"W-what? How did you know?!"
Li Chen feigned shock.
"Heh heh."
The corners of Gu Yue's lips rose as she withdrew her presence.
She turned around, clasping her hands behind her back.
"Since you belong to my dragon race, why do you not bow before me?!"
"Wait, who are you? Why should I bow to you?"
Gu Yue turned her head, giving a soft exclamation. "What, you don't know who I am?!"
Seeing Li Chen remain silent,
Gu Yue was shocked once again.
"Tell me, where exactly did the dark holy dragon bloodline in your body come from?!"
"What Dark Holy Dragon? All I know is that this is a gift my mother left me. My dad told me I had to keep it secret!"
After hearing this, Gu Yue looked thoughtful.
"So that's it. No wonder you have a dragon bloodline but could still awaken a human Martial Soul. You're a hybrid of dragons and humans."
"A hybrid?"
Li Chen's lips twitched.
For things he could not explain clearly, he treated Gu Yue just as he did Leng Yaozhu: he let her fill in the blanks herself.
"Yes. Your mother must have been one of the surviving subordinates of my dragon race."
Having finished filling in the blanks, Gu Yue wore a playful expression.
"I truly never expected that members of the Darkness Holy Dragon King’s royal line still survived among my dragon race, and had even infiltrated human society before me."
"Boy, where is your mother?"
Li Chen said, "My mother passed away."
"What?"
Gu Yue looked regretful.
She reckoned that Li Chen's mother had probably been gravely wounded long ago, struggling to survive from that great war all the way until now.
To keep her bloodline from dying out, she had chosen to bear a child, thereby preserving the bloodline of the Darkness Holy Dragon King’s royal line.
"My condolences. It seems your mother was also a powerful figure worthy of respect. How about this? From now on, you have returned to the dragon race."
"I will keep you safe. Besides, your identity is quite good. As the speaker's son, you can control parliament in the future while I control the Spirit Pagoda."
"With us joining forces, it will only be a matter of time before we lead the Soul Beasts to rise again!"
Gu Yue sneered.
But Li Chen shook his head. "No! I'm human! How could I team up with you to take down my dad?!"
Gu Yue snorted coldly, revealing her silver dragon king bloodline.
Stimulated by the bloodline of a higher-order dragon, Li Chen instantly underwent Dragon Transformation. Pitch-black dragon scales grew all over his body, and even his eyes turned into golden vertical pupils.
Gu Yue pushed Li Chen in front of a mirror.
Her face twisted fiercely as she said:
"Take a good look at yourself. You are a noble dragon!"
"You have no idea what humans have done to us Soul Beasts, to our dragon race!"
"They slaughtered my people and stole my divine position! I'm telling you, dragon blood flows through your veins. You must help me revive the Soul Beasts!"
Li Chen stared blankly, seemingly shocked.
In truth, he was merely out of options for the moment.
His bloodline had not yet evolved enough to resist the Silver Dragon King.
Everything he had just said was only to make Gu Yue believe even more firmly that there was nothing wrong with his identity.
"B-but... I really can't kill my dad."
Gu Yue sighed and withdrew her presence.
She lightly tapped Li Chen, returning him to human form.
"All right, I promise. Once we succeed, I can spare your family and friends."
Li Chen smiled. "All right, then. I agree."
"Mm."
Gu Yue nodded, though inwardly she felt contempt.
What an inferior dragon breed, actually held back by human emotions. If it were me, that would never happen!
Silver light surged from Gu Yue's hand, and she quickly tapped several times at Li Chen's chest, dantian, and forehead.
"I've placed a bloodline seal inside you to ensure that humanity's top Soul Masters won't discover your bloodline."
"Since you and I are now both Leng Yaozhu's students, starting today, I'll teach you about dragons and our history."
"After some time, I'll take you back to the Star Dou Great Forest and have Di Tian give you some resources to help you grow faster."
Delight filled Li Chen's heart. "Thank you, Gu Yue!"
"Mm. Work hard. When the Soul Beasts rise again, you will be our foremost contributor."
With that, Gu Yue walked out the door.
Watching Gu Yue leave, Li Chen instantly put away his slightly goofy smile, his expression turning cold.
"This is really nice. The Silver Dragon King's seal really does hide my bloodline very well."
Li Chen walked to the window and looked outside.
The Silver Dragon King?
Heh, before long,
who the king of the dragons is will be anyone's guess.
Li Chen opened the door and left, discovering that Long Xiaoyao and Ye Zhaolu had also just come out.
Long Xiaoyao smiled and said:
"Hey, little brother, there you are! We just came out to find you. How about it? Want to head back to Mingdu together?"
"Sure."
The three immediately went downstairs. Long Xiaoyao took out a black-grade mecha and took off on the spot with Li Chen and Ye Zhaolu, leaving directly.
This shitty Shrek-
Long Xiaoyao did not want to stay another minute.
"Little brother, it was all thanks to you this time! If you need anything, I'll definitely repay you in the future!"
Long Xiaoyao looked at Li Chen and secretly transmitted his voice.
Li Chen smiled.
Only then did he notice that his Soul Power had risen again, reaching level 38 outright.
In other words,
in just a few days,
he had gone from level 31 to nearly a Soul Ancestor.
"To tell you the truth, Brother Long, there really is something."
"What is it? Go ahead."
"Well, parliament will soon hold a meeting on a proposal to allocate funds to Shrek Academy. I hope you can vote against it."
