"Big brother, hehehe..."
Na'er, who hadn't seen Yu Longyue in three years, rubbed herself against him like crazy.
"...How have you changed so much?"
Dark lines appeared on Yu Longyue's forehead. He silently raised a hand and pushed Na'er away, putting some distance between them.
"Because I read all those novels and comics from your company, big brother. Hehe, they're really good."
Yu Longyue could barely keep a straight face.
All right, all right.
Three years apart, and she's become a homebody?
Na'er, who had just been pushed away, linked her arm through Yu Longyue's again and smiled sweetly:
"Brother, your company keeps getting bigger and bigger. And this latest soul communicator, it's called a mobile phone, right? It's so convenient! You can play games, read novels and comics, watch livestreams online..."
"I know, I know. Also, Na'er, you've grown up. You should understand that men and women should keep their distance..." Yu Longyue felt a headache coming on and tried to pull his arm out of Na'er's embrace.
Na'er pouted. "We finally got to see each other after three years apart, and now you don't want me around, big brother?"
"No." Yu Longyue sighed and gave up struggling. "You cultivate here too? You're a Soul Ancestor? Not bad, not bad. You're almost catching up to me."
"I don't think I'll ever catch up to you." Na'er lowered her head. "Brother, you're already a Soul King, and I bet you haven't spent much time meditating and cultivating, have you? I work hard at cultivation every day, but my cultivation is still lower than yours."
"A brother and sister reunited is a happy occasion." The young man in white nodded slightly at the sight, his earlier anxiety vanishing like smoke. "Congratulations on finding each other again. Xiao Yue, Na'er is now my personal disciple. She certainly won't be treated poorly."
"With my little sister cultivating under Uncle Yun, I can rest completely at ease," Yu Longyue said with a smile, though he couldn't help grumbling inwardly.
The Silver Dragon King cultivating under a human? What kind of upside-down world is this?
"Your father entrusted you to me as well, asking me to help you cultivate. If there's anything you don't understand in the future, remember to come find me," the young man in white said cheerfully, then looked at Na'er. "Na'er, your brother and I still have something to do. I'm taking him for a physical examination. You two can catch up afterward."
"It's fine. I'll come along. Mostly, I want to see just how monstrous my brother is." Na'er grinned as she linked her arm through Yu Longyue's.
They arrived at a room on Sea God Island used specifically for physical testing.
The room was quite large.
More importantly, many people had come to watch the show.
"Pavilion Master."
Everyone greeted the young man in white, then turned their gazes to Yu Longyue, studying him closely.
"So that little fellow is the one who got the better of Cai Yue'er? Tsk, tsk, he really is extraordinary."
"Sister Yue, isn't that your little grandson?" Several elders nearby glanced at the old woman standing silently to one side. "He's a descendant of Elder Bei's younger brother."
The old woman simply stared at Yu Longyue without taking her eyes off him. She sighed but didn't go over to greet him.
Light Dark Douluo Long Yeyue was a Level 99 Limit Douluo, a Four-Word Battle Armor Master, and the most senior person at Shrek Academy. She also had Twin Martial Souls, the Radiant Sacred Dragon and the Dark Sacred Dragon, and was over two hundred years old.
Even Yu Longyue's grandfather would have to call her sister-in-law if he came.
"If that dead man were still alive, he'd surely be happy to see how outstanding his younger brother's descendant is." Long Yeyue sighed.
"This child ran away from home for six years, so I hardly got to watch him grow up properly." Long Yeyue turned to look behind her. "Qitian, you're as hopeless at naming as your father, just as useless as ever. I wanted to call him Xiao Yue, but my name has a Yue in it too, so it feels rather strange."
"If you don't know how to pick names, my advice is to stop trying."
Yu Qitian, standing behind her, didn't dare talk back, but he still said weakly, "Auntie, my wife picked that name. It had nothing to do with me..."
"Hmph." Long Yeyue said no more and silently watched the show.
"Uncle Yun, why are so many big shots watching me? It's making me nervous." Yu Longyue hadn't forgotten to crack jokes despite being watched by so many big shots, and he showed no sign of nervousness at all.
"You'll get used to it." The young man in white glanced at him, then had him stand on a device.
"Let's test your Soul Power first."
Yu Longyue obediently stood in place. A green light swept over his entire body, and an electronic voice immediately rang out:
"Soul Power Level: level fifty-three Soul King. Soul Power compression: degree nine."
The young man in white was surprised. "A good foundation. With Soul King cultivation, your Soul Power is equivalent to that of a level seventy Soul Saint."
"Next is Spiritual Power."
The device scanned him again, and the electronic voice rang out once more:
"Spiritual Power: nineteen thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven points, peak of the Spirit Abyss Realm."
A chorus of astonished exclamations immediately rose from the crowd.
"Good heavens, kid! You're a Soul King, yet you're only one step away from breaking through to the Spirit Domain Realm?"
