Fighting the Emperor Auspicious Beast, You Jie immediately had a bad feeling about how troublesome this would be.
After all, the Emperor Auspicious Beast had an exceptionally noble status. If he accidentally injured it, Di Tian would definitely fly into a rage.
Di Tian might look all proper and polite right now, but if You Jie really hurt the Emperor Auspicious Beast, he might well start by declaring that You Jie had a death wish...
No, Di Tian wasn't that two-faced. He wouldn't waste words; he'd start with the Dragon God Claw.
But You Jie didn't want to lose either, especially not to the Emperor Auspicious Beast, who in a sense represented fate.
A true duelist knew that everything was inevitable. Even his card draws were something he created for himself!
Just then, You Jie suddenly thought of a great idea.
This was the perfect chance to test how some of Yu-Gi-Oh!'s K-language played out in this world.
"Then I'll accept your offer." You Jie cupped his hands toward Di Tian, then stepped out from behind Mu En and looked again at the Emperor Auspicious Beast, whose radiance had dimmed somewhat.
The Emperor Auspicious Beast had been so dazzling just now that You Jie hadn't gotten a good look at it. Now, taking a closer look at its appearance...
You Jie decided he'd rather choose the general's kindness.
"You! Don't think that just because you have the Red Dragon's protection, I won't dare touch you!"
The Emperor Auspicious Beast seemed to sense You Jie's disrespectful thoughts. After speaking in human language, clearly annoyed, it immediately pounced at him.
For some reason, its voice was a clear, melodious woman's voice. If she became a virtual streamer, she would surely have plenty of fans.
At the same time, the vertical eye in the center of its forehead opened, revealing an alluring red slit pupil that fixed on You Jie.
You Jie immediately felt as if something were peering into him.
But at the same time, the fourth Soul Ring on his right arm gave off a faint glimmer.
"I don't know what ability you used on me, but as long as I activate my ability, I'll be fine!
"Fourth Soul Skill, activate! Go, Harmonious Sky Savior Dragon!"
You Jie immediately raised his right arm. The black Soul Ring in the fourth position blazed with light, and in the next instant, as countless images flashed behind him, a giant dragon appeared at his side. Its body was pure white, its wings black along the outer edges, and a red mane crowned its head.
"A ten-thousand-year dragon with the DARK Attribute?"
At the dragon's sudden appearance, not only Di Tian but even Mu En and Zhang Lexuan relaxed their guard a little and studied it carefully.
But in the next instant, the Emperor Auspicious Beast, which had been charging at You Jie, suddenly stopped. Pain showed on its face, as if it had been struck by something.
Then another image flashed past—a white horse with wings. It slammed into the Emperor Auspicious Beast, sending it flying like a Soul Cannon shell. It traced a golden arc through the air and shot toward the depths of the Star Dou Great Forest.
"Tsk. It seems the Emperor Auspicious Beast has some resistance to effect destruction. Or maybe destruction in this world doesn't work in the same crude, straightforward way it does in Yu-Gi-Oh!
"But banishing seems pretty powerful. It may not be as direct as Aigami's method of banishing things to another dimension, but the fact that even the Emperor Auspicious Beast couldn't resist it—and Di Tian couldn't stop it—shows that banishing has more potential than I imagined."
Seeing Di Tian turn into a streak of black light and chase after the Emperor Auspicious Beast instead of staying put and using his more than eight-hundred-thousand-year cultivation to intercept it, You Jie smiled smugly again. Then he turned and went back to his tent to rest.
Judging by the Emperor Auspicious Beast's reaction, it, Di Tian, and quite possibly even the Silver Dragon King had received some kind of message from the Red Dragon. That was why it had come to challenge him.
If it wanted to play cards, You Jie would have welcomed it with open arms. But if it wanted to pick a fight...
Sorry. You Jie thought he wasn't exactly sane, but he wasn't crazy enough to use magnetic-field powers.
He wasn't about to risk wrecking the Soul Beasts' fortune in the Star Dou Great Forest just to fight the Emperor Auspicious Beast in some climax of a battle.
Mu En and Zhang Lexuan exchanged glances, unsure whether to laugh or worry. In the end, Mu En still sent Zhang Lexuan back to the tent to rest, while he continued keeping watch.
He had only recently recovered his health, but staying up for one night was nothing.
On the other side, by chance or for some other reason, when the Emperor Auspicious Beast landed, it touched down precisely beside Life Lake, where she usually rested more than anywhere else.
"Damn it, he actually sent me back here! Just you wait. I'm going to keep fighting you..."
"Lucky beast, don't be difficult."
Before the Emperor Auspicious Beast could charge again toward the place she had just stared at with her Eye of Destiny, a streak of black light flashed by, and Di Tian was already standing in her way.
"Uncle Di Tian, please let me through. That human and I haven't decided the winner yet..."
The Emperor Auspicious Beast pleaded with Di Tian, unwilling to give up, but he didn't budge.
"That human has realized who you are. That's why he responded to you this way.
"Since he can suddenly injure you, and if he really can summon an even more powerful dragon as in the memory the master shared with us, then neither you nor even I may stand a chance against him."
Di Tian's tone was calm, but carried an unmistakable firmness.
Clearly, he still didn't approve of the Emperor Auspicious Beast's habit of staying up half the night to seek fights with others instead of sleeping.
And he was quite satisfied with how restrained You Jie had been, stopping as soon as he'd made his point.
"...All right."
Realizing Di Tian was serious, the Emperor Auspicious Beast still felt a little annoyed, but could only accept the truth and quietly lie down to recover.
The power of Harmonious Sky Savior Dragon had still inflicted some damage. Thanks to her extraordinary constitution and the rich vitality of the Land of Great Calamity, she would make a full recovery after a day or two of rest, but it still hurt for now.
Still, this only made her more curious about You Jie and the power he possessed.
"Should I just take human form and try approaching him as a human?
"But that human called Jack Atlas said he wanted to become number one in the world, and women were a nuisance..."
Meanwhile, deep inside Mingde Hall in Ming Capital, Sun Moon Empire.
Jing Hongchen stared at the Soul Guiding Shield on the desk before him, his expression complicated.
Judging only by the Soul Guiding Shield itself, it seemed to be an ordinary third-grade Soul Guiding Shield.
But its effects and its efficiency in conserving Soul Power both surpassed the Soul Guiding Shields produced by Mingde Hall.
"These materials, and the way the Core Array is arranged... Could this really be a Soul Tool made by Shrek Academy?"
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