The Golden Dragon King was gone!
After confirming this, Gu Yue panicked, then regretted not coming back sooner to check.
After spending half an hour regretting it,
Gu Yue began fantasizing about turning back time so she could see which damned bastard had done it!
"Something's wrong. On a scale of one to ten, this is a twelve!"
Gu Yue looked around, inexplicably feeling that someone might be spying on her.
"I remember Tang Wulin used the Golden Dragon Claw when he fought Guang Biao this afternoon. That means he still had the Golden Dragon King's power then."
Gu Yue forced herself to calm down and carefully recalled the details, hoping to uncover a clue.
"Then we followed Li Zha back to the Spirit Pagoda."
"In other words, Tang Wulin's Golden Dragon King disappeared while Na'er and I were out..."
Gu Yue's brows drew tighter and tighter.
The Spirit Pagoda wasn't somewhere just anyone could enter.
Which meant,
The Golden Dragon King's disappearance was most likely an inside job-someone from the Spirit Pagoda had stolen what they were supposed to guard!
"But that doesn't make sense either...!"
Gu Yue returned to her room, lay on the bed, and clutched her head with both hands.
"The Golden Dragon King's bloodline power isn't that easy to strip from Tang Wulin. What's more, Tang Wulin actually survived having the Golden Dragon King removed."
"An extraction that precise would practically be surgery. Even at my peak, I wouldn't necessarily be able to do it."
"Wait..."
In Gu Yue's mind,
The image of Li Zha just before she had entered suddenly surfaced.
Gu Yue abruptly sat up in bed as a flash of lightning streaked through her mind!
"Could it be that Li Zha's real reason for standing outside the door wasn't to warn me?"
"He wasn't standing outside waiting for me at all. He might have... just come out of Tang Wulin's room!"
Gu Yue stood and began pacing back and forth.
If she claimed that a three-ring Soul Elder could take the Golden Dragon King's power without bursting to death, even Di Tian would think she had gone mad.
But!
The East Sea Dragon King's power that had inexplicably appeared inside Na'er could suppress her. Wasn't that just as heaven-defying?
What's more,
Li Zha's martial soul could actually counter her.
That was outrageously heaven-defying too!
I don't have any proof, but my intelligence tells me Li Zha most likely did it!
Gu Yue thought to herself.
"Forget it. I'll sleep first and probe him tomorrow."
"If Li Zha really took the Golden Dragon King's power, even if he didn't explode and die, I refuse to believe he wouldn't show any signs."
Meanwhile,
Li Zha returned to his room and lightly clenched his fists.
His joints immediately crackled.
After absorbing the first goldfish, an incarnation of the Golden Dragon King's power, Li Zha's strength had skyrocketed once again!
Eleven-year-old Tang Wulin's strength of four thousand jin had left Xie Xie astonished,
But even before absorbing the Golden Dragon King, Li Zha's arms could already exert over ten thousand jin of force.
Now,
By Li Zha's conservative estimate, his strength had probably reached fifteen thousand jin!
Even setting aside soul rings and martial souls,
That strength alone could overwhelm a Soul Elder.
Li Zha sat in a chair and opened his hands again.
Instantly,
Golden energy surged over from the snack street in Eastsea City's northern district, lingering around Li Zha's fingertips.
"So this is incense power?"
After he had eliminated the brothers Guang Biao and Guang Long, the neighbors along the snack street had offered Li Zha and Na'er their most devoted faith.
Li Zha knew,
This incense power would be the foundation upon which he would one day rebuild the Divine Realm.
"For now, Tang San's threat is gone. Without the spiritual imprint, Tang Hao probably can't locate me either. Besides, the Plane Spirit is keeping him in check, so I shouldn't need to worry about the Tang family anymore."
"Still, the Plane Spirit had a point. With Tang San's Unfixed Storm gone, the Abyssal Sage King benefits. I'll probably have to deal with him myself in the future."
