Gu Yuena: I Have a Child?

[It wasn't just Xiao Wu. Even the once-famous Titan Giant Ape and Azure Bull Python became Tang San's Soul Rings.

You could only say that a family had to set off together, nice and neat.

But I figured that after Tang San began making plans for Douluo Continent, he put on an act of sorrow and revived the two of them.

After all, once those two were revived and strengthened again,

his power would be enough to suppress the entire Douluo Continent. Although there might occasionally be a few people he couldn't defeat, being able to crush 99% of everyone should have been enough.

Those two had now become Tang San's lackeys as well—the Haotian Sect's Niu Tian and vice sect master Tai Tan.

But the two of them were actually deeply dissatisfied with Tang San's actions. Still, they knew that the current Tang San was no longer the weak Tang San who had once begged them for help. Other than obeying Tang San's orders, they had no choice.]

The moment the words appeared, all the female leads with Diary Copies saw this passage at the same time.

Some watched the drama, while others were shocked, but none had much of a reaction. Only Wang Dong'er looked as though she'd been struck by lightning.

First Father? Second Father?

The two fathers who had doted on her since childhood, held her in the palms of their hands, and couldn't even bear to say a harsh word to her were actually the two great overlords of Star Dou Forest—the Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape?

No matter how much she'd thought about it before, she couldn't understand why her First Father and Second Father, who had always granted her every request, had become so forceful and unfeeling over this matter.

They had insisted that she cut her long hair short, bind her chest, disguise herself as a boy, and come to Shrek. Even her name had to be changed to "Wang Dong," and she wasn't allowed to reveal even the slightest hint of her identity as a girl.

She had made a fuss and cried, but none of it had worked. In the end, she could only compromise.

Now, everything made sense.

Fortunately, with Lin Ye around, she wasn't as resistant to coming to Shrek Academy as she had been before.

[Soul beast sacrifices had already become a very common method.

His father, Tang Hao, made Ah Yin sacrifice herself. Tang San wanted Xiao Wu, Da Ming, and Er Ming to sacrifice themselves.

Then Huo Yuhao naturally had to be assigned someone to sacrifice herself for him. Of course, that was Wang Qiuer. Once Wang Qiuer sacrificed herself for Huo Yuhao, Tang San's plundering of the Soul Beast Clan's fortune would be complete.

After that came the seemingly perfect happy ending. Wang Dong'er and Wang Qiuer fused together and returned to being our Great Buddha Tang's precious daughter, Tang Wutong.]

The moment this passage appeared, every female lead with a Diary Copy sucked in a sharp breath.

The diary had previously mentioned Tang San's schemes here and there, but never had it connected the entire chain so clearly as it did today.

Starting from Tang Hao's generation, sacrifice had become the Tang Family's shortcut to the top. Tang San took it even further, going so far as to split his own biological daughter in two and lay out a grand scheme of sacrifice, all to plunder the Soul Beast Clan's last remaining fortune.

At the bottom of Lake of Life in Star Dou Forest.

The instant the Three-Eyed Golden Lion saw the diary, all the golden fur on her body stood on end, and her golden vertical pupils were filled with terror.

She refused! She absolutely refused to become some Wang Qiuer!

She was living perfectly well, serving as Star Dou's auspicious beast and receiving the respect of all soul beasts. Why should someone alter her memories, send her into the human world, and make her sacrifice herself for a human she'd never even met?

At the thought of her consciousness being erased in the future—of forgetting who she was, forgetting Star Dou Forest, and willingly walking to her death—the Three-Eyed Golden Lion trembled all over in fear.

She pressed her head hard against the hem of Gu Yuena's clothes, letting out frightened whimpers from her throat.

She kept nodding toward the Elemental Cage, and her meaning couldn't have been clearer. She wanted to go back! She wanted to return to the Elemental Cage!

