Time Doesn't Come Out, Space Reigns Supreme

Putting away his Soul Guidance Communicator, Gu You had no idea when the person his teacher had arranged for him would arrive. Since things had come to this, he might as well take care of breakfast first.

He stepped forward and pushed open the door to his room, and then everything in front of him went dark.

It was not that his vision had gone black. It was that two tall figures stood before him, blocking out the light.

Gu You tilted his head up, then a little higher, and saw familiar faces.

It was Bai Haoze, along with her... uh, younger sister Bai Zhicen. When Bai Zhicen had followed Leng Yaozhu before, he had not paid much attention to her, but he had still seen her face.

At this moment, the two sisters were dressed exactly the same. Standing together, it was almost impossible to tell who was who. They were both burly giants, muscles surging all the way from their shoulders to their wrists, and their pecs were frighteningly large too.

Gu You seriously suspected that the two sisters had come to punish him. He really could not figure out why they were dressed like this.

Could it be that he had fallen behind the trends of the times? Were muscle Barbies considered good-looking now?

If nothing unexpected had happened, these two sisters had come at Leng Yaozhu's instruction. They were the people she had arranged.

"Little Gu You," Bai Haoze grinned at Gu You. "We meet again!"

Bai Zhicen also smiled, though more reservedly than her sister.

"We do meet again. Seniors, would you like to come in and sit?"

Gu You pointed into the room.

"No need." Bai Haoze waved a large hand. "The deputy pagoda master gave us instructions to take you to Tiandou City and protect you so you can safely attend the auction. Pack up, and we'll head straight for Tiandou City."

"That soon? All right."

Gu You thought to himself that it seemed he would not be eating breakfast these next two days after all. He did not have anything to bring, and merely returned to his room to strap the Seven Deadly Sins from the bedside onto his back.

"What's that?"

Bai Haoze noticed the long black case on Gu You's back. She remembered that when she had brought Gu You to East Sea Spirit Transmission Pagoda, he had not had that thing with him. Where had it come from?

"The deputy pagoda master gave it to me for self-defense. You could call it my personal weapon."

Gu You could not tell them the origins of the Seven Deadly Sins, so he could only use Leng Yaozhu as a shield. As her disciple, receiving a gift or two after becoming her student was normal, right?

The moment Bai Haoze heard it had been a gift from the deputy pagoda master, she immediately fell silent.

Gu You followed them out.

In the corridor, Bai Haoze walked in front to clear the way, while Bai Zhicen followed behind Gu You.

Caught between two "iron-tower brutes," one in front and one behind, Gu You felt like a prisoner being escorted away.

"Senior Bai." He quickened his pace by two steps to Bai Haoze's side. "Tiandou City isn't far from East Sea, right?"

"Not far. Four hours by Soul Guidance Train."

Bai Haoze lowered her head to look at Gu You.

"Oh, okay."

At the East Sea City Soul Guidance Train station, by the time they arrived, Gu You was holding a baked flatbread and eating it at a leisurely pace.

He had bought the flatbread from a street stall after leaving East Sea Spirit Transmission Pagoda. It counted as making do for breakfast. Once they reached Tiandou City, he would eat something better.

They bought tickets and boarded the train.

Only when a deep-blue train slowly pulled out of the station, steadily accelerating as it headed into the distance, did the journey to Tiandou City truly begin.

Watching the scenery outside the window gradually blur into a wash of retreating light and shadow, Gu You pressed his forehead against the cold window glass, feeling the faint dizziness brought by the speed.

"First time riding a Soul Guidance Train?"

Bai Haoze's voice came from beside him.

"Do you think an orphan like me rode trains growing up?"

Gu You smiled and asked back.

Bai Haoze fell silent for a brief moment, then said, "Get some sleep. We'll be there when you wake up."

Gu You nodded lightly and closed his eyes.

Tiandou City.

