After a slight hesitation, Yu Tianming retrieved a piece of rare metal from his storage soul tool. With a flick of his wrist, he tossed it far toward the Dragon Soul.
Under Yu Tianming's watchful eyes, the rare metal touched the Dragon Soul, as though a stone had been thrown into a still lake, creating ripple-like waves on the surface of the Dragon God's soul.
But instead of being engulfed by the soul, the part of the metal that made contact instantly vaporized.
The Dragon God's soul was different from the Mountain Dragon King's. After Yu Tianming threw the metal, the Dragon God didn't react at all. He simply stood in the center of the valley, multicolored light still flowing across his body.
Since entering this little world of the Dragon Valley, Yu Tianming felt a voice deep in his blood urging him toward the center of the world.
Now standing before the Dragon God, that pull from his bloodline reached its peak.
He gazed at the flowing multicolored glow surrounding the Dragon God's soul. After a moment of hesitation, he took a deep breath and stepped forward, slowly extending a finger toward the soul.
He wasn't ignoring the supreme power of the Dragon God—he had already prepared himself. If his finger were to instantly vaporize upon contact, his Ghidorah-like regenerative ability would restore it immediately. And if the soul's power spread harmfully to living beings, he was ready to sever his arm without hesitation.
But when Yu Tianming's finger touched the Dragon God, he felt no pain. Instead, a tingling numbness surged through his body, as if he had been shocked by lightning.
Then, at last, the thousand-meter-tall Dragon God's soul stirred.
A deep hum echoed out, and Yu Tianming suddenly felt as though a terrifying gaze from the heavens had locked onto him.
Instantly, he lost all control of his body—his limbs froze and he couldn't move an inch.
At that moment, all the drifting dragon clouds and souls in the Dragon Valley's small world stopped moving. Even the dragon bones buried in the Dragon Tomb began to tremble faintly beneath the earth.
Under the Dragon God's gaze, Yu Tianming felt his consciousness pulled into a multicolored world, a silent forest, the radiance of sun and moon, dragons in worship, frenzied slaughter—scene after fragmented scene flashed before his eyes.
Until finally, a blood-red figure appeared.
Yu Tianming could only watch as the figure pointed toward the sky. A massive, blood-red sword that seemed to pierce heaven and earth came slashing down upon him. Everything turned crimson. His body was cleaved in two in an instant.
As the images in his mind flowed, Yu Tianming's body outside began to transform instinctively. He entered his Martial Soul True Body form, wings spread as he hovered mid-air, slowly drawn into the towering, multicolored Dragon God soul.
Streams of multicolored energy began flowing into his body.
The external soul bone, Dragon King's Wings, hidden within, responded. The Water and Fire Dragon Kings' divine power and bloodlines were stirred, turning into burning currents surging through his meridians. Deep within his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon lineage, a trace of Light Dragon King blood was also activated by the circulating water-fire power.
The three Dragon King bloodlines coursed through him, their power merging into every inch of his body.
With their strength growing, Yu Tianming clearly sensed that, deep within these bloodlines, a strand of pure Dragon God power was swelling. Mixed with the power of the dragon clouds and souls he had absorbed earlier, it began to transform his original bloodline.
At his Martial Soul awakening, he had only possessed Extreme Lightning and ordinary Wind and Fire attributes.
After reaching the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and absorbing many immortal herbs, Wind and Fire had evolved into extreme elements like Lightning. With the Eight Petal Ice Crystal, he also gained a high affinity for Water.
Now, after absorbing the Mountain Dragon King's soul bone and mastering Earth as well, Yu Tianming possessed Water, Fire, Wind, Lightning, and Earth.
Under the Dragon God's multicolored divine power, along with the transformation from countless dragon souls and clouds, he now seemed to resonate with every element.
The Dragon God's powers could be divided in two, one side was the Silver Dragon King's command over elements, the other the Golden Dragon King's physical might.
Yu Tianming, who now possessed both elemental power and an immensely strong body, suddenly realized how shockingly aligned he was with the Dragon God's path. As divine power poured into him, he vaguely glimpsed the culmination of the Dragon God's strength—two divine concepts, Destruction and Creation.
As the transformation continued, his scales began to shimmer with the Dragon God's multicolored brilliance.
His meridians, bones, and organs lit up with color. The surging bloodline power made his entire body buzz with an indescribable itchiness and strength.
At the climax, the multicolored light faded into his scales, which returned to their original, ancient texture. But a closer look revealed countless mysteries hidden within, enough to make one dizzy from a single glance.
Bo Saixi once said that due to the world's laws, a soul master's maximum level was 99. To break that ceiling meant to shatter the rules and step into godhood.
As Yu Tianming's scales changed, though his eyes were still closed, he felt something shift—like he'd broken through a barrier or escaped a shackle.
His level was still 80, yet traces of divine characteristics had already begun to form.
He hadn't yet reached the stage of self-condensing a soul ring, but he could faintly sense it, once he reached Rank 99, the limit of a Douluo, he could generate his own tenth soul ring and reach the divine level.
The road ahead had become completely clear.
In a way, he could now be called a Level 80 deity.
Though his rank hadn't risen, if he faced the Evil Orca King again, he wouldn't need to hide high in the sky and rely on long-range attacks with support from the Demon Soul Great White Shark.
Now, all his attributes had received an immense boost. His soul power had transformed into divine power. Even at Level 80, he could battle the Evil Orca King head-on.
