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"Hum—"
Between the heavens and earth, a blue-gold streak of light descended from the sky!
However, no one could see that this streak of light was heading straight for the Three-Eyed Golden Lion—only Electrolux, who sat calmly in Chen Junting's sea of consciousness like a fisherman waiting for his catch, discovered it.
"This is..."
His previously relaxed expression instantly turned grave!
Having analyzed the Sea God's Light before, Electrolux naturally recognized that this blue-gold streak of light was precisely the handiwork of that Sea God.
With no time to warn, and unable to warn Chen Junting who was currently viewing the Three-Eyed Golden Lion's memories, Electrolux raised his formation. Golden runes quickly interwove, using Chen Junting's gradually forming Eye of Fate as a pathway, blocking in front of the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.
An invisible collision erupted invisibly.
Hidden by the power of fate, no one knew what happened at this moment—not even Tang San watching from the God Realm.
And this was also the best opportunity for Electrolux to act.
Gray pressure instantly filled the sea of consciousness.
Without affecting Chen Junting, Electrolux expended considerable strength. Combining his divine consciousness with golden runes transformed into a spherical cage, he finally enveloped the blue-gold streak of light.
Just at this moment, Chen Junting's consciousness slowly awakened.
He felt that in this short dozen seconds, aside from his physical strength, his spiritual power had significantly increased, and his second consciousness sea had also completely formed and stabilized.
"Master, hm! Master, what's wrong with you!?"
The moment Chen Junting saw Electrolux in the sea of consciousness, he noticed his exhausted appearance—this wasn't caused by helping him complete the attribute channeling and opening the Eye of Fate!
However, when Chen Junting saw the blue-gold streak of light blocked by golden runes before the Three-Eyed Golden Lion—something that looked very familiar—he immediately realized, "Tang San that bastard made his move!"
"I'm not that kid Yuhao."
Chen Junting frowned. Tang San's actions were actually reasonable—after all, if he wanted to make his move on the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, the attribute channeling process was indeed his best opportunity. But this time, it was him receiving the attribute channeling, not Huo Yuhao.
But in just one second, Chen Junting abandoned wild speculation. "Never mind, we'll know what's inside this streak of light once we see it."
"Master, I'll trouble you to work a bit more."
"This master is still capable. Let me borrow your power of fate for a moment."
After nodding slightly, Chen Junting activated the Eye of Fate, barely mobilizing the power of fate. Seeing this, Electrolux immediately acted, continuing to use the power of fate to fill the gradually dissipating gap of external fate power. At the same time, he used his divine consciousness to influence the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, keeping it immersed in the prosperity of the human world.
Fortunately, the previous Sea God's Light had given Electrolux a certain understanding of the Sea God's power, so he quickly extracted the contents from this streak of Sea God's Light.
But after they finished reading it, they all fell silent.
"Tang San, Tang San, you're truly not human."
Chen Junting didn't know what to say anymore.
Contained in this Sea God's Light was a piece of information and two methods.
As for the specific content of the information, it was a template of Wang Dong'er's appearance.
Its purpose...
According to Chen Junting's speculation, it might be because this attribute channeling was done by him, not Huo Yuhao, causing no intersection between the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and Huo Yuhao.
And Tang San now introducing Wang Dong'er's appearance template might be precisely to create an intersection between the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and Huo Yuhao in the future.
As for the other methods of Tang San that needed to be mentioned.
One of the two major methods was a special Goddess of Love's power—possibly related to the Love Querying Valley, or more accurately, related to the Goddess of Love.
The specific function of this divine power was to stimulate love. Simply put, it subtly influenced a woman into becoming love-struck.
That's right!
Just like Xiao Wu!
From this, Tang San's thoughts could also be seen.
He simply turned his own experience from ten thousand years ago into a routine, thereby completing part of his grand plan.
The male protagonist falls in love with a woman. When encountering a life-or-death crisis later, that woman sacrifices herself to save the male protagonist. Then, find a way to resurrect that woman before the male protagonist, and then...
