Chapter 41: Accident!
"Come, accompany me," Gu Yuena walked towards the lake of life and glanced at Percy.
"Why?"
"I want you to help me use these medicines. Besides, I still don't trust you. The moment I see something wrong with my body, I'll take you with me."
Percy just watched her, thinking that it was a bit foolish to say her intentions, but he also noticed that she was being honest. That was for the best. He preferred an honest potential enemy, than a dishonest potential enemy.
"Your majesty, let me accompany you too!"
"No!" Gu Yuena looked at Di Tian with a frown. The man/dragon immediately stopped and lowered his head, as if the ground was the most interesting thing. Seeing Di Tian like that, Gu Yuena nodded as she descended with Percy into the lake of life.
"What a loyal licking dog you have..." Percy commented with a bit of mockery.
"Don't you say you like loyalty?"
"Yeah. But Di Tian, a proud black dragon with golden eyes, turns into a dog in front of you. If it were under other circumstances, that guy would eliminate anything in front of you if it would let you think better of your race. A loyal person is good, but a loyal dog will just make mistakes and justify themselves by saying it was best for you or their race," Percy said seriously.
Gu Yuena frowned, because she knew that Di Tian was exactly as Percy described him. He was a proud dragon in front of everyone, even in front of Bi Ji and Zi Ji, the two women who pursued him for love. But in front of her, he was like a lapdog who did nothing but lick.
"Hmph..." Gu Yuena snorted a bit annoyed.
Percy just looked at the bottom of the lake, ignoring Gu Yuena's annoyance. At this moment, the bottom looked completely normal, but Percy knew differently. Even with how huge the lake was, it wasn't enough to accommodate Gu Yuena in her dragon form, plus it wouldn't be safe.
Just as he was thinking this, countless ripples appeared at the bottom and when they arrived, they passed right through as if it was a portal. What Percy saw left him a little... disappointed. It was a space completely devoid of life; no, that wasn't right. Percy could feel the enormous life energy coursing through this separated space, but there were no colors, flowers, grasses, soil, water, or anything else. It was completely white and a white mist rose from the ground.
"What are these two things?" Gu Yuena asked and Percy turned his head, noticing the female dragon looking at the flower and the pill.
"The flower is called the Nine Sun Divine Flower. It doesn't belong to this world. In order to fully grow, it has to have absorbed the Yang energy of the sun for 9000 years. The nine in its name is there because a sun represents a thousand years, nine being nine thousand years," Percy said seriously.
"The Yang and holy energy from it will help recover the flesh, bones, and blood in your body. The pill will take care of your spiritual power and immortal Qi."
These two things were among the most valuable things Chaos gave him. Honestly, Percy already knew that the old man could have foreseen many of his encounters in the future, which was why he taught and gifted him so many things. Percy, however, didn't quite understand the old man's reasons for helping him. After all, he could have gotten him out of Tartarus before he was three hundred years old.
That was why he didn't quite trust him.
"What is the pill made of?" Gu Yuena asked, but her eyes were fixed on the Nine Sun Divine Flower and the pill.
"Immortal Origin Energy Grass, Spiritual Fruits, the energy of a full piece of Life Gold, and many, many other things."
"Life Gold? Where did you get this in the mortal plane?!" Gu Yuena had a piece of it in the Life Lake to nourish her body and heal over time.
"I bought it."
"You… bought it?" she blinked stupidly.
"Yes, for two golden soul coins. A merchant was selling it like a normal mineral rock," Percy shrugged. Life Gold could be said to be a miracle in the mortal plane, because it was indeed a divine item. And even in the god realms it wasn't easy to produce or find in nature.
"I don't know if your luck is bad or good…" Gu Yuena shook her head.
"How do I ingest this?"
"The pill will simply dissolve in your mouth and you have to mobilize the energy throughout your dantians. As for the flower, you have to consume its petals first, then the core, and finally the rhizome."
"Okay," Gu Yuena nodded and began to take each part of the flower into her soft, red lips. Percy just watched her and saw how the pill entered her mouth before he sat down to meditate and control the energies that had entered his body. He knew that while these two things could not heal Gu Yuena immediately, the amount of energy contained in the flower and the pill would allow her to return to her peak in a few years. After all, the vitality and power in the Silver Dragon Queen's body was immense.
The Dragon God was a special God. Not only did he belong to the beast race, but he had a number of laws at his disposal. That was also why when Asura split his god tablet/stand, it split into two. Gu Yuena possessed the talent of the elements and the Golden Dragon King inherited the power of destruction and great strength and endurance.
In the entire universe, there was only one Dragon God. There might be a multitude of dragon kings or beast gods, but there was only one existence called the Dragon God. Thanks to this, he was 'the only one in the universe'.
Percy sat watching as Gu Yuena absorbed all the power, but he frowned slightly.
And as he waited, time passed; one day, two days... one week, two weeks. Percy felt a little bored, so he decided to cultivate quietly. Despite how lonely and monotonous this place was, thanks to the gold of life, it wasn't a bad place to cultivate.
