Ice Seal of the Far North, Return to Douluo

When the Golden Dragon Spear pierced Gu Yuena's heart, the entire world seemed to turn black.

No, Gu Yue, why are you so foolish?

The winds of the Far North were blades whetted with ice shards, cutting painfully against skin and carrying a bone-chilling coolness even in breath. The lead-gray vault of heaven pressed low, devoid of a shred of sunlight, leaving only the boundless snowfields rolling with fine ice-dust in the cold gale.

Gu Yuena knelt on the frozen ground, her knees sinking into the half-melted snow layer. The biting cold crept along her clothing into her bone marrow, yet it fell far short of the fierce intensity of the agony at her heart. The Golden Dragon Spear rippled entirely with blinding golden radiance, its tip piercing deeply through her chest. The shaft trembled, emitting a low hum, and the dragon power surged like molten lava through her blood vessels, tearing apart every inch of her meridians.

Wulin... Her voice was as light as a wisp of smoke, scattered by a mere puff of wind. Don't... be sad...

Tang Wulin finally could not help it, abruptly grabbing the shaft of the Golden Dragon Spear. The scorching dragon power poured in along the shaft, and he wanted to pull the spear out, but the moment his fingertips touched the body, he felt a violent tremor pass through Gu Yuena's body.

Don't touch it... Gu Yuena bit her lip, cold sweat seeping from her forehead from the pain. It's absorbing my power... Pull it out... and I'll go faster...

Her pale fingertips still gripped the spear shaft, and her silver-purple eyes held not a shred of pain, leaving only an unshakeable lingering affection for Tang Wulin. Her red lips parted slightly, her voice as soft as a sigh: "Say you love me."

"I love you—!" Tang Wulin's roar shattered the stagnant air, tears rolling down mixed with scalding dragon power. He watched the fading divine light in the depths of her eyes and the dissipation of the nine-colored halo at her fingertips, finally understanding that this was a destiny she had long since set—to resolve the tens of thousands of years of animosity between humans and soul beasts with her own death. The instant Gu Yuena released the spear shaft and her spirit was on the verge of being utterly extinguished, Tang Wulin lunged forward abruptly, letting the other end of the Golden Dragon Spear fiercely pierce his own chest.

Scorching dragon blood and her icy beads of blood mingled upon the spear shaft. Disregarding Gu Yuena's weak and shocked Don't, he used all his strength to pull her tightly into his embrace, letting their bodies fuse completely so that no spear shaft separated them any longer. "So this is what it feels like when the heart is pierced; it's only a bit chilly, not very painful." He smiled, yet his tears gushed even more fiercely. "You are my wife. I said that wherever you are, I am. How could you bear to leave me alone?"

Gu Yuena weakly propped herself against his chest, wanting to push him away but lacking even a shred of strength, and her tears finally burst forth: "Wulin, you still have mom and dad to wait for..." "Mom and dad have older sister by their side, but you only have me." He shook his head gently, his fingertips brushing past her frosted, silver-purple long hair, gripping an Ice God Pearl within his palm.

Midair, Tang Wulin's gaze swept past the grieving Da Ming, Er Ming, and the Shrek crowd below, his voice calm yet firm: "Humans and soul beasts can only endure through peaceful coexistence. May our deaths draw a period to all of this." He waved a hand to recall the Silver Dragon Spear, sending it before the Light-Dark Douluo. "Leave this spear for Shrek to hold the fort. The soul beasts possess the Dragon God Core; may the two worlds be at peace."

As his words fell, he crushed the Ice God Pearl, and mist across the sky instantly swept over, enveloping their embracing figures. Gu Yuena's originally withered delicate body grew stagnant amidst the frost, and Tang Wulin, holding her, let out a long howl to the heavens: "Golden Dragon Moon Whisper Tang Wulin, Silver Dragon Wulin Gu Yuena! Farewell, Douluo!" The gold and silver dual-colored halos intertwined within the misty ice, and the two transformed into a crystalline stream of light, breaking through the sky and hurtling toward the Far North.

In the end, a muffled roar came from the Far North Core Region, and a huge chunk of ice carrying the embracing pair plunged into the depths of the frozen soil, locked in eternal ice and snow. Ice and snow covered all traces, leaving only the endless silence between heaven and earth, and a legend of transcending races and life-and-death attachment that echoed long upon Douluo Continent.

Beneath the millennia-old freeze, light and shadow intertwined, and a bright ray pierced toward the spot where Tang Wulin and Gu Yuena committed double suicide. When Tang Wulin opened his eyes once more, he had unexpectedly returned to Shrek Academy.