Luo Chen and Gu Yue followed Leng Yaozhu to the headquarters in Shrek City.
"Tomorrow, you'll be leaving for the exchange program on the Star Luo Continent. Why not stay at the Spirit Pagoda tonight?" Leng Yaozhu asked.
"Sure." Luo Chen had no objections.
Gu Yue nodded as well. The two of them often visited headquarters anyway and had long since grown accustomed to it.
Although Luo Chen was not a member of the Spirit Pagoda, Leng Yaozhu treated him just as she would her own disciple.
That night, Luo Chen went to Gu Yue's room.
Gu Yue had just finished bathing. A plain white bathrobe wrapped snugly around her body, and her wet, raven-black hair hung over her shoulders. Droplets slid down her neck, a faint icy mist lingered around her, and her violet eyes held a hint of coldness.
"Who said you could come in?" A trace of helplessness showed in Gu Yue's cool violet eyes.
"We're practically an old married couple. You still care about that?" Luo Chen teased as he took a few steps toward her.
Startled, Gu Yue instinctively retreated two steps.
Outside the sky screen, the many female leads watching this scene could no longer stay calm.
Qian Renxue: Luo Chen, you're pulling this stunt again!
Back then, Luo Chen had sneaked into her room every single day!
Hu Liena: I really want to bathe with Luo Chen!
Ning Rongrong: Hmph! Luo Chen, you big pervert! Why are you always staring at other women?
Wang Dong'er: Luo Chen, am I not enough for you?
Wang Dong'er remembered how Luo Chen had held her in his arms every night at Shrek Academy, and her face flushed.
Wang Qiu'er: Luo Chen, were you like this when you were with Dong'er too?
Vina: Why doesn't Brother Luo Chen like watching me bathe?
Inside the sky screen, Luo Chen stared at the affection panel before him, momentarily stunned.
[Qian Renxue's affection +1] [Hu Liena's affection +1] [Ning Rongrong's affection +1] [Wang Dong'er's affection +1] [Wang Qiu'er's affection -1] [Vina's affection +1]
Luo Chen: *?*
Why did everyone's go up except Wang Qiu'er's? What's wrong with Qiu'er?
And what about Xu Jiujiu? Why hasn't her affection changed?
With those questions in mind, Luo Chen looked at Gu Yue and noticed that the coldness in her eyes was gradually fading, replaced by a tenderness he had not seen in a long time.
[Gu Yue's affection +1]
Luo Chen decided to find a topic and use the opportunity to get closer to Gu Yue.
"Back at Shrek Academy today, did you and Na'er make some kind of deal? Why did you both disappear for a while?"
Luo Chen remembered that Gu Yue and Na'er had been absent for a time while he confronted Yun Ming and the others.
Gu Yue's expression shifted slightly, but she still pretended not to understand.
"What are you talking about? I don't know any Na'er."
Luo Chen did not dwell on the question. Instead, while Gu Yue was distracted, he sat down beside her and brought up the Spirit Pagoda.
"Do you think the Spirit Pagoda, as it is today, has strayed from Spirit Ice Douluo Huo Yuhao's original intentions?"
"Back then, Huo Yuhao created the Spirit Pagoda so humans and soul beasts could coexist peacefully. But I'm afraid the Spirit Pagoda of today has long forgotten that."
As Luo Chen spoke, he looked up at Gu Yue.
"There was nothing wrong with Spirit Ice Douluo's original purpose in founding the Spirit Pagoda. It's just that humanity's demand for soul spirits kept growing, so the Spirit Pagoda captured large numbers of soul beasts for research. That was what drove soul beasts to extinction."
Gu Yue spoke coldly, a trace of hatred still in her eyes.
[Actually, most of the blame lies with Tang San. To win over Huo Yuhao, that child of destiny, Tang San stopped at nothing. He even used Huo Yun'er's life as a bargaining chip.]
[That was what made Huo Yuhao abandon the newly established Spirit Pagoda and ascend to the Divine Realm, allowing the Spirit Pagoda to go astray.]
[If Huo Yuhao hadn't gone straight to the Divine Realm, the balance of power on the Douluo Continent might have turned out differently.]
[Besides, Tang San had set his sights on the Emperor Auspicious Beast of the Star Dou Great Forest from the very beginning, so the extinction of soul beasts was inevitable. Even without the Spirit Pagoda, the Tang Sect would have done it.]
[What a shame. If only I could return to Qiu'er's side, I would never let Tang San's scheme succeed so easily!]
[I wonder how Wang Qiu'er is doing after all this time.]
Rage seethed within Luo Chen! This damned system! Why couldn't it let me travel through time when it mattered most?
Outside the sky screen, Wang Qiu'er was almost moved to tears by those words.
Wang Qiu'er: Luo Chen still cares about me.
Wang Dong'er: Hmph!
