Every Sip and Peck, Was It All Predestined?

"After that, I'll need the daughter of the Tower Master of Spirit Transmission Tower to make an introduction on my behalf." It was not Gu Yuena's style to leave such an excellent resource as Qian Gu Huang Yu unused.

Qian Gu Huang Yu naturally did not refuse. "Of course. However, joining the Spirit Pagoda headquarters will depend on you. Naturally, as long as you display your Silver Dragon Martial Soul, the Spirit Pagoda will have no reason to refuse. Once you're in, I can introduce you to the two Tower Masters."

In truth, Qian Gu Huang Yu was quite confident in her ability to control the Spirit Pagoda. Even if Qian Gu Dong Feng became a Tower Master as he had in the original story, she could still pull the strings from behind the scenes.

However, only Gu Yuena, as the Co-Lord of Spirit Beasts, could create something like an artificial Ten-thousand-year Soul Spirit. That was also why Qian Gu Huang Yu had not refused Gu Yuena's request to join the Spirit Pagoda.

Seeing that they had reached a consensus, they quickly moved on from the subject. Qian Gu Huang Yu asked, "What is your ultimate goal? Or rather, how do you intend to handle the relationship between humans and spirit beasts?"

A sharp question had been raised. Of the four present, Qian Ren Xue was a pure-blooded human, and Qian Gu Huang Yu's relatives in this life were all human as well.

Gu Yuena's answer would largely determine the nature of the cooperation between the two sides.

"I intend to destroy humanity. We can do it."

Gu Yuena casually pronounced humanity's death sentence.

Qian Ren Xue instantly shuddered. She did not want to become a traitor to humanity! Besides, if both major leaders held such hostility toward humans, reviving her mother and grandfather would become difficult.

Yet after looking around, Qian Ren Xue sadly realized that she was the only one present who did not currently possess the potential to break through to God King.

As half of the Dragon God, Gu Yuena's complete form was the Supreme God King, the Dragon God. As the son of the Dark Dragon King and the Light Dragon King, once Gu Yuena became the Dragon God again, Di Tian would inevitably become the Dark Dragon King.

And in her previous life, Qian Gu Huang Yu had been the Flash Heavenly Emperor, who took pleasure in devouring divine realms.

That was right. When Gu Yuena had asked about her God King title, Qian Gu Huang Yu had felt that Ghidorah did not fit, and neither did Gilgamesh. Then she realized that one was nicknamed Base Shining Shining while the other was nicknamed Golden Shining Shining, so she simply chose the character "Shining" and became known as the Flash Heavenly Emperor, also called the Star Devouring God King.

As for "Star Devouring," it naturally came from Ghidorah's ultimate form, Star Eater Ghidorah.

It seems I don't get a say here... Qian Ren Xue thought sadly.

Of the four present, only one had no chance of becoming a God King. Guess who she was?

I'm sorry, Grandfather. I may have to make a decision that betrays our ancestors...

One of Spirit Hall's responsibilities Twenty Thousand Years Ago had been to protect humanity from spirit beast attacks and resist beast tides. Yet times had changed. Now, as one of the Six Royal Banners of the old Spirit Hall, she was actually going to collude with spirit beasts.

"Suppress them. There's no need for extermination." Surprisingly, Qian Gu Huang Yu, a "top-tier beast-race God King," rejected Gu Yuena's proposal to destroy humanity.

Upon hearing Qian Gu Huang Yu's words, Qian Ren Xue's eyes lit up again.

The future was bright! (Approval)

"Humans have nearly slaughtered our people to extinction. Why can't we retaliate?" The one who answered Qian Gu Huang Yu was not Gu Yuena, but Di Tian.

At the beginning of an alliance, neither side trusted the other enough. If the leaders had too severe a conflict, the alliance might fall apart immediately.

Therefore, Qian Gu Huang Yu and Gu Yuena could not engage in overly intense arguments, so Di Tian became Gu Yuena's spokesperson.

"Every sip and peck—was it not all predestined? Every cause has its effect, and every effect its cause."

"The causes of the past have borne today's results. Things have reached this point because your previous leadership was fundamentally flawed." Whenever Qian Gu Huang Yu considered Gu Yuena's leadership strategy, she was left speechless. To use an analogy, Gu Yuena was the emperor, and Di Tian was the prime minister beneath her and above all others. Yet Evil Emperor, a regional lord, had run to the capital, fought the prime minister, and then gone home without consequence.

Seriously, who would listen to you after that? It was utterly humiliating.

Even if Evil Emperor could not be killed, shouldn't Gu Yuena at least have stepped forward and made a statement? Given him some punishment?

Yet Gu Yuena had done nothing. In the end, aside from Star Dou's direct line, the other spirit beast territories had simply begun governing themselves independently.

Neither Gu Yuena nor Di Tian responded. Though they now understood Qian Gu Huang Yu's stance, that reason was not enough to persuade them—or rather, not enough to persuade the other spirit beasts.

Spirit beasts had been oppressed for so long that they could not abandon their hatred because of a few words. They needed a clear enemy, and that enemy was naturally humanity. Their enemy also had to pay a price.

Seeing that she could not persuade Gu Yuena, Qian Gu Huang Yu continued, "In your view, which is superior: spirit beasts or humans?"

"Spirit beasts, naturally. Back in the Dragon God Realm, it was Divine Beasts who led the human deities." Di Tian once again acted as Gu Yuena's spokesperson.

"Then it's simple. Since you also believe we are a superior race, we need these inferior races to highlight our nobility. And when we educate our descendants, we can tell them that if they do not work hard enough, they may even be suppressed by these inferior races."

Because of the education she had received in her previous life, Qian Gu Huang Yu naturally believed that spirit beasts and humans should be equal, with no such thing as one being superior to the other. However, Gu Yuena and Di Tian certainly would not accept that theory at present.

Thus, Qian Gu Huang Yu could only explain it in a way that Gu Yuena and Di Tian could currently accept.

There's plenty of time in the future. I'll slowly change their way of thinking.

"Taking a step back, my relatives in this life are human too. You can't expect me to sacrifice my family for the greater good, can you?"

"Fine. We'll proceed as you say for now."

In the end, Gu Yuena compromised. In truth, only Di Tian counted as her clansman, because only Di Tian was a pure-blooded dragon from the Dragon God Realm. The other spirit beasts, including Zi Ji, were merely high-level wild beasts mutated by the divine power she radiated.

Di Tian was the god of spirit beasts, while Gu Yuena was only the god of dragons.

Gu Yuena's initial refusal to compromise had been more out of consideration for Di Tian's feelings.

Seeing that both sides had reached a consensus not to exterminate humanity, Qian Ren Xue also breathed a sigh of relief inwardly. She had nearly become a sinner for all eternity.

Qian Gu Huang Yu leaned against the back of her chair, propping up her head with one hand as she smiled. "Our current strength alone is still far too weak. We cannot overturn human society by relying only on the few of us."

Thinking of this gave Qian Gu Huang Yu a headache. At present, excluding Gu Yuena, who was about to take human form, the usable combat power consisted only of Di Tian, Xiong Jun, King of Ten Thousand Demons, Scarlet King, Zi Ji, and Demon Spirit. Bi Ji was a support type, so Qian Gu Huang Yu did not count her.

Di Tian was at the Peak Quasi-God level. In terms of actual combat ability, Xiong Jun could be treated as an ordinary Quasi-God. The rest were merely Limit Douluo demigods.

And with just that, they wanted to overturn humanity and win big? They were not even enough to take on the Holy Spirit Cult.

Wanting to defeat Ding Zhen? The assessment was: anything is possible in dreams.

(End of Chapter)