After ending the shared connection with Lin Nuo, Lin Yan slowly opened his eyes. Feeling the soreness in his muscles and recalling the experiences from earlier, he did not think much of it.
Lin Tian, who was writing out the next stage of plans for himself and Lin Yan, noticed that Lin Yan had returned. Without looking up, he asked curiously, "How was it?"
"Not bad." Lin Yan rose from the bed and stretched lazily. "My Authority of Strength is indeed well suited to the path of forging."
Hearing that answer, Lin Tian stopped his pen and looked up at Lin Yan. Somewhat helplessly, he said, "Then my Gold Soul Coin expenses may increase considerably. The money we have on hand probably will not be enough."
"Then we need to speed up our cultivation and earn some extra money at the Soul Fighting Arena." Lin Yan looked at Lin Tian and voiced his idea.
"Fine. You speed up your cultivation." Lin Tian nodded slightly, his gaze resting on Lin Yan as though assessing his cultivation progress.
Lin Yan raised a brow at that, looking at Lin Tian with a strange light in his eyes. His tone carried a hint of confusion. "What about you?"
Lin Tian spread his hands, speaking frankly, even with a trace of justification. "I am responsible for making plans and coordinating everything. I am not a combatant, so there is no need for me to handle every matter personally."
Lin Yan opened his mouth, intending to argue. After all, plans alone were not enough when it came to cultivation. But when the words reached his lips, he swallowed them back.
He fell silent for a while, his gaze sweeping over Lin Tian before he finally nodded slowly.
Was that not the truth? Other than his outstanding appearance, the current Lin Tian was utterly useless in terms of cultivation and combat strength. He truly could not do anything related to fighting.
Noticing something off about the way Lin Yan was looking at him, Lin Tian said speechlessly, "Are you cursing me in your head again?"
"What else would I be doing?" Lin Yan admitted directly. "Right now, other than your looks, you are good for nothing."
Lin Tian: "..."
He wanted to retort, but when the words reached his mouth, he ultimately remained silent and changed the subject. "Let us talk about something else."
"What topic?"
"The topic from last time." Lin Tian took out a black notebook and opened it. It contained a secret he had deduced using his own Wisdom last time. "Perhaps we are not on the same timeline, but the appearance of the main body has connected this timeline together."
Lin Yan remained silent. When it came to Wisdom, this conceited bastard in front of him had the most right to speak.
Lin Tian began explaining his conjecture. "We are actually in other parallel-world Douluo universes. The reason we can connect with the main body is because he is time itself, and we are also fragments of his soul. With those two factors, our timelines have been linked together."
"You mean the main body's world is the Main World, while we are in parallel worlds that have not happened yet?" Lin Yan asked.
"More or less." Lin Tian nodded. "However, I have an even bigger conjecture."
"What conjecture?"
"When we return to the main body, will this parallel world become a new Main World?" As Lin Tian said this, he looked at the conjecture recorded in his notebook. In truth, he had already touched upon the answer: time itself was what allowed the three worlds to exist on the timeline simultaneously.
Once they fused with the main body, would the Douluo parallel world they inhabited and the Peerless Tang Sect parallel world become Main Worlds?
This truly would be a very interesting experiment.
At that moment, Lin Yan spoke, his tone carrying hesitation and caution. "Then should we tell the main body about this discovery?"
"No need."
Lin Tian slowly shook his head, calmly meeting the confusion in Lin Yan's eyes as he explained, "As the monarch, it is not as though he necessarily does not know about this. It is simply that, given the current situation, this is not yet something he should be considering." As he spoke, he closed the notebook in his hand and lightly tapped its cover with his fingertips. His gaze returned to Lin Yan, and his expression became more solemn.
After a brief pause, he continued, "As subjects, our duty is to share the monarch's burdens and do the things he cannot yet do at this stage. That is the proper measure we should maintain."
Lin Yan looked at the utterly serious Lin Tian before him and chuckled. "I take back some of what I said before. Aside from your appearance, your brain really is the best among us."
"Does that count as recognition for me, your companion?"
"What recognition is there to speak of? We are the same person to begin with." As Lin Yan spoke, he walked to the window and looked over Suotuo City's nightlife. He slowly said, "We have three years left. We need to hurry."
During the Dragon King era, Lin Nuo brought home the welcome gift Mang Tian had given him. What he held in his hands could be considered this teacher's most precious possessions: experience and some highly useful forging materials. Mang Tian told him to study them carefully at home every day, and if he encountered anything he did not understand, he could ask him every Saturday and Sunday.
It could be said that when he and Tang Wuling took Mang Tian as their master this time, they had truly cleaned out the man's entire fortune, leaving nothing for him.
What a good teacher. Unlike that Yu Xiaogang—he could not provide knowledge or protection. Only that Storage Soul Tool had a little value. He was simply pathetic.
Honestly, if they dragged out every teacher from the Dragon King era, any one of them could completely crush Yu Xiaogang.
"Big brother."
"Na'er, what is it?" Na'er's affectionate call pulled Lin Nuo back to his senses. He looked curiously at Na'er, who was tugging at him from the side.
"Big brother, do you also have a fire element?" Na'er stared at Lin Nuo with her large amethyst eyes full of curiosity. During the forging just now, she had sensed a trace of lingering fire element energy. It was negligible, but as the Dragon King who ruled the elements, she sensed it with perfect clarity.
Her big brother's Body Martial Soul should have something to do with time. Where had the fire element come from?
She could not understand it. Could it be that Gu Yue had another secret she had not told her?
"Na'er, is it possible that I swung the hammer too fast and gave you the wrong impression?" Lin Nuo was not someone who told her everything, so he casually found an excuse to brush off this curious little dragon.
Na'er stared fixedly into her big brother's eyes. She understood that he did not want to tell the truth, and she could not press him further. She could only nod. "Then Na'er must have really seen it wrong."
Yet inwardly, she cursed Gu Yue. That damn Gu Yue must be hiding something from me.
In Shrek City, Gu Yue, who was studying artificial Soul Spirits at the Spirit Pagoda, suddenly sneezed.
The mature red-haired woman standing beside her saw Gu Yue sneeze and asked with concern, "Yue, the weather has been cold lately. Make sure to wear more clothes."
"I understand, Teacher." Gu Yue nodded. She rubbed her nose and could not help thinking, Could that brat Ano, whose feathers have not even grown in yet, be thinking about me?
"Oh, Yue." The mature red-haired woman looked at her disciple with an exceptionally serious expression.
Gu Yue asked in confusion, "What is it, Teacher?"
"If there is someone you like, be bold and like them~"
Gu Yue: "?"
Had her teacher gone crazy again?
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