socalfunplaces Chapter 46: Gu Yue's Imagination
Chapter 46: Gu Yue's Imagination
Night fell, and the moonlight, like mercury spilling onto the floor, cast a cool glow through the dormitory windows. All was quiet except for the even, long breaths of the roommates, adding a rhythmic touch to the tranquility.
As usual, Yu Chen sat cross-legged on the bed, entering a meditative state to replace sleep, guiding his soul power to circulate slowly within his body.
His breathing was long and steady, as if he were one with his surroundings.
However, just as he calmed his mind, an extremely subtle sense of being watched, which suddenly set off alarm bells deep within his soul, pierced his senses like a cold, fine needle!
Like a thorn in my back! Like a fishbone stuck in my throat!
"who."
Yu Chen gave a sharp shout in his heart, abruptly breaking free from his meditative state and abruptly opening his eyes. His dark eyes, sharp as a hawk's in the darkness, instantly swept across the entire dormitory.
Tang Wulin and Xie Xie had both finished their meditation and were now fast asleep in their respective beds. Xie Xie occasionally mumbled a few words in his sleep, and everything seemed normal.
Although meditation can replace sleep, the two of them are not mentally strong enough yet, and if they use meditation to replace sleep entirely, they will inevitably become mentally exhausted.
Only someone like Yu Chen, with his vigorous blood and strong spirit, could achieve this.
Yu Chen opened his eyes and sensed his surroundings. There were no unusual soul power fluctuations in the dormitory, the windows were tightly closed, and the corridor outside was also silent.
Yu Chen frowned, quickly put on his coat, silently got out of bed, and pushed open the dormitory door to go out into the corridor and common area.
He released part of his mental perception, like invisible ripples carefully exploring every corner, from the stairwell to the washroom, and even extending to the courtyard outside the dormitory building.
However, he gained nothing. It was as if the extremely uncomfortable feeling of being spied on was just a hallucination caused by his excessive cultivation.
"Is it because I've been too focused on my training lately, making me overly sensitive?"
Yu Chen stood in the shadows of the corridor, the moonlight elongating his slender figure. He muttered to himself, yet doubt still lingered in his eyes. The feeling was too real, too pointed.
After lingering outside for a few more moments to confirm that nothing else was amiss, Yu Chen returned to his dormitory. He sat down cross-legged again, but did not immediately enter a deep meditation, instead maintaining a state of alert, shallow breathing.
In the distance, diagonally above the dormitory building, lies a strange, folded space that seems to blend into the night sky.
Gu Yue floated there silently, enveloped in a faint silver halo, isolating it from all aura and detection.
Her once deep black eyes had now turned into an even more mysterious purple, as if containing a vortex of stars.
At this moment, he was watching Yu Chen's every move in the dormitory below intently, from his sudden awakening and alert investigation to his eventual return and sitting down again with unresolved doubts.
Her purple eyes shimmered with an extremely complex light, a mixture of shock, inquiry, and realization, which was eventually overshadowed by a "reasonable" conclusion she herself had drawn.
"This... unfamiliar yet primally familiar aura of the dragon god... and the faint yet poignant fluctuations of the fallen souls of the dragons that lingered deep within his bloodline..."
A tremendous storm raged within Gu Yue's heart, far more intense than any previous time she had sensed anything amiss with Yu Chen.
"Yu Chen... the bloodline flowing through your veins is truly the purest Dragon God bloodline! You... who exactly are you?"
Suddenly, a startling guess took shape in her mind, and was quickly refined by her own logic:
"Could it be that you did not inherit the legacy of the Dragon God, but rather... a new Dragon God naturally born on this planet countless years after the Dragon God's fall?!"
"Yes, yes... that makes sense!"
Gu Yue's purple eyes grew brighter and brighter, as if the mist had been dispelled.
"The Dragon God is a supreme being born in the Douluo Continent and is the ruler of all soul beasts."
"After His fall, countless years have passed. The world's origin on Douluo Star may not have completely given up. Under some opportune moment, it's not impossible that it might attempt to conceive a new Dragon God again!"
"As for why this newly born 'Dragon God' is so weak, far less than one ten-thousandth of the legendary Dragon God's power at birth..."
Gu Yue frowned slightly, then relaxed.
"The reason is likely that after the war in the God Realm, the fall of the Dragon God, and the decline of the Soul Beasts, the original power of Douluo Star is not as strong as before, and may even have been damaged."
"It cannot directly bestow upon the newborn dragon god the power to destroy the world, as it did in ancient times. It can only grant him the unparalleled potential to ascend to the highest position and the purest bloodline essence, allowing him to grow on his own and eventually ascend the throne."
Looking at Yu Chen, who had returned to his cultivation state in the dormitory with a hint of wariness between his brows, the last trace of confusion in Gu Yue's eyes was replaced by a "wise" look that seemed to "see through the truth".
"Yes, that must be it!"
She was almost certain of her deduction.
At first, Gu Yue held the idea that Yu Chen's dragon god aura came from a certain item, such as the Dragon Slayer Blade.
Sometimes, an even more unbelievable thought would flash through her mind—could Yu Chen be the reincarnation of the Dragon God's soul essence?
But she rejected the idea as soon as it came to her.
The Dragon Goddess has fallen completely, her divine nature split, and her physical body has transformed into the Golden Dragon King and the Silver Dragon King (which is herself).
If the Dragon God's original soul still exists and he successfully reincarnated, then what is she, the Silver Dragon King who inherited the Dragon God's wisdom, elemental control, and some of his memories? A byproduct of the split?
Moreover, with the Dragon God's terrifying strength, which surpasses that of ordinary god-kings, even if he is only a remnant soul, he is by no means an ordinary deity who can defeat him.
If He were still alive, how could He tolerate the continued oppression and restrictions imposed on the beast race by the gods of the divine realm?
Moreover, the God Realm later disappeared. If the Dragon God were still alive, he would have appeared long ago to restore order to the soul beasts.
"It can't be that His Majesty the Dragon God is fragile, disheartened after the defeat in the great battle, and has retreated to some unknown corner of the universe to live a solitary life, can it?"
Gu Yue shook his head, dispelling these somewhat disrespectful and far-fetched speculations about the Dragon God.
It seems I must get Di Tian to see him as soon as possible. Gu Yue made up her mind.
Di Tian, as the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King, is one of the Dragon God's most loyal subordinates and the soul beast on Douluo Star who has followed the Dragon God the longest and is most familiar with the Dragon God's aura.
If Yu Chen is truly the newborn Dragon God, Di Tian will definitely be able to feel the call and pressure emanating from his bloodline origin.
With Di Tian's personal confirmation and support, then in the future, no matter what kind of relationship exists between her (Silver Dragon King) and Yu Chen (Newborn Dragon God)—whether it is assistance, cooperation, or... other closer connections—there will be no resistance or worries within the soul beast community.
With a deep look in her purple eyes, Gu Yue gazed at the direction of the dormitory. Silver light flowed around her as she silently merged into the night sky, as if she had never existed.
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