How does that sound? Familiar routine, right?
Thinking of this, Chen Junting couldn't help but shake his head.
In the original story, Huo Yuhao had fallen for this exact trap.
But now that the one receiving the attribute channeling was him instead, in his view, Tang San probably wasn't worried that this situation would affect the subsequent process.
It would be best if the male protagonist in this routine was entirely Huo Yuhao, this blessed son of fortune.
If Wang Dong'er's template didn't work, causing the Three-Eyed Golden Lion to fall in love with someone other than Huo Yuhao, at most he could replace the two female protagonists in the latter half of the routine targeting Huo Yuhao with just one female protagonist—Wang Dong'er. This would still tame it into a good dog.
And this was mainly targeting the first half of the routine for the Three-Eyed Golden Lion. As long as the Goddess of Love's power method worked, no matter who the Three-Eyed Golden Lion fell in love with, as long as it loved, the other method in the Sea God's Light could ensure the goal was achieved.
After all, what Tang San wanted was for the Three-Eyed Golden Lion to voluntarily sacrifice itself—not be killed—to smoothly obtain the Golden Dragon King bloodline and the Golden Dragon Spear, to give to his "daughter"—Tang Wutong.
"This Sea God truly never disappoints this old man."
Hearing Elder Electrolux's sarcastic words, the corners of Chen Junting's mouth couldn't help but rise slightly, but he quickly suppressed it.
Then he said seriously: "Master, we cannot block this Sea God's Light. However, that Goddess of Love's power and the methods Tang San left within it—we must destroy them."
Electrolux's brows first furrowed slightly. After all, destroying all of the Sea God's methods was no problem, but destroying only two while leaving one intact—this could very likely draw the Sea God's attention. However, soon he had an idea.
"Leave this matter to this old man."
Afterward, he mobilized the remaining power of fate, concealing most of the Sea God's Light situation, only leaving the directional information. Then he separately simulated Wang Dong'er's template information—except he made some minor adjustments. After all, even an Auspicious Beast had its own "thoughts," didn't it?
Then, Electrolux sent this modified template, along with the sealed Sea God's Light, into the Three-Eyed Golden Lion's vertical pupil.
This move was called "Deceiving Heaven and Crossing the Sea."
"I hope this can save its life."
Chen Junting looked at the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and couldn't help but shake his head.
Having obtained the power of fate from it, he owed it a favor.
Meanwhile, in the outside world.
The Three-Eyed Golden Lion, having regained its mobility after separating from the memories, didn't have time to fully react when Scarlet King's dark red figure had already arrived at its side.
Clearly, the golden runes had completely dissipated.
And Chen Junting was also brought to Elder Song's side. Looking at the extremely vigilant Scarlet King, she said, "Scarlet King, since the accident has disappeared, shall we part ways here?"
"Good!"
Scarlet King didn't hesitate for a moment upon hearing this. Its middle head grabbed the Three-Eyed Golden Lion by the back of its neck, ignoring its struggles, carrying it without looking back toward the core area.
This place was too eerie!
It had to leave quickly and return to inform Di Tian.
Only the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, after discovering its struggles were useless, stopped. Its three eyes gazed at Chen Junting, its expression complex.
For a moment, no one knew what it was thinking.
But it certainly wasn't feelings or goodwill toward Chen Junting.
Until his figure completely disappeared from its sight.
Seeing Scarlet King and the Auspicious Emperor Beast leave, Elder Song said: "Huo Yuhao's fourth soul ring hunting is suspended. We'll return to the academy first."
Everyone naturally had no objections upon hearing this.
After such a major incident, the Star Dou Forest would surely be in uproar. This was not a place to stay long.
Who knew when Di Tian might make his move.
Thus, after Chen Junting secretly recalled Mad King, a circle of cyan soul power barrier wrapped around the four of them. Then Elder Song directly activated her Greenshadow Godly Hawk true body, heading straight for Shrek Academy while ensuring the four's safety!
They must leave the Star Dou Forest at the fastest possible speed.
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