"Yeyue, Yueyue!"
Not long after Long Yeyue and Tang Wulin left the café, Chen Xinjie appeared in the very same café where they had just been.
"They're not here! What's going on? Could Yueyue have lied to me? Impossible. Yueyue wouldn't lie to me, let alone stand me up."Chen Xinjie searched all around but couldn't find Long Yeyue.
"Waiter, did this person just now come to the café?"Helpless, Chen Xinjie took out a photo of Long Yeyue and asked a server.
"No." The waiter looked at the photo—an elderly woman with a hunched back, appearing to be in her 80s or 90s—and shook his head. "Sir, this is a café, a place for young and middle-aged people. Just earlier we had a woman around sixty or so, and now you've come along. That's rare enough. We wouldn't have had someone like this person in the photo."
"A woman around sixty…"Chen Xinjie frowned and glanced up at the soul-guide surveillance system on the wall. "Could you let me take a look at the surveillance footage?"
"Uh…" The waiter was instantly put in a tough spot—he didn't have the authority for that.
"I'm with the Sea God Legion, on official duty. Please cooperate."Chen Xinjie didn't waste time and directly produced his Sea God Legion officer's ID.
"One moment, sir. I'll notify our manager."Seeing the ID, the waiter didn't hesitate and went off to call the manager.
Upon seeing the Sea God Legion officer ID, the café manager didn't dare to refuse. He immediately led Chen Xinjie to the surveillance room.
As he watched the footage, where Long Yeyue appeared youthful, looking around 50 to 60 years old and radiant with health, Chen Xinjie's eyes glazed over with infatuation.
"Do you know what they said or where they went?"Chen Xinjie turned to ask the waiter and manager.
"I think I overheard something about a child… and marriage?" the waiter paused, then said, "I wasn't paying close attention—the café was crowded. I only noticed them because they looked odd together, one young and one old. But I don't know where they went."
"Child, marriage…"Chen Xinjie casually shook his head. Not in a million years would he believe it was something between Tang Wulin and Long Yeyue.
"This has nothing to do with you anymore. Go back to your work."Waving them off, Chen Xinjie turned and left the café.
As soon as he stepped outside, he contacted the Sea God Legion's technical department."Take over all surveillance systems in Tianhai City. Search the entire city for two people."
The Sea God Legion, being the most elite naval force of the Sun-Moon Federation, had astonishing efficiency. Within just a few minutes, they found Long Yeyue and Tang Wulin on the airport surveillance footage.
"Airport!"Chen Xinjie took a deep breath—and vanished from the spot.
With his cultivation level, getting to Tianhai City Airport took only a blink.
But the moment he arrived at the airport, he was dumbfounded.
Long Yeyue had transformed into a beautiful young woman in her early twenties, sitting in a red mecha alongside Tang Wulin, chatting and laughing.
He could even sense the Sea Dragon Soul Spirit he had gifted Long Yeyue now residing in Tang Wulin's body.
Chen Xinjie's public title was the Vast Sea Douluo, but his family had secretly inherited another title for generations: the Sea God Douluo.
This title wasn't related to the famed Sea God Tang San, but had been passed down for over 40,000 years, originating from the first Sea God—Poseidon—who became a god after cultivating in the ocean for a millennium and left behind Sea God Island as a place of inheritance.
Twenty thousand years ago, Tang San appeared on Sea God Island. At that time, the Sea God Trident—Sea God's divine artifact—was still being protected on the island. It was through the sacrifice of Chen Xinjie's ancestor, Posexi, that Tang San obtained the Sea God's approval and became the new Sea God.
When Tang San pulled out the Sea God Trident, Sea God Island vanished. Chen Xinjie's ancestors were then forced to migrate inland.
However, the title of Sea God Douluo continued to be passed down through each generation.
In Chen Xinjie's family, the most outstanding Title Douluo of each generation would become the Sea God Douluo of their time.
