Heaven Dou Young Woman Milk Tea, Gu Yue and Tang Wulin's Stranger's Road

# Chapter 28: Heaven Dou Young Woman Milk Tea, Gu Yue and Tang Wulin's Stranger's Road, I Bought It First So It's Mine (4K)

"Tang Wulin is on the train... that explains it..."

Zhao Xuanzhen's mind cleared. Case closed. It wasn't his problem!

Pure Train Killer passive triggered!

Eastsea Academy was on break. Wu Changkong was bringing Tang Wulin to Heaven Dou City, first to pay respects at his beloved Long Bing's grave, second to enter the Spirit Pagoda's Intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform to help Tang Wulin advance his soul rings. They happened to be on the same Soul Guide Train.

Add to that the train attendant being Mo Lan, daughter of Mo Wu, and the temptation for Evil Soul Masters was maxed out!

All Evil Soul Masters were slain. The Security Team came to handle the bodies and the mess. The sweet-voiced, beautiful train attendant walked through every carriage to calm the passengers.

The Soul Guide Train resumed normal operation. Having learned a painful lesson from the last double-team attack, the clever Na'er switched to the window seat and began searching for Heaven Dou City's specialty cuisine.

Gu Yue still sat on the outermost side, diligently studying the Spirit Pagoda. Even when she heard Tang Wulin and Wu Changkong's names, she made no move to greet them. Zhao Xuanzhen, meanwhile, sat between the black-and-white beauties, enjoying a taste of "both arms full."

After a while, Mo Lan walked over to the three of them holding a Soul Guidance Screen. Her curvaceous figure bent slightly as she spoke warmly: "Greetings, three Soul Masters. Thank you for your bravery in handling this vicious Evil Soul Master attack.

The Federation commends your righteous intervention. I'll record your information. From now on, the three of you may ride Soul Guide Trains for free, with unlimited boxed meals!"

"Thank you."

The three accepted gladly. Evil Soul Masters were anti-human creatures deserving of being ground to ash. An unexpected bonus was welcome.

Though given their status, they rarely rode Soul Guide Trains, and Na'er wouldn't even touch the boxed meals, the Federation's goodwill didn't need to be refused.

"Zhao Xuanzhen, Gu Yue, Na'er..."

In the Legend of the Dragon King Era, ID-card-like tablets already existed. As she recorded their information, Mo Lan deeply engraved these three names in her heart, filled with gratitude.

The Evil Soul Masters had come for Heaven Dou City Governor Mo Wu. With his only daughter Mo Lan taken hostage, Mo Wu would surely have lost his composure.

On the Douluo Continent, Soul Masters stood far above ordinary humans. For Mo Wu, a commoner, to climb to such a high position was incredibly difficult. Too many eyes were watching him. One wrong decision and his political career would end immediately.

Mo Lan was grateful to Zhao Xuanzhen and the other two on behalf of herself, her father, and the hundreds of innocent passengers on the Soul Guide Train.

The journey was smooth. The Soul Guide Train arrived safely at Heaven Dou City. Dusk draped a thin veil over the city. On the train station platform, a few clumps of wild grass rustled in the gaps between mottled blue bricks.

Over twenty thousand years ago, Heaven Dou City was already a famous metropolis on the Douluo Continent, the capital of the Heaven Dou Empire and later the Heaven Dou Empire after its split.

Heaven Dou City's location was excellent—not far from the Star Dou Great Forest, the birthplace of soul beasts, and close to Shrek City, the continent's premier city. It could be called the core zone of the entire continent.

Though night had fallen, Heaven Dou City was still brilliantly lit. Tired from the journey, the three decided to find dinner first, then look for an inn to meditate and rest.

Na'er volunteered to lead the way, clearly having found many locally recommended restaurants on Soul Net.

Unlike the technologically advanced Shrek City, Heaven Dou City maintained an antique style. From the ancient patterns on the roadside buildings, the three could experience the vicissitudes of twenty thousand years of history.

