Silver Overlord

This time, Yan Liqiang stayed a day in the Heavenly Realm. During the daytime, after he memorized the so-called incomplete version of the ‘Ten Dragons Ten Elephants Divine Technique’ in the Hall of Scriptures, he returned to his small courtyard at night. When he sat in a lotus position on his bed, he once again entered the Heavenly Shrine.

Fu Guang was nowhere in sight. There wasn’t anyone in the entire Heavenly Shrine except for the Heavenly Stone and that celestial globe-like object which controlled it.

Yan Liqiang only took a glance at everything in the Heavenly Shrine before he strode to that unidentifiable object, and pulled its lever down with a click. An amber light instantly shot out from the Heavenly Stone at the side and manifested into the silhouette of a dog. It revolved around the Heavenly Stone two times and then shrank into an amber bead about the size of a ping-pong ball before it passed through that rhombus-shaped entrance and vanished in the blink of an eye.

At the same time, the dog’s silhouette within the crystal ball in the middle of that object disappeared. The ‘Available spirit points’ became 46, while the ‘Available vitality points’ and ‘Available intelligence points’ were also reduced by 50.

Yan Liqiang was stunned for a good moment upon seeing this for the very first time. At first, he thought something earth-shattering would happen. Unexpectedly, everything was this simple.

“Damn, this is just like a capsule toy machine…!” Yan Liqiang muttered to himself while he looked at the object that he couldn’t identify. He then went through the rhombus-shaped entrance and returned to reality.

He found himself still upstairs in the small courtyard in Wuyang Village. It was still snowing heavily outside and the cold wind was howling. It was pitch-black in the room. Yan Liqiang’s current state remained the same as when he had just progressed into a Martial Warrior.

The time in reality seemed to be frozen ever since Yan Liqiang entered the Heavenly Realm. It seemed like only a total of two minutes had passed and these two minutes represented the time when Yan Liqiang had his mind and attention focused on entering the rhombus-shaped door. Everything in the Heavenly Realm was really like a game. To Yan Liqiang, the feeling of leaving the Heavenly Realm was akin to saving a game before quitting in his previous life.

The difference between this and a game was that he left the Heavenly Realm with a copy of the ‘Ten Dragons Ten Elephants Divine Technique’ secret manual in his mind. At the same time, Yan Liqiang also felt like he had an additional object in his grasp.

He opened his palm. Upon taking a closer look in the dark room, he discovered an amber sphere about the size of a ping-pong ball on his palm. Inside that sphere was the silhouette of a dog solidified in it — this was from that ‘capsule toy machine’.

If he were to show this to other people, ninety-nine out of a hundred people would think that it was a strange amber. That was because the feel, texture, and color of this object were really too similar to an amber.

After carefully examining the sphere for a while, Yan Liqiang placed it in front of his eyes and stared at it with rapt attention for a moment. When he saw the solidified silhouette of the dog start moving in the sphere, he instantly tossed the sphere on the ground.

The sphere glowed red for a moment before the red light dissipated and a powerful-looking huge yellow dog appeared in the room. Everything was just like magic, leaving Yan Liqiang stunned.

The newly-born dog briefly looked around the room. After looking lost for a short moment, it wagged its tail and circled around Yan Liqiang in excitement. When Yan Liqiang stretched his hand out, the dog came over and started licking his palm happily. For a brief moment there, Yan Liqiang felt a fascinating spiritual connection forming between him and the dog. He had a hunch that this dog would be able to understand his words.

“Sit…!” Yan Liqiang pointed to the ground before his bed.

As soon as the dog heard Yan Liqiang’s order, it obediently sat on the floor and remained on the spot.

“Stand…!” The dog got up again.

“Turn clockwise seven times and anticlockwise five times!”

The huge yellow dog instantly turned clockwise seven times and then anticlockwise five times. Not only could it differentiate between directions, but it also knew how to count.

Yan Liqiang had dogs in his previous life, but those dogs he kept were nothing compared to this one before him. This dog was too interesting.

“If I don’t feed you, will you be able to find your own food?” Yan Liqiang asked the dog.

“Woof, woof…!” The dog barked softly twice and even nodded.

“Can you open the door?” Yan Liqiang pointed at his bedroom door.

The dog glanced at the door and actually nodded.

“Show me then…”

Upon hearing Yan Liqiang’s command, the dog wagged its tail and ran to the door. It stood up, planted two of its front paws on the door, then bit on the door’s wooden latch and pulled it. It released the latch before it gently pulled the door with its claws. The cold wind immediately flooded in as soon as the closed door was opened, suddenly dropping the room temperature by a few degrees.

“Can you close the door?”

With the wind blowing in from outside the door, the difficulty of closing the door suddenly increased significantly. But the dog went around behind the door and then pressed its head against the door, taking one step at a time to shut the door again. It then lifted its two front paws from the ground, pressed them against the door, and bit on the wooden latch. After several attempts, it managed to reinsert the latch back on the door to shut it.

Yan Liqiang laughed heartily. He got up from his bed, went to the wardrobe in his room and found a clean blanket. He then walked near the entrance and properly laid the blanket on the floor right beside the pillar which was behind the door. “Let me give you a name, I shall call you Goldie from now on! You will sleep here tonight!”

When the yellow dog heard Yan Liqiang, he immediately came over and curled up his body on the blanket.

Yan Liqiang smiled and patted the dog on its head before he went back to his bed to sleep.

…

Over the next few days, Yan Liqiang stopped paying attention to other affairs and was no longer bothered by the ups and downs in Pingxi City. He spent every day living a carefree and fulfilling life in the small courtyard with his dog.

During the daytime, he either walked his dog on the mountain to hunt for hares or cultivated Muscle Tendon Changing and Marrow Cleansing in his room to stabilize his Martial Warrior realm as soon as he could. By night time, when he slept, he would again enter the Heavenly Realm to start working hard in the Divine Sword Sect.

With this, an ordinary person’s one day was about Yan Liqiang’s two days spent in both reality and the Heavenly Realm.

In the beginning, Yan Liqiang was slightly unused to it. But after a few days, he became accustomed to it and immediately treated the Heavenly Realm as a fun game that could be started before his bedtime. As for that Heavenly Stone, it was impossible for him to wrap his head around it regardless of how awesome Fu Guang made it sound like, or just how incredible it really was. For someone like him, he simply treated the Heavenly Stone as any ‘capsule toy machine’ with special prizes in it — except that the condition to activate it was harsher for this one.

Yan Liqiang spent about eight or nine days like this. When his Martial Warrior realm had slowly stabilized and he was about to start cultivating the ‘Ten Dragons Ten Elephants Divine Technique’, two unexpected visitors suddenly arrived at the small courtyard he was renting in Wuyang Village…