"Has the Yin-Yang Heavenly Punishment Talisman been removed?" After wiping Gu Yu's body, Ri Jiu asked Long Yuan.

“No.” Long Yuan shook his head. “It’s just a temporary suppression. I estimate it will only last for two or three months.”

"Two or three months?" Ri Jiu frowned. Two or three months would pass in the blink of an eye.

"It's better to try and gain some time than to be controlled like this," Long Yuan said.

"When will he wake up?" Ri Jiu asked. Today, Gu Yu's body did not continue to crack after recovering, which should mean that the power of the gods and demons and the power of the Yin-Yang Heavenly Punishment Talisman have stabilized and are no longer damaging Gu Yu's body.

"If nothing unexpected happens, he should wake up today," Long Yuan said after examining Gu Yu's body.

"Don't tell him my secret," Riju suddenly said.

“This…” Long Yuan was stunned for a moment, “You know this kid’s temperament, he will definitely ask me anything.”

"Why don't you just tell him you don't know?" Ri Jiu rolled her eyes and said, "Anyway, you'll never know the answer to anything I ask you, right?"

These past few days, Rijiu has been asking Guyu when he will get better and wake up. Each time, Longyuan gives Guyu a knowing look and then says, "I don't know either."

Several times, Rijiu wanted to punch this guy. If you don't know, just say you don't know. Why are you pretending to be a fool?

"Speaking of which, you were just one step away from entering the Divine Realm, but you used a forbidden technique to forcibly transform into a human, making it impossible for you to ever reach the Divine Realm again. Why did you come here and approach him?" At this moment, Long Yuan approached Ri Jiu, his dragon eyes scrutinizing her with a look of utter confusion. If he hadn't seen that Ri Jiu was truly sincere towards Gu Yu, he would have told Gu Yu to be wary of Ri Jiu.

“It’s none of your business,” Ri Jiu said upon hearing Long Yuan’s question.

"Could it be simply for love?" Long Yuan blinked. "The Divine Fox of Qingqiu is said to be able to give up everything for love. It seems that it's not just a rumor. But is love really worth it?"

“It’s none of your business,” Ri Jiu said again.

"Sigh! Fine, considering that you saved his life, which is equivalent to saving mine, I'll just pretend I don't know anything!" Long Yuan said after thinking for a moment.

Just then, Gu Yu woke up, and Ri Jiu immediately stepped forward and helped him up.

"Has the Yin-Yang Heavenly Punishment Talisman disappeared?" Gu Yu was puzzled. He felt his body and realized that the power of the Yin-Yang Heavenly Punishment Talisman no longer controlled him, as if it had vanished.

"It's still there, but it's been suppressed for now." Long Yuan repeated the information he had given Ri Jiu to Gu Yu.

"Only two or three months?" Gu Yu's expression changed immediately upon hearing Long Yuan's words.

“Alas! The power of the Yin-Yang Heavenly Punishment Talisman is so great that even the Great Emperor turns pale at the mere mention of it. The fact that you have been able to suppress it for two or three months is already quite remarkable,” Long Yuan said. “The only way right now is to awaken your divine and demonic power again as soon as possible, which may increase the time you can suppress the Yin-Yang Heavenly Punishment Talisman.”

“But I have no idea how to awaken the power of gods and demons.” Gu Yu frowned.

"Sigh!" Long Yuan sighed, but then a smile appeared on his face. "Go to Kunlun Yuanmen. That's where the two gods and demons, Qiankun and Yuan, fought their last battle. If they are both dead, maybe some gods and demons will remain inside, and there might be a way to awaken them."

“Yes!” Upon hearing Long Yuan’s words, a hint of joy appeared in Gu Yu’s eyes. Regardless of whether the two gods and demons, Qian and Kun, were dead or alive, that place was where the gods and demons last appeared. Perhaps something really would have been left behind. As long as he could find something, he might be able to awaken the third god and demon bloodline.

"My immediate priority is to recover from my injuries as soon as possible. By the way, where am I?" Gu Yu suddenly felt a surge of motivation; having hope was better than having no hope at all.

