Capturing a Working Blue Silver Emperor, Time-Reversal Trajectory
In the Star Dou Great Forest, in the Great Ferocious Land.
As the rift in the void slowly closed, Gu Yue entered the space she had carved out, bringing the captured Ah Yin with her.
The moment Ah Yin stepped inside, she sensed the presence of the Ancient Tree of Life and the Goddess of Life. The abundant vitality made her instinctively let out a sigh of pleasure.
Before Ah Yin could collect herself, Gu Yue stopped maintaining her mimicry disguise. In the blink of an eye, she transformed into a petite, delicate loli.
Ah Yin had been on edge the whole way. The instant she saw this, the CPU of the entire blade of grass burned out on the spot.
"Huh?"
Ah Yin's little mouth hung slightly open as she stared blankly at the lord before her, who was more than half a head shorter than she was.
Before she could do anything, Gu Yue turned on her:
"You small fry... bah! As a Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor, you dared to abandon your cultivation and start over in human form. Do you know your crime?"
Though her voice was that of a loli, the instant her words fell, an overpowering pressure from a superior descended.
Ah Yin shuddered all over in fright. The suppression from the very source of her bloodline jolted her to her senses. She fell to her knees with a thud, her eyes red as she said:
"Please calm your anger, my lord. Plant-type Soul Beasts are weak by nature, and the hundred-thousand-year heavenly tribulation is overwhelmingly powerful. I knew I couldn't survive it-ten deaths and no life. Only then was I forced to take human form in search of a way to live. I never intended to betray my clan."
Gu Yue narrowed her purple eyes slightly and said coldly:
"You've certainly found plenty of excuses."
"When a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast takes human form, it can still condense its first six Soul Rings on its own. But what happens once you break through to the Soul Saint level?"
"When that time comes, if you want to continue cultivating, you'll have to hunt and kill Soul Beasts with your own hands to obtain your seventh, eighth, and ninth Soul Rings."
"Then you'll become an executioner who slaughters her own kind. Or do you intend to offer yourself to humans as a walking Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and Soul Bone gift package, sewing a wedding dress for human experts to wear?"
"Besides, you've infiltrated the human world, chatting and laughing with humans, saving lives and tending the wounded, and even unwittingly revealing the Soul Beast Clan's habits and weaknesses to humans. If that isn't betraying your clan and aiding the enemy, what is?!"
Her words exploded in Ah Yin's ears. Ah Yin felt as if she had been struck by lightning, her delicate body trembling slightly.
She had taken human form only to escape the heavenly tribulation, and had helped humans merely because it was in her nature. When had she ever considered these things from the perspective of the entire Soul Beast race?
Now that Gu Yue had laid it bare, striking the nail on the head, Ah Yin's heart was filled with fear and guilt.
The Soul Beast Clan was just that unreasonable. Whatever the reason for taking human form, even if one was forced into it because one couldn't withstand the approaching lightning tribulation, it was still considered betrayal.
Not only would humans hunt Soul Beasts in human form, but Soul Beasts would no longer accept or acknowledge them either.
As a Soul Beast, one could kill one's own kind to survive, to fill one's belly, or for territory, but taking human form was another matter entirely.
Seeing that her intimidation had achieved its full effect, Gu Yue extended a slender, delicate finger and lifted Ah Yin's chin:
"Considering that you truly had no choice, you may be spared the death penalty, but you cannot escape punishment."
"From today onward, you'll stay here and be my obedient worker. Otherwise-"
"Ah Yin, you wouldn't want your Blue Silver Grass subjects to be chewed up by Soul Beasts like worthless weeds, would you? Hehehe..."
The Goddess of Life, watching from the side, pressed a hand to her forehead helplessly.
Back then, this nasty little rascal had used the same familiar tone to persuade her to surrender.
