Revenge

"Golden Dragon King, it has been... over two thousand years since we last met, hasn't it..."

In the Divine Forbidden Land, an intellectual-looking woman with green hair waved a hand to deactivate the barrier and walked in with a complicated expression.

As she entered, the briefly deactivated barrier slowly reactivated.

"Hahaha!"

"Do a million years amount to so little when you speak of them?"

Jin Li bared his teeth, his scarlet eyes glaring viciously at the Goddess of Life's face.

"So you were counting time by the lower realm's reckoning..."

"A million years. What a long span of time, like a long, drawn-out dream..."

"I still remember how you were painfully restoring your bloodline the last time I came to see you."

Life felt somewhat wistful. After having a child, she had softened after all.

To put it plainly, hadn't the Golden Dragon King, who had been suppressed by her and the others as soon as he was born and forced to burn through his bloodline power, been nothing more than a child himself?

"What did you come here for!"

Jin Li glared at Life and demanded viciously.

"Nothing. I just wanted to ask whether you feel lonely by yourself."

Life slowly shook her head. After seeing the seal on the Divine Forbidden Land, she knew very well that the Golden Dragon King could not possibly have escaped.

Thus, the Golden Dragon King bloodline in the lower realm had most likely come from the golden blood he had once spilled.

"I'm not lonely. Every day, I think about how I'll torture you all once I fight my way out!"

"My days are plenty fulfilling!"

Jin Li raised his head defiantly, disdain covering his face.

"I'm sorry. Your bloodline is too important. We won't lower our guard around you."

"But... if you need it, I can come chat with you every day."

The Goddess of Life spoke thoughtfully. Although Jin Li's cultivation had only increased by five years over all these years, the other God Kings would absolutely never let him out.

"Are you pitying me?"

Jin Li's eyes widened. If he hadn't been a little golden dragon, he felt his hackles would have risen on the spot!

"I don't know..."

"For some reason, whenever I see you, I keep thinking of that child of mine..."

The Goddess of Life crouched down and met Jin Li's gaze at eye level.

It was precisely an inexplicable connection that had made pity suddenly well up in her heart.

Otherwise, even if her former self had considered their treatment of Jin Li inappropriate, she would not have been this emotional.

"You have a child now? With whom?"

Something shifted in Jin Li's eyes as he asked in a seemingly mocking tone.

"Destruction. That child seems to have come from the future."

Life instinctively reached out to pat his head, but upon realizing that the one before her was the little golden dragon, she quickly stopped herself.

"Hahaha!"

"Ridiculous. How utterly ridiculous!"

"Life, you would actually tell me your weakness?"

"Just you wait! Once I emerge, I will make you pay the most agonizing price!"

"I'll make you watch your child die at my hands!"

Jin Li roared with laughter. He admitted that the God Kings treated Phantylia well, but just as he would still expose Qian Renxue, he knew very well what he intended to do!

"..."

Life opened her mouth, but said nothing.

She was not angered by Jin Li's threat. In fact, she did not believe he was capable of such a thing.

"Stop putting on that disgusting show of compassion for the world!"

"Just what are you pretending to be!"

"If you truly had a shred of compassion, you should have saved me back then!"

"Life, this is what you all owe me!"

Jin Li roared, his little dragon body trembling violently!

"It was my fault..."

Life lowered her head regretfully. Although Jin Li was furious, he could still maintain enough reason to communicate.

If she had spoken up back then, might the outcome have been different?

"Your mistake was being too stupid!"

"Once you've made a decision, you should follow it through without wavering."

"Changing your orders between morning and evening-how ridiculous!"

Seeing Life looking like such a meek little submissive, Jin Li lost interest too. She was making it seem as though he was the villain!

"...Let's just talk. Let's not bring these things up anymore."

Growing increasingly guilty, Life spoke gently.

"Hmph. I have no need for your pity, nor do I need you to keep me company. Every cause and consequence-I will claim them myself!"

Jin Li coiled up and fell silent.

"Golden Dragon King, you really do seem like a child right now."

Life let out a long sigh, her gaze complicated.

When something upset him, he shut himself away, yet still refused to concede a word...

"You'll see what this child can do."

Jin Li sneered, unable to be bothered with this saintly woman.

"Then get some rest. I'll come see you again tomorrow..."

Life gave Jin Li a complicated look and stood up.

"No need. I loathe every last one of you gods!"

"The sight of you only makes me sick."

Life's steps paused. Without looking back, she passed through the barrier, which then reactivated.

"You've got the wrong person. I'm not your mother."

At the Zhu Family's training grounds in the Star Luo Empire, on the day of the Martial Soul Awakening, a cool, aloof black-haired girl gave the little boy blocking her path a suspicious look.

But honestly, she really did sense an inexplicable attraction coming from the person before her!

"Next, Zhu Zhuqing!"

A maid's voice rang out. Zhu Zhuqing shook her head, walked past this clansman who had inexplicably called her mother, and headed toward the awakening formation.

Strangely enough, this person clearly possessed the Zhu Family's bloodline, yet he seemed to have appeared out of nowhere. No one in the family had ever seen him before!

And after seeing Zhu Zhubao's martial soul, Zhu Zhuqing's father, the head of the Zhu Family, had immediately taken him in as an adopted son!

He's clearly older than me!

Zhu Zhuqing pursed her lips, secretly grumbling to herself.

Still a child, she failed to notice the complicated looks in her parents' and elder sister's eyes.

This time, I'm going to be an emotionless, evil killer!

Zhu Zhubao glanced at his talent. It was impossible to bring this talent back to his main body, but he could still enjoy it on his clone!

A martial soul with a devouring trait, plus double the cultivation speed-the mere thought was terrifying!

"Pfft~"

Fuli spat out a jet of water and poked his head above the icy lake's surface.

"Where the heck did this send me?"

"I clearly picked a random location on the Douluo Continent!"

"Huh?"

Fuli suddenly widened his eyes, staring blankly at the stunning white-haired woman before him, who was wiping her completely naked body.

"A human?"

"No..."

Unhurried, the woman instantly covered herself in a silvery-white glazed dress, leaving Fuli, who had been openly gathering intelligence, feeling somewhat regretful.

"Are you a soul beast?"

The woman's pink lips parted slightly, her cool voice echoing through the ice cavern.

From her perspective, the signs of life in the person before her resembled neither a soul master nor an ordinary soul beast.

Instead, he seemed more like an elemental life-form, just like her!

"Hello there~"

Fuli smiled awkwardly. Barring any surprises, he probably knew who the person before him was.