Dual Cultivation God Returns

Chapter 733: Implusive thoughts



Note: the name of Qi released by a Dragon Vein when it is born is switched to 'Arcane Qi', (I already made edits in previous chapters), there was a mix-up in my notes, sorry for inconvenience.

After a short speech made by Song Minfu in Wu Long's place, the grand feast started for the Eternal Duality Valley.

If Lian Zhiqiu was not preoccupied by checking that the Grand Formation worked smoothly, and that it properly integrated all the concealing arrays and formations they set up earlier as intended, she would have surely teased that Wu Long didn't even bother pretending to do official work of the Valley Master, since she as a Sect Master at least attended such official events and kept appearances by giving speeches.

Wu Long, on the other hand, finished using the Grand Formation as a medium for his technique to absorb the Arcane Qi that was left over after everyone got their share.

"Now, it's time to see how it went", he then turned to Gong Liwei, who nodded, as she was also anxious to find out what the results were.

She sat down on a cultivation mat again and started circulating her cultivation technique, at first absorbing Spiritual Qi since her reserves were depleted.

She flinched, sensing the incredibly potent Spiritual Qi that now permeated this land. Despite it taking some time, everyone patiently waited for the moment of truth, the anxiety Gong Cui felt seemingly transfering to others just like her positive emotions usually did.n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

And then, a sigh of relief came from Gong Cui who felt her sister's cultivation base very incrementally increase and take hold instead of crumbling.

Gong Liwei opened her eyes, and was immediately hugged by the emotional Music Dao practitioner, hugging her back, the two once again tightly embracing.

Now that she truly has passed this ordeal, she suddenly felt how truly shaken she was by it underneath all that relative calmness and rational thinking she showed, that managed to somehow fool even herself into thinking she was fine with it.

She turned her emotional gaze to Wu Long, who simply nodded, as his expression seemed to say that no words were necessary.

"T-thank you", but she still couldn't hold back the gratitude she felt. Even though her tongue betrayed her, sealing her eloquence, and her mind was overwhelmed by too many emotions to speak out just how much appreciation she felt.

Wu Long smiled, as those more emotional of the Wu Family that gathered here were also wiping away happy tears.

But even those more reserved in their demeanor like Xue Bing and Nie Xiwang showed warmth in their eyes.

"Huan'er, Mingyu, you did great", Wu Long approached the two ladies and gave each one a kiss, their expressions blooming with smiles at the praise.

He then turned to Cai Yin, "Lady Cai, thank you for your help and hard work, it was immensely helpful. You also managed to execute the techniques perfectly despite limited time for preparation"

"I-... only did what I could, and as you instructed", she slightly blushed at his words, her eyes turning down, but a subconscious smile curled up her lips.

"And, thank you for giving me the ability to do something like this", her eyes then turned to the two sisters still hugging tightly, as her smile turned softer.

'It really is different when you have aptitude', he thought while watching her.

While he could do what Cai Yin did, and due to his experience he would not be any less effective, the way she naturally made things he spent years training to do, and how efficient her Soul Power was in doing the same tasks even with the disparity in the potency and amount that they had, was still showing the difference between a genuine Soul Cultivator and someone like him who only gained his abilities through countless years of effort, but was ultimately not suited for it.

Though, there was no envy in his eyes, only appreciation. He wasn't only not suited for the path of Soul Cultivation, but fundamentally held no passion for it either.

What he achieved in that regard was purely out of necessity.

"Here, take this", he then gave her a jade slip.

"This is...", Cai Yin looked at the jade slip that landed in her hands as she instinctively stretched them out while she was distracted looking at the Gong sisters.

"A cultivation technique that compliments the one I gave you earlier in the Three Continents. It's a reward for helping me out", he chuckled, as her eyes widened.

"But I...", she first wanted to argue, but as her eyes darted from the jade slip to his smiling face, froze, as she knew it was a chance. A chance to finally reach the stage at which she could join in helping him like Madam Liang could.

'It might be brazen to accept this... and the polite thing to do would be to refuse... but I cannot help him by being polite, I cannot move on by just being a nice little princess who followed him', her hands clutched the jade slip, as she nodded.

"Thank you", as she spoke, her eyes caught Yu Huan and Luo Mingyu who were also helping out with this task.

"Haha, don't worry, they will also receive their rewards, separately that is", he chuckled, and the faces of two beauties flushed with rosy color.

"A-ahh, I-I see...", Cai Yin slightly awkwardly smiled, while inwardly a crazy thought flew through her mind, a thought which she chose to just swat aside as nonsense of a tired mind, a thought that their reward... seemed better.

