An Zhen recounted what had happened earlier—he had gotten engaged to Bi Ji.
Aside from Huo Yutong and Gu Yuena, the other girls exchanged glances.
Speechless, surprised, silent.
They already had a fairly comprehensive understanding of their boyfriend's personality and behavior, as they had gone through similar experiences.
But during the competition, to win the heart of an eight-ring Spirit Douluo, especially a top-tier healing type Spirit Master with the Emerald Swan Spirit, and make her willingly follow him without any official status...
They had still underestimated An Zhen.
Since it had happened, they had to face it.
"Forget it," Wang Donger sighed, "at least you were quite well-behaved during the time we were in seclusion."
Who told her to choose him?
The other girls also acquiesced to the matter; could they really drive Bi Ji away?
But the other party was also in the same position as them, a 'victim' in this matter.
The girls instinctively looked towards Gu Yuena.
Theoretically, Gu Yuena should be the one most difficult to accept, after all, that was her aunt.
However, during the competition, Bi Ji lived with Gu Yuena, so it was unlikely that she wouldn't know about this matter.
"Hmm?"
Gu Yuena tilted her head.
Why were they looking at her?
The girls:...
Alright, it seemed this one had no objections at all.
"Engagement." Wang Donger's dreamlike eyes stared at An Zhen, and she extended a fair, small hand, "I want one too."
The marriage between Xu Jiujiu and An Zhen was an arranged one, so a marriage contract was normal, but An Zhen and Bi Ji's wasn't arranged, yet they had a marriage contract set by their parents, making her an equivalent of a fiancée.
However, Wang Donger was currently only a girlfriend, even though she was the first, An Zhen's first love.
"!"
The girls suddenly realized.
"An Zhen~" The golden-haired young lady stepped forward, Ning Tian said in a coquettish voice, although An Zhen had said that his teacher would go to the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School to finalize their engagement, that was for later, and now was now.
"Brother An Zhen." The blue-haired little cutie grabbed An Zhen's hand, her eyes, bright as stars, looked at An Zhen, watery and clear.
Huo Yutong rarely desired something so much.
"An Zhen." The petite and adorable girl, wearing white short boots, walked up to An Zhen.
The pure and lovely Xiao Xiao hugged her boyfriend's arm, "I want one too."
"!"
The stunning silver-haired dragon girl puffed out her cheeks, her purple dragon eyes glaring at the girls surrounding An Zhen.
Presumptuous! Simply too presumptuous! They were just a bunch of toys!
"But your relatives and elders aren't here either," An Zhen said helplessly.
It was just a marriage contract; compared to now, it merely added the title of fiancée.
Of course, An Zhen wasn't unwilling to settle it; he wasn't a scumbag who would abandon someone after getting what he wanted.
Such matters, after all, had to be settled by the elders of both sides.
"Then let's just consider it a private engagement between us," Wang Donger said.
She didn't want a marriage contract.
They would definitely be a family in the future.
But what she wanted now was an upgrade in status.
After all, Xu Jiujiu and Bi Ji both had it.
The two who came last had it, and she had come much earlier than them.
"Okay." Stroking Wang Donger's head, An Zhen's face showed a hint of doting.
An Zhen quickly drafted several engagement documents.
Signed names.
The happy girls carefully put away this witness.
Zhang Lexuan's residence had no guest rooms, so An Zhen and his party returned to their home in Shrek City.
The Virtual World cleared away the dust that had accumulated during their absence.
Since everyone had just finished their seclusion today, they would rest for a day, adjust their mental state, and then on the second day, they would study what needed to be studied, cultivate what needed to be cultivated, and wait for Wu Feng to finish her seclusion before heading to the Star Dou Great Forest to acquire a spirit ring.
At night.
In the Virtual World, An Zhen explained Bi Ji's identity to Huo Yutong and Wang Donger.
"Bi Ji is a 100,000-year Emerald Swan that has taken human form.
The name Bi Ji is because she worships that fierce beast level Emerald Swan, Bi Ji.
She and Gu Yuena's mother, another 100,000-year Silver Dragon that took human form, are sisters.
When they journeyed across the continent together in the past, they met a human, who is the city lord of the main city that recommended Gu Yuena.
The three became sworn sisters.
Later, Gu Yuena's mother unfortunately met with misfortune.
Bi Ji didn't expect Gu Yuena to also take the path of human transformation, so she took her in and cared for her, using treasures to conceal her Spirit Beast aura."
Lying is hard.
It's not that inventing a lie is difficult, but that one lie requires countless other lies to fill it.
As for why two 100,000-year Silver Dragons are mother and daughter, it's because natural treasures can accelerate a Spirit Beast's cultivation growth.
A Spirit Beast's cultivation year count doesn't necessarily equal its actual age.
For example, Bi Ji, although she has nearly 600,000 years of cultivation, her actual age is less than 100,000 years.