Besides the Sea God Douluo, many other Title Douluos in the Sea God Legion also held titles passed down through generations.
Many of them had migrated inland alongside the Posexi family.
They were once guardians of the Seven Sacred Pillars of Sea God Island and later helped establish the strongest naval force—the Sea God Legion—under the Sun-Moon Federation.
This is why Chen Xinjie, as the Sea God Douluo, held absolute authority within the Legion. The Federation couldn't interfere; these warriors were not only powerful but also loyal solely to the current Sea God Douluo.
Among them, the strongest—apart from the Sea God Douluo—was the Sea Dragon Douluo.
The Sea Dragon Douluo title had also been passed down for generations. The Sea Dragon Soul Spirit and red mecha given to Tang Wulin by Long Yeyue originally belonged to the previous Sea Dragon Douluo, and the soul spirit was a legacy of that family.
Chen Xinjie had shown extraordinary talent from a young age. His father—the previous Sea God Douluo—recognized his gifts, just as the Heavenblessed Douluo did when he discovered Yun Ming.
His father had high hopes of grooming Chen Xinjie for godhood.
Because he was so precious to his father, who couldn't always accompany him due to responsibilities with the Legion, he assigned the most loyal and powerful Sea Dragon Douluo to secretly protect and guide Chen Xinjie.
But during one of those missions, Sea Dragon Douluo was ambushed. Though he managed to help Chen Xinjie break through the siege, he was fatally wounded.
Knowing he wouldn't survive, he forcibly stripped the Sea Dragon Soul Spirit from his body and gave it to Chen Xinjie, instructing him to pass it to the next Sea Dragon Douluo.
Coincidentally, Long Yeyue was preparing to break through to Title Douluo at the time and was in need of a suitable soul spirit.
After three days and nights of hesitation, Chen Xinjie ultimately gave her both the Sea Dragon Soul Spirit and the Sea Dragon Douluo's red mecha.
Dragon-type soul spirits were precisely what Long Yeyue needed.
Coincidentally, the Heavenblessed Douluo also found her another suitable soul spirit around the same time.
Though Long Yeyue chose the Heavenblessed Douluo's soul spirit, Chen Xinjie shamelessly insisted on leaving the Sea Dragon Soul Spirit and the mecha with her anyway.
Because of this, when he returned home, he was severely beaten.
If it weren't for his exceptional talent, he might have been expelled from the Sea God family altogether.
Later, his father—the previous Sea God Douluo—had planned to negotiate with Shrek Academy to retrieve the Sea Dragon Soul Spirit and the red mecha.
But Chen Xinjie knelt before the Sea Dragon Douluo's grave and swore that he would marry Long Yeyue, and that when the next Sea Dragon Douluo was born, she would personally pass on the legacy.
Only then did his father drop the idea of negotiating with Shrek.
But unexpectedly, Chen Xinjie failed to win Long Yeyue's heart. By the time news of her marriage to the Heavenblessed Douluo spread, his father had already passed away.
Thus, the Sea Dragon Soul Spirit and red mecha remained with Long Yeyue.
Now, she had passed them on to Tang Wulin.
"Mine… mine… that's mine."Watching Tang Wulin and Long Yeyue laughing together in the red car (red mecha), Chen Xinjie's eyes turned red with jealousy.
There was no denying that Long Yeyue, even in her youth, had the charisma to captivate top-tier powerhouses. Dressed in a white gown, she looked like an ethereal fairy. Her breathtaking beauty, coupled with the faint sound of dragon roars around her, gave her an almost divine aura.
In both looks and temperament, she was nearly on par with peerless beauties like Leng Yaoshu and Yali.
As for Tang Wulin, though only seventeen, he was strikingly handsome—tall and well-built, broad-shouldered, upright posture, his flowing black hair framing a resolute and attractive face.
Paired with the little red car (mecha), even Chen Xinjie had to admit—just for a moment—that the two looked perfect together.
(End of Chapter)