Gu Yan met Long Yan at some point doing the same thing as him.
They both understood that there were thousands of people in the sect who were at the peak of 9-Axis Heavenly Axis and that there were enough for both of them.
When the higher-ups of the Divine Feathers Sect learned that new students helped them in having dozens upon dozens new Dao of Dragon experts, they became really excited.
They felt that it was going to be a new era for the sect!
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While the others were celebrating, Gu Yan continued to do the missions as if nothing major was happening.
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The day after, when he finished Gu Lan's massage, he said, "I think you should be totally cured now. Try to cultivate"
She did as he said and ten seconds later a wide smile appeared on her face.
Gu Lan pulled him towards her and started to excitedly take off his clothes while kissing him passionately.
She then showed him a side of her that even she didn't know of.
Still, he didn't mind it in the slightest as it was really pleasurable.
Following that day, he would almost always sleep with her at night.
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The next morning, he saw a mission issued from "Situ Beiyan" about helping five hundred people to breakthrough to the Dao of Dragon Realm. The reward was five million Spiritual Stones, the same as for the other breakthroughs.
Gu Yan hesitated a little and finally decided to help him.
On his way on meeting him, he thought, {Situ Beiyan is the son of the current Sect Master}
{He sincerely wants the Divine Feathers Sect to grow stronger, but he is too soft and too naive}
{Publicly, his force is as strong as Long Tianming's, who could be considered as his rival}
{Well, even if he's stupid, he's still a good guy, no need for me to put a soul seal on him}
Upon meeting him and his five hundred underlings, Gu Yan rapidly helped them and managed to finish just before the nightfall.
Everyone was shocked at his speed.
This fellow didn't even need a full day to earn five million Spiritual Stones!
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The next four days were the same, doing missions during the day and sleeping with his lover at night.
There were more and more people who put their requests together, as they noticed it took the three geniuses more time to travel than to help for the breakthrough.
On the fifth day, Xiao Yan also gave him the suitable cultivation technique for Gu Lan and Gu Yan exchanged with him most of his Spiritual Stones for two hundred Gold Spiritual Stone Essences.
He reserved half for himself and gave the other half to Gu Lan.
Later, Gu Bei also received one but Gu Yan told him to not step into the Dao of Dragon Realm if he didn't have enough resources to become a Martial Ancestor in one-go.
At the peak of the Heavenly Axis Realm, he would be able to reform a body even if he died.
He would also need to fight his enemy fairly, at least in the eye of the public, to obtain the Patriarch position of the Gu Clan.
Since he wanted to hide his cultivation, Gu Yan put some inscription patterns on him.
Now, most people would think that he isn't even in the Heavenly Fate Realm.
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Two weeks later, Gu Yan and Gu Lan were both Stage-3 Martial Ancestors.
He saw a mission about helping Gu Long of the Gu Clan, so he first asked his lover about the fellow.
It turned out that he was the right hand of Gu Yu, the third elder.
{Gu Yu is the one behind the poisoning of my Lan'er, his underlings can't be any better}
Gu Yan went buying some demon beast blood of the Dao of Dragon Realm.
He tricked Gu Long to convert him into his slave with a soul seal.
Only then did he help him in becoming a Stage-1 Dao of Dragon.
He asked his new underling, "How much people work under Gu Yu, what are their cultivation and how much Deity Lakes does he have?"
"Master, Gu Yu controls only one middle-grade Deity Lake, guarded by eight hundred Heavenly Star and two hundred Heavenly Axis experts"
"Where is he?"
"He is cultivating in the Gu Clan. Usually he never goes to the outside world and I'm the one who bring the Spiritual Stones produced by the Deity Lake to him"
After thinking a little, Gu Yan went with him to the said Deity Lake.
Since the people of the Tiny World were one of the hottest topics of the people in the sect, the underlings all believed him when he said he was making an inscription pattern to help them in gathering Heavenly Energy.
When he finished converting them, he gave them new cultivation techniques and helped the ones who were close to a breakthrough in making them.
A few minutes later, ten of them became Stage-1 Dao of Dragon cultivators.
{Gu Yu would have to pay with his life for what he did to my Lan'er, but a quick death would be too light as a punishment}
{The other elders on Gu Heng's side are just opportunists, so they can still be useful after putting a soul seal on them}
{I need some demon beast blood of the Martial Ancestor Realm to make Gu Yu suffer and to convert the others}
{Since it's not something available on the market, I need to get it myself…}
Looking at Gu Long, he asked him where he could find some demon beast of that level.
"I know of two such demon beasts. Each of them are guarding a high-grade Deity Lake, their cultivation being at Stage-1 and Stage-3. Gu Yu kept the information for himself as he wanted to try to take them once he became a Martial Ancestor"
Gu Long led the way and the others were told to stay here to cultivate as if nothing happened.