As the months passed and he entered Zhu Zhuqing and took care of Liu Erlong, Percy also managed to advance to level 79. He was only one level away from being able to reach the top of the realm and search for a spirit ring to break through to the level 81 spirit douluo rank.
Time continued to move on, but when a month passed, Percy grew impatient. He still wanted to see his son. Frowning, he opened his eyes and felt a chill run down his spine.
He slowly narrowed his eyes, looking around. He had a bad feeling right now.
BOOOOM!
A thunderous sound was heard in the independent space. It was at this moment that Gu Yuena stood up with a big smile.
"My power has recovered!" she said happily and looked at Percy gratefully. "My power has fully recovered, but my wounds are still healing. At this rate, in three years I will be completely healed."
"Idiot!" Percy roared as he stood up. Gu Yuena recoiled in surprise, but soon realized.
The space was twisting with countless ripples, almost as if it was a mass that was being stretched and molded. The space retracted and contracted several times as cracks began to form.
"Not good!"
"Let's get out!"
"Are you crazy?!" Percy shouted his question. "Your power to the divine realm caused this space to begin to break apart. You should have controlled yourself. But now, even if we want to get out, we can't."
Percy had a pale look on his face right now. Even Gu Yuena, who possessed the power of space, couldn't control this. At least not as it was. Her current power could allow her to fight against first-rate gods, and resist god-kings, but not defeat them. Furthermore, she didn't have a godly position currently.
The Silver Dragon Queen was a divine existence, but not a 'God'! That merit was for the Dragon God!
If Gu Yuena tried to manipulate this space again with her current power, they might kill each other. Space wasn't a game, it was one of the most complicated laws of the universe! And in fact, there were few who could become gods of space.
Gu Yuena waved her hands and a translucent sphere surrounded them completely, protecting them from the space that was breaking apart.
"Quickly, inform Di Tian and the others! If you don't, I can't imagine what that fool would think."
"And also tell Bi Ji to please tell my wife, Liu Erlong, that I will be back."
Gu Yuena nodded and used her spiritual power to send a mental message to Di Tian.
"Gu Yuena… can you use the surrounding space to create a passage?"
"I can 'guide' space, but with this turbulence…" Gu Yuena watched as space shattered like a mirror, revealing a dark, purple abyss that sent cold winds blowing in all directions. The wind seemed more like a suction of space than a true wind.
"I'm hearing a damn 'but'…" Percy growled in annoyance.
"But I don't know where we might end up."
"Just... do it," Percy shook his head, "I refuse to die in this damn place."
Gu Yuena waved her hands, causing the protective sphere surrounding them to move, passing through one of the ruptures in space. Percy watched with a bit of horrendous fascination as everything was so dark and the sphere seemed to distort a bit.
"Tell me again why you created a space that wouldn't support your power?"
"I…" Gu Yuena looked at the ground like a child being scolded, but still replied, "I didn't have much power at the time, and my injuries were severe. I also didn't correctly calculate my power output just moments ago."
Percy closed his eyes as he began to think of how to get out of this situation. Despite having learned a lot about the universe from Chaos himself, he didn't teach him any understanding of the laws, he simply skimmed the surface, explaining what they could accomplish, nothing more.
For example, while Gu Yuena had the ability to control the elements and space was one of them, her control wasn't absolute. For example, as the Silver Dragon Queen, Gu Yuena was able to create an independent space when she was injured, but that space didn't have a sense of time, time passed just like in the world, but it wasn't felt. Percy could only tell how much time passed by only roughly. She could also create a space block where enemies would be paralyzed, but that didn't mean she could stop a space storm due to a space breaking.
(A/N: In one of the novels, I think it was Douluo Dalu 3.5, neither Tang San nor the rest of the gods combined could stop the god realm from being sucked into a black hole and going through a space storm. And the god kings are fifth dimensional beings.)
Percy opened his eyes tightly, showing a stupid expression.
"What's wrong?" Gu Yuena asked seeing Percy's expression.
"I know space is a strange thing, and I don't understand it too much. Is there a chance we'll fall into the past?" he asked, remembering Bibi Dong's strange actions, as if he had known him for years. Also, Liu Erlong's strange words when he asked about Bibi Dong.
"Oh…" Gu Yuena just let out a sigh.
"Answer it, damn it."
"The possibility is low, but not impossible."
Percy raised his head, but he still saw only darkness and an annoying sucking feeling. Right now, he just wanted to scream and cry, but he barely had any tears.
"I blame you for this."
"Shut up…", Gu Yuena wanted to say something else, but she saw a bright spot up ahead.
"Get ready, we're leaving now!", Percy looked ahead, noticing a light that looked like a mirror showing something on the other side. In this place filled with darkness, turbulence, and suction from different directions, there seemed to be a piece of space that led to another place.
Gu Yuena increased her soul power output and guided the sphere towards that place. When they passed through that part of space, the sphere exploded with a 'pop' like a bubble. Almost immediately they felt the suction from behind them. The two of them used all their power to jump forward, causing the ground to break and pieces of dirt to be sucked into the spatial gap within seconds.
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