Soul Land 3: Legend Of The Jade Emperor

The banquet soon began. In the centre of the hall, the emperor and the empress stood in magnificent attire as they chatted with the high-level members of the diplomatic delegation. The mood throughout the hall was joyous, nobles of Star Luo and influential people of Douluo happily mingling.

Huang Yu and Gu Yue went in with locked arms, causing looks of awe from a variety of people. The two of them weren't phased however, since they had already gone through something like this once.

Xu Xiaoyan and Ye Xinglan were being surrounded by some of the nobles from Star Luo due to the virtue of their beauty. Yuanen Yehui however, was in male clothing, so despite her amazing beauty, the only person fawning over her was Xie Xie.

"Xie Xie is kinda pathetic," Gu Yue commented as she watched Xie Xie continue simping on Yuanen.

Huang Yu laughed softly before he shook his head. "C'mon, don't say that. He's trying his best."

"His best isn't that much from what I'm seeing,"

Huang Yu nearly sweatdropped from Gu Yue's words. He knew about how much Gu Yue disliked Xie Xie since the days that they were back in Eastsea Academy. Xie Xie annoyed her pretty often which made her dislike him quite a bit.

It was at this moment that a noble from Star Luo came up to the two of them, not caring that Gu Yue's arm was locked with Huang Yu.

"Excuse me, would you mind dancing with me, beautiful lady?"

Hearing this, Huang Yu looked at the man in front of them with a deadpan look. He was just half a step away from asking, "Are you dumb? Look at our arms!"

Luckily, Gu Yue beat him to the punch.

"I refuse," Gu Yue answered without even letting that person finish. She had spent so much effort to get Huang Yu to fall in love with her, and there was no way that she would purposefully let anyone else touch her.

The noble's noble expression turned ugly. However, he quickly moved away as he felt Huang Yu's gaze on him.

"People like that are pretty annoying," Huang Yu commented. Unfortunately, this couldn't be helped. This was a Xianxia world, and even if the people here were smarter than usual for a world like this, they still had their fair share of people who cultivate the Dao of Death Seeking.

A teasing smile appeared on Gu Yue's face. "What? Are you jealous?"

"Yes, very jealous." Huang Yu said with a nod of his head. "In fact, I'm so jealous that I might just tie you up in my room tonight."

Gu Yue's face turned bright red as a bashful expression appeared on her face. "Don't talk about that in public. Don't you have any shame?"

"Heh, what's shame? Can you eat it?" Huang Yu laughed.

It was at this moment that Tang Wulin entered the hall with Wu Zhangkong. After his little outburst that there was a murderer, he had been detained briefly by Wu Zhangkong and questioned for a while.

Dai Yun'er had run up to him and dragged him into a dance. Tang Wulin, being forced into it, chose to pretend to be inept at dancing as he continuously stepped on her feet.

"Tang Wulin is such an amazing dancer," Huang Yu whispered into Gu Yue's ear.

"Oh? How so?"

"He can always find a way to step on that girl's feet even when he shouldn't be able to…"

Gu Yue burst out in a giggle. She shook her head in exasperation before she suddenly stiffened up.

Her eyes turned slightly cold before she quickly hid it. Nonetheless, it didn't escape Huang Yu's perception.

"Huang Yu, I'll be right back. I need to go to the washroom for a while."

Huang Yu nodded his head in understanding as he watched her walk away. He then swiftly spread out his senses widely, trying to find out what Gu Yue was worried about.

His mental power was currently half a foot into the Divine Origin Realm, a level of mental power that only gods could achieve. Hence, his perception of things was far sharper than anyone else in this world.

The only reason he would be blindsided by some things was because he chose not to continuously spread out his senses. He didn't want to know what everyone was doing each and every time.

However, this didn't mean that Huang Yu's guard was down as a result of this. He could still easily tell danger when it was there. It was just that he couldn't get a clear and precise image of the scenario without his senses unleashed.

"A Duskgold Dreadclaw Bear?" Huang Yu whispered softly to himself. "That Di Tian is getting really serious about this…"

Huang Yu snorted coldly. 'That black lizard needs to be taught a little lesson.'

His third eye opened on his forehead, hidden from the sight of everyone else through an illusion. It glowed brightly before it soon dimmed down and closed once more.

'That should be a nice experience for him,' Huang Yu thought in satisfaction. 'Jorm can go play with him as well.'

— — — —

"What the fuċk?"

Those were Di Tian's words as he suddenly found himself fȯrċɨbŀƴ teleported into the bottom of the ocean.

With his dragon body, he had great control over space laws. However, despite his great control over those laws, he still found himself unable to resist the forceful teleportation.

The pressure of the great sea crashed into Di Tian's body all at once. Di Tian frowned as he quickly dispelled the pressure placed on him even though the pressure didn't really do anything to him.

At this moment, a loud roar entered Di Tian's ears as he felt the spiritual energy he was using being devoured. His eyes widened before he shifted his gaze towards the source of the roar.

His slit pupils dilated looking at the beast charging towards him with its mouth open. 'It's massive…' Di Tian couldn't help but comment internally.

Nonetheless, he was still the Beast God, and his pride wasn't to be profaned. He shifted into his dragon form as he faced down Jorm in the depths of the ocean.

Hence, a terrifying battle in the oceans began at this moment.

— — — —

"Hey!" Dai Yun'er called out to Huang Yu after she had sabotaged Tang Wulin with the cliche marriage Xianxia crap.

What left Huang Yu in confusion in all this was why didn't Tang Wulin just go deny her accusation? Even if he reacted slowly, he could still make the point clear later.

