socalfunplaces Chapter 419: I taught you so much so that I hoped you would learn to survive.
Chapter 419: I taught you so much so that I hoped you would learn to survive.
Chapter 419: I taught you so much so that I hoped you would learn to survive.
As the sun rises, it dispels the darkness that clung to Kunshan City.
Despite being busy all night, Lord Shang of Kunshan City felt no fatigue whatsoever. On the contrary, he felt he had never been in such good shape. It was as if he had just embarked on his official career when his childhood sweetheart of many years had carried him on her shoulder and forcibly dragged him back to his room to make soup.
"Ah, life is just like this." Lord Shang, holding a bowl of hot porridge, squatted down next to the breakfast stall, enjoying his breakfast without any regard for his image.
"Well, Lord City Lord, perhaps you could move your stall a bit? It seems my stall is blocking your soldiers!" The stall owner said with a forced smile, clutching his iron basin.
Before him stood thousands of soldiers escorting prisoners, all of whom were from the Zhang and Fu families.
The stall owner regretted not having slept like a log the night before and not hearing anything!
If he had known that such a big thing happened last night, he would rather be pinned down by his wife this morning than go out to set up his stall!
"Don't mind them! These are just criminals, not people. You've been around this street for a while now. The city lord's mansion is just two streets away. You've seen plenty of criminals being arrested. Why are you making such a fuss?" City Lord Shang rolled his eyes at the stall owner, his tone revealing undisguised smugness.
Zhang Shen and Fu Zhong, who were being watched by dozens of soldiers, couldn't help but start fighting again as they watched their clansmen and servants being escorted away. However, they only fought physically and did not use their soul power.
When Lord Shang revealed the dirty secrets of their two families over the years, they were completely finished.
If these scandals were exposed, the business channels that their two families had worked so hard to build over generations would be ruined, and the family would completely decline.
Seeing the two locked in a fierce struggle, Lord Shang felt a surge of joy and instinctively clutched a secret letter in his bosom.
He suddenly received this secret letter at home, and the fact that none of the guards noticed anything unusual could only mean that a powerful person wanted him to see the secret letter.
The secret letter contained all the dirty secrets of the Zhang and Fu families over the decades. With these secrets, Lord Shang stood up straight in front of Zhang Shen for the first time.
"Thanks to the help of a master! I just don't know if the words 'Wolf Devourer' written on the last page are the master's name." Lord Shang rearranged the secret letter in his arms and led his team back to the city lord's mansion with a majestic stride. Along the way, large crowds lined both sides of the road, cheering for him.
"Strategist, it's so lively over there! We haven't left yet, have we? I want to go join the fun!"
"Get lost! This lesson's over! Let's hurry to the next destination! Who knows if there will be anyone along the way willing to be your teaching material!"
"This isn't right, strategist! You always demanded an end to get out of class when the Lord was giving you lessons! No way! I want an end to get out of class too!"
"Get lost! All that teaching wasn't to make you more successful! It was to teach you how to survive! How to survive longer! What do you need break time for?!"
Taking out her wallet, the spirit followed Ye Nanxiao's instructions and began haggling with the carriage owner.
The carriage shop owner was also shocked. Why was a Soul Master with considerable cultivation so skilled at bargaining, just like an old lady in a vegetable market?
Every word he uttered precisely captured the bargaining opportunities hidden in the carriage owner's words.
After the demon spirit, its fingertips wreathed in black energy, selected a decent-looking carriage, the carriage owner, without a word, personally led the carriage to escort the demon spirit out onto the main road.
The demon spirit held the "Bargaining Master" that Ye Nanxiao had spent an hour compiling, and eagerly flipped through it. Every now and then, it would stick its head out of the car window or jump onto the roof, looking for the next city where it could practice its skills.
"Why are you interested in this?" Ye Nanxiao covered his face, feeling as if he had taught a rather unorthodox disciple.
The demon spirits are the hope of the organization personally chosen by Emperor Tian! The future mainstay of the Soul Beast Organization!
How did I become addicted after impromptu bargaining just once?
The demon spirit approached the backs of the two celestial horses traveling together, bent down, and whispered a few words in their ears.
As a Star King, it would be incredibly easy for him to make these soul beasts, who only had a few decades of cultivation, obey him.
After hearing the demon spirit's instructions, the two celestial horses neighed and sped up, charging towards the next city.
Ye Nanxiao lay on the cushions inside the carriage, feeling the gravitational pull constantly tossing him around in free fall, feeling utterly helpless.
"Next time, let's teach something more serious first. We can't let a future Shadow King waste his many skills and instead learn all the life skills."
"How about we learn from the distillery? Gin does have a knack for training people, except for that idiot Vodka."
Suddenly, Ye Nanxiao pictured the demon spirit wearing a black suit with a wicked smile on its lips.
"Would you mind if the spirit dyed your hair white?"
Looking at the demon spirit's flowing hair, a bold idea came to Ye Nanxiao's mind.
"Yao Yao Zai!"
"What kind of strategist are you?"
"Stop being such a bargaining expert, come and get the ingredients ready, I'll mix you a drink!"
"liquor?"
"Yes, sherry."
