A sudden storm was raging within Gu You's body. He had absorbed the energy from the Black Empress through his Golden Dragon Spear. Logically, that shouldn't have been enough to stir the forces within him so violently. But the storm didn't lie.
That was precisely why Gu You couldn't understand what was happening. He couldn't even describe the state his body was in.
Right now, he had only one option—to endure.
He summoned divine power, trying to suppress the surging waves of energy tearing through his body.
But it was useless.
The four glowing areas on his body were already heating up to dangerous levels. If not for his extraordinary resilience and robust meridians, he would have collapsed under the pressure by now.
'This is bad. I can't hold on much longer.'
An intense sense of danger flooded his mind.
At that very moment, he felt his blood essence cave inward, collapsing into itself.
The Golden Dragon King bloodline turned berserk again, and the Dragon God's lineage rushed in to suppress it.
His body began to crumple inward as if the energy inside were trying to crush him into pieces. Even his bloodline soul ring was beginning to fracture under the pressure.
'No... it's about to break!'
BOOM!
A thunderous explosion echoed from within—one that only Gu You could hear.
It blew his senses into a void of nothingness. A monumental force erupted from his body, bursting into the air like a tidal wave of energy, radiating outward in waves of iridescent, multicolored mist.
He lost consciousness instantly.
He felt like he had been obliterated, reduced to ash. The sounds of war, of life, of the battlefield, all faded into a distant murmur. The world around him turned stark white, and in his ears, only the echo of that explosion remained.
'Did I just explode?'
All the Blood God Army soldiers were stunned. That blast just now... what was it? They looked in Gu You's direction but had no time to investigate. The battle against the abyss continued.
'How could this be happening?'
Gu You's mind went blank, frozen by shock and confusion. He couldn't even think anymore. He was terrified.
He didn't know how long had passed. It felt like centuries—or maybe just a blink.
Then his body twitched.
His fingers clenched once again around the Golden Dragon Spear, which he had planted in the ground for support. His awareness gradually returned.
The intense pain was still there, but now it was accompanied by something strange.
A gentle itch.
Warmth.
A soft, soothing sensation trickled through his limbs, chasing away the ache. The deeper it went, the faster the pain faded.
He opened his eyes.
And what he saw stunned him.
It was a world of color.
But not outside—within.
He saw multicolored threads crisscrossing his body like streams of light. Veins? No... meridians.
Yes, they were meridians.
With each breath, he watched the rainbow-colored blood flow through them, converging at the heart before pumping out again across his body.
The purple core that had been nestled in his heart had vanished.
But Gu You could feel it.
It hadn't disappeared—it had become one with him.
Merged into his body.
Merged into the new crystalline core that now pulsed with life in his chest.
He quickly focused his mind on that area.
The once-rotating vortex of blood essence had transformed into flowing bands of radiant color. These vibrant ribbons circled around a single point: a thumb-sized, rhombus-shaped crystal suspended at the center of his chest.
It was small.
But it was the origin of all those energy ribbons. They flowed into it, and out from it. And just above that core, Gu You saw it—tiny cracks in space, shimmering with dark light.
The seal of the Purple-Gold Dragon Emperor.
For the first time, Gu You clearly saw the location of the seal. Those energy bands could smash into the cracks. He had a sense—when the time came, they might be able to break it.
Deeper inside the void of cracks, he could see the remaining seals of the Golden Dragon King that had once belonged to Tang Wulin. Eighteen in total. Six of them had already shattered.
'A blood core? Could this be... like a soul core, but for bloodline power? Did I just condense my blood into a core like that?'
He couldn't believe it.
Could this count as a soul core?
Whatever it was, it worked. The storm had passed. Pain had become irrelevant. With this core's formation, his body had entered an entirely new realm.
It was known that condensing soul power into a soul core was difficult. But to solidify bloodline power like this? That was on a whole different level of impossibility.
Yet Gu You had done it.
He hadn't created multiple cores—no dual bloodline core or four-fold soul core.
He had done something even rarer.
He had fused everything into one.
A supreme core.
And he instinctively gave it a name.
'Eternal.'
It meant everlasting. Undying.
That was the gift it brought him.
With the Eternal Blood Core, his body had broken past the limits of humanity and stepped into a new frontier.
The human limit was the physique of an Ultimate Douluo at full potential.
Gu You had now reached that state, purely through his body.
And that came with massive benefits—strength, defense, endurance... all pushed to divine levels.
He stood upright, then patted his chest.
His heart still thudded wildly. The memory of what he had just endured was still too fresh. That one moment had felt like death.
But he had survived.
He had lived through it.
His body stretched slightly, and a surge of strength flooded his limbs. The power coursing through his veins was intoxicating.
The spine along his back crackled like an awakening dragon.
In the midst of this newfound strength, the roar of battle returned to his ears.
The fight against the Abyss Tide was still raging.
Gu You rolled his shoulders. His body felt like a perfectly tuned instrument.
Power rippled beneath his skin.
A powerful moan escaped his lips.
Not from pain—but from pleasure.
The pleasure of being alive. Stronger than ever.
At that moment, Jiang Wuyue stepped away from the front lines, having helped patch the gap and repelled the rush of abyssal beasts.
He returned to Gu You's side, breathing hard.
Then, without warning, he smacked Gu You squarely on the shoulder.
"You did great back there. If it weren't for you, we would've—"
(End of Chapter)
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