Three Years of Slumber

The black figure was naturally Di Tian.

The process of Lin Yun fusing with the Golden Dragon King Bloodline released an intense Dragon's Might that had long since swept across the entire Star Dou Great Forest.

For ordinary soul beasts, at most, it felt as though they had suddenly been oppressed by the bloodline aura of a superior being. After all, they were too far away.

But Star Dou Fierce Beasts like Di Tian could truly sense that pure, majestic aura of the dragon clan.

After respectfully kneeling to pay his respects to Lin Yun, Di Tian gently picked him up. He opened a spatial gate and stepped through it.

Lake of Life.

Di Tian emerged from the spatial rift, carrying a human child in his arms. Yet the Dragon's Might radiating from that child was even stronger than Di Tian's.

"Di Tian, he is...?" After looking at Lin Yun with some fear, the Emerald Swan, Bijie, asked Di Tian in a low voice.

Besides Bijie, the Demonic Eye Demon Tree, Myriad Demon King, the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear, Xiong Jun, the Three-Headed Scarlet Demon Mastiff, Scarlet King, and the Hell Demon Dragon King, Zi Ji, were all here.

Only the elusive Yaoling had not appeared. All the other Star Dou Beast Kings had already gathered here.

Of course, perhaps Yaoling simply was not qualified to be here.

Hearing Bijie's question, Di Tian smiled.

"The time for us soul beasts to counterattack humanity is almost here!"

He did not directly reveal Lin Yun's identity. After offering only that cryptic explanation, he carried Lin Yun into the spatial rift and vanished from the Lake of Life.

"Why so mysterious? Couldn't he just say it outright?" Xiong Jun grumbled in dissatisfaction.

What he hated most were complicated schemes. If someone refused to submit, fight them. If one fight was not enough, then fight twice.

The damn strength of a bear!

Myriad Demon King gave this idiotic musclehead a speechless look, then shook his head and left.

If he stayed around Xiong Jun for too long, he feared that his unparalleled Star Dou intelligence would be contaminated by Xiong Jun, leaving his own head full of nothing but fighting.

Scarlet King, the weakest among the fierce beasts, blinked as his three heads looked at one another. After silently greeting Bijie, he too left the Lake of Life.

He had come here to find out about the mysterious pressure from earlier. Since Di Tian had already found its source but had no intention of explaining it, Scarlet King naturally would not remain at the Lake of Life.

The Emperor Auspicious Beast still needed his protection. Among all the fierce beasts, Scarlet King was the busiest.

Seeing that no one was paying attention to him, Xiong Jun snorted impatiently and left as well. Only Bijie remained by the lakeshore, silently watching the rippling water.

Within the alternate space.

Gu Yuena, for whom every second had felt like a year, finally awaited Di Tian's return. The instant Di Tian entered the alternate space, her gaze fell upon Lin Yun.

"That's right, it's this aura. It's him!" Gu Yuena said excitedly.

As she spoke, Gu Yuena actually endured her injuries and released dreamlike multicolored light from her slender, beautiful dragon body. In the end, she gradually transformed into a stunning woman with silver hair, purple eyes, and features as beautiful as a painting.

"Sleeping?" Gu Yuena quickly walked up to Lin Yun, gently placing a hand on his brow. After sensing him briefly, her expression became somewhat complicated.

"To leave the Divine Realm, I never expected you to pay such a great price. You abandoned your original body, completely transforming yourself into a human and retaining only your most fundamental power."

After Gu Yuena withdrew her delicate hand, a strange mark appeared on Lin Yun's brow.

It was a golden mark formed from dragon wings and dragon bones. At a glance, it looked somewhat like...

A long scythe?

"Hand him over to me. You may leave now," Gu Yuena said softly.

"Yes, my lord." Di Tian bowed. After handing Lin Yun to Gu Yuena, he turned and left this space.

After Di Tian departed, a captivating smile suddenly bloomed on Gu Yuena's previously calm face. Her slender, fair fingers poked Lin Yun's little cheek.

"I was originally supposed to call you big brother. I never expected you to willingly become this small. If you've lost your memories, perhaps I can make you call me big sister?"

"Giggle, giggle~"

It was not as though Gu Yuena had never considered devouring the slumbering Lin Yun to perfect her bloodline and become a complete Dragon God.

But the moment that thought surfaced, she quickly extinguished it.

If she were trapped in a desperate situation with no way out, she might choose to devour Lin Yun and attempt to restore the former glory of the Dragon God. But this was not a desperate situation, and she did not want to merge with another person into someone she did not know was still herself.

Once someone possessed their own consciousness, it was only natural not to want to become someone else. Gu Yuena was no different.

She did not know whether, after devouring Lin Yun and returning to the Dragon God, she would still be herself.

Besides, in her current condition...

No matter how she considered it, devouring Lin Yun was absolutely not the best choice. It was the final choice only when there was no other way out.

The alternate space fell silent once more.

Only Gu Yuena, in human form, and the sleeping Lin Yun remained.

He slept for a full three years.

Since Lin Yun had now "transformed into a human," he still required the energy necessary to sustain life. Gu Yuena therefore cut off a piece of the Life Gold nurtured by the Lake of Life and fused it into his body.

The immense life force of the Life Gold could maintain the energy Lin Yun needed to function normally, while its immense vitality could also hasten the day of his awakening.

If not for Gu Yuena's help, Lin Yun might have needed several more years to awaken from his slumber.

How could the Golden Dragon King's power possibly be so easy to digest?

Of course, besides Gu Yuena, a certain Old Deng who had gained quite a few benefits was secretly absorbing the Life Gold's power to repair his divine consciousness. At the same time, he was also using the Life Gold's power to strengthen Lin Yun's Spirt Sea.

Making someone else's Spirt Sea his home while eating and taking things from that home, even Old Deng felt a little embarrassed. If he did not lend a hand, he felt too ashamed to keep living there.

Within a jade-green Spirt Sea, Lin Yun's illusory body drifted upon the surface as green-gold waves continuously washed over him.

Above the Spirt Sea hung a dazzling green-gold sun, radiating green light rich with the breath of life and illuminating the entire Spirt Sea.

Of course, though it was called a Spirt Sea, it was actually only a modest-sized lake.

Yet compared to an ordinary human Spirt Sea, Lin Yun's current Spiritual Power was already comparable to that of a Soul Elder-level spiritual-type soul master.

This was the might of Life Gold.