Gu Yue had only been to Eastsea City. Zhao Xuanzhen and Na'er had only one more city than her—Shrek City. Strolling through the quaint Heaven Dou City now had a unique charm.

"Zhao Xuanzhen, look!"

Na'er suddenly tugged Zhao Xuanzhen's sleeve, staring straight at a shop by the roadside.

Heaven Dou Young Woman Milk Tea.

This milk tea shop seemed like an outlier leaping out of antiquity. Bells hung under the eaves, clinking in the evening breeze. The outer wall was painted with a gradient of cherry blossom pink, making the pink sign reading "Heaven Dou Young Woman Milk Tea" look like it was soaked in honey.

"This shop is super popular! Let's try it!"

Na'er had planned this all along. She grabbed Zhao Xuanzhen and Gu Yue by the arms and dragged them into the milk tea shop.

The woman behind the glass counter looked up at the sound. A purple cheongsam wrapped her voluptuous waist. Two pearl buttons were deliberately left undone, revealing an ink-black vine tattoo on her collarbone. Her fingers, wiping a cup, were slender, her nails a light shell-pink.

"Eh?"

Na'er froze instantly. No joke—how was the owner actually a young woman!

Silver eyes glanced imperceptibly at Zhao Xuanzhen. This guy had a preference for older sisters. Na'er had long noticed this and was deeply puzzled. Spending every day with the super beautiful Na'er—who exactly had corrupted his taste!

Zhao Xuanzhen showed no sign of abnormality. Na'er breathed a slight sigh of relief. Gu Yue's sudden intrusion into their lives had stirred Na'er's possessiveness over her Core of Humanity, making her a bit more guarded lately.

"What would you three like to drink?"

The young woman swayed her hips, her voice as melodious as an oriole.

Approaching the misty display case filled with drinks like a sealed spring day, Gu Yue scanned all the names and said:

"One Passionfruit Double Play, with ice, no extra sugar."

"No problem!"

The owner began making the drink on the spot. Gu Yue turned her head and found Na'er looking at her with contempt, an expression that said, "You have such bad taste."

"What are you doing?" Gu Yue instinctively stepped back half a step, a trace of confusion in her pitch-black eyes.

Na'er crossed her arms, stood on tiptoe, and looked down at her: "Passionfruit Double Play won't do. It doesn't have my approval. It has to be the toe-tappingly delicious Meimei Puji Taotao—that's the supreme drink at the top of the milk tea evolution chain!

Boss, one Meimei Puji Taotao, with ice and coconut jelly, full sugar!"

Gu Yue's pretty face darkened. Veins bulged on her forehead. Who knew the milk tea world had a hierarchy of contempt!

Zhao Xuanzhen fell into deep thought. They could both drink iced drinks...

Wait, why am I thinking that?

Silently cursing his degenerate soul, Zhao Xuanzhen ordered a half-sugar Duo Rou Grape.

Three cups of milk tea freshly brewed, the Passionfruit Duet suspended with pulp, fine droplets of water clinging to the cup walls. Meimei Puji Taotao's pink-and-white gradient layer looked especially tempting, the top cream cap sprinkled with star-dust-like pink crystal sugar. Duo Rou Grape resembled a deep purple vortex, with cold-sky crystals bobbing up and down.

The three left the milk tea shop, straws piercing the lids. The moment the cream cap puffed up like a cloud, Na'er inhaled like a storm!

"Mmm..."

Na'er smacked her lips, her expression disappointed. Meimei Puji Taotao hadn't lived up to her expectations. Her gaze stealthily shifted to the Duo Rou Grape in Zhao Xuanzhen's hand.

"This cup isn't good. I want to drink your Duo Rou Grape!"

"No."

"Zhao Xuanzhen, you're rejecting me!"

"Mm."

"How dare you! I fed you, lent you my shoulder to sleep on, and now you won't even let me have a sip of your milk tea? How can you, as a human, be colder than a soul beast!"

Na'er secretly stomped on Gu Yue's foot, counting her merits on her fingers.

"...Fine."

Zhao Xuanzhen handed over the Duo Rou Grape. Na'er giggled, not taking it with her hand but instead leaning in to bite the straw with her mouth, taking a huge gulp.

