"What? You're saying Yehui will never have to fear the Demon Plane's influence again?"
Hearing this, Yuanen Tiandang was utterly astonished. He clearly hadn't expected such good news, and hurriedly pulled his wife along to continue kowtowing to Zhou Yang in thanks, moving swiftly without the slightest hesitation.
Never mind one kowtow-even a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand... as long as it was for Yehui, he was willing.
Although Yehui had only just regained consciousness, she had heard part of the conversation and still understood what Zhou Yang's words meant.
Having lost consciousness, she didn't understand what had happened, but she grasped one thing perfectly: she no longer needed to worry about her demonic bloodline.
Yehui's eyes were red. After finishing her kowtows, she hugged her husband and couldn't help sobbing.
She had nearly made a terrible mistake just now, yet things had ended so well. Life's soaring highs and plunging lows had nearly left her unable to keep up.
"Thank you, Senior!"
The couple embraced excitedly, inwardly rejoicing that they had encountered such a powerful expert who had saved their family.
Watching the couple lost in their lovey-dovey moment, Yuanen Zhentian's mouth twitched. Finally, he sighed helplessly and stepped forward to ask another question.
The young couple had been so busy secretly rejoicing over surviving the disaster that they had forgotten their own daughter.
In the end, Yuanen Zhentian still had to ask about resolving any lingering problems with the Demon Plane.
After all, Yuanen Yehui was now seven years old and had awakened Twin Martial Souls with Innate Full Soul Power. She could truly be called the pearl in the family's palm.
How could he not worry about the hidden danger of the Fallen Angel? Now that there was a chance to resolve it, he would beg for help even if he had to swallow his pride.
Fortunately, Zhou Yang didn't refuse him.
After all, Zhou Yang had also been planning to use Yuanen Yehui to pinpoint the Demon Plane. The one the Demon Plane had cut ties with and blacklisted was Yehui-what did that have to do with Yuanen Yehui?
Even their registered usernames were different. With the Demon Plane casting its net so widely, surely it couldn't recognize every single seed?
If they had that ability, they would have logged into the Douluo Continent long ago, just like the Abyssal Plane.
So Zhou Yang planned to give the Demon Plane a huge surprise when Yuanen Yehui made her breakthrough!
Surely the entire Demon Plane would be so happy at the Demon King's surprise that it would be speechless?
A crisis that should have haunted Yuanen Zhentian for the rest of his life and brought about an irreparable catastrophe had been resolved just like that by the godlike being before him.
Kabuto's figure was naturally etched deep into the Yuanen Household's memory. Although tonight's events were kept secret, Yuanen Zhentian still waved his hand and made a decision that went against his ancestors.
A single-horned figure pointing one hand toward the sky stood proudly within the Yuanen Household.
Meanwhile, as the only person who hadn't returned to the rear mountain during the reversal of time, Yuanen Yehui finally woke from a long nightmare.
"Mom! Second Aunt!"
The instant she woke, she instinctively called out those two names. Her muddled mind had yet to recover, and she simply wanted to search for something out of sheer instinct.
After some twists and turns, Yuanen Yehui finally found her mother, grandfather, and the others in the family's council hall, discussing who knew what.
Only after seeing that her second aunt and the rest of the Yuanen Household were completely unharmed did Yuanen Yehui breathe a sigh of relief.
"Was it a nightmare? Thank goodness."
She had just relaxed when she looked up, only to see an ornate statue standing proudly in the courtyard outside the family council hall, with offerings placed beneath it at some unknown point.
"Huh?!"
Having settled the Yuanen Household's affairs, Zhou Yang naturally intended to head home and have a good long sleep.
Who would have thought that the Hyper Zecter would let out a strange buzzing sound?
Zhou Yang: Huh?!
Something about this felt off.
He seemed to have seen it somewhere before. Zhou Yang suddenly remembered that after a certain siscon fought a monster in a grove, it seemed to have gone haywire, just like...
"Just like right now?!"
At the same time, strange electrical currents and blue-green light flickered from the Hyper Zecter, then enveloped him.
"Wait, what?!"
Amid distortion and chaos, Zhou Yang came crashing down from high in the sky. Fortunately, as a professional pilot, he had naturally also learned from that "mentor" how to strike a graceful pose during a midair crash without making an ugly spectacle of himself.
What, you asked why it wasn't how to land safely?
Naturally, that was to maintain his cool factor. He couldn't let his style slip.
Besides, there were only a handful of Riders capable of flight, and he happened to have one on hand.
Most importantly... the fall couldn't kill him anyway, so what was there to fear? (muttering quietly)
He wasn't one of those new-generation Riders who could sprain their own ankle with a single Rider Kick.
And so, dazzling wings of light in seven shimmering colors spread high in the sky. Like a mysterious angel falling into the mortal world, flowing light covered his entire body, lending Hyper Kabuto's armor an indescribably divine beauty.
The shimmering angel slowly landed, standing within the dense forest.
The trees were thick and sturdy, blotting out the sky and sun, their roots tangled together like those of a primeval forest.
Only, when Zhou Yang reached the ground, he saw a scene before him that was enough to leave him stunned.
Before him stood a ferocious beast more than three meters long and eight feet tall at the shoulder. Its entire body was covered in brilliant golden fur, beneath which lay dense, fine golden scales.
Its overall shape resembled a lion, yet its four paws were like a dragon's, treading upon golden flames with a noble appearance. Besides its pair of golden beast eyes, it actually had a vertical eye on its forehead that reflected a vivid, bewitching red.
Although most of Zhou Yang's knowledge of the Douluo Continent leaned toward everyday common knowledge, even he had a fairly strong impression of the being before him.
After all, she was a character with a unique, exclusive setting in this entire world: the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.
With so many distinguishing features, he would have had a hard time not recognizing her.
After staring for a long while, Zhou Yang finally couldn't hold back and voiced the irrepressible thought in his heart.
"Huh, a big dog!?"
"I'm not a dog!"
The human and beast stared at each other, a single glance stretching into ten thousand years, somehow arriving at a strange silence.
Perhaps she had been shocked by Zhou Yang's entrance just now, or perhaps it was because she couldn't sense even the slightest fluctuation of Soul Power from him, which put her on guard.
The power of fate was giving a warning.
In any case, neither side took the initiative to make another move.
Meanwhile, our auspicious beast's personal bodyguard, the Scarlet King, was still riding his way over.
"Who are you?"
A pleasant young girl's voice, tinged with wariness, came from the auspicious beast's mouth.
Hearing this, Zhou Yang's eyes lit up, and a smile appeared on his face beneath the mask.
One hand lightly touched his belt while the other pointed straight toward the sky as he stood proudly.
As though answering him, the sun overhead shed light far more dazzling than before, making the suit of armor gleam brilliantly.
"Walking the path of heaven, ruling over all, the man destined to be king-Zhou Yang."