Chapter 728: Burying Dragons For 1,000 Days (1/2)

However, even the powerful Tang Sect was unable to ascertain the situation in that small world. That was a change in s.p.a.ce and time itself, and it was already quite extraordinary that they'd been able to make use of a small world like that one, but it was beyond their capabilities to try and recover it.

As such, they waited for another month in vain, and this was the day that they had to go back.

Gu Yue stood in silence at the bow of the s.h.i.+p, casting her gaze into the distance in a certain direction. Ever since Tang Wulin had parted with them, she'd become a lot less talkative, and following Tang Wulin's disappearance, she'd become even more withdrawn, to the point where she would often go an entire day without speaking.

Everyone else wished that they could do something, but it was certainly far beyond their capabilities to find a lost small world, so they had no idea what they could do.

”Nothing bad ever happens to good people; I'm sure our captain is fine,” Yue Zhengyu sighed.

Xu Xiaoyan pouted, and said, ”If we'd known that this trip would be so fraught with trouble, we should've never come in the first place.”

Yuanen Yehui sighed, ”What's the point of saying something like that now? What's happened has already happened. I just don't know why he decided to leave rather than stay with us.”

Everyone reflexively turned to Gu Yue as this subject was brought up again.

No one knew exactly what had happened, but they could sense that Tang Wulin's departure most likely had something to do with Gu Yue. It was just that neither of them had said anything, so they could only continue to speculate.

Xie Xie couldn't help but ask, ”Gu Yue, Wulin's been gone for such a long time; aren't you worried about him at all?”

Gu Yue turned to him and suddenly said, ”He'll be fine.”

Tears immediately welled up in Xie Xie's eyes upon hearing this. ”What do you mean he'll be fine? He's been gone for so long, yet you've done nothing aside from shutting yourself off from everyone! We all tried our best to find him, but you haven't said a single word. You weren't like this back when we were at the academy; why have you become like this?”

”That's enough,” Yuanen Yehui urged as she tugged on Xie Xie's sleeve.

Xie Xie's emotional outburst was slightly irrational, but his words really did echo the thoughts of his companions; Gu Yue really had changed ever since they'd come to the Star Luo Continent.

However, Gu Yue seemed to have been completely unaffected by Xie Xie's outburst, and she merely murmured to herself, ”I'll wait for him until he returns to Shrek Academy.”

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”Huff, huff, huff, huff!” Tang Wulin was gasping for air, but his eyes were filled with excitement.

The entire dragon tomb had been emptied aside from one final skeleton, which was also the largest skeleton of all, the one that belonged to the Mountain Dragon King.

Not only was the Mountain Dragon King's skeleton downright colossal, each and every one of its bones was also immensely heavy. The extreme density of its bones resulted in an indescribable texture, and each bone was like a piece of the earth itself.

It took Tang Wulin over 10 times the amount of time to disa.s.semble this colossal skeleton compared to normal true dragon skeletons, and a vast amount of time and effort were expended once again to arrange the bones in the hole he'd dug.

This was a hole that was over a kilometer deep! Just digging this hole had taken him what seemed like an eternity.

Ever since he'd begun burying these skeletons, he'd used his bloodline soul skills and the soul skills he'd invented tens of thousands of times, to the extent that using them had become second nature to him.

”Farewell! After burying you, I'm finally going to leave.” Tang Wulin appraised the skeleton of the Mountain Dragon King with a smile on his face before pus.h.i.+ng the surrounding soil into the ma.s.sive hole. After burying the remains of the Mountain Dragon King, he had fulfilled his promise.

The bleak auras of grief and despair in the dragon tomb had already completely vanished, and Tang Wulin had planted many of the plants in the Dragon Valley small world next to the ma.s.sive graves. All of these plants grew exceptionally well after being transferred to the dragon tomb, and they gave this entire place a sense of vitality.