Li Zha wasn't afraid of the Abyssal Sage King.
But to prepare for that fellow's arrival, Li Zha intended to speed up his growth.
Just then,
Something vibrated at Li Zha's waist. He took it out and saw that someone was calling his Soul Guidance Communicator.
The name displayed was Han Tianyin.
"Hello, Elder Han. What is it this late at night?"
"You little brat! Can't I call you without a reason?"
"Heh, you old geezer who didn't even give me a graduation present. Now that I've graduated, I don't have time to chat with you."
"You brat! I heard you stirred up quite a fuss as soon as you reached Eastsea City. Slaughtering a three-ring Evil Soul Master on the train, fighting a Six-Ring Soul Emperor on the snack street-you really ought to rein in that Demon Pill nature of yours."
"All right, all right, old geezer. Get to the point!"
Han Tianyin felt helpless. Li Zha was good in every other respect, but he was far too impatient.
"Here's the thing. As your teacher, I have a good place to recommend for your future cultivation."
The Body Sect?
Li Zha guessed inwardly, but asked aloud, "What place? Don't tell me it's Shrek. Not even a dog would go to Shrek."
Fucking Shrek?
Silver Moon Douluo Cai Yue'er didn't act like a decent human being and enjoyed humiliating students.
Yun Ming didn't bother with a damned thing. Shrek City had been hollowed out by rot, and he didn't even know it.
Holy Spirit Douluo Ya Li barely qualified as a normal person, but she was his teacher Leng Yaozhu's romantic rival.
The others, like Feng Wuyu, were also incredibly overbearing.
Besides,
Shrek Academy would be blown up in a few years at most.
The timeline had changed now, too. Even as a transmigrator, Li Zha didn't know when it would be bombed. Going to Shrek at a time like this was lighting a lamp in a latrine-asking for death!
"What Shrek? Would your teacher recommend Shrek to you? I want you to visit the Body Sect. Its sect master, Mu Ye, is very interested in you."
Li Zha's interest stirred, though he outwardly acted as if he didn't give a damn.
"Mu Ye? Who's that? Is he a Limit Douluo?"
"Pah, pah, pah! A Limit Douluo, just like that? Do you think Limit Douluos are cabbages?"
"Heh, if he isn't even a Limit Douluo, why should I go to him?"
Han Tianyin was speechless.
Damn it, the Heavenly Spirit Tower has really spoiled this brat.
He sighed.
That idiot Mu Ye is also to blame for being so useless. Instead of doing his fucking job as a Soul Master, he spends every day researching some goddamn Red-Grade Mecha.
Forget being a Limit Douluo,
Mu Ye wasn't even a rank-95 Super Douluo!
"Li Zha, although Mu Ye isn't a Limit Douluo, he possesses the Body Sect's secret method for second awakening. It would benefit your other martial soul."
"Really?"
"Of course. Would your teacher lie to you?"
"All right. My vacation isn't over yet anyway. I'll find time to go."
"Ah, well, don't let your teacher know about this..."
Li Zha knew Han Tianyin feared Leng Yaozhu would accuse him of poaching her student if she found out.
Still, he asked despite knowing the answer, "Why?"
"Think about it. You just caused such a huge commotion, and now you're going to seek out the Body Sect. Would your teacher agree?"
"True."
"So don't tell your teacher. All right, I've sent the Body Sect's contact details and address to your communicator. Hurry up and read them, memorize them, then delete them."
Li Zha ended the call.
Na'er suddenly sat up groggily in bed.
Na'er rubbed her lovely purple eyes. "Senior Brother, who were you talking to?"
"Oh, I was talking to our teacher."
"Our teacher? Is Teacher Leng here?"
"Not her."
Na'er got up, poured some water, and gulped down a large glass. "Then who? Do we have another teacher?"
Li Zha couldn't help laughing.
It had been three years.
Na'er still didn't know Han Tianyin was their teacher.
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