Exhausted

After Xu Xingyu personally confirmed that she would choose to support the Star Luo Empire in unifying the continent, Xu Jiujiu's previously anxious heart finally settled down.

She had initially thought that Xu Xingyu would at most prevent the Star Luo Empire from falling under the Sun Moon Empire's offensive, considering her origins, but Xu Xingyu actually intended to unify the continent with the Star Luo Empire, which surprised and delighted her.

Admittedly, following Xu Xingyu's method, the Star Luo Empire's royal family might be sidelined by the future state religion, the Spirit Contract Pagoda. However, as mentioned before, Xu Xingyu originally belonged to the Xu Family, so from this perspective, the Xu Family would also have a place in the upper echelons of the Spirit Contract Pagoda in the future.

Therefore, it can be considered as one of our own people's influence, so there's no need to worry too much about this aspect.

Jiang Nannan didn't feel much emotional impact; at most, she felt sorrow for the impending war. She knew that once the war started, countless civilians would be caught up in it, so she could only pray that the war wouldn't cause too many casualties among civilians.

After all, she herself came from a commoner background, so if possible, Jiang Nannan still hoped to minimize the losses suffered by ordinary people.

As for which country would unify Douluo Continent, Jiang Nannan didn't feel much. As someone who came from the lowest rung of the Heavenly Soul Empire, she had also suffered oppression from the Heavenly Soul nobles. She even almost had to sell herself to the Mysterious Underworld Sect to get medicine in order to save her seriously ill mother.

Fortunately, she met Xu Xingyu, and with his help, she cured her mother and resolved the issues with the Mysterious Underworld Sect.

Therefore, as long as Xu Xingyu is willing to support national reunification, Jiang Nannan has no objection. Because she is Xu Xingyu's woman, she will support whatever choice Xu Xingyu makes, as long as it does not violate natural law or human morality, and will silently contribute her efforts to help him behind the scenes.

Gu Yuena was the same way, or rather, she didn't care much about how human society developed; she only cared about Xu Xingyu's safety and the survival of the Spirit Contract Pagoda.

Of course, if the Spirit Contract Pagoda could infiltrate and ostensibly override the unified Douluo Continent, she would absolutely approve of it, because that would further constrain the relationship between humans and Soul Beast.

So when Xu Xingyu said she wanted to support the Star Luo Empire, Gu Yuena revealed her own thoughts.

"Xingyu, since we've chosen to support the Star Luo Empire Star Luo Empire, shouldn't we secretly sell some of our hidden Soul Guidance Technology to them over the next few years?"

Xu Xingyu replied, "That's correct, but we can't do it openly. My point is, didn't our Spirit Contract Pagoda take in He Caitou, who is Xu He, the former prince of the Sun Moon Empire, and the army organized by the supporters of the late emperor?"

"Then we'll have them make deals with the Star Luo Empire under the guidance of our Spirit Contract Pagoda. That way, even if someone notices that the Star Luo Empire's Soul Guidance Technology is developing too quickly, we'll have them expose themselves. Other countries will only think that this was done by those former imperial troops who defected from the Sun Moon Empire. After all, there are still a few Level 9 Soul Engineer among them."

With Xu Xingyu's explanation, everyone roughly determined how to help the Star Luo Empire and when to openly intervene in the war.

After planning everything, Xu Xingyu felt thirsty and prepared to pour some tea for everyone present. Just as he was boiling water, Gu Yuena's voice rang out again. "By the way, Xingyu, you mentioned earlier that something happened on Sea God Island. Could you tell me more about it?"

Only Xu Xingyu realize that she hadn't told them about Abyss Abyss invasion, so she explained the matter in detail.

Upon learning that the next few years would involve both the war between the Sun Moon and the Abyss invasion of the abyss, everyone present felt utterly exhausted.

Fortunately, due to the seal, there shouldn't be too much to worry about when the war breaks out. So at most, we only need to send a portion of our high-level combat forces to Sea God Island, and Shrek Academy can also help out.

After all, Sea God Island is the secret island of the Sea God they worship at the Shrek Academy. Since their leaders call themselves the Sea God Pavilion, it's not unreasonable for them to contribute, right?

Moreover, as long as Xingyu or one of the women completes their God Examination in the next few years, the problem of the Abyss will not be so difficult to solve.

Therefore, Xu Xingyu also wanted to tell Jiang Nannan and Xu Jiujiu to complete their God Examination as soon as possible. The sooner they completed them, the easier it would be to handle matters on the continent. After all, after becoming a god, one can stay in the human world for one year in the Divine Realm, which is about three hundred years.

Tang San's early ascension was mainly due to problems at the higher levels of the Divine Realm, which forced him to ascend prematurely. This also meant that Tang San was unable to fully understand his own power before leaving, and it was one of the reasons why he became obsessed with interfering in the continent Tang San ascending to the Divine Realm.

Of course, the main reason is Tang San's own desire for control and his ambition to turn Douluo Continent and the Divine Realm into a place ruled by the Tang family.

He learned from Jiang Nannan and Xu Jiujiu that their progress in the God Examination was similar to Wang Dong'er's, both being in the Third Trial stage. Ma Xiaotao was said to be progressing faster, apparently having already started the Fourth Trial, probably because she had taken to heart what Xu Xingyu had said last time.

As for Xu Yanxue, according to the two women, after she went to the secret realm of the Earth Dragon Sect, she seemed to have fallen into Deep Meditation and had not appeared since.

If Ice Bear King Xiaobai hadn't personally infiltrated the secret realm of the Earth Dragon Sect to confirm that she was alright and said that she had hit the jackpot, Jiang Nannan and the others would have thought that Xu Yanxue had already met with an accident.

Xu Xingyu wasn't surprised by the Ice Bear King's claim of hitting the jackpot, after all, the true nature of the secret realm at the Earth Dragon Sect was the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Cave, which contained countless Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow.

Although the amount of Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow contained therein should not be as much as that of the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Cave that made the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm Million-Year Soul Beast due to its terrain, it is still not something that Xu Yanxue.

After all, she was no longer the Snow Empress, the 700,000-year-old Soul Beast and the leader of the Three Great Heavenly Kings of the Far North, but a little girl with only the cultivation of Soul Ancestor. So it was only natural that the refining process took longer.

However, it would be best to check on Xu Yanxue's situation before returning to Dragon Valley, because according to A Jin, his next assessment would not only take a lot of time, but he also wouldn't be able to interfere with anything in the Douluo Continent during that time.

Therefore, he instructed that if there were any unfinished matters on the mainland, they should be arranged as soon as possible and then handed over to others to handle. This way, his plans on the mainland would not be disrupted.

There's so much to do! I'm truly exhausted!