" Master you are a monster with your comprehension, you have to know that when all my formal masters want to cultivate the indestructible Primal Body Techniques, they experienced excruciating pain every time they broke through every stage but you...." Little long stops when he got here and looks at Ryu with a strange gaze.
"Stop looking at me like that, it's uncomfortable, and what is so surprising to you, I just broke through three stages in all of the elements and you are so surprise," Ryu said nonchalantly and smugly as if he also wasn't dumbfounded when he woke up earlier.
"Well master, don't be happy too soon as the remaining stages will still be excruciating, so just wipe the smug expression off your face" little long said, when little long said that the smug expression on Ryu froze but he still snorted saying "humph....at least for now I still ascend three steps in one go, so why can't I still be smug" Ryu frozen expression changes again to that one of a smile, his expression saying 'i can still be smug' but deep inside his eye, he was a little frightened for the warning given by little long.
"Okay master, just be smug for now, I was just given you warnings to be prepared for what was to come when you want to break through to the mid-stage "little long said as if unconcerned but in reality, he care for Ryu more than anything.
Little long and Ryu continues to converse and sometimes argues like a child when lyan came to meet them and said "Ryu, I think you will be going to explore the world now, so I came to tell you to prepare and also if you want you, I think you should be able to take this palace away from here with you to go anywhere as you have merged with the egg, just that I don't know how but you should be able to as it was the egg that originally brings the palace here when I was in the abyss and I want to take the egg which was placed in this golden palace just smaller on an alter covered with arrays where I'm trapped right now but when my clone takes it, I have the feeling that it was the egg that allows me to take it here, the egg shrunk the palace and sucked it inside it which surprised me but at that time I just shrugged it away but when I built a place to put it, it was crushed when the egg spit back the palace which enlarged to become this"lyan explained.
When lyan was still explaining little long suddenly exclaimed "ohh...master I forget to tell you, how can I forget something so important" little long said while scolding himself.
"Come with me Ryu, I will show you the site that was crushed by this palace,"lyan said while gesturing to Ryu to follow him.
Ryu Was still shocked by lyan explanation he understand, he doesn't think this enormous palace can shrink to enter into little long shell before as the shell was only 6m (20.22)ft approximately 20ft before but now the palace is almost 1500cm(5000)ft, he understand the save concept as it was originally a storage space but the palace was enormous and Ryu doesn't think it can shrink to as it is a palace and even inside little long shell! Ryu stood pondering about how can the palace fit inside the shell but still doesn't understand when little long woke him from his stupor and tell him that lyan is gesturing for him to follow him.
Ryu was startled when little long helped him regain clarity and hurriedly followed lyan while also asking little long to clarify his doubt about the palace.
"Master just check the memories you obtained from the memory crystal about the Array formation and you will naturally know"little long tell Ryu to check his memories when little long merged with Ryu he get access to everything inside Ryu's soul including his memory, he also becomes soul bound to Ryu which make Ryu the dragon master formally.
Ryu does as little long said and checked his memories of the section where information about Arrays and started going through It, he found out that the palace can shrink and enlarge by the work of a formation called the heaven/Earth encompassing Array, the array is miraculous as it can shrink and enlarge an object and animates thing like human, plants and even beasts, but this can only be produced by a formation master at the immortal stages.
Formations are divided into three grades;
Mortal grade
Immortal grade
God grade
And they are further divided into 9 tiers from tier 1 to tier 9 and the tiers are also divided into low, mid, high, and peak, and pills too also are divided in the format.
And the Heaven/Earth encompassing Array can only be constructed by at least a formation master at tier 9 of the immortal grade.
Blacksmithing can also be divided into;
Common and Spirit Grade Artifact in the mortal realms.
Earthly and Heavenly grade Artifact in the immortal realm
And the God Grade Artifact in the God realm.
And these artifacts can also also be divided into low, mid, high, and peak.
When Ryu was going through these memories, lyan and Ryu arrived at the site of the old palace built by lyan.
