In the scene, Su Yuqing looked at the silver dragon at the bottom of the water, a faint, elusive smile playing at the corner of his lips.
Then, he slowly raised his right hand.
Seeing this, the white-robed immortal attendant kneeling nearby hurriedly took a white jade vase radiating five-colored light from his sleeve and respectfully offered it up with both hands raised above his head.
Su Yuqing casually accepted the jade vase and gently tipped it over.
Several plump, perfectly round pills, each bearing the color of chaos, rolled from the mouth of the vase and slid from his fingertips into the clear waters of Listening Rain Pool.
"Eat."
Su Yuqing's voice was very soft.
Yet the instant those pills touched the water, rings of visible Great Dao ripples spread through the entire space beneath the pool.
They were no ordinary fish food.
They were Star Creation Pills, refined over thousands of days and nights in the Eight Trigrams Furnace, using the cores of dozens of stars as catalysts and supplemented by countless ten-thousand-year immortal herbs.
Yet in his hands, they were no different from ordinary fish food.
The moment the pills entered the water, the Nine-Clawed Golden Dragons that had been cowering in the corners rushed up from the bottom of the pool.
Their massive bodies thrashed wildly through the water, crashing into one another as deep dragon roars erupted again and again.
To seize those pills, these true dragons at the Golden Immortal realm even tore at one another. Golden dragon blood spread through the water, and the scene was exceptionally fierce.
And Gu Yuena?
Curled up at the bottom of the pool, she watched those Nine-Clawed Golden Dragons frantically fight over the food, her eyes filled with fear.
Forget competing for it—just the lingering shockwaves from the golden dragons' struggle crushed her so heavily that she lacked even the strength to lift her head. She could only curl herself as tightly as possible into the immortal mud, terrified of being caught up in it.
At that moment, a sharp rush of wind came from beyond the courtyard.
An elderly man shrouded in sword qi strode onto the arched bridge. While still thirty meters away from Su Yuqing, he dropped to one knee.
"Reporting to Immortal Venerable."
The old man lowered his head, his expression respectful.
"The Grand Assembly of Ten Thousand Immortals has been prepared. The Dao Ancestors of the Three Thousand Star Domains and the sect masters from all sides are waiting outside the main hall on the principal peak. We humbly request that Immortal Venerable proceed there."
Su Yuqing nodded slightly.
He casually tossed the white jade vase in his hand to the white-robed immortal attendant and turned to leave.
The white-robed immortal maiden and the elderly man who had delivered the report hurriedly rose and respectfully followed behind him.
Su Yuqing's figure transformed into a streak of light and vanished from where he stood in an instant.
With the Immortal Venerable's departure, the suffocating Great Dao pressure within Listening Rain Pool gradually dissipated as well.
The Nine-Clawed Golden Dragons had already swallowed the Star Creation Pills. They let out satisfied belches, then each swam back to its own territory and closed its eyes to refine the medicinal power.
The pool returned to tranquility.
Only then did Gu Yuena dare poke her head out from beneath the water.
Looking at the satisfied expressions of those golden dragons, a wave of bleakness filled her heart.
In this immortal realm, she truly was nothing but a lowly creature, not even qualified to fight for a mouthful of food.
Just as she was feeling utterly dejected, a faint, strange sensation caught her attention.
When those golden dragons had fought over the pills earlier, one of the Creation Pills had been slightly chipped by their collisions.
A wisp of medicinal powder, nearly imperceptible to the naked eye, dissolved into the pool water.
Carried by the currents, the powder slowly drifted before Gu Yuena.
Gu Yuena froze for a moment.
Instinctively, she opened her mouth and drew in that mouthful of pool water mixed with medicinal residue.
Boom!
The instant that residue entered her stomach, Gu Yuena felt as though a sun had exploded inside her.
A vast and terrifying energy—far beyond anything she could comprehend or endure—instantly swept through every limb and bone in her body.
Meanwhile, in the Douluo God Realm.
Inside the great hall of the Divine Realm Committee.
The five God Kings had only just recovered from the humiliation of being forced to kneel. They each returned to the round table symbolizing the highest authority of the God Realm, their expressions all grim to the extreme.
The Life Goddess's gentle green eyes were now filled with undisguised shock.
As she watched the pill residue gradually dissolve in the water on the light screen, her voice trembled slightly.
"Those so-called fish food..."
"The life force contained within it was simply more immense than the combined origin of life in the entire Douluo universe."
The Life Goddess clasped her hands before her chest, her breathing growing rapid.
"Just what kind of unimaginable realm had that Immortal Venerable Su Yuqing reached?"
"With a casual wave of his hand, without chanting spells or mobilizing divine power, the laws of all things naturally submitted to him."
"Before him, my understanding of the Law of Life felt like that of an infant who had only just learned to speak."
The Life Goddess's frank admission made the other God Kings present feel a pang of guilt.
Who wasn't the same?
That aura crushing down directly from a higher-dimensional space had made them experience true insignificance for the first time in their lives.
Yet upon hearing her boost others' prestige while diminishing their own, the God of Destruction suddenly slammed his palm on the table. Dark purple divine power surged through the hall.
