Chapter 63: Gu Yue: The Strength and Methods of a Soul Beast

In the dead of night, the sea breeze blew in gentle gusts.

Outside the Zero Class dormitory at the East Sea Academy, standing within the shadow of a large tree, Gu Yue kept her hands clasped behind her back. Behind her, Bi Ji knelt on the ground, bowing her head in a posture of respectful attention.

In the darkness, a majestic voice echoed through the damp and chilly air.

"Why did you act on your own authority and have Tang Wulin join the Spirit Pagoda?"

"Answering Your Majesty," Bi Ji lowered her head even further, replying with utmost reverence, "This boy carries the bloodline of the Golden Dragon King. In the future, he is bound to join one of the supreme factions of the human world."

"Therefore, Your subordinate thought that rather than letting him join an unpredictable top-tier faction in the future and becoming difficult to control, it would be much better for me to make him join the Spirit Pagoda beforehand in the capacity of his guardian. This will make it far easier for us to keep him under our control."

"Furthermore, since this boy will be within the same faction as Your Majesty, it will be much more convenient for You to achieve Your purpose in coming here and win the wager between You and that other counterpart."

Listening to this explanation, Gu Yue's expression remained unchanged, though flashes of purple light flickered continuously within her pitch-black eyes.

Several months ago.

Having recovered her memories, the conflict between her beastly nature and human temperament had caused her to split into Gu Yue, who embodied the beastly nature, and Na'er, who embodied the human persona.

Gu Yue, representing the beastly nature and serving as the original main body—which was herself—received the true dragon physique of the Silver Dragon King and the power to control all seven elemental forces, retaining seventy percent of her total strength.

Meanwhile, the separated human persona, Na'er, took away the Silver Dragon Spear along with thirty percent of the original body's power.

In order to perfectly reclaim this thirty percent of her strength, she, as the main body, had made a wager with her separated persona:

If Tang Wulin fell in love with Gu Yue under her ordinary disguise rather than his good sister Na'er, then she as the main body would win; otherwise, Na'er, as the subordinate persona, would be allowed to exist independently forever.

As the true form of the Silver Dragon King, inheriting the "astounding wisdom" of the Dragon God, how could she ever look down upon a mere separated offshoot?

Regardless of whether she won or lost this wager, she was determined to take back that thirty percent of power from the subordinate persona.

The only difference was:

If she won, the subordinate persona would willingly and gladly merge with her original body, perfectly reclaiming the missing thirty percent of her power.

However, if she lost, forcing a merger with the subordinate persona would result in slight flaws within her otherwise flawless power.

Although that would have a certain impact, it was still acceptable—certainly far better than losing thirty percent of her power permanently.

Originally, the plan was proceeding smoothly.

Yet this fellow Tang Wulin suddenly transformed from an utterly unremarkable little human brat into a walking feast teeming with the foundational essence of the Golden Dragon King.

At the very beginning, the moment Gu Yue first saw that Tang Wulin possessed the Golden Dragon King's bloodline, it felt as though she were looking at a Golden Dragon King high on aphrodisiacs, lying on a bed, batting his eyelashes, making seductive gestures, and offering a thousand charms and temptations, desperately craving to mate with her.

Heaven knows how much willpower and determination she had to muster just to suppress that primitive draconic instinct.

Watching such a delicious feast dangling in front of her eyes day after day—had it not been for the sake of winning the wager and perfectly reclaiming her lost thirty percent of power, she would have made her move long ago. Why would she have needed to wait for so long?

In truth, the only reason Gu Yue was able to endure was thanks to the fact that Tang Wulin had currently only unlocked the first of the Golden Dragon King's eighteen seals.

The attraction of this minuscule trace of Golden Dragon King bloodline to the Silver Dragon King still remained within the bounds of rational restraint.

Had it been the true Golden Dragon King, even if Gu Yue were at the absolute peak of her power as the Silver Dragon King, possessing the Dragon God's astounding wisdom, she would still have been completely unable to resist that instinctual mutual devouring originating from the bloodline of the Dragon God.

