Besides cultivation techniques and martial skills, the Silver Dragon King also learned many other things about Huang Tian from her clone—his deeds and his stories.
For example, with talents like Twin Martial Souls and Innate Full Soul Power, why was his Soul Ring Configuration so abysmal, with a white first ring and a yellow third ring?
It was because he had met a Soul Grandmaster named Yu Xiaogang while joining a junior Soul Master Academy.
The man claimed to be a master researcher of Martial Soul Theory. He sounded so professional, spoke of how famous he was in the Soul Master World, and wanted to take Huang Tian as his disciple so he could test his research findings on him.
However, he contradicted himself in his words, and much of what he said defied common sense. When Huang Tian refused him, he held a grudge and deliberately recommended that Huang Tian absorb a Ten-Year Solitary Bamboo.
As it happened, that academy had very weak staff, and most of its students had only low-grade Martial Souls. As a result, many of them had white first rings, including the Spirit Hall official who had awakened Huang Tian's Martial Soul and several of the academy's teachers.
Back then, Huang Tian was a blank slate. He had never seen a powerful Soul Master, much less understood how treacherous people could be. Naturally, he had no reason to doubt anything and simply thought the Grandmaster was a kindhearted man.
The first few Soul Rings of his Second Martial Soul had also been absorbed because Yu Xiaogang had deceived him.
The man thought this would cripple Huang Tian and make it impossible for him to threaten his own disciple in the future.
Yet even under those circumstances, Huang Tian cultivated faster than another person who had Twin Martial Souls and Innate Full Soul Power.
Moreover, just by watching, he had developed a set of footwork based on the other person's Self-Created Soul Skill, Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, which he had somehow acquired.
Later, Huang Tian's exceptional talent gradually revealed itself. He also became involved with the daughter of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's leader, and managed to obtain his first high-grade Meditation Method.
Using it as a foundation, he studied the strengths of other high-grade Meditation Methods, experimented and made improvements, and created a unique Meditation Method suited to his own Martial Soul. It was the prototype of the cultivation technique he would later develop.
After that, Huang Tian seemed to be cheating. Almost every so often, he came up with something new, leaving everyone dumbfounded.
He defeated the Spirit Hall student team to win the Soul Master Tournament, ventured deep into Slaughter City and obtained Divine Slaughter's Domain, and dared to challenge a Titled Douluo as soon as he broke through to Soul Saint—then actually won.
At the same time, however, his principles and actions gradually diverged from the mainstream of the Soul Master World.
Having once been caught in the rain, he wanted to hold up a sheltering sky for others.
He published and promoted sound Martial Soul Theory, actively hunted Evil Soul Masters and Soul Masters with wicked conduct, stopped nobles from bullying and harming commoners, wiped out human-trafficking rings, and condemned the indiscriminate killing of Soul Beasts.
In all these respects, aside from having several girlfriends, he was practically a flawless sage.
As a result, he had offended countless people. The two great empires, the Upper Three Sects, and Spirit Hall all wished they could be rid of him.
Fortunately, by then, the two great empires and the Upper Three Sects were powerless against him. Their attempts to assassinate him had only cost them men. The only force that could threaten him was Spirit Hall, but it had a traitor in its midst.
The Grand Pontiff's granddaughter, Qian Renxue, and the Pope's disciple, Hu Liena, both admired Huang Tian for their own reasons. They tipped him off several times, allowing him to escape danger.
Of course, besides his achievements in cultivation and his deeds of punishing evil and promoting good, there were also his tangled romances with his many girlfriends—breakups and reconciliations, love and hate intertwined.
Gu Yuena wasn't particularly interested in those things, but she still listened with rapt attention.
Perhaps she had little power left before her rebirth, or perhaps even with Chaos Power's help and the ideal conditions of the Space-Time Turbulence, traveling through time still consumed an astonishing amount of energy.
In her previous life, she had only managed to send back the most important memories.
As a result, the earlier events passed by very quickly. Many things appeared only as one or two images or a couple of lines of dialogue, barely enough to understand what had happened, while long stretches of time were skipped.
However, when the story reached five and a half minutes in, it unusually showed a complete scene, with its causes, consequences, and details.
At the top of a small hill of Gold of Life, the Silver Dragon King was cultivating. She had taken human form and sat cross-legged, her expression peaceful and her breathing slow and steady.
Huang Tian had created more than one cultivation technique. Yin-Yang Great Dao was the most powerful, but his other types were formidable too.
So instead of falling into a deep sleep as usual to conserve energy, she actively circulated the technique, drawing in the energy of heaven and earth and life force.
Just then, a familiar voice rang out in the air, urgent and delighted.
"Milord! Milord! Xiao Hei has something important to report."
Xiao Hei was the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King, Beast God Di Tian, once one of the Nine Great Dragon Kings beneath the Dragon God. That was the Dragon God's affectionate nickname for them. There were also Xiao Bai, Xiao Qing, Little Red, Little Blue, and others.
She could actually be called Xiao Yin, too, but no one dared—or was qualified—to call her that anymore.
At the thought, Gu Yuena suddenly froze.
No, wait. Someone in the future might qualify.
Come to think of it, what does being in love actually feel like?
No matter what happens, I absolutely won't call my master "Daddy." That's way too embarrassing. At most, I'll let him call me Xiao Yin.
As her thoughts churned, the scene skipped over the pointless greetings and explanations.
The next scene took place in a mountain hollow. Sheer cliffs rose on both sides, a babbling stream wound through the valley, and the surrounding slopes grew thick with trees and flowers of yin and cold attributes.
The sun was still overhead, yet the place was dim.
No one knew what had happened earlier, but the Silver Dragon King in the scene had flushed cheeks. She stood with her hands on her hips, neck stiff, glaring furiously as if grinding her teeth in anger.
And yet Gu Yuena could clearly feel that her heart was pounding. Her legs were tightly tensed, and even her ten toes curled against the ground. She seemed almost a little pleased.
"All right, all right. It was just a case of mistaken identity. We look so much alike, after all. Besides, it's no big deal if he kissed you once. What matters is taking care of business."
A woman who looked exactly like her spoke up to smooth things over. Her silver hair rippled like jade-green waves, and her violet eyes were as limpid as autumn water. She was so radiant and beautiful that even seeing another version of herself stirred a tender affection in her.
Gu Yuena immediately understood: Huang Tian had mistaken her for his clone and accidentally taken advantage of her.
How could he mistake us? Even our auras of power are different. He's so careless.
As soon as the Silver Dragon King's clone finished speaking, Huang Tian seized the opportunity.
"Right, right. At worst, I'll grit my teeth and make a little sacrifice. I'll let you put your arm around my waist and give me a kiss.
"I promise I won't tell anyone or hold it against you. I won't get mad at you."
"Pah!"
The Silver Dragon King was even angrier, and Gu Yuena's eyes widened.
Ah, is this man really that shameless?
I can't believe he'd say that.
And what was with that serious expression, like he was making up his mind after careful thought?
But it looks like this is where the relationship between my true self and Huang Tian began, doesn't it?
It's kind of sweet.
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