Mistakenly Entering a Heavenly Clan

"Here, this Soul Bone is for you."

Not long after they stepped down from the Soul Fighting Platform, Di Qiu'er tossed Liu Yuan a bone that glowed with white light.

Her movement was utterly casual.

"Oh, thanks."

Liu Yuan caught it and gave it a cursory glance.

Whoa—

It was a light-attribute left arm bone. Its age was not particularly high, only around three thousand years.

Sigh, another one he could not use.

"You really are loaded, aren't you?" Liu Yuan teased as he put the Soul Bone into his Storage Soul Tool.

Di Qiu'er did not care in the slightest. Over the past ten thousand years, she had eaten not ten thousand soul beasts, but at least several thousand. Naturally, quite a few Soul Bones had dropped.

However, those Soul Bones were useless to soul beasts, so she collected them all and used them to decorate her little nest.

This time, when she ran away from home, she had brought all her belongings with her. Fortunately, Scarlet King had once looted a Storage Soul Tool from a human corpse. Otherwise, she truly would not have been able to carry so many things.

"But given your identity, you really don't lack Soul Bones."

Liu Yuan looked at Di Qiu'er, his tone carrying a meaningful undertone. She froze and stared blankly at him.

Had he recognized her?

Just as Di Qiu'er's thoughts churned, he said, "If something this good happens again, call me."

His mercenary tone instantly brought her back to her senses, tossing aside the thought that had just arisen.

"There won't be a next time." Recalling how frustrated she had felt at the start, displeasure appeared on Di Qiu'er's cold face for the first time. "Fighting you wasn't fun at all."

"That's easy."

Liu Yuan grinned.

"Just don't use that golden spear of yours."

"It has a name. It's called the Golden Dragon Spear."

Di Qiu'er corrected him, then changed the subject. "Besides, I only used the Golden Dragon Spear because you kept using tree roots to bind me first."

Liu Yuan said, "That's easy. I'll hold back next time."

Di Qiu'er seemed rather easy to appease.

Hearing him say that, she actually nodded.

"Then I'll fight you."

Then she added, "As long as you beat me once, I'll give you a Soul Bone."

Liu Yuan: "..."

Fine, fine, fine!

Di Qiu'er, you were the truly generous one.

After that, Liu Yuan and Di Qiu'er reunited with the others, while Xu Sanshi and Bei Bei left ahead of them.

Next,

Ning Tian invited Liu Yuan and the others to a meal in Shrek City, saying that she would treat them.

Naturally, Liu Yuan, who understood her intentions, did not refuse.

At the dinner table, everyone ate and drank as they pleased. Nothing happened, and they barely talked at all. Only when night fell did they part ways in front of the restaurant.

However, as they walked back toward the dormitory building,

"Brother, Ning Tian didn't say anything," Huo Yuhao suddenly said as he walked beside Liu Yuan.

"Heh..."

Liu Yuan chuckled and looked at him.

"What did you think she would say?"

"Of course..." Huo Yuhao had just begun to answer when he immediately realized something, his expression turning to one of understanding.

"You get it now, right?"

Seeing that he understood, Liu Yuan curled his lips. "See? There's no need to say it. Smart people naturally understand. What's the point of saying it? It would only make things unpleasant."

The young sect mistress of the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect truly was not bad. Her invitation to dinner meant only one of two things.

First, she wanted to recruit them into the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect. Second, if that failed, she wanted to make friends.

Look, they even had to leave separately after dinner.

What a pity. If Shrek Academy did not have the Golden Ancient Tree, and if Shrek Academy were not the strongest force on the Douluo Continent, he truly might have been tempted to choose the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, the wealthiest sect.

But just then,

"What are you saying there's no need to say?" Wang Dong'er cast a thoroughly puzzled look at them from the side.

She had been beside them and had heard their conversation clearly, but they had both spoken only half their thoughts.

They were like riddle-speakers, impossible to understand.

Wasn't it just a simple meal?

Seeing that the confusion in her eyes was not an act, Liu Yuan chuckled and pointed at her before looking at Huo Yuhao.

He did not speak, but his eyes conveyed one meaning: See? Here's a "smart person."

In an instant, Huo Yuhao's cheeks flushed red.

Of course, he had held it in.

He did not know whether he should laugh or not.

Until—

"Pfft—"

A burst of laughter broke the atmosphere.

The three of them turned to look.

Xiao Xiao had her head lowered tightly, trying to suppress herself.

"I'm really sorry. I couldn't hold it in."

Wang Dong'er: ???

What? What was going on?

Why was she the one who did not understand again?

Wait... why had she said "again"?

Fortunately, it was only a minor interlude.

Liu Yuan soon brushed it aside lightly.

Wang Dong'er did not dwell on that question either. After all, there was something she cared about more.

"Did that violent woman give you a Soul Bone?"

Excitement shone in Wang Dong'er's eyes. Of course, it was not excitement over the Soul Bone. She wanted to laugh at Di Qiu'er.

Noticing her intentions, Liu Yuan waved a finger before her eyes, revealing a teasing smile.

"Then I'll have to disappoint you."

As soon as he said that,

Huo Yuhao and the other two immediately widened their eyes!

Wang Dong'er was even more incredulous.

"What?! She really... gave one!?" She deliberately suppressed the excitement in the last two words.

That made her voice sound rather strange.

However, no one had the mind to care about that.

"She really did."

Liu Yuan nodded. "A thousand-year Soul Bone."

The incredulous Wang Dong'er opened her mouth. After a long while, she repeated, "What, she really gave one!?"

Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao: "..."

They'd stumbled into a Heavenly Clan~~

What? Was this world completely insane?

And insane in a way they could not even understand?

A New Student Soul Fight, and she gave away a Soul Bone? What family's young miss had come out to experience ordinary life?

Just like that, after Liu Yuan told them not to spread the matter and all three agreed,

The three of them wandered dazedly to the dormitory building as if their brains had crashed. Wang Dong'er and Xiao Xiao returned to the girls' dormitory, while Liu Yuan and Huo Yuhao returned to Room 108.

The moment the door closed,

"Wake up. You're still stunned?" Liu Yuan kicked Huo Yuhao in the butt, snapping him back to his senses.

Huo Yuhao shook his head. "Brother, that was a Soul Bone!" There was no greed in him whatsoever. He was merely shocked in the way of someone who had never seen such wealth.

Liu Yuan simply gave an indifferent "Mm."

"A thousand-year one."

Huo Yuhao: "..."

Had he made too much of a fuss?

After a moment of silence, he silently forced himself to return to normal. "Brother, aren't you going to absorb it? I'll stand guard for you."

"I'm not absorbing it." Liu Yuan refused. "Any Soul Bone I absorb has to be at least fifty thousand years old."

Then he took out a porcelain bottle.

He poured out a Mystic Water Pill and tossed it to Huo Yuhao.

"Wait until you get to the bathroom before taking it. This Elixir will cleanse your tendons and marrow, and the impurities it expels won't smell pleasant. Have that big worm stand guard for you."

"Okay."

Huo Yuhao caught it at once.

Then he turned and left the dormitory.

When it came to improving his strength, he was serious!

After Huo Yuhao left, Liu Yuan also poured a Mystic Water Pill from the porcelain bottle. Due to his innate seventh-rank Soul Power talent, his body had already been mostly transformed by the bloodline essences of various plant-type soul beasts over the past five years. At most, it would give him another cleansing of his tendons and marrow.

However, he also had the Gold of Life.

He wondered when Elder Yi would awaken.