It Fell

Sunlight filtered through the dense branches and leaves, scattering dappled patches of light deep within East Sea Park. The branches swayed in the wind, and the patches of light constantly changed shape.

Not a single flower, blade of grass, or tree in the surroundings had been damaged. Everything that had happened before seemed like an illusion.

Xie Xie was still unconscious on the ground, while the Golden Trident in Tang Wulin's hand had long since vanished. His face was incomparably gloomy.

"Why? Why did my plan of ten thousand years go wrong like this?! I had three chances to act, and I've just used two. The last chance is deeply tied to my ten-thousand-year plan and cannot be used lightly."

"These Spirit Beasts truly are short-sighted, destroying their own foundation. If the Douluo Plane is swallowed by the Abyss, how could any of you still have room to survive?" Tang Wulin snorted coldly, sounding thoroughly exasperated. Yet he had never considered that humanity had already squeezed the Spirit Beasts' living environment down to almost nothing. Only the core region of the Star Dou Forest still remained.

And wasn't the Abyss brought here by you?

After calming the anger in his heart somewhat, Tang Wulin tried to use his divine sense to communicate with his father, who had become the lord of the Douluo Continent plane. Yet he never received a response from Tang Hao.

The Tang God King, wise all his life, had miscalculated once again. The expression on his face was truly spectacular.

"Fuck?! What the hell is going on?!"

Elsewhere, Gu Yue had already left East Sea Park with the green-skirted woman and arrived atop a building.

Di Tian, Xiong Jun, and the others knelt on one knee behind her. Their faces were pale, and their auras were weak. Although they had joined forces to force Tang San to use two of his chances to act, they had also suffered grievous injuries. It could be said that both sides had merely been putting up a front in the end. Tang San did not dare to easily use his final chance, while Di Tian and the others likewise feared the power of Tang San's divine sense.

Taking into account their lord's prior instructions, Di Tian had not led Xiong Jun and the others into a life-or-death struggle against Tang San's divine sense, choosing instead to retreat.

With her back to the others, the silver-haired girl gazed out over the boundless azure sea and murmured softly, "It has already fallen, and the bloodline power contained within its divine core was sealed by that man inside that human."

"What?!" Di Tian and the others were instantly shocked.

The Golden Dragon King had fallen. How... how could that be...

The girl gently shook her head, her gaze vacant.

Back then, after losing her memories, she had inexplicably been teleported to Aolai City. Then the Golden Dragon King Bloodline's aura had inexplicably appeared there. It was all too much of a coincidence, as though some unseen hand had been pushing everything forward.

There was also the unfamiliar dragon aura she had never sensed before on Xu Mengqing, as well as the Traction and warning from the Spirit of the Douluo Plane's Consciousness.

All of it made her feel that things were not so simple.

And there had been that strange feeling she had once had, the sudden urge to separate a portion of her consciousness.

If there had been no Xu Mengqing, no guidance from the Spirit of the Douluo Plane's Consciousness, and she had been affected by the Golden Dragon King Bloodline's aura, could the first person to encounter her have been him instead?

The more Gu Yuena thought about it, the more she felt that Tang San was deeply calculating. Her expression grew increasingly grim. If Tang Wulin had been the one to let her experience the emotions of the human world, she certainly would not have been able to order Di Tian, Xiong Jun, and the others to attack him as decisively as before.

Seeing that their lord remained silent, Di Tian and the others did not dare say anything.

After a long while, Gu Yuena suddenly ordered coldly, "Bi Ji, treat Di Tian and the others first. Do not touch that human for now. Next, I will enter Eastsea Academy, study there by his side, and find an opportunity to directly extract the bloodline from his body."

"Yes, my lord!" Everyone answered respectfully before taking their leave.

The stars and moon shone brightly, starlight and moonlight descending from the night sky as though draping the world in a silver veil.

Deep within East Sea Park, Tang Wulin woke groggily and stared blankly at his right hand. He seemed to have just had a dream, one in which he had seen an enormous golden dragon.

The golden dragon had five claws, its body covered in huge golden diamond-shaped scales. It had deer antlers and the body of a serpent.

Unlike the dragon-type Spirit Beasts of the Douluo Continent, it seemed to have no wings on its back, but five claws beneath its body.

After that, a figure formed from condensed golden light had instructed him to find three things before he turned ten. Though he could not make out the person's features clearly, he seemed to feel an inexplicable sense of trust toward him.

But it was all too absurd. Tang Wulin felt that it had only been a bizarre dream.

"No, you were not dreaming. The Golden Dragon King's bloodline power truly is sealed within your body." A cold voice suddenly rang out in his mind.

Tang Wulin was startled, but he was only nine years old. His curiosity far outweighed his fear.

"Who are you?"

"I am merely a strand of divine sense, one specifically meant to guide you. I am also the golden figure you saw earlier." The voice sounded somewhat weak.

Tang Wulin considered it briefly, then could not help asking again, "You said I wasn't dreaming just now. Does that mean the golden dragon really existed? Is it inside my body?"

"You could put it that way. That was the Golden Dragon King. More accurately, it was the Golden Dragon King's entire essence. The Golden Dragon King's essence is a double-edged sword to you right now. Absorbing it will make you stronger, but if you become stronger too slowly, then once the seal can no longer suppress its power, you will die. Remember, you must find those three things before you turn ten. When the time comes, I will appear again and help you unlock the first seal."

"What three things?" Tang Wulin hurriedly asked. His memories from before were too hazy, and he could no longer remember clearly.

"Century Red Flame Fruit, Century Ice Crystal Fruit, and ten drops of blood from a century-old Spirit Beast with dragon bloodline..." The voice grew weaker and weaker toward the end.

Tang Wulin had far too many questions, but the voice had already disappeared.

However, his nature was stubborn and resilient. Upon hearing that he might die, he not only did not become despondent, but felt even more driven. Besides, that person had said that as long as he successfully absorbed the Golden Dragon King's essence, he would become stronger.

Becoming a powerful Spirit Master and Mecha Pilot had always been his dream.

"But where am I supposed to find those three things?" Tang Wulin lowered his head in distress soon afterward.

The Century Red Flame Fruit and Century Ice Crystal Fruit sounded extraordinary just from their names alone, not to mention the ten drops of blood from a Spirit Beast with dragon bloodline. In this age of Spirit Souls, Spirit Beasts had long been on the verge of extinction. Obtaining the blood of a century-old dragon-type Spirit Beast was easier said than done.

After calming his emotions, Tang Wulin stood up and touched his right shoulder. He discovered that the wound where Xie Xie's Light Dragon Dagger had stabbed him had already completely healed.

He did not know what had happened afterward that caused both of them to lose consciousness, but before blacking out, he clearly remembered that Xie Xie had held back against him.

Thinking that Xie Xie's nature was not bad, Tang Wulin bent down and carried him onto his back, then hurried toward Eastsea Academy.

Eastsea Academy had strict rules and regulations. Staying out overnight would result in punishment. What he feared most was being fined. Besides, it seemed he would not be able to go to the Blacksmith Association to take on a job today.

With Tang Wulin's strength, carrying Xie Xie on his back posed no burden at all. In less than a quarter of an hour, he saw the gates of Eastsea Academy in the distance.