Douluo Continent: The Eternal Order of the Azure Sky.

Seemingly unable to sustain the energy expenditure required to maintain their dragon forms, they all transformed into human form and wrestled together in a somewhat disheveled manner. Gu Yuena, in her girl form, tightly gripped Kong Tianxu's neck with both hands, her long, white-stockinged legs raised and placed on Kong Tianxu's chest. This should have been a rather ambiguous scene, but the long spear and greatsword that Kong Tianxu was closing in his hands and the bloodstains and wounds on the girl's mottled silver-threaded dress ruined everything.

The girl's face was exquisitely beautiful, her long, silvery-white hair cascading over her shoulders like a waterfall woven from moonlight. Her delicate features were slightly distorted by anger and pain, yet they could not conceal her innate nobility. Her silver dress was covered in countless tears, each tear revealing a bleeding wound.

Despite being a demigod, Kong Tianxu had the upper hand in his attempt to defy the gods. Given the stark difference in power between them, it seemed only a matter of time before Gu Yuena was beheaded and her heart pierced.

When Kong Tianxu achieved unparalleled in the realm of physical strength, the Myriad Beginnings Returning to Origin Realm finally revealed its most terrifying aspect. Even the Silver Dragon King, who inherited the Dragon God's spiritual power and elemental control, lost all his strength and means in front of Kong Tianxu. In one-on-one battles, no one could defeat this newly ascended ancestor of power who could force people to compete purely in terms of numerical values.

Gu Yuena's beautiful eyes were already filled with tears. In front of the Myriad Origins Domain and the Golden Dragon Sports Student, her strength, which was considered among the best of the gods, was too weak. Her scales and bones could not defend against the top-level divine artifacts, the Dragon God Sword and the Dragon Spear of Fate Judgment. In countless collisions, she was often the one who was injured.

However, relying on the advantages of her dragon bloodline and her stubbornness, she continued to heal her wounds and charge forward again.

Is this how it's going to end here? Gu Yuena wondered.

No! A resolute glint flashed in her eyes. Even if it meant death, she would take this despicable human down with her!

The next moment, Gu Yuena suddenly straightened up and fiercely pressed her brow against the vertical eye that was so close to her. The silver light, like water, continuously permeated into the sea of ​​spirit through the Eye of Reincarnation and Death. It was all her wisdom, all her memories, all her existence. She wanted to pour everything into Kong Tianxu's body and use her spiritual accumulation that spanned hundreds of thousands of years to completely burst this human's consciousness!

In an instant, Kong Tianxu felt as if his brain had exploded, and strange scenes flashed through his mind, filling his spiritual sea instantly.

【This is……】

Kong Tianxu's eyes cleared instantly as he looked into Gu Yuena's fierce eyes, which were so close to his.

She's trying to burst me out of my wits!

That's too naive.

He had already devised all possible countermeasures against this master of mental power.

No spirit rings appeared on their bodies, yet a gentle singing voice rang out from nowhere, and simultaneously, rings of sea-blue vortexes appeared in the eyes of Kong Tianxu and Gu Yuena.

Gu Yuena sneered, "Useless. This kind of soul skill has no effect on me at all, not to mention the huge gap between our mental strength. Laughable human, you don't know, do you? We dragons are immune to most mental attacks."

"is it?"

Accompanied by a melody that seemed to be background music, Kong Tianxu began to hum softly. The ancient melody, long lost and with an indistinct meaning, possessed an extraordinary beauty of sound, like singing a lullaby. Gu Yuena had made all the preparations, but she could not sense the slightest threat from Kong Tianxu's soul skill. He was simply singing an ethereal song to her.

She was completely absorbed in the song. She heard the passage of time and the silence of the forest in the song. As Kong Tianxu sang, the smell of blood in the air quickly faded away and was replaced by the scent of water plants. Her old wounds seemed to ache again, and the gentleness of the Lake of Life enveloped her once more.

It was like a pair of hands gently lifting her up, allowing her to feel peace for the first time in the endless darkness.

