"You're awake. Are you feeling alright?"
At this crucial moment, Xiao Wu's acting skills were on point. In her judgment, the girl in her arms was likely a transformed soul beast with a terrifying bloodline, so her heart gradually calmed down.
Gu Yuena raised her delicate hand, rubbed her head, her silver hair brushing against her, obscuring her fair wrist. "It's nothing, I'm not injured."
"Teacher, over here!"
Tang San called out. There was a soul beast corpse at his feet, looking quite imposing—a phoenix soul beast around five hundred years old.
Yu Xiaogang went over to examine the soul beast corpse, and Ma Hongjun and the others immediately surrounded him, their eyes filled with amazement.
"Gu Yuena, hello, I'm Dai Mubai. Do you know Xiao Wu? How did you end up fainting in the Star Dou Great Forest?"
Dai Mubai approached, increasingly amazed by Gu Yuena's beauty. Zhu Zhuqing and Xiao Wu were already among the most beautiful girls he'd ever seen, but compared to Gu Yuena, they paled in comparison. Her cool and elegant demeanor, combined with her gentle and obedient face, gave Gu Yuena an extraordinary charm that appealed to both men and women.
Lin Bai and Zhu Zhuqing stood at the back, observing everything coldly. Zhu Zhuqing wasn't good at communicating, while Lin Bai had some guesses about Gu Yuena's identity, but the timing wasn't right, so he wasn't sure.
Gu Yuena glanced at Xiao Wu and revealed the persona she had created for herself: "Xiao Wu and I come from the same place. After she left, our hometown was wiped out by our enemies. My father sent me out early to the Star Dou Great Forest to acquire a spirit ring, but I underestimated the age limit of spirit beasts, and I accidentally fainted from the pain while fusing the spirit ring."
Ah?
Xiao Wu blinked. Was she really that badly off? Under Gu Yuena's calm gaze, Xiao Wu reacted a beat too late, revealing a sorrowful expression, on the verge of tears.
What a silly rabbit.
Gu Yuena wasn't entirely satisfied, but to ensure her identity stood up to scrutiny, she didn't have many options and had to endure it for now.
Yu Xiaogang and Tang San arrived at this moment. Hearing Gu Yuena's explanation, Yu Xiaogang nodded: "That's about right. Little girl, you just fused your first spirit ring, didn't you? That rainbow-tailed phoenix had nearly five hundred years of cultivation. You were lucky. If it weren't for the adventurer's profession's physique, fusing a spirit ring beyond your level, it wouldn't have been as simple as just fainting."
Tang San nodded in agreement. He had fused a thousand-year-old wolf fang grass spirit ring and was quite qualified to speak on this.
Gu Yuena, however, was stunned, puzzled: "What's an adventurer's profession?"
Had her script gone wrong?
The underground city of the Star Dou Great Forest is not connected to the underground cities of human society. The ferocious beasts, besides cultivating in the core area, explore the underground city, so the soul beasts are currently unaware of what has happened in the soul master world.
Yu Xiaogang hesitated, his expression gradually becoming awkward.
Xiao Wu quickly came to his rescue, also reminding Gu Yuena, "Hasn't an underground city appeared in our home? Everyone can undergo trials in the underground city, obtain the adventurer profession, and master extraordinary powers different from martial souls."
Gu Yuena inherited the wisdom of the Dragon God, her mind racing to come up with a new explanation, her face showing sadness: "So that was the underground city. We didn't dare to go down and explore at first. Later, outsiders discovered the underground city, and without knowing what happened, they wanted to seize our home. We refused, and then they started killing us..."
Although she looked very sad, Gu Yuena didn't shed tears; instead, the hatred flashing in her eyes was incredibly real, as if she were experiencing something profound.
"What's the point of occupying the entrance to the underground city?"
Yu Xiaogang frowned, unable to understand the benefits involved, and shook his head helplessly. There was too little information to unravel the mystery.
"It's too dangerous here. Since you have nowhere to go, why don't you come with us?"
Before Gu Yuena could agree, Flander and Zhao Wuji arrived from afar.
"What happened? Why are you stopped here?"
Flander descended from the sky and immediately spotted the elegant Gu Yuena. "Who is she?"
Ma Hongjun leaned over to answer their questions. After listening, Flander waved his hand. "Since we've run into each other, let's leave together. Those soul beasts are still rampaging; it's too dangerous for a young girl to be alone."
"Okay,"
Gu Yuena agreed, but frowned and her expression turned sour when she smelled the blood on Flander and Zhao Wuji.
Zhao Wuji noticed this and, thinking she was annoyed by the smell, laughed. "Don't worry about it; you'll be clean after washing up."
Gu Yuena could only nod, avoiding looking at the two to prevent them from noticing anything amiss.
"Everyone's here. Let's leave the Star Dou Great Forest quickly. Next time we need to hunt souls, we should go to the Sunset Forest if possible. The changes in the soul beasts here are too erratic."
Flander was still shaken by the thought. If he and Zhao Wuji hadn't come, the others would have had a hard time surviving the beast tide. Only Lin Bai was able to survive thanks to the dragon.
He remembered Lin Bai's dragon, looked around but couldn't find it. "Lin Bai, where's your dragon? Don't lose it."
The keyword triggered, and Gu Yuena followed everyone's gaze to Lin Bai.
With her divine soul power, even her separated avatar could still see through many things.
For example, Lin Bai possessed considerable dragon blood; even compared to a true dragon, he wouldn't be an exaggeration to call him a half-dragon. If placed in a human, he would definitely awaken a powerful dragon martial soul.
But what about the dragon they were talking about? Dragons are incredibly proud; why would they follow a mere human?
Gu Yuena pondered to herself.
Lin Bai also knew he couldn't avoid this. If Gu Yuena was indeed the Silver Dragon King's avatar, her appearance would definitely attract her attention.
"I captured a soul beast as my third soul ring. Xiao Tian needs to help me suppress it. My Dragon Knight class has an item that can contain dragons. If I want to contain other living creatures, I need Ying Tian to bring it." "
So Lin Bai, your class is Dragon Knight. You get a dragon as a reward for joining? I'm so envious. Why don't our classes get one?"
Oscar's face was overflowing with envy, just as he said.
"Exactly!"
Ma Hongjun complained indignantly, "My class is Phoenix Messenger, why didn't I get a phoenix mount? The dungeon is so unfair!"
"Tch, you said it yourself, you're called Phoenix Messenger, not Phoenix Knight. You definitely don't get one. By that logic, my Taotie Priest class didn't give me a Taotie either."
Oscar seized the opportunity to stab Ma Hongjun in the back, making everyone laugh.
Seeing Gu Yuena's "confused" look, Xiao Wu comforted her, saying, "When we return to Notting City, you can also go to the dungeon and enter the beginner instance to obtain the Adventurer class. The class abilities are no weaker than Martial Souls!"
"I see, I'm really looking forward to it." If
even mere humans possess such concentrated dragon blood, the potential of dragons might not be weaker than that of true dragons. Gu Yuena knew that the dungeon originated from the destruction of a universe, a universe where gods were originally created through class upgrades to obtain divine status.
Although the Silver Dragon King's true form could directly fuse with a divine status, it didn't diminish her interest in the dungeon's classes.
(End of Chapter)