Electrolux Awakens

On the training field, Gu Yue looked at Zhuang Minghui with faint disappointment and said, "This is the good show you were talking about?"

"A complete waste of my time."

"All right, don't be mad. I meant to bring you to watch a good show, but it turned out to be a dull one-sided beating."

Looking at Gu Yue's haughty little expression, Zhuang Minghui could not help laughing. He went along with the moment and suggested, "Since we're already out, why don't we go take a look around Shrek City?"

Gu Yue had meant to refuse, but on second thought, she still had not experienced the food of the human world. Reservedly, she lifted her chin and coolly spat out one word. "Go."

The two walked side by side toward Shrek Academy's eastern city gate.

As soon as they left the gate, a noisy wave of heat and the bustling air of the marketplace rushed toward them.

The shops on both sides of the street were packed with people, stretching as far as the eye could see. Vendors' cries rose and fell one after another, while the aromas of all kinds of delicacies mingled in the air, enough to make anyone's mouth water.

Zhuang Minghui led Gu Yue through the various specialty snack stalls and delicate handicraft shops along the way.

"Try this. Shrek City's specialty, Seven-Colored Cotton Candy. Sweet but not cloying." Zhuang Minghui smiled as he handed over a cloud-like stick of cotton candy.

Gu Yue gave him a disdainful glance, but looking at those beautiful pastel colors, she ultimately could not resist the temptation. Her cherry lips parted slightly, and she took a gentle bite.

"It's good!"

It melted the instant it entered her mouth, strands of sweetness bursting across the tip of her tongue.

Gu Yue's originally tense, lovely face thawed in that instant. Her purple eyes curved slightly, revealing a hint of delight that even she herself did not notice.

"And this. Sugar-Roasted Ruby Chestnut."

"This one too, Iced Sour Plum Juice..."

Under Zhuang Minghui's lead, Gu Yue gradually let down the guard and coldness in her heart.

Reflected in her clear purple eyes were all kinds of soul tool accessories, exquisite paper-cut dolls, and some bright jewels.

As everyone definitely knew, dragons generally loved shiny things the most.

Every time Zhuang Minghui brought Gu Yue in front of a jewelry shop, Gu Yue would stare blankly for a long time at the jewels, diamonds, and necklaces inside.

Eight o'clock at night.

After finishing dinner at a restaurant, Zhuang Minghui and Gu Yue returned to the dormitory.

Zhuang Minghui teased, "Miss Gu, were you satisfied with today's itinerary?"

"You barely pass." Gu Yue lay tiredly on the bed, drowsy and on the verge of sleep.

Today counted as the most exhausting day since she had awakened from her slumber, but it had also been a somewhat happy one.

A long while later, Gu Yue's breathing became calm and steady. Zhuang Minghui also slowly closed his eyes and gradually sank into sleep.

However.

The instant Zhuang Minghui's consciousness blurred and entered a dream, the dream collapsed and shattered.

In its place was his Sea of Consciousness.

Looking at the emerald-green Sea of Consciousness before him, Zhuang Minghui was at a loss. "This is my Sea of Consciousness?"

"Shouldn't I be in my own dream? Why would I appear in the Sea of Consciousness?"

Eleven years.

For a full eleven years, this was the first time he had been forcibly pulled into his Sea of Consciousness after entering a dream.

All the life energy around him had, at this moment, faintly turned into threads, gathering madly toward the gray sphere beside the Life Ancient Tree.

This is..." Zhuang Minghui's heart shook.

Before he could react, after absorbing a vast amount of life energy, that gray sphere suddenly blazed with light. Gray mist spread over the emerald-green Sea of Consciousness like a tide.

An extremely pure dark aura, without the slightest trace of evil impurity, washed across this Sea of Consciousness.

A resonant voice thundered through the entire Sea of Consciousness:

"Holding the sun and moon in my hands, I pluck the stars; in all the world, there is no one like me."

Those words struck Zhuang Minghui like a sudden enlightenment.

No way, right?

Had Electrolux awakened this quickly?

Still, this did seem reasonable.

His martial souls were the Spirit Gold that Electrolux was most interested in, as well as the god-level martial soul, the Life Ancient Tree.

With these two powerful martial souls present, if Electrolux's awakening time were still the same as in the original, he would truly be laughed at for the rest of his life.

As Zhuang Minghui guessed, the gray mist churned violently. That gray sphere gradually stretched and transformed, finally condensing into a tall and majestic figure.

He wore a plain yet spotless gray robe. His aged face carried a kind of calm detachment and transcendence that seemed to have seen through everything in the world, and his deep eyes seemed to reflect countless stars.

The Necromancer Saint, the Scourge of the Undead—Electrolux!

Electrolux hovered above the Sea of Consciousness, looking down at Zhuang Minghui as he asked, "Young man, was it you who awakened me?"

Looking at Electrolux before him, Zhuang Minghui asked despite knowing the answer, "You are?"

"My name is Electrolux. Thank you. If not for the life energy within your body, this remnant soul of mine would likely have had to slumber in this endless darkness for much longer." Electrolux's voice was calm and gentle, and his words let Zhuang Minghui hear his sincere gratitude.

Zhuang Minghui suppressed the tremor in his heart, bowed slightly, and introduced himself. "This junior is Zhuang Minghui. Greetings, Your Eminence Electrolux. As for the life energy you mentioned, it should come from my martial soul."

"Zhuang Minghui... bright and glorious. That is a good name." Electrolux nodded slightly. His profound gaze then fell on the towering giant tree at the center of the Sea of Consciousness, and deep amazement and admiration showed in his eyes. "This old man has lived for long ages, yet I have never seen a life vessel as strange and pure as you. Young man, may this old man witness your power?"

"Of course."

With a thought from Zhuang Minghui, in an instant, emerald waves surged within the Sea of Consciousness, and two utterly different yet same-rooted powers shot into the sky.

The two great martial souls, the Life Ancient Tree and Spirit Gold, were held in Zhuang Minghui's hands.

Electrolux was not interested in the Life Ancient Tree. What interested him was Zhuang Minghui's other martial soul—Spirit Gold!

Looking at the crystal in Zhuang Minghui's hand, which emitted a pale golden luster and continuously overflowed with thick life force, Electrolux's tone turned excited. "What? Your martial soul is actually Spirit Gold!"

Clearly, he had taken a liking to Zhuang Minghui's Spirit Gold.

He had never imagined that Spirit Gold could appear as a martial soul of this world on the young man before him.

And the other party's mastery over Spirit Gold was extremely high!

"Electrolux... Uh, calling a senior directly by name feels a little impolite. How about I call you Elder Yi?" Zhuang Minghui asked tentatively.

When it came to forms of address, Electrolux seemed very open-minded. "Whatever you like. It is just a form of address. Call me however you wish."

Zhuang Minghui asked, "Then, Elder Yi, I wanted to ask why you recognize my martial soul, Spirit Gold?"

"I thought you were going to ask something else, but it was just this." In Electrolux's view, this question from Zhuang Minghui was perfectly normal.