Little Dragon God's Psychological Counseling; Don't Make Your Brother Laugh

"You never listen when people try to be nice."

Lin Yuan fired off another Shinra Tensei, sending Ye Lingtong flying away again so fast that everyone was left tongue-tied.

"Ahhh!"

Ye Lingtong immediately screamed in fright.

Right after that, a force of attraction came over her and yanked her hard back down to the ground.

Ye Lingtong's eyes reddened, her little face went deathly pale, and she lost her footing, actually plopping straight down onto the ground.

"Lin Yuan, you hit me. How could you hit me? My dad is Ye Feng..." Ye Lingtong's little mouth twisted as she looked at Lin Yuan and murmured to herself.

Lin Yuan was already considered very tall compared with others his age. Hearing Ye Lingtong keep bringing up Ye Feng, his brows knitted tightly.

"Uncle Ye is Uncle Ye, and you are you. You rely on Uncle Ye's favor to order me around—what, do you think I'm your family's servant?"

"I don't!" Ye Lingtong panicked instantly.

"I just wanted to get to know you!"

"But when you act like this, I don't want to know you. I hope you'll understand from now on that not everyone revolves around you. Otherwise, the next time I see you, I'll give you a proper beating on Uncle Ye's behalf."

Lin Yuan blinked at Ye Lingtong, the threat in his expression plain as day.

Ye Lingtong shrank her neck in and didn't dare make a sound.

Lin Yuan took Lan Xuanyu by the hand and walked back, their figures gradually disappearing from sight.

Ye Lingtong thought back to the way she had thrown tantrums and acted up before, to the point that even her mother's eyes had reddened from anger.

She couldn't help murmuring to herself, "Could it be... I really was wrong?"

The teachers and the students nearby all fell silent.

Who would dare say Ye Lingtong was wrong?

Along the way, Lan Xuanyu was downcast. Even when Lin Yuan took the initiative to speak to him, he seemed a little dazed.

Lan Xuanyu stayed silent the whole way. After they returned home, he looked at Lin Yuan bustling around in the kitchen and finally couldn't hold back, his voice sounding a little aggrieved.

"Brother, did I do something wrong?"

"Hm?"

Lin Yuan paused slightly and heard the muffled voice coming from by his feet.

Lan Xuanyu was squatting beside Lin Yuan, hugging his knees.

"She was clearly the one who attacked me first. Yes, Brother, I know I didn't introduce you to her, but I knew you didn't want too much contact with some girls either. But today, those teachers treated you..."

Lin Yuan: ...

He had to do counseling for this unlucky kid even after coming home.

And indeed, Lan Xuanyu had been loved and cared for since he was little. Facing this incident with Ye Lingtong had truly left quite a shock in his heart.

Lin Yuan grumbled inwardly, then also squatted down and looked at Lan Xuanyu seriously.

"Then do you think I'm important, Ye Lingtong is important, or the other teachers are important?"

"Of course you're important, Brother."

Lan Xuanyu answered without hesitation. He was certain that if Ye Lingtong really attacked Lin Yuan, he would definitely beat Ye Lingtong flat.

"Since that's the case, then isn't that enough? You were protecting me. You said no to Ye Lingtong. What's wrong with that?"

Lin Yuan spoke earnestly and patiently, "As long as you don't go against your own conscience, it's fine."

Lan Xuanyu blinked. He understood the first part, but the last part made question marks rise in his head.

"Brother, what's a conscience?"

Lin Yuan: ...

What kind of Demon Pill remark was that?!

"Ask Teacher Qiu when you go to school tomorrow."

Soon, Lin Yuan finished cooking and was about to bring the dishes to the table. Lan Xuanyu immediately helped.

After they finished a simple meal, Lin Yuan watched Lan Xuanyu regain his usual spirit and grin foolishly at him again and again.

Lin Yuan curled his lip.

"Seeing you like this, how's your training going?"

Lin Yuan was naturally referring to his Rasengan practice.

"Mm-hmm, Brother, I can already burst the balloon!"

When Lan Xuanyu got to this point, a gleam immediately appeared in his eyes.

"Bro, how about we have another spar?"

Lin Yuan: ...

You won't give up until you beat me, huh?

"Sure."

Expressionless, Lin Yuan brought Lan Xuanyu into the training room.

He turned around and jerked his chin at Lan Xuanyu, as if to say, You can start.

"Bro, here I come!"

Lan Xuanyu opened his right hand.

In an instant, the water elements throughout the training room became active.

Compared with yesterday's clumsiness, Lan Xuanyu now seemed like a dolphin immersed in water. The Silver-Patterned Blue Silver Grass played freely with the water elements, blending with them as one.

He opened his eyes and looked at Lin Yuan, then spread his right hand.

All the water elements in the room surged toward his hand. The force was so great that it was hard to believe a six-year-old child could do it.

"Rasengan."

The next second, a small vortex gradually gathered in Lan Xuanyu's hand. Without hesitation, he struck toward Lin Yuan with it!

This hit won't hurt Bro, will it?

Lan Xuanyu pondered inwardly. During P.E. class, he had used this Rasengan to defeat Ye Lingtong in an instant.

"Bro, be careful!"

Lin Yuan gave a scoff.

"Don't make your brother laugh."

