Outside the Cultivation room was a long corridor.
On the outer side of the corridor was a giant floor-to-ceiling window. Sunlight poured in from outside, illuminating the entire corridor brightly.
Jin Li ran to the window in two steps, pressing her hands against the glass, her gaze looking eagerly toward the outside World.
Then her pupils constricted slightly. Those towering metal structures and the orderly flowing traffic on the streets were completely different from the familiar Douluo Continent she knew.
Even in the Sun Moon Empire where soul tool technology was most advanced, the buildings in Ming City were far from being as grand and regular as what she saw at this moment.
Everything here was far too advanced compared to the World she recognized.
Jin Li muttered to herself, "Did I really... undergo Transmigration to Ten Thousand Years later?"
Huo Yuhao walked to her side and said, "Of course this is Ten Thousand Years later. I didn't lie to you, and I won't lie to you."
He tilted his head slightly and glanced at her: "Let's go, I'll take you somewhere."
As he spoke, he walked to the left along the corridor.
Jin Li withdrew her gaze from outside the window, took a deep breath, and then quickly followed his footsteps.
The two walked along the corridor and encountered quite a few staff members wearing Spirit Pagoda uniforms along the way.
When they saw Huo Yuhao, they all nodded slightly and addressed him as "Spirit Envoy".
Jin Li silently noted this title in her heart, and roughly deduced that this place should be the Spirit Pagoda of Ten Thousand Years later.
She had not expected that the organization, which was just starting out and still growing in her eyes, already possessed such a scale and volume Ten Thousand Years later.
Huo Yuhao brought Jin Li all the way to the library of the Spirit Pagoda. The space here was extremely open, with bookshelves arranged like a forest, stretching endlessly at a glance.
Huo Yuhao walked familiarly to a certain row of bookshelves, pulled out a few thick historical books from them, placed them on the table, and pushed them in front of Jin Li.
Under his guidance, Jin Li lowered her head to flip through those pages, her fingertips sliding past lines of text along the yellowed paper.
Her gaze stopped on certain records, reading them over and over several times.
Those words clearly wrote that Ten Thousand Years ago, the Emperor Auspicious Beast of the Star Dou Great Forest sacrificed itself for Huo Yuhao.
Jin Li remembered what Huo Yuhao had said to her back in that spacetime Ten Thousand Years ago.
Those deliberate alienations and restrained distances—at that time she only regarded them as his coldness and lack of romance, but now she finally understood that he was trying to protect her, trying to pull her back from that destined trajectory of fate.
Jin Li's fingertips holding the book pages exerted a slight force, her knuckles turning pale. The place in her heart that was originally slightly sour was now filled with another kind of warmth.
"I..."
Jin Li opened her mouth, only to find that she didn't know what to say.
The grievances and confusion that had originally accumulated in her heart were peeled back layer by layer before those yellowed pages, revealing the fact underneath that left her somewhat at a loss.
It turned out that Huo Yuhao wasn't unconcerned about her, and wasn't only caring about Wang Donger.
Thinking of how she had secretly been jealous and even birthed envy in her heart because of such thoughts previously, she suddenly felt a bit embarrassed at this moment.
Huo Yuhao saw through Jin Li's thoughts and did not continue down this topic.
He simply stood up, his gaze falling on her with a natural ease in his tone: "Let's go, I'll take you to see the Spirit Pagoda of Ten Thousand Years later."
"Mhm!"
Jin Li nodded, gently closed those historical books, stood up to follow behind Huo Yuhao, and the two walked out of the library one after the other.
On this day, many people in the Spirit Pagoda saw a beautiful figure appear beside the Spirit Envoy Huo Yuhao.
That bright and pretty face, along with a head of dazzling golden-red long hair like flames, was particularly eye-catching under the afternoon sunlight.
Jin Li followed by Huo Yuhao's side, curiously looking around at this Spirit Pagoda of Ten Thousand Years later along the way.
