"Woof! Master, is there something wrong with my transformation?" Gongniu tilted his adorable head and asked.
He swore multiple glowing question marks popped up beside Gongniu's adorable face like the exclamation point in those webcomics!
Yu Yan turned his eyes toward the equally baffled Tulan, then looked back at Gongniu, trying to collect his thought.
What more can be said?
Unexpectedly, Gongniu, a prestigious member of the Crimson Bull, who is a Crimson Bull King himself has transformed into a dog!
"Hehe." Tulan giggles seeing Yu Yan speechless as he facepalms.
What can he do when those fellows from the Crimson Bull clan come knocking on his door because they find out one of their members became a dog?!
At this moment, he can't help but rubbed the bridge of his nose, feeling a slight headache from Gongniu's new appearance.
In his head, there is a scene of him being chased by dozens of furious bulls razing their path across the vast star river, or even worse, star territory!
Regardless, there is nothing he can do about it, if push comes to shove, he would run away again to a neighboring star sea and hide away for a while if that happen.
"Master, why am I a dog?" Gongniu spread his divine sense, finally seeing realizing why his master and Tulan displayed such a reaction to his appearance and asked with a grievance cry.
The Crimson Bull clan members are commonly known to be simplistic in the way they think, and their beastly form is usually that of a crimson-colored bull.
They have great pride in their body cultivation path, and more importantly, they value their pride even more than their life!
Because of their nature, they tend to use more force than their brain in most situations, which explains why the members of the Crimson Bull are usually slow-witted.
Thus, Gongniu despite his slow wit, cannot help but curse at his new appearance.
His brain may be a bit smooth and silky, but it's not that smooth!
After a moment of silence, Yu Yan looked at Gongniu and solemnly wave his hand.
"Gong-gong, change your appearance, I don't want to deal with your crimson bull clan knocking on my door if they find out u became a spirit and transformed into a dog." Even though Gongniu can change his appearance at will, the essence of his true self is still a dog.
If a Yin-Yang Scyer expert or above were to look at Gongniu, then his disguise would easily shatter and reveal his true form.
That would be disastrous.
At the moment, he only has a tenth of his strength. If he recovers to his peak, True Yang Emperor, he would have the authority to initiate the oath again and give Gongniu a chance to be reborn with a new corporal body.
If he were to reach the Yin-Yang Scyer realm, then it would be as simple as blinking his eyes to change Gongniu true self!
"When I recover to my peak, I will try to let you go through a transformation one more time. If I can reach the Yin-Yang Scyer realm, I will directly assist you with the second transformation!" He looked at the pitiful Gongniu and promised.
"Woof! Thank you, master!" Gongniu's saw the radiant light at the end of the tunnel, feeling even more grateful toward Yu Yan as he cries in excitement.
Then, Yu Yan gestured for both of them to follow him toward the center of the crater.
"Let's get down to business. You both should know what to do already right?" He asked, checking if the system already bestow them with the necessary knowledge required when they were reformed.
"Yes, master!"
"Sister Tulan and I can directly record everything that we see and experience!" He replied in a snobbish manner, but at the same time, acknowledged Tulan's seniority by referring to her as sister.
Meanwhile, Tulan who was standing by his side can't help but shook her head with a smile.
"Master, what he means to say is that we are your eyes and ears."
"I am the eye, anything that I see will be recorded!"
"He is the ears, anything that he hears will be recorded!"
He nodded, satisfied by her clarification.
"Perfect. You are a True Yin King, as for Gong-gong, he is at the peak of Ascension. With this cultivation, I don't have to worry about both of you keeping up with my pace, not to mention being able to move around freely."
"Thank you for your praise master, we are grateful to serve you." She earnestly says with a gentle bow.
"Alright, enough pleasant talk." He calmly dismisses her gesture.
"For today, I wish to showcase the [One Step, Ten Thousand Mile] technique to the public, you both should be able to guess what it is right?"
"One Step, Ten Thousand Mile? Is it a derivative variant of the famous 'One Step, A Thousand Mile' technique known for its great speed and maneuverability?"
"Bingo! You're quite smart." He praises, impressed by her knowledge.
"The [One Step, A Thousand-Mile technique], as long as one comprehend and reach the completion realm, it is possible to travel thousands of mile with a single step!" She exclaimed admirably.
