Chapter 1472: Wouldn’t This Be Too Cruel?

Chapter 1472: Chapter 1472: Wouldn’t This Be Too Cruel?

Cai’Er had always yearned to become her old man Yang Yan’s assistant. Now that such a good opportunity had appeared, her eyes immediately lit up with flickering brilliance as she said excitedly, "Really? I can become stronger than Dad? I can go protect him?"

The puppet didn’t know who the "Dad" she spoke of was, but it still nodded. "Of course you can."

As soon as it finished speaking, the puppet stretched out its hand and beckoned, bringing that strand of golden blood down to land before Cai’Er.

At this moment, Ruyi also spoke anxiously, "Then can I become strong like Cai’Er too?"

The puppet looked toward Ruyi, only to see a streak of silvery-white light flash in her eyes.

Suddenly, a hint of astonishment flashed through the puppet’s eyes. "You are..."

Then, its tone smoothed out as it said, "Of course you can. Your future achievements are also beyond my estimation. Perhaps in the future you might even reach the level of the Twelve Ancestral Witches, who knows!"

Ruyi happily hugged Cai’Er and said, "Cai’Er, this is so great, I can protect Dad together with you!"

The puppet couldn’t help being shocked. It had set up restrictions around the Vermilion Bird and the Black Tortoise, yet Ruyi had completely ignored the existence of those restrictions.

It seemed he hadn’t been mistaken.

While she possessed the True Dragon Bloodline, she also carried a Space Law talent—able to ignore space, to cross space, innately bearing an extremely high degree of compatibility with the Space Law.

You must know that once one reaches Divinity Transformation, one needs to comprehend the Rules.

Yet she had been born already endowed with this ability, needing no comprehension at all. How high her future achievements might rise, no one could say.

Back then, Emperor Jiang was a Space Body, his single hand of Space Technique sweeping invincible through the Primordial Era.

Two bloodlines woven together, mutually reinforcing—though the latter was extremely faint, it still manifested a talent that made one’s heart tremble.

The puppet collected the shock in its heart and said with a smile, "The future achievements of you two are beyond limit. Right, Cai’Er, quickly absorb this Earth Ancestral Witch’s legacy blood."

Cai’Er asked doubtfully, "How am I supposed to absorb it? Just swallow it directly? It looks so disgusting!"

Faced with Cai’Er’s childish candor, the puppet felt a bit helpless, and could only urge the Ancestral Witch’s blood to fall down toward Cai’Er.

Only to see Cai’Er’s whole body flicker with golden radiance, while her physique grew ever more perfect.

After a short while, the Ancestral Witch blood hid itself within Cai’Er’s body.

In the future, as she keeps cultivating, her strength will definitely undergo earth-shaking changes.

Seeing that Cai’Er had absorbed it, the puppet nodded in satisfaction, then turned to everyone and said, "My master left behind a place of tempering for his inheritors. I will now take you there; each of you will rely on your own fortune, and will surely gain something."

At this moment, Cai’Er suddenly spoke anxiously, "Then when can we come back? Will we not see Dad for a long time? He finally managed to come back this once—what if he leaves again? Cai’Er really misses him!"

The puppet immediately comforted her, "It won’t take very long. Once you pass my master’s assessment, you’ll be able to return at any time."

The puppet couldn’t help letting out a silent sigh in its heart. In truth, it didn’t want to deceive this pure-hearted inheritor standing before it.

Remembering how difficult the assessment Earth left behind was, it knew that this trip might well mean never returning.

Cai’Er’s mind was simple; she suspected nothing. Only then did she force back her almost-falling tears, lightly nod, and let her gaze grow firm.

The puppet then, without letting any emotion show, asked the others, "What do you all think?"

The Vermilion Bird shook its wings and refused, "Let them go. I need to head to Earth and inform Moonlight."

The puppet did not insist, only nodded slightly.

Then it lightly waved its hand, opening a Space Passage beside it, and said to the Vermilion Bird, "This trial ground has already completed its mission and will soon collapse. You may use this passage to directly return to the junction between the present world and the Hidden World."

The Vermilion Bird gave them a long, deep look, then stepped into the passage.

The Space Passage faded once more, and the puppet led the group away, heading toward the spatial realm Earth had prepared for his inheritors.

This space, too, gradually crumbled and shattered following the puppet’s departure, finally dissolving into the Void.

At this time, Wandering Dragon Star was a scene of bustling excitement.

Countless young people, and even quite a few older cultivators, were using Teleportation Arrays set up in the major important cities, streaming endlessly toward the War God Academy.

Of course, among them were those accompanying juniors or disciples, and even people just coming to watch the spectacle—all thronging toward it.

Simply because the list of War God Academy’s teaching staff was far too terrifying.

Even though many of the names listed were ones people might never have heard before, the realms indicated next to them were enough to shock everyone.

Powerhouses like Blood Slaughter and his peers, said in legend to have surpassed the Void Realm into the Half-Saint Realm, went without saying; even a super hero like Yang Yan, who had formally stepped into the Void Realm, was enough to make them worship.

To them, even if they could not truly become students of the War God Academy, being able to behold these legendary figures with their own eyes was a fortune beyond asking for.

In just a few short days, the War God Academy was already packed to overflowing, every place filled with young people who had come seeking entry.

Fortunately, at this time Lingming, Yi Daoist, and the others finished setting up Teleportation Arrays in the major cities and arrived at the War God Academy.

Through everyone’s combined efforts, in only a few days they moved mountains and filled seas, forcibly constructing a giant city that could accommodate tens of millions.

Yang Yan and Blood Slaughter stood in the Void, gazing at the dense crowds within and around the War God Academy, and couldn’t help marveling, "I never imagined Wandering Dragon Star would bring so many people."

Blood Slaughter, however, seemed rather calm. "Though many have come, most are mere ordinary folk. Those truly able to cultivate are but one percent at best."

He then turned to Yang Yan and said, "Since the War God Academy exists to oppose the great calamity of Heaven and Earth, those we select must be the geniuses among geniuses. The rest cannot be taken."

Yang Yan couldn’t help saying, "Won’t that be too cruel?"

Yang Yan had also cultivated step by step to this realm, so he naturally understood how arduous the path was.

Without talent, no matter how hard you strive, the road of cultivation is filled with countless hardships and dangers; one might fall at any moment.

For those without great will, rashly choosing this path is, in truth, a kind of cruelty toward themselves.

The Withered Wood Elder gazed toward the distant heavens and said faintly, "Cruel? This is merely so they can survive better. If they never cultivate, they will never experience the cruelty of cultivators, will not die like moths drawn to a flame when the great calamity of Heaven and Earth arrives. It only lets them continue living ordinary lives."

Blood Slaughter nodded deeply in agreement. "Exactly. Sometimes, living like a mortal, not knowing the true nature of Heaven and Earth, is instead the more carefree way. Besides, I have also left them another path of choice."

Yang Yan frowned and asked, "What choice?"