Even if she was locked inside a cage, unable to run around freely or play wherever she wanted, at least she would still be herself. No one would scheme against her, alter her memories, and condemn her to death!

Gu Yuena lowered her head and looked at the little creature trembling in fear. She reached out and gently stroked her puffed-up fur, a flicker of heartache flashing through her eyes before it turned into cold resolve.

She slowly nodded, accepting the Three-Eyed Golden Lion's request.

She had also realized that letting the Three-Eyed Golden Lion out earlier really hadn't been a good decision.

Rather than let her wander around outside and give Tang San an opening, it was better to lock her back in the Elemental Cage for now.

As for how long? Hadn't Lin Ye already made it perfectly clear? At most, Huo Yuhao would become a god in ten or twenty years.

For soul beasts like them, who lived for tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years, twenty years was merely the flick of a finger—at most, it would be a little boring.

But compared to her life and her freedom of will, what did a little boredom matter?

Gu Yuena raised a hand, and pale silver elemental power surged forth, reopening the Elemental Cage not far away.

The Three-Eyed Golden Lion didn't even look back. With a whoosh, she darted inside and curled up in the innermost corner, tightly hugging her tail. Only then did she relax slightly, finally feeling a little safer.

Lin Ye took a sip of his drink. Remembering all those jokes he'd seen online in his past life, he couldn't help laughing as he continued writing in the Diary.

[Haha, I just remembered the jokes netizens in my past life made about the entire Douluo Continent series. Even now, I still can't help myself when I think about them.

Tang San was born from Tang Hao and Blue Silver. Tang San and his wife Xiao Wu then had a daughter, Tang Wutong, and a son, Tang Wulin.

During Douluo 3, ten thousand years later, Tang Wulin also had a son with the Silver Dragon King, Gu Yuena. His name was Lan Xuanyu.

And Lan Xuanyu? His wife was also a hundred-thousand-year soul beast, the Demon Spirit Great White Shark.

Holy shit, if this family didn't marry a soul beast wife, could they not get into the family register?

Humans couldn't do that. At the very least, they shouldn't.

Even if soul beasts could take human form, no matter how human they looked, there would always be some difference from actual humans, right?

So the Tang Family only married soul beasts, huh? If even one of them married a human woman, would she get kicked out of the Tang Family genealogy?]

The moment those teasing words appeared, the originally grave atmosphere was instantly shattered.

Zhang Lexuan was stunned at first, then couldn't help bursting into laughter. Much of the chill in her heart from earlier dissipated.

Thinking about it carefully, it really was true. According to Lin Ye, starting with Tang Hao, not a single man in the Tang Family had married a human woman. Every generation married soul beasts. Could their genealogy really have some kind of mandatory requirement?

Xiao Xiao laughed outright. Lin Ye's jab was far too accurate. That line about humans not being able to do it, or at least not being supposed to, had struck straight at her heart.

Tang Ya couldn't help tugging at the corner of her lips, and the resentment in her heart from earlier faded somewhat.

When she thought about it that way, the Tang Family's tradition really was both absurd and ridiculous. Tang San constantly talked about the boundary between humans and soul beasts, yet his entire family had risen to power through soul beasts.

Ma Xiaotao raised an eyebrow, a mocking smile curling across her lips.

Hypocrisy. What utter hypocrisy.

On one hand, they shouted that humans and beasts walked different paths and treated soul beasts as tools. On the other, their entire family married soul beasts. They really had mastered having it both ways.

In Star Dou Forest, Gu Yuena froze completely.

Tang Wulin and I had a child named Lan Xuanyu?

Ten thousand years later, she actually had a child with Tang San's son?

Gu Yuena's face instantly darkened like the bottom of a pot, and the killing intent in her eyes nearly solidified.

She was the common ruler of soul beasts, the Silver Dragon King, burdened with the responsibility of reviving the Soul Beast Clan. How could she possibly be with the son of her enemy? And have a child with him? This was simply the greatest insult to her!