After the sparing session, everyone had a deeper understanding of each other.
It was just that the process wasn't exactly friendly for the five aside from Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena...
After the battle ended, Wu Changkong and Luo Yanglu stopped bothering everyone and let them go rest.
Wu Changkong and Luo Yanglu also chose rooms in this dormitory building to live in.
This was the academy's arrangement. With the two of them living here, they could also guide everyone better.
It was already late today. Various classes would wait until tomorrow.
At night, Tang Wulin lay on his bed, breathing evenly. His consciousness gradually sank into a white world.
He looked around, expressionless.
He had come several times now. What did that voice want to say this time?
As Tang Wulin was thinking this, a mechanical voice sounded out of nowhere.
"Shrek Academy's school motto — those who fear to cause trouble are mediocrities. As a heaven's chosen, living a stable life won't do. You must stir up wind and rain, experience vicissitudes..."
"That's not right! If someone causes trouble, they only do it to those weaker than themselves. No one goes to provoke those stronger than themselves. If those who fear to cause trouble are mediocrities, doesn't that mean, from another perspective, bullying the weak?"
After listening for a while, Tang Wulin interrupted with a loud retort. "My father told me that if I bullied a younger classmate at school, he would definitely punish me. But if an older classmate bullied me, I should bravely resist, and he would never blame me for it."
"Teacher Wu Yu also told me our Spirit Transmission Tower doesn't cause trouble, but we're not afraid of it either. Bullying others recklessly is wrong!"
Hearing Tang Wulin's words, the mechanical voice seemed somewhat angry. "Survival of the fittest is the truth of this world!"
Tang Wulin shook his head, his tone low. "But if, as you say, those who fear to cause trouble are mediocrities, and the strong have the right to bully others recklessly, then if I can rely on my strength to bully others, can't others do the same to me? If everyone acted like this, wouldn't this world be hell?"
"The seniors at the Spirit Transmission Tower could have pulled me into the Tower without asking my opinion. The Spirit Transmission Master uncle could have relied on his strength to not give me the opportunity to obtain a Spirit Soul, not help me awaken my martial soul I might not even be able to cultivate! My father and mother might have encountered bad people trying to get the money to buy me a Spirit Soul, and been captured by them."
"The reason I can live peacefully and happily in this world is absolutely not because of this so-called truth of yours — it's because of something much warmer!"
Tang San's divine consciousness watched Tang Wulin from outside the white space. He opened his mouth, but found himself unable to refute. He fell silent.
After thinking for a while, he realized that for the time being, it was better not to teach Wulin in the identity of "Old Tang" — otherwise, it would easily arouse suspicion. So he had chosen a method similar to "dream communication," teaching Tang Wulin in his sleep.
But he found that he couldn't teach him now.
Wulin was too stubborn. The influence of Tang Ziran and his wife on him was very strong. He simply wasn't willing to listen to his teachings — wasn't even willing to listen to the school motto that Shrek Academy had passed down for ten thousand years.
Even... sometimes, what this child said actually seemed to make a bit of sense to him.
What was he to do?
After thinking for a moment, Tang San's divine consciousness sighed, temporarily sent Tang Wulin out, and intended to think more about his educational approach. His gaze turned to the Golden Dragon King's seal within Tang Wulin's body.
In the Divine Realm war, his ontology had miscalculated some variables. The new Emotion God was very supportive of the God King of Destruction's proposal to expand the Divine Realm and had sided with Destruction during their great battle. And Destruction's overpowering strength had also exceeded the ontology's expectations.
Originally, with the God of Destruction — Zhou Weiqing — betraying the other side to help him, and with Wulin's birth helping him lift Destruction's seal, he should have had victory in hand.
Unexpectedly, due to the new Emotion God and the miscalculation of Destruction's strength, an accident occurred. The God of Destruction's betrayal instead became the fuse. Adding to that the Goddess of Life's siding with the ontology, Destruction became even more enraged, fighting with true fire, chasing and beating him and the God of Destruction.