After letting go of the straw, Na'er licked her canine teeth with the tip of her tongue as the lingering fragrance exploded between her teeth. She grumbled indignantly, "I clearly ordered full sugar, so why does half sugar taste sweeter and better!

I'm going to demand an explanation. She better give me a reasonable one, or I'll stir up every young wife in Heaven Dou City!"

"Stop embarrassing yourself. Let's go, let's go."

Zhao Xuanzhen grabbed Na'er by the scruff of her neck, the fateful spot, and firmly suppressed her. Gu Yue, seeing this, was in a great mood, and the corners of her lips couldn't help but curve into a moving arc.

The three walked together, the crowd ebbing and flowing like a tide. Amidst the noise was elegance, amidst the stillness was spirit.

Na'er had already settled on a restaurant while on the Soul Guide Train, leading Zhao Xuanzhen and Gu Yue through the streets and alleys.

A wisp of fragrance wafted over, like the fresh essence of a river baked in charcoal fire. Green smoke wrapped in charred aroma drifted past the door, enticing passersby to stop.

Yuhao Grilled Fish.

"You picked well..."

Zhao Xuanzhen squinted. Huo Yuhao had ascended to the divine realm in his twenties. Yuhao Grilled Fish had little connection to Lao Huo himself; it was a case of the founder borrowing Lao Huo's immense fame to attract customers. Yuhao Grilled Fish had indeed successfully made a name for itself, opening branches in several large cities.

Having weathered the divine skill Revive My Lover, Zhao Xuanzhen ignored all mental attacks, such as the story of the grilled fish.

"Welcome, three customers. Our grilled fish is selected and killed on the spot."

A waiter with a dark blue apron tied around his waist greeted them with a smile, a bamboo net in hand, guiding the three to a wall.

The entire wall had been transformed into a three-dimensional tank, with different types of river fish swimming inside. Splashes from the lively large fish flicking their tails landed on the sensor screen, while fill lights cast shimmering reflections.

Yuhao Grilled Fish truly lived up to its reputation as the hottest restaurant in Heaven Dou City. Even after the meal rush, many customers were still gathered around the tank picking fish.

Na'er studied the fish thoughtfully and said, "Which one should we pick? I'm a bit hungry. I want a big fish, but the bigger the fish, the bigger the bones."

Gu Yue followed up: "The bigger the bones, the less meat."

Zhao Xuanzhen frowned: "The less meat, the smaller the fish."

Na'er suddenly realized: "So, to sum it up, the bigger the fish, the smaller the fish... Hiss, the more I think about it, the more terrifying it is!"

The Three Little Children Debate Fish manifested on the spot. The waiter, Lao Di, visibly stiffened for a moment, breaking into a cold sweat on the spot!

At that moment, through the cover of the tank, Zhao Xuanzhen's line of sight caught two figures. An adult male with a stern face, an aura that kept others at a distance, and a spirited youth with particularly vivid big black eyes.

Wu Changkong, Tang Wulin. In another timeline, after entering Heaven Dou City, Wu Changkong had brought Tang Wulin to eat Yuhao Grilled Fish.

Tang Wulin's eyesight was excellent, and he also clearly saw the three figures picking fish inside Yuhao Grilled Fish.

"Gu Yue is traveling with them..."

Tang Wulin stared at Gu Yue, who was bantering back and forth with Na'er. This was a side of her he had never seen before. At Eastsea Academy, Gu Yue had been like a cold machine, but now she had become a living, breathing person.

"Gu Yue, your classmate is here. He's looking at you," Zhao Xuanzhen reminded.

Gu Yue lifted her gaze, saw Tang Wulin staring intently, then slightly turned her head and said to Zhao Xuanzhen, "Trouble you to put your arm around my shoulder."

"Mm."

A hand gently rested on that swan-like neck and shoulder. Gu Yue's delicate body couldn't help but tremble for an instant. She slowly exhaled and silently shifted a step closer to Zhao Xuanzhen.

