"Come here!"
Faced with Xu You's summons, Gu Yuena was reluctant, even though she was now under his thumb.
Ultimately, she still could not accept the change in her status.
She was the mighty Dragon God!
But soon, she raised her dragon head and obediently walked over.
Everything was for the sake of endurance!
Endurance!
She would just treat it as bearing humiliation for a greater burden!
Xu You naturally knew that, given Gu Yuena's pride, she must have been cursing him to death inwardly.
But that did not matter.
As long as I'm stronger than you, you'll have to behave yourself before me for the rest of your life.
As for whether she could catch up with him?
What a joke!
With a flicker, the enormous golden dragon vanished, turning into a handsome man.
The Transformation Technique was very common in the Primordial World.
After all, the Heavenly Dao of the Primordial World favored humans, and the creatures of the Primordial World had also discovered that taking human form would greatly increase their cultivation speed.
Thus, the Transformation Technique was born.
Besides, human form really was more convenient.
"Master? Do I have to turn into a human too?"
Gu Yuena naturally knew how, but this was not the Douluo Continent, and she did not need to interact with humans, so why bother turning into one?
Xu You waved his hand. Gu Yuena found her body shrinking uncontrollably, until she, too, turned into a human.
But the problem was...
She was not a woman.
She was a little girl.
Gu Yuena: ?
Isn't this the form I take when I seal myself?
Wait, don't I seem to be missing something?
She hurriedly tried to inspect her sea of consciousness, only to discover that she could not mobilize her power at all.
"What have you done to me?"
Thump!
Xu You rewarded her with a flick on the forehead.
"Learn to respect your master, understand?"
What had he done?
Naturally, he had extracted the Silver Dragon King's core-the Creation Godhead, one of the powers within the Dragon God Core.
The Dragon God, who likewise possessed Dual Godhood,
had possessed the Godheads of Destruction and Creation.
It was precisely because of this that the Dragon God had developed a split personality and often needed to suppress himself.
That was what had allowed the universe's consciousness to exploit an opening after his advancement to a God Star, driving him mad.
Had there been nothing wrong with his mind, the universe's consciousness would never have had an opportunity to interfere with the Dragon God.
Xu You intended to study this.
Although Douluo was the floor tile of fantasy, that was a matter of Douluo I.
At least in Douluo IV and Douluo V, its prestige kept getting cranked higher.
Although Third Young Master still retconned his settings, that was no great problem. The new version automatically overwrote the old.
A God King Godhead was the manifestation of the power of authority.
In the Primordial World, that would be a Dao Fruit.
He wanted to study how to transfer his identity out of the Primordial World.
As for the thing Gu Yuena felt she had lost,
Xu You's position was that he was just borrowing it; he would return it shortly.
As for the little girl before him?
Under Gu Yuena's bewildered gaze, Xu You reached out and lifted her straight up.
Little Gu Yuena: ?
No!
My God King strength!
Gu Yuena had never imagined that he would be so unreasonable. He had practically dispersed all her God King strength outright.
That was right. She had inherited the Dragon God's power and possessed God King strength, yet this hateful dragon had dispersed it all.
Was he making her cultivate again from scratch?
What a joke. Soul Beasts were not like humans.
Although Soul Beasts did indeed have long lifespans, was she supposed to spend tens of thousands, or even over a hundred thousand years, cultivating back to Half-Step God King?
Gu Yuena absolutely could not accept that.
She still had to take revenge. She still had to revive the Dragon Clan.
"You-you-you!"
"There are some problems with your cultivation path. It has a bottleneck, and at most, you'll stop at Taiyi Golden Immortal. Today, I'll disperse your cultivation and teach you the Ancestral Dragon Scripture."
Xu You spoke with complete seriousness, passing the Ancestral Dragon Scripture to her as he did.
This was something the Ancestral Dragon had created, a cultivation method specifically suited to the dragon race.
Although it was called the Ancestral Dragon Scripture, it truly was a top-tier cultivation method, and practically all mainstream Dragon Clan lineages practiced it.
However, unlike acquired beings such as the Human Clan and ordinary spirits, the Dragon Clan did not absolutely need cultivation methods to cultivate.
