Dual Cultivation God Returns

Eventually, Gong Liwei’s Wood Qi began to produce effect upon contact with the earth, as light green moss appeared where it seeped into the ground.

Her eyes widened, seeing that.

Goosebumps went through her as she felt an exhilarating rush of excitement and joy. Her hands clenching, and then stretching out open again as she tried not to lose this feeling, keeping the momentum going.

Her breathing became slightly uneven, but she forcefully calmed it down, continuing to circulate her Inner Qi acording to methods that Wu Long gave her after the Secret Realm, which were meant for Wood attribute cultivation.

It was just a bit of green that appeared on the ground, but it was a physical confirmation of her newly acquired Wood Element. A real, tangible proof of her progress.

Wu Long closed his eyes, focusing his senses on the three Runes of Water, Earth, and Wood.

He could feel Gong Liwei’s Wood Qi, and how it extracted both moisture from the air and the nutrients from the ground to build life.

Of course, Gong Liwei was not doing so consciously, or rather, she was not involved with the water and earth at all, she was only manipulating the Wood Qi, which, upon being stimulated in certain patterns, interacted with the environment almost on its own.

This finally confirmed to Wu Long, that elemental attributes of cultivators were given to them, and were operating according to the will of the Heavenly Daos.

Although born of the Chaos, Heavenly Daos represented order, which sought to control everything.

This, of course, clashed with the concept of cultivation which sought to transcend the limits set by the Heavenly Daos, which was why cultivators faced Heavenly Tribulations.

But with time, Heavenly Daos adapted, creating order even here.

First by setting limits which existed beyond the cultivators who passed their first Heavenly Tribulations, creating rules for those who transcended the Mortal condition.

Cultivators adapted as well, finding a way to cultivate through those limits by creating the Seven Profound Realms.

And when those limits were broken as well, and they failed to stop the unruly cultivators with another set of Heavenly Tribulations, the Heavenly Daos set further limits.

Yet as cultivators resisted, creating new Great Realms to cultivate past the new limitations, thinking they were continuously pushing back against the Heavenly Daos which had to set newer limits as soon as the previous ones were broken, they seemingly failed to realize, that now, there existed a new order, which was within the control of the Heavenly Daos.

The Great Realms of cultivation in itself was an orderly system dictating the limitations, which simultaneously always pushed back against cultivators, preventing the absolute majority from advancing, while keeping those who were able to advance blissfully unaware of the fact they were still within the hamster wheel when they thought they broke out.

The Elemental Qi which was given to the cultivators by the Heavenly Daos was just another way to give them the sense of control and power without relinquishing it from the Heavenly Daos.

Cultivators knew they could control elements with Elemental Qi, but did not know how exactly the process worked. And without that knowledge, it was not real control, only an illusion of it.

Wu Long’s Dao Runes, however, operated outside of the order created by the Heavenly Daos, as he manipulated the elements in the exact way Heavenly Daos did, equal to them in every way.

Of course, it meant he needed to understand the exact principles of how elements operated in order to use them, but it also meant that Heavenly Daos could not restrict his control over elemental attributes like they could with other cultivators.

This meant, that very likely, he would have faced Heavenly Punishment even without the Grandmist Keepsake, as he was a threat to the natural order created by the Heavenly Daos.

He also understood, that what the first cultivators in existence of the universe likely faced were Heavenly Punishments, and the entire concept of Heavenly Tribulations only appeared when the Heavenly Daos adapted to those continuously breaking limits, as part of the order pushing against chaos.

He did not notice this, but as he was contemplating all of this, he entered a new kind of state of enlightenment, different from the sudden enlightenment that came from a groundbreaking comprehension.

It was a very subtle and quiet meditative state in which his thoughts accelerated and were freed from constraints, with no outward signs around him.

There was only an aura of peace and tranquility that appeared about him and filled Gong Liwei sitting opposite of him with a mysterious feeling of profoundness.

Her own concentration became sharper, more focused, and using that momentum, she began creating small grass and various weeds, which began slowly, but visibly growing around her.

And in Wei Lan’s garden, quite far away from them in Fen Baihu’s world, a crystal-like cocoon of the caterpillar that went through several molts, began shaking, cracking, as beautiful wings eventually broke out, unfolding for the first time.

Gong Liwei had yet to have any control over what exactly her Wood Qi produced, and thus it was mostly weeds that were discarded from the loans and gardens of even mortals, let alone cultivators. But that did not stop her from the feeling of excitement, as she began getting the hang of it, sensing how the flow of Wood Qi should be manipulated in order to produce these results.

Her hands then slowly came together, and formed the first hand seal, then another, and then third.