Spiritual Power was extremely difficult to cultivate. Of everyone present, only the Pavilion Master had reached the Divine Origin Realm, the highest level there. Even the two Limit Douluo, Light Dark Douluo and Heavenly Dragon Douluo, were only at the Spirit Domain Realm.
Twenty thousand Spiritual Power was the threshold for the Spirit Domain Realm. Though its name differed from the Spirit Abyss Realm by only one character, the gap between them was as vast as heaven and earth.
"No wonder he could absorb a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Spirit." Everyone turned to look at Cai Yue'er. She didn't react much, merely nodding as though it were only natural.
His Spiritual Power really isn't low. No wonder he could affect me.
Cai Yue'er thought to herself, then continued watching as Yu Longyue moved on to the next item: the strength test.
Without even using Martial Soul Possession, Yu Longyue raised his right hand and slammed it at the device in front of him.
"Bang!"
A crack sounded from the electronic device, and fissures appeared around the point of impact.
"Right fist strength: two hundred and five thousand seven hundred kilograms."
The room fell silent.
A ton was a thousand kilograms, which meant that punch had struck with at least two hundred tons of force.
Seeing that the device was struggling to withstand it, Yu Longyue couldn't help looking at the young man in white.
"Uncle Yun, how about... we leave it at that?"
"It's... it's fine. Continue." The young man in white didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Clearly, Yu Longyue's strength had shocked him. "Go ahead and give it everything you've got. If you don't, it'll be hard to determine the direction for making your Battle Armor later. It doesn't matter if it breaks; I'll record the result for you."
"Okay."
Yu Longyue nodded, then used Martial Soul Possession and unleashed his first, second, third, and fifth Soul Skills simultaneously.
That included the Golden Dragon King's Golden Dragon Body skill, followed immediately by Dragon Transformation.
Dragon Transformation came in many forms. One was to unleash it like a Martial Soul Avatar and become a true dragon. Another retained a human form, simply growing dragon wings and a dragon tail, transforming the hands into dragon claws, growing dragon horns, and covering the whole body in dragon scales.
Yu Longyue was using the human form of Dragon Transformation. He took a deep breath, then slammed his fist down with all his might.
"Crack-"
The electronic device shattered instantly, utterly unable to withstand Yu Longyue's strength.
But there had been a second for the experts present, all of whom were at least Titled Douluo, to catch the number displayed on the screen. They all sucked in sharp breaths.
Even the young man in white twitched at the corner of his mouth before slowly saying:
"Five million seven hundred and thirty-nine thousand one hundred and fifty-three kilograms."
That was equivalent to over five thousand tons of force.
Hearing the number, Na'er's mouth formed an O.
Cai Yue'er's face twitched slightly as well. Ever since Yu Longyue had slapped her those few times, she hadn't underestimated his strength in the slightest, yet she had never imagined she had still underestimated him.
"It's no wonder Cai Yue'er came off worse. Whoever faced that wouldn't have been able to withstand it," several elders couldn't help saying.
Not one person present was stronger than Yu Longyue. Blocking that dragon claw with one hand was simply impossible unless they used their true abilities.
No wonder Cai Yue'er had been forced to use her Battle Armor. Without it, her old bones would have been smashed to pieces, and she would have become the Titled Douluo who died the most miserable death in history, beaten to death because she had underestimated her opponent and held back, without even using a tenth of her strength...
The young man in white looked at Yu Longyue and couldn't help asking:
"Are you really human?"
Even he was inferior to Yu Longyue in terms of strength.
For an ordinary strength-type Titled Douluo, a hundred thousand kilograms was the baseline. Yu Longyue had exceeded a Titled Douluo by far too much...
"Uh, I'm just a thirteen-year-old kid. I simply eat a lot, so maybe that's why I'm strong." Yu Longyue smiled modestly, without a trace of pride. "And I have a True Dragon Martial Soul, so... I was born with divine strength. Born with divine strength."
His starting point was who knew how much higher than Tang Wulin's in the original story.
From childhood, his body had been nourished by all kinds of heavenly treasures and the most nutritious food. On top of that, his True Dragon Martial Soul and Golden Dragon King Bloodline complemented each other, so his strength was perfectly normal.
Even Tang Wulin in the original story, with just the combination of the Blue Silver Emperor and the Golden Dragon King Bloodline, had still been fierce as a tiger, even though the two weren't the same type.
But Yu Longyue's were the same type. Both were dragons, so naturally the boost was substantial.
Next came the defensive tests. They found that even the defense of his skin was difficult to break through.
They therefore concluded that under normal circumstances, his skin's defense was roughly equivalent to that of a ten-thousand-year Soul Beast, and a defense-specialized one at that.
With the protection of his dragon scales, it leaped straight to the level of an ordinary Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
The way everyone looked at Yu Longyue had changed.
He was practically a humanoid Ferocious Beast wearing human skin...
They all felt sorry for Cai Yue'er and stopped laughing at her.
It really was no wonder she had come off worse.