He gritted his teeth and put on an arrogant expression.
"Enough!"
"Life, as a God King, how could you boost others' prestige while diminishing your own?"
The God of Destruction snorted coldly, a defiant gleam flickering in his scarlet eyes.
"That Su Yuqing was merely relying on the special laws of that plane to put on a show."
"Creating things with a thought? The chanting of the Great Dao? When all was said and done, it was just some high-level illusion technique and spatial oppression."
The God of Destruction rose to his feet and spread his arms, as though displaying his power to the other God Kings.
"If the heavenly screen had chosen me—"
"If it had allowed me to descend upon that so-called Immortal Realm with the Godhood of Destruction—"
"I would use pure destructive intent to tear apart that pretentious immortal palace of his!"
"I would like to see whether that pretty boy who only knew how to feed fish could withstand my world-destroying strike."
"If we truly fought, I would let him know that the supreme God Kings of the Douluo God Realm were not comparable to those crawling vermin willing to be kept in pens!"
The God of Destruction's speech was impassioned and stirring.
It was as if, the moment he arrived in the Immortal Realm, he would immediately trample that lofty Immortal Venerable beneath his feet.
Yet none of the other God Kings in the hall echoed him.
The Shura God and the Sea God exchanged a glance, each seeing the embarrassment and helplessness in the other's eyes.
Everyone knew the truth perfectly well.
The God of Destruction was merely trying to save face.
Just moments ago, even through the light screen, he had been forced to his knees by a single glance and could not rise.
If he were truly teleported before that man—
That man probably would not even need to lift a finger. A single sneeze would be enough to reduce him to utter annihilation, body and soul alike.
But at a time like this, in order to preserve the Divine Realm's last shred of dignity, the Shura God did not expose the God of Destruction's flimsy pretense.
Just as the God of Destruction continued endlessly spouting threats, trying to conceal the fear in his heart this way—
The image on the heavenly screen suddenly erupted with a burst of blinding light.
The five God Kings turned to look at once.
Within the light screen, Gu Yuena, who had swallowed that mouthful of pool water mixed with medicinal residue, was undergoing a heaven-shaking transformation.
ROAR!
A soaring dragon's roar erupted from the bottom of Listening Rain Pool.
Gu Yuena's originally hundred-meter-long silver body began to expand wildly at a visible rate under the wash of that terrifying medicinal power.
Two hundred meters!
Five hundred meters!
One thousand meters!
In merely a few breaths, her size had surpassed the understanding of everyone on the Douluo Continent.
Even more terrifying were the scales covering her body.
Her originally pure silver scales began to fall away in great swathes under the tempering of that power of creation.
Replacing them were brand-new reverse scales that glimmered with nine-colored radiance and even faintly exuded currents of chaotic energy.
The pair of dragon horns atop her head also branched into more intricate and profound patterns, as though they contained the ultimate truth of the world's beginning.
As for the fatal wound the Shura God had carved into her with a single sword strike all those years ago, not even a scar remained at this moment. It had healed completely.
At the same time, a powerful draconic might swept through the light screen without restraint, engulfing the entire Divine Realm.
"Crack, crack, crack..."
Several more deep fractures appeared along the load-bearing pillars of the Divine Realm Committee's great hall.
The muscles on Shura God's face twitched uncontrollably.
He felt the pressure emanating through the light screen, his eyes filled with horror.
"This aura..."
"She's broken through."
Sea God's voice was incredibly hoarse, as though his throat were stuffed with sand.
"This is no longer the aura of the Silver Dragon King."
"This level of strength, this degree of perfection in her laws..."
"Her current power has already far surpassed that of the Dragon God at his peak!"
The hall once again fell into suffocating silence.
She had surpassed the Dragon God!
The Dragon God at his peak had already been more than enough to give them a terrible time.
And now, Gu Yuena had merely drunk some bathwater made by dissolving the leftover dregs of someone else's medicinal pills, yet she had directly crossed that threshold which had once seemed impossibly out of reach to them!
God of Destruction, who had been spouting grandiose claims just moments ago, now looked like a duck with its neck strangled.
His mouth hung open, but he could not utter a single word for a long while.
His face burned as if he had been slapped in public more than a dozen times.
"Everyone."
Shura God took a deep breath and tried to make his voice sound steadier.
He straightened up and adjusted his dark-red divine armor.
"Don't panic."
"Although her strength has indeed exceeded our expectations, don't forget that she is currently in the Immortal Realm."
"In that world, even if she has broken through, she has merely gone from being a little loach to a slightly bigger loach."
"Look at those nine-clawed golden dragons in the pool. Which one of them isn't stronger than her?"
"If she wants to return to the God Realm for revenge, the prerequisite is surviving under the hands of those Golden Immortals."
Shura God's words seemed to be comforting the other God Kings, but they sounded more like he was deceiving himself.
They had to stay calm. They could not fall into disarray!
In stark contrast to the deathly atmosphere of the God Realm was the Star Dou Forest.
In the underground space, the Beast God Di Tian, who had been lying beside the stone wall due to his severe injuries, miraculously climbed to his feet after sensing that familiar pressure of shared bloodline from the light screen—now incomparably more powerful.