Qian Renxue: ? Wait, who's this Wang Qiu'er now?
Huo Yuhao was truly enraged now.
"Tang San! You and I cannot coexist!"
The great ferocious beasts of the Star Dou Great Forest were equally furious.
"Relay my Beast God Order! All soul beasts in the forest are to assemble at once! March with me and raze Shrek to the ground! Anyone who dares retreat will be killed without mercy!"
A tornado of black clouds surged skyward around Di Tian, blotting out half the sky.
Within the forest, the roars of countless beasts merged into a terrifying wave of sound that spread outward from the core, layer upon layer. Across the outer region, the mixed region, and the forest's perimeter, every soul beast stopped hunting or hiding and rushed frantically toward the forest's southern exit.
Since their future fate could not be changed, they might as well kill a few more humans!
Di Tian intended to take the Shrek City Tang San had created down with him!
Only the Silver Dragon King remained puzzled. Was my future self planning something big?
Just as Di Tian prepared to unleash the beast tide, he failed to notice a sudden flash of light in the sky screen. Wang Qiu'er, who had been resting in the Star Dou Great Forest, abruptly vanished!
When Wang Qiu'er came to her senses again, she felt that her surroundings had changed, yet somehow remained the same.
She was still in the Star Dou Great Forest. But as the Emperor Auspicious Beast, Wang Qiu'er could sense that the soul beasts here were pitifully few-not even a tenth of their usual number.
At that moment, several figures dressed in black discovered her!
Just as Wang Qiu'er braced herself for battle, the leader of the black-clad figures suddenly froze.
"Child, is that you?" Di Tian's aged voice rang out.
Wang Qiu'er froze. Then all the black-clad figures removed their disguises, revealing the few ferocious beasts who still survived in Legend of the Dragon King.
But unlike those in Wang Qiu'er's memories, these once-majestic ferocious beasts now had exhaustion etched across their faces...
Meanwhile, in the Douluo God Realm during the Peerless Tang Sect era, Tang San, who had already become both the Asura God and the Sea God, was raging impotently!
"Who was it?! Who put up this sky screen?! How dare they ruin my ten-thousand-year plan! This is my Douluo Continent! I should have the final say!"
"And my Wutong! Why can't I contact her? The Sea God Trident's mark has actually disappeared! How is that possible?!"
Indeed, the moment the sky screen appeared, Sea God Tang San had already tried to shut it down.
But no matter how hard he tried, he could not close it!
Even the traces of divine consciousness he had left on Wang Dong'er and Wang Qiu'er had now vanished!
To Tang San, this was nothing short of a devastating humiliation!
But just then...
The doors of the Divine Realm Hub were suddenly shoved open.
A violent purple aura surged inside like a tide.
Tang San turned to look. A figure stood wrapped from head to toe in a loose, heavy, dark-purple cloak, his hood completely concealing his face. Deep purple-black mist shrouded him, and a destructive pressure capable of pulverizing all things radiated from his body.
"Tang San! You've crossed the line!"
"Destruction, what do you mean by that?" Tang San frowned.
"Sea God, the Divine Realm's rules prohibit interference in the development of lower planes!" the God of Destruction said coldly. If not for the sky screen, he would never have known that Tang San dared act with such outrageous audacity!
He would never have known without investigating, and what he found gave him a fright. The Douluo Continent had practically become Tang San's backyard. Shrek, the Tang Sect, the Clear Sky Sect, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan-Tang San's shadow could be found behind almost every faction!
This was sheer contempt for the Divine Realm's rules, and for him, the God of Destruction!
Besides, the Divine Realm should have belonged to him, the God of Destruction, in the first place! What was Tang San? A mere latecomer, yet he dared think nothing of the God of Destruction!
"Of course I know the Divine Realm's rules." Tang San looked displeased, but stubbornly insisted, "I have not interfered in the lower realm!"
"You interfered in the lower realm's development without authorization! Do you think our God Realm Committee just sits around eating for nothing?!" the God of Destruction roared.
"I'm stripping you of control over the Divine Realm Hub! If you have objections, we'll settle them before the God Realm Committee!"
"Destruction! How dare you!" Tang San shouted furiously.
My ten-thousand-year plan as God King!
God of Destruction, Luo Chen, and that wretched sky screen-you've all given me cause to kill you!
Inside the sky screen, after their discussion of soul beasts, Gu Yue's gaze gradually turned icy, and she pushed Luo Chen out of her room.
Bang!
Behind her closed door, Gu Yue could no longer hold herself together.
She was the Silver Dragon King, the sovereign of all soul beasts, and one half of the Dragon God. She bore the burden of restoring the soul beasts.
Yet... she had fallen in love with a human!
Gu Yue bit her lip hard and slowly sank into a crouch against the door, burying her face in the crook of her arms.
At that moment, Gu Yue truly envied Na'er...
[Gu Yue's current affection: 101/100]
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