“I don’t know either,” Ri Jiu replied. At the time, she suffered a backlash from the forbidden technique and was unable to deal with those Marquis-level experts. Her only thought was to escape with Gu Yu. She even used a teleportation technique to travel thousands of miles in an instant. However, this teleportation technique had a fatal flaw: she did not know where the destination was.

Besides, even if we knew the destination, so what? Riku knew absolutely nothing about the world of the Minotaur race, so who would know where any of them was?

“Alright!” Gu Yu said to Ri Jiu, “Thank you. If it weren’t for you, I might have been caught by now.”

Gu Yu didn't ask Ri Jiu why her strength had suddenly become so great, after all, everyone has their own secrets. However, to gain such great strength, the price must have been very high, for which Gu Yu was very grateful.

"I'll go outside and scout things out first. You can focus on recovering," Ri Jiu said. Hearing Gu Yu's thanks, she wasn't happy because she felt he was being too polite to her, which she didn't like, and it wasn't what she wanted.

"Are you alright?" Gu Yu asked immediately upon hearing Ri Jiu's words.

“No,” Riju said.

"Oh!" Gu Yu was taken aback. "If it's too dangerous outside, come back first. Once my injuries have healed, we can go together."

"Are you concerned about me?" Ri Jiu asked, looking at Gu Yu.

"I was worried you might encounter danger." Gu Yu said, only to realize his answer was a bit off. Wasn't this just concern?

"Don't worry! I'm capable of protecting myself. You focus on recovering and don't let any aftereffects remain. After all, I don't want my man to be in poor health." After saying that, Ri Jiu walked out. Gu Yu stared at Ri Jiu's departing figure for a few seconds, stunned.

"Hey! Stop looking, we'll be back soon!" Long Yuan shouted at Gu Yu. "You're really lucky with the ladies, but could you be more careful next time? Didn't you notice you're not wearing any clothes?"

"Huh!" Gu Yu was stunned. He was indeed not wearing any clothes, only covered by a blanket, and now most of his body was exposed. "Why didn't you remind me sooner?"

Gu Yu rolled his eyes and said irritably, "When Ri Jiu looked at me just now, the way her eyes were looking was a little off."

"Hey! What are you afraid of, you're a grown man? Besides, that girl has been cleaning your wounds these past few days, she's already checked everything that needed to be checked," Long Yuan said, shrugging.

"What did you say?" Gu Yu frowned.

“You rascal, don’t let her down. I can tell she has eyes for you. If you let a girl like that down, you’ll be struck by lightning,” Long Yuan said.

"By the way, why was her cultivation so strong that day?" Gu Yu asked Long Yuan. To kill two King Realm experts with a single palm strike, what kind of strength was that? Moreover, those two King Realm experts were not just newly entered King Realm experts. To kill them with a single palm strike, their cultivation must have been close to Emperor Realm.

"I don't know, it must have involved some kind of secret technique!" Long Yuan replied.

"What secret technique? It's so powerful that it can give someone at the peak of the fourth level the power of an emperor." Gu Yu exclaimed in surprise. As far as he knew, even divine techniques couldn't achieve this.

"With your limited knowledge, it's normal that you haven't seen it before. The world is vast and full of wonders," Long Yuan said casually.

"Do you know what this secret technique is? If I could learn it, wouldn't I have another way to save my life?" Gu Yu suddenly asked Long Yuan excitedly.

"Don't even think about it. You can't learn that kind of secret technique," Long Yuan said directly. "As far as I know, apart from that girl, no one else can practice it."

"Ah! There's such a miraculous secret technique?" Gu Yu was somewhat shocked. Could it be like some kind of Sunflower Divine Skill, requiring special conditions?

"Hmm!" Long Yuan nodded seriously, then thought to himself, "I hope you never find out that there could be such a secret technique. It's just overdrawing on past power."

“Alright!” Gu Yu nodded. “Then how will it harm her?”

Generally, powerful secret techniques will cause extremely powerful damage. Take the "Heaven and Earth Sorrow" technique for example. After it is used, it cannot be used a second time for a short period of time. Ri Jiu's secret technique is obviously even more powerful than "Heaven and Earth Sorrow," and its backlash must be even greater.

