"We are willing to join the war department." A large group of people said. They may have hesitated before, but now they had no more concerns. Gu Yu's strength had completely convinced them. As for killing the head of the teaching department, what did that matter?
The Dragon Division would never severely punish a genius just for the sake of a teacher in the Academic Affairs Hall. Gu Yu is so young, his future achievements will definitely be more than just a single sliver; he may reach the King Realm or even the Emperor Realm.
His potential is limitless, far beyond what a junior teacher can match. Of course, he must be punished. There have been precedents for this; Dugu Xing of the Divine Dynasty did it before, but he was only punished by being confined for three years.
Three years later, when Dugu Xing reappeared, he was already a third-tier expert, even capable of fighting against fourth-tier experts. By then, the Divine Dynasty had become the number one gang in the Dragon Clan. But was Dugu Xing really imprisoned? Actually, no. Everyone knew that Dugu Xing was not imprisoned, but went to a place to cultivate, the Dragon Palace Tower of the Dragon Clan.
Given this precedent, everyone thought that Gu Yu would probably be the same.
"To join the combat department, just register with Qian Duoduo. Qian Duoduo is the deputy minister of my combat department," Gu Yu said, and then he pulled Xu Ling'er into the Origin Qi cultivation room.
As for the matter of killing the head of the Academic Affairs Hall, he didn't care. Let alone the Academic Affairs Hall, what could Shi Polu do to him? Let Shi Polu have a headache!
“He is very strong. I would definitely lose if I faced him,” said a woman wearing a red bodysuit.
"It's very strong. Even a two-pronged sword wouldn't be able to withstand that strike," said a man in white.
"It seems you're not going to keep your title as the number one newcomer," the woman in red said to the man in white.
"Don't worry, he won't live much longer. He's not Dugu Xing, and the Jiang family won't let him go." After saying this, the man in white moved and left.
"Xiang Tianyou, how do you know he's not the next Dugu Xing?" the woman in red muttered to herself. "It's really interesting. He can kill someone at the Vertebra Realm before even reaching it, and he's so young. I wonder how you cultivated. I hope you did this because you were confident, not because you were reckless."
Gu Yu went directly into the intermediate-level Origin Qi cultivation room. His student card could not enter the advanced-level Origin Qi cultivation room because it was for those at the Convex Realm.
Upon entering the Origin Qi cultivation room, Gu Yu sat cross-legged and began absorbing Origin Qi.
Little did they know that the outside world was in an uproar, and the news of Jiang Tianchen's crippling quickly reached the Jiang family.
Jiang Hai, the head of the Jiang family, was furious. Jiang Tianchen was the most outstanding young member of his family and the main force in their attempt to enter the Dragon Division to compete for a spot in the Kunlun Origin Sect. His being crippled like this severely impacted their plans.
Without Jiang Tianchen, they wouldn't even get a single spot. In the Southwest, it's not just the Jiang family that's vying for the title of King of Jiangnan; the Lu family is also competing for it.
"Kill Gu Yu at all costs!" Jiang Hai roared angrily.
They have investigated Gu Yu's background; he is an ordinary person with no connections or family.
"Also, take the Tongtian Pill to Jiang Tianchen," Jiang Hai said after a moment's thought.
“Patriarch, our Jiang family only has one Tongtian Pill. It’s something that can help you break through to the Emperor Realm! You absolutely mustn’t use it,” an elder stepped forward and said.
“If we can’t get a spot in Kunlun Origin Gate and obtain the Dragon Marrow, I’ll still be at the Wuwang Emperor Realm. We might as well take a gamble,” Jiang Hai said. “You’ve seen the situation in the Southwest. The Southwest Origin Gate has opened. If we don’t gamble, we will definitely not survive.”
"Master, I'll go there myself and take care of that brat while I'm at it." At this moment, a middle-aged man stepped forward.
"Jiang Kuang, remember, don't make a move inside the Dragon Division." Jiang Hai warned. Although Gu Yu has no background, he is still a student of the Dragon Division, and now he is a genius of the Dragon Division. If he is killed in the Dragon Division, it will be a slap in the face to the Dragon Division. The Dragon Division will definitely not let it go, especially since the elite of the Dragon Division are now in the southwest.
"Master, I understand." Jiang Kuang bowed and then strode away.
“I’ll issue a warrant for Gu Yu’s death on the overseas assassin list. I’ll offer twenty high-grade source stones,” Jiang Hai added.