Outside the shop, Tang Wulin's jawline tightened, and his expression went blank for a moment.

Witnessing Gu Yue's icy exterior melt and her becoming intimate with Zhao Xuanzhen, Tang Wulin felt a sense of disillusionment. In truth, he and Gu Yue had never been that close. He had never possessed her, yet he felt as if he had lost her countless times in some intangible way—like a toy he had stood on tiptoes to look at every day, now taken away by a stranger.

In an instant, a weight lifted. In the next, his heart felt like it was being twisted.

Wu Changkong sensed Tang Wulin's emotional shift and offered cold comfort: "Those two children must be Core Disciples of the Spirit Pagoda. It's normal for Gu Yue to be close to them now that she's joined the Spirit Pagoda."

"I know." Tang Wulin pressed his lips together. "Teacher Wu, let's switch to another restaurant. I suddenly don't feel like eating grilled fish anymore."

Wu Changkong nodded, and the two turned and left Yuhao Grilled Fish.

Inside, Na'er slapped Zhao Xuanzhen's hand away, glared at him, and said resentfully, "Touching someone's shoulder, you're pretty bold. What's next!"

Na'er was completely losing it. Gu Yue, on the other hand, was inwardly triumphant. Today was just a small step; there would be plenty of time for you to cry later!

"I want that silver fish."

Na'er pointed to a fish that stood out from the rest—a silver thread ran along its blue-black dorsal fin.

"That silver one looks special. Let's eat it."

But a nearby customer had also set their sights on the same silver fish.

As the words fell, two waiters moved to catch the fish, but suddenly the water surged, a cluster of silver scales flashed, and the silver fish streaked like a flowing light, landing precisely in the net beside Zhao Xuanzhen and his group.

"That person wanted our fish too." Na'er blinked, knowing Zhao Xuanzhen had made his move.

"I bought it first, so it's mine."

Zhao Xuanzhen said flatly.

A beat too slow and missing the silver fish, the customer shrugged and switched to another fish.

That was the normal course of events—the silver fish was merely unusual in appearance, its taste nearly identical to any ordinary fish. Was it really something to Deserve to Die over?

An iron plate arrived with the grilled fish, oil sparks bursting like golden flowers, the whole surface dotted with Amber Charred Spots. The skin was crispy, with Pepper Grains and Perilla Flakes scattered across it like stars.

Gu Yue lightly pressed the fish's belly. With a crisp crack, milky white mist billowed out, revealing snow-petal-like Garlic Clove meat. The juices seeping from the fibers soaked the Lotus Leaf lining the bottom. She very ladylike picked up a piece of fish with her chopsticks, tasted it, and nodded in approval.

Na'er couldn't wait to send the plumpest Crescent Meat by the gills into her mouth. Her teeth broke through the fish skin with a sound like cracking sugar shell, then were drowned by the scalding fresh juices. The spicy fragrance of Dried Tangerine Peel and Old Ginger swirled on her tongue, and a thread of sweetness climbed up her throat.

"So good!"

With an exclamation, Na'er entered devour mode, tearing through the grilled fish like a whirlwind.

Watching the sauce smeared on her cheeks, Zhao Xuanzhen pushed over a cup of milky white thick soup, stewed with fish eyes, floating two delicate Exquisite Lotus Pods shaped from fish paste.

"Zhao Xuanzhen, where are we delivering Old Han's letter?" Na'er asked, her words muffled.

"The Forging Association Headquarters in Heaven Dou City."

Zhao Xuanzhen's gaze grew distant.

Delivering the letter, visiting Muye—none of that compared to what Zhao Xuanzhen truly needed to do.

The Eight Deceitful Gods required Heaven's Timing, Geographical Advantage, and Human Harmony to accelerate their birth, and each region could only nurture one of the Eight Deceitful Gods. Soaring Serpent had already occupied the Spirit Pagoda. Zhao Xuanzhen needed to awaken the second Deceitful God in Heaven Dou City—its importance was in no way inferior to Soaring Serpent, who controlled the Deceitful Soul!

The Dry Gold Image, the power of might!