Chapter 1740 This was the first time in her life that she felt so defeated

　　However, Venerable Spirit Butterfly knew very well that he wasn’t facing an inner demon tribulation. The inner demon tribulation of the Eighth Stage would only appear after the failure of the ‘Profound Sage Speech’.

　　So my cute daughter is really showing her divinity and is about to deliver a speech… Is she becoming a ‘fake Profound Sage’ like little friend Shuhang?

　　As expected of my daughter!

　　Venerable Spirit Butterfly felt very pleased.

　　But suddenly, he remembered another thing.

　　“Oh no,” Venerable Spirit Butterfly cried out.

　　…Soft Feather didn’t have any speech scripts.

　　He’d never expected that his daughter would suddenly have a Divinity Show, so he had never prepared a speech for her.

　　Wasn’t this bad?

　　If the content of the ‘Profound Sage Speech’ wasn’t good enough, she might have to face the ‘inner demon tribulation’!

　　According to my research on the ‘Eighth Stage Divinity Show’… During the Profound Sage Speech, one should be able to hear the exchanges between fellow daoists in the universe. So if I speak now, would Soft Feather be able to see it? Venerable Spirit Butterfly fell into thought.

　　And at this time, Soft Feather finally decided on her daoist name.

　　Soft Feather said, “I’ve decided!”

　　She finally decided on the first ‘Sage Name’ of her life.

　　With her will, she got the three languages—Chinese, English, and the language of the Black Dragon World—contained within the bunch of light for the ‘Condense the Dragon Seal’ event to all form a single daoist name.

　　Ancient Sage [Spirit Butterfly].

　　The ninth Sage in 1,000 years, Ancient Sage Spirit Butterfly.

　　This was a Sage Name that would be recorded in the history of cultivation; an Ancient Sage who was one of the first 10 to show their divinity within the past 1,000 years and the first Eighth Stage fairy in 1,000 years. Although she wasn’t a Profound Sage, the words Ancient Sage didn’t sound too different from the words Profound Sage.

　　“My father’s daoist name… is now mine!” Soft Feather said triumphantly as she willfully robbed her father.

　　“…” Venerable Spirit Butterfly.

　　“…” Song Shuhang.

　　“…” The seniors of the Nine Provinces Number One Group.

　　On Spirit Butterfly Island, the corners of Senior Brother Liu Jianyi’s mouth rose slightly. Sure enough, it’s as I guessed. Then, who is my teacher’s husband? For him to have never visited Spirit Butterfly Island after impregnating his wife and after Soft Feather was born, what an ungrateful man.

　　After being silent for a long time, Venerable Spirit Butterfly suddenly laughed out loud. “As expected of my cute daughter.”

　　Then, Venerable Spirit Butterfly selected one of his three scripts, and began unceasingly chanting it. He hoped that he would be able to get his daughter, who was showing her divinity, to ‘see’ the manuscript he had this way.

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　　In the speech space.

　　Soft Feather reached out, grabbed the volume of manuscripts left by Doudou, and tried activating it.

　　However, it wouldn’t activate.

　　Did the manuscript package have a cooldown period?

　　[Senior Song, this is bad. The manuscript package isn’t activating. It seems to be on cooldown!] Soft Feather quickly transmitted her voice to Song Shuhang.

　　“!!!” Song Shuhang.

　　Heavens, things like cooldowns truly are the most annoying.

　　Fortunately, I still have a second beast skin scroll on hand. I guess I’ll give Soft Feather that one.

　　Song Shuhang took out the second scroll of scripts, and was preparing to give it to Soft Feather.

　　But at this moment, Soft Feather’s eyes suddenly lit up.

　　Then, with a wave of her hand, she threw the manuscript package which Doudou left behind back to Song Shuhang. Then, she sat down gracefully, and without squinting her eyes, she opened her mouth to deliver a speech on ‘combined magical techniques’.

　　Combining magical techniques was the specialty of Spirit Butterfly Island.