"Yes." An old man bowed and then walked out.
Meanwhile, within the Dragon Division, the news of Gu Yu killing the head of the Academic Affairs Hall had already spread like wildfire.
Everyone knows that there is such a person as Gu Yu, who killed Chui Jing with a single strike.
However, at this moment, a young man had his arm around a young woman's waist, with several attendants following behind him.
They had clearly just arrived at the Dragon Clan, and both the young man and woman frowned upon hearing about Gu Yu's deeds.
"Is what they're saying true?" the young man asked one of his followers.
"Boss, they're right. Gu Yu did indeed kill a teacher from the Academic Affairs Hall with a single strike," the follower said with a hint of fear in his eyes.
"How long has it been? How could he have improved so quickly?" The young man was suddenly shocked. He was Ma Li, who was fighting Gu Yu, and the girl beside him was Lu Yao.
Although Ma Li lost the battle against Gu Yu, he did not feel that he lost to Gu Yu, but rather to the Dragon Source within Gu Yu's body.
After being rescued by the Northeast King, the Northeast King provided him with a number of rare and precious materials, enabling him to break through to the Vertebra Realm in just a few days. He firmly believed that if he were to encounter Gu Yu again, he would definitely crush him without using the Dragon Source. However, he did not expect that Gu Yu would kill him in the Vertebra Realm with a single strike, which was hard for him to accept.
He is the protagonist of this era, and he will not allow someone like Gu Yu to exist. "He must have used the Dragon Source."
Ma Li's heart had already been somewhat shaken. He couldn't believe that Gu Yu had such great strength. Gu Yu must have used the Dragon Source. That must be it.
If he were to use the Dragon Source, he could even kill a Four-Cone Realm cultivator. It's nothing special; it's just relying on external force. This was Ma Li's last attempt to comfort himself. However, he wasn't wrong. Gu Yu did indeed use external force—the system. But even without the system, Gu Yu could still kill a Cone Realm cultivator with a single strike using his Blade Nurturing Technique and Heaven Opening Technique. You have to understand that combat techniques aren't external force.
The intermediate-level source energy training room, which was originally filled with source energy to the point of mist formation, was now pitifully thin.
A huge vortex appeared above Gu Yu's head, frantically devouring the source energy.
At this moment, his essence, energy, and spirit were materializing. Gu Yu knew very well what this meant; his essence, energy, and spirit were about to transform into his primordial spirit. However, for some reason, he was unable to complete the final step.
This feeling is like constipation; you feel your stomach churning, but you just can't seem to poop.
It was very painful, which made Gu Yu extremely uncomfortable.
At this moment, a middle-aged man walked in. He looked at the source energy around him and his eyes widened in shock.
The once abundant Origin Qi cultivation room was now pitifully thin. How could this be? He quickly walked to the center of the Origin Qi cultivation room, where there was a round crystal ball. The source of the Origin Qi in the cultivation room was the crystal ball.
"The source stones are all depleted?" The middle-aged man was shocked. A hundred mid-grade source stones, although they had been used for a long time, should have lasted at least three more days based on the previous usage time. But now they were all gone. He couldn't help but look at Gu Yu.
The vortex above Gu Yu's head, in particular, made him frown. What kind of monster was that?
"Why? Why?" Gu Yu frowned, muttering to himself.
In his previous life, breaking through to the Cone Realm was easy for him; his essence, energy, and spirit were united, and his primordial spirit would appear. But in this life, it was impossible. Why was that? He couldn't understand. In terms of talent, he had already surpassed his previous life by a great deal. How could he not condense his primordial spirit or refine the Source Cone?
"Boy, calm down and nourish your spirit." At this moment, Long Yuan suddenly reminded him. Because Gu Yu could not condense his primordial spirit, his mind was already in chaos. If this continued, he would be prone to going into qi deviation.
"Do you know why I can't condense a primordial spirit?" Gu Yu asked Long Yuan. Although Gu Yu was a king in his previous life, he was still far inferior to Long Yuan in terms of knowledge.
Dragons live much longer than humans, and Long Yuan's cultivation level in his previous life was definitely above Gu Yu's. Gu Yu suspected that Long Yuan was a god in his previous life.
"Don't you already have a primordial spirit?" Long Yuan asked, his words startling Gu Yu.
