Wang Dong Comes Knocking, Offering Herself?

Yu Chen closed his eyes, sensing the surging soul power within his body as he quietly pondered.

At this rate, it would not be long before he reached the crucial threshold of level fifty. But if he stayed within Shrek to condense his fifth soul ring, the commotion would definitely be huge. He would inevitably attract a crowd of onlookers and interrogators, creating misunderstandings for no reason at all. That would be nothing but asking for trouble.

He might as well find an excuse to take leave and head out, finding a place to break through alone. Deep down, he had a strong feeling that condensing his fifth soul ring this time would be the crucial turning point for a qualitative change and complete transformation.

Yu Chen was lying on the sofa, considering his plans to go out and break through, when a knock suddenly sounded at the door.

He casually muttered, "Who is it, coming to my door in the middle of the night?"

He got up and pulled open the door. The person standing outside was actually Wang Dong.

Yu Chen was puzzled, quietly wondering, What could this little girl possibly want, showing up here in the middle of the night?

Then Yu Chen noticed at a glance that she was holding a quilt in her arms, leaving him utterly confused.

"Hey, Wang Dong, why did you bring a quilt to my place?"

Wang Dong hugged the quilt tighter and said helplessly, "You know that Huo Yuhao is going to refine a Profound Water Pill later. He'll be covered in filth afterward, so Room 108 will be impossible to stay in. I can only come here and borrow a place for the night."

Yu Chen froze after hearing that, his face full of speechlessness as he inwardly ranted, No, does this girl even know what she's saying?

He stared straight at Wang Dong, his gaze extremely strange. Swept by that look, Wang Dong inexplicably felt a little guilty. She even began to question herself. Had she really only come because the dormitory would be uninhabitable? Probably...

She forced herself to remain calm and stammered, "W-what? Is that not okay?"

Yu Chen spread his hands and said helplessly, "You can stay, but I don't have an extra bed here. When I knocked through the two dorm rooms and renovated the place, I threw out all the spare iron beds."

Wang Dong was stunned and hurriedly asked, "Where did you throw those beds?"

"Where else? The discarded junk from the student dormitories all gets piled up at the dump, so naturally I threw them there."

When he had carried those three bedsheets to the dump and thrown them away, Mu En had been right there watching. Yu Chen still remembered how strange the old man's expression had been at the time.

Yu Chen pointed at the only bed in the inner room and said flatly, "That's the situation. There's only one bed in this entire place."

Wang Dong lowered her head deeply, her cheeks burning red as she squeezed out a sentence in a voice as soft as a mosquito's buzz. "A-actually... I can sleep with you."

Those words had nearly exhausted all her courage, and even the tips of her ears had turned completely red. She was still just a young girl, and saying something like that filled her with unbearable embarrassment.

Yu Chen was absentmindedly cleaning his ear and casually replied, "Whatever you want."

Only after the words registered in his mind did he suddenly come to his senses. He stood there dumbfounded, his jaw nearly dropping. What? What did you just say?

Yu Chen's mind buzzed as he wildly ranted inwardly, Damn, she's delivering herself right to my door. Isn't this practically a free gift?

Having no other choice, Yu Chen waved his hand and compromised. "Fine, fine. You take the bed. I'll make do by meditating through the night."

Hearing Yu Chen say that, Wang Dong listlessly answered, "Okay," while an inexplicable emptiness filled her heart, followed by an indescribable sense of disappointment.

Yu Chen casually waved a hand and perfunctorily said, "It's settled, then. Get some rest early. I need to meditate and cultivate."

Yu Chen sat down at the desk, and a thought suddenly came to mind. He decided to look into matters related to his bloodline.

He truly possessed the bloodline of the Golden Dragon King, yet he had never calmed down and thoroughly explored its mysteries. Tonight's cultivation break was the perfect opportunity to carefully study just how many unknown wonders this bloodline concealed.

Yu Chen let out a soft sigh, lightly tapping the tabletop with his fingertips as he thought to himself.

The various settings in the original Soul Land works had always contained plenty of plot holes. Contradictory settings often appeared, with many details conflicting before and after, crashing disastrously into the underlying code of the world.

Yu Chen inwardly complained that Third Young Master's settings were truly full of contradictions, constantly producing conflicts in the underlying code and overturning earlier content.

Take the Dragon God War, for example. After reading all five Soul Land novels, there were already three or four completely different versions of why the Dragon God had gone to war, each telling its own story and none matching up.

At first, it was said that the Dragon God had rebelled out of dissatisfaction with being controlled. Then Ultimate Douluo changed the story entirely, claiming it was the pain of losing his son—the Dragon Clan's crown prince had been betrayed by his own kind and perished while ascending to a god star, causing the Dragon God to completely lose control and massacre the God Realm. The story kept changing until it made one's head hurt.

It seemed he would have to ask the Dragon God about it, since he was the one involved, and his divine soul was far away in Dragon Valley.

"Strange, who is cursing this king? Never mind. I should search for that meteor first."

The Dragon God's divine soul had originally been resting peacefully in Dragon Valley when he suddenly noticed changes in fate. The Dragon Clan's fortune was steadily rising, and that was a good thing.

"Could the next Dragon God be about to be born? That would be wonderful."

He was trying his best to search for information about that meteor, wanting to see its fate clearly, but all he found was dense fog. The future held limitless possibilities.

He could clearly sense that the universe was about to undergo a major transformation, though he did not know whether it would be good or bad.

At that moment, an astonishing transformation was taking place in the core region of the universe. The universe was expanding at an incredible rate, and the fortune of the universe as a whole was rising sharply.

After all, fortune was something profoundly mysterious. Even the Dragon God could not escape its influence.

At this moment, the last trace of divine soul power belonging to the sleeping Creator God also sensed this fluctuation.

"Oh? Has a Child of the Universe been born? Interesting, very interesting."

"The laws of the universe are actually nurturing it of their own accord and bringing about its birth. It seems the universe's rank is about to rise."

At this very moment, Yu Chen, far away in the dormitory, knew nothing of what had happened. After all, the matter was still far too distant from him.

He was now wholeheartedly studying soul tools. After all, he still had to realize his dream of Soul Land technology. He glanced at Wang Dong, who was sleeping on the bed.

"This little Dong really is something. She can even drool while sleeping on the bed. Her sleeping posture is so unbecoming."

Yu Chen helplessly tugged at the corner of his mouth, then turned to look at the moonlight spilling in through the window and softly remarked, "The moon is beautiful tonight."

But he did not notice at all that deep in the night sky, a star flickered endlessly between bright and dim, as though it were echoing him across the distant heavens.