After a moment of silence, Na'er's expression turned serious, and her tone carried a rare earnestness: "I told you that you've become a lovebrain now, throwing caution to the wind for Huo Yuhao and ignoring everything else."
Hearing this, Gu Yue retorted in a calm tone: "How am I ignoring everything else? The Beast Platform has already begun execution, and we are getting closer and closer to realizing our plan."
Na'er snorted: "Then if Huo Yuhao finds out about your plan in the end and stands up to stop it, what choice will you make?"
Gu Yue fell silent, and a moment of quiet spread through the Spiritual Sea.
Watching her silence, Na'er continued: "What? Can't answer?"
Her tone carried a hint of aggressiveness, yet also a touch of unspeakable complexity: "Huo Yuhao was able to transmigrate back to the World Ten Thousand Years ago, and he is capable of becoming a god. He is currently the biggest threat to our plan!"
"I know." Gu Yue's voice sank slightly, "But our plan is to revive the Soul Beast Clan, not to annihilate humanity, and Yuhao and we are not necessarily enemies either."
Na'er sneered: "Thinking like that is nothing more than deceiving yourself."
Yet Gu Yue remained unmoved, her tone still steady: "Even though the Douluo Divine Realm is not around right now, it doesn't mean it won't return in the future."
"If we go too far, wantonly slaughtering or enslaving humans, when the gods return, what do you think our outcome will be?"
Hearing these words, Na'er's expression finally changed.
She had to admit that what Gu Yue said indeed made sense.
Seeing the defiant look between Na'er's brows loosen up, Gu Yue struck while the iron was hot and continued: "Therefore, what we should pursue is peaceful coexistence with humans. Thus, Yuhao is not necessarily an enemy; he might even become our helper."
Na'er opened her mouth, wanting to retort, but when the words reached her lips, she found she didn't know what to say.
She frowned and thought for a moment, and finally a trace of impatience flashed across her face: "Aiya, I can't argue with you, but can you care about my feelings these days? Just don't get too intimate with Huo Yuhao."
Hearing this, the corners of Gu Yue's mouth curved slightly: "That won't do."
Na'er widened her eyes and pointed her finger at Gu Yue: "You..."
She "you-you-you" ed for a long time, but still failed to utter a complete sentence.
She truly didn't know how to evaluate the Gu Yue in front of her, only feeling that she shouldn't be like this, shouldn't be someone who could so righteously say such words.
In fact, Gu Yue had her own calculations in her heart. She was bound to fuse into one with Na'er in the future. If Na'er always resisted the existence of Huo Yuhao, then the Fusion between them could never be truly perfect.
What she was doing at this moment, rather than satisfying her own selfish desires, was imperceptibly getting Na'er used to this emotion.
If Na'er could also fall in love with Huo Yuhao, that would be even better.
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Star Luo Empire, Spirit Pagoda Headquarters
Having just returned to Star Luo from the Sun Moon Empire, Huo Yuhao transmigrated back to Ten Thousand Years later.
This time upon returning once again, in just a few days, the situation on the mainland had already undergone drastic turmoil.
The first message Huo Yuhao received was a military report sent from the Star Luo Empire: White Tiger Duke Dai Hao had been assassinated and killed in the Mingdou Mountain Range.
Yes, that biological father of his by bloodline was dead.
The Three Original Douro Countries jointly attacked Xu Tianran, giving the Sun Moon Empire an excellent excuse to dispatch troops.
Under the pretext of "the Crown Prince was assassinated, the emperor died", the Sun Moon Empire took advantage of the momentum to launch a retaliatory all-out offense.
Flames of war suddenly ignited along the border, and the Heavenly Soul Empire and the Star Luo Empire simultaneously endured fierce offensives from the Sun Moon direction.
Moreover, the Sun Moon Empire's offensive methods were not limited to the frontal battlefield; they also included targeted assassinations of the two countries' high-ranking political figures and military core personnel.
Duke White Tiger Dai Hao, the commander of the White Tiger Legion stationed in the Mingdou Mountain Range year-round, was one of the most important targets among them.
Under the covert assistance of the Evil Soul Masters of the Holy Spirit Cult, White Tiger Duke Dai Hao was ultimately slain within his own legion garrison.
When the message was transmitted back to the Star Luo capital, the imperial court and the public were shaken.
When Huo Yuhao received this message, he only paused slightly.There was not much emotional fluctuation on his face—no sadness, no anger, and not even the daze that one should have upon learning of a family member's distress.
Although Duke White Tiger Dai Hao was his father, that Bloodline bond between the two had long been torn completely clean in wave after wave of coldness and alienation.