"What do you want?" Huang Yu asked. He didn't really keep what happened a few days ago in his heart. If his Bishops hadn't taken the initiative to get rid of those guards, then he would have just left it like that.

However, Dai Yun'er's performance had left him with quite a bad impression of her so he wasn't going to be too friendly with her.

That was also a question that Huang Yu wanted answers to as well though. How the hell did his Bishops know about that whole debacle?

"Let's dance as well!" Dai Yun'er said as she tried to pull Huang Yu to the dance floor just as she did to Huang Yu.

Huang Yu took a step back and dodged her grasp on his sleeve. "Sorry, but no. I'm not interested in dancing right now."

The only person that he wanted to dance with was Gu Yue. He knew that she didn't really like him getting too intimate with other girls so he would naturally respect her and keep them at a distance.

Dai Yun'er frowned hearing this. She had rarely ever been refused before, so this was a very strange feeling for her.

'I'll teach this guy a lesson as well,' thought Dai Yun'er deviously.

In a loud voice, Dai Yun'er exclaimed, "You want to be my boyfriend as well? In that case, what I said for Wulin stands for you too. I'll only date you if you win the Continent Young Elites Tourna—"

"What part of 'I'm not interested' do you not understand?" Huang Yu interrupted. There was no way that he was diving into the same rabbit hole that Tang Wulin did.

"You!" Dai Yun'er's face began turning red with embarrassment and anger. She thought that she could do the same trick on Huang Yu as with Tang Wulin but reality proved her wrong.

Huang Yu sighed as he shook his head. "I'm not interested in airport runways…"

Those first few words instantly left everyone with their mouths gaping. None of them could believe the words that Huang Yu was spouting at the moment.

"I'm sorry if those hurt you, but facts don't care about feelings. I don't want you to get any misunderstandings after all."

"..."

"I know that I'm strikingly handsome, but there are plenty of other fish in the sea as well. Although aren't anywhere near as great as me, they're still pretty decent."

"..."

"Also, I already have a girlfriend. Sorry, but I don't have a habit of putting my foot in two boats. You should find someone single and ready to mingle okay?"

"..."

Dai Yun'er's face was red as a tomato in anger. Her fists were clenched hard as she gritted her teeth.

With a violent huff, Dai Yun'er stomped out of the hall especially loudly.

Seeing this, Huang Yu scratched the back of his head. "People really shouldn't play with fire if they don't want to get burned," Huang Yu whispered to himself.

The face of Dai Yun'er's father wasn't very bright as well. He looked at Huang Yu in a dark expression but was helpless to do anything about it.

Huang Yu had done absolutely nothing wrong! Freedom of speech was a thing in their Empire and Huang Yu was completely free to reject Dai Yun'er.

If Dai Tianling were to interfere at this moment, it would ruin his daughter's reputation even more at this moment. It would tell everyone here that the royal princess can't handle a rejection from someone from Shrek Academy and needs her daddy to step in.

At the side, the rest of the Shrek Academy group were looking at Huang Yu's actions with wide eyes. Xie Xie involuntarily muttered, "What a legend… Huang Yu doesn't mince his words at all…"

"He's a responsible man. He's single-minded and doesn't let any external sources deter him from the path he's going on." Yue Zhengyu chimed in.

Meanwhile, Tang Wulin had a wry smile on his face at this time. 'I kinda wish I got the chance to say that to that girl previously.'

Huang Yu chose to leave the banquet at this time to look for Gu Yue. Just as he stepped out of the hall, he found Gu Yue returning.

"Ah, sorry it took so long. Are you leaving now?" Gu Yue asked inquiringly.

With a nod of his head, Huang Yu replied, "Yeah."

"Okay then. Let's go together. This place is pretty boring anyways."

As they left, Huang Yu briefly described what happened in the hall. Gu Yue had frowned when she heard the initial part of the story, but soon burst into laughs as she heard Huang Yu's replies.

"Serves that bitch right!"

Huang Yu laughed alongside her as they left the palace with incredible ease. As they made it outside, Huang Yu grabbed her hand.

"Gu Yue,"

"Hmm?"

Gu Yue felt her hand grasped by Huang Yu before he pulled her along with a smile on his face. "I wanna show you something."

Before Gu Yue could react, space and time shifted around time as the two of them suddenly appeared in a vast beautiful plain.

"Huang Yu, why did you bring me here?" Gu Yue asked, slightly confused.

Huang Yu put a finger to her lips. "Shh. Just look up."

Hearing this, Gu Yue shifted her gaze from Huang Yu's face to up into the starry sky. The skies were clear tonight as they displayed the beautiful sight of the countless stars in the sky.

Gu Yue was stunned at the beautiful sight of the countless stars in the starry sky. Even though she had seen these in the past as the Dragon God, seeing it personally with her lover was a completely different feeling.

"They say that when a star is born, they possess a gift or two."

"What gift?" Gu Yue asked absent-mindedly.

Taking a few steps forward, Huang Yu stood in front of her as his back faced the sea of stars behind him. "They say that it has the power to make a wish come true."

Gu Yue kept silent. At this very moment, under the starlight, Huang Yu looked so radiant yet incomprehensible.

"And it's true you know… my wish really did come true."

"And what was that wish?" Gu Yue whispered softly.

Huang Yu smiled brightly.

"That I could find someone to fall for. Just like all the stars in the sky."

At this moment, countless streams of light appeared in the night sky behind Huang Yu as countless falling stars streamed in the sky.