Night Raid on Shrek, Wulin Vanishes

Late at night, the moon had set and the stars were sparse.

Shrek's inner court had fallen completely silent, all sounds stilled. The evening breeze lightly brushed the treetops, carrying the faint chill and tranquility unique to the deep night. The lights throughout the academy had gradually gone out, leaving only scattered streetlamps casting a soft, pale glow.

The lights in Tang Wulin's dormitory had long since been extinguished.

The daytime duel between the twin dragons, Tang Wulin and Wang Qiu'er, had come to an end. Though he had claimed the captain's position clad in Two-Word Dragon Moon Battle Armor and felt neither physically nor mentally exhausted, he still entered meditation on schedule to regulate his breathing.

The Dragon Core turned steadily within his dantian, while the aura of the Moonlight Dragon Armor around him remained restrained. The Qiluo Tulip soul spirit quietly nourished his body, leaving him in a state of deep recuperation as he consolidated his strength.

Beyond the window, the night was black as ink, so quiet it was almost eerie.

No one knew that the skies above Shrek had already been silently enveloped by a terrifying beast domain that blanketed heaven and earth, towering above all creation.

There was no sound, no wind, no ripple.

A towering black figure slowly stepped out from the shadows of the void.

Several zhang tall, covered in black scales, his eyes were like silent, extinguished abysses. An ultimate ferocious beast's pressure that could suffocate heaven and earth itself coiled around him.

Beast God—Di Tian.

The Star Dou Great Forest's foremost ferocious beast, silent for ten thousand years, had set foot in Shrek tonight!

His heavy gaze settled on the white-clad youth asleep and meditating inside the room. Deep in his eyes flashed an incomparably complex emotion—wariness, reverence, and fate, intertwined together.

The Golden Dragon King's Origin was whole and intact.

The other half of the Dragon God's divided core was right before him.

"Young Master, this subordinate has come at your command."

Di Tian murmured in a low voice, his tone hoarse and deep, carrying the weathered traces of endless ages.

Tonight's order had come from that supreme ruler who had awakened from slumber and returned to the world—the Silver Dragon King, Gu Yue Na.

He disturbed no array and triggered no alarm.

With Di Tian's current cultivation as a transcendent-limit ferocious beast, Shrek's entire mountain-protecting formation and warning runes were no different from empty air in his eyes.

He raised a hand, and dark, shadowy beast power spread soundlessly, becoming invisible shackles that gently passed through the window lattice and enveloped the bed.

Tang Wulin, asleep and meditating, had no time to awaken, no time to circulate his Dragon Core, and no time to activate his battle armor.

A gentle yet absolutely tyrannical force of restraint, one that completely crushed any difference in rank, instantly locked down his limbs, meridians, soul power, and Dragon Core!

Dragon power stagnated!

Battle armor sealed!

Soul spirit silenced!

Even with the Golden Dragon King's bloodline and the Two-Word Dragon Moon Battle Armor, he was still as helpless as a child before the absolute suppression of Beast God Di Tian's level.

Tang Wulin's body stiffened, and his consciousness abruptly awoke. Just as he was about to open his eyes and resist, the space around him had already been completely sealed.

Invisible darkness wrapped around his limbs. With a light lift, his entire body was raised into the air.

The entire process was utterly silent, disturbing neither blade of grass nor tree, neither person nor shadow.

Di Tian held him lightly in one massive hand. Carrying the completely restrained and immobile Tang Wulin, his figure once more melted into the void's shadows and vanished from the Shrek dormitory in an instant.

A thousand miles in a moment.

The next instant.

The Star Dou Great Forest, its core region, an abyss of unchanging silence for ten thousand years.

Moonlight filtered through the branches and leaves of towering ancient trees, scattering a cold silver radiance across the ground.

Upon a jade platform in the middle of the lake stood a peerlessly beautiful figure in silence.

Silver hair fell to her waist, her skin was fairer than snow, and her features were cool and ethereal. Her plain white dress stirred gently in the wind, while faint silver dragon aura surrounded her. Noble, ancient, indifferent, lofty—she seemed like the only deity in the world.

Gu Yue Na.

She stood with her hands behind her back, facing away from the void, as though she had been waiting for a long time.

"Master, the person has been brought."

Di Tian's low, respectful voice rang through the forest.

The void rippled as the black shadow reappeared. With a gentle lift of his hand, Tang Wulin, his entire body bound by beast-power shackles and unable to move, was steadily pressed down into the center of the jade platform, forced to bow.

The restraint did not harm him, but it absolutely locked down all power and all resistance.

Tang Wulin was finally fully awake.

He raised his eyes, his gaze suddenly tightening as he stared blankly at the unparalleled silver-haired figure before him.

Deep within his heart, a familiarity that transcended time and reincarnation, engraved into the Dragon God's Origin, exploded forth!

His bloodline trembled, his Dragon Core gave a faint hum, and somewhere in the unseen depths, his divine soul instinctively bowed its head.

Gu Yue Na slowly turned around.

A pair of crystalline eyes, clear as glass and cold as a galaxy, quietly fell upon him.

Her gaze was calm yet profound, concealing the loneliness of eternity, the destiny of the Dragon Realm, and countless tangled thoughts no one could understand.

Looking at the Golden Dragon King youth whom Di Tian had personally captured and brought before her, powerless and bound, she parted her red lips. Her voice was soft and ethereal, yet carried the absolute control of one who ruled the world.

"Tang Wulin."

"Long time no see, my... other half."

The night wind brushed through the forest, and all trees stood silent.

The Star Dou moon shone bright as the two dragons met.

Tonight, after waking from her slumber, the first thing she had done—

was have the Beast God abduct the true dragon and bring him before her.

From this moment onward, fate's chessboard had made its next move.