In Huo Yuhao's heart, this was no different from the death of a stranger he had never met before.
He was silent for a moment, then set this message aside, turning his attention instead to the rapidly changing situation on the mainland.
Afterwards, the message Huo Yuhao obtained was that the Sun Moon army had begun a massive invasion.
Gunpowder smoke filled the borderlines, and the Sun Moon Empire's army poured into the border defense zones of the Star Luo and Heavenly Soul countries like a tide.
Relying on their huge advantage in Spirit Tools, the Sun Moon Empire's offensive was extremely fierce. The armies of the Heavenly Soul Empire and the Star Luo Empire retreated steadily, their battle lines continuously falling back, and several important border towns fell one after another.
However, the battle situation soon underwent a subtle change. After experiencing the rout of the Early Stage, the Star Luo Empire's army suddenly seemed to have changed their fighting style.
Their counterattack was precise and efficient, and their defense was as solid as a rock. Those Spirit Tool advantages that the Sun Moon army had once been proud of suddenly were no longer so absolute.
Batch after batch of new-type Spirit Tools appeared in the hands of the Star Luo army. Whether it was the precision of long-range strikes or the anti-impact capability of defensive arrays, they far exceeded the expectations of the Sun Moon Empire.
The effectiveness displayed by those new-type Spirit Tools on the battlefield almost made the commanders of the Sun Moon Empire suspect for a moment that their intelligence System had suffered a serious error.
The only one across the entire continent capable of suppressing the Sun Moon Empire in terms of Spirit Tools was naturally the Spirit Transmission Hall.
Since Xu Tianran dared to send Limit Douluo Long Xiaoyao to make a move against the Spirit Pagoda, Huo Yuhao naturally wouldn't spoil him.
He currently didn't have time to personally step down to deal with the Sun Moon Empire. The Spirit Pagoda had been established for a short time, and there were indeed very few powerhouses among them who could be brought out; directly confronting the Sun Moon Empire's army head-on was not realistic.
Yet he had other means to make Xu Tianran regret his past decision. That batch of Spirit Tools sold by the Spirit Transmission Hall to the Star Luo Empire was already enough for the Sun Moon Empire to suffer a heavy secret loss.
Afterwards, as the Spirit Tools of the Spirit Transmission Hall were gradually sold to the Heavenly Soul Empire and the Douling Empire, the Sun Moon Empire would never again be able to rely on the technological advantage of Spirit Tools to expand the initiative of the war.
After arranging all matters of the Spirit Pagoda properly, Huo Yuhao went to find Wang Donger; some matters were also time to begin.
When Wang Donger walked into the office, Huo Yuhao was standing by the window. Seeing her, he smiled, beckoned to her, and pulled her down to sit on the sofa.After the two chatted idly for a few moments, Huo Yuhao looked at Wang Donger's pink-blue eyes and spoke in a soft tone: "Didn't you always want me to accompany you back to the Clear Sky Sect before? Let's set off tomorrow, how about it?"
Hearing this, Wang Donger's eyes instantly welled up with a gleam of pleasant surprise: "Alright!"
Her tone carried undisguised excitement, as if she had waited for this sentence for a very long time.
Yet the agitation on her face lasted only for a moment before she reined it in somewhat, as if held down by some thought.
A hint of hesitation surfaced in her gaze, and she slightly knitted her brows as she asked: "But right now the Sun Moon Empire is waging war, and the Spirit Pagoda is right at its busiest time, you..."
She didn't finish her words, but the worry of the latter half was already clearly written on her face. She was considering this for Huo Yuhao.
Watching those eyes of hers carrying concern, a trace of guilt inevitably welled up in Huo Yuhao's heart.
His trip to the Clear Sky Sect this time indeed had an ulterior purpose, far from being as simple as just "meeting the parents".
But he didn't let that trace of guilt linger on his face for long. Immediately afterwards, the corners of his mouth curved up, and he replied in a relaxed tone: "The Sun Moon Empire is nothing to worry about. I promised you before that after the competition ended, we would go to the Clear Sky Sect. I certainly haven't forgotten."
Hearing these words, that layer of worry in Wang Donger's eyes faded away like a thin mist blown away by the wind, replaced by a layer of soft smile.
She didn't say anything more, leaning forward smoothly and plunging into Huo Yuhao's embrace, burying her face in his chest. With a spoiled, lighthearted tone, she said: "You're the best! Then let's set off tomorrow."
Huo Yuhao lowered his head to look at her soft crown, reached out to gently rub her hair, and responded in a low voice: "Mn."
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A/N:
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