"This little fellow looks very strange, but he's interesting, too."
"There's definitely no species like this little fellow anywhere in our Star Dou Great Forest."
"And this is deep in the core of the Star Dou Great Forest. Aside from the few of us, no other soul beasts dare come in here."
"How on earth did this little fellow get in?"
As the beautiful young matron crouching before him stroked him and kept guessing at his origins, Gu Shengge could tell that she was probably Xiao Wu's mother, who had never appeared in the original story.
Hearing Xiao Wu's mother's words, Gu Shengge inwardly rolled his eyes.
It would be downright spooky if you'd ever seen anything like me.
When Tang Jia San Shao wrote Douluo I, he had said that the world he created belonged to the Western fantasy genre, and that its dragons and their appearances were all modeled after Western dragons.
But he was an authentic dragon, a Great Xia dragon. How could he be the same as those giant lizards with wings?
If she had seen his kind in the Star Dou Great Forest, that would really be a problem.
"Hello, pretty auntie. I'm a dragon."
"I don't know why I appeared here, either. I went to sleep, and when I woke up, I was here."
!!!
Hearing Gu Shengge speak human language, Aya, who had been stroking him, couldn't help widening her eyes. As she looked at him, her eyes were filled with shock and disbelief.
After all, even Xiao Wu, Da Ming, and Er Ming couldn't speak or communicate through voice transmission yet.
Only after their cultivation reached a hundred thousand years would they be able to speak and communicate with people.
Reaching a hundred thousand years was a threshold that separated soul beasts from those who hadn't.
Once soul beasts reached a hundred thousand years, they could communicate whether or not they chose to take human form, and their intelligence increased greatly.
Yet although Gu Shengge gave her an extremely terrifying sense of bloodline pressure, this little fellow's cultivation wasn't even close to a hundred years. It probably hadn't even reached a single year, as though he were a newborn.
And yet this little fellow could actually speak human language and said he was a dragon.
But dragons didn't look like him.
Dragons all had a pair of wings growing from their backs and looked somewhat like enormous lizards.
If not for their draconic might and powerful bodies, which far surpassed other soul beasts in every respect, she would have seen them as nothing more than giant lizards with two wings stuck on.
Yet this little fellow who called himself a dragon bore no resemblance to them whatsoever.
Oh~
No, there was one similarity: this little fellow had dragon scales growing on him, too.
Still, looking at this little fellow who called himself a dragon, Aya believed Gu Shengge's words without the slightest doubt.
It was as though he was the true dragon.
After all, she had never felt such terrifying bloodline pressure before.
"A dragon?"
"Little fellow, do you have a name?"
Recovering from the shock Gu Shengge had given her, Aya looked at him and asked.
"Pretty auntie, my name is Long Aotian."
"Ahem, my name is Gu Shengge. Gu as in the Gu family, sheng as in reed pipes and flutes, and ge as in singing praises."
To leave a good impression on Xiao Wu's mother, Gu Shengge hadn't said that his Gu came from "without a care or restraint," or that Shengge came from "singing and reveling night after night."
After all, if he said that, Xiao Wu's mother would probably throw him straight out of the depths of the Star Dou Great Forest's core.
Hearing Gu Shengge give his name, Aya looked at him and smiled. "Your name sounds quite like the names humans give themselves, little fellow."
"Does it?"
"I don't know, either. That name has been in my mind for as long as I can remember."
Hearing Aya's words, Gu Shengge began playing dumb.
"All right, Shengge. You can stay here from now on, little fellow."
"After all, Xiao Wu, Da Ming, and Er Ming still can't speak."
"After spending so long here, I finally have a little fellow I can talk to."
"Thank you, pretty auntie."
Hearing Aya's words, Gu Shengge's eyes lit up.
Perfect. I've finally managed to stay.
Meanwhile, looking at Xiao Wu sticking close to Gu Shengge, Aya's eyes flickered with tenderness and amusement.
"It looks like Xiao Wu really likes you."
Hearing Aya's words, Gu Shengge came back to his senses. Looking at the little pink rabbit sticking close and rubbing against him, he gave a sheepish smile without replying.
That was because a panel had appeared in his mind with only two displays, one for pleasure points.
The other was for cultivation points.
+1 +1 +1...
Before he knew it, his pleasure points had reached ten.
Calculating the time, Xiao Wu had been beside him for ten minutes, meaning his pleasure points increased by one per minute.
Moreover, once his pleasure points reached ten, the cultivation points button lit up.
That meant ten pleasure points would add one cultivation point.
If Xiao Wu stayed beside him twenty-four hours a day, he could gain 1,440 pleasure points, which he could exchange for 144 cultivation points.
And one cultivation point was equivalent to one day. As long as Xiao Wu stayed beside him for three days, his cultivation could reach one year.
In a year, his cultivation would be 144 years.
This rate of cultivation advancement was simply unbeatable.
And that didn't even include his own cultivation or consuming various natural treasures.
+100!
Seeing the pleasure points that had been rising by one suddenly jump by a hundred, Gu Shengge's eyes lit up.
Looking at Xiao Wu licking his face like a little puppy, Gu Shengge's eyes filled with delighted surprise.
Good grief, and this is just a little affectionate gesture.
If I went straight to cooking the raw rice into a done meal with Xiao Wu, without a single day off all year, it wouldn't take more than a few years for me to become a hundred-thousand-year soul beast and take human form.
Standing nearby, Aya watched Xiao Wu being so affectionate with Gu Shengge, her eyes full of amusement.
This little fellow was a dragon, and the fact that his bloodline exerted such terrifying pressure on her, a hundred-thousand-year transformed soul beast, was enough to show that Gu Shengge was extraordinary.
Moreover, with less than a year of cultivation, this seemingly newborn little fellow could already speak and was highly intelligent. He was a good match for Xiao Wu.
She would just let the two little fellows spend time together. How far they went would depend entirely on fate.
She just didn't know whether the offspring these two little fellows had in the future would be dragons like Gu Shengge or soft bone enchanting rabbits like them.
Or perhaps a species that had never appeared before-a dragon rabbit.
"All right, you two little fellows stay here and play. Don't go outside."
"I'm taking Da Ming and Er Ming out for a stroll."
With that, Aya left with Da Ming and Er Ming, disappearing from in front of Gu Shengge and Xiao Wu.
As Aya left, Gu Shengge's eyes lit up.
The more intimate they were, the more pleasure points he gained, and the faster his cultivation would grow.
Seeing no one around, Gu Shengge looked at the little pink rabbit before him, the corners of his mouth lifting slightly.
Little thing, you're the one who delivered yourself right to my doorstep.
Since that's the case, I won't hold back.
The mighty dragon strikes!!!
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