Seven Deadly Sins

"What the hell is this thing?"

Staring at the gray ball of light drawing closer and closer, Gu You instinctively wanted to back away.

But at that moment, his body was held in place by some unknown force, and he could not move at all.

Gu You felt like crying. Why had he run into so many strange things today?

He could only watch helplessly as the gray ball of light passed through his forehead and merged into it.

Yet the abnormalities he had expected did not come. It was the same as with the Tyrannosaurus Rex.

There was only a deep voice ringing in his mind.

"With sun and moon in my hands, I pluck the stars; in all the world, there is none like me!"

Gu You froze.

He was far too familiar with those words. Weren't they spoken by Electrolux?

Could that gray ball of light just now have been...

Swallowing, Gu You came up with a bold idea.

The gray ball of light might be a broken wisp of Electrolux's divine soul, and its very existence was an accident.

But why had it reappeared on Douluo Continent, and why had it appeared specifically before him? It could only be because, as a transmigrator, he had brought butterfly-effect changes to this world.

Of course, that was only his own idea. If this Electrolux could speak like Huo Yuhao's could, then later, once he figured out where he had come from, the explanation would become clear.

And if he could not speak, that was fine too. Since he had merged into Gu You's forehead, if he was inside his body, it could be considered a kind of memento.

Electrolux's personality made him one of the few people in the Douluo worldview whom Gu You liked.

After the gray ball of light emerged, the gray rift outside the window closed, and the distorted starry sky slowly returned to normal.

Gu You hurriedly shut the window, always feeling that even if he did the most ordinary thing right now, it might trigger some new abnormality.

"Ding—!"

The room's doorbell rang just then.

"Hello, your late-night snack is here."

A voice came from outside the door.

Hearing that it was the late-night snack he had ordered in advance, Gu You went over and opened the door. Standing before him was a service worker from the Spirit Transmission Pagoda.

The service worker was a man wearing a mask. He pushed a dining cart, his eyes sizing Gu You up.

"Sorry for the trouble."

Gu You thanked him and carried the food from the cart in two trips: several portions of grilled meat and a certain brand of soda from the Douluo world.

He had not eaten breakfast at the orphanage, had taken care of lunch at the Spirit Transmission Pagoda, and had not felt hungry all the way until evening, so he had ordered a late-night snack in advance to be delivered to room 404.

"Enjoy your meal."

The service worker smiled and took the initiative to close the door.

"Eating my fill, then cultivating later. Living like this all the time would be pretty nice."

Gu You bit into a piece of grilled meat. After he swallowed, warmth flowed through his entire body, and his heart felt utterly content.

He imagined having more days like this in the future. Cultivation was secondary; enjoying life was what mattered most.

In the era of Legend of the Dragon King, becoming a god was already impossible. No matter how hard one worked, even if one reached Limit Douluo, or even the demigod level, one could only live a few hundred more years.

Immortality was only a dream. In the limited span of a few hundred years, living out one's own story was not necessarily wrong.

That was the mindset Gu You held. He wanted immortality too, but the limitations of the era lay right before his eyes. If he wanted to break those limitations, the price he would have to pay was also unimaginable.

That was not something effort alone could achieve. If effort were enough, Yun Ming would have become a god long ago.

Unless there was a heaven-defying opportunity, an opportunity great enough to change this world...

"Family Head, I've seen the child. Whether the information is true or not, should I tie him up and bring him home?"

In an elevator somewhere within the Spirit Transmission Pagoda, the service worker who had delivered food to Gu You earlier pressed one hand to the earpiece in his right ear and spoke through the communicator.

"He is now a member of the Spirit Transmission Pagoda. Making a move could easily cause unexpected problems. Observe him in secret. Once you discover that he possesses that martial soul, act. The family doesn't have much time left. This is our only chance. Proceed carefully."

A steady voice came through the earpiece.

"Yes."

After ending the earpiece communication, the elevator doors happened to open. The service worker pushed the dining cart out as usual.

Elsewhere, after finishing his late-night snack, Gu You comfortably entered a meditative state on the bed.

Basic meditation techniques had been made public by the Federation authorities. When he was five, he had borrowed Chen Hui's Soul Guidance Communicator to surf the Federation web and had learned them then.

Compared with when he had previously tried to learn meditation before awakening his martial soul, now that he had fused with a soul spirit and his innate soul power had broken through its limit, meditating gave him an unprecedented feeling.

However, it was ultimately only an ordinary meditation technique, and its cultivation speed was too slow. In the future, he would have to find a way to cultivate a high-level meditation technique. He wondered if his teacher had one.

"A gift... a gift..."

"Hm? Who's talking?"

His thoughts returned. Gu You ended his meditative state, opened his eyes, and looked around the room.

Had he imagined it?

He frowned. There had been a voice by his ear just now, and it had sounded a little familiar.

Who did it sound like? Like...

Gu You suddenly thought of something, and his expression turned ugly.

That voice sounded like the one that had told him, from deep within his consciousness, that he could only choose one when he had selected the golden light orb!

"Who are you?"

Gu You asked. He did not think the owner of the voice would harm him. After all, if they had wanted to, they could have done it back when the golden light orbs appeared. This time, they had even mentioned a gift. What were they trying to tell him?

He only wanted to figure out who the owner of the voice was, and where the power of his Dragon Raja system had come from.

But things did not go as he wished. After he asked, that voice never appeared again.

Gu You was a little disappointed. It seemed impossible to learn who the owner of the voice was.

Making everything so mysterious—what was the point?

After the disappointment passed, he was just about to continue cultivating when a sudden change occurred. A golden light flared before his eyes.

The light was so dazzling that Gu You had no choice but to close his eyes. When he opened them again, he saw a box.

More accurately, it was a long, rectangular black case.

On the outer wall of the black case, a string of ancient Hebrew was carved. Translated, it read: "The blood of all kings must end with the sword."

An alchemical blade—the Seven Deadly Sins!

Holy shit. They brought me the Seven Deadly Sins.

When Gu You saw it, he could not help but blurt out how awesome it was. The owner of that voice was a real one. He had thought the so-called gift was just some kind of joke, but it really was a massive gift.

In Dragon Raja, the Seven Deadly Sins were alchemical weapons personally forged by the King of Bronze and Fire, Norton. A set of seven blades, they corresponded to the so-called "Seven Deadly Sins" in Christianity, and every single alchemical weapon among them possessed enough power to threaten a Dragon King.

Converted to this world's standards, these seven dragon-slaying blades were all of a quality no inferior to divine artifacts.

Seven divine artifacts. It was impossible for Gu You not to be surprised.

With the Seven Deadly Sins, even if he could not draw them for now, his exclusive weapons were settled.

Gu You rose from the bed and reached out, stroking the ancient Hebrew carved into the outer wall of the Seven Deadly Sins case.

"The blood of all kings must end with the sword."

He recited the line, thinking of the judgment proclamation when the Realm of Sin and Punishment opened.

"Thou shalt repay overstepping with pain."

His gaze sharpened.

"Thou shalt repay arrogance with an eye."

A nameless fury rose in his heart.

"Thou shalt repay betrayal with blood."

Gu You's hand stopped at the center of the case. Molten gold flowed through the depths of his eyes, and his rage erupted here.

"On the day I return to the world..."

"All rebellious ministers shall die!"