In Douluo Continent, Tang San raids my base right from the start.

Chapter 241 Should I take the initiative to acknowledge a father?

"Brother Tian, ​​these clouds seem to be chasing us!" Long Ling'er, standing on Zhu Wu's back, exclaimed in surprise.

Looking up, they saw colorful clouds rapidly moving towards them from behind. It seemed as if they would be drawn in and chased after the clouds the moment they got close.

"Don't worry about them for now," Zhu Wu said softly.

He was well aware of the effects of these elemental clouds and understood why they were chasing after him.

This is all because the aura of the dragon god he exudes has an extremely high affinity with these elements, which is why they actively floated over to merge with him. Due to the rules of the small world, merging will not increase any soul power, but the physical body will be greatly strengthened after being cleansed, and its resistance and affinity to the elements will also be further improved. Merging with the spiritual attribute cloud can directly enhance one's own spiritual power.

Can spiritual attributes also materialize into clouds?

He didn't understand the principle either, but that's how it was described in the original work.

Wouldn't it be even better if we smoked them together later? Anyway, there are no side effects.

Lost in thought, it flapped its wings and continued flying deeper into the distance, maintaining its speed so as not to let the clouds behind it fall behind.

"Roar!" Soon, the first dragon soul, whose body was entirely composed of elements, appeared in sight, struggling to flap its wings to catch up with the figure in the air. Unfortunately, having lost its physical form, its strength was no longer what it used to be, and it couldn't catch up at all, only able to follow far behind.

"Roar! Roar! Roar!" As time went on, more and more dragon souls followed, some flying in the air and some running on the ground.

As time goes by, their memories may have faded considerably, but that familiar scent will always remain.

Long Ling'er was shocked, and a sense of sadness inexplicably rose in her heart. The dragon race, once the true masters of the continent, had now fallen to this state. Although she was not a dragon, as a member of the soul beasts, she couldn't help but feel a pang of sorrow at the sight before her.

Perhaps, for countless years, they have been waiting for this moment, waiting for the Dragon God to return and lead them back to their peak.

Clearly, these dragon souls sensed the aura of the Dragon God on Tian Ge, and that it was a living aura, and they mistook Tian Ge for the resurrected Dragon God.

Even if the once proud warriors have lost their memories, the faith that originated from their souls has never died.

After a while, a large group of people gathered behind them, and in the mist ahead, the outlines of dragon-shaped skeletons began to emerge.

"What is this?" As she got closer, Long Ling'er's face showed shock. Looking down, she saw huge dragon skeletons, the smallest of which was at least a hundred meters long, and the largest that seemed to stretch endlessly. They were densely packed together and casually placed on the ground.

Each skeleton was surrounded by dense, cloud-like elemental energy, almost tangible.

"Could the elemental clouds in this space be formed from the flesh and blood of these dragons?" she couldn't help but wonder.

Zhu Wu continued flying forward.

Before long, a colorful cloud appeared in front of them, covering a vast area that stretched as far as the eye could see, and below it appeared to be a giant pit.

As Zhu Wulong's body plunged into this cloud-shrouded area, an ancient and weathered soft call suddenly rang out in the air.

"My child, you have finally come."

"!!?" Zhu Wu and Long Ling'er were both shocked.

Within his sight, as a soft call rang out, the multicolored clouds ahead churned rapidly, and an enormous, multicolored figure rose from below, growing ever brighter. Finally, a gigantic dragon head emerged from the deep pit, each scale on its body highly irregular, multicolored, and crystal-like in texture. At that moment, Zhu Wu felt like a tiny moth in the eyes of a giant.

The roars of dragons around them subsided, and behind them, both the elemental clouds and the dragon souls rested quietly at the edge of the deep pit.

"Dragon God!?" Zhu Wu was shocked.

A quick glance revealed something amiss; the dragon's form appeared somewhat illusory.

"Do not be afraid, my child," the dragon god's illusory figure said kindly. "What you see now is only a wisp of my divine consciousness."

So, this is the divine thought of the Dragon God who took away these true dragon corpses and constructed this small world? Zhu Wu thought to himself, "I didn't see it when the Silver Dragon King and Tang Wulin came 20,000 years later. It's probably because too much time has passed and this divine thought has dissipated."

Or, as the sequel to the sequel suggests, did the Dragon God never truly die? And has been observing from somewhere in the form of divine consciousness all along?

For a moment, Zhu Wu didn't know whether to cry or laugh.

He couldn't refute which situation it was.

But one thing is certain: if this divine sense is willing to help, his path ahead will be much easier. Furthermore, accessing his memories will be a breeze. After all, the reverse scale on his martial soul's forehead originated from the Dragon God.

