"Who knew?"
Gu Yue wasn't sure either.
"Has the Netherworld spawned something new? Was the Underworld King back then not completely destroyed? Have some surviving remnants in the Netherworld awakened? Have some contingency measures the Underworld King left behind been unsealed with the disappearance of the Divine Realm? Have beings from another Netherworld in the universe come here?"
"All of those are possible."
"They could become our friends, or they could become our enemies."
"But we currently know nothing about them, which puts us at a serious disadvantage. We absolutely cannot let our guard down against an existence like this. Whatever the case, we must first find out what's going on with them. Only then can we take the initiative in other matters."
That was also her main reason for splitting herself in two.
Both the Golden Dragon King and the aura of the Netherworld involved matters on the level of gods.
Di Tian and the others could, at most, lend a hand.
She still had to take action herself, and many of her methods could only be used to their fullest by her personally. A complete library, yours to choose from, offering you a reading experience.
As for Na'er betraying her?
Gu Yue didn't believe that would happen.
Besides, as the primary body, she could forcibly absorb Na'er, her secondary body, back into herself.
After all, she held seventy percent of their origin power.
How could Na'er, a mere little three, possibly surpass her, the rightful seven!
Elsewhere.
Mingdu.
The Xu Family.
Xu Qingjia, whom Heroine Ye had "snatched" away at swordpoint, was pondering what position he should use later to repay her "great kindness"-a debt he could only settle by "offering himself."
"Looks like she didn't follow us." The valiant Heroine Ye poked her little head out from behind the wall and glanced at the hall behind them before slowly letting out a breath of relief.
"Xu Qingjia." Ye Xinglan looked at him with utter seriousness on her childish little face. "Next time something like this happens, you have to run faster."
"Mom said girls out there are really good at tricking people."
Seeing his little childhood sweetheart looking so earnest, Xu Qingjia couldn't help smiling. "Then did Uncle Ye tell you that boys out there are really good at tricking people too?"
"He did." Ye Xinglan nodded solemnly.
"What about me, then?" Xu Qingjia couldn't resist gently pinching her cheek.
Ye Xinglan shook her head lightly and said as though it went without saying, "You're different."
Xu Qingjia's gaze froze for a moment before he answered with a smile, "Yes, I'm different."
To repay Heroine Ye's great kindness, Xu Qingjia willingly "offered himself"-by practicing swordplay with Ye Xinglan for two hours in the little courtyard where her family was temporarily staying.
Thrust, cleave, point, sweep, hook...
The wooden sword in Xu Qingjia's hand moved like a machine executing its program, precisely completing attacks and defenses ahead of time with speed and reactions surpassing Ye Xinglan's.
He wasn't particularly skilled in swordplay.
But his innately powerful soul gave him faster reactions, and his body had been strengthened by all sorts of rare spiritual treasures and moderate exercise since childhood.
With his overwhelming stats, it wasn't difficult to routinely eke out a "narrow victory" over his little childhood sweetheart.
Now that his spiritual power had undergone two successive boosts, his reactions were even faster.
After more than two hours, a sheen of sweat appeared on Ye Xinglan's fair forehead. Her little face was flushed, and her cherry lips parted and closed as she panted. Xu Qingjia, meanwhile, looked no different from usual as he gently and skillfully massaged his little childhood sweetheart's aching wrists.
Ye Xinglan watched Xu Qingjia's profile, watching the young boy concentrate on massaging her wrists. The redness in her face, which should have faded as her breathing gradually steadied, showed no sign of diminishing. "Once we've obtained our Soul Spirits, let's have another match!"
"Sure." Xu Qingjia extended his pinky and hooked it around hers.
Xu Qingjia took his soul-powered phone out of his trouser pocket. Seeing that his parents hadn't sent any messages yet, he returned to his own bedchamber first.
He activated the soul-powered shielding device.
An endless stream of power surged from the high-energy compression array Soul Tool buried beneath this palace complex, forming a barrier like rippling water that enveloped Xu Qingjia's bedchamber.
