Watching Cai Yue'er's departure, Bear Lord snorted disdainfully and returned to the top floor.
When Bear Lord looked at them, Tang Wulin immediately straightened his back. His eyes sparkled as he looked at Bear Lord, his face was written with the expression "my teacher is the strongest," greatly pleasing Bear Lord. He stepped forward and ruffled his hair. "You are my disciple. On this continent, there are few who can touch the disciple of me, Bear Lord."
Tang Wulin felt his nose suddenly grow a bit sore. He nodded vigorously, his voice a bit choked. "Thank you, Teacher."
At the moment Cai Yue'er had released her aura at the end, he had been truly scared.
Seeing this, Bear Lord's rough hand gently patted his shoulder, then he turned to look at the others. His gaze lingered on Gu Yuena for a moment longer. "You kids too — since you're friends of my disciple, I've got your backs."
Xie Xie was so excited he nearly jumped up. Only Luo Yanglu grabbing his shoulders kept him from losing his composure. The latter let out a long sigh of relief and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. "Thank you for your action, Bear Lord."
"Spare the polite words. Enough everyone disperse. Leave the negotiations with Shrek Academy to me." Bear Lord waved his hand. "I'll wait right here for them. Let's see if the next one dares to be so unreasonable."
Hearing this, Luo Yanglu looked around at the room, which had been destroyed beyond recognition, and smiled bitterly. "Then we'll take our leave."
This matter is going to blow up.
The group paid no attention to Shen Yi, who remained in the corner trembling with cold sweat, and left the room directly.
But after a moment, after Shen Yi had "fled" this place, Gu Yuena walked back in again.
"My Lord."
Bear Lord, who had remained here, bowed to Gu Yuena.
"Yes."
Gu Yuena faintly. "There's something I need to remind you of it's about Tang Wulin..."
Hearing the intelligence Gu Yuena shared, Bear Lord's expression shifted slightly. But quickly, thinking of something else, he asked with a strange expression: "My Lord — may I know the source of this intelligence?"
These pieces of intelligence contained obvious subjective conjecture. He couldn't deduce them himself. So then, this intelligence also obviously couldn't have been deduced by his Lord... Ahem — can't think that way.
Gu Yuena's delicate brows furrowed slightly. "I will tell you when the time is right."
His Lord had secrets.
That was Bear Lord's first thought. His second was that it would be wiser not to probe any further.
So he simply nodded. "I understand."
Gu Yuena nodded in satisfaction.
As the Silver Dragon King, she carried undeniable majesty.
Yet watching her soft, almost adorable nod, Bear Lord suddenly felt as if he were looking at a child who had once been guided by them, learning the basics of human common sense.
Acting on instinct, he took out a storage ring.
"My Lord — are you short on money? Have you been eating well lately? I have all kinds of specialties from Star Dou."
"Very well..."
Gu Yuena instinctively answered. Then, realizing what was happening, her cool, composed face couldn't hold back.
Her dignity — instantly shattered.
While Gu Yuena and Bear Lord were exchanging intelligence, Tang Wulin sought out Huo Yuhao. Under the latter's questioning gaze, his expression turned reminiscent.
"Your father and mother are doing very well. The Spirit Transmission Tower takes good care of us. Don't worry about us — just go compete and do your best to get a good result. Our Wulin is a renowned genius in forging."
His parents' gentle words before his departure.
"Boss — why are you always so partial to Sister Na and Wulin? Just because they're big eaters doesn't mean you only prepare food for them. I want some too."
The Class Zero classmates playing together, eating together — the scenes were always very joyful, very warm.
"Wulin — not bad cultivation speed. You've gone up eight levels in a year. Already Level 19."
Without Teacher Luo and the Spirit Transmission Tower's care, how could he have increased his spirit power by eight levels in just one year, given his cultivation speed?
"You are my disciple. On this continent, there are few who can touch the disciple of me, Bear Lord."
Teacher Bear Lord's protectiveness...
Tang Wulin recalled all his experiences of late. Finally, the balance in his heart tipped directly to one side. With a solemn expression, he said: "Yuhao, there's a voice in my head that's been trying to teach me to be a bad person. He also taught me Shrek's school motto."
Although his father and mother said you shouldn't condemn a whole group based on an individual, Shrek Academy's recent actions had left Wulin with no favor for them, not to mention his opinion of that school motto.
Huo Yuhao, who had thought Tang Wulin wanted food and had been about to pull some out: "..."
Not the one he was thinking of, right?
After saying the first sentence, Tang Wulin felt much lighter. His expression was complicated. "I probably know who that person is. But he helped me. Before, I didn't know whether I should tell anyone."
"It's just, if he's a bad person, I feel like a ticking time bomb. I might harm everyone someday. So I wanted to ask your advice."
He knew it was wrong to judge Old Tang's character based solely on guesswork. Maybe he was misunderstanding. But if he kept hesitating, and when the problem eventually surfaced, what would he do then?
Even if "Old Tang" wasn't a bad person, the fact that he could teach him in his dreams meant there was another existence inside his body.
When decision is needed, make it — that was a principle Teacher Luo had taught him. He couldn't just keep waiting for a crisis to erupt.
Of course, his own selfishness was also at play. He had a strange premonition that if he kept this hidden and didn't resolve it, the happy life he now enjoyed would gradually slip away from him...
Thinking this, Tang Wulin told him in detail about the Golden Dragon King's seal.
"..."
Tang San — you've been backstabbed.
Huo Yuhao tried his best to keep a straight face, to avoid making a strange expression.
"Lately, besides eating, you've just been staring at your soul tool light screen — you've been worrying about this, haven't you? And coming to me today, it's also because Shrek Academy's recent actions have made you more and more wary of him?"
"Yes." Tang Wulin nodded, his expression condensed. "If Old Tang is a good person, it means there's another bad person inside my body. If Old Tang is a bad person..."
At this point, Tang Wulin paused, sighed, and didn't continue. He just looked at Huo Yuhao, wanting his advice.
Ever since forming these guesses, he had been very anxious...
Huo Yuhao: "...You shouldn't be asking me. Do you think I can solve this?"
"I just wanted to hear your opinion, Student Yuhao."
Huo Yuhao looked at Tang Wulin's somewhat nervous expression. After a moment of silence, he said: "The answer is in your own heart — not in mine..."
A moment later, Tang Wulin sought out Bear Lord, who was likewise in a complex mood.
Before, he hadn't known how to solve it. After all, such a thing was too unimaginable — not something an ordinary person could solve.
But now — it was different.
A top-tier continental powerhouse — Teacher Bear Lord — had taken him as a disciple. If he couldn't solve this, then no one could.
This was also an important reason for him coming clean.
A teacher is like a father. If you can't even trust your teacher at the Spirit Transmission Tower, then there were few people in this world you could trust.
Today — cards on the table.
(Tang San's Divine Consciousness: "Wulin — you don't want to!")
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