"How outrageous! How could it be this dirty!"
After finding a towel, Lin Yuan scrubbed hard a few times and sprayed on some detergent. Only after wiping it spotless did he finally feel better.
Perhaps because he had been cultivating Shinra Tensei and constantly paying attention to fine details, Lin Yuan had somehow developed a cleanliness obsession.
He truly could not tolerate even the slightest speck of dirt.
Just then, the doorbell suddenly rang.
Lin Yuan opened the door.
The first thing he saw was a breathtakingly beautiful woman with silver hair who looked to be in her twenties. Naturally, she was holding Lan Xuanyu's hand.
"Brother, let me introduce you. This is Teacher Nana..."
"Wait!"
Before Lan Xuanyu could finish, Lin Yuan sternly interrupted him. His gaze fell on the tiny patch of black dirt on the right side of Lan Xuanyu's collar.
Lin Yuan took out a tissue, removed it, and tossed it into the trash. Only then did he let out a long breath and say with a smile,
"Alright, it's fine now. Come in and talk."
"Mm..."
Lan Xuanyu froze for a moment but did not pursue the matter. Holding Gu Yuena's hand, he walked inside.
The moment he entered, Lan Xuanyu's eyes lit up slightly. Clean—it was simply too clean, practically spotless.
Although Lin Yuan usually cleaned the house as well, it had never been this clean before.
Holding Gu Yuena's hand, Lan Xuanyu sat down on the sofa.
"Teacher Nana, this is the Brother Lin Yuan I told you about on Tiandou Planet. My brother is amazing. When my martial soul awakened before, it hurt so much, but Brother helped me get through it."
"The Rasengan you praised, Teacher Nana, was also taught to me by Brother."
"Mm-hmm." Gu Yuena gently stroked Lan Xuanyu's head and nodded to Lin Yuan.
"Hello."
Nana nodded at Lin Yuan. Her purple eyes held far more kindness when they looked at him.
When she had accidentally encountered Lan Xuanyu at the mall on Tiandou Planet, she had sensed a special connection between them.
It felt as though they were linked by blood. When she heard that someone had interfered with Lan Xuanyu's bloodline during his martial soul awakening, Nana instinctively felt uncomfortable.
Yet when she examined him with her spiritual power, she discovered two different bloodlines, one gold and one silver, actually fused together.
Was that reasonable?!
That was not reasonable at all!
Nana could sense that if she were that silver bloodline, she would definitely want to devour the golden bloodline. The golden bloodline would feel the same way.
Looking at Gu Yuena's calm yet gentle gaze, Lin Yuan muttered inwardly,
Was this what they meant by a mother becoming strong? As long as someone treated her child well, she would feel goodwill toward them...
In the original story, on Tiandou Planet, Lan Xiao and Nan Cheng held Lan Xuanyu's hand while Gu Yuena watched from behind. For some reason, it felt like a silver-haired defeated heroine...
She was practically an empty-nest old dragon!
"Hello, Xuanyu. Hello, Auntie. Come in and talk." Lin Yuan stepped aside.
"Auntie? Are you calling me that?" Gu Yuena froze.
Only after Lan Xuanyu pulled her onto the sofa did she recover. Then she heard Lan Xuanyu whispering to Lin Yuan.
"Brother, isn't it a little inappropriate to call Teacher Nana Auntie?"
"What's inappropriate about it?"
"Uh, my mom gets really angry whenever people call her Auntie."
"...Didn't you tell me this auntie doesn't even know how long she has lived? What, should I call her Grandma instead?"
Lan Xuanyu:...
"It's fine, Xuanyu. It's only a form of address." Gu Yuena did not dwell on it. Instead, she looked at Lin Yuan seriously and asked,
"Can you tell me how you stabilized Xuanyu's bloodline?"
"It wasn't that difficult. I just appeared there, and then those two dragons settled down."
"Mm, just as I thought."
Gu Yuena nodded deeply in agreement.
"The moment I saw you, I felt the same kind of closeness I felt with Xuanyu, something originating from my bloodline. I think those two bloodlines must feel the same way toward you."
"A sense of closeness?"
Lin Yuan looked at Gu Yuena, who had begun filling in the blanks in her own mind, and suddenly grew curious. After all, the reason he had stabilized the Little Dragon God's bloodline was not merely because the Golden and Silver Dragon Kings were excited to see him. More importantly, there was the Voice of the Stars.
"What exactly does it feel like?"
"Mm... I can't explain it." Gu Yuena shook her head. "I've forgotten many things now."
Lin Yuan:...
