Chapter Twelve Success, Dragon Baby

  Looking at the meridians filled with energy, Gu Yun became worried again. Because the meridians were completely filled, the energy inside could no longer circulate, and the dragon god's blood he swallowed was still constantly replenishing energy to his meridians. Gradually, the meridians had a kind of distending pain. Gu Yun dared to confirm that if this continued, even if his meridians were strong, they would eventually be burst by this powerful energy.

  The dragon god who had been watching Gu Yun obviously knew the situation inside Gu Yun's body now. He saw how Gu Yun successfully resolved the massive energy crisis within his body by combining "Nine Turns Golden Body Technique" with "Rebirth True Qi" and "Dragon Transformation Technique", avoiding the danger of being blown up by this energy. The dragon god felt extremely satisfied, thinking to himself that he had indeed not misjudged the person. Watching Gu Yun fall into another crisis once again, the dragon god still did not intend to help; he believed that Gu Yun would definitely find a way to overcome this crisis.

  As expected, Gu Yun did not disappoint him. He has now found a way to solve the problem of excessive energy in his meridians, which is compression. Just now, he discovered that the energy in his dantian was actually becoming sticky due to the pressure brought by the energy in his meridians, and the space inside his dantian had some gaps. This made him bright-eyed, and he immediately began to concentrate his willpower to compress the energy in his dantian. However, he could only compress the energy in his dantian by one-tenth before he couldn't compress it anymore, because his willpower was unable to support such a huge energy compression, and the required willpower for further compression was too great.

  After compressing all the energy in his meridians, Gu Yun had to think of another way to improve the efficiency of compression. Since his mental power couldn't compress the entire dantian's energy, Gu Yun stopped compressing the entire dantian and instead used his mental power to wrap around a cluster of energy to start compressing. This time, the effect immediately appeared, and this cluster of energy was soon compressed into a drop of liquid energy by Gu Yun. Seeing such an effect, Gu Yun immediately wrapped up another cluster of energy, and so on, Gu Yun compressed the energy one by one, resting for a while when he got tired, and then continuing to compress. Finally, all the energy in his meridians had been compressed into liquid energy, but the dragon god's blood was still constantly replenishing energy, seemingly endless. Gu Yun compressed the energy that had just entered his meridians, and soon his meridians were filled with energy again, but this time it was all liquid energy. No matter how hard Gu Yun tried, he couldn't compress them any further.

  Looking at the meridians, they were all filled with his own helpless liquid energy, which was getting bigger and bigger as it was replenished by the dragon god's essence. Gu Yun really felt a sense of despair. He couldn't think of any way to solve the current crisis, could he really not survive this time? Was he going to die here? Gu Yun couldn't help but feel a little sad.

  The dragon god who had been watching Gu Yun all along still didn't have a worried expression, and instead muttered to himself: "Not bad little guy, you've actually made it this far. Now's the time for me to lend you a hand." After saying that, he transformed into a five-colored divine dragon that was only over a meter long, circled around Gu Yun's head a few times, then dove down and entered through the Baihui acupoint on top of his head. Gu Yun's body trembled slightly before quickly returning to normal.

  The strand of yuanqi from the dragon god entered Gu Yun's body and immediately transformed into a dragon-shaped shadow, wandering through his meridians and continuously absorbing energy from around him. Finally, it settled in Gu Yun's dantian, where the dragon's mouth opened and closed, sucking in the energy from Gu Yun's meridians. In just a short while, more than half of the energy in his meridians had been absorbed, leaving Gu Yun staring at the scene in shock and confusion, unable to understand where this dragon-shaped shadow came from. As the shadow continued to absorb energy, the energy in Gu Yun's meridians was quickly depleted, including the energy replenished by the dragon god's essence. The dragon-shaped shadow grew more solid, and when it had absorbed the last bit of energy emitted by the dragon god's essence, it transformed into a small, tangible dragon swimming in Gu Yun's dantian.

  Gu Yun's eyes widened with joy as he witnessed this scene. Having just read the "Dragon Transformation Manual", he of course knew what the small dragon swimming in his dantian was. Dragon embryo, unexpectedly, after successfully accepting the inheritance, it had transformed into a dragon embryo within his body. He had originally thought that being able to form a dragon-shaped true energy within his body would be good enough, but now he hadn't expected that even a dragon embryo had been cultivated, and judging from its appearance, it was already at the mid-stage of the dragon embryo. No wonder the Dragon God said he needed to control more energy, thinking back, if he could also control the other half of the energy absorbed by his body, perhaps he would have reached the dragon transformation stage by now. However, he also knew that this was just a thought, recalling the danger from earlier, if he really controlled all of it, he would have exploded long ago. Now being able to cultivate to the dragon embryo stage, he was very satisfied, and his body had absorbed half of the energy, so the "Nine Turns Golden Body Manual" could also be advanced again, advancing from the third turn to the fourth turn in such a short period of time, this was something he never thought would happen. He now just wanted to quickly tell the Dragon God about this news and see how he would react.

  He searched the entire hall but couldn't find any trace of the dragon god, which made him very puzzled. Logically speaking, the dragon god shouldn't have left this place at this time. So, he ran back to the edge of the pool where the dragon god had emerged earlier and shouted again, but still got no response. He stood there stupidly by the pool.

