The spiritual spring that was unceasingly gushing from the top of the whale core’s head quickly evolved into a Spirit Lake in Song Shuhang’s original dantian. The spiritual spring expanded, getting deeper and deeper. 

　　There was no Golden Core Composition on it, and neither was there a finishing touch.

　　Sure enough, is it related to the fact that my life-bound whale core is a variant? Song Shuhang silently said in his mind.

　　However, without a Golden Core Composition, much less a finishing touch… His life-bound golden core had always stayed in the ‘Solid Golden Core’ Realm, never becoming a Purple Golden Core or a Lustrous Golden Core.

　　Without a Golden Core Composition, the ‘Spirit Lake’ that would be formed wouldn’t have a Lake Soul, and it wouldn’t be able to nourish life-bound divine weapons… More importantly, without a Lake Soul, how was he supposed to ascend to the Seventh Stage Venerable Realm?

　　The process by which the Nascent Soul of a Seventh Stage Venerable was born was closely tied to the Lake Soul. Without a Lake Soul, how was a Nascent Soul supposed to be born?

　　Song Shuhang felt a headache.

　　It looks like I’ll have to go to Senior White Two and ask him some things after this speech. I remember Senior White Two mentioning that he himself had a golden core without any dragon patterns back then, so how did he continue raising his cultivation?

　　❄️❄️❄️

　　And so, the Profound Sage Speech continued.

　　Thanks to the script, Song Shuhang was able to deliver the speech smoothly. The quality of the script was excellent, and the demonic sects’ way of using one’s emotions to enter a berserk state while still retaining control was useful to those of the main world and the Black Dragon World.

　　The practitioners of the universe listened with much interest.

　　Soon, the speech approached its end.

　　The practitioners of the universe finally let out a breath of relief. It seemed that this ‘Tyrannical Dragon’ was different from Profound Sage Tyrannical Song, who had the hobby of changing scripts in the middle of the speech.

　　As the speech ended, the whale core in Song Shuhang’s body also slowly stopped spewing water.

　　In the original dantian, a huge Spirit Lake had taken shape, having the same nine-layer depth as the others, showing that the life-bound whale core was equivalent to other golden cores, who had nine dragon patterns.

　　At the same time, when this Spirit Lake was formed, the spiritual energy of the ‘small spirit lakes’ in the seven small dantians continuously poured into Shuhang’s original dantian. It was similar to the water from rivers and lakes entering the sea. His Spirit Lake continued to grow, and the amount it could hold also increased proportionally.

　　On Song Shuhang’s life-bound whale core, the nine dragon patterns lit up one by one.

　　Every dragon pattern showed a projection beside Song Shuhang.

　　The first dragon pattern was the virtuous lamia plus the Sage Seal… At the same time, there appeared to be a projection of the ‘Demon Seal’ and the ‘Dragon Seal’ under the Sage Seal.

　　The second dragon pattern was a Holy Ape with a Scholarly Scripture.

　　The third was the Impregnable Holy City.

　　The fourth was the Holy Sword of the End.

　　The fifth was the Nine Virtues Phoenix Saber.

　　As the projections of the dragon patterns emerged one after another, the practitioners of the universe felt that they looked rather familiar.

　　“What are these projections? Are they dragon patterns?”

　　“Do those dragon patterns contain images?”

　　“I saw a projection of the Virtuous Empress… Isn’t the Virtuous Empress the manifestation of Profound Sage Tyrannical Song’s light of virtue?”

　　“I saw the magnificent Holy City. Why does this Holy City look like the magical treasure Profound Sage Tyrannical Song brought with him on stage during the Immortal Feast?”

　　“I also have an impression of the Holy Ape. When Ancient Sage Doudou appeared, there was such a group of apes behind him as well.”

　　“Are those apes holding scriptures in their hands?”

　　They were all familiar.

　　At this time, Song Shuhang’s sixth dragon pattern projection emerged.

　　An eye gleaming with strange light appeared.

　　Alarm bells began ringing loudly in the minds of the practitioners of the universe.

　　“The S-Scholarly Sage’s eye!”

　　“Tyrannical… Tyrannical Song?”

　　“We were baited, this Ancient Sage Tyrannical Dragon is Profound Sage Tyrannical Song! He’s holding another Divinity Show!”

　　“Hurry, let me out of the car!”

　　“It’s too late, the eye is shining! I’m going to become pregnant!”

　　“This treacherous Profound Sage Tyrannical Song, he actually changed his appearance!”

　　“N-next time, as long as we see anyone who might be ‘Profound Sage Tyrannical Song’ delivering a speech, we should immediately stop listening to it. We must not give him any more opportunities.”

　　When he heard the feedback from the practitioners of the universe, Song Shuhang felt flustered—if he truly ascended to the Profound Sage Realm one day, were the practitioners of the universe going to immediately shut off his broadcast when he showed his divinity? Were they not going to even listen?

　　Was he going to be the first Profound Sage who failed to deliver a speech because he had no audience, and then get trapped in the inner demon tribulation?

　　While Song Shuhang was in thought, the practitioners of the universe started hallucinating.

　　Everyone found themselves walking amongst the clouds. In front of them, a tall old man was slowly treading the clouds.

　　As he walked, the old man suddenly turned his head, and said, “I suddenly had a thought. When a woman is pregnant, there is a possibility that she carries twins. However, the Impregnating Gaze can only make people experience single pregnancy, not the hardship of twins.”

　　“???” The practitioners of the universe.

　　Old man, it’s time for you to take your medicine!

　　“As such, I’ll try having both eyes use the Gaze of Maternal Love at the same time. I’ll call it ‘Twins Impregnating Gaze’.” A strange light shone in both of the old man’s eyes.