Damn it, she was stopping halfway through?
Still, judging by Gu Yuena's words and reaction just now, he could make a guess. Could it be the attraction originating from the Dragon God's Bloodline within them?
As everyone knew, the higher one's level, the deeper one's perception of the universe. And Gravity was the most important of the universe's four fundamental forces. Could it be some kind of innate affinity?
But that made no sense either.
In the original story, when the Dragon God attacked the Divine Star, wasn't it schemed against by the Cosmic Law and left with its family destroyed and its dragon dead? The Silver Dragon King should have inherited that blood feud.
Could it be that Gravity was Gravity, the Cosmic Law was the Cosmic Law, and the two had nothing to do with each other?
But that contradicted Gu Yuena's words.
Lin Yuan pondered for a long time without reaching an answer, silently complaining to himself.
What am I, some kind of walking Golden and Silver Dragon King trap? No, a Dragon God trap.
Lin Yuan said nothing and picked up Federation History from the table again, continuing to read. Lan Xuanyu and Gu Yuena also fell silent, and the atmosphere grew quiet.
Suddenly, Gu Yuena inadvertently saw a page Lin Yuan was reading in Federation History. When she saw, "Saved Shrek from calamity; the restorer of its glory: Tang Wulin."
Lord of the Soul Beasts... Gu Yuena... Silver Dragon Wulin... Jinlong Yueyu...
The instant Gu Yuena saw those words, a bolt of lightning flashed through her mind.
"This book... Ugh..."
Gu Yuena's head felt as though it were splitting apart. She let out a faint groan, swayed, and slid from the sofa.
"Teacher Nana, what's wrong?!" Lan Xuanyu immediately ran over to Nana, his face full of panic.
Gu Yuena shook her head and muttered,
"I'm fine, but I seem to have forgotten something very important."
"Ah, what is it?" Lan Xuanyu hurriedly asked.
Gu Yuena did not answer, only shook her head.
Lan Xuanyu helped Gu Yuena back onto the sofa. Several minutes later, she finally recovered. Her complexion was no longer pale, but her eyes were filled with confusion as she muttered,
"What kind of book is this? I keep feeling that what's in it is very important to me."
"Ah, this book? I use it to learn about history. Uncle Ye found it for me. Auntie, do you want to read it?" Lin Yuan waved Federation History in his hand.
Gu Yuena shook her head, her brows knitting slightly.
"Forget it. I don't want to know. What's inside must be very painful for me. I think things are fine as they are now."
Lin Yuan:...
Six.
Tang Fifty, you'd better figure it out yourself.
He still remembered how, in the original story, the Di Tian spirit body sacrificed within Lan Xuanyu's mind immediately dropped to its knees the moment it saw Gu Yuena.
Di Tian had been overjoyed. He had found the future Dragon God and discovered that his most respected Lord was still alive. He had originally been about to happily report to his Lord on his diligent work over the past ten thousand years.
Only for Gu Yuena to silence him with a single sentence: "Forget it. I don't want to be a Soul Beast. I want to be human."
This time, Lin Yuan could also understand some of Di Tian's helplessness. He had deliberately placed this book there just now to provoke Gu Yuena and see whether it could help her remember something.
But seeing Gu Yuena's refusal, Lin Yuan immediately abandoned the idea.
Gu Yuena's stubbornness was famous.
Wasn't this just making things harder for himself? She would remember sooner or later anyway!
As for helping Tang Wulin recover his memories... that carried enormous risks. If he helped Tang Wulin recall everything face-to-face now, the intense stimulation might cause Tang Wulin to lose against the Golden Dragon King, allowing the Golden Dragon King to awaken directly...
Only after quite a while did Gu Yuena remember the other purpose of her visit: to thank Lin Yuan.
Gu Yuena looked at Lin Yuan, who wore slippers and lounged against the sofa, completely absorbed in reading Federation History.
Then she recalled the Rasengan he had taught Lan Xuanyu, as well as how he had stabilized his bloodline. Her voice could not help but soften.
"I really don't know how I should thank you."
Lin Yuan shook his head as he continued reading.
"I told you already, I didn't help Xuanyu because I wanted anything in return."
"Then you..."
"But then again."
Lin Yuan suddenly put down Federation History, his entire face filled with sincerity.
"If you really insist on thanking me, that's not impossible."
Lan Xuanyu:...
Gu Yuena:...
Gu Yuena asked,
"How do you want me to thank you?"
"Auntie, have a fight with me."
Lin Yuan smiled at Gu Yuena.
Lan Xuanyu:?
Gu Yuena:?
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