Soul Land 3: Legend Of The Jade Emperor - Chapter 109

A year passed in a flash after the day that Huang Yu and Gu Yue had quit Shrek Academy at the Star Luo Empire.

During this time, many things had happened within Nox.

The most prominent thing that happened was Huang Yu’s reappearance along with the introduction of a massive number of true dragon spirit bones.

Huang Yu had created a literal truckload of them and had placed them in Nox’s stash as incentive for his men to work a little harder.

He made sure that everyone in the organisation got equal treatment. Nox was an organisation that adhered to righteous policies and gave an equal environment for everyone to strive. No one was to get preferential treatment and—

Who the hell was he kidding?

Of course he gave preferential treatment.

His Bishops got their whole body decked out with true dragon spirit bones, allowing them to breakthrough even further and increase their sheer battle prowess.

Sure, it was unfair.

However, Huang Yu wasn’t a robot. How could he not treat those that had followed him longer better?

If it was in your case, would you not treat your family and friends better than some random co-workers that you don’t even know the names of?

Of course, this set of actions had caused Gu Yue to question him about where he got all these spirit bones from.

After he had shown her his little magic trick, he got some (4000 words omitted).

:Putting that aside, the meeting with Ha Luosa had gone very simply.

Ha Luosa had gone into the room that Huang Yu was in…

Then only Huang Yu came out.

Efficient wasn’t it?

There was only room for one cul— he meant righteous God-serving organisation on this planet.

Huang Yu had also sparred quite often with Hui Mie as well during this past year.

Facing Hui Mie’s strength which seemed to be like a depthless gorge, Huang Yu managed to gain many understandings of his swordsmanship.

That mysterious state that he had been in when he had fought against Hui Mie the first time… he managed to touch it during the many spars with Hui Mie.

However, touching was not the same as having in it the palm of your hand.

And no, that was not what you were probably thinking you perverts.

Huang Yu had asked Hui Mie some questions about it, but for some reason, he refused to give a straight answer.

Instead, he said something vague, like:

“You must open your heart up to your sword as you would with your loved ones. Only then, can you achieve unity with your sword as you would with in the bosom of your lover.”

Those words had given Huang Yu a set of thoughts that he would really like to slap out of his head but oh well.

Words could never do the true profundities of the Dao any justice.

After all, could a human understand the barks of a rabid dog?

Just take that difference, then multiply it by infinity.

It was only then would you have the difference between human words and the Dao.

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The Shrek Academy group at the Star Luo Empire wasn’t idle as well during this time.

They had gone around to the various schools of Star Luo Empire, and completely decimated a bunch of scrubs as planned.

As their business in the Star Luo Empire came to an end, Elder Cai made the call for the Shrek Academy group to return to the Douluo Continent.

They chose not to wait for Tang Wulin, causing protests among the more or less confirmed six members of the Shrek Seven Monsters. However, those protests were calmed after an intense discussion and several promises made.

Unfortunately, there was nothing they could do about it.

Tang Wulin was MIA while Gu Yue was a member of the Spirit Pagoda.

And about Huang Yu?

He had seemingly disappeared from their radar one day despite the frequent ‘check-ups’ by Elder Cai.

It was something unethical, but how could they not do it? Huang Yu’s talent was off the charts and he was the only living user of sword intent that they knew.

If he fell into the wrong path, then it would be devastating for the entire continent if— no, when he became a Limit Douluo.

Hence, they had to nip him in the bud should he show any dispositions of turning to the dark side.

It was just a shame for them that it was far too late for them to ever do anything to him.

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“What are you doing?”

Those were Gu Yue’s words as she appeared in a silver flash at an enclosed training ground.

Shifting her gaze to the man sitting in the middle of the training ground, her eyes softened a little as she approached him.

As Huang Yu heard Gu Yue’s words, he was snapped out of the trance he had been in as he placed down the wooden cane in his hands.

“Gu Yue? Didn’t you have something to do at the Spirit Pagoda?”

“I finished it early so I came here to find you.”

Huang Yu nodded his head at Gu Yue’s reply as he turned his head back to the staff in his hands.

HIs third eye on his forehead glowing again, he attempted to scan the secrets of this cane in his hands.

This was one of the supreme tools that he had obtained along with the Blade of Tathagata and the Robe of the Sage.

It was called the Cane of the Sage.

Other than to look cool that is.

Hence, Huang Yu thought that it may prove to be another way he could get a qualitative boost of power other than to focus on the path of the sword at the moment.

The laws of space inside this staff were absolutely absurd. Even with his analytical abilities and his comprehension of space, he was unable to decode even a single bit of it.

Truly deserving of a divine level weapon.

As Gu Yue saw Huang Yu’s actions, she sighed softly.

A myriad of emotions flashed through her eyes as she kept her eyes on Huang Yu.

It was only after a few moments did her eyes finally harden, seemingly having made up a decision.

