"You're not telling me either, and you still expect me to ask? Dammit, you're getting more and more pretentious. I even said back when we made that bet that I’d cultivate someone even more pretentious than you guys."
Dogzi said, glancing down at Wan Lei, who was charred black by lightning, and sighed,
"Sigh, ever since this kid rebuilt the Thunder Emperor Hall and gained the aura of a superior, he hasn’t been as pretentious anymore. What a shame."
"Pretentiousness is when the weak pretend to be powerful to protect themselves, or act like a pig to eat a tiger and slap faces. In essence, it's a tactic.
When you become a superior, no one dares to provoke you anymore. Why would you still be pretentious? It would only be laughable."
Dogzi nodded thoughtfully, then suddenly asked,
"Our Five Elements Hall is already so powerful, and Little Lei is one of us. Why don't we just bring him to the Five Elements Hall to cultivate? With his potential and the resources of the Five Elements Hall, he's bound to soar.
Plus, with our relationship, this kid’s future is limitless…"
"No."
Before Dogzi could finish, Squirrel directly interrupted him.
"The first rule of the God Creation Plan is not to interfere with the subject's progress, only to provide trials and rewards.
When the six secret realms opened, all six of them went. If they could tell him, they would have told him directly, right? Or just brought him to the Five Elements Hall to cultivate?
The Five Elements Hall condenses the best resources of the entire true plane. Isn't it much better than the Thunder Wind Realm?
But why didn't they do that? Because they knew that confining the Son of the Plane in the Five Elements Hall for an intensive cultivation would be like a flower in a greenhouse. They would only end up mediocre, and that would be harming them.
What makes them powerful is not talent or resources, but the indomitable spirit cultivated through countless life-and-death experiences, the strong mindset from the inside out, and the leadership charisma that wins the hearts of the people, not the creation of a battle machine.
The five of them came this way, and they know their path is correct. How could they possibly make such a mistake?
Let Wan Lei's progress develop freely. We cannot interfere."
"You're right."
Dogzi nodded upon hearing this.
"Well, you'll come with me later. You've been away from your main body for too long. After returning, you'll merge back into your main body and re-acclimate. Then I'll take you to absorb some of the Origin Thunder from the Origin Plane, and have Wan Yi help you transform it. That way, when you meet Wan Lei again, you can be his true divine weapon.
The specifications of the Thunder Emperor Hammer are still too low, not suitable for him to use long-term."
Upon hearing this, Dogzi showed a troubled expression and hesitated for a moment,
"Then I'll leave. What about him?"
"What about him? He's so old, does he still need you to take care of him? Do you know the Immortal Realm better than him?
In the early stages in the Thunder Wind Realm, you helped him a lot, but now you can’t play much of a role. Instead of staying as a useless friend or pet in his divine weapon, it’s better to improve yourself and become stronger, so you can help him better."
"Then I'll go tell him, otherwise he'll worry."
"Don't tell him. He needs to experience separation and hardship. Let him have a longing to find you in his heart, and cultivate with more motivation.
Besides, if you go tell him, won't that expose me? It will interfere with the natural progression.
Don't forget the God Creation Plan."
"Then… then… Oh my, I feel so sorry for them, keeping everything from them. Oh right, where's Xiao Yu Zi?
Where did she go? If she gets lost again, Wan Lei will have no one by his side."
"Don't worry, isn't she here?"
Squirrel pointed into the distance and continued,
"Alright, the heavenly tribulation is over. Let's go."
"When will we be able to see them again?"
Dogzi and Wan Lei had been together for ten years, pouring all their heart and soul into their relationship. They were deeply attached, and now, facing separation, Dogzi was truly reluctant to part.
"When he enters the Five Elements Hall by his own ability, when he is qualified to stand before the Immortal Venerable, that is when everything will be revealed. You will naturally be reunited then. Let's go."
The heavenly tribulation ended, and the thunderclouds in the sky gradually dispersed. Wan Lei lay in the large pit below, charred all over, his clothes tattered, and his eyes blankly staring at the sky.
"This Immortal Realm is indeed the Immortal Realm. The heavenly tribulation is much stronger than our small Thunder Wind Realm. Speaking of which… cough cough, where did my wife go?"
Wan Lei complained weakly, and suddenly saw a streak of yellow quickly disappear from the place where the thunderclouds had dispersed in the sky, leaving only a blur.
That blur was incredibly fast, and the way it cut through space with wind blades and vanished was also very familiar to Wan Lei.
"That's… Wind Blade Escape Technique? Who else knows the Wind Blade Escape Technique?"
Wan Lei stood up in surprise, gazing at the sky,
"Dogzi?! Dogzi?! Where did you go?!"
After calling out a few times, Wan Lei's expression changed drastically. There was no sign of Dogzi in the sky anymore. He scanned with his divine sense but couldn't find any trace of the Origin Thunder.
"Dogzi… Dogzi… Where did he go? No, that figure using the Wind Blade Escape Technique just now must have been captured. Damn it, who did this? Who could hide in the tribulation clouds and capture Dogzi…"
Wan Lei's heart was in a panic. He was unfamiliar with the Immortal Realm and knew nothing. He hadn't expected Dogzi to be lost so soon after arriving.
"Yo, who's that handsome young man covered in dust and wearing tattered clothes over there?"
From a distance, a familiar, teasing voice suddenly came.
Wan Lei immediately turned his head to look. In the distance, a giant figure, hundreds of feet tall, was flying rapidly towards him.
The giant was incredibly tall, like a mountain peak. Beneath his flowing hair, six star-like markings were revealed on his forehead.
"Star markings… Giant… It sounds a bit familiar, I think I've heard of it somewhere…"
Suddenly, information about a race appeared in Wan Lei's mind,
"God Clan!"
Wan Lei unhesitatingly took out his Thunder Emperor Hammer, ready to fight.
He knew the God Clan were enemies of the Human Clan in the Immortal Realm. Although he didn't know why a member of the God Clan suddenly appeared in the Immortal Realm, they were definitely enemies.
But as the giant flew closer, he noticed something was wrong. On the shoulder of the giant, which resembled a mountain, sat a young girl in yellow.
The girl had a smile as bright as a flower.
That's…
Fang Xiaoyu!
Wan Lei's first thought was that Fang Xiaoyu had been kidnapped by this giant. But he quickly realized something was amiss. Fang Xiaoyu stood up and was waving at him with a smile.
What was going on? Weren't the God Clan enemies? How did Fang Xiaoyu end up with a member of the God Clan?
With a mind full of doubts, Wan Lei moved forward.
"Little Lei, let me introduce you to my new friend, Dada, a Six-star God Clan."