　　When it came to Spirit Butterfly Island’s sword techniques, each style incorporated a variety of magical technique combinations. The Butterfly-Eagle Transformation, the Butterfly-Phoenix Transformation, and the Butterfly-Dragon Transformation…

　　As long as magical techniques were cleverly combined, they could release unfathomable power.

　　This speech was very suitable for Soft Feather, and the content was also within the scope of what she could understand. The principles behind the speech were things that Venerable Spirit Butterfly had guided her on ever since she was young.

　　Soft Feather quickly entered into the state. While she was delivering the speech, her voice was faintly accompanied by the sound of the Great Way, allowing the practitioners of the universe to more easily understand the content of the speech.

　　“The content of Soft Feather’s speech is clearly in the style of Spirit Butterfly Island. Where did she get it from?” Song Shuhang curiously asked.

　　He originally thought that Soft Feather had gotten a manuscript from the ‘Heavenly Emperor’, but judging from the style of the speech, it didn’t seem to be the case.

　　Venerable Yellow Mountain guessed, “Perhaps Fellow Daoist Spirit Butterfly is helping Soft Feather remotely?”

　　Young Master Phoenix Slayer solemnly said, “Then there’s no need to worry, and we can simply listen carefully to Soft Feather’s speech. If it really is Venerable Spirit Butterfly remotely assisting Soft Feather’s speech, then it’s a lecture of his own learnings. If we’re able to thoroughly comprehend this speech on combining magical techniques, it would be similar to having won 10 years of diligent practice.”

　　Song Shuhang nodded slightly, and began to listen carefully to Soft Feather.

　　Being in the same ‘speech space’ with Soft Feather, they could listen with their own ears, which was much better than watching the live broadcast.

　　These past few months were truly filled with excellent blessings to the practitioners of the universe.

　　The first Sage in 1,000 years’ ❮Daoist Canon❯, Profound Sage Seven Lives Talisman’s ❮Top-Quality Buddhist Doctrine❯, Horizon’s ❮Insights on Tribulation Avoidance❯, Sage Monarch Winter Melon’s ❮Path of Defense❯, Sage White’s ❮Formation and Rune Production❯, Sage Monarch Seventh Cultivator of True Virtue’s ❮Points of Importance Regarding Pill Refinement, Growing Spirit Plants, Mining Skills, Forging Magical Treasure, Raising Spirit Beasts, Sewing Daoist Robes, Rune Production, Formation Arrangement, and Immortal Dishes❯, Ancient Sage Doudou’s ❮Monster Sage Heart Sutra❯, and now Ancient Sage Spirit Butterfly’s ❮Combined Magical Technique Usage❯.

　　Of course… the most impressive of them all was probably Demon Sage Tyrannical Scholar’s speech on ‘scholarly love’.

　　With so many speeches, each needing several dozen years to fully digest, this was the most blissful kind of trouble.

　　Soft Feather finished her speech, and smiled slightly.

　　When she was simply sitting down quietly and wasn’t wildly thinking of things, her inborn grace naturally came out.

　　After Song Shuhang listened to this speech, there was a surge of bold ideas and inspirations in his heart. As long as he was given some time, he would be able to understand this speech thoroughly, and then he could try combining magical techniques to make more powerful magical techniques… Right now, he was only lacking magical techniques.

　　After her speech, similar to Doudou, Soft Feather also received the ‘permanent mental protection blessing’.

　　At the same time, the illusory core in her dantian condensed, and a golden core was formed.

　　Affected by the blessing, her golden core was larger and rounder than that of an ordinary Fifth Stage cultivator.

　　When the golden core was formed, a steady stream of spiritual energy gushed out of her body, quickly replacing her true yuan with spiritual energy.

　　The next step was the most important one for the practitioners in the universe.

　　The golden core dragon patterns.

　　Soft Feather’s goal was the same as Song Shuhang’s.

　　Every member of the Nine Provinces Number One Group had a golden core with at least seven dragon patterns or an equivalent monster core.

　　If I can’t even get seven dragon patterns, I’ll feel too ashamed to stay in the Nine Provinces Number One Group.

　　There were many twists and turns that I had to deal with when transcending this tribulation, so the number of dragon patterns I’ll get shouldn’t be low. Soft Feather was quite looking forward to the number of her golden core patterns.

