But just then, another voice appeared in the sky screen.
[Spirit Pagoda · Qiangu Dieting]: "Pavilion Master Long, you are mistaken. The Primordial World ranks higher than Douluo."
"That Sage is clearly stronger than the legendary Sea God. If we can develop the Ancestral Dragon Scripture, perhaps it could benefit every Soul Master on the Douluo Continent."
Those words did bring the other Soul Masters to their senses.
That was right. Not everyone could join Shrek Academy.
But anyone could study the Ancestral Dragon Scripture on the sky screen.
Although they truly could not understand it, if someone could research it and produce even a little progress, perhaps it could help Soul Masters take a great stride forward.
And the one speaking was the highly authoritative Spirit Pagoda.
After all, the Soul Spirit System had originated from the Spirit Pagoda.
It counted as one of human Soul Masters' greatest achievements.
If they truly could decipher the Ancestral Dragon Scripture through another world, the Primordial World, which clearly ranked higher than Douluo...
That would truly be something that benefited all of Douluo's Soul Masters.
But only the Spirit Pagoda dared to openly stand against Shrek Academy.
To Long Yeyue, however, this was nothing short of insulting Shrek Academy.
[Shrek · Long Yeyue]: "Qiangu Dieting, stop misleading the continent's young Soul Masters here!"
"Your Spirit Pagoda is hardly clean itself. Has it been so long since you were slapped that you've forgotten your lesson?"
Those words stabbed Qiangu Dieting straight in the heart.
Especially since she had said them outright on the sky screen.
It was no different from rubbing salt into his wounds.
Two things in his life had left the deepest impressions on him.
The first was when he had competed against Yun Ming back then and been crushed head-on by the Sky-Piercing Douluo. His Dao heart had been wounded, delaying him a full twenty years before he finally entered the Quasi-Sage realm.
The second was when Long Yeyue had stormed into the Spirit Pagoda and slapped him in front of everyone.
Had her husband not stepped forward to mediate, the two great powers might have gone to war over it.
Now that her husband was dead, was she getting arrogant again?
"That old thing!"
Qiangu Dongfeng, who stood nearby, hurried behind him and began patting his back.
He soothed him in a low voice. "Father, calm down, calm down!"
"There's no need to get angry with someone who's about to die."
Long Yeyue already had little time left to live.
His father, on the other hand, still had plenty of life ahead of him. There was no need to quarrel with someone who already had one foot in the coffin.
Especially an old woman.
Qiangu Dieting forcibly suppressed the fury in his heart.
Yet Grandpa Long refused to let the matter rest.
[Shrek · Long Yeyue]: What, are you trying to deny the Great Dao inheritance left behind by our ancestor, Sea God Tang San?
That line could be called a killing blow.
Tang San was the universally acknowledged Sea God of the Douluo Continent, as well as the foundation of Shrek and the Tang Sect. He held a supreme position in the hearts of countless Soul Masters.
If Qiangu Dieting continued arguing, others could easily interpret it as questioning a god and abandoning the righteous path.
After all, as everyone knew, Sea God Tang San was great.
He had repeatedly saved the continent's peace.
As for why war had broken out again afterward...
And the continent had ultimately been unified by the Federation...
Under Shrek Academy's brainwashing, more people still believed these were all Sea God Tang San's deeds.
Qiangu Dieting was nearly driven half to death with anger.
Seeing this, Qiangu Dongfeng hurried to divert his father's attention.
"Father, look, the scene on the sky screen has changed."
At this moment, in the Primordial World, Gu Yuena had already been cultivating here for some time.
The Dragon Clan's Great Dao had an affinity for water.
At least in terms of the water-attribute Great Dao, Gu Yuena was progressing rapidly.
Especially with the Dao resonance of Gonggong's Great Dao of the Water Element provided by her newfound master.
Only then did Gu Yuena realize just how terrible she had been back on the Douluo Continent.
She had only known how to use attributes. She possessed uniquely favorable advantages yet had failed to grasp them, merely using them rather than comprehending them.
But just then, when he opened his eyes, the scene before him had changed.
"Master? Do you need something?"
It turned out that he had been transported here by Xu You's Dao art.
Xu You handed him a piece of beast hide glowing with golden light.
Profound characters were carved upon it.
He instructed her, "Go to a small Human Clan settlement a hundred li to the east. Find a youth named Fuxi and bring him here. Tell him I wish to take him as a disciple."
"If he is unwilling, give him this."
Gu Yuena reached out and took the beast-hide scroll. Her gaze fell on the three characters at its beginning, and she read them aloud softly. "'Dragon Transformation Scripture'?"
Her brows knitted slightly, her expression full of confusion. "What cultivation technique is this?"
"A cultivation method created specifically for the Human Clan of the Primordial World," Xu You said. "You've seen that the Human Clan in the Primordial World cannot cultivate."
"So now I've created a method that humans can use to cultivate."
But after hearing this, Gu Yuena's brows drew together even more tightly.
During these days living in the tribe, he had indeed seen that humans could not cultivate.
Yet cultivation was as simple as drinking water for Soul Beasts like them.
But the humans here actually could not cultivate.
It felt rather like the human population before Martial Souls had appeared.
This subconsciously reminded him of what had happened on the Douluo Continent.
Douluo's humans had all been extremely weak at first, yet ultimately became very powerful, penning up Soul Beasts like them step by step.
That warning from the past remained vivid before her eyes.
She did not have even the slightest favorable thought toward humans.
Killing them all would be a good thing.
If these Primordial World members of the Human Clan were given a path to cultivation, would Douluo's tragedy repeat itself someday?
When the Human Clan grew powerful, would they turn their spears around and slaughter the Dragon Clan?
Gu Yuena did not want to go at all. She even wanted to dissuade her newfound master from creating cultivation techniques for humans just because he had nothing better to do.
But just as he was about to speak...
Thump.
A tap, neither light nor heavy, landed on her head.
Gu Yuena clutched her forehead, crystalline tears spilling out.
She said, feeling somewhat aggrieved, "What are you doing?!"
Xu You said sternly, "It is not your place to question your master's instructions. Just do as you're told."
In an instant, anger flared up in Gu Yuena's heart.
You rotten dragon!
Once she cultivated the Great Dao anew, returned to her peak, and became the Dragon God...
She would definitely capture this wretched dragon and refine him into a toilet!
She would tread him underfoot every day and make him get a proper taste of what it felt like to have her head knocked today!
But she only thought it. She did not dare actually say it aloud.
Gu Yuena pursed her lips in grievance.
"All right, Master, I understand. I'll set out right away."
Xu You said, "Go quickly and return quickly. Do not delay."
Clutching the scroll of the Dragon Transformation Scripture, Gu Yuena turned and left.
Hmph, just you wait. I'll remember this debt.
Xu You shook his head helplessly.
After Nüwa became a Sage, Fuxi naturally refused to be outdone and wanted to follow the Heavenly Dao by choosing to cultivate anew.
She had already spoken to Houtu, asking her to do her a favor and send Fuxi into a Human Clan tribe.
At first, Xu You naturally had not dared to set his sights on the Human Clan lightly.
He had not even interfered much with the Human Clan tribe beside him.
He had feared drawing attention.
But now...
Teaching the Human Clan cultivation techniques through Fuxi's hands and borrowing a little of the Human Clan's fortune should be fine, right?
After all, the Human Clan's cultivation techniques were created by Fuxi in the first place.
I merely changed things a little.