The weeds began quickly withering, but the Wood Cultivation combat technique she tried of creating vines to capture targets failed, as she still hasn’t yet gained that level of control over her Wood Qi.

Not to mention, she only started practicing the Wood-attribute cultivation method recently, and thus it was not yet powerful enough to support that level of technique.

That did not discourage her, though, as she already made massive gains.

Wu Long opened his eyes, which flashed with profound light, and smiled, “Congratulations, Fairy Gong, and thank you”

Her cheeks slightly reddened as she looked at him, “I-It’s me who should be thanking you. For everything, really. At this point it is hard to list everything you did for me without using an entire day to do so. And even this result… is all thanks to you”

“It is my pleasure to help you where I can help, but you really shouldn’t diminish your own effort”, Wu Long smiled, “Besides you have thanked me at every turn, after each time I did something. Really, it would be much easier for me if you accepted everything I did a bit more easier”

“How could I… it would be ungrateful and shameless…”, she shook her head with a wry smile, standing up from her meditative pose as it was about time for them to finish up.

He also stood up, shrugging “I know, I’m just saying it would be much easier for me if you were a bit more shameless”

Her eyebrows slightly frowned in confusion as they came closer and turned to the side to walk together side by side.

Something in his words was… off.

For some reason, she felt the need to think it over. She remembered all their interactions from the beginning, and while it seemed like his attitude toward her stayed the same throughout, she suddenly understood that at some point, the tone in which he spoke, and the way he accepted her gratitude for anything he did became different.

Even the the look in his eyes, and the words he spoke to her seemingly had a hidden meaning, except that it wasn’t hidden that much, she just wasn’t in the right state of mind to see it.

‘It’s as if he’s…’, she gasped, looking at him from the side with widened eyes.

“Daoist Wu… are you… perhaps… I know this is going to sound silly, but are… are you courting me, by any chance?”, she asked, thinking she was insane for actually blurting it out impulsively right after she finished saying the words.

“Hahahaha, you finally noticed? Took you long enough”, he genuinely laughed, causing her to freeze on the spot while he made a couple more steps and stopped, turning a bit, so that he could naturally turn his face to her.

She stared at him with wide eyes. Her brain simply shut down, not able to comprehend what was happening.

In the past days after the Sun Shadow Secret Realm, she could see the transformation of Cai Yin, who visibly bloomed and blossomed before her eyes. In fact, she witnessed it many times already. Someone who was already beautiful, and seemed to be already fairly happy, obtaining a special glow, and shining joy in their eyes. All because of one man.

At the same time, her own feelings grew as well, and she no longer really argued with her little sister’s teasing, simply accepting it with a wry smile.

She was, in fact, thinking about confessing her feelings to him.

This was, perhaps, the biggest reason she felt so self-conscious around him during these few days they were meditating on the Wood element together.

She wasn’t sure if he saw her in this way, or rather, she didn’t even consider it was the case. She just hoped he would accept her even if she was the only one who had feelings for him.

At this moment, she felt like she and Gong Cui weren’t really that different. Whereas Gong Cui was shocked about learning Cai Yin had feelings for Wu Long, she herself, had no idea he was long since making moves on her, just waiting for her to be ready. And now that she realized it, she also saw how blatantly obvious it was all along.

None of that mattered in this moment though.

A butterfly, which not long ago broke from its cocoon, flew past them, straying quite far from the garden.

Gong Liwei suddenly rushed to him, and as he caught her, raising her up a bit to offset the impact from going against her to the motion of going up, she leaned in to kiss him.

‘Haha, as impulsive and reckless as ever’, he thought as he finally tasted those lips against his.

She became bright red right after, realizing that she once again rushed into things without thinking everything through. A feeling of embarrassment catching up to her.

He smiled, looking at her covering her face to hide from him, while still raised in his arms.

She belatedly realized his arms were supporting her by her hip, and ass.

‘Oh well, we’re in that kind of relationship now anyway’, she thought, giving up on feeling any more embarrassed than she already was.

“Dao-…”, she slowly uncovered her face a bit, looking at hip from between her fingers.

“Call me Wu Long, Liwei”, he interrupted, as she felt butterflies in her stomach at the sound of him calling her name.

“W-Wu Long…”, and then as she called him by name, the realization of all of this really happening truly hit her, as she felt like squealing in excitement, “I… Is it okay if I… learn the technique you all talk about later? I-I don’t think I can wait… or concentrate on learning anything”

“Hahaha, of course”, he chuckled, as she could always learn it later on, and carrying her in his arms accelerated to the mansion within the Mystic Realm.

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