When the first rays of morning sunlight spilled into the dormitory, Aoyao welcomed a brand-new day.
The moment he opened his eyes, Aoyao saw Wang Dong'er, who appeared to have spent the entire night cultivating cross-legged.
Was Wang Dong'er really this diligent about cultivating?
As he remembered it, Wang Dong'er had always been rather lazy and unwilling to put effort into cultivation. She had not even reached rank twenty-five when she entered Shrek Academy. Only after Huo Yuhao defeated her, and she saw how hard he worked at cultivating, had she been deeply inspired to take her own cultivation seriously.
Wang Dong'er's performance before enrollment could only be called a waste of her talent.
Yet now, Wang Dong'er had actually meditated and cultivated all night?
Something was wrong... something was definitely wrong!
[Let's see what today's diary entry is supposed to be about!]
[Huh? It wants me to write an entry about the sovereign? Which sovereign? Don't tell me it means Silver Dragon King Gu Yuena?]
While writing his diary, Aoyao deliberately glanced at Wang Dong'er to check her reaction. Seeing that she was still cultivating, he suppressed his suspicions and focused on writing.
[Looks like it really does want me to write an entry about Gu Yuena.]
[What is there even left to say about her? She's straight-up outrageously absurd, okay? Di Tian worked tirelessly without complaint, loyal to the core, and placed every last hope of the soul beasts on her shoulders.]
[After finally waiting for Gu Yuena to recover from her injuries, Di Tian planned to follow her into a grand undertaking and rewrite the fate of the soul beasts.]
[And what happened? Under the leadership of this "great" sovereign of all soul beasts, the soul beasts of the Star Dou Great Forest were driven to the brink of extinction. Saying even one in ten land-dwelling soul beasts survived might be generous. Only the sea soul beasts managed to remain relatively intact.]
[Also, do you even remember that you're the Silver Dragon King, girl!? You inherited the Dragon God's power. Instead of thinking about avenging the Dragon God or revitalizing the soul beasts, you went off to fall in love with Tang Wulin? You do realize Tang San schemed to seize the soul beasts' fortune, right? To the soul beasts, Tang San is an enemy they cannot live under the same sky with. Of all the people you could fall for, you chose Tang San's son!]
[Fine, you say you had sealed your power and lost your memories at the time, and Tang Wulin took you home without you knowing who he was. Fair enough. I can understand that.]
[But what the hell was with dusting off your backside and following Tang Wulin back to the Divine Realm?]
[All that talk about sacrificing yourself for the greater good so soul beasts and humans could coexist in harmony... wasn't that really just being completely love-brained? Still, I can't entirely blame her. The Dragon God was love-brained too, after all. If his wife and son hadn't died one after the other, he probably wouldn't have stirred up so many bizarre disasters afterward.]
[I just find it really hard to picture Gu Yuena meeting Xiao Wu. Hiss... that image is too beautiful. I really can't imagine it! The mighty Silver Dragon King, sovereign of all soul beasts, actually having to call a hundred-thousand-year-old rabbit Mom...]
[Even if she didn't call her Mom, Xiao Wu would still nominally be Gu Yuena's mother-in-law and elder. Tsk, tsk, tsk... Gu Yuena could actually accept that? That's truly absurd!]
[Of course, I think it's more likely that Gu Yuena is actually Junior Va reincarnated and simply enjoys calling someone Mommy.]
BOOM!!!
A terrifying aura erupted at the bottom of the Lake of Life, only to swiftly dissipate again-before it could fully explode, Gu Yuena had managed to restrain her impulsive urge with the last shred of her reason.
Even so, Gu Yuena's draconic eyes were still filled with fury.
Or perhaps, alongside that fury, a faint thread of fear had also crept into her heart.
She was furious at what Aoyao had recorded in his diary, furious that the version of herself in it had actually done something so foolish and outrageously absurd. Her fear, however, stemmed from the soul beasts' ultimate, tragic fate.
The soul beasts of the Star Dou Great Forest nearly wiped out, with only the sea soul beasts surviving?
Under my command?
What kind of joke was that!
I am the Silver Dragon King! I inherited the Dragon God's wisdom!
Under my leadership, the soul beasts' future will only grow brighter and brighter. How could it possibly end like that?
Beside her, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion read every word of the diary without looking away, a trace of certainty appearing in her eyes.
I knew the sovereign was unreliable!
She said that as long as I stayed by her side, Tang San wouldn't target me and I wouldn't be in any danger... looks to me like staying by your side is the greatest danger of all!
This had gone beyond mere unreliability... the Three-Eyed Golden Lion now seriously suspected that her sovereign was an actress who had lain low for years just to lead the soul beasts off to feed themselves to the enemy!
Sure enough, I can't count on the sovereign.
Maybe... I should find an excuse to slip away, then head to the human world to look for Aoyao?
With the diary around, my safety should be guaranteed, right?
But... Di Tian said humans are all hypocrites. If Aoyao is like that too, wouldn't I be in even greater danger?
For once, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion thought seriously for a while. Naturally, she failed to reach any conclusion.
She turned her gaze toward Gu Yuena and ventured, "Sovereign..."
She had barely uttered that form of address before Gu Yuena's shrill voice suddenly rang out in something close to a roar. "Make me call that rabbit Mommy? Dream on!"
Uh...
Sovereign, that wasn't actually what I wanted to ask.
Looks like the sovereign's emotions really are unstable right now. Maybe... I'd better not poke her sore spot at a time like this?
"Auspicious Beast, do you also believe that I will become a complete and utter failure, just as the diary says?"
A failure?
Didn't you ascend to the Divine Realm in the end and live happily ever after with Tang San's son Tang Wulin, Tang San himself, who schemed to seize the soul beasts' fortune, and Xiao Wu, whose relationship with you would have to be reckoned separately?
The Three-Eyed Golden Lion could not help inwardly snarking.
She remembered the hundred-thousand-year-old rabbit Aoyao had mentioned.
Although her cultivation was not high, her age was actually equal to her cultivation. Thus, she had indeed seen that rabbit living near the Lake of Life ten thousand years ago; the rabbit simply had never seen her.
The mere thought of her sovereign having to call that rabbit Mommy made the Three-Eyed Golden Lion uncomfortable all over.
It felt as though ants were crawling over her body.
Having received no response from the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, Gu Yuena drew a deep breath and said gravely, "Although the diary records events that will happen in the future, now that I know about them, there is absolutely no way I will allow the future to continue down this path!"
"I am your sovereign... I will absolutely lead the soul beasts to prosperity and glory!"
Mm-hmm!
The Three-Eyed Golden Lion hurriedly nodded her little head, but the corners of her mouth twisted almost imperceptibly.
With a sovereign this unreliable, who would believe her claim that she could lead the soul beasts to prosperity and glory?
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