Meeting Frankly, Seeking Information

Xue Yin stopped being mysterious. He slowly raised a hand and pressed it against the pure white mask on his face.

The mask melted away like rippling water, revealing a face Zuo Shanjin had never seen before, yet whose Life Source imprint carried a familiar aura of the Original Universe—an illusion of the Original Universe Monster Race's Celestial Wolf flashed past, then transformed into deep, unfathomable chaos.

This was Xue Yin's true appearance.

At the same time, the deliberately simulated cold and obscure aura around him quietly faded. In its place emerged Gu You's distinctive bearing—steady and restrained, yet containing immense vitality.

His realm appeared to be merely that of a God King First Layer Realm, yet the depth of his essence made even Zuo Shanjin, a reincarnated God King, inwardly wary.

He looked at Zuo Shanjin, a calm and equal smile curling at the corner of his mouth. His voice returned to its original clarity. "Commander Zuo Shan, or should I call you... King Jin of the Gods? Or perhaps... Zuo Shan Ke?"

"Have you recognized who I am?"

"This aura..." Zuo Shanjin—or rather, Zuo Shan Ke—sensed it, and his pupils contracted slightly.

The gates of memory were violently struck open by that aura, and several crucial scenes and karmic sensations surged forth: the Original Universe, the Celestial Wolf he had only met a few times, yet who had risen at an astonishing pace beyond his expectations...

"Gu... Gu You of the Monster Race?" Zuo Shan Ke's voice carried disbelief and caution. With a wave of his hand, he laid down several more refined and concealed isolation barriers, his gaze sharp as a blade. "You actually became a God King so quickly?"

He did not immediately lower his guard. The lessons of reincarnation had left him instinctively wary of