“The damage can be quite significant!” Long Yuan’s eyes darted around when he heard Gu Yu’s question. “It could potentially cause her to become infertile for life, so you’d better treat her well, kid. She’s gambling everything she has with this woman.”

"What? Infertility?" Gu Yu was stunned. He had never heard of such a backlash before! For some reason, he felt that Long Yuan was lying to him, but he had no proof.

“That’s right, it’s infertility,” Long Yuan confirmed.

Are you sure?

“I’m very sure,” Long Yuan said.

"You're not going to tell me that the price is for her to slowly turn into a man, are you?" Gu Yu asked tentatively again.

“You said it, I didn’t!” Long Yuan said.

"Are you sure you're not talking nonsense?"

"How could that be?" Long Yuan suddenly realized, could it be that Gu Yu saw through his lie? No way! "If you don't believe me, you can ask her!"

Gu Yu didn't say anything more, took out a large amount of life essence, and immediately began to absorb it.

"Give me some life essence! The backlash from your Heaven and Earth Sorrow is quite significant." Seeing Gu Yu using life essence to cultivate, Long Yuan immediately said with envy. Gu Yu must have accumulated quite a bit of life essence during this period.

"Okay." Gu Yu was generous and gave Long Yuan thirty reams of life essence.

"How come this is all?" Long Yuan swallowed thirty orbs of life essence in one gulp, then said somewhat indignantly, "You're too stingy, kid."

"I haven't stored up much life essence during this period; there are only a few clumps left now," Gu Yu explained. He hadn't stored up much life essence during this time, since he would use it up almost as soon as he stored any.

"What a stingy bastard." Long Yuan didn't believe Gu Yu's words at all and cursed directly.

Gu Yu immediately began cultivating, ignoring Long Yuan.

Two more days passed, and although Gu Yu had not fully recovered, he was about 70-80% better.

In the past few days, Ri Jiu has also found out where this place is. Who would have thought that she would use a teleportation technique to arrive in the heart of the Black Bull Kingdom? It is only about 30 kilometers away from the Black Bull Royal City, and it is full of minotaurs.

This gave Gu Yu a huge headache. The heartland of the Minotaur race was now like a sheep entering a pack of wolves; returning would be virtually impossible.

"Sigh!" Gu Yu was dejected. Putting aside the question of whether he could go back or not, he was afraid that even surviving would be a problem. If the Minotaur found him, he would be killed without even knowing it.

"I didn't know it would turn out like this." Ri Jiu said with some self-blame. She went out to investigate and almost got discovered several times. If the cave hadn't been hidden, they probably would have been discovered by the Minotaur tribe long ago.

“If we were to transform into the Minotaur race, perhaps…” Gu Yu pondered for a moment, then his eyes lit up. His figure was instantly enveloped in Origin Qi, and the next second he transformed into a Minotaur.

“Hehe…” Long Yuan laughed at this moment, “What’s the use of changing your appearance? Your aura is still human, isn’t it? Maybe low-level minotaurs won’t be able to detect you, but if you encounter a general, no, even a minotaur at the fifth level, they can detect you instantly.”

"Aura?" Gu Yu frowned. Yes, he needed to change his aura to that of a minotaur, but how could he do that? He didn't know how; he only knew how to conceal his aura.

“Kid, give me a hundred orbs of life essence, and I can help you change your aura,” Long Yuan suddenly said.

"You have a way to change your aura?" Gu Yu asked immediately upon hearing Long Yuan's words. This was an incredible surprise. As for the hundred clusters of life essence, he simply ignored them.

"Hehe... Kid, no matter what, I am the head of the twelve dragon gods of the dragon race, the Heaven-Shaking Dragon God. According to the Heavenly Court's classification, I am a peak Heavenly King. How could a mere change of aura possibly stump me?" Long Yuan said arrogantly.

"How can we change it?" Gu Yu asked.

"One hundred clusters of life essence," Long Yuan said. Judging from his posture, he would never tell Gu Yu how to change his aura unless he was given one hundred clusters of life essence.

“I don’t have that much life essence right now. Tell me first, and I’ll give it to you slowly later,” Gu Yu said. Of the one hundred bundles, he only had 11 bundles on him at the moment.

