Gangzi Has Arrived

Ah Yin nodded. "Alright, I can listen to you, but you have to help me find someone!"

Bai Yu waved a hand and said calmly:

"Don't worry. I won't go back on my word. But since you've discovered that I'm human, there's no need for me to hide it anymore. I'll borrow this place to break through."

Ah Yin watched Bai Yu take out the Soul Gathering Seal, her head full of question marks. What was he going to do?

Following Bai Yu's movements, Ah Yin saw a pitch-black Spirit Ring emerge from the Soul Gathering Seal. Feeling the aura within it, she was so shocked that she stammered.

"Th-This Spirit Ring...? Then I...?"

Ah Yin glanced uncertainly at the Spirit Ring, then turned to look at her true body, feeling that something was off.

"This is the aura of the Emperor! But the Emperor is still...?"

The Blue Silver King also cried out in shock, its translucent blue, wooden-bead-like eyes darting back and forth.

Bai Yu raised a brow and smiled at Ah Yin.

"The Spirit Ring did indeed come from you. Don't be so surprised; it's just a little trick. I'll explain it to you on the way out."

As soon as Bai Yu finished speaking, he sat cross-legged on the ground and began drawing in the Spirit Ring to break through to Soul Saint.

Time passed little by little. Ah Yin watched as Bai Yu nearly finished absorbing it, yet there was still no fluctuation. She knew he had not reached his limit yet.

After thinking for a moment, she looked at Bai Yu again, released her domain, and called out:

"My people, gather your strength and help me!"

"Your Majesty?" The Blue Silver King looked at Ah Yin in confusion.

Ah Yin shook her head without a word. Soon after, the blue ocean within the forest appeared once more, guided by Ah Yin's domain into the Spirit Ring Bai Yu was absorbing.

Bai Yu, who was nearly done absorbing it, suddenly felt an immense power surge into the Spirit Ring. His heart skipped a beat. What was going on? Was this woman Ah Yin trying to stab him in the back?

Before he could forcibly interrupt the process, he realized something was wrong. She was not attacking him—she was raising the age of his Spirit Ring!

As time passed, the Blue Silver Grass across the entire Blue Silver Forest contributed nearly a tenth of their power, finally raising Bai Yu's Spirit Ring from seventy thousand years to one hundred thousand years.

Bai Yu stood up and looked at the bright red Spirit Ring circling him. It really did look better than black! He then turned to Ah Yin and said:

"Thanks. But I didn't expect you to use this on me when you haven't even drawn Soul Power from your own people this intensely. Don't you think that's a loss?"

Ah Yin shook her head, her voice carrying some helplessness.

"I didn't expect you to be able to withstand such a high age either. But it's alright. Yours is only a Spirit Ring, so it doesn't require that much Soul Power."

"If I wanted to recover from sixty thousand years to one hundred thousand years of cultivation, the overall transformation would require at least ten times as much. I can't do that!"

Bai Yu saw the flash of heartache in Ah Yin's eyes, scratched his head, and felt a little guilty. He spoke up:

"Fine, I won't let you help me for nothing. I'll leave a formation in your territory. Consider it thanks for your people's help!"

"Four Symbols Converge Yin Yang, Creation Spirit Gathering Seal!"

With a low shout, he slammed his palm onto the ground. Silver formation patterns rapidly spread outward, stopping only after covering an area three miles across.

As the formation sank into the earth, Bai Yu rose shakily to his feet, muttering under his breath.

"I've really taken a huge loss these past two days with you. First, helping you recover your cultivation took a lot out of me, and now drawing this formation has drained my mind dry."

"Though its grade isn't high, this is the first time I've made such a large formation. With my Power of Creation constantly renewing it, as long as the formation patterns aren't destroyed, your people's cultivation speed will be more than twice as fast from now on!"

Ah Yin heard the cheers of the Blue Silver Grass throughout the forest. Combined with what she felt herself, she knew Bai Yu was right. She bent down to thank him.

"On behalf of my people, I thank you for your help. The Blue Silver Grass clan will remember you forever!"

Watching the illusory Ah Yin bend over, Bai Yu smacked his lips and suddenly found it boring. He said casually:

"Alright, thank me like that after you take human form someday. It's no fun right now. Shrink down—we should get going!"

Ah Yin looked at his shameless face and did not know what to say. How could this person be like this?

Fuming, she withdrew into her true body, shrank down, and waited for Bai Yu to put her into a Soul Tool.

Bai Yu carved a Breath Concealment Seal identical to Xiao Wu's onto her grass body, took out a Pouch, put Ah Yin away, and left at Extreme Speed.

Since he was not in much of a hurry to return, he slowed down considerably. On the road, Bai Yu watched Ah Yin stretch out her grass blades and look around curiously, unable to resist teasing her.

"Say, if Tang Hao finds out I'm carrying his wife around everywhere, won't he get angry?"

Ah Yin's swaying grass blades froze, flushing slightly red. Then she stretched out from the Soul Tool, wrapped around Bai Yu's waist, and began squeezing hard!

"Go die! What do you mean, you're carrying Hao's... carrying his wife around everywhere? I only asked you to take me to find someone!"

Bai Yu grimaced in pain. Before teasing her, he had forgotten that she had recovered a fair bit of cultivation! He hurriedly begged for mercy.

"Easy! I misspoke! If you strangle me to death, no one will be able to help you find anyone!"

As he spoke, he tugged at Ah Yin, who had become his belt. Why was this stupid grass squeezing so hard?!

The man and the grass bickered all the way. Every so often, Bai Yu would stir things up, angering Ah Yin into squeezing him. In the end, Ah Yin had no choice but to retreat into the Soul Tool and refuse to come out.

At dawn the next day, Bai Yu looked at Shrek before him and sighed.

"A week. I haven't slept for a whole damn week. I'm finally back—Ah Yin really delayed me!"

Smack! A blade of grass extended from the Pouch at Bai Yu's waist and struck him across the back. Bai Yu said unconcernedly:

"Ah Yin, your son is here. Want to go take a look?"

Ah Yin's grass blade twitched, then wrapped around Bai Yu's waist like a gorgeous blue belt. Her voice sounded in his ear through spiritual transmission:

"Didn't you say yesterday that he was an Outerworld Demonic God and told me not to approach him? Why have you changed your mind today?"

Bai Yu shrugged. "I'm only not letting you acknowledge each other. Observe him however you want and see whether what I said is true."

"My child..." Ah Yin's dejected voice sounded.

Bai Yu grinned. "It's fine. Once you recover your cultivation and take human form, I'll give you another child!"

"Go die!"

Bai Yu's belt instantly became a corset. Ah Yin's newly emerged sorrow was scattered by rage.

"Don't, ease up! I'm about to see them. I can't look like this!"

He tugged at Ah Yin as he walked into Shrek.

His face slightly red from Ah Yin's squeezing, he arrived at Shrek's main training ground and saw a flat-haired middle-aged man standing before Tang San and the other six.

He looked the man over and thought, Yu Xiaogang? He looks pretty ordinary. How does he have such good luck with women?

Seeing Bai Yu, everyone from Shrek greeted him happily:

"Bai Ge! You're back? Where did you go these past few days? Without you, we didn't even have a private room when we went to the Great Soul Arena!"

Bai Yu's mouth twitched as he looked at Ma Hongjun. This fatty was fucking speechless.