Human Race's Guardian, Hua Wuyan

[Year 18, Age 37.]

[Drawing traits...]

[Draw successful!]

["Hulk" (Purple Epic): When you are angry, you can lower your rationality in exchange for greater strength and size. Rationality can be lowered to a minimum of 20%, with a maximum boost of 100%.]

[Adjust traits?]

[Yes/No]

"Eh? Anger? Getting bigger?"

Chen Yi realized he could grow even larger now.

Moreover, the "Irritable Physique" trait he had drawn previously finally seemed to have a use.

Currently, "Heartsteel" allowed him to reach a maximum size of over twenty meters. Stacked with "Hulk," he could break through the forty-meter mark!

"Forty meters? Isn't that... Ultraman!"

This year's traits indeed needed adjusting, but "Hulk" would have to wait in line for now.

[You replaced "Asian Sorcery" with "Chinese Succubus".]

[You didn't explain too much to Li Lingyue, only telling her that if she went to the Southern Border with you, you could help her embark on the path of martial arts.]

[That single sentence was enough.]

[Even though it was her first time meeting you, Li Lingyue was willing to gamble her entire life.]

[She thirsted for power too much.]

["I don't want the people around me to die anymore because of my weakness! I want those who manipulate my life to pay the price for their arrogance!"]

[Hatred brings pain.]

[You didn't want to see Li Lingyue burdened with hatred, but this experience would undoubtedly help her future growth.]

[You and Li Lingyue arrived at the Southern Border to find Hua Wuyan.]

[During the journey, you didn't fly; you rode a horse. This way, you could spend more time with Li Lingyue.]

[You even rode on just one horse, and this horse was, of course, Black Wind.]

[The two of you sat on the same horse every day. With such close contact over a long period, the outcome was predictable.]

[Before falling in love with you, Li Lingyue was conquered by your charisma.]

[After falling in love with you, Li Lingyue was completely conquered by you.]

["Brother Chen, is the master who can lead me onto the martial path really here?"]

[Southern Border, Mount Feng, Soul-Severing Cliff—the place where the Unstained Flower, one of the Five Treasures of the Five Domains, bloomed.]

[You and Li Lingyue arrived here once again.]

["Yes, there is a very important natural treasure here. She will definitely appear here, but..."]

[However, calculating the time, you realized you were two years late.]

[Fortunately, as soon as you got close, you smelled the familiar scent of the supreme treasure.]

[Although your divine sense swept the area and found no one else, you knew Hua Wuyan was here.]

[The other party was a Dao Protector of the Human Race, a mighty figure in the Martial God Realm. Blocking divine sense probes was as easy as flipping her hand.]

[Holding Li Lingyue in your arms, you jumped off the cliff and arrived at the familiar cave.]

[Inside the cave, you saw Hua Wuyan holding an ordinary-looking piece of wood, stirring some kind of medicinal broth in a filthy cauldron.]

[Firewood burned beneath the cauldron.]

[The medicinal broth inside bubbled and boiled.]

[As the wooden stick stirred it, a pungent smell wafted out.]

["Junior Chen Yi greets Senior Hua!"]

[Hua Wuyan glanced at you and continued brewing the medicine.]

["You know me?"]

["Years ago, near the Mountain of a Hundred Deaths in the Great Wilderness Forbidden Zone, I witnessed you quell the riot."]

["Oh... I remember now. The kid playing with the Myriad Soul Banner nearby back then was you."]

[Your eyebrows twitched.]

[The Myriad Soul Banner was a taboo term, a notoriously evil artifact that everyone wanted to destroy.]

[For Hua Wuyan to say it so casually meant she clearly didn't care whether the Myriad Soul Banner was in your hands or not.]

[You introduced Li Lingyue to Hua Wuyan.]

[You explained that Li Lingyue had a Sealed Holy Body and only needed an Unstained Flower to awaken it, hoping Hua Wuyan would take her as a disciple.]

[Hua Wuyan couldn't help but laugh after hearing this.]

["Little guy, you appear inexplicably, bring an inexplicable girl, and inexplicably ask me to take her as a disciple? On what grounds?"]

["The Human Realm is about to face a great disaster. If Li Lingyue can grow up, she can integrate the forces of the Southern Border, which will be of great benefit to the Human Realm's defense!"]

["You are but a mere Martial King. How can you assert that the Human Realm will face a great disaster?"]

[Without another word, you took out the Myriad Soul Banner and released Hu Chacha.]

["Eh..."]

[Hua Wuyan sensed that something else had appeared in the cave.]

[She dipped her right hand into the medicinal broth in the cauldron, then wiped it over her eyes. Instantly, her eyes shot out a green light.]

[Under the illumination of this green light, the soul-form Hu Chacha was instantly revealed!]

[Even the purely mortal Li Lingyue could see him.]

[Li Lingyue hid behind you, poking half her head out to peek at Hu Chacha.]

["What kind of monster is this..."]

[Hu Chacha even tried to conceal his aura and escape while you and Hua Wuyan were caught off guard.]

[Hua Wuyan pushed out a palm, and several runic seals flew from her palm, sealing Hu Chacha in place.]

["Old hag! Let me go! Do you hear me?!"]

[Hua Wuyan sighed.]

["The Dragonkin Race... they still came."]

["Senior seems to have expected this."]

["Nowadays, the powerful races among the myriad races in the Void Realm are all launching realm wars, and the Dragonkin Race is outstanding among them.

If the Dragonkin Race doesn't come, other ambitious ones will.

All Void Realms will find it hard to escape this calamity.

It just depends on who can have the last laugh."]

[You sighed with emotion in your heart; battle royale tournaments were everywhere.]

["Senior doesn't need to worry. We just need to find seven Martial Gods and set up the Seven Luminaries Immortal Array, and the Human Realm will be able to survive this tribulation."]

["Seven Luminaries Immortal Array? What Seven Luminaries Immortal Array?"]

["Senior, please don't joke around. Didn't this array come from your hands?"]

["Unheard of."]

[You froze.]

[Could it be that the Seven Luminaries Immortal Array was something Hua Wuyan obtained later?]

[At this current point in time, she hadn't seen this array yet?]

[You picked up a piece of wood and simply drew a rough outline of the array.]

["Have you never seen this array?"]

["Indeed, I haven't."]

[On such a major matter, Hua Wuyan had no reason to lie to you.]

["Even if there was, you couldn't gather seven Martial Gods in the current Human Realm."]

["That's why this junior hopes you can take Li Lingyue as your disciple. Perhaps she can break through to the Martial God Realm before the enemy arrives!"]

[Hua Wuyan started laughing.]

["Actually, I once divined a hexagram that someone who could inherit my mantle would appear here. That's why I've been refining pills here to pass the time, waiting for her to appear.

It's just that cultivating a Martial God is incredibly difficult. Even I wouldn't dare guarantee you that she will definitely step into the Martial God Realm in the future."]

[Refining pills?]

[You looked at that bubbling pot of medicinal broth.]

[What kind of primitive pill refinement technique was this?]

[It seemed that meeting Hua Wuyan in this cave today wasn't due to luck, but because she had been waiting for a long time.]

["Senior, on the account that this junior helped deliver your disciple to you, could you grant me a small request?"]

"I understand your intentions. If the array you spoke of is real, what harm is there in me fighting for the Human Realm? This is my duty to begin with."

You figured your Chinese Succubus aura was doing the heavy lifting. Before you even had the chance to invite her, Hua Wuyan had already agreed to take up a position among the Seven Luminaries.

"What this junior actually desires is a stalk of the Unblemished Flower. An air-dried one will do just fine."