Misjudgment and Discovery

"Daozi?"

"Daozi?"

The enormous dragon head spewed forth billowing heat waves, Ren Anran began to regain her senses amidst the dizziness and stinging pain.

Traveling through the void brought various discomforts, but Xuanming's Xuan Qi Heavy Armor protected her, preventing Ren Anran from losing her life.

This consumable absolute defense accompanied Ren Anran almost the entire time, until she entered this world, when the Xuanqi Heavy Armor suddenly disappeared, and she crashed into a dragon at an uncontrollable speed.

Her soul was almost shattered during the collision, and it took Ren Anran a long time to gradually regain her normal consciousness.

"Dao... Fellow Daoist!"

Zhang Xuezhou once spoke the Sacred Land Language to Ren Anran.

In reality, the Sacred Land Language is a skill for slaying dragons, with no opportunity to be used, and Ren Anran's knowledge of it is not extensive.

She stammered a reply, which immediately delighted the dragon.

"Dongfang Shuo said he wanted to introduce me to a fellow Daoist, but I never imagined he was a Daoist prodigy nurtured by my master!"

Hongjun left a line of time and space in the void to prevent people from losing their bearings while traveling. This line also caused Zhu Jiuyin to make a very serious misjudgment.

What was originally an ordinary exchange in the void eventually turned into a contest in the void, which led Zhu Jiuyin to pull Ren Anran's soul into the Three Realms with all his might.

Zhu Jiuyin usually only walks in human form; he has never before pulled out his dragon soul like this, which means that Zhu Jiuyin has spared no effort in this matter.

But all the sacrifices were worthwhile; Zhu Jiuyin had waited far too long for Hongjun's guidance.

Zhu Jiuyin felt he was a fool. He had heard countless teachings from Hongjun, but he always forgot them, then forgot them again and listened again, learning them over and over again, until now he still hadn't mastered them.

Upon suddenly seeing the familiar traces left by Hongjun's spell, and knowing that it involved cultivators who had borrowed this river of time and space, he felt that this was Hongjun's blessing.

Especially since the other party was proficient in the Yang Soul Transformation Technique and even cultivated the One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones, this confirmed Zhu Jiuyin's suspicions.

He looked down at Ren Anran. If Ren Anran had a physical body, he would have served as her servant again.

"For a cultivator to attain longevity is incredibly difficult, and for my master to be willing to spare some of his attention to care for a mudfish like me, I am truly..."

Zhu Jiuyin wiped his eyes with his dragon claw, wiping away non-existent tears.

His actions were somewhat fake, but Zhu Jiuyin's emotions were very genuine.

Zhu Jiuyin was not grateful to Ren Anran, but rather believed that Ren Anran's arrival was due to Hongjun's care for him, and that even after a thousand years, Hongjun had not forgotten him, his former servant. This made it impossible for Zhu Jiuyin not to be grateful.

The initial void-pulling caused Zhu Jiuyin to curse, feeling that the void-pulling tormented the soul, and that it was better not to discuss or explore it.

He initially tried to retrieve the mark, but after repeated failures, he decided to sever the connection. However, during the back-and-forth process, Zhu Jiuyin discovered that someone in the void seemed to have intervened, and then he saw a thin line of time and space.

As if guiding the communicators, this thin line stretches into the infinite distance.

This was a method that Zhu Jiuyin was extremely familiar with, and he had witnessed it several times before. Hongjun was skilled in the Principle of time and space.

Many things can be understood simply by thinking about them.

"Michiko, are you feeling even a little better?"

Lowering his dragon head, Zhu Jiuyin looked at the blurry figure of the soul in his palm.

The urgency of the previous exchange has turned into complete patience now. As long as the divine soul in his palm returns to normal, Zhu Jiuyin feels that they can communicate for as long as they want, and he doesn't care about the present moment at all.

"There are several pieces of spiritual jade in my hot spring. If you guide them properly, you will surely be able to materialize your divine soul and yang spirit!"

The Zhu Jiuyin Dragon's tail rolled downwards into the hot spring, gathering up four fist-sized pieces of spirit jade.

As the Spiritual Qi naturally emanating from the jade swept over, Ren Anran felt as if her drifting and dissipating soul had found a place to rest.

