"Oh?"
Hearing Tang Wulin's words, Leng Hanyuan gave a soft exclamation.
He quietly suppressed the strange glint that had flashed through his eyes.
"What is it?"
he asked softly.
Tang Wulin did not hide anything and told Leng Hanyuan everything that had happened to him.
"Last night, when I was getting ready to meditate, I suddenly discovered that there was a huge golden dragon inside my body."
Tang Wulin recalled what had happened during his meditation yesterday.
His still-childish voice was filled with confusion and fear of the unknown.
"Oh?"
Leng Hanyuan raised an eyebrow.
He could roughly guess what the giant dragon Tang Wulin spoke of was.
Without a doubt,
it could only be the Golden Dragon King sealed within Tang Wulin's body.
However, according to the original plot, Tang Wulin's change should have occurred later. It seemed his appearance had altered the course of many events.
Gu Yue had clearly also thought of the identity of the mysterious dragon Tang Wulin mentioned, and her delicate brows furrowed.
"Anything else?" Leng Hanyuan did not show much abnormality as he continued questioning him.
"There was also someone else."
Tang Wulin hesitated for a moment before truthfully revealing everything.
"He said he was a divine consciousness sent specifically to guide me."
"He told me the identity of the dragon inside my body. It seemed to be called the Golden Dragon King."
A sharp glint flashed through Gu Yue's eyes.
The Golden Dragon King.
Just as she had expected.
What Leng Hanyuan cared about, however, was not the Golden Dragon King, but the divine consciousness Tang Wulin said had been left behind.
The owner of that divine consciousness was undoubtedly the God King Tang, who had already departed along with the upheaval in the God Realm.
"What did he tell you?"
Tang Wulin did not hide anything and answered honestly:
"He told me the identity of the dragon inside my body."
"He said that a powerful being had placed eighteen seals on it and sealed it inside my body."
"Now I've reached the threshold needed to remove the first seal."
Tang Wulin hesitated before raising his little face to look at Leng Hanyuan.
"Teacher Leng, who is this powerful being he mentioned?"
"Why would they seal something so dangerous inside my body?"
"And why is there that divine consciousness inside me?"
Tang Wulin's heart was filled with confusion and incomprehension.
He did not understand why so many strange things had appeared on him.
Wasn't he just an ordinary person?
His father and mother were ordinary people too!
The Tang Wulin of the original story would only have kept such matters buried in his heart. Even with countless doubts, he could only suppress them and slowly process them alone.
But Leng Hanyuan had previously pinpointed his abnormality in a single remark.
That had greatly earned Tang Wulin's trust.
Naturally, it also made Leng Hanyuan someone Tang Wulin, still young and mentally immature, came to rely on.
So after what had happened last night, Tang Wulin had sought out Leng Hanyuan today and told him everything.
"I don't know."
"Perhaps there are ulterior motives, or perhaps something else."
Naturally, Leng Hanyuan could not possibly tell Tang Wulin everything he knew.
He kept his words vague, which made them sound more reasonable.
"But don't worry. Blessings may hide within misfortune."
"It's impossible to say whether these abnormalities will bring you disaster or fortune."
"Rather than worrying needlessly, it would be better to face them seriously and reduce the danger as much as possible."
"Wulin, hold out your hand."
Tang Wulin did not know Leng Hanyuan's intentions.
But given how much he trusted Leng Hanyuan now, he obediently held out his hand without the slightest hesitation.
Leng Hanyuan placed his palm on Tang Wulin's arm.
A stream of Soul Power flowed from his palm and entered Tang Wulin's meridians.
Several breaths later, he withdrew his hand.
"Wulin, it seems your current condition is far from optimistic."
"The power sealed inside your body seems to have partially begun to loosen."
"If it cannot be dealt with properly, I'm afraid the outcome will be worrying..."
Leng Hanyuan let out a soft sigh.
But what he had done just now was not merely checking Tang Wulin's condition.
More importantly, he had taken the opportunity to investigate the divine consciousness God King Tang had left inside Tang Wulin's body.
As a top expert with one foot already in the divine realm,
Leng Hanyuan could sense far more than ordinary people.
He had truly sensed the presence of a strange divine consciousness within Tang Wulin's body.
However, perhaps in order to preserve that divine consciousness, God King Tang had likely set some kind of activation restriction upon it.
Only when the appropriate conditions were met would that divine consciousness awaken again.
At all other times, it would remain dormant within Tang Wulin's body.
This was actually a good thing for Leng Hanyuan.
After all, only this way could he set up more measures while God King Tang's divine consciousness slept and give that God King a huge surprise in the future!
Tang Wulin had no idea what Leng Hanyuan was plotting.
After hearing Leng Hanyuan's words, his little face turned slightly pale.
The mysterious figure in his mind had told him the same thing yesterday.
Its judgment was more or less the same as Teacher Leng's.
Tang Wulin had originally been half-convinced by the mysterious figure's words.
But after Leng Hanyuan said this, he finally believed it.
After all, compared with that mysterious figure of unknown identity,
Tang Wulin trusted the extraordinarily capable Teacher Leng more.
Then according to what that mysterious person had said, he only had half a year left.
If he could not gather those three things and remove the first seal within half a year, then death would likely await him!
Half a year was not long.
It could even be said to pass in the blink of an eye.
This looming threat of death stirred Tang Wulin's emotions and filled him with fear.
He was unwilling to accept it!
He still wanted to go back and see his father and mother. He wanted to stay by their side forever!
Such a threat of death was still far too difficult for a child to accept.
Besides...
He had no clue where to find the things that mysterious person had mentioned.
They were simply not things he could find in his current state!
Suddenly,
Tang Wulin remembered something.
His eyes lit up.
There was still Teacher Leng!
Teacher Leng was the Grand Elder of the Spirit Pagoda!
A great figure even Teacher Wu could not hold a candle to!
Teacher Leng would surely have a way to find those things!
But...
Tang Wulin hesitated again.
Although Teacher Leng was a very good person, to put it plainly, they only had an ordinary teacher-student relationship.
It was nowhere near comparable to the genuine master-disciple relationship he had with Gu Yue.
The things the mysterious figure mentioned were all treasures of extraordinary value.
Even if Teacher Leng could find them, what obligation did he have to find them for Tang Wulin?
And what could Tang Wulin offer in exchange that was of equal value?
The pleading words reached Tang Wulin's lips, yet he found them impossible to say.
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