"...The food you made has the taste of my father. Although I haven't tasted this flavor for ten years, my memory will never be wrong."
Ju Zi said obsessively, clearly moved emotionally because of the food.
Listening to Ju Zi share her experiences about her father, Huo Yuhao obviously felt something too. Looking at his small movements, he evidently wanted to pull Ju Zi into his arms.
"Don't be sad, everyone. Dwelling on things that have passed will only increase sorrow. We must look forward. We can't always be immersed in sadness; there are more beautiful things waiting for us, aren't there?"
Fortunately, Ke Ke spoke up in time to interrupt Ju Zi and Huo Yuhao's sorrow, which made Wang Lin, who had been watching the drama from the side, breathe a sigh of relief.
Although he didn't quite understand why a single meal made Ju Zi fall in love with Huo Yuhao, and why Huo Yuhao also had feelings in his heart.
But that was the reality. In the original work, let alone getting along, Ju Zi and Huo Yuhao knew each other for no more than twenty days in total.
Yet Ju Zi resolutely fell in love with Huo Yuhao and even bore him a child later on. It really made people unable to understand.
After sorting out their emotions slightly and finishing the meal, the six-legged All-Terrain Detection Soul Tool ran in the Jing Yang Mountain Range like a huge six-legged spider.
Wang Lin floated in mid-air, following the All-Terrain Detection Soul Tool from a distance. Inside the circular body of the All-Terrain Detection Soul Tool.
Ke Ke, sitting side by side with Ju Zi, naturally noticed Ju Zi's strangeness. She keenly discovered that Ju Zi seemed to have taken a fancy to Huo Yuhao.
A day passed quietly. Since the last time they roasted meat, the task of cooking had been handed over from Ju Zi to Huo Yuhao.
Regarding this, neither Wang Lin nor Ke Ke had any objections. Whether it was Ju Zi or Huo Yuhao, the food they made tasted very good. It didn't matter to them who cooked.
On the contrary, as Ju Zi ate the food made by Huo Yuhao, the look in her eyes when looking at Huo Yuhao became increasingly affectionate.
"Hey, hey, have you noticed that things are weird between the two of them?"
Ke Ke still couldn't hold back. She poked Wang Lin's arm and spoke up.
"I have eyes!"
Wang Lin said casually. By their bonfire, Ju Zi was helping Huo Yuhao as an assistant. The actions between the two were becoming increasingly intimate.
"You saw it too?"
Ke Ke was shocked for a moment, thinking about whether to tell Wang Lin what Ju Zi and Huo Yuhao said in the All-Terrain Detection Soul Tool today.
It should be known that when Ju Zi introduced the All-Terrain Detection Soul Tool to Huo Yuhao today, she revealed quite a few of the academy's secrets.
"Nonsense."
Wang Lin didn't want to gossip about this. Half the reason he couldn't stand watching the first tournament back then was the messy emotional problems in the original work.
Seeing it in reality only felt even more melodramatic. That was why Wang Lin left the testing position to Ke Ke for the day; he would rather float in mid-air.
He didn't want to sit in the All-Terrain Detection Soul Tool and get splattered in the face with melodrama.
Just like that, they stayed in the wild for nearly ten days. Ju Zi, holding the recorded test sheets, smiled and said to Wang Lin and the others.
"Finally finished. We can go back!"
As soon as these words came out, Huo Yuhao and Ke Ke instantly looked excited. After staying in the wild for so long, even Wang Lin had a smile on his face.
Unlike the original work, they did not encounter the pack of Gold Wolves led by the Silver Moon Wolf King. The reason was naturally very simple.
For the past ten days or so, Wang Lin took time every day to release his Dragon Might to deter the surrounding soul beasts. Let alone a Gold Wolf pack, they hadn't encountered any soul beasts over a thousand years old along the way.
The direct impact was that the group of four, including Wang Lin who shouldn't have been in the team, remained unharmed and returned safely to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy with the recorded data.
