[Congratulations to group member Liu Erlong on completing her exclusive mission and receiving exclusive rewards. Display them?] [Displaying them will grant double Fortune Points.] [Liu Erlong (Blazing Fire Dragon): Display.] [Congratulations to Liu Erlong on receiving the rewards: Pure Enhancement Title-Blazing Fire Dragon · Bronze (reduces the cost of all Soul Skills by 10%, shortens Soul Skill activation time by 10%, and enhances Soul Skill effects by 10%. Can be upgraded by completing title missions.) Sage Flame Dragon Soul Bone Set-Skull (1/7): Soul-Shaking Skull of the Holy Flame Legend, one piece of the soul bone set of the Sage Flame Dragon, a Divine Beast from another world. Collecting the full set will grant one opportunity for Martial Soul Evolution. Martial Soul Bloodline Origin Upgrade (one use only) 500 Fortune Points × 2] [Group member Liu Erlong has received 1,000 Fortune Points, which have been added to the host's balance.] [Host's current Fortune Points: 7,800] [Host's historical total Fortune Points: 9,800] [The host may select one additional reward, excluding the title, from Liu Erlong's exclusive rewards (・ω・)つ.] [The host has selected Martial Soul Bloodline Origin Upgrade (one use only). The host currently has 2 Martial Soul Bloodline Origin Upgrades available.]
Lu Chen immediately pulled up the details of Liu Erlong's exclusive mission. After reading them, he declared that he had still delivered his spoilers too late.
Compared to Hu Liena's highly uncertain exclusive mission, Liu Erlong's mission was far simpler.
If he had obtained an opportunity for a Martial Soul Bloodline Origin Upgrade before condensing his Bloodline Soul Rings, Lu Chen could not only have suffered a little less while condensing them, but he was also confident he could have pushed the ages of both his first Soul Rings straight past five thousand years!
Still, his current progress was pretty good. At least the Tang God King was definitely far behind him now.
[Lu Chen: When it came to withstanding harm, Liu Erlong indeed fell short of Bibi Dong. But when it came to the duration of her torment, Bibi Dong probably couldn't catch up to Liu Erlong even if she whipped her horse into a gallop.]
Reading this, Liu Erlong's heart lurched, yet a shameful sense of excitement actually rose within her.
Liu Erlong: Never mind what event we're competing in. Just tell me whether I beat Bibi Dong!
Unfortunately, that excitement was soon utterly shattered by what Lu Chen wrote in the Notebook.
[Lu Chen: This brings us to that bastard Flender, the founding dean of Shrek Academy, the creator of numerous outrageous sayings, and the root of ten thousand years of Shrek's evil.
As the Horn of Wisdom of the Golden Iron Triangle and the oldest of the three, he often regarded himself as the team's big brother.
While the three traveled Douluo Continent together, he and Gangzi both fell for the youthful, lively, beautiful, and captivating Liu Erlong...]
[Yanzi: Eww~ I can't imagine someone so hot-tempered and ruthless deserving a description like youthful, lively, beautiful, and captivating.]
[Little Princess: It's understandable. According to Lu Chen, he cultivated to the God King realm before turning twenty in his previous life. He must have been the type to devote himself entirely to cultivation. How many pretty girls could he have seen?]
[Xiao Wu: Exactly, exactly~]
[Liu Erlong: What do you undeveloped little brats know about beauty!]
[Liu Erlong: Selfie.jpg]
In the picture, a beautiful woman in a blue-green cloth dress looked straight into the camera. Her exquisite, captivating features and surging waves of mountainous curves filled their vision. Contrary to what everyone had imagined, Liu Erlong actually appeared to be quite a gentle, graceful woman.
Faced with her mature, voluptuous charm, even the girls who had deliberately been looking for trouble could not help lowering their banners and silencing their drums, unable to say anything bad.
Liu Erlong had indeed been right about one thing: they were still too young.
Even Zhu Zhuyun, who was extremely confident in her exceptional natural gifts, was only thirteen now. Her proportions might have been comparable, but that mature allure was impossible to imitate.