　　At this moment, the practitioners of the universe realized the identity of this old man.

　　“Aaaah, Sage, don’t do it!” the practitioners of the universe screamed in horror. And then, they woke up from the hallucination.

　　Everyone quickly reached out, and touched their bellies…

　　But it was just an illusion—they didn’t really get pregnant.

　　However, the illusion just now was so real that they were all left with a head covered in a cold sweat.

　　When everyone was in the illusion, the projections of Song Shuhang’s seventh, eighth, and ninth dragon patterns had all surfaced.

　　A crystal lotus.

　　A fat whale.

　　And an illusory figure.

　　The lotus and the whale weren’t much to look at.

　　But when the practitioners of the universe set their eyes on the ninth dragon pattern, everyone saw their True Self in this ‘illusory figure’.

　　Everyone was drawn to this True Self, and they fell silent for a long time.

　　This chance to see their True Self was a great opportunity for them.

　　“Is this a bait by Profound Sage Tyrannical Song? Because this is such a great opportunity… Even if I know that there is a risk of pregnancy after listening to him, maybe I will still choose to watch him next time.”

　　The feedback from the universe was once again conveyed to Song Shuhang.

　　“Even if I have to have twins, I can handle it. As long as it isn’t triplets, quadruplets, and above, I’ll be able to endure.”

　　Sorry, the Sage not only has a third eye, but he also has eyes with two pupils…

　　“Will there be a next time? Profound Sage Tyrannical Song has already delivered the ‘Profound Sage Speech’ three times. Won’t it be too heaven-defying if he went a fourth time?”

　　Sorry, I will definitely do it again.

　　The speech finally ended.

　　Song Shuhang secretly let out a breath of relief.

　　Overall, the speech this time went smoothly, and there wasn’t much trouble.

　　At this time, the Dragon Network Assistant prompted, “The permanent blessing of the Dragon Network is here. By accepting this blessing, you become immune to any mental attacks below the Eighth Stage.”

　　Song Shuhang felt that the blessing was attached to his primordial soul.

　　At the same time, all of the seniors of the ‘Nine Provinces Number One Group’, as well as Lady Onion in his hand, also received this blessing. The light of the blessing engulfed the entire speech space.

　　Song Shuhang said, “Immunity to mental attacks below the Eighth Stage? Isn’t that a bit useless? Normally, those who hold this speech are already at the Eighth Stage Realm, and they wouldn’t need such a blessing to resist mental attacks at the Seventh Stage.”

　　“A blessing of this level is the limit of the current Dragon Network,” the Dragon Network Assistant replied. “However, when the power of the Black Dragon World recovers a bit, this ‘blessing’ may be raised to a higher level.”

　　The power of the Dragon Network had been in a state of weakness for thousands of years because of the Demon Emperor. Now, even Lady Kunna, the will of Dragon Network, had fallen into a deep sleep.

　　In other words, it couldn’t do much for the time being.

　　Song Shuhang nodded slightly, and he focused on his original dantian.

　　There, the life-bound Spirit Lake was growing bigger and bigger… From this point of view, Song Shuhang had completely entered the Sixth Stage True Monarch Realm.

　　However, his fat whale golden core had yet to disappear. It bobbed up and down in the Spirit Lake. On top of it, the nine dragon patterns shone brightly; it looked like they were going to change soon.

　　The golden core hadn’t melted, and it was still lively. From this point of view, Song Shuhang didn’t know whether he was still at the ‘Golden Core Realm’ or not.

　　Was he both a Spiritual Emperor and a True Monarch?

　　At this time, the life-bound whale core seemed to have accumulated enough power to begin a new evolution.

　　On the whale core, the originally ‘illusory’ figures began to become clearer.

　　Then, large beams of starlight shone down from the nine dragon patterns.

　　The nine dragon patterns did not turn into the pigment for the ‘golden core composition’, perhaps because they were different from normal ones. After all, these dragon patterns were artificially added by Senior White Two.

　　The starlight from the dragon patterns spread out, forming a star road on Song Shuhang’s fat whale golden core. The figures were now standing on the star road.

　　This star road seemed to have no end to it.

　　The figure standing at the front end of the road condensed. It was Soft Feather, the first member of the ‘Nine Provinces Number One Group’ to meet up with Song Shuhang. It was because Senior Yellow Mountain had mistyped Soft Feather’s number that Song Shuhang was added to the group.

　　The one that followed was Venerable Yellow Mountain. He was the one who added Song Shuhang to the ‘Nine Provinces Number One Group,’ and gave Song Shuhang an opportunity to cultivate.

　　Then came Medicine Master, Riverly Purple Mist, Northern River’s Loose Cultivator, Great Master Profound Principle…

　　All of them were current members of the Nine Provinces Number One Group.

　　Song Shuhang discovered that the order in which these seniors appeared seemed to be arranged in the order of his first contact with these seniors.

　　However, Su Clan’s Sixteen was not there.

　　If it were by order, the time he came into contact with Su Clan’s Sixteen should be between Soft Feather and Senior Medicine Master, or after Medicine Master and Senior Sister Riverly Purple Mist…

　　Is it because Sixteen hasn’t scanned my ‘QR code Golden Core Composition’?

　　Song Shuhang frowned, and fell deep in thought.

　　One after another, figures appeared.

　　Palace Master Seven Lives Talisman, Su Clan’s Seven, Doudou… True Monarch White Crane…

　　“Eh? Where’s Senior White?” After Doudou, Senior White should have appeared.

　　However, True Monarch White Crane took the place where Senior White was supposed to be, and appeared right after Doudou.

　　Could it be that I guessed wrong, and the order isn’t based on when I came in contact with them?