Even Di Tian's cultivation didn't increase this quickly; it was because she consumed a large number of treasures, which came from the gratitude of the Spirit Beasts she had healed.
An Zhen remembered that Xiao Wu's mother was a 100,000-year Spirit Beast that had taken human form, but the time between Bibi Dong killing her and Xiao Wu taking human form was only a little over ten years.
It was obvious that the cultivation year gap between this mother and daughter was not large.
"Also a Spirit Beast in human form?" Wang Donger was surprised.
Including Gu Yuena's deceased mother, there had been three 100,000-year Spirit Beasts that had taken human form in the past century.
"Yes.
It's probably a longing for the human World; most Spirit Beasts only see the place where they grew up throughout their entire lives," An Zhen said, playing with Wang Donger's white-socked small feet.
"Don't bully me," Wang Donger sighed softly.
Wang Donger strongly suspected that Bi Ji had fallen so quickly because An Zhen had sweet-talked and deceived her, coupled with the assistance of Gu Yuena, who had already been deceived by An Zhen.
"Dong'er doesn't mind their true forms?"
Wang Donger blinked, "With the story of the Tang Sect ancestor, I heard his parents were also human and Spirit Beast.
Perhaps, humans and Spirit Beasts aren't necessarily enemies."
Wang Donger had no prejudice against this.
The girls in their adolescence, on the contrary, had a sense of emotion for such human-Spirit Beast love.
After punishing An Zhen's naughtiness with her white-socked small feet, Wang Donger happily went to read comics.
"Brother An Zhen." Huo Yutong looked at An Zhen.
"Bi Ji is Bi Ji." This was An Zhen's answer.
Huo Yutong nodded gently, understanding.
It was just as she had thought.
Huo Yutong had guessed it when she heard the name Bi Ji.
The reason others didn't connect the human Bi Ji with the fierce beast Bi Ji was because a being that reached the fierce beast level could no longer truly transform into a human; at most, it could Transmogrification (illusionary transformation), but that wouldn't be an eight-ring Spirit Douluo.
They also didn't know that a 100,000-year spiritual item could help a fierce beast transform.
But Huo Yutong knew that Gu Yuena, in Brother An Zhen's words, was an existence no less inferior to a King of Gods.
Her Mimicry Spirit Ability could freely simulate and add spirit rings, so for an existence like the Silver Dragon King, comparable to a God King, wouldn't it be easy to disguise a fierce beast as an eight-ring Spirit Douluo?
As for whether a fierce beast hiding in a human Empire would cause heavy losses to the human Empire?
Huo Yutong trusted Brother An Zhen.
After playing with Huo Yutong's ice cream for a while, An Zhen let the little cutie go.
Huo Yutong was going to practice making spirit tools, beginning her path as a Level Four Soul Guide.
An Zhen's consciousness submerged into a room in the Virtual World.
"Bing'er~"
An Zhen pulled the tsundere little queen into his arms.
His dark eyes looked to the side, where a white-haired beautiful girl was sitting on the edge of the bed, her pure and flawless sky-blue eyes intently reading the comic she held, her pink lips holding a steaming cup of milk tea, occasionally sipping, completely unresponsive to An Zhen's arrival.
"I just got to the exciting part," Ice Empress pouted playfully.
But her two small hands put down the comic she was holding, and she turned to tightly embrace An Zhen, actively offering a fragrant kiss from her cherry lips.
"I suddenly remembered something." An Zhen placed the loli-sized Ice Empress on his lap, one arm wrapped around Ice Empress's slender waist, "Bing'er, do you want to meet Yu Tong and the others as my spouse?"
"No," Ice Empress gently shook her twin pigtails.
"I am a Spirit Beast, they are humans.
I only need Xue'er as a close friend."
"Actually, not all of them are human," An Zhen said.
Ice Empress lifted her pretty, tsundere little face, and even Snow Empress beside her turned her gaze.
"Not all human?" Ice Empress wondered, "Are there 100,000-year Spirit Beasts who have taken human form?"
An Zhen spoke, "Not transformed.
One is by my side, one is in Star Luo City: Gu Yuena and Bi Ji."
"Bi Ji?!"
Ice Empress was surprised.
Snow Empress also stood up in shock.
"Yes," An Zhen nodded, meeting their somewhat disbelieving gazes, and said, "It is that Bi Ji with nearly 600,000 years of cultivation."
"An Zhen, you... you." Ice Empress's voice was a bit incoherent, not because An Zhen was a playboy, but because she was shocked as to why An Zhen could win Bi Ji over.
Not to mention that she was a super fierce beast with nearly 600,000 years of cultivation, she was also the 'treasure' of the Star Dou Great Forest.
Healing-type Spirit Masters are sought after by all forces, and it is even more so in the World of Spirit Beasts.
After all, they often have to fight over territory or treasures.