　　Even if she had a detached personality, she would inevitably feel a little nervous when faced with an event as serious as forming the golden core that would decide her path.

　　After a while, Soft Feather stood up.

　　Her ‘speech state’ ended, and now it was Li Yinzhu’s turn to deliver a speech.

　　“Congratulations, Soft Feather.” Venerable Yellow Mountain smiled slightly.

　　“From now on, you’re also a Fifth Stage Golden Core Spiritual Emperor,” Northern River’s Loose Cultivator said with satisfaction.

　　“Thank you, Seniors.” Soft Feather smiled sweetly.

　　Thrice Reckless Mad Saber said, “Then, Soft Feather, how many core patterns did you get?”

　　Song Shuhang also looked at Soft Feather curiously.

　　“Haha, well, hahaha, I have something else to do, so I’m going to be leaving first. See you in the main world.” Soft Feather blinked.

　　Then, she waved to the seniors of the Nine Provinces Number One Group. “Senior Song, Seniors, see you.”

　　Her figure disappeared.

　　Similar to Doudou, her figure was transferred to Song Shuhang’s Inner World. They were supposed to be sent back to the Black Dragon World first, but because they had gotten involved in Song Shuhang’s heavenly tribulation, and Song Shuhang had yet to leave the space, they were first sent to his Inner World.

　　At this time, Doudou was lying quietly on the grass of the Inner World with a pair of dragon wings on his back, trying to figure out what the wings could do.

　　When he saw Soft Feather appear, Doudou said joyfully, “Yo, Soft Feather, you’re here too.”

　　Soft Feather asked curiously, “Where is this place?”

　　Doudou replied, “It should be Song Shuhang’s Inner World. I’ve been here several times.”

　　Soft Feather nodded. She sat next to Doudou, and then tucked her knees.

　　Doudou asked curiously, “Are you in a bad mood?”

　　“Yeah.” Soft Feather nodded, and she stared at her ‘dantian’ where a shining golden core with spiritual energy far superior to that of ordinary practitioners, existed.

　　However…

　　There were no core patterns on it.

　　Not even one!

　　Soft Feather felt so tired.

　　This was the first time in her life that she felt so defeated.

　　Doudou tilted his head, thought for a moment, and then tried comforting her. “If there’s something making you sad, why don’t you tell me about it so that I can laugh at it? No, wait. I mean… that maybe after you share whatever is making you sad, you might feel a bit better?”

　　Recently, he had gotten into the habit of provoking people, and had somewhat forgotten how to comfort others.

　　Soft Feather lowered her head, looked at Doudou, and then buried her face in her arm. “I won’t talk about it. I won’t talk about it even if you beat me to death.”

　　“…” Doudou.

　　This situation seems a bit grave. With Soft Feather’s spirit having been beaten so hard, maybe I should ask Song Shuhang for some advice?

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　　Meanwhile, Song Shuhang was also facing a big problem.

　　Next, it was Little Yinzhu’s turn to show her divinity and deliver a speech. However, Li Yinzhu was still unconscious, and showed no signs of waking up.

　　What do I do? She isn’t in a state where she can show her divinity or deliver a speech.

　　Song Shuhang looked at the Dragon Network Assistant. “Can I deliver a speech in Little Yinzhu’s place?”

　　The Dragon Network Assistant shook its head, and replied, “Not everything can be replaced, just like you can’t replace your daughter in giving birth to a child. Some things must be done by the child.”

　　“…” Song Shuhang.

　　At this time, Li Yinzhu entered the ‘Divinity Show’ mode.

　　The practitioners of the universe and the Black Dragon World all looked at this 10th Sage in 1,000 years… who was asleep.

　　Vaguely, it seemed as if there was even some saliva flowing from the corner of the mouth of this 10th Sage in 1,000 years.

　　After the Divinity Show was completed, it was time for the ‘Condensing the Sage Seal’ event.

　　Fairy Lychee tried to comfort him. “Shuhang, don’t worry. Maybe Little Yinzhu will be forced to wake up when it’s time for the speech.”