Watching the two people sitting opposite each other in the lakeside pavilion in the distance, Bei Bei felt it was unbelievable.
Bai Hong, whom he had met in the Star Dou Great Forest, clearly only had a three-ring cultivation, yet he knew Sister Lexuan and could receive equal treatment from his Great-Grandfather, even conversing with him face-to-face… “Sister Lexuan… who exactly is he?”
Upon hearing this, Zhang Lexuan, who had witnessed this scene in the lakeside pavilion with him, also had mixed feelings.
“Bei Bei, do you still remember what happened more than three years ago? The time Elder Xuan led me and eleven other inner court students to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt Spirit Beasts…”
“I remember, Sister Lexuan, you told me about it.”
Bei Bei also knew about this incident. At that time, Elder Xuan, having gotten drunk, became separated from Zhang Lexuan and the others. As a result, twelve inner court students, including Zhang Lexuan, were attacked by a 100,000-year Spirit Beast and were almost completely wiped out, with four ultimately dying in battle.
“If he hadn’t been there at the time, all of us might have been killed by that 100,000-year Spirit Beast,” Zhang Lexuan said.
“How is that possible… More than three years ago, he should have only been a two-ring Spirit Master, right?” Bei Bei exclaimed.
“Yes, at that time, he had just acquired his second spirit ring when he encountered us battling the 100,000-year Spirit Beast…” Zhang Lexuan recounted the events that transpired more than three years ago.
These inner court students, who needed to acquire spirit rings, encountered a 100,000-year Spirit Beast in the core area of the Star Dou Great Forest, and Elder Xuan, who was supposed to be secretly accompanying and protecting them, failed them at this critical moment, not arriving in time to rescue them.
On the spot, two inner court students who should have had boundless futures were killed by that 100,000-year Spirit Beast.
Although the other students, including Zhang Lexuan, had a maximum spirit power level of 80, in the perilous core area of the Star Dou Great Forest, scattering and escaping would be even more dangerous. In the end, they could only grit their teeth and fight the 100,000-year Spirit Beast.
During this time, two more inner court students died in battle.
Zhang Lexuan was struggling like a rootless duckweed under the 100,000-year Spirit Beast’s attacks, and just as she was about to follow in their footsteps, a surge of mental force connected to her mind.
In her eyes, the flow of time seemed to slow down, and everything she saw became exceptionally clear. Wherever her gaze fell, a large amount of information instantly appeared in her mind.
When she saw the 100,000-year Spirit Beast, her mind would display her distance from the 100,000-year Spirit Beast and their relative speed, and even the changes in power of every muscle on the 100,000-year Spirit Beast’s body at that moment, the direction of every spirit power energy flow—all the minute details were clearly presented deep within her mind… A sharp arrow, condensed from mental force, suddenly pierced into the 100,000-year Spirit Beast’s brow. It cried out in pain, and the claw it was about to strike Zhang Lexuan with immediately veered off course.
“What are you standing there for? Do you want to die?”
A childish male voice echoed in the minds of all the inner court students who were still alive. Bai Hong’s figure emerged on the battlefield, holding a quill pen and a notepad, with two spirit rings, one purple and one black, circling around him.
“All of you must listen to my command now. Zhang Lexuan, continue to draw aggro and launch a strong attack when I give the order. Han Ruoruo, prepare your fifth Spirit Ability for control. Wu Ming, cooperate with Zhang Lexuan to draw aggro…”
Including Zhang Lexuan, eight inner court students engaged the 100,000-year Spirit Beast in an orderly manner under Bai Hong’s command.
In addition to sharing his mental detection, Bai Hong, who was only nine years old at the time, also used his powerful mental force to occasionally interfere with the 100,000-year Spirit Beast’s movements to a certain extent, and guided the inner court students to seize favorable opportunities for a fatal blow.
A 100,000-year Spirit Beast, far more powerful than an ordinary Titled Douluo, was slowly worn down and killed by eight inner court students, whose spirit power was at most level 80 and mostly Spirit Emperors, plus a suddenly intervening Bai Hong.
Bai Hong even helped Zhang Lexuan successfully absorb the 100,000-year spirit ring as her eighth spirit ring. The specific method was to use his identity as a favored one of a true Divinity, borrowing the power of the true Divinity known as the Fantasist, to force the residual Spirit Beast will within the spirit ring to completely submit…
He even angrily reprimanded Elder Xuan, the team leader, for being an irresponsible person, a puppet completely dominated by his Spirit’s flaw. If he could cause the death of four inner court students today due to drunkenness, he could kill eight tomorrow, sixteen the day after, and eventually ruin the entire Shrek Academy… He really gave Elder Xuan a thorough dressing down!
Listening to Zhang Lexuan’s narration, Bei Bei looked again at Bai Hong, who was conversing with his Great-Grandfather in the distance, and then at Zhang Lexuan, whose pretty face was beaming with a bright smile throughout her story.
Bei Bei had never seen Sister Lexuan so genuinely happy before. More often than not, he would always see a hint of faint sorrow in Zhang Lexuan’s brows.
Thinking of this, Bei Bei gazed at Bai Hong in the distance.
Although Bai Hong seemed to be younger than him, and there was a full thirteen-year age difference between him and Zhang Lexuan, still… this didn’t seem impossible, did it?
Bei Bei felt that this would be a good thing for Sister Lexuan.
Bai Hong naturally didn’t know the twists and turns of Bei Bei’s thoughts; even if he did, he would only smile it off. The love-struck curse from the land where the God of Love fell wouldn’t affect him.
He still had serious matters to attend to.
“So… was transplanting the Golden Tree back then just a deception that lasted for tens of thousands of years?”
After seeing the situation inside the Golden Tree through the vision provided by Bai Hong’s ‘Insight’ authority, Mu En coldly asked, his mind greatly shaken.
“From what it seems, yes. Generation after generation of Sea God Pavilion Masters would have their souls enter the Golden Tree after death. The Golden Tree is a divine tree representing ultimate light and ultimate life; souls integrated into it would only share its life, so how could they completely fall silent?”
Some words could not be spoken directly, so Bai Hong could only transmit information to Mu En through mental force, revealing the identity of the blue-silver soul within the Golden Tree.
That is to say, God King Tang’s mother, the 100,000-year Blue Silver Emperor who transformed into human form, Ah Yin, who fed on the souls of successive Sea God Pavilion Masters and would become the core of life of the Douluo Plane ten thousand years later.
He even conveyed God King Tang’s arrangement for his own father to usurp the will of the Douluo Plane, and the plot to lure the Abyss Plane to invade the Douluo Plane.
Bai Hong did not elaborate on the other matters, as Mu En would be able to understand them.
Mu En, who was already on his last legs, widened his dim, yellowish eyes, his chest heaving violently, and his withered, branch-like hands pressed deep indentations into the stone table of the pavilion.
Bai Hong waited until he had calmed his turbulent emotions before continuing:
“So, Elder Mu, my Lord Fantasist believes that you have a connection with my Unfettered Church, and that we have extensive potential for cooperation regarding that Divinity.”