Divine Catnip

"First, absolutely no walking around the dorm naked;

Second, the dorm's hygiene will be..."

Wang Dong's voice grew weaker and weaker, leaving Long Yaochen, who had been waiting for a memorable scene, completely baffled.

What was this tomboy doing?

Fine if she did not want to continue, but why was her face turning red?

"Y-you really are my roommate?" Wang Dong stammered for a long while before finally forcing out a sentence.

Having grown up following Big Uncle and Second Uncle, she had never seen a member of the opposite sex with looks like these.

This guy was far more handsome than that blurry figure in her mind!

"Who else would I be? You came at the right time. Go clean up the dorm for me." Long Yaochen ignored the inexplicably strange Wang Dong, found a barely clean spot to sit on, and even crossed his legs.

What?

Wang Dong thought she had heard wrong. This guy actually wanted her to do this kind of dirty work?

After looking around, the shabby environment made her forget all about whether he was handsome. Her pride immediately surged up.

"Why should I listen to you?" Wang Dong crossed her arms over her chest, slightly raised her chin, and exposed her fair neck.

"Very simple..." Long Yaochen stood and walked over to Wang Dong. Using his height advantage, he looked down at her and said casually, "I'm stronger than you, so you have to listen to me."

"Hah?"

Wang Dong was so angry at his words that she laughed.

This was the first time in her life she had met someone even more arrogant than herself.

Furious, Wang Dong glared with her unconvinced pink-blue eyes and said to Long Yaochen, who was half a head taller than her, "You say you're stronger, and that makes it true? If you've got the guts, let's go downstairs and fight!"

Long Yaochen chuckled as he watched Wang Dong bristle.

Bullying little kids was his favorite.

This girl had a light attribute, right?

Divinity was not always entirely a bad thing...

Long Yaochen ignored Wang Dong's shouting and merely stared directly into her eyes with his deep black gaze.

Then, he deliberately drew out a trace of the suppressed Divinity.

Golden radiance slowly crept over his black eyes.

Wang Dong, who had been glaring wide-eyed, immediately noticed that wisp of golden light.

The next second, the anger on Wang Dong's face froze.

In her vision, the ruined dormitory and the young man before her all vanished.

In their place rose an Eternal Blazing Sun!

The light elements actually stirred the Soul Power within her body, causing it to circulate repeatedly along a strange route.

Wang Dong's pink-blue eyes were instantly filled with sparkling points of golden light. She had completely forgotten who she was and where she was. All that remained was endless golden radiance wrapping around her.

"Tell me..."

Long Yaochen's Divinity-tainted voice became ethereal, echoing through Wang Dong's mind:

"Praise the sun."

Bzzzt—!

As that divine voice entered her mind, Wang Dong's body reacted instinctively.

Azure light erupted uncontrollably from within her body, and a pair of incomparably gorgeous blue-gold butterfly wings instantly unfurled behind her.

The V-shaped light patterns on those wings brought their beauty to the absolute extreme, as if they did not belong to the mortal world.

Yet at this moment, the noble Light Goddess Butterfly trembled faintly beneath the aura of the Eternal Blazing Sun, as though worshipping a monarch.

Wang Dong's eyes were vacant as she murmured softly, "Praise..."

The moment she uttered a single word, a sudden change occurred!

A sea-blue light lit up on Wang Dong's forehead without warning.

A trident pattern flashed between her brows, seemingly carrying boundless majesty, before vanishing in an instant!

In an instant, more than half the golden light in her eyes faded.

Wang Dong's consciousness also cleared somewhat. Dazed, she said, "Where... am I?"

"Tch, what a hassle..."

Long Yaochen raised an eyebrow, his tone gaining a trace of impatience.

Of course he knew who had left that mark, but so what?

Little Scoundrel, come find me in the lower realm if you've got the guts.

Roar—!

A dragon's roar echoed out. After circling around him once, the Blazing Golden Divine Dragon connected head to tail behind Long Yaochen's head.

In an instant, a dragon-patterned golden halo radiating an utterly sacred aura appeared behind his head!

Immediately afterward, the purple first Soul Ring beneath his feet lit up.

"First Soul Skill, Prayer Light."

As Long Yaochen's emotionless voice rang out,

A pillar of dazzling gold light seemed to ignore the building's obstruction, piercing directly down through the ceiling and completely enveloping both him and Wang Dong!

Within the pillar of light, the sea-blue trident flickered unwillingly.

But beneath this purest Sacred Light Fire, it was like duckweed without roots. Within less than half a second, it gradually dimmed into lifelessness.

Meanwhile, beneath the cleansing of that golden light, Wang Dong's eyes completely turned blazing gold.

Within her golden pupils, a circular ring etched with intricate dragon patterns slowly took shape.

Upon closer inspection, it was exactly the same as the halo behind Long Yaochen.

Bathed in divine light, Long Yaochen seemed like a god descending into the world with every movement. He repeated in that ethereal voice:

"Praise the sun."

This time, nothing obstructed it any longer.

The dragon-patterned ring in Wang Dong's eyes completely closed!

Her pretty face lowered slightly. With devotion in her tone but a blank expression, she repeated, "Praise the sun."

Seeing this bristling little cat completely tamed by his "Divine Catnip," the divine glow in Long Yaochen's eyes instantly receded.

He pointed at the broom in the corner and said casually, "Very good. Now go clean the dorm for me... Remember, don't leave a single dead corner."

Wang Dong retracted her gorgeous butterfly wings, nodded with extreme obedience, turned around, picked up the battered broom, and began sweeping the dust-filled dormitory.

Seeing that she did not utter another word of objection, Long Yaochen nodded in satisfaction.

This was no evil technique. It could barely be considered one of his martial soul's traits.

After all, the light attribute capable of throwing him into a Divinity crisis was clearly no ordinary light.

[Mark of Sun Chasing]

That was the name he had given it.

He had not used this ability in a long time. Back when his Divinity was less severe, he had only tested it occasionally.

Thus, he had not fully tested its exact effects. He only knew that it could strengthen light-attribute Soul Masters and make them absolutely loyal to the "sun."

Unfortunately, it had to be reapplied every time, and it could not affect anyone whose Soul Power surpassed his own, so its practicality was not particularly high.

But judging from the results, it was still an overwhelming advantage against peers with light attributes!

"You clean slowly. I'll go grab something to eat!"

Long Yaochen stretched, glanced once more at the "young master" diligently cleaning the dorm, then walked outside with his hands in his pockets.

As soon as he went downstairs, he saw a withered old man lying beneath the shade of a tree, leisurely basking in the sun.

"Your light attribute is quite extraordinary." Mu En did not even raise his eyelids, yet his voice drifted into Long Yaochen's ears.

Of course it's extraordinary... Otherwise, would that old geezer have kept stopping me from joining the Holy Spirit Cult?

Long Yaochen grumbled inwardly.

However, he had no obligation to explain.

He simply gave Mu En a harmless smile in passing, then headed off to eat without looking back.