Let Go of That Girl

"Heh heh heh, little ladies, you can scream yourselves hoarse, but no one's coming to save you."

A few thugs surrounded Ah Yin and Tang Yuehua, swaggering.

"Don't be afraid, little sister Ah Yin."

Tang Yuehua's face was pale, but she resolutely spread her arms and stood in front of Ah Yin.

Though she was older than Ah Yin, she had no fighting ability whatsoever. Facing the vicious, knife-wielding thugs, Tang Yuehua felt a chill in her heart.

She cursed her luck inwardly. If she had known she would run into bandits after sneaking out of camp to clear her head, she would have brought her two older brothers along.

Behind the bushes dozens of meters away, two pairs of gleaming eyes watched through gaps in the foliage.

"Big brother, I'm in love."

Tang Hao lay in the bushes, his rugged face brimming with excitement he couldn't hide. "After all these years, I finally know what love at first sight means."

Beside him, Tang Xiao's Adam's apple bobbed as he watched. He reached out and rubbed his own pectoral muscle, then said solemnly, "Little brother, you're mistaken. This lady's bearing is pure and unworldly. She and I are surely destined to be together."

"You're already fifty. Have you no shame? She looks seventeen or eighteen at most. At your age, you could be her father." Tang Hao was getting anxious.

"Nonsense! In the Soul Master World, the strong are respected. Fifty is the prime of a man's life."

Tang Xiao's eyes widened. He was already prepared to show off in front of the pretty girl.

Though their own sister Tang Yuehua was there too, the two brothers' thoughts ran along remarkably similar lines at that moment.

A heaven-sent opportunity!

Heaven had practically arranged this chance for them to play the hero and rescue a beauty!

All they had to do was descend from the sky, pull out their Clear Sky Hammers, and smash the petty thieves until they were crawling around looking for their teeth. Not only would they save their sister, they might even capture the lady's heart.

"Little brother, stand back. Watch me go and return in a moment."

"Wait, big brother. For rough work like this, let your little brother do the honors."

The brothers competed in secret, preparing to summon their hammers, leap out, and shout, "Don't hurt them! Come at me if you dare!"

A silver ripple visible to the naked eye spread through the void.

A breeze swept past, and a figure appeared gracefully.

The robbers were still cackling "Heh heh heh" when they suddenly saw a living, breathing man appear in the sky, impossibly handsome.

Gu Yue moved a fingertip, and the robbers evaporated from the world without leaving a trace.

The display left Tang Yuehua utterly dumbstruck.

Her little mouth parted slightly as she looked up at Gu Yue, her heart racing at a hundred and eighty beats a minute.

After spending so long in the Clear Sky Sect, surrounded by muscle-bound devils of men, when had she ever seen such an incomparably handsome man, whose looks were breathtaking and whose strength was unfathomable?

A rosy flush spread across Tang Yuehua's cheeks, and little stars seemed to sparkle in her eyes.

Behind the bushes, Tang Hao and Tang Xiao, still arguing over who would play the hero and save the beauties, were stunned on the spot.

"Damn it! Someone beat us to it!"

Such a golden opportunity had vanished just like that. The two of them felt they had suffered a terrible loss.

"Little brother, let's go!"

Tang Xiao strode angrily out from behind the bushes.

Tang Hao followed close behind. Both men emerged with dark faces, looking ready for a fight.

Tang Hao raised his chin and deliberately thrust out his chest, trying to display the Clear Sky Sect's masculine dominance:

"I am Tang Hao of the Clear Sky Sect, and this is my elder brother, Tang Xiao. Thank you, sir, for stepping in to save our little sister."

Though Tang Hao spoke words of thanks, his eyes kept darting toward Ah Yin, trying to leave her with the impression that he was a reliable, mighty man with a powerful background.

But Gu Yue ignored them outright and descended directly in front of Ah Yin.

The instant Gu Yue looked at her, Ah Yin began to tremble instinctively.

This was the innate bloodline suppression of the Soul Beast Clan. Ah Yin had never felt such suppression before, but her bloodline told her that this was the ruler of the Soul Beast Clan.

Ah Yin's legs trembled slightly. Almost instinctively, she bowed and said:

"Ah Yin... greets my lord."

Gu Yue looked down at her from midair, her expression cold.

"You transformed without permission... ran away from the clan's territory, and made a spectacle of yourself in public... Are you planning to betray our clan?"

The color drained from Ah Yin's face. She understood what Gu Yue meant: Soul Beast Transformation meant giving up one's identity as a Soul Beast. In a sense, that already made her a traitor to the Soul Beast Clan.

Her slender body trembled, and she lowered her head to admit her fault. "Ah Yin knows she was wrong. But I have no intention of betraying the clan. I leave everything to my lord's judgment."

Gu Yue nodded inwardly.

Very good. A wild Blue Silver Emperor employee, successfully captured.

Divine power surged forth, enveloping Ah Yin in a silver halo as Gu Yue prepared to bundle her up and take her away.

From the moment he sensed Ah Yin, he had been determined to capture her as a laborer.

According to what he sensed from the streak of light in his Sea of Consciousness, he could take specific people or objects back to the ancient era. This was the timeline of a special event, and Ah Yin happened to be one of those specific people.

