Starry Sky Railway: Starting with a furious outburst at Aha

"Ugh... What are you doing?"

To Zhou Yuan's surprise, Su Chang woke up immediately after being touched. Her eyes were glazed, and although she hadn't quite come to her senses yet, she instinctively sat up: "What period is it now?"

Zhou Yuan: "......"

After a moment, Su Chang took in her surroundings and realized her predicament. She immediately smiled sheepishly.

"Oops, I'm sorry, I accidentally fell asleep. How is everyone?"

“We are fine,” Zhou Yuan said. “The matter has been resolved. Xueyi will activate the great formation soon. I was just about to call you.”

"Ah, that's it? I didn't even have a chance to lift a finger."

"Miss Su Chang, how are you feeling? Are you alright?" Huo Huo asked cautiously.

"Me?" Su Chang pointed to herself. "What could possibly happen if I just took a nap... Wait! I feel a pain in my chest, like someone punched me while I was sleeping... Do you have any clues?"

Everyone looked at each other and shook their heads in unison: "No."

"That's really strange." Su Chang scratched her head in confusion, then quickly gave up thinking about it. "Let's go then, I have to go out. I asked for leave to come here."

Zhou Yuan exchanged contact information with several people from the Ten Kings Division and was sent out of Suiyuan together with Su Chang.

"I never expected that it would be you who finally caught Suiyang." Su Chang's feelings were complicated.

On the way, the crow and the hawk had already told her what had happened.

Of course, he didn't mention that Zhou Yuan punched her a few times.

"...Looking at it this way, haven't I been of no help at all?!" Su Chang suddenly realized.

"No, you at least made things worse," Zhou Yuan said ruthlessly.

"Don't underestimate people!" Su Chang thought for a moment, "It's obvious that I helped everyone trap the last Sui Yang! This is a great achievement!"

"Mm." Zhou Yuan nodded.

"Can't you give me some confidence?" Seeing Zhou Yuan's unreasonable behavior, Su Chang was speechless. "I'm just a lowly Cloud Cavalry soldier, and I've already done quite well."

"Can't you say something nice to me, or encourage me?"

"Makes sense."

Zhou Yuan nodded in realization, looked Su Chang up and down, and began searching his mind for suitable words to praise her.

Seeing this, Su Chang stopped, her face full of anticipation.

“Um…you…” Zhou Yuan gestured with his hands up and down, finally fixing his gaze on Su Chang’s face.

"You have a big head on your neck... um, that's it."

"Huh??? This is hardly a compliment! Am I really that hard to praise?!" Su Chang stomped her foot in anger.

Zhou Yuan stopped talking, suppressing his laughter, and let Su Chang scream behind him as he quickly left.

He went straight back to Tingyun's residence and released Huanlong.

"My benefactor... I'm sorry." After a moment, Huanlong manipulated her body to press against Zhou Yuan's back.

Zhou Yuan paused in his typing, stopping his work of writing lyrics, and turned to see Huan Long looking apologetic.

"Do you know what the previous destruction mark was like?" Zhou Yang asked.

When Huanlong was idling in his mind, nothing unusual happened, indicating that the mark appeared indirectly or directly because of his light cone.

This is very interesting. What can pure beauty and destruction possibly have to do with each other?

"This...it might be because my strength increased dramatically after I swallowed the light cone, and my compatibility with my benefactor's body improved, so I brought the blessing of destruction with me."

“I see…” Zhou Yuan pondered.

Creating the Pain Cone requires sacrificing power; the more pain one experiences, the more power is lost. Consequently, Huanlong's strength increases significantly after absorbing the light cone.

This conclusion has been confirmed before. When Zhou Yuan attacked Fu Yan, he expended 10,000 tons of his own power and gained a terrifying boost. With just one strike, he caused Fu Yan, which had fused with many years of Yang energy, to suffer greatly.

However, the duration does not seem to have changed as a result?

Regardless of the amount of pain involved, the power boost for Huanlong only lasts for three minutes.

The boost will disappear after three minutes.

Zhou Yuan then thought of the strange thing on his right middle finger. The mark of destruction was inscribed in sync with the duration of the enhancement, as if he were getting a tattoo.

If the final stroke of the tattoo is not completed within the allotted time, the tattoo is considered a failure, and the marks will gradually disappear.

What if it succeeds? If the duration is long enough, can one obtain the blessing of destruction and "graft" a part of that fate onto oneself?

Do not attempt this lightly... Unauthorized manipulation of one's destiny path may attract the attention of the Star God. Zhou Yuan was unsure whether Nanuk's gaze would destroy him or bless him, so he added this matter to his to-do list and planned to wait for a better opportunity.

He patted Huanlong's hand, conjured a cone of painful light, and handed it to her.

"Sweetie, go do your own thing, don't worry about me."

"Yes, benefactor." Huanlong smiled as she absorbed the light cone.

After watching her leave, Zhou Yuan returned to the table and began editing the lyrics.

......

"...So I'm late?" Jing Yuan walked to the entrance of Suiyuan and looked up at the sky.

In the distance, a colossal, golden body could be vaguely seen flashing by in the landscape.

“Yes, General,” Xueyi nodded, “The matter of Suiyang has been resolved by Mr. Zhou Yuan... very quickly and efficiently.”

As she spoke, a virtual screen was projected in front of Xueyi's eyes, realistically displaying the battle scene.

After witnessing everything that happened in Suiyuan, Jingyuan couldn't help but murmur, "Flame Dragon Armor...is this its power?"

"I underestimated you... Zhou Yuan."

......

After editing the lyrics for "Ten Years in the Human World" and sending them to Fu Xuan, Zhou Yuan selected several other songs that he remembered as matching the First Emperor's experiences and wrote out their lyrics as well.

After finishing all this, it was already 7 PM.

Zhou Yuan chatted with Lin Ling for a while, then found her residence by following Xingfa's location.

Upon entering, one finds Xing sitting upright in front of the chessboard, having been waiting for quite some time.

"Sorry to keep you waiting." Zhou Yuan smiled and gestured for them to proceed.

"A fateful chess duel, Godfather, I won't hold back!" Xing looked full of confidence.

Zhou Yuan smiled: "You're just a beginner who's only been here for less than a day, so bring it on."

"No, I'll release the elephant!"

As he spoke, Xing made the first move.

Just as Zhou Yuan was pondering the meaning of Xing's words, he saw Xing's elephant leap several times, crossing the "Chu River and Han Border," and plunging into his own territory, swallowing his elephant whole.

"No?! How can it be poured like that?" Zhou Yuan looked over in confusion, only to see Xing grinning.

"This is the first-strike tactic I developed that guarantees victory; it's called the Southern Barbarian Invasion!"