Long Xiaoyao grew excited at that.
"You've got it! I have the Northwest Legion behind me! And the War God Temple too. Shrek demands funding every year, while our legions are short on military funds! I've been fucking sick of it for ages!"
Long Xiaoyao spoke bitterly.
The Federation had eight great legions.
Apart from the Central Legion, the Sea God Legion, and the Southern Legion, the other five were basically all short on military funds!
The Sea God Legion was controlled by Chen Xinjie's Sea God Family, while the Southern Legion was controlled by the Yue Family of the Angel Clan.
The only one that truly obeyed the Federation was the Central Legion!
In other words, the Federation claimed to have eight great legions, but the only legion receiving its full allocation was actually the Central Legion!
Other legions, such as the Northwest Legion, Western Legion, North Sea Legion, and Northern Legion, lacked military funding every year and had to find their own solutions!
Especially the Blood God Legion.
The Blood God Legion was responsible for the most dangerous place on the entire continent, fighting the Abyss Plane year-round, yet they still had to fucking find their own military funds!
This made soldiers shed not only blood, but tears as well!
Long Xiaoyao had previously been a soldier himself.
Now that he had become one of the War God Temple's eighteen War Gods, he had a voice.
He had to object to the current unreasonable allocation of funds!
"All right. Thank you, Brother Long."
Long Xiaoyao smiled. "We're brothers. Why say that? Honestly, it's already a good thing that the speaker remembers legions like ours."
Just then, Ye Zhaolu suddenly spoke up from beside them. "I can do my part for the proposal too. I'm also a member of parliament."
Long Xiaoyao's expression changed drastically. "Huh? Zhaolu, y-you heard all that?"
Ye Zhaolu chuckled. "What else did you think? What you said is true. The Federal Research Institute's research funding has been cut year after year too."
"Shrek City is a major factor behind it."
"If the Federation keeps spending more than it takes in, its finances will collapse sooner or later. When the nest is overturned, how can any eggs remain intact? As a member of the Federation's parliament, I naturally ought to do my part."
Long Xiaoyao slapped his thigh. "Well said!"
Li Chen smiled as he looked out the window.
Four years.
He would make Shrek return to what it had been at the start: an academy.
It could not be allowed such extensive autonomy.
Of course, it would be best to wipe it out completely and have the Federation build a new academy to select high-level Soul Masters.
If that failed, he would have Qiangu Dongfeng blow Shrek up.
But,
before that, he had to ensure that he and his dad would not face retaliation when the time came.
Besides Shrek, there were also the Holy Spirit Cult, the Abyss Plane, and even those two parasites, Tang Hao and Ah Yin.
He would uproot them all!
The black mecha sped along, streaking through the sky.
At Shrek, on Sea God Island.
With his hands clasped behind his back, Yun Ming stared coldly at Cai Yue'er and Long Yeyue before him.
"Elder Long, which of you will explain to me how a mere arena match turned into this?!"
Yun Ming's face was ashen.
Although Shrek's livestream on the Soul Net had ended, all sorts of news about today's match had caused an uproar!
Shrek had never faced such an enormous public opinion crisis.
Claims that Shrek could not take a loss, resorted to dirty tricks, that Long Yeyue threw her seniority around, and that Shrek glorified sneak attacks flooded in from every direction.
Although Yun Ming knew
that Qiangu Dongfeng must have been fanning the flames behind the scenes, the root cause was still Long Yeyue and Cai Yue'er.
Resorting to dirty tricks was one thing,
but they had even fucking let themselves get caught!
This was practically inviting everyone on the continent-no, on the entire Douluo Star-to laugh at Shrek!
Long Yeyue snorted coldly. "I'll teach a lesson to whoever I please. I did all this for Shrek. Yun Ming, what do you mean by blaming us?!"
Yun Ming took a deep breath.
Long Yeyue, this shit-stirrer, had always liked acting recklessly, relying on her status as the previous Sea God Pavilion Master's wife.
Yun Ming knew that if she had not stormed the Spirit Pagoda, Shrek would not have so many enemies now.
"I'm not blaming anyone right now. I'm asking Vice Pavilion Master Long what we should do now."
"A perfectly good friendly match turned into this. Who will take responsibility for it?!"
Long Yeyue was utterly unconcerned. "Chen Xinjie will take responsibility! He'll have Long Xiaoyao come apologize to me in person!"
Yun Ming was dumbfounded.
What the fuck was this old fossil talking about?
"Heh, Elder Long, unless my information is wrong, the speaker has already gone to the War God Temple in person. Temple Master Chen's arrangements have already been overturned."
"What?!"
Long Yeyue was shocked.
Chen Xinjie's word was law in the War God Temple. Since when did his decisions no longer count?
"Th-this..."
Long Yeyue fell silent.
For the moment, she did not know what to do either.
Just then,
Cai Yue'er suddenly raised her previously lowered face, a vicious look appearing on it.
"Pavilion Master Yun Ming, I have something to report. This will definitely turn public opinion around for Shrek!"
Yun Ming looked at her curiously.
"Hmm? What is it?"
Cai Yue'er took out two sets of documents.
They were none other than the files on Long Xiaoyao and the Long Xiaoyao of the past.
"I want to report that War God Long Xiaoyao is very likely the same person as Dragon Emperor Douluo Long Xiaoyao from ten thousand years ago! Therefore, Long Xiaoyao is actually an Evil Soul Master!"
At those words,
both Yun Ming and Long Yeyue were stunned.