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"I've seen enough. Get some good rest, and remember to add me on Feixin. I'll be going to Eastsea City myself in a few days. If our schedules line up, we can travel together!"
"Okay..." Tang Wulin answered in an extremely weak voice.
However, just after he painfully forced out that single word, he could no longer hold up his heavy eyelids. His vision went dark, and he instantly fell into a deep coma.
As Gu Chen looked at Tang Wulin, Chaos Qi began to pour from his eyes, and a yellow Spirit Ring rose beneath his feet.
Light of Creation!
The first Spirit Ring of his Double Pupils began to flash. Immediately afterward, a beam of pure white light, white as snow yet seemingly containing endless vitality, shot from his Double Pupils and directly entered Tang Wulin's body.
After completing that series of actions, Gu Chen did not pay much attention to the changes in everyone's expressions. With a blank face, he turned around and left the room with steady steps, leaving only a somewhat cold silhouette behind for those present.
Watching Gu Chen leave, Tang Ziran could not help but say, "So it was him."
Mang Tian beside him asked somewhat doubtfully, "What? Do you know my student?"
Tang Ziran nodded and replied, "Of course. The money Wulin needed to buy his Soul Spirit was generously lent to us by that child."
Mang Tian gave a slight nod after hearing that, indicating that he understood. Then he commented on his student, "Gu Chen is extremely talented, and he's upright and kind-hearted. There's absolutely nothing to criticize about his character. It's just that his temperament is a little too cold. He always looks so stern and unsmiling."
Tang Ziran said, "That's true. Even though Wulin is his classmate, they aren't particularly close. Lending us the money might have just been a passing whim, but we still have to thank him. Never mind that for now. I'll take Wulin back to rest first."
After saying that, Tang Ziran left Mang Tian Studio with Tang Wulin.
Eastsea City.
The second-largest city along the East Sea coast of the Sun Moon Federation. An important city for ports, maritime transport, and marine resource development.
The city had a permanent population of more than three million. It was very wealthy thanks to its use of marine resources. Even within the entire Sun Moon Federation, it counted as a second-tier city.
Eastsea City had a long history, and its appearance still retained an ancient style. Over the past few centuries, the Sun Moon Federation had paid particular attention to preserving ancient buildings. Thus, many structures more than a thousand years old could be seen in this ancient city.
At Eastsea City's Soul Guidance Train station, a dark-blue Soul Guidance Train slowly entered the station and decelerated.
On this side of the East Sea, nearly all Soul Guidance Trains used blue as their primary color.
The train came to a stop, and its doors opened. People filed out one after another, many of them carrying large amounts of luggage.
For a moment, the station became lively and bustling.
The dense crowd flowed toward the exit.
Tang Wulin subconsciously tightened the straps of the heavy backpack on his shoulders. Then, with somewhat nervous steps, he closely followed the surging crowd ahead and slowly moved toward the exit.
This was the first time in his life that he had set foot in such a massive city. His heart was filled with indescribable novelty and excitement.
His bright, clear eyes kept darting about as he curiously took in everything around him.
The first thing that caught his eye was the station's roof. It was actually built from countless densely packed metal pipes pieced together.
With only a quick glance, Tang Wulin relied on his sharp powers of observation and familiarity with metal materials to confidently determine that these metal pipes were all the most common casting metal and had likely been made through the simplest, roughest stamping process.
"It's okay, don't be nervous. I have Chen Ge. Whenever I can't decide what to do, I just need to find Chen Ge!"
Just as Tang Wulin silently comforted himself not to be too constrained, he suddenly seemed to realize something and abruptly turned his head.
It would have been fine if he had not looked, but the moment he did, he was stunned—Gu Chen, whom he affectionately called "Chen Ge," had somehow fallen far behind, separated from him by who knew how many people!
Tang Wulin could not help but stare blankly. How had this silly goose run so far away in the blink of an eye? (Gu Chen: I didn't move at all. He was the one who kept running farther away.)
He hurriedly quickened his pace and moved toward Gu Chen. Once he finally closed the distance between them, Tang Wulin's gaze was immediately drawn to a mysterious little object in Gu Chen's hand.
The object had a strange purple-gold color, glittering faintly yet eye-catchingly under the light.
Unable to suppress his intense curiosity, Tang Wulin hurried closer and asked with a puzzled expression, "Chen Ge, what is this?"
However, the instant his gaze fully focused on that strange object, an inexplicable feeling of disgust surged into his heart without warning. It came with unusual intensity, and even he found the sudden emotion utterly baffling.
Faced with Tang Wulin's question, Gu Chen remained quite calm and composed.
Unhurriedly, he carefully tucked the Purple Gold Small Millstone in his hand into his clothes, then answered in an almost indifferent tone, "Nothing special. It's just an ordinary millstone."
After leaving Aolai City, Gu Chen had begun tinkering with the bloodline of the Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon.
This small purple-gold millstone was something he had figured out, though it was not yet perfected and could easily be smashed apart by others.
If the "vessel" of the Law of Destruction was a millstone, a weapon that did not resemble a weapon at all, then the "formless" thing revealed by the pure Law of Destruction was fire!
Or perhaps it was the World-Extinguishing Thunder Tribulation—not for tempering oneself, but purely for destruction!
"Ah!" (Osu!)
Although Tang Wulin found Gu Chen's coldness somewhat off-putting, after several years of getting along, understanding him, and receiving his help, he did not dislike him much. Instead, he was deeply grateful.
Chen Ge seemed extremely aloof because of his personality and Martial Soul, but he was actually very warmhearted.
He was a good person!
A law-abiding citizen through and through!
If Gu Chen knew what Tang Wulin was thinking, he would definitely say:
This kid was so easy to fool. One day, he might sell him off, and Tang Wulin would still help him count the money.
Maybe he should let Tang Wulin experience a little fatherly love and filial piety in the future!