A scene that shocked Lan Xuanyu appeared. Lin Yuan simply opened his right hand and gently tugged at the vortex.

The Water Vortex broke free from Lan Xuanyu's restraint and flew to Lin Yuan's right hand.

Lan Xuanyu was completely dumbfounded, his mouth opening and closing. He had thought his control over the water element was already decent, but he had never expected Lin Yuan to pull it away so easily.

Lan Xuanyu could not help saying, "You can play it like that?"

"All I can say is that your skills are lacking, Xuanyu."

Lin Yuan shaped his hand like a finger gun and aimed it at Lan Xuanyu, silently mouthing one sound.

"Biu~"

The vortex shot out at the sound, but it dispersed the instant it approached Lin Yuan.

Even so, the force it brought still blasted Lan Xuanyu backward.

Just as he was about to hit the wall, Lin Yuan pulled with his right hand and dragged Lan Xuanyu, who had nearly gone flying through the window, back in front of him.

Seeing Lan Xuanyu looking a little dizzy and clinging tightly to him, Lin Yuan nodded in relief.

He opened his right hand, and the refrigerator door opened. From inside, he once again took out a Life Popsicle, split it in two, handed one half to Lan Xuanyu, and ate the other himself, his voice muffled as he spoke.

"Not bad, not bad. You're learning fairly quickly."

Although the little Dragon God was a bit dim, comparisons mattered. He guessed there was probably no one else who could manage it within a single day.

At the very least, Gangzi couldn't do it in three months!

Dizzy-headed Lan Xuanyu heard the praise and grew happy inside. As he ate in small bites, he looked at Lin Yuan with anticipation all over his face.

"Bro, does that mean I've learned the Rasengan?"

"What good thing are you dreaming about? I tested that vortex of yours just now. It can't be maintained for long at all. So you have the next stage of training. Same as before, use water elements to make the ball explode."

Lin Yuan tossed a ball to Lan Xuanyu.

"Oh."

Lan Xuanyu was very obedient and did not ask Lin Yuan why he was doing this.

He merely followed Lin Yuan's arrangement and repeated the same trick, using water elements to condense water into blades. But the ball was unusually sturdy. No matter how he tried, he could not make it burst.

"What's going on?"

Lan Xuanyu's brows knitted tightly as he threw himself completely into his struggle against the ball.

"Actually, at a time like this, you have to consider how to elevate your use of the elements. You need to know that elements aren't only what they appear to be on the surface. Inside them are countless molecules. It depends on your control over those molecules."

"All right, you train slowly for now. I'm going to—"

Just as Lin Yuan was about to return to his room to rest, the soul communicator on his hand suddenly rang. It was Ye Feng.

Lin Yuan picked up.

"Hello, Uncle Ye."

"Oh, Lin. I already know what happened. I just called Old Lan, but after thinking about it, I figured I should call you too."

Ye Feng paused on the other end of the communicator, his tone full of helplessness.

"To be honest, she's the only child in our family. I'm usually not home, and my wife can't keep Lingtong under control either, so her personality's become a little spoiled. Uncle's apologizing to you here, and please help me say sorry to Xuanyu too."

"Uncle, you don't blame me?"

"How could I? I know you did it for Lingtong's own good. Learning this lesson as a child is much better than being taught it after growing up."

Ye Feng laughed heartily.

"After a while, once the mission on my end is over, I'll contact the military and get you another batch of rare ingredients. When the time comes, I'll definitely bring Lingtong over in person to apologize."

"Got it, Uncle Ye. You have to come back safe and sound."

At this point, Lin Yuan's voice sounded a little downcast.

"Hahahahaha, I will, I will. Lin, don't be sad. The Federation is investigating your parents... Mm, I won't say what it is for now. This time, I also got you some VIP ticket for the Federation's most popular singer. Lin, haven't you been researching music and stuff lately? I think you'll definitely like it."

A ticket for the most popular singer?

Lin Yuan's expression turned a little odd.

It couldn't be a ticket to Tang Wulin's concert, could it?

Ye Feng's voice on the other end of the Soul Guidance Device suddenly sounded a little hurried.

"The higher-ups have new instructions. I'll hang up first. If you run into any difficulties, make sure to tell Uncle. That's it, then."

Then there was only a busy tone, and the call ended.

Uncle Ye's instructions... mission?

Lin Yuan walked to the bedside and sat down, thinking.

Uncle Ye's mission couldn't be that Sin Planet thing from the original novel, could it?

Lin Yuan carefully recalled the original novel.

It seemed that because of this Sin Planet, Uncle Ye was demoted from senior colonel to colonel, leaving his future prospects bleak.

During this period, perhaps I could investigate it a little.

And that Eternal Night Monarch seemed to have a cloak capable of avoiding detection by the Divine Origin realm.

Was it the Stealth Cloak or the God-Concealing Cloak again?

Even if it was not a divine artifact, it was still at least a quasi-divine artifact, right?

I had to get it!

While Lin Yuan was deep in thought, the sound of the door being pushed open rang out, accompanied by a patter of footsteps on the floor.

Lan Xuanyu walked over in slippers, yawning.

"Brother, I'm so sleepy."

"How did your cultivation go?"

"I still can't do it. The ball is too tough."

"Then go to sleep."

"Mm-hm. Good night, Brother."