Lyan pointed to a pile of decayed rubbles at the side of the golden palace, it was like the golden palace intentionally crushed the place built by lyan and moved to the side of the rubbles to plant itself down, or should we say by little long as the palace doesn't have a consciousness.
Ryu shook his head at little long antics.
"Little long why do you just have to destroy the building, you just wasted his time and energy to build the building by crushing it, "Ryu asked little long.
"Master that palace will be an insult to the IMPERISHABLE GOLDEN ABODE name for any palace-like object to be beside it so I just crushed it and be done with it, and this dragon can't live inside that shabby palace when I have a far better one as the IMPERISHABLE GOLDEN ABODE is natural god grade artifact as it was made by the universe itself"the little dragon explained while boasting about the palace.
"Ohh...so the palace name is IMPERISHABLE GOLDEN ABODE and it's a natural god-grade artifact!"Ryu eyes widened and he exclaimed inside in shock as he now knows about formation, artifacts, and other professions so he knows what natural god-grade artifact means. Natural god grade artifact is the artifact above god grade artifact, they can be considered indestructible as they can only be destroyed if the universe perished they will reconstruct even if they were badly damaged or crushed and there is only 7 Natural god grade artifact in the universe which are;
THE IMPERISHABLE GOLDEN ABODE
The HEAVENLY BODY GAUNTLET
THE BOOK OF BEGINNING
THE SOUL SPHERE
THE HEAVEN/EARTH REFINING CAULDRON
THE PULVERIZING GODLY SPEAR
THE SPACE-TIME STONE.
Lyan was puzzled why Ryu eyes widen to just a pile of rubbles he showed him he asked"Ryu what happened why are you so surprised because of just a pile of the palace rubbles"
"Jus...just astonished by the power of the imperish....the golden palace by how it crushed the palace to become these rubbles as the palace you built must have been strong right?"Ryu stuttered and hurriedly produce an excuse for his astonishment.
"Ohhh... okay"lyan nodded simply but he obviously doesn't believe Ryu, since Ryu had obtained the egg he had been doing weird, lyan thought but still just shrugged it away as if Ryu doesn't want to tell him he won't force him.
"Master do you know how to take this palace away"Ryu trying to ease his awkwardness pointed to the IMPERISHABLE GOLDEN ABODE and asked lyan.
"No I don't, maybe you should just try some ways like injecting your blood with the 9 element qi on the door of the palace, or just send your soul imprint inside the palace from the door of the palace...."lyan listed a pile of suggestions but Ryu wasn't listening anymore, he just asked Lyan earlier to ease the awkwardness, he should have just asked little long.
"So little long how do I take this palace away"Ryu asked little long.
"I thought you wouldn't ask me but listen to your stupid master"little long said and Ryu answered a little angrily"don't say that ever again as he was just trying to help"Ryu started respecting his master after being with him and see his care for him, he started taking a liking to his master.
"Okay master"little long answered seriously and continue "if you want to take it with you it's relatively simple, just shroud the palace with your 9 elemental qi and it will naturally accept you as its master after you shrouded it with the qi and it will disappear into your soul to become soul bound with you"little long explained.
Ryu nodded and started rounding the palace up with his 9 elemental qi but halfway his qi get exhausted and it stopped rounding the palace.
"This is harder than how you simply explained it, so how do I go about this I don't think I can round this palace up before I'm out of qi," Ryu said complaining to little long.
"I will help you, master, start rounding it with qi and I will supply you with my qi to take the palace "little long said.
"Okay" Ryu acknowledge little long and started rounding the palace with his 9-element qi again and this time the palace was quickly shrouded with Ryu's qi and 'whoosh' the palace disappeared into Ryu's soul and Ryu felt something soul bound with him, he feels that he can just call out the palace with a thought from him.
When Ryu was shrouding the palace with his qi,lyan stood and watched him and when the palace disappeared he exclaimed "what....what just happened right now"