Douluo: I founded the mecha tribe and I am the king of mecha battles!

Chapter 289 Attitude Change
After the rain, the sky cleared, and the world was filled with a fresh atmosphere.

After a violent spatial fluctuation, Chen Zhou appeared alone on a cliff outside Donghai City.

The night was as dark as ink, and the cold wind made his robes flutter loudly.

The city lights in the distance resembled scattered stars, and he was looking down at this continent that was about to burn.

You seem to be in a good mood?

A slender figure emerged from the shadows. Gu Yuena's long, silvery-white hair shimmered like water under the moonlight. Her bare feet trod on the damp rocks, dewdrops on her toes reflecting silvery-purple starlight. Her left eye displayed a double pupil of ice, fire, blue, and red, while her right eye shimmered with a dazzling purple. A wisp of seven-colored light swirled around her fingertips—the last vestiges of the Dragon God fragments she had not yet fully absorbed.

"The shackles have been broken."

Gu Yuena's vertical pupils reflected Chen Zhou's figure, "But I have something heavier inside me."

She suddenly opened her palm, and a thin crack appeared in her palm, revealing a pulsating dual-colored core of ice and fire as the dragon scales unfolded. The energies that should have been in violent conflict were now circulating in a mysterious trajectory, forming a miniature triple divine ring.

Chen Zhou's gaze lingered on that core for a moment. He could see something more fundamental—Gu Yuena's soul structure was undergoing an irreversible transformation.

The guilt carried by the Dragon God fragments is building a nest in her spiritual world, attempting to inscribe the responsibility of reviving the soul beasts into the core of her spirit.

The lingering resentments of those 100,000-year-old soul beasts that were liberated then transformed into nourishment for the new godhood.

"Every authority comes at a price."

Chen Zhou said softly, "Just like when you hold a sword in your hand, you must bear the weight of the sword."

A gentle evening breeze stirred, lifting Gu Yuena's long hair. Under the moonlight, the silver strands shimmered with tiny starlight. She remained silent for a moment, then suddenly asked, "You helped me break free from the shackles of the Soul Beast race, yet you planted the Dragon God's obsession within me. Is this exchange... truly fair?"

Chen Zhou stood with his hands behind his back, gazing at the distant sky: "There has never been any fairness in this world. Soul beasts have been shackled and imprisoned for ten thousand years, but have humans ever treated them fairly? The Dragon God's obsession has bound you, but it has also given you the power to break free from this game."

Suddenly, Gu Yuena stepped forward. A gentle breeze carried a delicate fragrance along with her silver hair. Her stunningly beautiful face was right in front of her. Under the bright moonlight, the girl smiled, her blue and red eyes sparkling with mischievousness. Her breath was sweet and her demeanor was as graceful as jade.

"But haven't I already become my master's loyal subordinate?"

"Does a master expect loyal subordinates to harbor thoughts that are different from their own?"

That being, who was originally decisive and ruthless, possessing the majesty of a dragon god, now resembled a lively young girl in stark contrast.

Gu Yuena's sudden approach tinged the cool moonlight with a touch of allure. Her fingertips hooked onto the silver chain of Chen Zhou's collar, the dragon scale pattern faintly visible on the back of her hand. The Ice and Fire Core was still spinning in her palm, making the dragon god emblem on her collarbone appear as if it were alive.

"Master, would you like to check this?"

She suddenly pressed Chen Zhou's hand to her chest, the pulse of the Triple Divine Rings emanating through the thin veil. "Is there a seed of rebellion secretly hidden here?"

The air on the cliff suddenly froze. Gu Yuena's skin, through her clothes, felt the uniquely low temperature of the dragon race, but the ice and fire energy flowing in her blood caused ripples of light to appear where she touched it.

Within Chen Zhou's palm, two hearts were beating at different frequencies in the chest cavity—the left one was a slow, human-shaped heartbeat, while the right one was the thunderous roar left behind by the true form of the silver dragon.

"Your attitude changed quite quickly."

Chen Zhou is only sixteen years old since his rebirth, but his soul is quite old. In his previous life, he had traveled the boundless universe and seen everything.
The fragrance of the dragon's breath flower suddenly intensified. Gu Yuena's eyelashes cast dappled shadows in the moonlight. Maintaining this dangerous distance, she could clearly see the nebula flowing within Chen Zhou's iris—an eye structure far beyond what an ordinary human could possess. "Because I've figured it out~"

She suddenly spun back, her silver hair brushing against Chen Zhou's wrist, leaving a trail of sparks. "Rather than be tormented by the Dragon God's obsession, I'd rather have a more powerful being as my shackles. Shackles that concern only me."

"I've seen Ouyang Zixin, Xu Xiaoyan, and even my former subordinate, Biji."

"They all carry the owner's aura to some extent~"

"Didn't Master leave some on me too?"

When Gu Yuena released her hand, the trembling frequency of the dragon's heartbeat still lingered on Chen Zhou's fingertips. The energy diagram of the Triple Divine Rings circulating within her body emerged through her skin, and the interwoven red and blue patterns left a burning mark on his fingertips.

"You did something unnecessary."

Chen Zhou lowered his eyes to look at the gradually fading dragon scale patterns on his palm, where Gu Yuena's aura was slowly emerging. This entanglement at the energy level was far deeper than physical contact—like the silent fusion of the roots of two adjacent ancient trees underground.

Gu Yuena gracefully retreated, her toes crushing a luminous grass. The fluorescent blue sap splashed onto her ankle, instantly absorbed by her silver-purple scales. She tilted her head, a cunning look on her face like a feline: "This is how dragons always express loyalty, isn't it? Will Master punish me?"

Her voice trailed off with a slight upward curve, yet her eyes were as pure as a newborn dragon's. Three divine halos unfolded behind her, the frost flowers forming on her left ice wings and the golden flames rising from her right fire wings creating a cage that enveloped them both.

Chen Zhou's brow twitched slightly. He could, of course, see the essence of this energy resonance—Gu Yuena was actively synchronizing her soul frequency with his. This was a unique submission ritual of the dragon race, far more unbreakable than any contract. If any other dragons were present at this moment, they would immediately understand that the Silver Dragon King had willingly donned the collar.

Chen Zhou was certainly aware of Gu Yuena's emotional and behavioral changes.

After learning about the vast and boundless world, after breaking the shackles of the soul beast bloodline, and after learning that the soul beasts would one day submit to an existence that roams the galaxy and the universe.
At this moment, aside from killing the bloodline of the Tang family, she had no plans for the future at all.

She desperately wanted to tie her destiny to a grander existence—just as the mission the Dragon God had once given her had now become a shackle, she needed a new, more worthy goal to follow.

"Does the master know?"

Gu Yuena suddenly chuckled and took a few steps back, her toes leaving fluorescent trails on the damp rocks.

The night dew on the cliff edge suddenly condensed into beads, and the silver hair that Gu Yuena flung as she spun cut through the moonlight, leaving cool, fine streaks of water on Chen Zhou's neck. Her right eye, a purple pupil, reflected the starry sky, and within the illusory image of her unfolding ice and fire wings, the totem of the Dragon God's altar appeared—

That was clearly the highest-level dragon clan's ceremony of recognizing a master.

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