In the end, the Ontology's divine body was severely damaged, his divine power nearly exhausted, and the God of Destruction collapsed directly. If not for the Goddess of Life stopping both sides, the consequences would have been unpredictable.
After that, the Divine Realm was hit by temporal chaos. The God Kings of Life and Destruction died resisting it.
And it was under those circumstances that the Golden Dragon King escaped from the Divine Forbidden Land!!!
After being sealed, the Golden Dragon King had been continuously absorbing the Divine Realm's immortal energy to cultivate. His strength was even greater than Destruction's, faintly exceeding the God King realm. The main body, covered in wounds, was again chased and beaten violently.
At that time, the Good and Evil God Kings had long been led away by Destruction. Destruction and Life were dead. The God of Destruction, Zhou Weiqing, was down. Rong Nianbing had run away. The new Emotion God, in terms of foundation, could not compare to the aforementioned several, and also had enmity with the Ontology.
So, the Ontology Fundamentals could not find a trustworthy god or goddess to help protect the Divine Realm's main centre. (In the original work, Huo Yuhao helped Tang San bear it, and it was very hard for him, nearly making him faint.) He was under a lot of pressure because the whole defence system of the Divine Realm was being squeezed by the temporal chaos, and this was pulling the other deities along to confront the Golden Dragon King. As a result, many gods died in battle. There are divine artifacts everywhere, but we don't know where they are.
To protect the other gods and keep his reputation, the ontology could only sacrifice his Sea God position, which was difficult for him to give up.
If it hadn't been for the Good and Evil God Kings, who had been led to the Five Elements Continent by Destruction and eventually returned, even the Divine Realm's law enforcer would have died at the hands of the Golden Dragon King!
But even after surviving, the Ontology's condition was really bad. After using the Three Realms Judgment Sword to kill the Golden Dragon King, his divine power was completely used up and it would be difficult to recover it quickly. He couldn't even seal the Golden Dragon King himself — he needed the help of the other two God Kings...
This was also the significance of having this wisp of his divine consciousness retain its memories. The Golden Dragon King seal before him, being formed by the convergence of multiple divine powers, had certain defects!
Tang San's divine consciousness looked at the seal and sighed deeply.
With Wulin in this state, how could he safely entrust this power to him?
Early the next morning, Gu Yuena was awakened by a fragrance.
"This smell is?"
Gu Yuena's eyes lit up. She quickly dressed and groomed herself, then came to the first-floor kitchen. There she saw Huo Yuhao and Luo Yanglu busy inside.
This dormitory did have a kitchen. It was just that she and Yuhao had never used it before.
So Yuhao knows how to cook... it smells so good.
Gu Yuena peeked into the kitchen. Huo Yuhao noticed her and handed her a plate.
Inside were small steamed buns.
Huo Yuhao smiled. "Want to try?"
With the auxiliary of his Spirit Eyes, plus having spent many years traveling in various places, his cooking skills were quite good.
Gu Yuena blinked, reached out, took one, and took a small bite. Her eyes lit up. Like a little hamster, she quickly chewed the food, radiating happiness from head to toe.
She ignored the nourishing energy in the food. She only cared about the taste! Delicious!
By the time Huo Yuhao finished helping Luo Yanglu with breakfast and came to the lobby, Gu Yuena was already sitting at the dining table, eagerly waiting. Her bright black eyes were fixed on him... the plate in his hand. The plate beside her had already been completely cleaned.
"..."
Huo Yuhao said nothing. He walked over to Gu Yuena, sat down beside her, and handed the plate in his hand to her.
He had seen her appetite before. He was used to it.
When Xie Xie and the others got up and came over, drawn by the smell, this was the scene they saw.
"When they were living here before, was it always like this?"
Xu Xiaoyan's eyes lit up. Her face took on an expression eager for gossip as she looked at Xie Xie.
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