The high-energy compression array Soul Tool was an extremely efficient, enormous energy reservoir. In its early years, it had been used in strategic defense projects. Developed under Kong Deming, history's first Level 10 Soul Engineer, hailed as the father of Soul Tools, it had been a strategic technology of the Sun Moon Empire. Now, with the progress of the times, it had also been incorporated into the Federation's key civilian technologies.
He shut the door and climbed onto his bed.
Xu Qingjia had long since grown impatient.
Calming his breathing and focusing his mind, Xu Qingjia sank his consciousness into his Sea of Consciousness.
"Splash..." The churning "seawater" betrayed his inner unrest.
The scene that greeted Xu Qingjia was the same as before, but his Sea of Consciousness was clearly much larger. This was probably the improvement brought about by his Martial Soul Awakening unlocking the supernatural power within his body.
But that wasn't his main objective.
"Book of Life and Death."
With a thought from Xu Qingjia, before he had even decided what to do, the Book of Life and Death, which seemed to exist between illusion and reality, instantly solidified into a dark-gold book. It slowly floated straight toward him, as though waiting for him to open it.
This eager?
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The contrast of an aloof goddess turning into a clingy little kitten truly left Xu Qingjia feeling flattered.
Since it's being so eager, it would be rather rude not to take a look.
"Rustle..."
A page turned.
A familiar name appeared on it.
[Xu Qingjia]
Then came the eight characters recording his birth date and time.
The next line, however, made Xu Qingjia's gaze freeze for a moment.
It wasn't his date of death, but the reason for his transmigration.
[In his first life, he died in a calamity wrought by a great truck. Favored by the heavens, his soul entered the Book of Life and Death, escaped into an unknown space, and crossed countless millions of spacetime realms. Entering the nexus of reincarnation in a universe, his soul received the divine artifact's protection, his memories remaining intact. He was reincarnated into the Xu household in the realm of Douluo, as the son of Xu Ye.]
It's just revealing that to me?
Xu Qingjia kept reading.
It contained all his experiences from childhood onward.
With a thought from him, the Book of Life and Death flipped rapidly through its pages.
It was a thin little book, yet its pages seemed endless.
[On the eve of his Martial Soul Awakening, the Book of Life and Death, which had previously expended divine power to cross trillions upon trillions of spacetime realms, gradually awakened. Automatically seeking energy, it brought Qingjia into the Netherworld. The Book of Life and Death swallowed Netherworld Essence like a whale drinking the sea. Sheltered by the Book of Life and Death, Qingjia's soul was nourished by nether energy and encountered the Otherworldly Soul Spirit Electrolux.] [At the moment of his Martial Soul Awakening, the Book of Life and Death suddenly released a nether glow, bestowed a Divine Office, and conferred the honored title of "Yanluo Heavenly Son." Thus, he temporarily took charge of this Book of Life and Death, presiding over the nexus of life and death and wielding divine authority over reincarnation.]
"Impressive."
The Book of Life and Death's records were very detailed.
If he wanted detailed information about any particular day, a mere thought would bring it up. Even the colors of the clothes and socks he had worn that day, and the patterns on them, were recorded with perfect clarity.
It truly lived up to its reputation as the treasure of myth and legend that recorded every detail of a living being's entire life.
"Does it have anyone else's?"
Xu Qingjia's thoughts stirred.
The Book of Life and Death turned its pages automatically.
[Ye Xinglan]
This chapter originated from .
[Xu Ye] [Shen Xi]
He tried several times.
Xu Qingjia successfully identified a few rules.
For someone's information to appear in it, he had to have come into close proximity with that person in reality. Even a passerby he happened to encounter on the same road would do.
"A divine doxxing tool!"
However, doing this also consumed energy. The more detailed the information displayed, the more energy it consumed.
The law of conservation of energy.
Of course, as one of the Three Books, the Book of Life and Death naturally had more abilities than merely exposing people's personal information.
...It could erase their accounts too.