Yang Yuanhong could roughly guess why Long Yuan had come.
"Long renowned" was nothing more than polite small talk. In the eyes of a prodigy of his stature, Yang Yuanhong was merely a junior with outstanding talent.
That alone was nowhere near enough to make him come personally to invite Yang Yuanhong.
What truly interested Long Yuan was their sole similarity: both had Dragon-attributed variant bodies cultivated after birth.
When they reached the mountaintop, Long Yuan said, "Young Friend Yang, I invited you here this time because I have a matter to discuss."
"Please speak freely, Senior."
Long Yuan then opened his hand, condensing a frost-blue jade in his palm. "This is jade marrow condensed from my Dragon Body. Young Friend, you should know that variant bodies cultivated after birth are less powerful than innate variant bodies at lower realms. But once one reaches the Spiritual Connection Realm, the gap between variant bodies of the same level can be disregarded."
"This jade marrow is the mark of breaking through into Spiritual Connection, of an Acquired Dragon Body completing its foundational transformation."
It was Yang Yuanhong's first time hearing such a claim, and he looked at the jade marrow in Long Yuan's hand with considerable surprise.
As the saying went, every trade had its master. When it came to the intricacies of Dragon-attributed variant bodies, the dragon-descendant lineage of the East Sea Penglai Palace understood them best.
"But since there is a distinction between acquired and innate, there is naturally a difference in superiority as well. For variant body cultivation, reaching the Spiritual Connection Realm is merely the beginning."
Long Yuan continued, "Innate Dragon Bodies, like my sister's, naturally advance and transform as one's cultivation realm rises. They need no external aid."
"But Acquired Dragon Bodies such as ours require numerous