With the little loli lifting her chin, Ah Yin felt the terrifying pressure of a superior at close range. The entire blade of grass trembled with fear as she sobbed and nodded repeatedly:
"Boo-hoo... Ah Yin is willing to work. Please, my lord, don't hurt my subjects."
And so, over the next few months, a woebegone Blue Silver Emperor could be found cultivating beneath the Ancient Tree of Life.
Gu Yue, on the other hand, was in no hurry to make any major moves in this era.
If his conjecture was confirmed, and the plans he had set in motion in the ancient era could directly affect and change the future, then anything major he did now in the Douluo I era would most likely be wasted effort once he went back, made changes, and traveled here again.
Thus, the only things that might help the current situation were the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and the immortal herbs in the Sunset Forest. Gu Yue had made a trip there and brought every last one back.
Unfortunately, the immortal herbs provided almost no practical improvement to Ferocious Beasts, or to him, who had long since reached the Half-Step God King level.
On the other hand, from the feedback he received while trying to figure out his cheat, Gu Yue discovered that the immortal herbs apparently did not fall within the category of specific items and could not be taken back to the ancient era.
The people or items his cheat could take across time and space to the ancient era were most likely limited to important figures or specific items directly connected to major events of fate on this timeline.
At the same time, he had to abide by the rules of time and space; there could be no paradoxes.
For example, the Goddess of Life had already existed in the ancient era. Even if the Goddess of Life of the current era was a specific person, he could not take her back to the ancient era.
So Gu Yue merely gave Ah Yin a Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew to improve her spiritual power and a Primordial Immortal Herb to improve her Soul Power, ensuring that this wild Blue Silver Emperor could grow as quickly as possible and take up the heavy job of monitoring the entire continent at an early date.
As for the remaining immortal herbs, Gu Yue tossed them all beneath the Ancient Tree of Life to keep them from losing their medicinal potency.
One thing made him extremely uncomfortable: this was the Douluo Continent with Douluo IV as its setting.
In Douluo IV's setting, the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well was not formed from the fallen corpses and bones of the Water Dragon King and Fire Dragon King at all.
It was merely formed where the extremes of cold and heat in Douluo Star's ley lines met. By Douluo IV, even an artificial Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well could be created.
The actual remains and divine positions of the Water and Fire Dragon Kings, and even those of every dragon who had died in the great war in the Divine Realm, had all been gathered by that old fart the Dragon God into the Dragon Realm he had created. They were now drifting all alone through the boundless void of the universe.
The mere thought of the Dragon God's brain-hemorrhage-inducing move gave Gu Yue a headache.
Sigh, another day when the Dragon God had a way to court death.
Looking at the void and flowing light in his Sea of Consciousness, Gu Yue gave his cheat a name.
"Since you can travel through the years and anchor fate, from now on, I'll call you [Time-Reversal Trajectory]."
At that moment, a ring of faintly visible ripples in time and space appeared around the Time-Reversal Trajectory.
This meant that his arrival across time and space was not indefinite. Even if he did not choose to return to the ancient era, he would be sent back once his time was up.
In other words, this cheat came with its own anti-addiction system.
Gu Yue felt he had spent enough time in this period. There was nothing he could take back anyway, and with everything still uncertain, he chose to play it safe.
Wondering whether there was anything he needed to wrap up, Gu Yue released his divine sense and swept it across the entire continent.
"Pfft... cough, cough, cough."
"Well, would you look at that. The rats and the rabbit managed to get themselves into a love triangle?"
He stroked his chin in thought. "One blade of grass was gone, and a rabbit immediately took her place...?"
The love triangle between two rats and a rabbit indirectly confirmed his conjecture about the original plot converging.
Having figured that out, he still did not intend to make any major moves. But if he pushed this drama to its climax before leaving, the trip would not have been for nothing.
"Since you're after thrills, why not see it through to the end?"
"Xiao Wu, oh Xiao Wu, your mother's almost become the young madam of the Clear Sky Sect in the human world. As a filial daughter, you should make a little contribution too."