Creation!

Once he had thought everything through,

Lu Chuan suddenly felt as though the road ahead had opened up before him!

Tang San's existence had turned out to be a good thing after all.

If the will of Douluo Planet still governed all its laws,

then Lu Chuan would have to create the Divine Realm

before he could rewrite Douluo's laws!

The will of Douluo Planet was diffuse and intangible.

In other words,

if it did not reveal itself,

there was no way to find it!

But Tang Hao was different.

He had someone he cared about.

As long as Ah Yin, who had merged with the Golden Ancient Tree, was in danger,

Tang Hao would inevitably show himself!

And then,

it would be the final opportunity to kill him!

"In the end, the heart of it all is still Shrek Academy!"

Two months later, Eastsea City.

After much persuasion,

Lu Chuan finally managed to invite Tang Ziran and Lang Yue to Eastsea City.

The couple had never imagined

that adopting Lu Chuan three years ago

would bring them such a quick return!

After dinner,

Tang Ziran and Lang Yue happily took Tang Wuyue out for a walk.

Lu Chuan stayed behind,

using cultivation as his excuse,

though in truth, he was waiting for Bi Ji to arrive.

Recently, he had successively unsealed a tenth of his source power, broken through to the third ring,

received guidance from the Silver Dragon King, and successfully completed Spirit Forging; his understanding of the Path of Creation had advanced even further.

Now, he was eager to put his insights to the test!

Before long, someone gently knocked on the door.

Lu Chuan swept the area with his spiritual power. Once he knew who had come, he said softly,

"The door's unlocked. Come in!"

As soon as he spoke,

the door swung open,

and then

Bi Ji walked in with a smile.

Today, she wore a simple, elegant green dress,

her long hair loosely pinned up,

and her makeup made her look like a virtuous wife.

In her hands, she carried a Soul Spirit Ball about the size of a fist.

The ball was a transparent, pale silver,

and inside floated a dull gray little grass snake,

no thicker than a pair of chopsticks.

It was curled into a ball,

its aura so feeble that it seemed as if it could die at any moment.

The little snake was Jinyu!

But three years had passed,

and since no one had taken her from the Lucky Draw Machine,

she had grown even weaker.

"My lord, I brought it."

Bi Ji walked over to Lu Chuan

and presented the Soul Spirit Ball to him with both hands.

"The Spirit Pagoda recently cleared out a batch of defective Artificial Soul Spirits. I took this one before they were registered and put into storage. No one noticed."

"Mm, well done. Thanks for the effort."

Lu Chuan took the Soul Spirit Ball and pulled Bi Ji down onto the sofa beside him.

This time,

because he was here,

the Soul Beast faction still had little to show for itself,

but at least it had held on to all five seats in the Spirit Pagoda Council Chamber.

Of course,

although they had five seats,

the only one Lu Chuan could truly rely on and work with comfortably

was Bi Ji.

Di Tian was always making mistakes.

King of Ten Thousand Demons was full of schemes.

Not long ago,

Lu Chuan had asked him to handle a small matter,

and he had gone and mixed in some personal agenda. Luckily, the Demon Eye Magic Tree had a decent compatibility with Blue Silver Grass.

Otherwise, Lu Chuan would have used up one of his chances to transform into a dragon

just to beat some sense into that bastard!

As for the other two,

Xiong Jun and the Scarlet King,

they were a pair of hotheads.

They might be useful if he needed someone to fight,

but getting them to handle anything...

Even a dog would shake its head!

"Doing things for you is no trouble. If anything, it's your side that's more difficult, isn't it?"

Bi Ji smiled faintly, her voice soft.

She stood up,

then naturally moved behind Lu Chuan,

reached out,

and wrapped her arms around his waist from behind,

resting her chin lightly on his shoulder.

Back in the Star Dou Great Forest,

she had often kept him company like this while they watched dramas.

But

those days were gone.

Lu Chuan let Bi Ji hold him.

He knew she needed some comfort.

Ever since he entered the human world,

the Soul Beasts could no longer afford to loaf around at the Spirit Pagoda.

Cultivating trusted subordinates,

gathering intelligence,

recreating the Ten Thousand Beast Platform that the Silver Dragon King had created in the original story,

and winning over human traitors willing to side with the Soul Beasts—

all of it needed someone to take care of it!

Lu Chuan opened the Soul Spirit Ball

and released the Little Grass Snake.

Then he slowly closed his eyes.

He did not rush to do anything,

but first sent a wisp of spiritual power into the ball

and carefully examined the little snake's genetic structure.

As Lu Chuan saw it,

with an expensive project like Artificial Soul Spirits,

there was no way the Spirit Pagoda had used nothing but the genes of a grass snake!