Yes, he already has a primordial spirit. The appearance of the power of gods and demons gave him a primordial spirit, but that primordial spirit does not belong to him, yet it is still within him.
“You’ve always felt that the divine and demonic primordial spirit doesn’t belong to you, but you’re wrong. It is your primordial spirit. You have the bloodline of gods and demons, and you also have the power of gods and demons. It’s just that you’ve never been able to control this power. You feel that the power you can’t control doesn’t belong to you, but it is a part of you.” Long Yuan continued, “It’s like you can’t use your hand, but does that mean your hand doesn’t belong to you?”
Upon hearing Long Yuan's words, Gu Yu suddenly realized that he was wrong; the power of gods and demons and the primordial spirit of gods and demons belonged to him.
But he kept condensing his primordial spirit. In fact, he already had a primordial spirit. Since he already had a primordial spirit, how could he possibly condense another one?
No wonder he felt that just when he was about to condense his primordial spirit, it would inexplicably dissipate; it was because of the rejection of the divine and demonic primordial spirit.
However, if that's the case, another problem arises: he can't control the divine and demonic primordial spirit at all, so how can he condense the cone? If this problem remains unsolved, he will never be able to break through to the cone realm.
After he awakened the power of gods and demons, the power of gods and demons did not bring him any benefits. Apart from making his body stronger, it mainly brought him side effects.
The loss of control and the inability to condense the cone have both affected his cultivation. If he cannot solve this problem, let alone surpassing his previous life, even breaking through to the Cone Realm will be a problem.
"Is there any way for me to control the power of gods and demons?" Gu Yu asked Long Yuan.
"Yes." Long Yuan answered readily, which brought joy to Gu Yu's face.
"Speak quickly."
“If you can awaken your divine and demonic bloodline again, you should be able to control the power of gods and demons. At that time, you will be able to control the divine and demonic primordial spirit and condense it into a cone,” Long Yuan said calmly. “As far as my dragon clan knows, the cultivation of gods and demons is different from that of ordinary people. Ordinary people cultivate by absorbing source energy and constantly breaking through realms, while gods and demons can do so simply by awakening their bloodline.”
"Awakening?" Gu Yu was stunned.
"Yes, it is said that gods and demons have seven transformations, corresponding to seven awakenings. As for how they awaken, I don't know." Long Yuan thought for a moment and said. Two gods and demons have been born since ancient times. Those two were extremely powerful. Even though he, Long Yuan, was incredibly powerful in his lifetime, he could not come into contact with them. You should know that the most powerful dragon ancestor of the dragon race died in the aftermath of the battle between the two gods and demons. The dragon ancestor was a being even more powerful than a true god.
Upon hearing Long Yuan's words, Gu Yu's initial joy vanished instantly. He didn't know how to awaken? Then he wouldn't know how to cultivate as a god or demon, meaning he would never awaken, which meant he would never be able to control the power of gods and demons, and thus he would never be able to break through to the Vertebra Realm.
"Kid, think carefully, how did you awaken for the first time?" At this moment, Long Yuan also sensed Gu Yu's agitation and reminded him.
"First awakening?" Gu Yu murmured. During his first awakening, his consciousness went to a strange place, and then a strange voice spoke many incomprehensible words, and then...
It seems there was nothing there! The voice simply said, "Awaken! Gods and demons." And so he awakened.
Thinking of this, Gu Yu suddenly shouted loudly, "Awaken! Gods and demons!"
But as soon as his voice came out, there was silence all around, and nothing happened. Even the middle-aged man who was looking at him was stunned. What was he doing?
This scene felt strangely familiar, like a patient in a mental hospital shouting to the sky, "Awaken your primal power!" Yes, exactly the same.
"What are you doing?" Long Yuan asked Gu Yu, puzzled.
"I..." Gu Yu was speechless. He was so desperate that he was grasping at straws. He had no sense of reason. He knew it wouldn't work, but he still wanted to try.
"I don't know how I awakened the first time," Gu Yu replied.
“That would be difficult.” Long Yuan frowned. “Gods and demons are too mysterious. No one but gods and demons knows how to awaken them.”
"Then what should I do? Does this mean I'll never be able to break through to the Vertebra Realm in my entire life?" Gu Yu panicked. Even with his memories of his past life, he was still flustered. If he couldn't break through to the Vertebra Realm, what was the point of his rebirth?
