Song Shuhang was utterly desperate.
The cultivation process refused to follow the usual script, and there was nothing he could do about it.
Other cultivators did not have a silly whale like his inside them, so they needed to use the Spirit Lake to nurture projections of Dragon Pearl power as they would a magic artifact, allowing them to evolve toward a state close to materialization—according to Senior Divine Dragon, this process would take quite a while and might require seclusion.
But when cultivators entered seclusion, didn't it usually take at least a month or two?
His Small Dantian, however, already contained a materialized Dragon Pearl, so theoretically, he no longer needed this step.
So should he skip it?
Or perhaps... put on an act, pretend he was "nurturing" the Dragon Pearl, and just go through the motions?
That raised the question: how long should this pretense last?
He couldn't really pretend for ten days or half a month...
That would be far too much of a waste of time.
Besides, he didn't have Merit Snake Beauty's acting skills. He couldn't keep it up for that long.
In short...
He might as well put on a little show and go through a ceremony.
The big shot who could sell anything was right. These days, ceremony was important. A solemn ceremony could give people a sense of identification.
With that thought, Song Shuhang submerged his consciousness into his Small Dantian and began studying the "little Dragon Pearls" inside his body.
He wanted to take a careful look at what was so peculiar about these "little Dragon Pearls" and whether they could be cultivated further.
The first was the little Dragon Pearl corresponding to Sixteen.
In essence, this little Dragon Pearl had been formed from the projection of the True Dragon Pearl's