"No way, you're the kind of kid who likes to renege on his debts." Long Yuan immediately objected upon hearing Gu Yu's words.

"I really didn't," Gu Yu said, shrugging.

"I don't believe it." Long Yuan was like a child at this moment.

"Why would I lie to you?" Gu Yu said. "If I don't have it, I don't have it. I only have the eleventh regiment now. Take it or leave it. If you don't tell me how to change your aura, and the minotaurs find out, I'll die, and you'll die too."

Gu Yu threw his last eleven clusters of life essence directly to Long Yuan, who swallowed them in one gulp. Seeing Gu Yu's somewhat agitated expression, Long Yuan believed him.

"My dragon clan has a secret technique called the One Breath Transformation Technique, which can change one's aura into that of any race. Of course, the prerequisite is a powerful bloodline. My dragon clan's bloodline is among the best of all races, so we can use the One Breath Transformation Technique to transform into the aura of almost any race. However, if we encounter someone with too high a cultivation level, we will still be exposed, since it's not real, just a simulation. But you don't need to worry about that," Long Yuan said. "You possess the bloodline of gods and demons. If you use the One Breath Transformation Technique with the bloodline of gods and demons, even a god-level expert would probably find it difficult to detect for a while. After all, the bloodline of gods and demons is the most powerful and mysterious existence in this world."

"Then teach me quickly!" Gu Yu said.

"Alright! But you still owe me 89 units of life essence." Long Yuan said as he handed the One Qi Transformation Technique to Gu Yu.

"I know," Gu Yu said impatiently. Was he the kind of person who would renege on a debt?

Upon obtaining the One Qi Transformation Technique, Gu Yu immediately began practicing it. The One Qi Transformation Technique was not difficult; what was difficult was that the cultivator had to possess a powerful bloodline, because it was impossible to simulate the aura of a race with a bloodline stronger than one's own.

Even though Gu Yu's divine and demonic bloodline was only awakened twice, it was still the most powerful bloodline in the world. It could be said that there was no race aura in the world that he could not simulate.

In just an hour, Gu Yu's aura changed, transforming into the unique aura of the Minotaur race. Combined with Gu Yu's current appearance, he was unmistakably a Minotaur.

"As expected of someone with divine and demonic bloodline," Long Yuan exclaimed in surprise.

“I can transform into a Minotaur now, but Ri Jiu…” Gu Yu frowned again. He possessed the bloodline of gods and demons, so cultivating the One Qi Transformation Technique was no problem for him, but Ri Jiu could not. Ri Jiu’s bloodline was not strong, so even if she had the One Qi Transformation Technique, it wouldn’t work.

Rijiu is now human. Among the many races, human bloodlines are not particularly strong, except for the Celestial Race or the Underworld Race. Although their bloodlines are not as strong as those of the Dragon Race, they are still among the best.

"It seems we still need to find a way," Gu Yu murmured. "Humans have already infiltrated the Southwest Origin Gate. If a Minotaur has captured a human woman and intends to take her for himself, it would be reasonable."

Previously, Te Meng wanted to capture Ri Jiu and possess her, which proves that the Minotaur race is very interested in human women.

After all, in my memories of my past life, the Minotaur race had defiled many human women, and they didn't even spare handsome human men.

"Kid, I'm not trying to discourage you, but judging from this girl's charming appearance, you, a weak minotaur, have no chance of keeping her for yourself. She will be snatched away by other minotaurs."

"Then what should we do?" Gu Yu fell into deep thought again. He kept thinking of various methods, but then rejected them one by one. "Wait, if it is the royal family of the Minotaur race, no one will dare to steal it."

Thinking of this, Gu Yu's appearance changed again. His body was still human, but he had two bull horns. His aura also changed, becoming more powerful, because he had now become a member of the Minotaur royal family.

Just then, several minotaurs appeared outside the cave.

"Are you sure the human woman you saw is hiding here?" a minotaur leader asked a minotaur.

“Commander, I’m certain.” The minotaur nodded and said, “I saw the woman return here with my own eyes, and she’s absolutely stunning. If we capture her and present her to His Highness, he will surely reward us handsomely.”