Chapter 53: Divine Beast of Dreams
"The Starry Cosmos Divine Body… is he truly the Starry Cosmos Divine Body…?" At these words, all the Heaven-transcending powerhouses fell silent.
Gu Qing's constitution was indeed the Starry Cosmos Divine Body, yet that boundless, terrifying qi and blood and those profound Dao arts looked nothing like an ordinary Starry Cosmos Divine Body. His physique was powerful to an inconceivable degree.
"Ah… Heaven is unjust…" Some people are born the darlings of Heaven.
Gu Qing was born to attain the Dao. As for the hardships and perils of the cultivation path, others would shield him from them.
For any heavenly materials and earthly treasures he needed, he could simply take them from the treasure vault. If the vault lacked them, others would think of every possible way to procure them.
It could be said that Gu Qing only needed to cultivate in peace; everything else would be left to them. And what about them? They had to fight for everything by their own hands—people truly cannot be compared.
"You need not be discouraged. Once Gu Qing matures and ascends to the Immortal Realm to achieve a supreme existence, he can also protect our lineage." Jiang Yu broke the heavy atmosphere.
The Star Temple of the Immortal Realm is not limited to disciples from only our plane. There are Star Temples from countless planes, and prodigies of the Immortal Realm, making the competition exceedingly cruel.
"The Palace Lord is right. Heaven allots each their fate; it was shallow of us."
"Palace Lord, what should we do next?"
"I keep feeling that handing him to Zhi Meng is a bit frightening."
"Indeed. That female fiend is lawless and ruthless—she even killed her newlywed husband, who was her childhood sweetheart. If she harbors any crooked designs, it will be too late for regret."
"It is fine. With the Ancestor watching, nothing will happen."
"Then good."
While the senior leaders conversed, many disciples wore anxious looks, angry yet not daring to speak. The Holy Son ceremony was already complete—why not declare dismissal? They were eager to find their senior and junior sisters to talk by candlelight late into the night.
At this moment, Su Qingyue also wanted to slip away, feeling ill at ease under the surrounding gazes. She cast a small, resentful look at Chu Yao.
"Idiot." Chu Yao poked her little forehead, signaling to talk after they returned. Her every movement brimmed with myriad charms, seductive and bewitching.
The hot-blooded disciples stared wide-eyed. They glanced at Chu Yao, a peerless mortal beauty, then at the cold-as-an-immortal Su Qingyue. They felt their eyes were not enough to take it all in.
"The Holy Son ceremony ends here. All of you, withdraw." At this time, Jiang Yu spoke; her voice was gentle and mellifluous, like celestial music, enough to relax one's very soul. Su Qingyue fled as if for her life, darting away swiftly.
"Hahaha." "Only today did I realize that Her Highness the Saintess is so pure and guileless."
"Yes. If I had not seen it with my own eyes, I would never have believed that our holy and transcendent Saintess actually likes raising pigs."
Watching the beautiful figure of Su Qingyue flee in disarray, the disciples burst into cheerful laughter.
"By the way, what kind of pig does Her Highness the Saintess raise?" a female disciple could not help asking in curiosity.
"That is a Heaven-and-Earth exotic beast called the Dream Beast," an elder with graying hair said with a smiling squint.
"Ah?" She stared in shock, dumbfounded. A Heaven-and-Earth exotic beast is an existence rarer than a divine beast, possessing unfathomable abilities—it has only ever existed in legend.
"Do not overthink it. It is true that that pig is a Heaven-and-Earth exotic beast. If you hug it, it can let you enter dreams, and in those dreams you could cultivate to become a god or an ancestor without issue, but…"
"But what? Elder, please say it…"
"However, that refers to an adult Dream Beast, and it must possess cultivation surpassing the Divine Fire Realm."
"In addition, a Dream Beast consumes resources at a horrifying rate. Even if it swallowed our entire cosmic plane, it still might not evolve into a divine beast, so stop overthinking and cultivate honestly."
"Ah…" "Hahaha."
Seeing the disciples all staring dumbfounded, the elder stroked his beard and laughed, then rode an auspicious cloud and drifted away.
"..." Damn it, stand there and make yourself clear.
Why can a Dream Beast devour so much energy? Before it becomes a divine beast, what abilities does it have?
"Palace Lord…" The quick-witted disciples all looked eagerly to Jiang Yu, as did the lineage heirs who had come to observe the ceremony. They too were eager to know.
"Elder Wang is right, but not entirely."
"Even if a Dream Beast devoured the energy of a single cosmic plane, it would not evolve into a divine beast. Only if it can refine an entire cosmic plane and construct its own Dream Realm can it be considered a true Divine Beast of Dreams."
"Moreover, before becoming a true divine beast, a Dream Beast does nothing but eat and sleep, and possesses no peculiar abilities," Jiang Yu explained.
A Dream Beast is a chicken rib—something you can look at but cannot use. By the time you possess the ability to help a Dream Beast refine an entire universe, the dreamscape it constructs will already be useless to you. The level is far too low.
It would be more practical to refine the entire plane-universe for your own use. "Ah, well…" Everyone's expressions were complicated.
They had long heard that Heaven-and-Earth exotic beasts possess unfathomable abilities and are innately powerful. But some require special conditions to grow; before they mature, they are weak and useless. Clearly, this pig belonged to the latter.
"... Sister Chu…" At Goddess Peak, in Su Qingyue's palace, she looked at Chu Yao, her expression plaintive.
"Silly girl." Chu Yao rubbed her small head.
"That Jiang Yu is insidious. Publicly making things difficult for you seemed like merely demanding you return the gifts, but in truth he wanted to ruin your reputation."
"You have accepted so many simps' gifts. If you do not make things clear today, Luo Li will surely exploit it—surely you do not wish to become a Saintess who swindles wealth? If they join forces, your troubles will be great."
At these words, Su Qingyue suddenly broke out in a cold sweat. With her intelligence, she immediately understood and thought of the dire consequences. Handle it the slightest bit poorly, and she would be reviled by all and her reputation utterly ruined.
"Besides, it is only raising a pig. What is wrong with a small hobby?" Chu Yao continued.
Su Qingyue regretted it bitterly. Had she known Jiang Yu would pull such a stunt today, she should not have, in a fit of anger, fed Zhang Yang's things to the pig. Once that precedent was set, what followed became impossible to stop.
"Sister Chu, thanks to you; otherwise I would have been miserable." Su Qingyue hugged Chu Yao, nestling her small head against Chu Yao's ample bosom and rubbing lightly.
"No need to be polite with me. Do not accept gifts in the future."
"But if I refuse gifts, they will only give them more fervently." "Then destroy them on the spot." Chu Yao could only feel helpless.
The Lunar Divine Body is far too attractive to men. This is not only a top-tier furnace cauldron, but also means she may cultivate the Lunar–Solar Chaos Record and vie for the Great Dao. If Su Qingyue were not a disciple of Zhi Meng, she would likely have been abducted and imprisoned long ago.
"All right." Su Qingyue nodded, then said worriedly, "Sister Chu, you have made Jiang Yu lose face. He will certainly not let you go. Stay here with me for now."
"I was just thinking the same." Chu Yao knew full well Jiang Yu's killing intent toward her.
But she was not concerned in the least. Even with Jiang Yu's outstanding talent, he could not possibly be a match for Gu Qing.
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