Meanwhile, seeing Gong Liwei safely overcome her trial, Ye Ling sighed with relief, and then wryly smiled toward Wu Long, "Really, I'm glad it wasn't as gruesome as what I had to witness you go through"

"Ah~, why would you remember that? You're making me shy at how inexperienced and frankly stupid I was at the time~", Wu Long scratched the back of his head with a slightly

awkward smile.

"Gruesome?", Wu Mengqi raised her eyebrows.

"Uh, even remembering it is still disturbing. There was blood everywhere, and his body nearly shattered several times. It didn't activate in one attempt either, as he kept going at it over and over until he managed to do it", Ye Ling shook her head as both Gong sisters shuddered with

paling faces.

"W-why didn't you say that earlier?" Gong Liwei mumbled in a trembling voice.

"Why would I tell that to someone who was going to attempt doing it?", Ye Ling shrugged, leaving both Gong sisters at a loss of words, since it seemed that she fully expected to see the same scene now and didn't say a word in advance.

"Haha, that's right, Ling'er passed out by the end so I had to take care of her", Wu Long chuckled, as if suddenly remembering.

"W-Wu Long!", Ye Ling blushed and exclaimed in protest, as she didn't expect him to turn the embarrassing story at her.

"What? You thought you were going to conveniently tell only half of the story?", he smiled while raising one eyebrow, clearly enjoying her expression.

"I- um, I didn't... think... Sister Lan, didn't you say we need to go prepare for the celebratory meal?", the beauty with rapidly reddening face was trying to come up with something to say until she gave up and looked at Wei Lan.

The latter's expression showed surprise only for a split moment, before making a confident

nod.

'Hah, what commendable camaraderie', Wu Long inwardly chuckled at that 'save', as Wei Lan quickly turned so that Ye Ling could follow, though the latter's pace was far higher so by the time they reached the exit from the Grand Formation chamber Wei Lan was the one who was chasing the fleeing beauty.

After that Wu Long inspected a small sphere of Arcane Qi that floated above his palm.

"Hmm?", he then noticed an intense gaze from the side, and saw Yuanfen looking at the

Arcane Qi in his hand.

"You want it?", he asked, and she nodded, coming closer.

"A-are you sure it's okay to give so much of it...", Fen Baihu spoke in a slightly hesitant tone.

"She's a World Spirit that's missing most of her manifested form, if she has to make up for not absorbing a whole Great World when she awakened by consuming various Qi, this thing doesn't count as even a drop in the ocean", Wu Long shrugged, since out of all of them, Yuanfen was the only one who did not have to worry about absorbing too much of it.

The fact she didn't do it before when the Arcane Qi filled their surroundings, was more fascinating, if anything. She didn't even absorb a tiny bit. Perhaps, she only revealed that look of wanting that compressed energy sphere since Wu Long was seemingly not sure what to do

with it.

Stating it was definitely because she didn't want to do something that was harmful to Wu Long's intentions was of course wishful thinking.

But at the same time it could not be denied that she never did anything that even remotely

was not in his interests. Even though she did have power to do so, given as she came and went to Fen Baihu's Mystic Realm as she pleased without anyone noticing or being able to restrict her, and that while she didn't really do anything, it was still apparent she had unknown and

mysterious powers.

Despite it all, she never wandered off somewhere or showed herself around other people, placing him in a difficult situation. She didn't even absorb more Spiritual Qi than any of Wu Long's ladies, despite needing it to recover.

"So, you're going to go on that rampage scavenge hunt of Dragon Roots for her now?", Fen

Baihu asked.

Wu Long simply chuckled at that comment, while stretching out his open hand to Yuanfen.

The latter simply took the sphere of concentrated energy as it floated between her hands, as if she was holding a larger invisible sphere that had the Arcane Qi in the center. Her gaze shifted from it to Wu Long, with an expression of someone who received a gift, and as he gently nodded, she smiled. In a split second, the sphere disappeared, as if it never existed. "J-just like that?", Cao Mei asked in a slightly dumbfounded voice, since she expected some kind of manifestation or some reaction at least. But it just vanished, although there was a feeling of it being sucked up somewhere.

"Haha, I told you it wasn't even that big of a deal for her", Wu Long chuckled, his hand rising on instinct, only halting the moment before landing on the World Spirit's head. However, seeing an eager expression on Yuanfen's face, his own - slightly surprised at his own impulsive move - turned into a soft smile, as he patted her on the head.