Starry Sky Forest, Lake of Life.
Di Tian was still wearing his armor, but now he had a cloak on his back.
"My lord, what are the recent developments of the Soul Beast Organization?"
Gu Yuena, dressed in a white dress, sat quietly on the large blue stone marked by Ye Nanxiao. Her fair feet gently kicked the water of the Lake of Life, her eyes lowered, and it was unclear whether she was listening to Di Tian's report.
It took about half an hour for Di Tian to finish his report.
Touching the beard that was starting to grow on his chin, Di Tian looked at Gu Yuena's back with worry in his eyes. He felt that his master's loneliness seemed to be even stronger than when he first arrived in Xingdou.
A lone figure in a white dress sits between heaven and earth, amidst the vast expanse of blue waves, feeling lonely and melancholic.
"These problems can be solved by following the strategist's instructions. If you want to try, you can act according to your own ideas." Gu Yuena didn't think much and subconsciously said to follow Ye Nanxiao's brilliant plan. Then, as if remembering Di Tian's current identity, she added a sentence.
"Yes, my lord." Di Tian knelt on one knee and bowed his head in greeting.
"There's one more thing, my lord. Beyond the stars, we've discovered signs of activity from the dragon race in the mortal realm!" Di Tian's words were filled with barely suppressed excitement.
Di Tian used the term "dragon race" instead of "sub-dragon," which means that the concentration of dragon blood in his body exceeds that of ordinary dragons.
Di Tian was naturally thrilled to discover the dragon race in the world of Douluo, because it meant that if he could stimulate the dragon blood within these dragons and purify it to its ancestral form, it would be possible to recreate a pure-blooded dragon race.
How could Di Tian not be excited?
Gu Yuena's gaze, which had been fixed on the bluestone by the lake, slowly moved and landed on another large bluestone.
"Use your Black Dragon Token to subdue them!" Gu Yuena ordered.
Di Tian immediately responded, sprouted wings on his back, and vanished as a black shadow.
In the Lake of Life, only Gu Yuena remained.
The sounds of a gentle breeze rustling through the lake and the green leaves filled her ears—the tranquil sounds of nature—but to Gu Yuena, they were nothing but utter loneliness.
She rose, leaped lightly, and fell into the Lake of Life.
The lake water, brimming with life energy, failed to wet Gu Yuena's dress; instead, it stained the pure white dress with vibrant green leaves of life.
Gu Yuena leaned closer to the large blue stone, staring at the dense scratches on it, her mind filled with the image of that unorthodox Spirit Blooming Grass and that unorthodox person.
"Is this what loneliness feels like? Why is it different from how I felt before?" Gu Yuena reached out and gently stroked the scratches on the bluestone. The uneven texture made Gu Yuena feel the same way Ye Nanxiao felt back then.
Gu Yuena was alone in the past, and she is still alone now. However, the loneliness of the past has been replaced by a touch of longing.
A bedtime story with profound truths: Where is that silly guy who, with nothing better to do, made barbecue but couldn't finish it all and used a piece of wood as a fishing rod to fish by the Lake of Life, now?
"Is this what longing feels like, Father God?" A hint of life seemed to have appeared in Gu Yuena's silver eyes, unlike the cold and mechanical Silver Dragon King of the past.
"That guy, it's only been half a year in the human world, it should have passed in the blink of an eye, but why does time seem to be slowing down for me?"
Gu Yuena stood up and walked slowly to the center of the Lake of Life, where nine orbs of light appeared around her.
Sitting cross-legged above the Lake of Life, Gu Yuena's thoughts were in disarray. Suddenly, she remembered what Ye Nanxiao had mentioned about the King of Ten Thousand Demons.
She remembered Ye Nanxiao saying, "For questions that you can't figure out the answer to, sometimes thinking about them from a different perspective might give you the answer. Just like the tree of the Demon King, now that it chooses to put itself in the human perspective to think about problems, its work efficiency has increased dramatically."
"Should I change my perspective and think like a human, like the Demon King?" Gu Yuena muttered to herself, as if it were a rather novel approach.
With her eyes closed, Gu Yuena sighed softly. She noticed that the emotions that had been out of her control were slowly calming down.
Nine beams of light drew a halo behind Gu Yuena, seemingly containing endless mysteries.
"Why am I experiencing these strange emotions?" Gu Yuena stopped thinking and slowly sank into the Lake of Life.
Facing the sky, Gu Yuena floated quietly on the lake, a behavior Ye Nanxiao often did.
"It's dangerous; these emotions shouldn't exist."
Although Gu Yuena didn't know when her emotions were born, she was very clear about why they were born.
"If it were a strategist, how would he view this vexing problem?" Gu Yuena thought of Ye Nanxiao.
"When you're unhappy, smile more; when you can't sleep, look at pictures of delicious food; when you're bored, take a nap..."
Words that seemed utterly meaningless came out of Gu Yuena's mouth.
"Strategist, you're affecting me. What should I do?"
Gu Yuena splashed water with both hands, holding them up to her eyes, and soft sunlight streamed through her fingers.
"What should I do?"
The emotions churning in my mind gradually became polarized.
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