Gu Yue: "Once I'm Strong Enough, I'll Pin That Beast to the Ground and Make Him Call Me Mommy!"

Gu Yue naturally had no idea about all those twists and turns.

As she looked at the world before her, a trace of greed flickered in her heart.

Plane Will—

Even a very small world could allow her power of laws to seep into the real universe.

With this boost, her recovery speed would increase by more than a hundredfold.

"You sure?"

She asked tentatively, her tail swaying gently behind her.

"If you keep dragging this out, I'm taking it back."

Lin Yan expressionlessly raised a hand, making as if to reclaim the world.

Gu Yue instantly panicked.

Her four stubby little legs moved at lightning speed as she shot toward the World Membrane with a whoosh.

She took a deep breath, raised a little claw, and gently touched the transparent membrane.

Silver light lit up from her scales, spreading outward in rings and sketching intricate inscriptions in the air.

The contract began.

The process was very slow.

Gu Yue closed her eyes, the expression on her dragon face shifting between fierce grimaces and blissful relief.

Divine power poured out like water from an opened faucet.

A whole hour passed.

When the final inscription sank into the World Core,

Gu Yue finally let out a breath, collapsing on the ground like a fish washed ashore and gasping for air.

But her eyes were shining.

She could feel it now—

That world had become a part of her.

The land was her skeleton, the ocean her blood, and the sky her breath.

Every grain of sand, every drop of water, every squirming life spore was connected to her consciousness.

That feeling was even more powerful than during her prime.

At least within that world, she was the ruler of everything.

She rolled over, lay atop the stove, and poked her head through the World Membrane to peer inside.

Then her expression froze.

"...It's so small."

The world truly was tiny.

Though it was dozens of times larger than the world that had been in the pot before, at most it was only the size of a bathtub.

Gu Yue pulled her head back out of the World Membrane, turned around, and glared angrily at Lin Yan.

Her dragon face clearly said, "You lied to me."

So that vast and overwhelming Creator God, who could destroy an era with one hand, was essentially just a bathtub Creator God?

Lin Yan leaned against the wall, his scalp tingling under her stare.

"What?"

"Was I born in a place like this?"

Gu Yue's voice carried the grief and indignation of someone who had been deceived.

She pointed at the bathtub-sized world, then at herself, while her tail cracked sharply against the floor.

Lin Yan fell silent for two seconds, then nodded sincerely. "Yes, but you were born in a pot."

"..."

Gu Yue was so furious that her scales puffed up again.

She took a deep breath and tried hard to calm herself down.

Don't get mad, don't get mad. Even if it's only bathtub-sized, it's still a world, still a Plane Will.

And besides—

She secretly glanced at Lin Yan. This guy's martial soul could create worlds. It definitely wasn't something simple.

Maybe her earlier guess had been right?

Maybe he had truly attained the Dao at the end of time?

Otherwise, how could one explain that pressure that made even her soul tremble?

At that thought, Gu Yue's mood improved again.

She lowered her head to look at her claws, feeling the power within her that was linked to the world. The corners of her mouth unconsciously curled upward.

With the world's boost, the speed at which she devoured heaven and earth energy had increased by at least a hundredfold.

Although the spiritual energy of this era was so thin it was like water in a desert.

As long as the world continued to grow, her recovery would only become faster and faster.

Then—

Hehehe.

An image surfaced in her mind:

She tied Lin Yan to a chair, poked his face with chopsticks, and made him call her Mommy with every poke.

Right, she would have to record it too.

Then even if his true body returned, he would never be able to escape this embarrassing history.

At the thought, Gu Yue could not help letting out a silly laugh.

Standing nearby, Lin Yan clearly heard every word in her heart through his connection to the world.

The corner of his mouth twitched slightly—

Why was this stupid dragon always thinking about rebelling?

Should he crush that thought right now?

But on second thought, forget it. Falling out with her now would hurt his working dragon's enthusiasm.

In any case, the world was fundamentally his. She merely had the right to use it, while her weak point remained firmly in his grasp.

As long as he did not drive her into a corner, he would avoid fighting if possible.

Looking at Gu Yue's dragon face, which was still wearing that foolish grin, he could no longer stand it and kicked her.

"Get lost. Act normal."

"Beast, I didn't expect you to be such a decent person."

Gu Yue rolled across the floor from the kick, but she did not care in the slightest. She got up, patted the dust off herself, and ran away with a giggle.

She had already made her plans:

First, she would use the world's boost to recover like crazy. Once she was strong enough, she would rebel and rub this guy into the ground a hundred times.

Lin Yan watched her eager little retreating figure and expressionlessly withdrew his foot.

Over the next few days, Gu Yue thoroughly demonstrated what it meant to be "a capitalist's perfect employee."

She ran out like crazy.

Every day before dawn, she squeezed out through the crack in the window.

Using her spatial storage ability, she frantically stole matter from the real world—

Soil, rocks, water, air, sunlight, spiritual energy—

Then stuffed it all into the Small World in one go.

She did not even spare the passing insects, packing them all up and taking them away.

On the first day, she swallowed a full three tons of soil.

The land area of the Small World expanded from bathtub-sized to the size of a double bed.

On the second day, she ran to the reservoir outside Eastsea City and sucked away half its water in one breath. The Small World's ocean grew from a puddle into a real lake.

On the third day, she squatted atop a mountain on the outskirts, secretly drawing spiritual energy from the earth veins. Wind, clouds, thunder, and lightning began appearing in the Small World's sky.

Lin Yan stood in the empty room, staring at the World Membrane that had expanded to half the size of the room, the corner of his mouth twitching uncontrollably.

"Are you moving house or something?"

He pointed at a giant beetle inside the Small World, leisurely grazing and as large as a compact car, and asked expressionlessly.

"Can humans handle it if you put a bug that big in there?"

Gu Yue squatted beside the World Membrane. Hearing that, she raised her head, her silver eyes full of innocence.

She tilted her head and let out a babyish "Moo," looking as though she had no idea what he was talking about.

Lin Yan stared at her for three seconds, then reached out, grabbed the chubby flesh at the back of her neck, and lifted her up.

"Quit playing dumb."

His voice was terrifyingly calm. "Do you have enough divine power yet or not? With the world's boost, your divine power cultivation should be able to increase a hundredfold. Don't feed me empty promises."

Gu Yue struggled twice in his grip. Seeing that she could not break free, she simply gave up resisting. Her four claws dangled limply, and her tail hung weakly down.

"How could it be that fast? I've already been working very hard, okay?"

She rolled her eyes and said with complete confidence,

"And doesn't creation require matter? Did you think creating a world meant conjuring one out of thin air?"