must find those three things before you turn ten. When the time comes, I will appear again and help you undo the First Seal."

"What three things?" Tang Wulin hurriedly pressed. His earlier memories were too hazy, and he could no longer remember them clearly.

"A hundred-year Red Flame Fruit, a hundred-year Ice Crystal Fruit, and ten drops of blood from a hundred-year soul beast possessing the Dragon Bloodline..." That voice grew weaker and weaker at the end.

Tang Wulin had far too many questions in his heart, but that voice had already vanished.

However, his nature was already tough and stubborn. Hearing that he might die not only failed to make him think of giving up on himself, it instead spurred him on even more. Besides, that person had also said that as long as he could successfully absorb the Golden Dragon King's essence, he would become stronger.

Becoming a powerful Soul Master and Mecha Master had always been his dream.

"But where am I supposed to find those three things?" Tang Wulin then lowered his head in distress.

Just hearing the names hundred-year Red Flame Fruit and hundred-year Ice Crystal Fruit made them sound extraordinary, and then there were the ten drops of blood from a soul beast with the Dragon Bloodline. In the current Soul Spirit Era, soul beasts had long since reached the verge of extinction. How could obtaining Hundred-Year Dragon Soul Beast Blood be easy?

After calming his emotions a little, Tang Wulin stood up and touched the area around his right shoulder, discovering that the wound left earlier by Xie Xie's Light Dragon Dagger had already healed completely.

Although he did not know what had happened afterward that caused both of them to faint, before he lost consciousness, he still clearly remembered that Xie Xie had held back against him.

Thinking that Xie Xie's nature was not bad, Tang Wulin bent down and hoisted him onto his back, then quickly ran in the direction of Eastsea Academy.

Eastsea Academy had strict rules and regulations, and there would be punishment for not returning at night. What he feared most was being fined. Besides, from the looks of it, he would not be able to go to the Forging Masters Association to take on a task today either.

With Tang Wulin's strength, even carrying Xie Xie on his back placed no burden on him. In less than fifteen minutes, he saw Eastsea Academy's gate from afar. Not long after Tang Wulin entered Eastsea Academy, Yu Nanyuan also walked toward him from the opposite direction.

After thinking things over during this period, Yu Nanyuan had calmed down quite a bit. If the Silver Dragon King truly wanted to make a move against him, she would not have waited until now at all. What he found hard to understand was why the Silver Dragon King had clearly not met Tang Wulin as she had in his Past Life Memory, yet had still come to Eastsea City, and had seemingly split into the two personalities of Gu Yue and Na'er.

Carrying such doubts, Yu Nanyuan returned to his dormitory. The instant he pushed open the dorm room door, three gazes fell on him in unison.

Zhang Yangzi asked with a gossipy look on his face.

"Nanyuan, how did it go?"

Earlier, the three of them running off in advance had not truly been because they lacked loyalty. They had accidentally injured a girl, and with a whole group of them standing there, it was far too awkward. Leaving Yu Nanyuan alone to apologize and explain to her was enough.

Maybe Yu Nanyuan and that girl might even form an indissoluble bond from then on.

As Soul Masters, the things they came into contact with were broader than those of ordinary people, and they also matured earlier.

"What do you mean, how did it go? What do you think could have happened?" Yu Nanyuan rolled his eyes in utter speechlessness.

Wei Xiaofeng nodded as if he deeply agreed.

"That girl only looked average, and she had such a cold face, like everyone owed her money. I wouldn't like her either."

"Then what type do you like?" Wang Jinxi, who was sitting cross-legged on the lower right bed, looked at Wei Xiaofeng with a faint gaze and rarely cut in.

Wei Xiaofeng's face instantly flushed red. To be honest, he did not have much experience either and was only habitually pretending to know. But he still braced himself and stubbornly talked tough.

"I think those Senior Grade senior sisters in our Middle Division are pretty good."

"Among the Senior Grade senior sisters you mentioned, Xiaofeng, are two of them called Mu Xi and Ouyang Zixin?" Zhang Yangzi said with a wicked grin.

"Those two are the two great School Beauties of our Middle Division. But that senior sister called Mu Xi usually has too proud a personality, so her popularity in the academy is slightly lower than that Senior Sister Ouyang's. Nanyuan, you're a local of Eastsea City, so you probably know them too, right?"

"You could say I know them." Yu Nanyuan casually responded, then took off his shoes and climbed onto his bed. He and Zhang Yangzi were on the upper bunks, while Wei Xiaofeng and Wang Jinxi were on the lower bunks.

Hearing the other meaning contained in Yu Nanyuan's words, Zhang Yangzi and Wei Xiaofeng's eyes instantly lit up.

"Nanyuan, give us the details."

The four chatted enthusiastically inside the dormitory. Yu Nanyuan and Wang Jinxi were still all right, but Zhang Yangzi and Wei Xiaofeng grew more and more excited the longer they talked. Only late into the night did they finally stop, still wanting more, and each sat cross-legged to enter Meditation Cultivation.

After merely two days of being together, the relationship between the four had invisibly grown much closer. In the pure and ignorant years of youth, friendship could be forged this easily.

The homeroom teachers of the new student classes basically focused today's lessons on understanding the students' Martial Soul Abilities. Only starting tomorrow would they enter the formal curriculum. Compared to Primary Academy, the curriculum of the intermediate academy was not so relaxed.

Amid this plain yet fulfilling life of study, all five classes of this year's new students were silently preparing for the Promotion Tournament three months later.

And on the third day after Eastsea Academy's Start of School, a small incident occurred.

A slender black-haired girl slowly walked over from the direction of the school gate toward the Middle Division Sports Field. As she moved, her steps seemed to possess a special rhythm, and that strange Aura instantly drew Wu Zhangkong's attention on the Sports Field.

Wu Zhangkong was currently giving the students of Freshman Class Five a physical training lesson. Those students had long since reached the verge of collapse and had no time to pay attention to this side.

Wu Zhangkong asked the girl, "You are not a student of Eastsea Academy?"

"Not yet, but I hope to enter Freshman Class One to study." Facing Wu Zhangkong's Aura, the girl showed not the slightest stage fright and spoke with a calm expression.

"Freshman Class One?" Wu Zhangkong froze upon hearing this, then said coldly, "This is a Soul Master Academy. If you want to attend school here, you need ability. I do not have the authority to let you enter Freshman Class One to study, but if you have the ability to gain my approval, I can accept you temporarily into my Freshman Class Five."

"Freshman Class Five?" The girl frowned slightly and considered for a moment, but in the end, she still nodded.