Chapter 74 - What in 'The World'...

Over forty-nine days had passed since the day that Huang Yu and Gu Yue had confessed to one another and consummated their relationship.

During that period, their relationship, if possible, had managed to improve even more during this time.

This was easily noticed by everyone, with only Tang Wulin not noticing since he was being brutally tortured each and every day by Mu Ye who constantly tossed him into the sea to draw out his potential.

Xu Xiaoyan had even commented that Gu Yue seemed to have a more mȧturė charm about her now.

Gu Yue had replied with only a smug smirk, causing Xu Xiaoyan to become star-struck. She pulled all the girls in the Shrek Academy group together as she tried to pry out some of Gu Yue's thoughts about her 'mind-blowing' experience. Gu Yue had been relatively busy for the past one and a half months so Xu Xiaoyan only managed to get a hold of her now.

"Big Sis Yue! How did it feel!?! Did it hurt the first time?! Was he at least like this big?!!" bursted out a barrage of questions from Xu Xiaoyan's mouth as she put a small gap between her hands to estimate a certain someone's size.

Yuanen seemed to be sitting at the side rather reluctantly, but if one looked closely, one could see that she was faintly interested as well.

Ye Xinglan also sat at the side listening in. Her mood wasn't particularly good at this moment, but she wanted to know anyway.

"It felt really good. No, it didn't hurt much for me, and no… he was bigger.," Gu Yue admitted without an expression on her face.

Several hisses involuntarily burst out of the mouths of the three girls listening. An inquiring look appeared on Xu Xiaoyan's face. "Then can you give us an estimation Big Sis?"

Gu Yue smiled strangely at that question, causing goosebumps on the three girls watching.

"Two inches bigger at the very least."

Looks of shock appeared on the faces of the three girls listening. One should know that Xu Xiaoyan's estimation was 6 inches already. At least two more inches… wasn't that eight at minimum?

And Huang Yu was only sixteen! There was still room for growth!

"Big Sis Yue… how did it even fit inside? I don't think I can fit eight inches even if I tried my best..."

Gu Yue laughed, drawing the attention of all three girls in the room to her.

"You don't have to worry about it since your partners won't be that big."

— — — —

Inside a room, a figure with striking red hair sat in a lotus position. If any Titled Douluo were to see him as of this moment, they would definitely be shocked.

A massive torrent of energy, enough to cause even a Rank 98 Super Douluo to blow up, was rushing into the body of this person, tempering his body as his cultivation rose as swiftly as the wind. A terrifying sword intent also surrounded his body as some of it entered his body at random intervals.

The only person insane enough to do this was naturally Huang Yu.

Letting out a deep breath, Huang Yu opened his eyes which seemed to contain galaxies filled with countless colours at this moment.

The third eye on his forehead burst open as the myriad laws in the surroundings began to contort and reality began to break down around him. A terrifying force filled the atmosphere as spatial storms began appearing around the area.

All of this was suddenly stopped when Huang Yu blinked once, snapping him out of the trance he had been in.

He rose in a swift movement before he closed his eyes once more, feeling the changes to himself.

Opening them, he smiled. 'Twenty-six ranks have already been converted to my cultivation manual. It was nice to be able to achieve an enlightenment right now.'

'Although it's only Rank 26, I reckon that I'm strong enough even without considering anyone else to beat down a Rank 50 Spirit King.'

Although Huang Yu could naturally skip levels even at level one, this was due to his incredibly powerful physique and Renewal Taekwondo played a large part as well. His original spirit power didn't play a part in increasing his strength much at all other than to provide him spirit rings and his martial spirit.

However, now Huang Yu was saying that even without including any of that, he could still beat a Spirit King! Then what if he included his insanely powerful physique and his martial arts as well?

Not only that, what about the comprehension of laws that he had obtained by cultivating this manual? It wasn't at ISSTH or ED's level of madness, but in conjunction with his King's Wisdom, no one on this planet that he knew of were his opponents anymore.

Lifting up a hand, his martial spirit in the form of an ordinary katana appeared before him. A petrifying sword intent burst out from the sword as cuts began to involuntarily form on the metal reinforced surfaces in the room.

"Good!" Huang Yu remarked. After he began to infuse sword intent into his body and cultivated using his new cultivation manual, he could feel several changes for the better happening to his sword intent.

He could vaguely feel it, but he was sure that his sword intent had a name! As a result of his low comprehension of his sword intent at the moment, he couldn't tell what it was. Nonetheless, he was sure that he would find it out when he had converted his cultivation base up to the fortieth rank.

Some of the mysteries surrounding sword intent was beginning to clear up for him now. However, despite this fact, that one unravelling only revealed more mysteries for him to solve.