"That's right. However, the One Step, A Thousand-Mile technique is very much flawed and the name of the technique itself doesn't mean it in a literal sense."
"Because of its difficulty, it leads many lower realm cultivators to toss it away in helplessness. Not only that, it is also useless once they are trapped by space-dao related techniques. This cause a number of higher realm cultivators to also ignore it entirely."
"Of course, there are also those heaven chosen who deploy the technique to a great level of effectiveness. Other than that, very few would really go out of their way to bother with such technique."
"The [One Step, Ten Thousand Mile] is a derivative variant I made back then, but it is also a lower variant of another technique that I use called [One Step, Crossing Star River]!"
"One Step, Crossing Star River?"
"Such an imposing name!" Tu Lan's eyes widened in disbelief as Yu Yan revealed the name of his original technique. She could feel the weight of the name - "One Step, Crossing Star River" - and what it could imply.
Her mind racing with questions. Was there more to the One Step, Crossing Star River technique than just a flashy name? Was Yu Yan hiding some sort of secret technique that could take him across star river?
As she tried to make sense of the implication of his wordings, she couldn't help but wonder if Yu Yan was an arrogant brute, or a true genius.
She had seen countless space-dao techniques in her long life, but never had she come across something with such self imposing name. The very name of the technique implied that it could allow one to travel across the vast expanse of a star river with just a single step!
Unknowingly, certain pieces of information surfaced through her memories due to the interference of the system.
At his peak, he should be at the same realm as her, True Yang Emperor. But could he really travel across an entire Star River with a single step?
Even with her True Yang Emperor cultivation when she was alive, she doubt she could travel an entire Star river instantaneously!
As a member of the Yaolan race, she had an innate understanding of space-dao techniques along with affinity toward the nomological truths of the natural laws regarding space, but even with her True Yang Emperor cultivation at its peak, she doubted that she could travel an entire star river instantaneously.
At the cost of some sacrifice to her true soul, she can at most travel a couple of star streams at once, but not an entire star river!
Of course, she didn't specialize in the speed path as her path focus more on trapping and sealing space rather than traveling space.
Not to mention, she wasn't aware that Yu Yan wasn't just any ordinary True Yang Emperor, but he was at the Peak of the True Yang Emperor Realm, half a hair away from Yin-Yang Scryer!
The system didn't implant Yu Yan's information in great detail.
Yu Yan's smile grew wider as he looked at the stunned expressions of Tulan and Gongniu.
The 'One Step, Crossing Star River' was his proud work of a lifetime. It is also because of this technique that allows him to escape from the pursuit of a certain Yin-Yang Scyer expert back then.
"One Step, Crossing Star River… Truly a befitting name. I can't believe that the One Step a Thousand Mile can diverge into such a miraculous ability." Her respect for Yu Yan deepened even further, If Yu Yan was capable of such a feat, then what other abilities and techniques did he possess?
As she pondered this, she can't but stole a glance at him," Maybe...", She whispered inwardly, before wiping away her fleeting thoughts and lowering her head.
"I have spread my divine sense to cover the surrounding area a moment ago. The strongest cultivator on the planet is merely a Peak Golden Core weakling. Then there's that strange fellow hovering outside the planet, half-step into Nascent Soul, a hair breath away from reaching the Nascent Soul Realm."
"Master, do you think these cultivators will be able to comprehend such a difficult technique?" She voices her concerns.
"Besides, what happens if those ignorant weaklings mistake your technique as bogus and start accusing you?" He shook his head, feeling a cold killing intent coming from Tulan.
"You're right, under normal circumstances, it is extremely difficult for them to even comprehend the surface profundity of this technique. However, with your Yaolan expertise in space dao, isn't it as simple as taking a breath as long as we reduce the difficulty down at the expense of some downgrade?"
"Ah, so master has already thought that far?" She giggles, admiring her master's plan even more as she teases.
Of course, he didn't mention that when it comes to space-dao techniques, he might even be inferior to Tulan. But she didn't notice this and he didn't feel the need to explain it either.
"It seems like you have already come up with that idea the moment I and little Gong awakened, clever." He shamelessly smiled, not refuting his play on her and flicked her snow-white forehead.
Twatck!
"That's right."
"…"