This time, he actually found the original key himself while holding the locked door!

The next second, I felt a slight heat between my eyebrows, and a seven-colored glow emanated from it. My body tensed up involuntarily, as if facing a formidable enemy.

Damn, did they erase my memories? I'm panicking.

"Tianmeng, have you noticed anything unusual?" He couldn't help but send a telepathic message to Tianmeng Ice Silkworm.

"No, nothing," said Tianmeng Ice Silkworm, trembling as she buried her body in the leaves of the spiritual forest.

Dude, are you kidding me? If this thing really wanted to do something to us, even if we detected it, could we stop it?

I am just a tiny ice silkworm, 99 years old.

The dragon god's phantom gazed at Zhu Wu, its mouth not opening, but its voice rang out, its tone filled with emotion, yet also seemed to carry a hint of relief and satisfaction.

"Life goes on and reincarnation continues. In this vast universe, perhaps there really is such a thing as destiny."

"My child, today is the happiest day for your father, not only because of your arrival, but also because you have walked your own path."

"In you, I see a new future for our people."

"In that case, how could I, as your father, not support you?"

What are you talking about? Zhu Wu was a little confused, and even doubted whether his past life was that of the so-called Dragon Prince.

But wait a minute! His martial soul is the Treasure Beast, so even if he had a past life, it should have been the Treasure Beast. Of course, judging solely from bloodline origins, the Dragon God could indeed call himself his father in his presence.

Could it be that the Dragon God only recognizes bloodline and not lineage?

In the sequel, Tang Yuxuan also has human blood, but he was still chosen by the Dragon God.

Regardless, at this critical juncture, should I take the initiative to acknowledge a father figure? Judging from the words and tone of the dragon god's phantom just now, it shouldn't harm him, but rather support him. However, facing such a supreme being, he still felt somewhat apprehensive.

As he pondered this, the surrounding space seemed to be imprisoned, and he could no longer move.

A sudden panic gripped him, and he immediately cried out, "Father God?!"

The dragon god's phantom twitched its right eyebrow slightly, then its gaze fell on Long Ling'er. The latter immediately floated up and flew towards the edge of the pit in the ground. At the same time, a voice came, "Little one, absorbing the elemental clouds here will also benefit you."

"You should cultivate here first; your lover will return fully later."

After speaking, his enormous pupils stared directly at Zhu Wu again, "Child, if you want to fulfill your heart's desire and forge your own path in the world, your current accumulation is far from enough. However, you have a very good foundation, even more complete than your father's back then."

"Now, let your father lend you a hand. This is a gift, and also my atonement for the mistakes I made back then."

"Remember, accumulation is for the final burst of energy!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the surrounding colorful clouds suddenly surged faster and rushed towards the dragon body in front of him.

"Hiss!" Zhu Wu instantly felt a torrent rush into his body, flowing into his limbs and bones, washing over every cell in his body.

Physical strength increases rapidly, as does mental strength.

Subsequently, whether it was because his martial spirit had merged with his physical body in this state, or because the Dragon God's divine sense did it intentionally, these elemental energies did not transform into soul power, but instead, after cleansing his physical body, they all surged into his internal space.

Just a few breaths later, the nine elemental spaces within his body, which were becoming increasingly abundant, began to collide and merge with each other.

The elemental energy within the lower dantian soul core was also drawn in, surging into the body's internal space, along with spatial elemental energy.

The Dragon God's divine sense has seen my memories? Zhu Wu was powerless to resist and could only grit his teeth and persevere.

"Crunch crunch" A feeling of expansion came from all over his body, his bones were constantly grinding, his dragon body was growing at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the speed of fusion of the internal space was also getting faster and faster.

The nine spaces within the body are merged into one, and then expanded by absorbing various elements of heaven and earth until this space evolves into a true small world, a real world that can sustain life and possesses complete rules of heaven and earth.

The sun is built by absorbing the radiance of the sun, and the moon is built by absorbing the radiance of the moon, thus creating the rising and setting of the sun and moon.

This was indeed the path to godhood he had envisioned.

If he can achieve this, he will be the master of the inner world, the only true god of the inner world! No matter which plane he goes to, he can be independent of the plane's rules, using the rules of the inner world to offset the rules of the outer world, and be free from the constraints of external rules.

In fact, he had this idea when he was absorbing the gold of living beings to build his spiritual world.

However, what he truly considered a possibility worth trying was the fusion with the Dark Demon God Tiger energy crystal, because that gave him the possibility of controlling all elements.

This will give him the foundation to build a world based on the space within his body.