A moment later, Lu Chuan's eyes flew open.

The little snake's genes

were, as expected, remarkably powerful.

Tracing them back to their source,

even Lu Chuan could hardly believe

that they came from the Sky Azure Bull Python!

Though the traces were vanishingly faint,

and countless shoddy replications by the Spirit Pagoda had left them almost completely dormant,

they were undeniably there!

"So the ones who ambushed Da Ming and Er Ming back then were the Spirit Pagoda!"

A fierce glint flashed through Lu Chuan's eyes.

When it was first established,

the Spirit Pagoda had been meant to bring peace between humanity and the Soul Beasts.

But in the hands of the Qiangu Family,

it had gradually become a tool for lining their own pockets!

On top of that,

the Qiangu Family had repeatedly colluded with the Holy Spirit Cult,

persecuting both humans and Soul Beasts.

Whether from the Soul Beasts' perspective

or from humanity's,

the people of the Qiangu Family had to die!

But that could wait.

For now,

Lu Chuan needed to test some of his ideas.

He would use the Path of Creation to revive the little snake—or, rather, to reunite its spirit with its body after recreating its physical form.

Based on what he had just observed,

Lu Chuan had gained some understanding of the little snake's condition.

Its genetic chains were broken in many places, and its soul power was nearly exhausted.

If the Soul Spirit Ball weren't maintaining the most basic conditions for survival,

it probably wouldn't last even three days!

But that was all right.

For Lu Chuan,

the worse the condition, the better it was for practice.

If he succeeded,

the recreation of the Ten Thousand Beast Platform would no longer be a rootless duckweed!

As for the Sky Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape,

they could then begin collecting the remnant souls of dying or dead Soul Beasts and rebuilding their bodies to "resurrect" them!

A gentle golden light shone in Lu Chuan's palm.

It was a drop of his Dragon King Blood.

Though it was only one drop,

the life force it contained

was enough to forge the foundation of a physical body for the little snake!

He carefully merged the blood with the little snake.

He didn't rush to shape its body.

Instead, he prepared to first remove the impurities introduced when the Spirit Pagoda had copied its genes.

Those genetic impurities were layered upon one another,

like thick rust clinging to the little snake's genetic chain,

obstructing the flow of life force it should have possessed.

Guided by the blood,

Lu Chuan stripped away the impurities

as if repairing his own body—

separating, breaking down, clearing them away—

almost in one smooth motion!

The process required immense patience and precise control.

The slightest mistake

could damage the little snake's already fragile genetic chain!

So, from the moment Lu Chuan began stripping away the impurities in the genetic chain,

Bi Ji let go of him

and went into maid mode.

Whenever Lu Chuan paused for even an instant,

she gently wiped the sweat from his brow,

then stepped back again,

careful not to disrupt his rhythm.

The removal of the genetic impurities went smoothly.

Next came repairing the genetic chain.

The Sky Azure Bull Python's genetic fragments were buried in the deepest recesses,

and had almost completely fallen dormant.

Lu Chuan had to awaken them,

then piece the broken sections of the genetic chain together one by one,

using the power of creation to reconnect them into a complete whole.

This, too, was an extremely taxing process.

Fortunately, this posed no difficulty for Lu Chuan.

His mental power at the Divine Origin Realm in its normal state kept his hands steady as stone.

Once this step was complete,

all that remained was to infuse it with life force and rebuild its body.

After the genetic chain was repaired,

the little snake's body was still weak,

but its soul had stabilized considerably.

It was ready for a new body!

Bones, organs, meridians, flesh, scales...

Lu Chuan's Soul Power transformed into a gentle, steady stream of life force,

shaping them one by one.

Before long,

a small snake's body had taken shape!

Lu Chuan placed the little snake's soul inside it,

and the two began to merge.

During this process,

the little snake's body began to change as well.

Not much,

but there were indeed changes.

It seemed the Sky Azure Bull Python's genes within the little snake's soul were altering its body.

The entire process went smoothly.

The snake's body changed little after the fusion,

but its scales had turned from a dull gray to a deep, dark cyan,

their edges glimmering with a faint golden sheen.

At the very center of its forehead was a pale golden marking,

which was probably because of that drop of Lu Chuan's blood!

Its eyes were no longer murky, lifeless gray-black.

They had become clear and bright,

like two amber gems.

The little snake was alive again.

Not merely clinging to life, but truly reborn!!

It seemed to know it, too.

Nestled in Lu Chuan's palm, it affectionately flicked its tongue at him.

It was just like calling, "Daddy, Daddy."

Seeing this,

Lu Chuan couldn't help laughing.

He tapped the little fellow on the head with a finger

and said softly:

"From today on, your name is Jinyu."