'No wonder cultivators in those novels love to pursue cultivation so much. It's really addicting to continuously solve and find out more mysteries of the world…'

Huang Yu's current battle power exceeded the limits of this world, but this wasn't a result of his strength. Instead, it was due to the sheer amount of hax the King's Wisdom provided him.

In terms of movement, he could teleport around with his powers over gravity, not even needing to use space laws to do so. He could also forcefully sever space to do a Kamui on someone.

There was also the snap if he was ever truly out of options.

Without King's Wisdom, Huang Yu's strength was greatly reduced. At best, he could probably fight a Spirit Douluo with two-word battle armour with his current strength, and victory then probably go either way. Limiter removal could tip the scales but it would exhaust him to heal from the rebound with his blood essence if he didn't use the King's Wisdom to refuel himself.

Walking out of the room, Huang Yu was greeted by the pale faces of his two bishops who had been working hard to hide Huang Yu's energy fluctuations during cultivation.

Unfortunately for them, Huang Yu's energy fluctuations were insane during cultivation due to the enlightenment he was going through. Near the end, they even needed their battle armour to suppress everything.

Seeing this, Huang Yu sighed. "You've worked hard."

With a wave of his hand, powerful vital energy flowed into the bodies of his two bishops as their faces regained some ruddiness.

"Thank you for your blessing, my king." the two bishops said as they dropped to a kneel.

"Well I'll be going back to my room first. You guys have already replaced all the ministers with our own people with Dugu Qiubai's ability right?"

It was Romario who answered. "That is correct, my king. As of this moment, we will have quite a bit of influence over the economy of the Star Luo Empire."

Before Huang Yu could answer, a deafening boom suddenly resounded throughout the ship. The ship shuddered with screeching metal as Huang Yu's eyes narrowed.

"Spirit beast attack."

— — — —

Huang Yu arrived on the deck alone with his bandana worn on his head to hide his third eye, to see the other members of Shrek Academy. The two bishops of Nox didn't follow as they weren't supposed to show that they were affiliated with Huang Yu yet.

"Huang Yu!" Gu Yue shouted worriedly as she ran over to him. She grabbed his arm as she pulled him over to their group.

He was about to ask Gu Yue about the general situation but he was cut off by a chilling voice that came from the depths of the ocean.

"Humans… you dare trespass in my territory… you slaughter my clansmen… if you do not hand over the murderer responsible… I will take vengeance upon all of you."

A gigantic shark slowly rose from the water's depths. It's silver back was a small island unto itself and its mighty fin had a sharp edge to it. A distance away, a purple whale rose from the depths as well, the true enormity of it becoming clear as its shadow stretched hundreds of metres. With the appearance of these two beasts came an oppressive aura that weighed upon everyone present.

At that, hundreds more beasts, lesser sharks and whales, broke the surface around their respective lords. At a glance, they numbered over a thousand in total.

To her knowledge, Huang Yu was powerful, but he wasn't at the level where he could be considered a powerhouse in the world… yet.

She knew that he could definitely become one, but she felt that it was not enough time for him to grow considering he was only sixteen.

"We never killed any of your clansmen," Elder Cai said. "We're only passing through. If you continue to bar our way, don't blame me for being ruthless. Do you think just two of you hundred-thousand-year spirit beasts can stop us? We humans always need more of them anyways."

As Elder Cai said this, Gu Yue clenched her fists despite the worry she was feeling for Huang Yu. As the king of spirit beasts, hearing this kind of callousness towards her own race caused flames of fury to rise in her ċhėst.

Huang Yu naturally noticed this with his powerful mental power. He held her hand, instantly dispelling the anger in Gu Yue's heart.

The gigantic shark roared ferociously as it prepared to attack. However, it suddenly paused as its eyes registered Huang Yu's body.

A sharp gleam passed through them before it suddenly charged at breakneck speeds towards Huang Yu.

All the Spirit Masters in the vicinity were shocked by this sudden unexpected movement from the Great White Demon Shark King but quickly recovered by donning three-word battle armours and charging towards it.

Unfortunately, they didn't react fast enough to be able to stop the Great White Demon Shark King's charge, so some casualties were inevitable…

If only Huang Yu wasn't there of course.

Panic appeared on the faces of the Shrek Academy group as they summoned their martial spirits to hopefully survive.

Gu Yue's face was the most ashen as silver scales appeared on her arms, preparing to try and protect Huang Yu.

Before anyone could attack however, a series of words were spoken from Huang Yu's mouth that was only heard by Gu Yue.

Nonetheless, those words sent a chill down her spine at the weight those words carried.

"The World…"

"Time has stopped."