He hadn't told anyone about this idea, but the Dragon God's divine thought directly did just that for him.

"But if the Dragon God's divine sense really saw my memories, especially my past life memories, that means he saw the original content. How can he remain so calm after discovering that he's just a character in a book?" He was very puzzled.

"Come!" A loud shout rang in my ears as I was lost in thought.

As soon as he finished speaking, elemental clouds surged in from outside the pit, and in the distance, the sound of bones being crushed echoed one after another.

The next second, Zhu Wu felt a tearing pain in his right leg, his muscles twitching as his Blue Silver Emperor right leg bone was being forcibly ripped apart.

"My brother is awesome!" Tianmeng Ice Silkworm was dumbfounded in the mental space.

In the distance, a gigantic torso bone, shrouded in brownish-yellow mist and stretching for a thousand meters, was drifting in, its surface shimmering with a faint iridescent glow. Following it were a golden left arm bone, a black right arm bone, a brown right leg bone, a cyan left leg bone, a cyan dragon tail, a crystal-clear skull, and a pair of silver horns—clearly belonging to different dragon species, drifting in from all directions.

A quick glance around revealed that Zhu Wu's mental world was expanding at a visible speed.

"What a generous gesture! What a generous gesture!" he murmured, shaking his head repeatedly. "My brother definitely made the right choice!"

"Am I really going to become a stitched dragon?" Zhu Wu's feelings were somewhat complicated. In fact, that was exactly what he wanted to do. And now, it seemed he didn't need to lift a finger.

He had to admit that this Dragon God was a ruthless person; he silently stripped the Dragon King of his soul bones.

Looking inward, the nine spaces have merged into one, with a diameter exceeding one kilometer, and are still expanding at a visible rate. Mountains, rivers, lakes, glaciers, and volcanoes are all revealed within it, though they are somewhat small.

The rare and exotic herbs harvested earlier are rooted in a place where ice and fire meet, lush and green, like an oasis.

There was no sun or moon in the sky; it seemed he would have to condense it himself.

Inside the lower dantian, the soul core had turned completely silver, and all elemental energy except for spatial elements had been drained.

He could clearly sense that this spatial soul core had become a bridge connecting his inner small world. If he wasn't mistaken, he should be able to access the elemental energy within his small world by activating the soul core, and also absorb external energy into it.

And once he evolves this small world to a certain extent, he will be able to become a true god.

The Dragon God's divine consciousness laid the foundation for everything; all he needed to do next was accumulate experience.

As he pondered, warm and cool auras surged into his body—pieces of true dragon soul bones.

Almost instantly, consciousness plunged into darkness.

However, after a while, a voice suddenly rang in his mind.

"Next comes the final gift."

"My child, the future of the dragon race and the future of the soul beasts are entrusted to you."

As soon as he finished speaking, the seven-colored dragon above the deep pit vanished into nothingness, leaving only a nine-colored crystal in the air. It then crashed into the heart of another seven-colored dragon that was over 150 meters long and had four pairs of seven-colored wings on its back, and merged into it in the blink of an eye.

"Roar!" Loud dragon roars echoed from all around.

Zhu Wu couldn't hear anything, only felt his heart suddenly pounding violently.

Suddenly opening his eyes, he saw not a giant dragon head, nor colorful clouds, but a desolate world, a wide valley. In the center of that valley, a giant, seven-colored egg stood silently in a small pit.

"Crack. Crack," the eggshell kept cracking, and finally a small, seven-colored dragon, only a little over ten meters long, emerged.

"Dragon God?" Zhu Wu exclaimed in surprise, "These are the Dragon God's memories? Inherited memories?"

He frowned slightly, then relaxed and watched quietly.

Witness the growth of the Dragon God.

But after a short while, the surrounding images became blurry, and when you looked again, it was a different scene.

"Hmm?" Zhu Wu was taken aback, then pondered.

"Fragmented memories of inheritance?"

"After all, it was just a wisp of divine thought."

The scene continues, mostly memories of battles spanning countless years, which he sees as if he witnessed them firsthand. Interspersed are memories of working with the gods to create the divine realm, culminating in a great battle in the divine realm, frozen on a blood-red sword light slashing towards him.

Zhu Wu remained silent, not because of the blood-red giant sword in the sky, but because of this memory that spanned countless years.

Although incomplete, the records mainly consist of battles and carnage, but the overall framework is surprisingly similar to the historical trajectory he arbitrarily compiled back then.

"What if that wasn't a fabricated history, but rather a memory from my subconscious?"

Zhu Wu inexplicably thought of this possibility.

P.S.: I had two teeth pulled today, so I'll get some rest soon.

(End of this chapter)