In this lifetime, the Shrek Seven Devils were destined to lack the blessing of Immortal Herbs. The cause of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well was already Huo Yuhao's two Spirit Kings, and the Shura God was utterly unlikely to use this place as a land of opportunity for his own Great Treasure to grow.
He just didn't know what kind of cheats the Shura God would give them, and Huo Yuhao expressed that he was very much looking forward to it.
After Yu Yuanzhen of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan finished the Power Transmission, he withdrew his palms, and Yu Xiaogang also recovered from his state of cultivation.
This session of cultivation still failed to break through, and Yu Xiaogang asked anxiously, "Father, I've been stuck at Level 29 for so long. When exactly will I be able to break through to become a Soul Elder and hunt for another Spirit Ring?"
Yu Yuanzhen said perfunctorily, "You even have to come and ask your father about something like when you can break through yourself?"
"Isn't that how it usually is?" Yu Xiaogang had already grown accustomed to cultivating under his father's Power Transmission. Every time he was about to break through, his father would always sense it earlier than he did.
"In this world, who could be more familiar with oneself than oneself?" Yu Yuanzhen countered, "Let me ask you, do you know when you can break through Level 29 right now?"
Yu Xiaogang carefully felt within himself. After a long while, he shook his head and said, "I don't know."
Yu Yuanzhen:
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"Alright, alright, go back. Don't get in the way here." Yu Yuanzhen impatiently chased Yu Xiaogang away.
A few days later, Yu Xiaogang walked proudly along Sect Avenue. Compared to himself from more than ten years ago who had no hope of being a Soul Master, Yu Xiaogang was now a bona fide Level 29 Soul Grandmaster.
"To be able to cultivate to a Soul Grandmaster with innate 0.5 soul power, and still have a configuration of two Hundred-Year Spirit Rings—throughout history, I suppose only I, Yu Xiaogang, could achieve this kind of feat. Put that way, I can also be considered a genius in a sense, right?" Yu Xiaogang said in self-infatuation, "All the achievements I've obtained today were won entirely through my own strong perseverance and appropriate cultivation methods. There are no trash martial souls, only trash soul masters. Even if my talent is inferior to others, as long as I put in more effort than ordinary people, I can still become a Soul Master. One fold of effort isn't enough? Then a hundredfold. A hundredfold isn't enough, then two hundredfold effort. One day, I, Xiao Gang, will set foot on the peak of the Douluo Continent."
Regarding his future, Yu Xiaogang was full of confidence. The only fly in the ointment was that in the past, Yu Xiaogang—who had grown accustomed to accelerated cultivation, advancing a rank after a short period, and then advancing another rank after another short period—had seemingly hit a brick wall after reaching Level 29 three years ago, failing to make any progress for a long time.
He had been so anxious that several times he asked Yu Yuanzhen when he would break through, only for Yu Yuanzhen to chase him out of the cultivation room with a dark face.
Yu Xiaogang felt the reason should lie in two points: insufficient resources and his father not pulling his weight.
How could triple the core disciple resources be enough? Yu Xiaogang believed it should be fivefold or tenfold. Furthermore, his father was only willing to spend two hours a day, using two layers of soul power to perform Power Transmission for his cultivation. How was this enough? It should have changed long ago—at least four layers of soul power and four hours of time should be given to him for cultivation Power Transmission.
If they had done this earlier, he, Yu Xiaogang, would have been a Soul Elder long ago. Oh wait, at the very least a Spirit King.
Really, his father actually delayed his cultivation. It was unreasonable.
What was even more infuriating was that his father had actually stood him up these past few days and didn't even come to give him Power Transmission for cultivation!
Could it be that his father no longer cared about the Golden Sacred Dragon Bloodline of his martial soul? Could it be that he didn't know he was the future of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and that once his martial soul evolved into the Golden Sacred Dragon, he would lead the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to an unprecedented height?
The more Yu Xiaogang thought about it, the more annoyed he became; the more he thought, the angrier he got. He decided to go find his father and have a proper talk with him.
Thus, oblivious to everyone else, he arrived at the Sect Leader's Council Hall and prepared to knock on the door, only to hear the voices of his father and his uncle, Yu Luomian, coming from inside.
"Eldest Brother, facts prove that your choice back then was wrong," Yu Luomian said. "The resources Yu Xiaogang consumes every month are three times those of a core disciple. If these resources were given to any genius in the sect, it would be enough to lay a good foundation for four or five future Soul Douluo."
He continued, "Over these dozen or so years, you've used your cultivation soul power to give Yu Xiaogang Power Transmission for cultivation—transmitting it for more than ten years. A dozen years ago you were a Level 93 Titled Douluo; transmitting it all the way to now, you are still a Level 93 Titled Douluo. If you had used that portion of soul power to charge at the bottleneck, not to mention a Super Douluo, I dare guarantee that your current strength would at least be a Level 95 Super Douluo. A Level 95 Super Douluo! Just how huge of a boost would that be for our sect? But all these resources were consumed by Yu Xiaogang. So what did our sect get in return?"
"A Level 29 Soul Grandmaster, and two spirit skills. And those two spirit skills are still laughable farts. It truly makes one a laughingstock."
Yu Yuanzhen said with an embarrassed expression, "You know as well that when Xiaogang's martial soul awakened, we could all see that the direction of his original mutation was the Golden Sacred Dragon, so..."
"So you hoped to cultivate him and let him evolve the Golden Sacred Dragon in the process of increasing his strength, right?" Yu Luomian said.
Yu Yuanzhen nodded.
"If a soul master with the Golden Sacred Dragon Martial Soul could really be cultivated, then these consumed resources would indeed be worth it for our sect. A Titled Douluo possessing the super martial soul Golden Sacred Dragon would bring a century of glory to our sect, just like the glory Tang Chen brought to the Clear Sky Sect." Yu Luomian finished speaking, then sneered and said, "But did Yu Xiaogang achieve it?"
"Three years ago, he was already at Level 29. You've performed Power Transmission for him for so long, so you must already know the real reason why his soul power has remained stagnant. Level 29—this is the upper limit of Yu Xiaogang this piece of trash will reach in his lifetime."
"I remember the agreement you made with Yu Xiaogang back then: you asked if he wanted to be a dragon or a pig, right? He brazenly chose to be a dragon, didn't he? So what is the result now?"
Yu Luomian's words stirred up Yu Yuanzhen's memories. Back then, he gave Yu Xiaogang that choice; if Yu Xiaogang gave up on himself, he wouldn't treat this son poorly either, but if Yu Xiaogang had the determination to transform into a dragon, then he, Yu Yuanzhen, would also exhaust all his abilities to help Xiao Gang. Back then, he was even quite gratified by Yu Xiaogang's choice. Yet so many years had passed. A dragon hadn't been made; instead, a pig had been fattened up. Enduring so much pressure from the sect and pouring in so many resources, coupled with the fruits of several decades of his own soul power cultivation, he had ultimately raised such a Level 29 Soul Grandmaster named Yu Xiaogang whose only spirit skill trick was to fart. Was it worth it?
Was doing this worth it?
Faced with Yu Luomian's questioning, Yu Yuanzhen did not defend his son as he had in the past, but the disappointed expression on his face already answered Yu Luomian.