Dawn soon broke as golden yellow beams shone into the forest and lit up a clearing, in this clearing laid Ren, in tattered and blood soaked clothing.
Surrounding Ren, what was originally bare earth had green and vibrant grass growing from it, around that grass, there were remnants of the blood that dripped on the ground last night.
The reason this happened is because the vitality of a dragon is something that can't be underestimated, since Ren has merged with the body of the dragon god, one can say that Ren is now a dragon god in human form.
A dragon but not a dragon.
A human but not a human.
He is not a half-breed, because this wasn't as simple as mixing bloodlines, this was the merging of a whole body into his.
He is full human, but at the same time, full dragon.
He is now another species all together, the first one of his kind, with the adaptability of a human, and the power of a dragon god. His existence will bring a great change to the world, in the future, he will control the greatest clan in all the heavens!
But this is a story for the future.
As the golden morning sunlight landed upon Ren's face, his eyes twitched as he sat up, and looked at his surroundings.
A cool breeze carrying the vitality of the morning blew by and caused his hair and clothes to rustle.
Looking around at the peaceful scenery, Ren failed to realize that he has long recovered from his wounds.
-It seems you've woke up, dumb*ss, you've healed nicely too.
While gazing at the scenery, Ren, startled, looked down at his body and gaped when he saw that, besides being caked in dry blood, there were no wounds at all, not even a scar, "How is this possible?"
Ren asked, as he felt his body and confirmed he wasn't seeing things.
-You're technically a dragon, in a way, so obviously you have a dragons recovery ability, but right now it's at it's weakest, your vitality at the moment can't withstand the energy needed to use your full recovery capabilities, when you recover more of the dragon god's power you can enjoy the strengthened recovery speed, understood?
Hearing this, Ren stood up from the ground as the breeze blew past him, carrying several leaves in its wake.
Looking at the clear blue sky, and watching the sun that was gradually rising, Ren walked around the outskirts of the clearing, "Anything else I need to know?"
Hearing this, Jane laughed, and in a voice that seemed like she enjoyed the suffering of others, she spoke, -Dumb*ss, yes, there is more, hehe, in that world no one possessed a dantian, so, that means that you can't cultivate this worlds techniques. Why? Because when you merged with the dragon god's body, you're body changed to a body of that world, in that world, cultivation was done by physical training and merging qi directly into ones flesh and bones.
Hearing this, Ren went wide eyed, and his mouth dropped open.
-Haha! And the beasts in that world had to train their bodies even more than the humans! The good thing is, according to the memory search I did on you, there where ways to cripple cultivation in this world, by destroying meridians or the dantian, but for you, there is nothing to worry about. In that world, the only way to cripple a cultivator, was to cut off their limbs, so they could only use their soul power to lift and move objects, etc.
Pausing, to let the dumbfounded Ren understand what was just said, Jane laughed because of his confusion.
-But don't worry about that, as you are, you can regenerate any part of your body, although with your current recovery abilities it'd take a couple months, but you can't ever become permanently crippled, The next time you recover more power, it'd take you around a month to recover limbs.. Remember, you still have 90% of the dragon god's power you need to recover. That's nine more power ups! Hehe!
Standing in the clearing with a grim look on his face, Ren was thinking over what Jane told him, 'If what she said is true, doesn't that mean I can't use any of Reincahrt's techniques?'
With a worried expression, he tried the breathing technique, and with a surprised expression he realized it still worked.
After a few minutes of inhaling energy, he frowned, he just confirmed what Jane said, his dantian has vanished.
All the energy he absorbed was being sent directly to his flesh and bones, his body was like a black hole, greedily absorbing everything without an end in sight.
Sensing Ren's frustration, Jane laughed again.
-Dumb*ss, don't worry, I said the beasts needed to train their bodies AND absorb qi into their flesh and bones, you can get stronger by just absorbing qi, but you need to physically exert yourself as well to actually stimulate your potential.
After hearing Jane, Ren started to walk out of the woods as he looked at the trees and the greenery, he looked at the animals that would shiver and run in fear upon seeing him, letting out panicked howls.
He was enjoying the feeling of power coursing through his body.
Noticing the reactions in the surroundings, Ren stopped walking.
"Why do they run screaming upon seeing me?"
Ren asked, as he looked at the animals in confusion.
-Dumb*ss, there are dragons in this world, is it so hard to understand? You're a dragon god (In the process) much more noble and powerful than normal dragons.
Ren, froze with his mouth gaping, as a look of understanding flickered in his dark eyes.
Dragons are at the top, they are superior existences that rival gods since birth, all lesser beings instinctively fear them.
Not to mention that he exudes the aura of the dragon god, a dragon god from a world where you cultivate by training your body, so this aura is many times more fierce than the aura the dragon god from this world can put out.
The individuals and beasts from the other world are many times more powerful than this world, since Ren has become a being from that world by merging with that worlds dragon god, he obviously is more terrifying than the dragon god of this world.
So all the beasts ran at the mere sight of him, you could even hear roars thousands of kilometers away, as the aura of a heaven stage viscous beast could be felt retreating.
His presence was this terrifying, and that was only 10% of the dragon god's real aura..
As Ren left the forest while asking Jane questions, hundreds of thousands of kilometers away, a dimensional tear opened up above a mountain peak surrounded by a bright and luscious forest.
As the dimensional tear opened up further and further, dark clouds started to gather above the mountain, as lightning with the width of buckets struck the surroundings.
It started raining, the earth trembled in the vicinity, and the mountains started to collapse.
In the dimensional tear your could see a vast land with floating lights that looked like faded souls in the surroundings, and a pale, purple sky, without a sun or a moon to be seen.
From that tear, as the surroundings were gradually leveled, a giant, pale hand reached out of the tear, as the surroundings trembled even more.
As the clouds in the sky got darker and darker, and the wind blew harder and harder, thick bolts of tribulation lightning shot from the clouds like twisting dragons and bombarded the hand.
The hand only shook slightly as a fierce aura that caused spacial cracks to appear blasted outwards dispersing the clouds above.
Massive amounts of rain started to fall from the sky as the clouds scattered like children being scolded.
The hand grabbed the top of the dimensional tear, and started to pull upwards causing the spacial tear to widen further and further every minute.
Sitting in the center of the howling storm and chaos, the gradually widening dimesnional tear glowed as an ancient and hoarse voice reverberated through the surroundings.
"This aura… I smell a young god… I've been bored for quiet some time, kekeke!"