"Senior, you summoned me. What are your instructions?"
The Douluo Heavenly Dao appeared, immediately dropping to its knees and kowtowing.
Clearly, Gu Yuan had given it quite a fright last time, leaving it psychologically scarred even now.
Gu Yuan asked, "Tell me, why has Tang San already appeared in this world? He shouldn't have arrived so soon."
This was the strangest part.
The Douluo Heavenly Dao trembled and quickly began explaining.
In fact, it was quite simple. This world's worldline was already in chaos, so it was possible for some characters to appear ahead of time.
Then there was Tang Hao's death!
As the protagonist's biological father, he was an extremely important existence, a key figure in guiding the entire world along its predetermined course.
So he had to appear.
But with Tang Hao dead, how could the other party be made to appear?
The Douluo Heavenly Dao had thought of a solution: have Tang San appear directly in the Douluo World.
He was still Tang Hao's son, but an illegitimate one.
This would allow the world to gradually return to its proper course.
That was the Douluo Heavenly Dao's explanation.
In short, the chaos in the threads of fate and the timeline, coupled with Gu Yuan's presence, had forced the Heavenly Dao to intervene personally.
Otherwise, if the threads of fate and the timeline collapsed completely, this world would also risk being reconstructed.
It sounded reasonable enough, but Gu Yuan kept feeling that something was wrong.
Things shouldn't have been that simple.
The Douluo Heavenly Dao must still have been hiding something.
"What... haven't you told me?"
Gu Yuan's gaze turned cold. A mere Douluo Heavenly Dao dared play games with him?
The Douluo Heavenly Dao looked somewhat bewildered at his words.
"N-no, nothing. I've told you everything."
It didn't seem to be pretending. Had it really said everything?
Just as he was thinking this, the Heavenly Dao suddenly clutched its head, crouched on the ground, and began screaming in agony, blood spilling from its eyes.
Golden light flashed in Gu Yuan's eyes, and he saw what was happening.
He touched a finger to its forehead. Only then did the Douluo Heavenly Dao quiet down, though it was still panting.
"Senior, w-what happened to me?"
"Nothing much. Someone tampered with your origin to conceal a few things, that's all."
Gu Yuan's expression remained calm.
When he had scanned the Douluo Heavenly Dao's origin just now, he had discovered quite a few seals within it.
And they had been placed by different people.
Clearly, someone had tampered with the Douluo Heavenly Dao to conceal certain truths and seal some of its memories.
Only those from beyond this world could generally accomplish something like that.
In other words, powerhouses from the Myriad Heavens and myriad worlds.
Judging by their methods, they had actually reached the quasi-emperor level.
The Quasi-Immortal Emperor Realm represented truly top-tier combat strength across the Myriad Heavens and myriad worlds.
A single thought could destroy the entire Douluo World.
But why would beings of that level act against the Douluo World's Heavenly Dao?
The Douluo World was merely a thoroughly trashy plane among the Myriad Heavens and myriad worlds. It shouldn't have been worth such important figures making a move.
There had to be something he didn't know.
The chaotic timeline and threads of fate here might very well have something to do with those people, too.
"Senior, I seemed to remember something just now, but when I tried to recall it carefully, something went wrong with my origin."
The Douluo Heavenly Dao still felt shaken.
It had happened to remember a little something, and that had nearly cost it its life.
Where could it possibly seek justice for that?
"All right. Don't dwell on anything you can't remember. You may leave."
"Yes, Senior!"
The Douluo Heavenly Dao breathed a sigh of relief and hurried away.
Gu Yuan gazed thoughtfully in the direction it had left.
The work of Quasi-Immortal Emperors. Why would they tamper with a mere Douluo World?
Because of those powerhouses, the Douluo Heavenly Dao's origin was now incomplete.
It was the Heavenly Dao's incompleteness that prevented it from fully restoring the entire world's course.
If the Heavenly Dao had been whole, then, as long as those Quasi-Immortal Emperors had not forcibly twisted this world's threads of fate, it could have corrected the entire world in a short time.
Unfortunately, he still didn't know what those people were after.
He could only investigate gradually after going to the Myriad Heavens and myriad worlds.
What he could establish for now was that many characters from the storyline would appear at the current point in time.
Their reasons for appearing would be all sorts of bizarre, but the Douluo Heavenly Dao could always find a suitable excuse to explain them away.
"Now this is interesting."
Gu Yuan turned to look at Ah Yin.
Since powerhouses from the Myriad Heavens and myriad worlds had intervened in this world, he, an Immortal Emperor, would stir up the winds and clouds.
He would see just what those powerhouses were scheming.
If he could find them, all the better.
Ah Yin cultivated for a full day and night before finally grasping the basics of the cultivation art.
Her cultivation officially entered the Body Tempering Third Layer.
Her Soul Master level was currently sixty, and she could already condense her sixth Soul Ring.
Ah Yin noticed this as well, so she decisively began condensing her sixth Soul Ring.
Her sixth Soul Ring was actually a scarlet Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring!
"The Myriad Spirits Art works quite well. It greatly strengthens Soul Masters and Soul Beasts."
What Gu Yuan had given Ah Yin was the Myriad Spirits Art, a cultivation art that could rapidly convert the spiritual Qi of heaven and earth into Spiritual Power.
It could also completely convert the power already present within the body.
Whether Soul Power, magic power, Battle Qi, or the like, all could be converted directly.
In his view, this should count as a basic cultivation art of the Myriad Heavens and myriad worlds.
It was specifically used to temper one's foundations.
"Senior, th-this Myriad Spirits Art is incredible!"
Ah Yin opened her eyes, her Soul Power Level ultimately reaching sixty-five.
"Mm. Then get ready to return to Spirit Hall."
He had already granted her the status of a full elder. Now she needed to return and become acquainted with everyone to avoid any misunderstandings later.
After she cultivated the Myriad Spirits Art, the Soul Beast presence on Ah Yin could no longer be sensed.
At the very least, even Titled Douluos could not detect her identity as a Soul Beast.
"As you say, Senior!"
Ah Yin spoke delightedly.
Her eyes were filled with fervor as she looked at Gu Yuan.
With such a powerful senior, how high could her future achievements reach if she could keep following him?
It was truly impossible to imagine!
She also wanted to understand exactly what the Myriad Heavens and myriad worlds mentioned in the cultivation art were.
Somewhere deep within, she had a feeling that the world was vast.
And what she had seen was only the tip of the iceberg.
Perhaps the Myriad Heavens and myriad worlds were the true stage.
Gu Yuan waved a hand, and the space before him split open, revealing a spatial passage.
The two stepped into the spatial passage. When they emerged, they were already inside the Pope's Palace in Spirit City.
"Brother Gu Yuan, you're back?"
The moment Bibi Dong saw the spatial passage, she knew Gu Yuan must have returned.
She immediately rose from the papal throne.
But when she saw Ah Yin following behind him, she stopped in her tracks and raised her guard.
A woman. A very beautiful woman.
Brother Gu Yuan had only been out for a little while. How had he brought back a woman?
"Her name is Ah Yin. From now on, she is one of Spirit Hall's full elders. She took human form from the Blue Silver Emperor, a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast."
"Dong'er, summon Qian Daoliu and the others. It's time to give you cultivation arts from the Myriad Heavens and myriad worlds."