So Ah Yin made her move.
[Ah Yin: Selfie.jpg]
In the picture, a stunning woman in a long blue, blue-green, and gold dress lay casually on her side within a strange space. Unlike the contrast between Liu Erlong's gentle appearance and the explosive temper beneath it, this woman was so tender that she seemed a little fragile, making people involuntarily want to protect her.
Even with Liu Erlong's pride, she had to admit that she did fall a little short of Ah Yin.
[Xiao Wu: Oh, Auntie Ah Yin is so pretty!]
[Little Princess: What are you so amazed about? Didn't you and Lu Chen rescue Ah Yin together?]
[Xiao Wu: But she's just a blade of grass. She doesn't have a human form at all.]
[Ah Yin: This is my spiritual form. It'll take some more time to recover my human form.]
Seeing signs that the group was about to veer off topic, Lu Chen quietly saved Liu Erlong's picture and continued updating.
[Lu Chen: Flender was indeed a fairly talented Soul Master. The confidence his strength gave him led him to confess his feelings outright, and, unsurprisingly, Liu Erlong rejected him because she had fallen for Gangzi.
Flender, he plays mind games. You're no match for him~
What surprised me was that this petty, extremely vindictive Flender didn't go on to hate Gangzi and Liu Erlong. Instead, he chose to withdraw completely and give them his blessing.]
[Lu Chen: Given Flender's character and conduct, this was downright absurd. So much so that when I saw this scene in the river of time, I really thought he was pretending. I kept waiting for him to strike at Gangzi in secret, only to end up waiting all the way until the wedding night...
Sometimes, I even wondered whether Flender was a plug that went both ways. Did he really love Liu Erlong as much as he loved Gangzi?
With his brains, couldn't he see that Gangzi was a worthless fraud?
Couldn't he see that Gangzi was deliberately hiding his identity from Liu Erlong?
Couldn't he see that these two were doomed to come to no good together?]
[Lu Chen: I think he probably noticed, but he chose not to expose it. He even chose to muddy the waters after all the conflicts erupted.
Not only did he soothe both sides and try every possible means to create opportunities for Gangzi and Liu Erlong to meet, he even proposed spiritual romance, an idea ahead of its time-maintaining a romantic relationship in spirit without any physical contact.
Tsk, tsk. Just thinking of how ecstatic Gangzi and Liu Erlong were when they learned about this way of dating, how am I supposed to keep the corners of my mouth from rising?]
The Chat Group had already gone wild with laughter.
[Netherworld: @Liu Erlong, don't go quiet. Tell us how you feel.]
[Spirit Cat: @Liu Erlong, so you like that thing the palace eunuchs and maids do?]
Zhu Zhuqing had gradually come to enjoy taking the lead in tormenting her fellow group members. Zhu Zhuyun chimed in beside her, feeling a little happy herself as she watched that faint trace of excitement on her younger sister's cold little face.
If only this Chat Group had arrived a little earlier. Then her little sister would not have had to suffer that blow a few days ago, the smile would not have disappeared from her face, and she would still be following behind her...
Leaving aside Zhu Zhuyun's thoughts, Liu Erlong certainly did not disappoint the group members, putting on a live demonstration of her rising body temperature.
[Liu Erlong: Ah! Flender, how dare you suggest something so disgusting! This isn't over between us!]
In the end, Liu Erlong still retained some affection for their old friendship. At least she did not want to kill him outright as she did Gangzi.
[Yanzi: @Liu Erlong, Auntie, I think you're pretty nice. Shall we have a spiritual romance?]
[Little Princess: @Yanzi, go away. Auntie Erlong is mine. I should be the one having a spiritual romance with her!]
[Xiao Wu: @Liu Erlong, darling, say something!]
[...]
Heaven Dou Empire, Heaven Dou City, Blue Tyrant Academy.
That night, powerful fluctuations of Soul Power from Liu Erlong, Blue Tyrant Academy's legendary female principal, swept across the entire academy. As for why the principal had suddenly flown into a rage, accounts varied, and it became a mystery that would forever remain unsolved.
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