  Just then, a voice appeared in his mind, "Little guy, not bad, not bad, you've actually reached the middle stage of Dragon Infant".

  Upon hearing this voice, Gu Yun immediately came back to his senses and looked around in all directions, but still couldn't see any sign of the Dragon God. "Senior, where are you?"

  "Little guy, no need to look for me, I'm now in your spiritual sea, you can see me by introspection", the voice of the dragon god sounded again in his mind.

  After listening to the dragon god's words, Gu Yun immediately entered a state of introspection. Unlike before, this time as soon as he entered the introspective state, he found himself in a strange place. This place was filled with white mist everywhere, seemingly endless, except for the area where he was standing, which was about ten meters square and not covered by the white fog. The dragon god stood virtually empty on his left side, not far away.

  "Senior, you said this is my spiritual sea of consciousness. How come I've never been here before? Where was it?" Gu Yun felt very strange, he had introspected so many times but had never reached this place before.

  "The spiritual sea is in your mind, as for why you didn't come here when you were introspecting before, it's because your yuan Shen wasn't strong enough. Before your yuan Shen takes shape, you can't reach this place. In the future, as your yuan Shen becomes stronger, the place where you are standing now will also become bigger and bigger." Long Shen smiled and explained to Gu Yun.

  "Ah, now I'm in my own mind." Gu Yun was startled by the dragon god's words. He hadn't expected that his own mind would be like this, and he couldn't understand how the endless white mist surrounding him could fit inside his head. As for the condensation of his primordial spirit, he did know about it because the medical classics recorded that when a doctor cultivated to the Revival Realm, they could condense their primordial spirit. However, he hadn't expected his own primordial spirit to condense into shape now, as according to his estimates, it would take at least five more years for him to cultivate to the Revival Realm.

  "Heh heh, don't be surprised either. The human brain is the most mysterious place in the world. Anything can happen here. Some great masters can even condense a whole world within it. This might also be why humans are considered the spirits of all things. Such things wouldn't happen with other races."

  After hearing Long Shen's words, Gu Yun also felt relieved, only that what Long Shen said about condensing a world here made him feel somewhat inconceivable. "Then, senior, how did you end up in my spiritual sea?" Gu Yun asked Long Shen after feeling relieved.

  Looking at Gu Yun's puzzled expression, the Dragon God said: "The little guy is really good, and he can actually hold on for so long under the energy of three drops of dragon god's essence blood. It's really beyond my expectations." After a pause, he continued: "Actually, you shouldn't have been able to cultivate to the middle stage of the Dragon Infant. The three drops of dragon god's essence blood I gave you were actually three portions of inheritance essence blood. Only one drop is needed to receive the inheritance, and the other two are for contingencies in case the previous inheritor fails. But after seeing your talent, I changed my mind and decided to give you all three drops. Although it was a bit risky, I believed you could succeed. You didn't disappoint me, and you even managed to compress those energies into liquid form. However, since you haven't truly cultivated the 'Dragon Transformation Technique' and don't have a dragon soul, you can't transform that liquid energy into a Dragon Infant. So, I helped you out a bit, and then I came here and saw that your sea of consciousness was less than one meter in diameter, so I helped expand it a bit and also helped condense your primordial spirit into shape."

  The ancient cloud suddenly realized, and at the same time felt a bit depressed. Others might still have a chance to fail with just one drop, but he himself had three drops in one go, almost torturing him to death. He really didn't know what the Dragon God was thinking, and he believed that even he himself didn't have such a way of believing. If he failed, wouldn't everything be lost? The Dragon God's words later also made Gu Yun realize where the dragon-shaped virtual shadow in his body came from earlier, and it even helped him condense his primordial spirit, and even expanded his sea of consciousness several times. Moreover, now that he had nothing to do, Gu Yun became happy again, feeling the stronger body than before and the dragon fetus swimming in his dantian, Gu Yun couldn't help but feel a bit like shouting at the sky.

  Seeing Gu Yun's appearance, Long Shen chuckled and said, "It's good that you don't blame me, little guy."

  Here is the translation:

  "It's said that one can't hide anything from these people, no matter what they think. 'How could I possibly resent you, Senior? I'm still grateful and haven't had time to feel otherwise.' Gu Yun's words were not false. If it weren't for Long Shen's help, he wouldn't have been able to solve the problem of his body's yin-yang energy so quickly, even if only temporarily. Compared to before, he was much better off now. Moreover, he had also received Long Shen's inheritance, although the process was a bit perilous. The benefits were obvious, and if Long Shen had only used a drop of his inherited blood, Gu Yun would have been able to form dragon-shaped true energy in his body by now. He wouldn't even be at the Dragon Infant stage yet. If he still wanted to resent Long Shen, then he really deserved to be struck by lightning."

  "Alright, alright, I'm relieved that you think this way. You've now accepted my legacy and become my successor. From now on, don't keep calling me senior, just call me Master." Gu Yun didn't hold any grudges against himself, and Long Sheng was also very pleased.

  After hearing Longshen's words, Guyun immediately knelt down and kowtowed to Longshen with great respect, knocking his head on the ground nine times and calling out "Master".