Auspicious Beast, Strictly Speaking, You Should Call Me Master

Yan Shaozhe was instantly incensed, his anger rising to his head.

He demanded, "Scarlet King, what do you mean by this?"

The Scarlet King glanced at the tense group and said calmly, "Just wait here. The Auspicious Beast won't hurt your student. This is only to avoid any suspicion. Our Soul Beast Clan has always valued honesty."

"What can you offer as a guarantee?"

Yan Shaozhe demanded angrily, his heart racing with anxiety.

Xian Lin'er was just as frantic, wishing she could charge out right now and catch up with the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.

The Scarlet King glanced at the two Titled Douluo, then waved away a large number of Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts before replying, "I'm staying here with you. What more do you need as a guarantee? The Auspicious Beast is a treasure of Star Dou, too. We can all just wait together."

Yan Shaozhe and Xian Lin'er were at a loss.

What the Scarlet King said made sense, too.

With the Scarlet King here, both sides had something to hold over the other. Maybe Yu Daoyun was the one who'd come out ahead.

The Star Dou Great Forest valued the Auspicious Beast highly, and they valued Yu Daoyun just as much.

Zhang Lexuan looked at Yan Shaozhe with concern and asked, "Dean Yan, that Auspicious Beast has such a violent temper. Could she kill someone?"

She was worried about the safety of her Child Groom.

Yu Daoyun was an indispensable part of her life. She could accept losing Beibei, but she couldn't imagine how she'd go on living if she lost Yu Daoyun.

Han Ruoruo teased her from the side, "Lexuan, do you have a thing for that little pretty boy? Just admit it. It's not like Little Peanut could do anything to you anyway."

Zhang Lexuan blushed and shoved away Han Ruoruo, whose curiosity was bursting at the seams.

Yan Shaozhe sighed and gestured for Zhang Lexuan not to panic.

He was rather curious about what had happened between Lexuan and Yu Daoyun. Why had this perfectly good girl shown so little interest in Beibei, only to fall for Mu En's successor?

This was no good at all.

Deep in the mixed zone.

The Three-Eyed Golden Lion set Yu Daoyun down and gazed at him with her vertical pupil, waiting expectantly for this human to reveal some secret that would interest her.

Yu Daoyun coughed and said calmly, "Auspicious Beast, strictly speaking, you should call me Master."

Master?

At his words, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion flew into a rage. She raised a paw and declared proudly, "I'm the embodiment of auspiciousness, a super Soul Beast with the Golden Dragon Bloodline and Light Bloodline. You want me to call you Master? Do you want to die?"

Yu Daoyun said calmly, "Your bloodline isn't as noble as mine."

The Three-Eyed Golden Lion roared angrily, "Nonsense!"

Yu Daoyun lifted his chin and released his dragon might. The Auspicious Beast's Golden Dragon Bloodline was completely suppressed.

The Three-Eyed Golden Lion's amber eyes suddenly contracted. "You..."

Yu Daoyun said coldly, "Keep this secret for me, then guide your Power of Destiny to me. I can save your life one day. I need your Destiny Protection."

The Three-Eyed Golden Lion hesitated for a moment.

This human before her bore the aura of Master, but it wasn't complete. His origins were exceedingly mysterious.

But wasn't the Golden Dragon King, Master, sealed away? Why did this human have Master's bloodline?

Should she protect this human or not?

After thinking it over, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion asked, "You said you could save my life one day. Is that true? I'll have you know, I possess the Eye of Destiny, which can see through everything. You can't fool me."

Yu Daoyun replied, "Actually, I'm guiding your Power of Destiny so I can help you avoid a great calamity. There's another soul living inside your body. If you ever meet the person chosen by that soul, your fates will become entangled, and you'll sacrifice yourself for him."

"If I guide your Power of Destiny, I'll gain Destiny Protection, and I'll help you avoid that calamity, too. Think it over."