For the Dragon Clan, cultivation methods merely added flowers to brocade. They could cultivate without them; cultivation methods simply increased their cultivation speed.
What the Dragon Clan valued more was bloodline.
Thus, the Ancestral Dragon Scripture was very common among the Dragon Clan, but the Silver Dragon King had certainly never seen it.
As the cultivation method entered her mind, little Gu Yuena automatically understood the Ancestral Dragon Scripture in its entirety.
She instinctively began circulating it.
For Gu Yuena, who had never practiced a cultivation method before, cultivating with the Ancestral Dragon Scripture completely shattered her understanding.
The rich innate spiritual Qi of the Primordial World's heaven and earth surged madly into her body, as though heedless of its own life.
Her cultivation!
Was soaring!
Earth Immortal, Heavenly Immortal, True Immortal, Mystic Immortal.
In an instant, she was about to touch Taiyi Golden Immortal.
On the Douluo Continent, that would mean going from having just awakened her Martial Soul to suddenly becoming a deity-a Third-Level God, a Second-Level God, a First-Level God-and touching the threshold of God King once again.
Th-this...
Was this cultivating from scratch?
Gu Yuena was utterly dumbfounded.
She suspected it was an illusion. Since when had cultivation been so easy?
Although cultivation also existed on the Douluo Continent-Di Tian, for example, cultivated with Yin-Yang Dual Cores-more Soul Beasts still relied on the accumulation of years.
But cultivation in the Primordial World was simply beyond comparison with cultivation on the Douluo Continent.
Indeed, Tang San had been able to slaughter his way through Douluo with just a copy of the Mysterious Heaven Skill.
Let alone in the Primordial World.
However, seeing Gu Yuena absorb the spiritual Qi of heaven and earth so hastily,
purely raising her level like mad,
Xu You irritably dispersed it for her once again.
"Hey! What are you doing?!" Gu Yuena was angry!
Was he treating her like a punching bag?
Was cultivation really something to disperse so casually?
What if he damaged her foundation?
Fortunately, she was a dragon, not a fragile human. More of a dragon's strength lay within its bloodline and inheritance.
Cultivation was merely what showed on the surface.
Seeing the furious Gu Yuena, Xu You had to tell her.
"Cultivation isn't just about raising your level!"
The cultivation of one's realm was merely a measure of power. A higher realm did not mean a deeper understanding of the Dao.
"Cultivation lies in cultivating the Dao and tempering the heart."
"Do you know why, even though our cultivation levels are clearly more or less the same, I can still crush you so easily?"
Little Gu Yuena shook her head.
"It comes down to comprehension of the Dao. You focus on crudely raising your level, with no understanding of the Dao whatsoever."
If one only cultivated levels, that road led nowhere. There was ultimately a limit to how much spiritual Qi of heaven and earth the body could contain.
There were bottlenecks.
To cross those bottlenecks, one ultimately had to comprehend the Dao.
Cultivation lay in comprehending the Dao and tempering the heart.
Otherwise, the six great Sages would not have found their paths to Sagehood only after Hongjun expounded the Dao.
Which innate being was not born and nurtured by heaven and earth? Favored by heaven and earth, their cultivation paths were smooth. Even the most worthless innate being could cultivate to Taiyi Golden Immortal while lying down.
With slightly better innate aptitude, they could reach Daluo Golden Immortal too.
Yet in the end, only six had reached the Sage Realm.
It required comprehension.
"In short, starting with the Great Dao of Water, which suits the Dragon Clan best, I've dispersed your cultivation so that, with the Ancestral Dragon Scripture as your foundation, you can comprehend your own Great Dao of Water. Only then can you step into Daluo Golden Immortal."
"If you don't understand, cultivate slowly, and you'll understand."
In short, an impatient mouth could not eat hot tofu.
Although he currently wanted to make use of the Silver Dragon King, this was for her own good after all.
She could not keep foolishly raising her level without improving her brain. Otherwise, with the way she was, even if she cultivated to become a Sage,
she would still be a love-brained fool when she went back.