In the kitchen, Gu Ruiqiu, wearing a blue apron, hummed her favorite song while simmering fish soup.
This was the opportunity she got after her "deal" with Huo Yuhao. Tonight, the kitchen was hers.
After all, she had gone a bit overboard today, and the master was very angry. She had to become the "god" of the kitchen to calm the master down.
Gu Yuena sat on the sofa, looking towards the kitchen, feeling conflicted.
She wanted to teach Gu Ruiqiu a lesson, but the latter always managed to stay within an appropriate limit, leaving her somewhat helpless.
After pondering for a while, Gu Yuena, smelling the fish soup, finally withdrawing her gaze.
Forget it, it had been a long time since she had tasted Gu Ruiqiu's cooking.
"Yuhao, what was your assessment about?" Gu Yuena asked Huo Yuhao beside her.
Huo Yuhao's expression was complicated: "At first, it was about breaking through levels, simulating the Star Dou Great Forest... In the end, it was a battle with a past Pagoda Master."
Seeing his strange expression, Gu Yuena asked curiously, "Did that Pagoda Master have any special abilities?"
"Not really, but she was showing off her affection with her spirit soul."
Huo Yuhao found it difficult to explain.
After the fusion skill users "gazed deeply" at each other during the battle, an even stranger phenomenon occurred. It felt like the style of the battle had completely changed.
"..."
Gu Yuena blinked, coughed slightly, and changed the subject, "Yuhao, Xiao Yan and the others are coming soon, right?"
"Yeah, almost. The Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy is about to start admissions, so Xiao Yan and the others should be coming soon."
Huo Yuhao pushed the cut fruit in front of her, "The housing issue has been arranged by the headquarters."
"Are you moving out?"
Gu Ruiqiu poked her head out from the kitchen, excitedly shouting:
"Great! I fully support—"
Halfway through, as if sensing a sudden chill, her voice suddenly stopped.
Gu Yuena glared at her "sister" and looked at Huo Yuhao, her voice soft, "Yuhao, are you really moving out?"
Huo Yuhao looked at Gu Yuena's slightly tense profile and suddenly panicked:
"When did I say I was moving out? It's just arranged for them. Unless... someone doesn't welcome me to continue living here?"
Gu Yuena's ears turned slightly red, and she turned her face away, "As you wish."
Seeing her unusual reaction, Huo Yuhao gasped and looked away, opening the soul guide screen, searching for various research projects through the internal network.
He had already joined the headquarters' Soul Engineer Research Institute, and due to his secondary profession level and the invitation from the Mingde Hall, he was granted an initial status equal to Ling Zichen upon joining the headquarters' Soul Engineer Research Institute.
More importantly, as a key candidate for the Spirit Pagoda's successor, this identity gave him a special status, making him higher in rank than Ling Zichen overall. If research requires assistance, he could assign her tasks and manage her work.
In other words, in a sense, Ling Zichen was indeed his subordinate.
Huo Yuhao wouldn't go out of his way to make things difficult for her, but since she was a soul engineer prodigy, he naturally wanted to make the most of her talents.
He needed people for his research, and currently, the only researcher he knew at the headquarters was Ling Zichen, so he couldn't be blamed for assigning tasks to her.
After sending a few research tasks to Ling Zichen on the soul guide screen, Huo Yuhao paused over the names of several junior colleagues at the headquarters, finally stopping at a somewhat familiar name. After assigning her to his team, he looked at Gu Yuena, "Na'er, you've also been assigned to my team, is that okay?"
Gu Yuena was stunned for a moment, then nodded slightly with a smile, "Of course."
On the other hand, Ling Zichen, upon opening her soul guide screen and seeing the additional tasks, couldn't stay calm.
As Leng Yaozhu's disciple, Gu Yuena could refuse such personnel transfers if Leng Yaozhu spoke up, but Ling Zichen couldn't.
Because there was no one of higher status behind her to speak up, the "next Pagoda Master"—Huo Yuhao had just become a candidate Spirit Envoy, and his first transfer order... she had to show some respect.
"Huo Yuhao, you damn authority abuser, I swear I'll never forgive you!"
In the quiet night, Ling Zichen's roar was like a thunderclap, shaking the laboratory windows.
...
When Huo Yuhao became a candidate Spirit Envoy, in the Spirit Pagoda branch of Heaven Dou City, Tang Wulin was preparing to break through the second seal.
Tang Wulin wanted to complain about the creator of the seals.
According to "Old Tang," the second seal could be broken before the age of fifteen. He had broken the first seal around the age of ten, giving him a full five years to prepare.
However, no matter how early he broke through, once the second seal was broken, he would only have three years before the next seal.
In other words, breaking through early didn't bring any benefits!
It was strange. According to the usual pattern, shouldn't he get more buffer time after breaking through early?
Besides the time issue, there was another point to complain about.
If his physical strength improved to a certain level, the seal would naturally loosen until it could no longer be suppressed.
That was the current situation.
These past two years, Teacher Xiong Jun and the Spirit Pagoda had fed him too well... he really couldn't hold it back anymore!
For this breakthrough, he didn't even need the rare treasures specified by Old Tang, because his body could fully withstand the power!
Entering the seal space, Tang Wulin called out softly:
"Old Tang, I'm ready."
In the corner, a blurry figure gradually took shape.
When Tang San's divine consciousness appeared, his eyes were somewhat dazed, planning to listen to Tang Wulin's teachings about the "Golden Dragon King" as usual.
But seeing Tang Wulin's strange gaze, he realized after a moment of thought that today Wulin was here to break the seal!
"Good, good, Wulin, you're one step further from danger."
Tang San's divine consciousness almost cried with joy.
Do you know how he had survived these past two years?
Every night, he had to endure Tang Wulin's half-hour lectures on "The Teachings of the First Pagoda Master," those words like a blunt knife slowly wearing away his divine consciousness. By now, he didn't know how much memory he had lost.
Sometimes he even felt confused, as if he really was the "Old Tang" who had accepted the teachings of the First Pagoda Master...
Tang San's divine consciousness shivered.
What teachings of the First Pagoda Master? That was the enemy's brainwashing!
Not only had they brainwashed Wulin, but now they were extending their claws to his divine consciousness!
With a heavy heart, Tang San's divine consciousness began to guide Tang Wulin in breaking the seal, watching him sit cross-legged in the center of the seal space, frowning deeply.
"If it wasn't for the influence of the Spirit Pagoda, how could Wulin have become such a mess? Huo Yuhao truly has the way of death..."
Tang San's divine consciousness paused in thought.
By the way, what is the way of death? What is the definition of the way of death?
It must be related to his past life, the Tang Sect... the Profound Heaven Treasure Record... the Teachings of the First Pagoda Master.
As he recalled, Tang San's divine consciousness once again remembered the title of that book that had been troubling him, his expression turning grim.
No, too many memories define his nature from his past life had already disappeared. If this continues, he will really "lose his memory," and his personality might even change, influenced by the so-called "Teachings of the First Pagoda Master."
But Wulin was being watched by the Spirit Pagoda and those ferocious beasts, and his divine consciousness attached to Tang Wulin really couldn't act freely...
Main body, the family is in danger, come back quickly!