A Delicate Balance, Leng Hanyuan Plots Against Gu Yue

Yet, as the core of all these changes, Leng Hanyuan remained indifferent to the reactions of the outside world.

Steady as a mountain.

In this world without a God Realm, there were very few existences capable of threatening him.

The Abyss Holy Monarch of the Abyss Plane was one; Tang Hao, who had become the Plane Master of the Douluo Plane under Tang San's arrangement but had yet to awaken, was another...

As for the rest, they could hardly be considered much of a threat.

Even the Sky-Propping Douluo Yun Ming, the number one person on the continent, or the Demon Empress of the Holy Spirit Cult, were no exceptions.

No matter how strong those two were, they had not yet fully reached the God Realm.

And on the path toward the God Realm, Leng Hanyuan had traveled no shorter a distance than anyone else.

Absolute strength brought Leng Hanyuan absolute confidence.

Languidly half-reclining on the sofa, Leng Hanyuan narrowed his eyes:

"East Sea Academy, what are you going to that place for?"

On the sofa beside him, the expressionless Gu Yue sat with her legs together and her hands resting on her thighs, her posture elegant, as if she were a young lady meticulously raised in a great family.

Gu Yue had been arranged with an identity by Leng Yaozhu.

She had entered the Spirit Transmission Pagoda under the guise of being Leng Hanyuan's disciple.

Following that high-level meeting, the core council of the Spirit Transmission Pagoda had unanimously passed a motion to create a new position specifically for Leng Hanyuan:

Grand Elder of the Spirit Transmission Pagoda.

His position was equal to that of the Pagoda Master.

This was, in truth, a helpless move by the Qiangu Family.

After all, that ambitious fellow Qiangu Dongfeng was unwilling to relinquish his position as Pagoda Master.

Yet, given Leng Hanyuan's strength, it was impossible to have him serve as a Spirit Transmission Envoy and be suppressed by Qiangu Dongfeng.

Even the position of Deputy Pagoda Master held by Leng Yaozhu was insufficient.

Left with no choice, Qiangu Dongfeng had proposed this suggestion.

Under the deterrent force of the strength Leng Hanyuan had displayed that day, and the joint decision of both the Qiangu Family and the Phoenix Family, there was, unsurprisingly, no one to object.

The entire upper echelon of the Spirit Transmission Pagoda had unanimously passed the decision.

Leng Hanyuan became the only Grand Elder of the Spirit Transmission Pagoda, his status peerless.

As for Gu Yue, who had joined the Spirit Transmission Pagoda under the title of Leng Hanyuan's disciple, she naturally became a star-like existence within the organization.

To fulfill the terms of their original deal, Gu Yue's residence was arranged within Leng Hanyuan's own private courtyard.

This was so he could exchange knowledge regarding the God Realm with her.

Although the Dragon God Heart was not yet in his possession, Gu Yue, as a former half-step God King and a part of the Supreme God Dragon God, could offer him significant help with her experience of the God Realm.

It allowed him to take yet another step forward on this path.

Leng Hanyuan certainly knew the purpose of Gu Yue's trip to East Sea Academy.

But to avoid unnecessary trouble, he feigned ignorance for the time being.

Gu Yue answered softly.

Perhaps because Leng Hanyuan already knew her true identity, she had no intention of hiding it:

"To fulfill a promise."

"What promise?"

Gu Yue was silent for a moment before continuing:

"After I formulated the plan to integrate into the human world."

"In order to thoroughly familiarize myself with the human world, I sealed myself and entered human society."

"During that process, a human personality was born."

"At the time, I made a wrong decision and separated her from myself."

"To bring her back and make myself whole again, I need her to willingly accept my fusion, so I made a wager."

Leng Hanyuan knew clearly that the personality Gu Yue spoke of was Na'er, the current disciple of the Sky-Propping Douluo.

"A wager?"

"Betting on whether human emotions are real?"

Leng Hanyuan chuckled, which caused Gu Yue to be taken aback.

She cast a surprised glance at him with her beautiful eyes.

You could guess even that?

"You know quite a lot."

Gu Yue stared at Leng Hanyuan.

As the Silver Dragon King, she had once held all humans in contempt.

But at this moment, she suddenly realized that she seemed completely unable to see through the Leng Hanyuan before her.

There was no reason for anyone else to know about the wager between her and Na'er.

Even Di Tian and the others shouldn't have known!

"Hmph, I know a thing or two."

Leng Hanyuan didn't mind Gu Yue's gaze and smiled indifferently.

To him, the more wary and attentive Gu Yue was toward him, the more advantageous it was for him.

Leng Hanyuan wanted to create exactly this feeling for Gu Yue:

That she could not get a handle on him.

Gu Yue could not possibly know that what Leng Hanyuan knew was not just the wager between her and Na'er.

He even knew how the situation would develop afterward.

Gu Yue wanted to use the wager to prove that human emotions were all false.

Thereby allowing herself to merge with Na'er without any flaws in her heart, while simultaneously killing Tang Wulin, stripping the Golden Dragon King bloodline from his body, and achieving her complete form.

But it had backfired, and she had ended up trapping herself instead.

She had fallen into a predicament where she was stuck in a single-minded loop, blocked at both ends.

Leng Hanyuan did not intend to directly persuade Gu Yue to kill Tang Wulin and strip the Golden Dragon King bloodline from him.

Because Tang San still had contingencies left on the continent.

Whether it was the three chances to strike hidden within Tang Wulin's spiritual sea, or Tang Hao, the Plane Master currently slumbering in the shadows, both were troubles that could not be ignored.

Moreover, if Gu Yue completely absorbed the Golden Dragon King's bloodline and stepped toward the level of the Dragon God, it would also pose a hidden danger for Leng Hanyuan.

Don't be fooled by the fact that they seemed to have reached a cooperation earlier.

But things like cooperation were as useless as a scrap of paper when the strength between parties was completely unequal.

However, Leng Hanyuan did not intend to let the plot follow the original story either.

If Gu Yue leaned toward Tang Wulin, it would do him no good.

After all, Leng Hanyuan would eventually clash with Tang San.

With that Tang God King's petty and vindictive personality, he could not possibly watch as a factor outside his control emerged.

And the fact that Leng Hanyuan had given up his chance to become a god and sealed himself for ten thousand years proved that he was unwilling to be controlled by the Tang God King.

The conflict between the two could not be resolved peacefully.

And Tang Wulin was Tang San's son.

If Gu Yue followed the original plot and leaned toward him, it would only be to Leng Hanyuan's detriment.

Adding strength to an enemy was not Leng Hanyuan's style.

Therefore, what he had to do was simple.

He would neither let Gu Yue make up her mind to kill Tang Wulin and strip the Golden Dragon King bloodline from him too early, nor let her fall into the trap as she did in the original trajectory.

The balance here was extremely delicate.

It had to be handled with great care.

So...

"It just so happens that after sleeping in that Ice Coffin for so many years, I haven't really had a good look at this world ten thousand years later."

"Let's go. I'll accompany you to that East Sea Academy to take a look."

Leng Hanyuan stretched, his decision seemingly made on a whim.

"After all, we are partners."

"Your power is still in the recovery stage; if something goes wrong, it won't be easy for me to answer to Di Tian."

Gu Yue did not speak.

Her intuition told her that Leng Hanyuan's purpose was not as simple as his words suggested.

Her beautiful eyes gazed at Leng Hanyuan, yet she could never discern his true intentions.

In the end, she nodded slightly:

"Fine."