"Ha ha ha!"
Di Tian threw back his head and laughed wildly, laughing until tears streamed down his face.
"My Lord has broken through!"
"She has surpassed the Dragon God! My Lord has finally shattered those shackles!"
Di Tian trembled all over with excitement, his golden vertical pupils filled with fanatical light.
Beside him, Bi Ji, the Jade Swan, covered her mouth and wept uncontrollably.
"That's wonderful. My Lord's injuries have healed as well."
"Our soul beast clan finally has hope."
King of Ten Thousand Demons, Bear Lord, and the other peerless ferocious beasts directly kowtowed heavily several times toward the sky screen.
After the ecstasy passed, Di Tian gradually calmed down.
He raised his head, and his gaze fell once more upon the white-clad figure slowly receding into the distance on the light screen.
That figure belonged to Immortal Venerable Su Yuqing.
Di Tian drew a deep breath, and an unprecedented fervor filled his voice!
"Did you see that?"
"That Immortal Venerable did not even spare My Lord a second glance."
"He merely casually tossed out a few medicinal pellets meant for feeding fish."
"And My Lord, merely by absorbing the tiniest trace of residue left after those pellets dissolved in the water, completed an evolution that she had been unable to cross for hundreds of thousands of years!"
Di Tian clenched his fists, his gaze becoming incomparably resolute.
"Those hypocritical gods of the God Realm set down the ironclad rule that we soul beasts could never become gods in order to restrain us."
"But this Immortal Venerable..."
"Every movement he makes, even the slightest bit of charity casually dropped from his hand, can shatter the harshest rules of heaven and earth!"
At this, Di Tian turned around to face the excited ferocious beasts and could not help muttering:
"This is what a true god is!"
His words resonated with every ferocious beast present.
In their eyes, although Su Yuqing had treated Gu Yuena like an ornamental fish, he had granted her a new life and unparalleled power.
In a world where the strong devoured the weak, even feeding scraps to an ant was an immense blessing.
As a result, the soul beasts' reverence for this Immortal Venerable reached its peak at that moment.
Balak Kingdom.
The atmosphere on Shrek Academy's training grounds was somewhat bizarre.
All the teachers and students had been stunned by Gu Yuena's enormous body, which blotted out the sky, and by her terrifying aura.
Only Yu Xiaogang, standing at the very front of the crowd, remained in an almost frenzied state.
His hands clutched tightly at his hair as he kept muttering to himself.
Flender noticed that something was wrong with his old friend and stepped forward to ask with concern.
"Xiaogang, what's wrong? Is the pressure too strong? Is it making you feel unwell?"
Hearing this, Yu Xiaogang raised his head, an infatuated smile spreading across his face.
"Flender, look!"
"That battered silver soul beast only took one sip of pool water mixed with a little medicinal dregs."
"She went from a half-crippled beast to a giant dragon standing above all living things!"
The thought alone made Yu Xiaogang's breathing turn rapid.
His mind was filled with Luo Sanpao, who could do nothing but fart.
He had been tormented by that useless martial soul for most of his life.
Mocked by others, looked down upon by others—he had not even been able to protect the woman he loved most.
"If I could go to that world..."
Yu Xiaogang released Flender and began pacing back and forth anxiously.
"If I could enter that Jade Green Immortal Sect."
"Even if I could just go beside that Listening Rain Pool and drink a small sip of its bathwater."
"The mutated bloodline within me would definitely be purified instantly!"
The more Yu Xiaogang spoke, the more excited he became, greedy light bursting from his eyes.
"My Luo Sanpao would definitely evolve into a true Golden Holy Dragon!"
"Breaking the useless curse of Rank 29 would be nothing!"
"With my intelligence and theoretical research into martial souls, as long as I'm given a perfect body and a top-tier martial soul."
"I would definitely thrive in that immortal realm!"
Yu Xiaogang stopped pacing and once again turned his gaze toward Gu Yuena in the light screen, who was sensing her own power.
His eyes gradually became unfocused, even taking on a trace of unreasonable arrogance.
"That silver dragon's bloodline has now transformed to a perfect level."
"At her core, she is still a soul beast."
"Once I cultivate into an immortal in that world and become even stronger than that so-called Immortal Venerable."
"I will return to Douluo Continent."
"I will turn this so-called Silver Dragon King into the ninth soul ring of my Golden Holy Dragon martial soul!"
"No, an existence of that level should at least be a million-year soul ring!"
"At that time, I, Yu Xiaogang, will be the only true god in this universe!"
Seeing Yu Xiaogang sink into severe delusion and even begin babbling nonsense, Flender and the surrounding teachers were all dumbfounded.
Dai Mubai and Oscar exchanged looks, wondering if Grandmaster had been so badly shaken that his mind had broken.
Before this higher-dimensional world, where even God Kings had to kneel, he was actually fantasizing about absorbing someone else's soul ring?
Tang San stood to one side, watching his teacher's nearly crazed and unsightly behavior, his brows drawn tightly together.
The respect he held for Grandmaster was slowly fading.
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