"If it truly cannot awaken again, there is only one way." Long Yuan's expression became somewhat heavy. He chose Gu Yu because Gu Yu was exceptionally talented, and more importantly, he had long known that Gu Yu was a god-demon. But if Gu Yu could not break through to the Vertex Realm in this life, then he would have no hope of resurrection forever. He panicked. Who would have thought that someone with god-demon blood would not know how to awaken god-demon blood? This was ridiculous!
"What method?" Gu Yu asked eagerly when he heard that Long Yuan had a method.
“Switch to physical cultivation, like the Buddha, cultivating a golden body, not cultivating the primordial spirit, not refining the cone,” Long Yuan replied.
"Huh!" Gu Yu was taken aback. "Buddha? Tathagata Buddha?"
"What Buddha?" Long Yuan rolled his eyes. "You've watched too many TV dramas, haven't you? Let me tell you, there is only one true Buddha in this world, and that is Amitabha Buddha, the Ancestral Realm. In this world, apart from those two gods and demons, he is the strongest being."
"Amitabha?" Gu Yu was taken aback again. He knew about the Buddhist practice of cultivating the golden body, but he didn't know about the Amitabha that Long Yuan mentioned. However, the monks chanted Amitabha every day. He never expected that Amitabha was actually a person, and an Ancestral Realm being at that.
Actually, this can't be blamed on Gu Yu. The strongest he encountered in his previous life was the God Realm, and he had never even seen the legendary Ancestral Realm.
"Boy, today I'll tell you about the Ancestral Realms in this world." Long Yuan said with an air of composure. "The strongest beings in this world were those two gods and demons, one named Gan and the other Kun. As far as I know, they should be dead, otherwise the world wouldn't be like this. Below them are the Twelve Ancestors, also known as the Ancestral Realms. Throughout history, few have become gods, but there have been many. However, I have never seen anyone other than these twelve break through to the Ancestral Realms. I was once a True God, the number one of the Twelve True Gods of the Dragon Clan. At that time, all races called me the Heaven-Shaking Dragon God."
"The Heaven-Shaking Dragon God?" Gu Yu was somewhat shocked. Although he did not know the Heaven-Shaking Dragon God, what did it mean to be the first of the twelve true gods of the dragon race? Apart from the Dragon Ancestor, he was probably the most powerful being in the dragon race, and his strength was probably unparalleled. Although he guessed that Long Yuan was a god in his previous life, he never thought that he would actually be the head of the twelve true gods of the dragon race.
"Kid, I'm not bragging, but back when all the powerful forces stood side by side and all the source gates were open, my strength as the Heavenly Dragon God was absolutely top-notch. In a one-on-one fight, there weren't many who could rival me." Long Yuan spoke with an arrogant air, reminiscing about how powerful he was in the past.
"Were you also killed in the aftermath of the battle between those two gods and demons in Qiankun?" Gu Yu asked.
"Alas!" Long Yuan sighed. "That's right. If my dragon clan hadn't gone to watch the play that day and had fled as a whole, we might not have perished."
"Who would have thought those two gods and demons would be so powerful? Do you think if I awakened seven times, I could become as powerful as them?" Gu Yu asked Long Yuan.
"Yes, he will." Long Yuan nodded with certainty. If Gu Yu really awakens seven times, he will definitely be the most powerful being in the world, an invincible being.
"It's a pity I don't know how to awaken it." Gu Yu thought of the pain again, and his expression became somewhat heavy.
“Let’s talk about the Twelve Ancestors. They are the Dao Ancestor, the Human Ancestor, the Demon Ancestor, the Demon Lord Ancestor, the Buddha Ancestor, the Saint Ancestor, the Dragon Ancestor, the Wind Ancestor, the Heaven Ancestor, the Beast Ancestor, the Underworld Ancestor, and the Thunder Ancestor,” Long Yuan hurriedly changed the subject.
"They are all at the Ancestral Realm?"
“Mm!” Long Yuan nodded.
"But why have I never heard of them?" Gu Yu asked. In his previous life, he was at the Emperor Realm, standing at the top. Although he knew that above the God Realm was the Ancestral Realm, he had never heard anyone mention these twelve ancestors.
"I don't know." Longyuan shook its head. It had been dead for a long time and had been in Longyuan for who knows how long. How would it know where the Twelve Ancestors had gone? Besides, in its eyes, how old was Guyu? Wasn't it normal that it hadn't heard of it?
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