Those more perfected soul tool facilities, those soul tool devices she had never seen before, and those orderly operating departments all reflected an unusual brilliance in her eyes.
Until...
"Yuhao!"
A familiar voice came from afar. Huo Yuhao looked toward the source of the sound and saw Leng Yaozhu walking in their direction.
Leng Yaozhu was wearing a red long dress today, her steps light and elegant. In the process of her approaching, most of her gaze fell on Jin Li beside Huo Yuhao.
After coming to a stop in front of Huo Yuhao, Leng Yaozhu wore a gentle smile on her face, her gaze pausing on Jin Li for a moment as she asked: "Who is this?"
As a teacher, she still didn't know when such a woman had appeared beside her disciple.
Huo Yuhao introduced: "Aunt Leng, she is Jin Li, my friend."
Hearing this, a sharp light flashed in Leng Yaozhu's eyes, and she instantly understood that this should be the Auspicious Beast from Ten Thousand Years ago that Huo Yuhao had mentioned before. She didn't expect that she had actually followed him over through Transmigration today.
After all, she had heard the name Jin Li more than once from Huo Yuhao's mouth previously.
Then Huo Yuhao turned around and introduced Leng Yaozhu to Jin Li.
In Jin Li's mind, she couldn't help but recall the shocking scene of twin phoenixes soaring above Sea God Island of Shrek Academy, as well as that Limit Douluo from the legends of the Spirit Pagoda Ten Thousand Years ago.
Only at this moment did she truly realize that Huo Yuhao's teacher was not from some Hidden Family, but an existence hailing from this era Ten Thousand Years later.
Jin Li slightly restrained her state of mind and respectfully called out to Leng Yaozhu: "Hello, Senior!"
"Hello to you too."
Leng Yaozhu responded with a smile, her gaze quietly shifting a circle between Jin Li and Huo Yuhao.
At a glance, she could see that the atmosphere between these two people was wrong; that was a subtle intimacy that could be felt without words.
She then quietly sent a voice transmission to Huo Yuhao: "Yuhao, what's going on between the two of you?"
A trace of embarrassment like being caught red-handed flashed across Huo Yuhao's eyes, and then he briefly explained the whole story.
After listening, Leng Yaozhu did not express too much stance, only sending back a voice transmission: "Mind your own sense of propriety, and also... don't let Gu Yue be sad."
Having said this, her complexion returned to its usual appearance, and she smiled at Jin Li: "Since she is your friend, then take her around the Spirit Pagoda for a good stroll."
Finished speaking, she nodded to Jin Li and turned to leave.
Sometimes people really shouldn't be talked about casually.
Not long after Leng Yaozhu just mentioned Gu Yue, Huo Yuhao bumped right into her head-on.
With Huo Yuhao's current mental force, naturally he had long since sensed her aura approaching; it was just that he didn't deliberately avoid her, otherwise the two wouldn't have bumped into each other.
When Gu Yue's gaze fell on Huo Yuhao, it still carried a bit of softness, but immediately afterward she saw Jin Li standing beside him.
Her steps paused slightly, and her brows furrowed almost imperceptibly.
At a glance, she could see that Jin Li was not human, but a transformed Spirit Beast. It was just that for a moment she couldn't think of which transformed Spirit Beast would appear by Huo Yuhao's side.
However, just as Gu Yue was pondering to herself in her heart, Jin Li reacted a step ahead of her.
Those golden pupils of hers, which were always lively, suddenly widened, and she involuntarily exclaimed in shock: "Master?!"
Although that sound was not loud, how sharp was Gu Yue's hearing? Those two words clearly fell into her ears.
Her eyes narrowed slightly, her gaze lingering on Jin Li's face for an extra moment.
Able to recognize her identity at a glance and address her as "Master", there should only be those few Vicious Beasts of the Star Dou Core Circle on the Douluo Continent.
Yet this young girl before her was clearly not among those few.
However, Gu Yue felt an extremely familiar aura from her body, a kind of aura that gave her a sense of déjà vu.
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A/N:
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