What Gu Yue wanted was the Blue Silver Emperor's ability to communicate with Blue Silver Grass. In the ancient era he came from, Blue Silver Grass covered every inch of the continent. The Blue Silver Emperor was a natural surveillance system, with eyes and ears everywhere.

Once his grand plan got underway, Ah Yin would be the perfect overseer. After all, he and little Gu Yuena couldn't very well take shifts scanning the entire continent with their divine sense every day, could they?

As long as he trained Ah Yin's spiritual power a tiny billion-fold, she would make an excellent worker.

But when Tang Hao and Tang Xiao saw the scene, they imagined a story about "a young master from a reclusive clan forcibly capturing the little junior sister who ran away from home."

Though they couldn't understand a word about "my lord" or "betrayal," they saw one thing perfectly clearly: this silver-haired pretty boy was not only treating them like air, he was also about to abduct the girl they had fallen in love with at first sight, right in front of them.

"Villain, how dare you! Let go of that girl!"

Blinded by love, Tang Hao let out a furious shout. Seven Soul Rings-yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black, and black-appeared beneath his feet, and a pitch-black hammer smashed straight toward Gu Yue.

Not to be outdone, Tang Xiao unleashed the brilliant light of eight Soul Rings and the full force of his Soul Douluo-level presence. He hefted his Clear Sky Hammer and moved to surround Gu Yue from the other side, shouting righteously:

"Abducting a woman in broad daylight? Have you asked us, the Clear Sky Twin Stars?!"

Faced with the two great hammers whistling toward her, Gu Yue released her pressure.

The two men, who had just thought they looked spectacular, felt as though a mountain had descended on their heads from nowhere. Pinned to the ground, they couldn't move a muscle; Tang Hao couldn't even unleash Divine Slaughter's Domain.

Gu Yue sensed the presence of Divine Slaughter's Domain on Tang Hao, but wasn't worried about the Asura God or the Divine Realm noticing.

He was now the Silver Dragon King at her peak, and his divine sense was at the God King Realm. Concealing them from detection was effortless, unless a God King of the Divine Realm personally descended to the lower realm.

"Huff... huff..."

Tang Hao's eyes were bloodshot, and he panted like an ox as he roared, "You... let Miss Ah Yin go... Fight me one-on-one if you dare..."

Seeing this, Ah Yin felt a little bad and, with utmost sincerity, twisted the knife:

"Sir, don't waste your strength. I'm going with my lord of my own free will."

Tang Hao felt as though his own Clear Sky Hammer had swung back and struck him in the chest. His blood surged, and he nearly passed out.

He was a vigorous man in his golden prime at thirty-five, yet the girl he admired had called him "sir" to his face.

Tang Xiao, beside him, was even more ashamed. He simply burrowed his entire head a little deeper into the ground and played dead on the spot.

Meanwhile, Tang Yuehua's beautiful eyes had long since taken on an entranced glow.

In the Clear Sky Sect, where muscles and great hammers were held in high esteem, everyone in the sect except her father and the two brothers before her called her a money-losing burden behind her back. She had suffered no end of scorn and cold treatment.

If Gu Yue had not appeared today, Tang Hao and Tang Xiao would naturally have played out a heroic rescue. Tang Hao, who was more outstanding than Tang Xiao, would certainly have come to occupy a fundamentally different place in her heart.

According to the original course of events, Tang Hao would have fallen in love with Ah Yin, leaving Tang Yuehua to watch helplessly as an outsider stole away the brother who treated her best. The feelings in her heart would have undergone a fundamental change as well.

But now, Gu Yue's appearance had twisted the course of fate.

The young man before her was not only so handsome that she couldn't find a single flaw in his appearance, but his strength was unfathomable, reaching heights she could only look up to.

Her two brothers, usually praised as the Clear Sky Twin Stars in the sect, couldn't even withstand a single glance from him.

Watching the two of them about to leave, Tang Yuehua felt the little deer in her heart crashing about more wildly than ever.

An unprecedented admiration and yearning quietly took root and sprouted in her heart. Even her thoughts, usually as dignified and reserved as she was, began racing like a wild horse freed from its reins.

What's his name?

Where does he live?

Does he have a wife?

If she could stay by his side, even if she had to give up the sect, even if she were only a maid attending to his daily needs, it seemed ten thousand times better than staying in the Clear Sky Sect and enduring everyone's cold stares.

And the children we have in the future... what should we name them?

Seeing Gu Yue about to turn and leave, Tang Yuehua found courage from somewhere and hurried forward, bowing shyly:

"I am Tang Yuehua of the Clear Sky Sect... Thank you for saving me, benefactor. May I ask your honored name? Where do you live? Are... are you married?"

Gu Yue gave her a strange look. Was the Douluo Continent, where the God of Love had fallen, truly so terrifying that a single meeting could trigger a love-struck buff?

"Gu Yue."

He left those two words behind, tore open space, and vanished with Ah Yin in an instant.

A breeze swept past.

On the ground lay two men who had lost all desire to live: Tang Xiao and Tang Hao.

In the breeze, Tang Yuehua gently clasped her hands over her heart, her beautiful eyes gazing dreamily at the void that had long since closed. She murmured the name "Gu Yue," her eyes full of feelings she could not hide...