She suddenly realized that she hadn't felt this peaceful in a very, very long time. Even in her sleep, her soul churned in darkness with hatred and resentment. She had never truly rested, never truly relaxed.

But right now, she wanted to relax. Just for a moment.

It seems some bug has been fixed.

Gu Yuena seemed to have returned to a time more than ten years ago, before she was awakened by Kong Tianxu's aura.

She used time to heal her deep wounds, and slept to fight against eternal loneliness. Occasionally she would wake up once or twice, and with astonishing wisdom, make decisions that were either wise or unwise. Ten thousand years later, when she finally emerged from seclusion, the once vast forest was now a desolate wasteland.

She forgot, she was bewildered, she was furious, and she resolved to understand and conquer the human world, the culprit behind all this. She walked towards the edge of the forest, and under the massive canopy of trees, in the dim light, her enormous body slowly shrank, shrank. As it disappeared from sight, it had transformed into human form…

Meanwhile, in Aolai City, a small coastal town on the east coast of the Sun and Moon Federation, a boy entered the Awakening Room.

Chapter 421 Love to Death? A Soul-Soothing Journey to the Underworld

Inside the awakening room, dazzling patterns lit up, starting from the ceiling and extending down the four walls, as if they were regaining vitality or had come to life, spreading all the way to the boy's feet. All the light eventually converged where he stood.

On his forehead, a silver pattern seemed to flash for a moment, and then the silver pattern spread out to his limbs in a net-like pattern, transforming into magnificent diamond-shaped dragon scales, which were reflected on the boy's slender body, exuding an ancient majesty.

A subtle yet profound fluctuation of soul power, along with a brilliant silver light, simultaneously revealed itself to the world. The Spirit Master's lips trembled as he forced out the shock that had been lingering in his throat for so long:

"A silver dragon?!"

A cheer erupted, celebrating a genius and the birth of an era.

The news of the emergence of a super genius with the Silver Dragon Martial Soul spread like wildfire through the highly developed and convenient communication network of this era. When the boy walked out of the Awakening Room surrounded by various forces, several powerful auras descended from the sky, dazzling and radiant.

However, some mysterious connection, stemming from blood ties or even deeper levels, caused a pair of eyes to turn their gaze here before anyone else.

The boy who stood out from the crowd ignored all the offers he received, and as if by telepathy, simply looked back.

Like twin mirror images, their purple, glassy eyes reflected each other's figures. Just then, a breeze arose, and their silver hair flew in the air at the same moment.

This is the first encounter between Na'er, the Silver Dragon King who was sealed away and stranded in the human world, and a boy named Kong Tianxu.

Although it was their first meeting, Na'er felt as if she had been struck hard, as if they had met in a past life. A strange sense of familiarity and emotion stirred within her a longing.

The boy met the girl, and that's how the story begins.

It was as if an invisible hand was manipulating the threads of fate between the two. They would occasionally see each other, and Na'er would secretly keep an eye on everything about the other.

Unexpectedly, the incredibly talented Kong Tianxu rejected all offers from major powers and started his own path, beginning at Hongshan Academy.

Na'er was also taken in and adopted by Kong Tianxu by chance.

There, Na'er experienced something she had never felt in her hundreds of thousands of years as the Silver Dragon King: human emotions, human warmth, and the bond between humans called "family."

They went to the beach together to watch the sunrise, ran home together in the pouring rain, and snuggled on the sofa watching the snow fall outside the window. She leaned against his still thin back, inhaling the faint fragrance of his collar. The evening breeze blew from the sea, rustling the roadside weeds. The sky was changing from deep blue to inky blue, and the distant fishing lights began to twinkle one by one, making the world seem very small.

Those trivial, ordinary things that had never been seriously observed in the long lives of dragons all filled the corners of her heart that had never been filled by anything before in a gentle and irresistible way.

These days became one of the few pure moments in her long life.

She began to understand why humans have so many desires and suffer so much: because what they possess is so precious, that's why it hurts so much when they lose it.