He wasn't lying... Through her Eye of Destiny, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion saw that he wasn't lying, and couldn't help feeling afraid.

According to what he said, there might really be another soul inside her body, one destined to entangle her fate with someone else's.

This human with Master's bloodline seemed to genuinely be trying to help her.

"Well, what do you think?" Yu Daoyun urged.

The Three-Eyed Golden Lion replied, "Fine, I agree to guide my Power of Destiny to you, but..."

"But what?" Yu Daoyun asked.

The Three-Eyed Golden Lion raised her proud head and said sweetly, "You're too young. You have to call me Mommy. A mother protecting her son—that's what the laws of destiny demand."

I'm not playing Honor of Kings... Yu Daoyun's mouth twitched, and he turned to leave.

The Three-Eyed Golden Lion immediately felt that the joke had fallen flat. She stopped Yu Daoyun and said, "All right, I was just teasing you. You have no patience at all. Let's get started. Press your forehead against my vertical pupil."

Without another word, Yu Daoyun followed the Three-Eyed Golden Lion's instructions and pressed his forehead against it.

He needed this protection of fortune badly.

Lately, Yu Daoyun had constantly felt bad luck closing in around him. He'd been unable to settle his mind, with a sense of disaster looming.

The Auspicious Beast was favored by the world itself and could keep him safe.

Worst case, he could help Qiu'er purge Tang Wutong's soul later and make Qiu'er his own. Having another Soul Beast wife wouldn't be so bad.

At that moment, golden power spilled from the Auspicious Beast's Eye of Destiny and enveloped Yu Daoyun.

Yu Daoyun's Spiritual Sea underwent a transformation, expanding into a vast ocean, with golden power floating on its surface.

In that instant, he felt all his bad luck vanish. His mind cleared, and his comprehension multiplied several times over.

The Power of Destiny was truly terrifying.

No wonder Huo Gua was so reluctant to part with Qiu'er's Soul Bone and was always touching it. It turned out to have such wondrous properties.

Did that make him a Child of Destiny now?

Then, an Eye of Destiny appeared on Yu Daoyun's forehead. He and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion exchanged memories, and he gained the protection of the Power of Destiny.

The Three-Eyed Golden Lion said weakly, "Don't forget to save me. Help me drive the soul out of my body. I want to be myself. I'm not someone else's puppet."

Yu Daoyun withdrew his vertical pupil and said with a smile, "When the time comes, you'll have to call me Daddy. Otherwise, I can't help you, because destiny mustn't be interfered with lightly."

"Bastard!"

The Three-Eyed Golden Lion immediately got angry and raised a paw to scratch him to death.

This guy had learned her trick and was now making her call him Daddy. Not in a million years.

The noble Imperial Auspicious Beast would never stoop to calling a human Daddy.

"Enough!"

Yu Daoyun cut off the Auspicious Beast's antics and continued, "Help me find a Ten-Thousand-Year Fire Attribute Soul Beast, too. A Flaming Bird will do. We still need a Soul Ring. As an emperor, you should be able to manage that, right?"

The Three-Eyed Golden Lion thought it over and agreed to this request, which wasn't too unreasonable.

After all, the Soul Beasts relied on her to cultivate. And it only meant skipping one dinner. She could always cultivate harder once she got back, and then even more Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts would appear.

It was only a Flaming Bird, a lowly Fire Attribute Soul Beast. She could spare one.

Before long.

The Three-Eyed Golden Lion returned with Yu Daoyun on her back and a dying Ten-Thousand-Year Flaming Bird in her mouth. She tossed them both toward the group of annoying human Soul Masters.

Yan Shaozhe stared at the Flaming Bird Yu Daoyun had brought back, lost in thought.

What had the boy said?

The Auspicious Beast hadn't hurt him; she'd even given him a Ten-Thousand-Year Flaming Bird.

In all his years, he'd never seen an Auspicious Beast this easy to talk to.

Yu Daoyun, you little rascal—you're incredible!