Chapter 124: Pre-Battle Preparations

Ye Fan: "Xiaolu, take some brotherly advice here — meat delivered right to your door, it'd be a waste not to eat it!"

Ye Fan: "It's no big deal, right? I just refined some Dragon Blood Pills, great for boosting vitality — I'll set aside two bottles for you."

Su Lin: "…"

Su Lin: "I remember you let Lu Mingfei bleed for you…"

Su Lin: "This dragon blood for refining pills…"

Lu Mingfei: "I'm not eating it!"

Especially Especially Especially Xiao Yan: "Stop being so wishy-washy — a real man takes everything!"

Miss Kelaien: "Especially Especially Especially Xiao Yan, you'd better shut up."

Han Li: "Ah, this…"

Lu Mingfei: "I just finished reading Battle Through the Heavens — I hope you're still this brave when you're kneeling on a washboard."

Ye Fan: "Since you're so brave, I suggest you demonstrate it for Lu Mingfei @Especially Especially Especially Xiao Yan"

Especially Especially Especially Xiao Yan: "The teacher told me to go refine pills, chat later."

Especially Especially Especially Xiao Yan went offline again.

The corner of Su Lin's mouth twitched. Aren't you supposed to be in a war council with Miss Kelaien and Zhongli at Genji Weight right now… what pills are you refining…

Weigong Shilang: "Why did the tuition fee turn into payment by projection? @Su Lin"

Su Lin: "Isn't that pretty good?"

Rounding up, doesn't that basically mean getting it for free?

Weigong Shilang was in the equipment department of Dawn Hall, staring blankly at the weapons piled up like a small mountain before him — and this was only a quarter of them.

Weigong Shilang: "It is pretty good… thanks."

In the conference room inside Genji Weight, Zhongli cut off Charlotte's ongoing briefing on the battle plan.

"Mr. Zhongli, please go ahead."

These half-bloods still showed quite a bit of respect toward this earth god who had appeared out of nowhere — he was mild-mannered and easy to talk to, with not a trace of pretension, and the scene of his battle with the God of Light a few days prior had demonstrated his formidable strength. According to the profile analysis conducted by the professional team, this one had zero interest in ruling human society, but had very likely once been a supreme authority at the very top of power.

"It's confirmed — they should have a large number of alchemical weapons on their side." Zhongli estimated for a moment, then said: "Enough to cover all of the enemy's forces."

"Is it that friend of yours…" Charlotte sighed, but this contingency had already been prepared for. Once it was confirmed, a slight tactical adjustment would suffice.

"Excuse me, everyone." Fingal raised his hand and said: "May I say something?"

"Go ahead."

"Every country has pretty much surrendered by now — do we still have to fight?" Fingal spread his hands and said: "The situation now is, whoever opposes gets branded anti-human. Just now a small country's regime collapsed outright, and the other side has taken over."

"The UN wants us to negotiate peacefully with them."

"The subtext is — don't do anything rash."

Lu Mingze laughed and said, "Tell them that if our plan succeeds, not only will they get those technologies, they can still sit in their original seats instead of taking orders from that one."

As he spoke, he glanced around at the others and said: "The plan remains unchanged."

……

"Divine Kingdom coverage complete." Su Lin sensed the city below. "Until my divine spark shatters, the Divine Kingdom will remain overlapped with this city."

Old Lu stared at Su Lin for a few moments. "Where did you get this divine spark? And one that comes with its own Divine Kingdom at that."

"Picked it up." Su Lin's expression didn't change as he replied.

"Ridiculous." Old Lu flew into the air, mobilizing the authority within his body, and began a second modification of the area below using his peak-level alchemy.

Mental elements began to expand. Centered on this floating island, the alchemical matrix began to take shape. With Su Lin's Divine Kingdom as its cornerstone, the Seven Kingdoms achievement of Dragon alchemy was now being wielded by its most supreme king — the laws of this place were rewritten to follow his will.

"Space opened, endowment complete."

"Time reversed, endowment complete."

"Life created, endowment complete."

A moment later, Old Lu dropped down from the sky, his face deathly pale.

"You'll be alright, right?" Su Lin was a little worried.

"I'm fine." Old Lu shook his head, steadying the power within his body. "This body is still too weak…"

"Good thing I took two hours a couple days ago to help him advance to Golden Core Stage."

"You misunderstood — what I mean is, you won't drop the ball during the final battle and make me take over, right?" Su Lin hesitated, then said: "If that happens, I'm surrendering."

"……"

Old Lu rested for a moment, then walked toward the palace interior, saying: "I can recover, don't worry!"

The two walked toward the hall. Everywhere were busy half-blood figures, except for two figures sitting side by side in the center, completely out of place with the scene.

They sat before a long marble table, which was covered with all sorts of fruits and refreshments.

"Did the lovebirds have another fight this early in the morning?" Su Lin said, puzzled.

The dragon's majesty in the hall instantly grew heavier.

"Last night you didn't come, so we grouped up to run the boss raid on floor 39 of Sword Art Online. Because Chu Zihang tanked a hit for her, the raid failed, so she's angry." Old Tang walked over from the side, an apple in his right hand and a large bag of alchemical materials in his left. "I suggest resurrecting my little brother soon — that way the teaching duties can be handed off to him, and I can play games every day."

"Even learning introductory alchemy is this much of a struggle — being a teacher is tough."

"How many times do I have to say it!" Jörmungandr's eyes flared gold as she glared fiercely at Su Lin: "I don't like him! And he's not my husband!"

"Yeah, yeah, sure." Su Lin picked at his ear — he'd heard this so many times he was getting calluses. "Teacher Daye, that line of yours might fool everyone else, but don't fool yourself too."

"The contents of that book are fake." She slammed her fist hard on the table, chipping a piece out of the marble surface.

"Things that never happened — stop making stuff up!"

"Give it a rest. If you're not tired of it, I sure am." Su Lin said to Chu Zihang: "Are you going to the half-blood mixer tonight? We could team up."

"Go, go, both of you go!" Jörmungandr frowned and said impatiently: "When the time comes for the wedding, I'll chip in for the gift money."

"I have a girlfriend, so I won't go," Chu Zihang said.

"Heh, your girlfriend is Xia Mi, but unfortunately, she's a fake."

"I think the book made it very clear. I don't care whether you're Xia Mi or Jörmungandr. I just happened to meet a girl at that moment in time."

"Even if you read me the lines, I still won't kiss you!" Jörmungandr said, flushed with embarrassment and fury. "Sooner or later, I'm going to beat up the author who wrote that book!"

Su Lin turned around speechlessly and walked toward a room full of technological flair, where there was a new game created by artificial intelligence. He was now going to rescue a girl named Celia.

The romantic feelings between an older young female dragon and a young human male were truly beyond the comprehension of a bachelor like Su Lin.

Speaking of feelings, ever since he had hope of immortality, or realized he would sooner or later become a long-lived being, Su Lin felt his need for the opposite sex was no longer so strong.

"What is love?"

Su Lin walked to the door of the game room, and his expression suddenly turned a little strange.

"That's a good question…"

He took out his phone and searched in the browser.

Meanwhile, in a room inside Genji Weight.

A sound came from the pendant around Hui Liyi's neck.

"Alastor, you still haven't answered me. What is love?"

Hui Liyi recalled the topic her brother had asked her today—whether she loved sakura.

"Love is a feeling that comes from within the heart. It refers to having a pure and deep affection for a certain person or a certain thing."

"I don't understand."

"Then let me put it another way." The magnetic male voice paused for a moment. "Do you want sakura to become something that belongs to you?"