Soon, her memories returned.

The Silver Dragon King's consciousness awakened within her, and the mission of the Soul Beast Lord surged back like a tide. The Soul Beast Organization found her and took her away, and Kong Tianxu also went on to study at Donghai Academy.

But Gu Yuena soon discovered a problem: the time she spent living as "Na'er" had implanted human emotions into her body, and these emotions were gradually slipping out of her control.

So she made a decision: to separate her human consciousness.

She then adopted the alias Gu Yue and continued to lead the soul beasts in her revenge plan.

In order to merge with herself, she concealed her true appearance and identity by adopting the alias Gu Yue and appeared as an ordinary transfer student next to Kong Tianxu, entering the human Donghai Academy.

But what she didn't expect was that things started to get out of control as she spent time with Kong Tianxu.

Perhaps it was the connection between their bloodlines, or perhaps for some other reason, but she was involuntarily drawn to the other person. They were equally proud, equally talented, and equally passionate about changing the world. Even their bloodlines were similar and intimate.

Gu Yue knew it was dangerous. Her initial intention to get close to him had unconsciously changed. She found herself looking forward to seeing him at the classroom door every morning, and wondering if he had eaten more of the food she had secretly put in his lunchbox. Despite having so many reasons not to do it, she just couldn't bring herself to do it.

As a dragon, she sadly fell in love with him again in the human world.

In the years that followed, he and she fought side by side, supporting each other. They talked about their ideals under the moonlight and spent time together in each other's company.

As Gu Yue watched the other party stubbornly refuse all secondary professions and stubbornly choose to hunt soul beasts for soul rings, she couldn't help but lend a helping hand time and time again. She felt like she was trapped in a quagmire from which she could not escape, sinking deeper with each step.

Until that day, the destined confession.

She clearly wanted to say, "Me too," "I've liked you for a very, very long time," and "You are the most beautiful accident in my hundreds of thousands of years of life."

But she couldn't say.

She fled in panic; unable to refuse, she chose to leave.

But Gu Yue never gave up on paying attention to Kong Tianxu.

She was happy that he gained the power of destruction on the Cloud Refining Island of Life and Death, worried that he led the team to destroy the Tang Sect and Shrek Academy, and proud of his amazing achievements in the Blood God Legion.

During this process, she was not idle. Instead, she used the power of the Spirit Pagoda to search for a way to enter the burial ground of the Dragon Clan during the Douluo Calamity, striving to eventually merge into a complete Dragon God.

But fate is cruel. When Gu Yue finally found the remains of the Golden Dragon King after going through countless hardships, the person she loved had already entered the burial ground before her. Bewildered by the Golden Dragon King's will to die, he turned into a mad dragon.

Gu Yue knew that to quell the Golden Dragon King's madness, the power of the Golden and Silver Dragon Kings had to be reunited. Without hesitation, she sacrificed her first time as a dragon in this dark underground where the sun never shines. Whether in dragon form or human form, they experienced all kinds of love and madness. Gu Yue and Na'er also became one after that.

What delighted her even more was that when she awoke from her blissful state, the engagement ring came into view.

Before his longing was satisfied, the invasion from the Abyss Plane had already arrived.

They fought side by side, defending the continent, reviving the dead, and creating legends.

However, the outbreak of conflict could no longer be delayed or concealed at this point. Driven by her identity and responsibilities, Gu Yuena and Kong Tianxu eventually became adversaries.

The two fought with restraint, like dancing a golden tango. When the dance ended, their feelings were intense. Gu Yuena made her final choice amidst the extreme conflict between her identity and her love.

A sharp blade pierced his heart; the master of the soul beasts chose suicide as the only way out…

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Gu Yuena's slender hand, now devoid of any color, gently caressed Kong Tianxu's face. Her dim purple eyes were filled with reluctance and longing.

Suddenly, her eyes widened. The tenderness and longing in her lover's eyes were rapidly changing, like ice wrapped in honey suddenly melting, but something colder and harder rose up, merging into a complex feeling that Gu Yuena didn't understand.