One must understand that the Golden Dragon King and the Silver Dragon King were by no means friendly siblings; rather, they were fierce competitors locked in a struggle where only one could survive.

As the two halves of the Dragon God, whichever one devoured the other would become the new Dragon God.

This was an instinct deeply branded into the foundational bloodline of both the Golden and Silver Dragon Kings.

However, the Dragon God itself was also hopelessly obsessed with romance.

In this regard, the Golden Dragon King was fortunate, because it inherited the Dragon God's destructive and violent nature, remaining entirely untouched by the Dragon God's romantic foolishness.

Yet the Silver Dragon King, having inherited the Dragon God's astounding wisdom, naturally inherited the Dragon God's hopeless romantic obsession as well.

At the same time, the foundational code of this hopeless romantic obsession superseded the bloodline instinct of mutual devouring between the Golden and Silver Dragon Kings.

This directly resulted in Gu Yue falling in love with Tang Wulin, which subsequently caused her to abandon the idea of devouring the Golden Dragon King's bloodline within his body.

But that was the Gu Yue of the future, not the Gu Yue of the present.

The current her had only spent less than half a year interacting with Tang Wulin; how could she possibly fall in love with a human being so easily?

"Human emotions truly are a terrifying thing."

Beneath the towering tree, Gu Yue attempted to banish the complex emotions stirring within her heart, only to find herself utterly incapable of doing so, prompting her to sigh:

"And the fact that humans are actually able to harness such a terrifying force... no wonder they have managed to become the supreme overlords of the present Douro Planet."

Hearing this, Bi Ji, still kneeling on the ground, felt deeply moved to comment:

"Indeed, Your Majesty's words are most wise."

"Thinking back to those years, Huo Yuhao, the founder of the Spirit Pagoda, was merely an ordinary person with rank one innate spirit power who only managed to cultivate to rank ten at the age of eleven."

Because of his early life experiences, Huo Yuhao had a habit of recounting his own tragic encounters in order to win the sympathy of others.

Consequently, during the initial period when the Spirit Pagoda was first established, Bi Ji had heard Huo Yuhao narrate his entire life journey from beginning to end.

Thus, at this moment, she spoke with effortless fluency:

"Looking at it today, ten thousand years later, who could have ever imagined that the Spirit Ice Douro, who achieved godhood and ascended to the heavens, was once nothing more than a mediocre mortal who only reached rank ten at eleven years of age?"

"Had he not happened to run into that runaway big fat worm, Huo Yuhao would probably have been reduced to absorbing the spirit ring of a mere ten-year-old wind baboon—one he had to exhaust every ounce of his strength to successfully counterattack and kill."

A big fat worm?

Gu Yue frowned, but quickly recalled the reference.

The big fat worm Bi Ji spoke of must have been that million-year-old ice silkworm.

When she had first awakened, Emperor Tian and the other spirit beasts had once told her about this creature.

Hmph!

So what if he was the Spirit Ice Douro? The only reason he managed to become a god was entirely because he relied on opportunities plundered from the spirit beasts.

Otherwise, a good-for-nothing with rank one innate spirit power—did he really deserve to have the gods bestow a godhood inheritance upon him?

And if that wasn't enough, this person not only stole away the Beast God's auspicious beast...

Furthermore, the Spirit Pagoda he founded, under the pretext of researching artificial spirits, went on a frenzied slaughter of the spirit beast clan, almost driving the spirit beasts to the brink of complete extinction.

"He was simply fortunate enough to be born in a good era."

"If this Sovereign had ever crossed paths with him, I would certainly have taught him what the true might and methods of the spirit beasts really are!"

...

However, a few days later.

Wu Zhangkong led the three members of Zero Class to the East Sea branch of the Tang Sect, where they took their final examinations for the semester.

Events unfolded just as they were written in the records.

Tang Wulin's opponent was Xiao Xiao, simulated by the Hall of Heroes.

Xie Xie's opponent was Jiang Nannan, simulated by the Hall of Heroes.

As for Gu Yue, her opponent was precisely Huo Yuhao, simulated by the Hall of Heroes.