For example, in the Far North, Snow Empress once set a rule that anyone who causelessly slaughters low-combat healing Spirit Beasts is an evil Spirit Beast, to be jointly exterminated by all races.
She even specifically allotted a place for those Spirit Beasts.
It's just a pity that most Spirit Beasts in the Far North do not have talent in this area, and coupled with the poor environment, even with protection, very few can grow to 100,000 years.
"Was Bi Ji also captured and brought to the Seal God Stage?" Ice Empress asked, confused.
"No," An Zhen shook his head gently, "Bi Ji is Gu Yuena's maid."
"Maid?!" The Ice and Snow Two Emperors were even more surprised.
Even Di Tian, who was known as the Beast God, wouldn't dare to do such a thing.
Such humiliation to Bi Ji would displease the Spirit Beasts she had healed.
Compared to humans who have complex thoughts, Spirit Beasts' thoughts and emotions are simpler.
You are strong, but that doesn't mean I don't dare to fight you.
Representing Spirit Beasts: a certain bear that often provoked Di Tian.
"Gu Yuena?" Ice Empress mused, "Is that the silver-haired girl I saw outside before?"
An Zhen smiled slightly, "What I'm about to say might surprise you, but these are all facts."
An Zhen recounted his threat to the Ice Fire Dragon King, which the two women already knew, then spoke of his encounter with Di Tian, of the Dragon Clan, and of the Silver Dragon King, the co-ruler of Spirit Beasts.
The tsundere girl and the ice and snow elf were dumbfounded.
After a long pause, Snow Empress came back to her senses, her cherry lips uttering a few words, "Audaciously reckless!"
This was simply earth-shattering!
The Silver Dragon King!
One half of the Dragon God!
A super big shot far surpassing the Ice God!
The Ice and Snow Two Emperors' expectations for An Zhen were merely that he, having inherited the Ice Fire Dragon King's legacy, would cultivate diligently and strive to become a Divinity; they didn't ask him to surpass the Ice God, just to become a Divinity.
But this guy actually managed to woo an existence comparable to the King of Gods!
Becoming a Divinity?
He was already suppressing a God King beneath him.
"How about it, want to meet?"
The Ice and Snow Two Emperors exchanged glances.
"No," Ice Empress shook her head, "I'm content with Xue'er accompanying me, and we believe in the Ice God, not the Dragon God.
Moreover, an existence like that, if not for you, An Zhen, would she even bother with us two Spirit Beasts who haven't even reached Divinity?"
"Alright." An Zhen just saw Ice Empress's aloofness, but she had lived like this for hundreds of thousands of years, and now she had some interesting toys.
"I understand now why you're so confident about becoming a Divinity." Snow Empress looked at An Zhen with complex emotions.
Even an existence like the Silver Dragon King, this weak human dared to toy with her, and even became her spouse.
Becoming a Divinity would naturally not be placed in his eyes.
An Zhen smiled slightly, his calm tone revealing immense arrogance and confidence, "For me, becoming a Divinity is merely another starting point."
Snow Empress opened her mouth, but the words reached her lips and were then swallowed back.
If it were in the past, she would surely say that this weak human was like a frog at the bottom of a well, unaware of how high the sky was or how powerful Divinities were.
But the facts proved that she, with stronger power, was the one with the narrower perspective.
"A lie is a lie after all, and it will eventually be exposed." Snow Empress was a bit worried.
Her body and mind would be entrusted to An Zhen, so she naturally worried about what he worried about.
"As long as there is absolute power."
Power decides everything.
"Don't worry," An Zhen rubbed Ice Empress's small backside, "I have a plan in mind, you just lie back and let me carry you."
Snow Empress nodded gently.
Now was not the time to back down.
The sky-blue beautiful eyes reflected the scene of the black-haired young man and the forest-green twin-tailed girl embracing.
Weak in power, yet so mysterious and confident.
As if everything was calculated within his grasp, she and Bing'er didn't need to say much.
The Ice Fire Dragon King, the Silver Dragon King who was one half of the Dragon God, were both supreme existences, yet they were so easily 'played with' in his palm.
He truly was impressive.
The ruler of the Far North, for the first time in her life, admired a living being so much.
At the same time, in the real World, the silver-haired dragon girl snuck into An Zhen's room, her purple dragon eyes looking at the four people on the bed.
Xiao Xiao was lying on An Zhen, while Huo Yutong and Wang Donger were on either side, hugging An Zhen's arms.
A pair of jade hands directly picked up Xiao Xiao and placed her aside.
Virtual World.
"Bing'er~" An Zhen's emotions were stirred by Gu Yuena; he raised his hand, and Snow Empress's figure flew directly backward, then he closed the door.
"Hold me up," Ice Empress extended a pair of jade arms, her petite figure directly hanging onto An Zhen, her white-stockinged beautiful legs wrapped around An Zhen's waist.