Seeing the Nine Profound Golden Lightning's blank expression, Xiao Yan could not help smiling. He beckoned with his hand, and the Nine Profound Golden Lightning rapidly shrank, finally becoming a tiny lightning dragon the length of a finger and settling into his palm.
"From now on, you'll follow this Emperor's Son. One day, you might become an emperor among lightning."
Xiao Yan smiled faintly and drew the Nine Profound Golden Lightning into his body.
Now that this Nine Profound Golden Lightning possessed sentience, he could be considered a living being, and his body was naturally that of a lightning spirit.
His cultivation would scarcely encounter any bottlenecks. He only needed to keep devouring lightning to advance endlessly, until he became an existence comparable to a Peak Nine-Star Dou Saint.
Only the threshold of becoming a Dou Di involved another transformation in the very essence of a living being, and only such a barrier could obstruct the Nine Profound Golden Lightning's evolution.
For Xiao Yan, all he needed to do was nurture this Nine Profound Golden Lightning diligently, and he could gain another formidable helper comparable to a Peak Nine-Star Dou Saint in the future.
Of course, perhaps Xiao Yan would have already crossed that final threshold by then and become a true Dou Di. But even a Dou Di would never complain of having another helper comparable to a Peak Nine-Star Dou Saint.
Just as Xiao Yan was preparing to take this Nine Profound Golden Lightning's power back to the outside world to refine a Lightning Tribulation Pill, he suddenly felt a violent disturbance inside his body.
"Hm?"
Xiao Yan paused, then his expression changed slightly.
He reached out, and a tender, pink little infant barely larger than his palm appeared in his hand. It was none other than Little