The surrounding humans and spirit beasts, as numerous as mountains and seas, twisted into blurry phantoms at this moment. Mountains crumbled, rivers dried up, and the seasons surged wildly and chaotically in the dying world. Severe snow and thunder roared, and the scorching sun was bitterly cold. Heaven and earth began to intersect and merge at this moment, gradually becoming a blood-red expanse.

As everything perished, that faint singing voice returned, this time as if it were echoing from within one's own mind.

Gu Yuena was first taken aback, then her expression turned grim.

She finally understood. Everything—from their encounter in Aolai City to their time together at Donghai Academy, and even their love and companionship along the way—was all a lie.

As the Silver Dragon King's spiritual power, which was the most important foundation, was reclaimed, the spiritual domain that almost covered the entire continent slowly collapsed, and countless slumbering people gradually awoke. Kong Tianxu remained indifferent.

The third soul skill of the Holy Spirit Puppet Martial Soul is a perfect combination of the 600,000-year-old Sea Princess's innate ability and the Holy Spirit Puppet's soul control talent—a world-shaking requiem.

As Kong Tianxu's most spiritual ability, this soul skill has no offensive power at all, yet it is the most dangerous. It creates a dream that connects the consciousness of all living beings within a vast area, immersing them in the same great dream, which is the purest and most realistic illusion.

Once someone dies within it, their consciousness in reality also vanishes. No one can resist this, not even Kong Tianxu, the one who releases them. This is because it is a true case of entering a dream with one's body, based on the deepest consciousness of both the caster and the victim. Even the dream weaver will be immersed in it, an endless dream of true love.

Only Kong Tianxu, after preserving the thought of "killing the Silver Dragon King" in the Myriad Origins Domain, dared to use this soul skill. It wasn't until his cultivation in the illusion reached a certain level that this thought was discovered by himself and used as a sharp blade to end all illusions.

Having broken through layers of constraints, Kong Tianxu's consciousness was suddenly revived at this moment.

The Requiem for All was so powerful it could hypnotize the entire continent, yet it vanished before his Blade of Consciousness.

Kong Tianxu opened his eyes with a slight sense of bewilderment. He was still above the Cloud Refining Isle of Life and Death, with Gu Yuena gradually turning pale beneath him. They continued their seemingly endless descent into the gathering inky sea of ​​clouds, with the rain of elements pouring down, washing their souls away into the depths of the darkest abyss.

At this moment, Gu Yuena's life force was dwindling, her heart was nearly stopping, and her pretty face was gradually turning pale. In her dream, she had been killed. The divine body of the Dragon King was still powerful, but all her physical signs were weakening. Lying in Kong Tianxu's arms, she still stubbornly lingered on his face. As the Silver Dragon King, her own life level was too high. Even if her soul died, it would not be able to take her life in a short time. However, even her gentle caresses became fragmented.

"You... won."

Kong Tianxu did not stop her, but he also did not make any further statement. All the muscles in his body were tense, ready to deal with any possible counterattack at any time.

Two identical pairs of eyes reflected each other's image once again. It wasn't the first time they had met, yet it was impossible to tell whether it was real or an illusion.

"I... just want to know, didn't you... invest... even a little bit of emotion in this dream?" Gu Yuena suddenly laughed, her exquisite face blooming like a hundred flowers.

Kong Tianxu's stiff expression suddenly relaxed, and a complex look flashed in his eyes. The chaos he had forcibly suppressed when he woke up resurfaced. The reason why the Requiem for All Ages was so irresistible was because it was meant to make the caster the first to enter the dream. How could he not have any sincerity? He just didn't expect that, in the face of life and death, Gu Yuena only cared about these things.

Quickly dispelling his emotions, Kong Tianxu nodded slightly.

There's nothing to be ashamed of. At this moment, he wasn't facing a dragon king burdened with the blood hatred of the beast race for hundreds of thousands of years, but rather a little girl who had been hurt and was quietly healing before being tricked again.