Gu Yue walked up next to Huang Yu’s sitting figure before she squatted to reach his eye level.

“You need to take a break.” she said firmly.

Huang Yu blinked a few times as Gu Yue’s words entered his ears.

Looking up back at her, Huang Yu tilted his head to the side in confusion. “What?”

“You heard me. You’ve been training for almost every single hour every day for the past year y’know? You need to take a break before you are the one who breaks down…” Gu Yue spoke in a calm manner.

Huang Yu scratched the back of his head as he laughed, “There’s no need for that Gu Yue. I’m perfec—”

He was cut off as Gu Yue hissed out, “No you’re not Huang Yu. The others might not be able to tell, but I can see that something’s clearly going on with you. You’re fretting about something…”

Facing Gu Yue’s sudden outburst, Huang Yu was left momentarily stunned as he quickly reclaimed his bearings.

Huang Yu opened his mouth to speak, but Gu Yue didn’t let him do so as she continued in a fervor, “I know you’re facing a lot of things but I’m worried about you…”

“Weren’t you the one who told me that you shouldn’t keep what’s bothering you bottled in? It keeps building up, bit by bit, until it becomes completely unbearable. I really don’t want you to see like that.”

“I know that at this moment I’m not strong enough to help you, but please, I want to help you even if it’s just a bit. I’m willing to shoulder part of the burden no matter how heavy it is.”

“Because…”

“I love you Huang Yu.”

Complicated emotions filled Huang Yu’s eyes as he listened to Gu Yue’s heartfelt words.

Out of all of them, the one that Huang Yu felt the most was guilt.

It was true. He had been pushing himself to the very limit this past year.

But that was because he didn’t have much of a choice in it. With the crappy impending threat of his bloodline’s love interest, he had all the motivation in the world to push himself to the next level as fast as possible.

If not for himself, then for the sake of Gu Yue.

God knows what will happen if a catfight happens…

However, he hadn’t realised how much his actions had actually hurt his lover.

He had become the very thing that he had sought to destroy.

Huang Yu let out a deep sigh, allowing his hands to stroke Gu Yue’s long silver hair at this moment.

“I’m sorry…” he murmured, “You’re right… you know me the best after all…”

Closing his eyes, Huang Yu pulled Gu Yue into his embrace as he whispered in her ears, “Do you really want to know about it? It’s some pretty murky waters that I’m in right now…”

“Definitely.” Gu Yue answered without a hint of hesitation.

As he heard this, a sense of happiness welled up within him. He couldn’t help but wrap his arms tighter around his lover as he buried his face into her hair.

“Ok then.” Huang Yu began.

“To tell you the truth, I’ve been hearing thin–”

Huang Yu was never able to finish that sentence as he suddenly found himself in a world of darkness.

Standing on a surface of golden lights coalesced into a floor, Huang Yu nearly jumped as the fifth gate that he had seen previously suddenly slammed down in front of him.

Huang Yu instantly retreated ten steps, knowing that something very wrong was happening.

There was no way that him appearing here just as he was about to tell Gu Yue about his secret stalker was just a coincidence.

It was then that the fifth gate glowed with a brilliant jade light.

Before Huang Yu could react, he was thrown out of his mindscape back into the real world again.

The Cane of the Sage beside him suddenly glowed with a bright light as the laws of space and time were converging around his body.

These same laws pushed Gu Yue’s soft body away from him as it slowly lifted him up into the air.

Huang Yu attempted to mobilise the King’s Wisdom along with some of his spiritual energy to use his comprehension of the laws, but it was futile.

They were just too powerful.

With a serious expression on her face, Gu Yue scrambled up to her feet.

Summoning her staff in her hand, six rings appeared behind her as she attempted to take control of the laws of space that was surrounding Huang YU.

Unfortunately, she only managed to delay the inevitable for a few seconds before she was repelled once more.

Landing away a few metres again, Gu Yue spat out a glob of blood as she reached out to him in desperation.

“Huang Yu!”

“Gu Yue!”

Just as she was about to make contact with Huang Yu, a bright flash filled the world as her hands made contact with absolutely nothing.

Standing there, Gu Yue’s eyes seemed to become dull as she just stared at the spot that Huang Yu was just at.

She didn’t even react when a tear slid down the side of her face.

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A/N: I’m probably gonna get a ton of flak for this decision, but hear me out.

Tbh, when I first started this story, I had really only planned it up until the Dragon God arc. After that, I was actually planning on dropping to go for another story since I didn’t plan for the future at that time.

But in the end, I chose not to do so. As I wrote, i couldn’t help but feel a sense of responsibility to finish this story at least. However, I was getting kinda bored, as you can see from the past few chapters.

And so, I would like to put up a poll in this chapter. Do you want me to rewrite the chapter, keep it like it is, or drop the story and go for the Tutorial one?

Depending on the results, I might change how I’m going forwards with the story.