Compared to ordinary soul masters, Yu Tianming already stood apart with his extreme elements and powerful body. After becoming a Soul Saint, he could challenge a Rank 91 Title Douluo. Now, with the Dragon God's enhancement, his soul power had evolved into divine power, and at Level 80 he already possessed the combat strength of a Super Douluo.
Against soul beasts, he could easily defeat ten-thousand-year kings like the Sky Blue Bull Python or Titan Giant Ape.
As his consciousness returned, Yu Tianming realized he was still within the Dragon God's divine soul.
Despite the long infusion, the towering, thousand-meter-tall form of the Dragon Soul hadn't dimmed at all. It remained unchanged, as if Yu Tianming's presence hadn't affected it.
With nothing around him but endless multicolored light, he closed his eyes once again, remaining still and continuing to absorb the Dragon God's power.
It seemed the energy within him had reached some threshold. The divine power around him no longer surged into his body.
Just then, the golden trident mark on his forehead—left from the Sea God's trial—began to distort.
Part of the Sea God's divine power slowly entered his body, merging with his soul rings. As it did, his seven rings—yellow, purple, black, and red—began to pulse rhythmically, as if breathing.
Like a stream flowing from a mountain peak to a valley, the divine power first flowed into his weakest soul rings—the two yellow century rings.
Within moments, their colors changed, all purple, then black, then—
At the end of the process, his first six soul rings had become 80,000-year black rings, with the seventh still a red hundred-thousand-year ring. A terrifying lineup.
Just like Bo Saixi, Dugu Yan, Ah Zhu, and Ah Zhi, whose soul rings had also turned black after completing the Sea God's seventh and eighth trials—except theirs had just passed the ten-thousand-year mark, while Yu Tianming's all exceeded 80,000 years.
Back on Sea God Island, his gold trial only gave him affinity with the Sea God, unlike the red trials of the three girls, which enhanced their ring years.
He never said it out loud, but deep down, he too had yearned for his soul ring years to rise.
Now, under the pressure of the Dragon God's power, some of the Sea God's strength channeled into his soul rings, granting him roughly 300,000 years of total soul ring enhancements.
Some of the Sea God's divine power had been compressed into his rings. The rest was forced out by the Dragon God's energy and formed into a glowing orb on his forehead, where the trident mark once was.
The orb gradually condensed into a golden bead radiating a deep blue ocean aura.
It was about the size of a fist, much like a divine-bestowed soul ring from the Sea God—but it shone gold and glowed with an oceanic blue, strange and beautiful.
Yu Tianming's lips curved upward, not just in joy from the increase in soul ring years, but even more so from the disappearance of that ugly trident symbol.
If he had to carry that tasteless Sea God trident mark forever, he might have ended up like the disfigured You Tanzhi, forced to wear a mask while walking among soul masters.
Just as he celebrated, a red glow flickered from the bat-shaped mark on his chest—the symbol left by the Asura God after he passed the Hell Road in the Slaughter City, marking him eligible for the Asura Trials.
Tang San, with twin spirits, suffered from the conflict between Sea God and Asura God energies. The Asura mark remained on his Clear Sky Hammer, tormenting him.
But Yu Tianming was different. His body was incredibly strong. After taking the Sea God's trial, his affinity with that power soared, and the Sea God's dominance overwhelmed the faint traces of Asura energy.
After completing the Sea God's seven trials, the bat mark almost vanished.
Now, with the Sea God's divine power expended, the stronger but smaller quantity of Asura power revived, pulsing once again.
Still, it didn't last long. Under the Dragon God's might, it was forced into a blood-red orb.
This one was only the size of a marble, much smaller than the Sea God's bead—but the killing aura it released was far more intense and terrifying.
Yu Tianming picked up the two divine power crystals, one large and one small, and pondered.
Before dying, Tang Chen had condensed his eight completed Asura Trials into the Asura Demon Sword, making it a vessel to inherit the god's position.
He himself had only passed the Hell Road and qualified for the trials—but could this divine crystal serve the same purpose as Tang Chen's sword?
As he thought, deep within the Dragon God's divine soul, a nine-colored crystalline orb quietly shattered and merged into the soul.
A mysterious trace of essence unknowingly merged into Yu Tianming's body.
If the Silver Dragon King saw it, she'd recognize it instantly as the essence of the Dragon God—its core.
Long ago, the Dragon God encountered the primal energy of creation. Because of that, its bloodline evolved endlessly, ultimately grasping the fundamental powers of the universe—Destruction and Creation.
Those powers, gained over its lifetime, were split into the Golden and Silver Dragon Kings after its death. The rest was hidden inside this Dragon God Core.
Now, with the core shattered, the Dragon God's soul dimmed for the first time. Then, just like the core, it shattered—dispersing into pure energy. Part of it vanished into the Dragon Valley world. The rest surged into the universe, returning to the origin of all things.
At that moment, Yu Tianming heard a crisp sound.
Pop—
Like a bubble bursting, his body vanished from the Dragon Valley's small world—not through chaotic space like before, but reappearing instantly by a hot spring in another world.
He looked at the red-and-white Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well before him, and at the three orbs in his hands, the Sea God Crystal, the Asura Crystal, and the Dark Evil Demon Tiger's Soul Pearl.
'So I've returned to the Douluo Continent… but the coordinates placed me at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well—the place where the Water and Fire Dragon Kings died. Is this coincidence, or the will of the Dragon God?'
(End of Chapter)
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