In the kitchen, Gu Ruiqiu, wearing a blue apron, hummed a favorite tune while simmering fish soup.
This was the opportunity she had gained through her deal with Huo Yuhao. The kitchen was hers tonight.
She had gone a bit too far today. Her Lord was very angry. She needed to become the "deity" who controlled the kitchen to appease her Lord.
Gu Yuena sat on the sofa, looking toward the kitchen, somewhat torn.
She wanted to teach Gu Ruiqiu a harsh lesson, but the other always managed to stop at just the right point, leaving her feeling helpless.
After thinking for a moment, catching the scent of the fish soup, Gu Yuena looked away.
Oh well. It had been a long time since she had tasted Gu Ruiqiu's cooking.
"Yuhao, what was your assessment assessment about?" Gu Yuena looked at Huo Yuhao beside her.
Huo Yuhao's expression was complicated and complicated. "At first, it was breaking through obstacles, simulating the Star Dou Great Forest. At the end, I had to fight a former Tower Master."
Seeing his somewhat strange expression, Gu Yuena asked curiously, "Did that Tower Master have some special ability?"
"Not really. It's just that she was showing affection with her Spirit Soul."
Huo Yuhao's expression was one of someone who had seen it all.
Ever since Combination Martial Soul Technique possessors had been known to share "soulful gazes" in battle, an even stranger phenomenon had appeared. He felt the whole vibe of the battle had been off.
"..."
Gu Yuena blinked and coughed lightly, changing the subject. "Yuhao, Xiaoyan and the others are coming soon, aren't they?"
"Yes, it's almost there. The Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy is also starting enrollment soon. Xiaoyan and the others should be arriving."
Huo Yuhao pushed the cut fruit toward her. "Housing has also been arranged by headquarters."
"Are you moving out?"
Gu Ruiqiu poked her head out of the kitchen, her excited cry, "Great! I raise both hands in favor..."
Mid-sentence, as if sensing an inexplicable chill, her voice stopped abruptly.
Gu Yuena glared at her "older sister," then looked at Huo Yuhao, her voice very soft. "Yuhao, are you really moving out?"
Huo Yuhao gazed at Gu Yuena's slightly tense profile. He suddenly chuckled.
"When did I ever say I was moving out? I was only making arrangements for them. Unless... someone doesn't welcome me continuing to live here?"
The tips of Gu Yuena's ears turned slightly red. She turned her face away. "Suit yourself."
Seeing her reaction different from usual, Huo Yuhao chuckled and looked away. He opened his soul tool light screen and began searching for various research projects through the internal network.
He had already joined the headquarters' Soul Tool Research Institute. And because of his secondary profession level and the fact that he had been invited by Mingde Hall, upon joining the headquarters' Soul Tool Research Institute, he had obtained an initial status equal to Ling Zichen's.
More critically, as a key Alternate Spirit Transmission Envoy being cultivated by the Spirit Transmission Tower, this status granted him a special status. Combined, his status was higher than Ling Zichen's. If a research project needed personnel assistance, he could assign tasks and workloads to her.
In other words, in a sense, Ling Zichen was indeed his subordinate.
Huo Yuhao would not make things difficult for her, but since she was a soul tool prodigy, he naturally wanted to put her talents to the best use.
He needed people for some of his research projects too. At headquarters, the only researcher he knew was Ling Zichen. So she had no one to blame but herself. She had walked right into it.
After assigning Ling Zichen several research tasks on the light screen, Huo Yuhao's gaze lingered on the names of various headquarters juniors. Finally, he landed on another somewhat familiar name. After assigning it to his own team, he looked at Gu Yuena. "Na'er, I've also assigned you to my team. Is that alright?"
Gu Yuena was startled, then nodded slightly, smiling. "Of course."
On the other side, opening her own light screen and seeing the sudden pile of tasks, Ling Zichen was anything but calm.
As Leng Yaozhu's disciple, Gu Yuena was entitled to refuse such personnel transfers. Leng Yaozhu could simply speak up. But Ling Zichen could not.
Because she had no one of higher status behind her to speak up for her. The "next Tower Master," Huo Yuhao, had just become an Alternate Spirit Transmission Envoy. His first transfer order... people needed to show him face.
"Huo Yuhao, you dog! We are irreconcilable!"
In the dead of night, Ling Zichen's angry roar was like a thunderclap, shaking the laboratory's glass windows with its vibrations.
While Huo Yuhao was becoming an Alternate Spirit Transmission Envoy, at the Tiandou City Spirit Transmission Tower branch, Tang Wulin was preparing to break through the second seal.
Tang Wulin felt like complaining the creator of the seal.
According to "Old Tang," the second seal only needed to be broken by age fifteen. He had broken the first seal around age ten. That was a full five years of preparation time.
But no matter how early he broke through, once the second seal was broken, he would have only three years until the next seal break.
That is to say, breaking through early had no benefit whatsoever.
It was very strange. According to routine, shouldn't breaking through early give him a longer period?
Besides the timing issue, there was another point.
If his physical strength increased to a certain level, the seal would become flabby until it could no longer be contained.
That was the current situation.
Over the past two years, Teacher Bear Lord and the others at the Spirit Transmission Tower had fed him too well. He simply couldn't contain it anymore.
For this breakthrough, he didn't even need the heavenly treasures Old Tang had designated designated. His body could completely withstand the power.
Entering the seal space, Tang Wulin called out in a low voice, "Old Tang, I'm ready."
In a corner, a vague figure gradually condenses.
When Tang San's divine consciousness emerged, his eyes were somewhat dazed. He was about to, as usual, listen to Tang Wulin's teachings about the "Golden Dragon King."
But seeing Tang Wulin's strange look, he thought for a moment and realized that today Wulin had come to break the seal.
"Good, wonderful, Wulin. You are another step further from danger."
Tang San's divine consciousness nearly wept with joy.
Do you know how he had gotten through these past two years?
Every night, he had to endure Tang Wulin reciting half an hour of The First Generation Tower Master's Admonitions. Those words had worn away at his divine consciousness power like a dull blade, bit by bit. By now, he didn't know how many memories he had lost.
Sometimes, he would even feel that he truly was that "Old Tang" who had received the First Generation Tower Master's teachings.
Tang San's divine consciousness shuddered.
What First Generation Tower Master's teachings? That was the enemy's brainwashing!
Not only had they brainwashed Wulin, now they were reaching out their evil claws to this wisp of his divine consciousness.
Tang San's divine consciousness began to guide Tang Wulin through the seal break with a heavy heart. Watching him sit cross-legged in the center of the seal space, he frowned deeply.
"If not for the Spirit Transmission Tower's influence, how could Wulin have become such an incongruous mess? Huo Yuhao truly has a death wish."
Tang San's divine consciousness paused.
Come to think of it, what was a death wish? What was the definition of a death wish?
It probably had to do with his past life. Tang Sect. Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record. The First Generation Tower Master's Admonitions.
As he recalled, Tang San's divine consciousness once again turned to the book title that had caused him so much distress. His expression darkened.
No. He had lost too many memories of his past life, of the memories that defined his nature. If this continued, he would truly "lose his memory," and his character might even change greatly, influenced by the so-called "First Generation Tower Master's Admonitions."
But Wulin was being watched by the Spirit Transmission Tower and those Savage Beasts. A wisp of divine consciousness on Tang Wulin's body could not act easily.
Original body. Home at risk. Return quickly!
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