Jiang Chen had already taken the two girls to a shopping mall, letting Huo Yun'er pick out new clothes for Na'er and help her clean up.
After all, Na'er was no ordinary girl — she was half of the Silver Dragon King, Co-Lord of all Soul Beasts.It wouldn't do to let her walk around looking shabby.
Jiang Chen occasionally leaned over to chat with the delicate little girl, but the half-Silver Dragon King mostly ignored him.Her expression only softened when her gaze fell on Tang Wulin — her eyes lighting up ever so slightly.
"Hey! Woman!" Jiang Chen snapped. "Don't you know you're being very impolite?"
If she weren't the Silver Dragon King, he would have given her a lesson by now. No one in his life had ever dared ignore him like this.
Tang Wulin stayed quietly at the side, a small knot of worry in her chest finally loosening.
Jiang Chen's aura was undeniably evil… yet not the wrong kind of evil.Strange.
Just then, his phone buzzed.
[Di Tian]: My Lord advises you — do not meddle in others' affairs. If you delay My Lord's grand plan, be prepared to taste my Dragon God Claw!
Attached was, of course, a "Dragon God Claw.jpg" meme.
Jiang Chen sneered. Yeah, you just wait until your Lord gets abducted. Then it'll be too late to cry.
He glanced at the half-Silver Dragon King again and shook his head. Beautiful or not, she wasn't someone he needed. Especially not someone that dangerous.
He had already lived out all his youthful fantasies in this world — Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing… he'd even tested Tang Wutong, just to confirm it was only Huo Yuhao who couldn't touch her.
He had no more desires for women. Now, he had only one belief — becoming a God.
If Spirit Beasts had to rely on her as Co-Lord, they would never rise to greatness in this world.
So he looked at Tang Wulin and said flatly:"She ran away from home. I don't know why her family isn't looking for her right now, but she'll leave sooner or later."
Tang Wulin's expression firmed. "Thank you. I'll protect Na'er."
"Phone!"
At Jiang Chen's call, the deep purple vertical eye in his own device shimmered, and a second phone flew out of Huo Yun'er's pink backpack.
The purple eye scanned Na'er, recorded her data, and successfully activated the device.
Jiang Chen handed it over."This is a communication device. It's loaded with your family's contacts and some of my friends. If anything happens, contact 'Brother Bing.' She can solve everything for you."
After saying goodbye to Na'er — and instructing the Aolai City branch of the Spirit Transfer Pagoda to watch over Tang Wulin's family — Jiang Chen left for a much bigger destination.
East Sea City.
Aolai City was small, without even a Spirit Ascension Platform. But East Sea City, one of the great cities of the Douluo Continent's eastern region, boasted a thirteen-story Spirit Transfer Pagoda.
Cities of this rank housed one of the Federation's Eighteen Heavenly Pillars — Spirit Ascension Platforms that stood as symbols of their power.
Becoming a God would require steady progress, and now that he was an adult, Jiang Chen also needed to master human knowledge — particularly anything related to battle armor.
When he was still a Soul Spirit, he couldn't control armor and had to rely on mechs. But over the course of ten thousand years, he had piloted plenty of God-level mechs — even worn out his exclusive model from overuse.
Boring.
Now that he had a human body, he wanted to enjoy human pleasures.
Which made the middle-aged man tailing him all the more irritating.
"Why aren't you leaving yet?" Jiang Chen asked with a frown.
The man smiled stiffly. "The East Sea City Pagoda Master has been transferred to headquarters. I'm the new Spirit Transfer Pagoda Master here. Old Ancestor, please take care of me!"
It was Huo Tiangang.
Jiang Chen sighed inwardly. The Huo Family's influence within the Spirit Transfer Pagoda was enormous. They already held one Deputy Pagoda Master position, one of the four great Spirit Transfer Envoy titles, and several Elder seats in the Deliberation Group.
And that was with restraint — a Limit Douluo emerged from their bloodline every three centuries without fail. No such family had ever existed before.
Currently, the Pagoda's leadership was:
Chief Pagoda Master: Qiangu Dongfeng (Thousand Ancient Clan), a demigod-level Limit Douluo.
Deputy Pagoda Masters:
Leng Yaozhu (Lv. 98 Titled Douluo)
Di Tian (Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King, 900,000 years)
A Spirit Eyes–wielding Titled Douluo from the Huo Family
Long ago, Shrek Academy had also held power in the Pagoda, but ideological differences had split them. Shrek leaned toward the Tang Sect, while the Pagoda sided with the Federation.
Privately, people called it the Tang–Huo Struggle.
The truth was, the other three Empires were useless. The Heaven Soul and Douling Empires had been wiped out by the Sun Moon Empire, which Tang God King had only partially checked by forcing them to rename themselves the "Heaven Dou Empire."
The remnants of the other royal factions had fled overseas to settle in an unknown continent.
"Old Ancestor," Huo Tiangang said, "Yun'er's Soul Spirit has been brought over."
He pressed a button on a spherical device, and white light flashed.
A black-spotted white tiger with a closed vertical eye on its forehead leapt out.
The moment it saw Jiang Chen, it froze, sniffed the air, then padded over and rubbed against his leg."Boss!" it said innocently.
Jiang Chen blinked. "How is it you?"
Ordinarily, a first spirit ring could only be a hundred-year Soul Spirit. But with modern mental cultivation and Spirit Ascension technology, even a ten-year Soul Spirit could be upgraded to ten thousand years.
This one, though, had served three Spirit Masters and was still only a hundred years — because of its special bloodline.
It was an Evil-Eyed Saint King.
The Evil Eyes White Tiger Spirit of the Dai Family was descended from this creature. In the Douluo comic's worldview, it was a million-year Soul Beast capable of becoming a Beast God. But its power had been drained by Dai Mubai, and since Soul Beasts couldn't become Gods, it had perished in its heavenly tribulation.
Jiang Chen had personally collected its corpse, and the Spirit Transfer Pagoda had revived it as an artificial Soul Spirit — albeit one with great limitations. It could not undergo Spirit Ascension, but it was perfectly suited to the Huo Family's inherited Spirit.
Huo Tiangang grinned."This Evil-Eyed Saint King may only be Yellow Grade, but for our family's Spirit Eyes lineage, it's the best match in the world."