"That's right. Follow me, and you won't lose out!"
Looking at Gu Yuena kneeling before him, her eyes filled with submission, Yao Xuan nodded in satisfaction:
"I can see you're injured, and badly at that. As a reward for your submission, I'll heal these little injuries for you."
As his words fell, Yao Xuan's Ancestral Dragon Body trembled slightly.
A drop of blood was forced out through his fingertip.
In an instant, brilliant nine-colored light shrouded the skies over the entire Douluo Continent!
The nine colors intertwined and flowed, tangling with one another as they radiated a pressure beyond words.
"W-what's happening now?"
Thousands of miles away, Bibi Dong had only just regained her composure inside the Pope's Palace, only to have her delicate lips part in shock once more at the sky's sudden transformation into nine colors!
"What a troubled season this is! Lord Sea God, please protect us!"
Out in the boundless ocean, Bo Saixi had just finished dealing with the vast tsunami and was about to rest when she stood up again, clasping her hands before her chest and praying ceaselessly.
"Are the heavens over this Douluo Continent about to change?"
In countless other places, innumerable Soul Masters and ordinary people could not help looking up at the sky and muttering to themselves.
Well, I failed to control it again!
Watching this scene, Yao Xuan grumbled inwardly with some helplessness.
He wanted to keep a low profile, too, but his overwhelming strength simply would not allow it!
While grumbling, Yao Xuan willed a supreme divine power to envelop that drop of his blood.
Only then did the nine-colored phenomenon filling the sky slowly fade.
Then Yao Xuan lightly pointed a dragon claw.
The originally enormous drop of blood began rapidly condensing and shrinking.
At last, it became a dazzling nine-colored crystal and slowly descended before Gu Yuena.
"W-what level of bloodline power is this?"
Staring at the nine-colored crystal so close before him, Di Tian widened his eyes, the blood throughout his body boiling.
As the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King, the Dragon Clan Bloodline within him was inferior almost only to those of the Dragon God and the Nine Great Dragon Kings.
Yet before this drop of blood, he felt only that his own bloodline was as insignificant as a firefly before the radiant moon!
Its aura alone gave him the urge to prostrate himself in worship, all five points of his body touching the ground!
As for the Myriad Demon King, Bi Ji, Zi JI, and the other Ferocious Beasts-
They had already fallen straight to their knees, trembling all over, not even daring to raise their heads.
They felt utter suppression at the very source of their bloodlines.
"Thank you for bestowing your blood, Ancestor!"
Looking at the Ancestral Dragon Blood Yao Xuan had bestowed before her, Gu Yuena's beautiful, purple gemstone-like eyes also shone with boundless excitement and agitation!
Even her lips and body trembled slightly, not out of fear, but out of longing!
An ultimate longing that sprang from the source of her bloodline and surpassed everything else!
At this moment, the humiliation and resentment Gu Yuena had felt at being reduced to a maidservant faded completely from her heart.
In their place were absolute worship and submission.
This single drop of blood alone made it worthwhile!
Gu Yuena respectfully kowtowed again, striking her forehead heavily against the ground.
Only then, as though on a sacred pilgrimage, did she extend her fair hands, reverently cup the Ancestral Dragon Blood before her, and slowly swallow it, beginning to refine it.
The next instant.
Gu Yuena's delicate body abruptly stiffened.
A force as vast as the sea surged from her abdomen, instantly sweeping through every inch of her meridians!
The next moment, rays of nine-colored light appeared across Gu Yuena's body, weaving into a cocoon of light that enveloped her!
"Ah, that feels so good!"
Wrapped within the cocoon of light, Gu Yuena could not help letting out a moan of comfort.
She could feel waves of incomparably domineering power rapidly beginning to expel the Asura Divine Power the Asura God had left within her!
As that Asura Divine Power, which clung like maggots to bone, was driven out, Gu Yuena's body no longer had to endure the daily agony of ten thousand swords piercing her heart.
Not only that, the injuries within her began rapidly healing, and her once-pale complexion grew increasingly rosy.
Her weakened aura also recovered swiftly, becoming as vast as the sea.
Her strength soared wildly from below the divine level, soon returning to the realm of a First-Level God!
Though this was still some distance from her peak strength as a God King.
Even with her injuries fully healed, however, Gu Yuena would have needed at least ten thousand years to cultivate her way back to the First-Level God realm on her own.
Now, with a single drop of Yao Xuan's blood, it had taken less than a few minutes!
"Just one drop of blood... restored me to a First-Level God?"
"Just how terrifying is the Ancestor's strength?"
Slowly breaking through the cocoon of light, Gu Yuena raised her head in disbelief and looked at that dragon body stretching ten thousand li.
At this moment, the worship and reverence in her eyes had reached their peak.
"Thank you, Ancestor!"
Marveling inwardly, Gu Yuena kowtowed again, her voice and movements utterly devout.
"Rise."
Yao Xuan spoke calmly, then willed his divine consciousness to surge forth as he began taking human form.
A moment later.
Amid waves of nine-colored light, a figure broke through the roiling clouds and mist, slowly descending from the sky to stand before Gu Yuena.
At this moment, Gu Yuena froze, too!
Looking closely, she saw that this figure had-
Hair black as ink, falling behind his shoulders;
A face like fine jade, with handsome, refined features;
Sword-like brows and starry eyes, with a straight nose;
Thin lips curved upward in a faint smile;
A tall, slender frame, with broad shoulders and a narrow waist;
An air beyond the mortal world, calm and composed!
Though he looked like a youth of only eighteen, his eyes exuded a composure that stood above heaven and earth!
As for his handsomeness, it surpassed anything words could describe.
In an instant, Gu Yuena was captivated!
"Th-this is the Ancestor's human form?"
Gu Yuena stared blankly at Yao Xuan, instantly rooted to the spot.
She had assumed the Ancestor must be very old, and that even in human form, he would be an aged man in his eighties or nineties.
Never had she imagined that the Ancestor would be so young and so handsome.
Though she had seen many talented young men of the Soul Beast Clan, not one had ever measured up to even a ten-thousandth of Yao Xuan before her.
Not even the Dragon God of the past.
And the attraction at the source of her bloodline felt even more impossible for Gu Yuena to resist.
At this moment, Gu Yuena felt only her heartbeat quickening, admiration involuntarily shining in her eyes.
"Ancestor... you're so handsome..."
At this moment, Gu Yuena could not help voicing her admiration.
As for Di Tian, Bi Ji, Zi JI, and the others behind Gu Yuena-
They were much the same as Gu Yuena, utterly immersed in Yao Xuan's overwhelmingly striking presence.
Only when Gu Yuena spoke was their reverie broken, and they exchanged bewildered glances.
Their lord, who was usually as aloof as an iceberg, high above them all, had actually said something so lovestruck?
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