Dugu Bo was utterly dumbfounded. He had joined the Tang Sect as a guest elder.
But he had never said he would hand the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well over to the Tang Sect too!
He had meant to leave this medicinal garden to Yanyan!
Letting Tang San use it now and then was one thing. Tang San had even let Tang Hao live there without asking, but out of regard for their friendship, Dugu Bo had said nothing.
But for it to become the Tang Sect's Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well twenty thousand years later was going too far!
"Did my Dugu Family have no one left?"
"Or did Yu Tianheng's line die out?"
"At the very least, the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well should belong to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan! How did it end up belonging to the Tang Sect?"
"Surely Yanyan didn't marry Tang San?"
Although that was what Dugu Bo thought, Tang San clearly disagreed.
And with Tang San now missing, the matter was even harder to untangle!
Meanwhile, as Luo Chen exposed the truth about the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well...
In the Spirit Hall era, Bibi Dong and Qian Daoliu set out almost simultaneously, flying toward Sunset Forest.
Tang Hao, meanwhile, carefully dug that stalk of Blue Silver Grass out of the ground and limped away.
As he walked, he kept cursing, "Damn you, Luo Chen! Why did you have to reveal the location of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well?"
Things were much livelier in the Peerless Tang Sect era. The Body Sect, Mingde Hall, the Sun Moon Empire's Offering Hall, Shrek Academy, and even members of the Holy Spirit Cult mobilized.
Tang San, watching from the Divine Realm, was frantic!
"You dare set your sights on my Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well! You've all chosen the path to death!"
"Hmph! Tang San, spare me your hypocrisy! Is the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well yours? How can you stand there and claim it when it clearly belonged to Dugu Bo ten thousand years ago?"
The God of Destruction arrived beside Tang San, bearing boundless power of destruction.
Others might not know what had happened on the Douluo Continent ten thousand years ago, but he knew perfectly well!
"Hmph! The old monster died, so doesn't that make the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well mine? And doesn't what's mine belong to the Tang Sect?"
As Sea God Tang San spoke, he drew his Golden Trident. He and the God of Destruction were now as incompatible as fire and water, fighting whenever they met.
Day after day passed within Dragon Valley, and Luo Chen and Gu Yue's cultivation drew to a close.
Luo Chen finished forming his third soul core, and his soul power broke through to the Limit Douluo level.
"Now I'm the strongest person on the continent!"
After taking the Dragon God's Heart, Gu Yue began gradually merging with the Golden Dragon King bloodline.
"Given time, I will become a complete dragon!" Gu Yue said with emotion.
Once she fully refined the Golden Dragon King bloodline and merged with Na'er, she might well restore the dragon race's former glory.
However, the Golden Dragon King bloodline bore layers of seals from the Divine Realm, and undoing them would take time.
Another reason was that the Dragon God's power was so immense that it would draw the Plane Master's attention.
Until Luo Chen and the others were fully prepared, they had no intention of confronting Tang Hao, the Plane Master, even though he had to keep a constant eye on the Abyss Emperor and had no time to bother with them.
When the two walked out of Dragon Valley hand in hand, only three hours had passed in the outside world.
"My lord, you... you're back?" Seeing the Nine-Colored Light flowing over Gu Yue, Di Tian was so excited that he nearly dropped to his knees.
Gu Yue shook her head. "I still need some time to recover my strength."
"Let's leave first. This isn't the place to talk," Luo Chen said.
"Mm." Gu Yue nodded and took Luo Chen's arm of her own accord.
Di Tian: "???"
Was that really my lord?
When had my lord become like this?
So much so that Di Tian wore an extremely awkward expression the entire way.
Once they returned to the hotel where they were staying, Di Tian still wanted to say something to Gu Yue, but Luo Chen pulled her into his room.
Bang! The door shut, leaving Di Tian outside!
Di Tian: "???"
What a travesty!
The next day,
When the first ray of morning sunlight shone into the room, Luo Chen nudged Gu Yue beside him, signaling that she could get up.
Gu Yue pulled the blanket over her entire body and refused to get up, no matter what he said.
In the end, Luo Chen ran out of options and simply took the whole blanket away.
Only then did Gu Yue reluctantly climb out of bed.
After the two finished washing up, the Sky Screens in the Spirit Hall and Peerless Tang Sect eras lit up again.
Gu Yue and Luo Chen appeared on the Sky Screens once more.
This time, far more people were watching than before.
Whether it was Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue in the Spirit Hall era, Lou Gao of the Tang Sect, or Tang Hao, who had found a new place to stay...
Or, in the Peerless Tang Sect era, Jing Hongchen of Mingde Hall and Kong Deming of the Offering Hall in the Sun Moon Empire, or Huo Yuhao of the Body Sect...
There was also Sea God Tang San, who scorned soul tools but was still secretly watching.
The reason was simple: Luo Chen was preparing to perform Heavenly Forging! He would upgrade his Three-Word Battle Armor to four-word battle armor!
Jing Hongchen of Mingde Hall was especially interested. Ever since their previous attempt to study mechas had failed, they had been searching for the problem.
Their final conclusion was that the materials might be the issue! They suspected that the blacksmith profession ten thousand years in the future might specialize in producing such materials.
Outside the Sky Screen, Tang Hao watched Luo Chen with utter disdain.
What difference could twenty thousand years make when it came to forging? Who could surpass him?
"At the end of the day, isn't he just a lousy hammer jockey? What's he so smug about?"
"Luo Chen, what does it matter how strong or talented you are? You're not even a Divine Craftsman!"
Back then, hadn't he become a Divine Craftsman renowned across the continent while working in a thatched hut?
And he, Tang Hao, was no ordinary Divine Craftsman!
Little did he know that, in Luo Chen's era, his supposed Divine Craftsman skills might not even meet the standard of a fourth-rank blacksmith!
For his forging site, Luo Chen chose neither the Star Luo Empire's Blacksmith Association nor the Spirit Pagoda.
Instead, he came to a secluded mountaintop.
Several ferocious beasts appeared as well, joining forces to raise an isolation barrier to prevent anyone else from detecting the activity here.
For this Heavenly Forging session, Luo Chen had specifically brought Xu Jiujiu along so she could quickly get a feel for the changes in the times and in technology.
The moment Xu Jiujiu appeared, she sensed a wary gaze fixed intently on her.
Ever since Xu Jiujiu arrived, Gu Yue had clung to Luo Chen's arm without letting go.
Xu Jiujiu merely gave a knowing smile. As a former princess of the Star Luo Empire, she was well versed in handling people and social situations.
So she said nothing out of line and simply followed quietly beside them.
Only when Luo Chen took out the equipment needed for forging did Xu Jiujiu ask a question.
"Luo Chen, how is this forging of yours different from what blacksmiths used to do?"
"A blacksmith, to put it plainly, is just a lousy hammer jockey. Forging, on the other hand, means granting metal life, a soul, and even laws," Luo Chen explained.
Outside the Sky Screen, Tang Hao scoffed when he heard this.
"Granting life? Granting a soul? Even granting laws?"
"An amateur is still an amateur. Metal is metal. How can you give it life or a soul? And you think that qualifies you to be called a Divine Craftsman?"
Unlike Tang Hao, Lou Gao of the Tang Sect listened with keen interest.
"Granting life... giving metal a new life..."
"Granting a soul... giving metal a soul that's one in ten thousand..."
Lou Gao repeated those words over and over, as though strange knowledge was wildly invading his mind!
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