Wang Dong's Change

After the holiday ended, it was time for the new students to take their advancement assessments.

Wang Dong arrived at the dormitory early. Looking at the empty room, she seemed a little downcast.

She had clearly promised Huo Yuhao they would have a meal together when they had time, and she had wanted to apologize properly.

But ever since they made that promise, she hadn't seen Huo Yuhao again.

She had gone to Huo Yuhao's Soul Guidance lab, only to find an empty lot where it had stood.

In truth, it wasn't as if Wang Dong cared all that much about Huo Yuhao. She merely admired him as a legendary Soul Master.

Huo Yuhao's excellence had been the first thing to make Wang Dong feel the crushing frustration of being unable to measure up.

At the same time, his habit of thinking differently from everyone else made people curious about him.

If the two of them had never crossed paths in the first place, Wang Dong's pride would naturally have kept her from feeling so unsettled.

But they could have become friends, only for her own mistake to make them miss each other. Regret filled Wang Dong's heart.

Huo Yuhao had never packed up the things he'd left in the dormitory. Wang Dong had thought he would surely come back for them, and that something had merely kept him away.

Now, seeing the dust-covered blankets, Wang Dong realized that Huo Yuhao probably wouldn't return to this dormitory.

Once she had steadied her emotions, Wang Dong stared blankly at her hands. Her Martial Soul had grown stronger again recently, and her spiritual power had grown stronger along with it.

But some hazy memories were gradually beginning to surface in her mind, leaving her a little frightened.

In the Divine Realm, Tang San was caught in a dilemma. He had been trying to bring Wang Dong and Huo Yuhao closer, but with little success.

Huo Yuhao spent every day cooped up in his Soul Guidance lab and almost never went out. Tang San had no opportunity to bring the two together.

Now Huo Yuhao's spiritual power had reached the divine level as well, causing many of God King Tang's arrangements to fall through.

Tang San had long since given up on testing Huo Yuhao. If he didn't win him over soon, and Huo Yuhao became a god by his own efforts in a few years, he would truly have no chance left.

Tang San glanced at the Asura God Godhood on Xiao Wu and found it hard to let go, so he came up with an excuse for himself.

"Before long, a great crisis may befall the Divine Realm. How can I give up the Asura God Godhood now and throw the Divine Realm into turmoil?"

At the same time, he couldn't bear to part with the Sea God Godhood, which he was about to cultivate to the level of a God King.

In the end, he gritted his teeth and sighed.

"I can only make Xiao Qi suffer. Although fusing the two sets of memories early will damage her Spirit Sea, she's my daughter. For the sake of the Divine Realm, she'll have to make a small sacrifice."

As Tang San's words faded, a deep-blue trident mark appeared between Wang Dong's brows on Douluo Continent. In an instant, she felt as if a giant hammer had crashed down inside her mind.

Countless childhood memories stabbed into her Spirit Sea like blades, and Wang Dong let out a scream of agony.

Hearing Wang Dong's scream, Mu En, who was sunning himself downstairs in the dormitory, sensed it at once.

Space rippled faintly, and Mu En appeared before Wang Dong, only to be stopped by a blue light.

When he saw that the light had come from the trident mark between Wang Dong's brows, Mu En gave a faint sigh and chose to leave.

"The Golden Ancient Tree is acting strangely, and Wang Dong has divine consciousness within her. Sea God, what exactly are you after? Did you come for Huo Yuhao, or for something else?"

Mu En couldn't make sense of the tangled situation. He simply began weighing things more carefully in silence. Now that the Sea God had personally intervened, this was probably about more than passing on a godhood.

Inside the dormitory, Wang Dong lay on the bed, clutching her head. Her skull felt as if it were splitting apart.

Wang Dong's spiritual power was only at an ordinary Spirit Sea Realm level. Forcing Divine Origin Realm spiritual power to fuse with it was practically asking for death.

But with the help of Tang San's God King-level divine consciousness, the fusion itself went smoothly.

The pain, however, was no less than what Huo Yuhao had endured while fusing with the Ice Empress's torso bone—if anything, it was twice as bad, like having her skull removed and replaced.

Wang Dong's screams continued for three whole days. After the fusion, she curled up beneath the blankets, tears slipping silently down her cheeks.

Her features had grown ever more radiant, but her eyes had lost some of their liveliness.

Wang Dong desperately called for Tang San, hoping her father would take her back to the Divine Realm, but she received no response.

Now Wang Dong sat lifelessly, staring blankly at the ceiling, and gradually drifted into a dream.

Seeing the troubled expression on his daughter's face, Tang San felt a pang of pain for a brief moment.

But when he thought of his standing in the Divine Realm, he hardened his heart and sealed away Wang Dong's painful memories.

"Yuhao, there's a fluctuation of divine consciousness inside Shrek Academy."

Electrolux's voice rang out in Huo Yuhao's Spirit Sea.

Hearing that, Tian Meng lazily replied, "Isn't Yuhao's divine consciousness now, too? Did that old fellow break through? What's there to make such a fuss about?"

"Big bug, what do you know? That divine consciousness is at a very high level. If not for the Power of Destiny on Yuhao boosting his divine consciousness, I might not have noticed it at all."

Hearing Electrolux's rebuttal, Ice Empress smacked Sky Dream Ice Silkworm away with her tail once more. "Don't interfere with Yuhao's judgment. Why are you butting in?"

Hearing this, Huo Yuhao looked thoughtful. At this point in time, it could only be Tang San.

But what would Tang San use his divine consciousness for? Surely he wasn't going to fuse Tang Wutong's memories now? What would he gain from doing that at this point?

Huo Yuhao couldn't figure it out, so he decided to ask Mu En at Sea God Pavilion if he knew anything.

Ever since returning from Fan Yu's, Huo Yuhao hadn't left the lab. Now he headed toward Sea God Pavilion.

Inside Sea God Pavilion, Huo Yuhao connected with Mu En through his divine consciousness and asked:

"Elder Mu, did something happen over at the new students' dormitory?"

Through their mental connection, Mu En sent Huo Yuhao everything he had seen and heard.

He also passed along the news that the Golden Ancient Tree had been acting strangely with increasing frequency.

The moment he heard about the Golden Ancient Tree's strange movements, Huo Yuhao realized what was happening. It was a sign that the Abyss was about to be drawn into the Douluo Plane by Tang San.

The Golden Ancient Tree's strange movements marked the beginning of Tang Hao and Ah Yin replacing the will of Douluo Planet.

"Then the development of Four-Character Battle Armor has to be put on the agenda. We'll need at least God King-level combat strength to swallow the Abyss Plane whole." Huo Yuhao thought.

Tang San was worried that the fluctuations from his God King-level power would scare the Abyss Plane away.

But Huo Yuhao, who excelled at spiritual power, was completely confident he could fight above his level.

Having made up his mind, Huo Yuhao took his leave of Mu En and returned to the lab, where he continued researching Battle Armor.

He would need a complete set of Four-Character Battle Armor for it to be effective in a god-level battle. He would have to speed up its development.

Meanwhile, Wang Dong had just woken up. Now that she had regained her childhood memories, she was somewhat quiet.

Although her strength had increased dramatically once again, everything felt a little like a dream.