Moreover, Huo Yuhao hadn't clashed with Wang Shaojie earlier, so Wang Shaojie didn't get people to arrest Huo Yuhao. Consequently, Ju Zi didn't go to the palace to beg Xu Tianran for mercy.
Instead, this delayed Ju Zi's return time, and the time she spent with Huo Yuhao was much longer than in the original work.
...
In the dormitory.
Huo Yuhao awakened the sleeping Skydream Iceworm and the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion.
"Brother Skydream, Ice Empress, can you feel the extraordinariness of this Dragon Might?"
Transmitting the image of Wang Lin releasing Dragon Might into his Spiritual Sea, upon sensing that Dragon Might, the Skydream Iceworm's small eyes suddenly widened.
"This is the Golden Dragon bloodline lost by the Auspicious Beast. Why is it on him?"
"Golden Dragon? What kind of soul beast is that?"
Huo Yuhao had obviously never heard the name Golden Dragon.
"No wonder the Auspicious Beast's state is incomplete; it turns out this was missing. But to think a human could absorb the Golden Dragon bloodline!"
The Skydream Iceworm didn't answer Huo Yuhao but muttered to himself. That Wang Lin could actually absorb the Golden Dragon's bloodline; he seemed to have misjudged him!
"Legend has it that when the Dragon God died, he split into two, becoming the Silver Dragon and the Golden Dragon. The Silver Dragon inherited the Dragon God's control over elements and is the Ancestor of Elements. The Golden Dragon inherited the Dragon God's body and is the Ancestor of Strength."
Fortunately, at this time, the Ice Empress explained to Huo Yuhao.
"Ancestor of Strength? Could it be that the Golden Dragon is about the same as you, Ice Empress?"
As soon as Huo Yuhao said this, a human-like helplessness appeared on the Ice Empress's face.
"Yuhao, you underestimate the Ancestor of Strength too much. Although I don't want to admit it, the Golden Dragon is stronger than me!"
"Stronger than the Ice Empress?" Huo Yuhao's mouth dropped open immediately. He looked at the flickering gray speck of light in his Spiritual Sea.
Electrolux had clearly awakened at this time.
"This old man is not from this realm and has never heard of the Dragon God..."
An ancient and profound voice sounded in Wang Lin's ear. He looked up, and a peculiar image was transmitted into Wang Lin's mind along with Elder Yi's voice.
In the image was a pure white ocean. In the center of the ocean, a white silkworm covered with ten gold patterns was waving its small tail. Beside it was an Ice Jade Scorpion that Wang Lin had seen before.
Standing in front of the two soul beasts was Huo Yuhao, who had just parted ways with Wang Lin.
Obviously, those two soul beasts were the Skydream Iceworm and the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion.
"Are they discussing me?"
Listening to the conversation in the image, Wang Lin didn't care. He had never intended to hide the Golden Dragon bloodline, which was why he released his Dragon Might unscrupulously before.
Huo Yuhao's conversation had now veered towards how he had absorbed the Golden Dragon bloodline. Skydream guessed that Wang Lin, like Huo Yuhao, had also absorbed the Golden Dragon bloodline in the form of a Martial Soul.
Soon their conversation ended. Electrolux cut off the image, and his figure appeared in front of Wang Lin.
"By the way, Elder Yi, can you sense Huo Yuhao's thoughts?"
"I can. Haven't I told you this, Little Linzi?"
Electrolux looked at Wang Lin with a puzzled face. Wang Lin said truthfully: "Listening to their exchange, Huo Yuhao should have completed the attribute connection with the Auspicious Beast. That ritual back then didn't happen to Huo Yuhao, right? Then has he been brainwashed?"
As soon as this question was asked, Electrolux fell silent.
"The fragment of divine consciousness was sealed by me, so the ritual couldn't have proceeded. But it seems..."
(This is inexplicable; it really looks like he's been brainwashed.)