Though it sounded alarmist, coming from Di Tian, it carried extraordinary conviction.
Before the interstellar age, the Soul Beast Clan had been synonymous with Federation crises.
Very soon.
The branch dean sent someone to contact the War God Temple.
The area remained as noisy as ever.
The Golden-Eyed Black Dragon fell to the ground, drenched in blood. Most of his former majestic appearance had been obscured, and practically no one recognized him.
Only when Di Tian revealed his identity did the researchers confirm it.
"Beast God Di Tian!"
"The Soul Beast King with nine hundred and ninety thousand years of cultivation!"
"Who could have injured him this badly?!"
"An ordinary God Level being probably couldn't do it. It would take at least a Rank-Eleven True God!"
"..."
The entire scene was in an uproar.
A silver-haired woman walked out of the academy.
Her silver hair fell naturally to her ankles like a silver waterfall, carrying a dreamlike crystalline texture.
Her phantom-purple eyes gave her the beauty of someone who had stepped out of a painting.
Her exquisite features seemed like nature's most perfect creation.
The Soul Beast Co-Master—the Silver Dragon King, Gu Yuena.
The moment she appeared, she drew countless gazes.
Yet she paid no attention to them and walked straight toward Di Tian, who was treating his injuries.
Her phantom-purple eyes met his golden dragon pupils.
For a moment.
Both of them were somewhat stunned.
Di Tian was not stunned because he had been bewitched by her beauty. He had no idea how many years he had looked at that face.
No matter how beautiful something was, one would grow tired of it after seeing it too often.
The reason for his blank expression was purely because he had thought of something.
In the original timeline.
Tianlong had intended to forcibly marry Gu Yuena.
He had even been willing to forgive Lan Xuanyu for ruining his scheme, all so he could marry Gu Yuena.
Now.
The place where Tianlong had beaten him into grievous injury and sent him crashing down was precisely the Federation Academy of Science Tiandou Branch, where Gu Yuena had thawed out.
Before this, Di Tian had been ninety-eight percent certain that Tianlong Seat was the one who had attacked him.
But after this.
After he had so coincidentally fallen right beside Gu Yuena.
Di Tian was one hundred percent—ten thousand percent—certain that Tianlong Seat was the one who had attacked him.
And.
Tianlong had definitely been drawn here by Gu Yuena!
The only thing that could make a Peak Super God level powerhouse temporarily abandon the grand undertaking of bringing down the entire Douluo Federation was love at first sight that lasted ten thousand years!
As for whether Tianlong's love was sincere, or whether it was the cheap, lustful kind born of coveting Gu Yuena's body.
Di Tian had no interest in knowing.
All he knew now was this.
He had been caught in the crossfire between Gu Yuena and Tianlong.
Fuck!
This was way too damn unfair!
Gu Yuena likewise stared blankly at Di Tian.
She had been awake at the Tiandou Branch for some time, yet this was the first time she had stared at someone so dazedly.
Her curled lashes trembled.
She kept feeling that she knew the Di Tian before her.
It was as if he occupied a long, long... stretch of her lost memories.
"Have we met before? Do you know me?" Gu Yuena could not help asking.
Hearing this, Di Tian came back to his senses and lied without hesitation.
"No."
"We have nothing to do with each other."
But as she looked into Di Tian's eyes, Gu Yuena's tone became resolute.
"No!"
"You definitely know me!"
"And!"
"Before I lost my memories, you must have known me for a very long time!"
Seeing Di Tian's expression shift slightly, Gu Yuena knew that she had guessed correctly.
She immediately pressed him.
"Who am I?"
There were not many people in the world who could stir Di Tian's emotions, and Gu Yuena was undoubtedly among the foremost of them.
This time, Di Tian answered honestly and seriously.
"You're an idiot."
Gu Yuena frowned. She could tell that he was insulting her.
But she did not know what had happened before she lost her memories, nor did she know how to refute him.
So she could only ask in return, "What about you?"
"I'm a fool."
Gu Yuena's tightly furrowed brow gradually relaxed.
He had insulted not only her, but himself as well.
It seemed... before losing her memories, she and the severely injured dragon before her had been the same sort of unfortunate people.
"Why?" Gu Yuena naturally continued the subject. "Why insult me? And yourself too?"
"Heh."
"Because I believed an idiot."
"So I became a fool."
Gu Yuena: "..."
This "person" had quite a huge grievance against her.
Yet she still felt that her relationship with him was very close.
She continued.
"I can sense the tangled emotions you feel upon seeing me, and I can also sense the submission in your bloodline."
"And."
At this point, Gu Yuena's voice paused, but she still continued, "You kept staring at my chest just now. With every additional second you looked, your dragon breath grew more hurried."
The instant those words fell, the entire place was shocked.
The dignified Soul Beast King, Di Tian, had actually been staring at the chest of a beautiful human woman!
Was it a fall from morality?!
Or the loss of ethics?!
Some had gossip blazing in their eyes as they rapidly concocted a love story between a human beauty and the Soul Beast King. Beauty and the beast was the most thrilling kind.
Others had scientific rigor in their eyes. They had originally suspected that the silver-haired beauty "Nana" might be the ten-thousand-year-old Soul Beast Co-Master, the Silver Dragon King. But after hearing Di Tian curse her so rudely, they were the first to eliminate the possibility that "Nana" was the Soul Beast Co-Master, the Silver Dragon King.
As everyone knew.
The Soul Beast King, Beast God Di Tian, addressed the Soul Beast Co-Master, the Silver Dragon King, as "My Lord," with absolute respect. How could he possibly be so disrespectful?
Absurd sparks of speculation erupted in every researcher's mind.
Leaving Di Tian utterly speechless.
He silently cursed to himself.
What the hell are they even talking about?
I was staring at Gu Yuena's chest?
That was utter pig shit, dog stink, and toad fart!
I was looking at her heart!
Gu Yuena had more than one heart within her body.
As early as ten thousand years ago, she had fused the Dragon God's heart—the Super Divine Artifact, the Dragon God Core—with her own heart.
A Super Divine Artifact.
And one that came with the Nine-Colored Dragon God Bloodline.
It possessed an immensely powerful attraction for Di Tian.
Wasn't it perfectly normal for him to look over subconsciously?
And rationally speaking.
He truly believed that he should seize the Super Divine Artifact, the Dragon God Core, back.
Otherwise.
Given Gu Yuena's temperament of favoring humans by a hundred and eight thousand miles, and her outrageous stunt of leaving the Top-Tier Divine Artifact, the Silver Dragon Spear, with Shrek.
If he ever did anything for the soul beasts in the future.
Gu Yuena might use the Super Divine Artifact, the Dragon God Heart, to deal with him for humanity's sake.
Of course.
Di Tian was very restrained and did not make a move.
That was also because of reason.
He could not defeat Gu Yuena.
Ten thousand years ago, she had already rebuilt herself to the combat strength of a True God level Rank-Two God. Ten thousand years had passed, and though her combat strength had not increased, neither had it weakened.
Forcibly robbing a True God level powerhouse with the origin of a Half-Step God King—and robbing the Super Divine Artifact that had already fused into her heart.
Di Tian was not that arrogant.
As for Gu Yuena sensing his tangled emotions?
How could Di Tian's emotions possibly not be tangled?!
Right now, he truly wanted to go after Gu Yuena—go after her with everything he had!
He dreamed of it!
Leaving the Dragon God Core in Gu Yuena's hands was simply aiding the enemy!
But reason told him!
He could not do it! He absolutely could not do it! He must never do it!
Just tell him—how could his emotions not be tangled?!
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