As an ancient capital of a dynasty, as early as the Spirit Hall era, it had been one of the foremost great cities on the continent, and had even once been the number one city on the continent.

It was only later, after the Sun Moon Empire, the predecessor of the Federation, annexed the Tiandou Empire, that this place became an ordinary first-tier city.

"Dear passengers, we have arrived at Tiandou Train Station. Please disembark in an orderly manner..."

The repeated broadcast sounded beside his ears. Gu You rubbed his eyes and stood up. Seeing that he was awake, Bai Haoze said, "Let's go. We'll get something to eat. Have you heard of Yuhao Grilled Fish? It's a must-try delicacy when you come to Tiandou City."

"Yuhao Grilled Fish?"

Gu You had only just woken up and was still groggy, but he knew about Yuhao Grilled Fish. It was Tiandou City's signature delicacy, said to be made from a recipe left behind by the Ice Spirit Douluo.

In the end, this recipe could actually be found everywhere under the heavens; it was just that Tiandou City was the most famous for it.

After getting off the vehicle and leaving Tiandou Station, Gu You finally saw the appearance of Tiandou City for the first time.

The feeling it gave him was ancient and simple. As far as the eye could see, there wasn't a single tall building. The tallest things were only some ancient trees, and most of the buildings were old-style structures.

As for why tall buildings weren't allowed, Gu You guessed it was because Tiandou City was a historic city, and the local government had made such a rule to preserve its original appearance.

Not far from the station was a Yuhao Grilled Fish shop. Gu You and the others walked inside.

"Boss, twenty Yuhao Grilled Fish. One of every flavor."

After entering the shop, it was just after breakfast. There weren't too many people inside, but it wasn't empty either. Bai Haoze spoke to the young man grilling fish at the counter.

"Sure thing, just a moment." The young man kept grilling fish with both hands and answered without forgetting his work.

A few minutes later, just as five grilled fish were finished and delivered to Gu You's table, the young man saw that there were only three of them and said, "Twenty grilled fish? Can the three of you finish that?"

Gu You picked up a grilled fish first and took a bite. As he chewed, he said, "Why wouldn't we be able to? Don't you see the two burly men beside me?"

"Haha! True enough, with those builds."

The young man laughed heartily, and his laughter made both of the Bai Haoze sisters' faces darken.

"Brother, I'm back! I joined the Spirit Transmission Pagoda, and I even absorbed a hundred-year soul spirit and became a soul master!"

Just then, the door of the Yuhao Grilled Fish shop opened, and an excited voice rang out.

Everyone looked over at the same time.

In Gu You's eyes, he saw a boy about the same age as him.

The boy had short blue hair, big eyes, and a smile spread across his face.

"Really? Guixing, you became a soul master!"

Luo Cheng was overjoyed when he heard this.

When his martial soul had awakened before, his younger brother's innate soul power had been level nine, and his martial soul was extremely powerful. It was a rare spatial martial soul.

This morning, someone from the Spirit Transmission Pagoda had come to find him and taken his younger brother to the Spirit Transmission Pagoda. He hadn't expected him to break through to level ten and fuse with a soul spirit as soon as he returned.

"Mm, I have the ability to protect myself now!"

Luo Guixing was incredibly proud when he heard his brother's words.

Their family counted as a middle-class family in Tiandou City, and a few soul masters had appeared among them before, but he was the only one in the family who was such a genius and had joined the Spirit Transmission Pagoda.

For six-year-old Luo Guixing, this was something worth being proud of.

Luo Cheng... surnamed Luo? Guixing—could he be Luo Guixing?

Gu You kept sizing up Luo Guixing. He really hadn't expected to run into someone familiar from the original work just by having a meal.

The future seventeenth place on the Youth Genius Ranking, also known as "Imprisonment!"

His martial soul was extremely powerful: spatial element control.

If he grew into a Titled Douluo later on, his eighth and ninth soul skills with spatial factors would be freakishly strong, almost invincible.

After all, when time did not appear, space was king!