Her current situation is almost exactly the same as Ren Yisheng's when his yang soul left his body. He cannot feel his physical body, but can exist alone in the form of a divine soul.

Unlike Ren Yisheng, who stumbled and struggled to survive, Ren Anran felt that she was currently quite lucky. The spiritual jade that sustained her soul had been delivered to her side, and she also possessed the Yang Soul Transformation Technique, which allowed her to build up her body simply by drawing upon Spiritual Qi.

As the Spiritual Qi was slowly drawn in, her cloud-like soul began to transform, and a blurry human form gradually emerged.

"Michiko is amazing!"

Zhang Xuezhou's transformation of his Yang Soul into human form was difficult to achieve quickly, and Ren Anran also spent a long time cultivating it.

Re-condensing the Yang Soul Incarnation at this point will inevitably take a considerable amount of time.

Zhu Jiuyin, holding the spirit jade and Ren Anran's soul, shamelessly continued to offer his praise.

Regardless of whether Ren Anran's refinement is fast or slow, it signifies a demonstration, which allows Zhu Jiuyin to engage in in-depth learning.

Realizing that this situation might be the exchange arranged by Hongjun, Zhu Jiuyin dared not urge him in the slightest. He watched with almost complete focus everything Ren Anran did as he condensed his Yang Soul incarnation.

"You... the Great Wilderness Creation Scripture, give it to me!"

When Yang Po's body barely transformed into a smoke-like form, Ren Anran was finally able to speak normally. She didn't care about Zhu Jiuyin's attitude and chose the most direct way to ask for the cultivation method.

Even with the right conditions, such as the Spirit Jade, it would still take Ren Anran a long time to condense her Yang Soul into a complete form.

This process might take half a month, a month, or even three months.

Although the trip landed safely, the journey far exceeded Zhang Xuezhou's expectations, making it difficult for Zhang Xuezhou to predict the consequences.

Ren Anran wasn't worried about her own situation, but she was concerned about the confusion and anxiety that came with Zhang Xuezhou's disappearance.

Despite the apparent numerous risks, Ren Anran guessed that this might be Zhang Xuezhou's ultimate achievement.

Whether things succeed or fail, one should still try. As a cultivator progresses, one will inevitably encounter various situations; there is no such thing as a smooth road. Ren Anran felt that the current risks were normal.

When faced with risks, there's no need to complain or blame others; instead, you need to find the fastest way to solve the problem.

She adjusted her words several times before finally expressing her request in the simplest Sacred Land Language.

"Ah... so soon the results of my cultivation over the years will be tested... Come to think of it, your rapid progress in shaping the form now will surely surpass my cultivation of the Great Wilderness Creation Scripture!"

Zhu Jiuyin was initially surprised, then somewhat uneasy about facing the assessment, and finally came to deeply agree with the normality of this behavior.

He filled in the blanks in his mind and had no doubts about Ren Anran's request.

As he chanted incantations, Zhu Jiuyin focused his mind, and golden light began to radiate.

Compared to his rough treatment of Zhang Xuezhou, Zhu Jiuyin was now excessively cautious, fearing that the information he was conveying might be wrong and lead to a misjudgment by the 'Daozi' before him.

"Look at my insights over the years. I've cultivated for a full thirteen hundred years, yet I still couldn't understand how to advance in cultivation. My master, back then, only used..."

Zhu Jiuyin muttered to himself about his predicament, lamenting that the gap between himself and Hongjun was ridiculously large.

Zhu Jiuyin couldn't believe he was that stupid, but his actual performance was exactly that stupid. He had worked diligently all these years, but the actual results were hundreds of times worse than Hongjun's back then.

If things didn't improve, Zhu Jiuyin felt he would continue cultivating diligently until he finally met his end.

Who's messing with me?

As Zhu Jiuyin respectfully conveyed the relevant information to Ren Anran through the golden light, a thought suddenly struck him, as he sensed a change in the formation of the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains.

He could even clearly sense that the heat from the hot springs on the mountain peak was beginning to dissipate, no longer maintaining a constant temperature as before.

This sent a chill down Zhu Jiuyin's spine.