Gu Yuena's furious roar echoed endlessly through the little room, and the entire house kept shaking.
After just a few breaths, however, Gu Yuena's seething anger slowly subsided.
Anger could not solve any problems. That was the only truth she had grasped over these tens of thousands of years.
Soon, Gu Yuena once again became that delicate-featured, petite girl.
She lowered her eyes to Tang Wulin's family of three, lying unconscious on the sofa, and her exquisite face filled with deep self-reproach and guilt.
Most humans were kind and had never taken the initiative to harm her. She could not hurt the innocent either, especially Tang Ziran and his wife.
After Tang Wulin had brought her home, Tang Ziran and his wife had treated her like their own daughter.
In just these few short days, they had given her care that no one had given her in tens of thousands of years.
By contrast, among the Soul Beast Clan, the strong devoured the weak, and only the fittest survived. Those cruel laws of survival doomed the Soul Beast Clan to a life without love.
If she had fallen into the hands of soul beasts now, she would probably have been devoured without so much as a scrap left.
Fortunately, she had been picked up by kind humans.
Which were better, humans or soul beasts?
Could she still not tell?
Originally, after such an upheaval, Gu Yuena had wanted to simply leave. But on second thought, even if she went and did something now, Di Tian would not come back to life. She could only plan things out gradually.
Moreover, when a soul beast transformed into a human, completing that transformation required experiencing the myriad facets of human life and all its passions and desires.
This bond of familial affection was also part of her cultivation on the path of human transformation.
Soul beasts had no family or kin to begin with. Now that she had finally stumbled upon such familial affection, she naturally could not abandon it just like that.
Besides, Federation technology was so advanced now, with Communication Device networks covering the continent. As long as she had a communication watch, she could issue orders anytime, anywhere.
Even here in little Aolai City, she could devise strategies from within her tent and lay plans across the entire continent.
Her mind made up, Gu Yuena reached out and took the Communication Soul Tool from Tang Ziran's wrist.
Tang Ziran was an honest man and would never have guarded against the two children.
Over these past few days, she had already learned the number of Tang Ziran's communication watch. After tapping the screen to unlock it, Gu Yuena first temporarily changed Tang Ziran's name to Silver Dragon King, afraid that the ferocious beast would not recognize her when she called.
She quickly dialed a mysterious number she knew by heart. After a few ringing tones, the call connected.
From the other end immediately came a trembling voice, unable to contain its excitement:
"My Lord?
"Is that you?
"Where on earth have you been?
"We've had such a hard time searching for you!"
The speaker was none other than Demon Spirit. With only two hundred thousand years of cultivation, he was the weakest of the Ten Great Ferocious Beasts, yet he was the ferocious beast Gu Yuena trusted most.
That was because no Demon Spirit Clan had originally existed in this world. Demon Spirit had been created by the Silver Dragon King using her own spiritual power, ten thousand years ago.
Thus, however heaven-defying his aptitude might have been, ten thousand years had only allowed him to reach two hundred thousand years of cultivation.
Compared with the other ferocious beasts, Demon Spirit was the one she trusted most. Calling him her shadow would not have been an exaggeration. He would faithfully carry out her every command and could never betray her.
After hearing him, Gu Yuena sat quietly on the sofa and spoke in an icy voice devoid of emotion:
"Do you all know about what happened to Di Tian?"
Demon Spirit hurriedly reined in his delight and replied respectfully:
"My Lord, Di Tian caused far too great a commotion.
"And with the matter spreading like wildfire, the entire continent knows about it."
The more Demon Spirit spoke, the more excited he became:
"My Lord, you have no idea how fierce Di Tian was this time.
"He stormed into Shrek alone and threw all of Shrek into utter chaos, leaving men and horses sprawling.
"Then he summoned a heavenly tribulation and forcibly overturned the whole of Shrek Academy!"
Whenever this matter came up, Demon Spirit's tone brimmed with exhilaration, and the resentment pent up for ten thousand years was swept clean away.
"In this battle, Shrek's people were plunged into devastation. Half the people in Shrek City perished, and even the Spirit Pagoda in Shrek City was not spared. The Heavenly Spirit Platform was also nearly destroyed.
"With that move, Di Tian crippled two of humanity's top powers outright and thoroughly vented our Soul Beast Clan's bitter resentment.
"Bi Ji and the rest of us all clapped our hands in delight!"
Demon Spirit truly admired Di Tian enough to prostrate himself before him.
Yet after hearing Demon Spirit's words, anger surged through Gu Yuena's heart, and her tone grew a few degrees colder:
"Vented your resentment? You think this is a good thing?
"I repeatedly instructed all you ferocious beasts to lie low, not to provoke humans lightly or stir up conflict.
"Do you actually regard my commands as child's play?"
At Gu Yuena's words, the smile on Demon Spirit's face instantly froze, and he dared not make another sound.
But Gu Yuena had not finished:
"Who gave Di Tian permission to act on his own?
"To think he committed such towering slaughter for his own selfish desires.
"Those teachers and students at Shrek, and the residents of Shrek City-how innocent they were!
"Just because Di Tian summoned a heavenly tribulation for his own selfish desires, tens of millions were killed or injured, and living beings were plunged into devastation.
"And you actually think this is a good thing?"
At Gu Yuena's words, Demon Spirit froze on the spot. His mind went blank, and he was utterly dumbfounded.
He did not know where Gu Yuena's anger came from. They and humans had always been sworn enemies.
Shrek and the Spirit Pagoda had joined forces to slaughter soul beasts, wiping out the entire race. Their relationship with humans had always been one of fighting to the death.
Now Di Tian had paid with his life to deal a heavy blow to humanity's two greatest powers, thoroughly venting the Soul Beast Clan's bitter resentment. This should have been something for ferocious beasts like them to celebrate. Why was their lord angry instead, and pitying humans?
He could not make sense of it.
Though full of questions, he dared not offer any rebuttal. After all, Gu Yuena was his lord. How could servants like them presume to comment on what their master did?
Only after a long while did Demon Spirit cautiously speak:
"My Lord, what should we do now?
"Di Tian has already fallen."
"Are you certain he's truly dead beyond all doubt?"
"Absolutely.
"When Di Tian was displaying his tremendous might, I was there in Shrek City watching.
"Di Tian fought fiercely against Shrek's powerful experts until he was near death, then used every last ounce of strength to summon the terrifying nine-hundred-thousand-year heavenly tribulation.
"His body was blasted to pieces by that heavenly tribulation. The whole of Shrek City was blasted through, let alone Di Tian's corpse!"
"An idiot, an utter idiot.
"To think he threw his life away for this."
Gu Yuena gritted her teeth, seething with resentment, her heart filled with both anger and regret.
Di Tian had been her most loyal and capable subordinate, as well as the Dragon Clan's last pillar. He should have preserved his strength and quietly awaited her summons to carry out her grand plan. Instead, he had thrown his life away for nothing, disrupting the entire grand plan she had spent tens of thousands of years devising. It was truly infuriating beyond measure.
Her mind was a muddled mess at this moment. Clever as she was, even she did not know what step to take next.
Only after a long while did she give an order in a low voice:
"I'll send you the coordinates. Have Bi Ji and Zi JI come to see me immediately. I have important matters to arrange. There must be no mistakes."
"As you command, My Lord."
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