Below the God Realm, in the universe.
Faint golden Power of Destiny condensed into a semi-real, semi-illusory giant dragon, coiling around the exterior of Douluo Planet.
The golden dragon's aura was unstable, rising and falling without pause, in a state of perpetual change.
Strand by strand, the Power of Destiny emerged from the unknown void, ceaselessly converging within the golden dragon.
As the Power of Destiny continuously integrated, its semi-real, semi-illusory body gradually solidified at an extremely slow pace.
Suddenly, the moment Lin Rong condensed his Lifebound Spirit Ring, the Power of Destiny surging from the unknown void rapidly intensified.
Nourished by the abundant Power of Destiny, the golden dragon's semi-real, semi-illusory body solidified at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Although this process lasted less than a minute, the golden dragon's body shifted from being fifty percent real and fifty percent illusory to seventy percent real and thirty percent illusory.
Thirty percent illusory, seventy percent real.
The sudden change in the Auspicious Golden Dragon startled the gods observing from the God Realm.
"Damn it!"
At the pinnacle of the God Realm, the Sea God stood among the gods, his expression extremely grim.
The strengthening of the Auspicious Golden Dragon had further enhanced the isolating force, completely severing his connection with Douluo Planet.
If he had any chance of secretly relaying messages to Douluo Planet while hiding it from the other gods before, now, even if he went all out to transmit messages in front of them, he couldn't break through the Auspicious Golden Dragon's blockade of Douluo Planet.
The majority of the gods had no foundation on Douluo Planet, so they were indifferent to the changes in the Auspicious Golden Dragon.
The few who, like the Sea God, had a foundation on Douluo Planet, such as the God of Evil, who had the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger as his envoy.
The complete blockade of Douluo Planet by the Auspicious Golden Dragon directly eliminated any possibility of them cheating from the root.
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In the Sea God Empire, Sea God City.
In a medical clinic, a young man exuding no worldly aura was changing the dressing for a middle-aged man.
A moment later, the young man finished changing the man's dressing, wrapped it with clean bandages, and instructed:
"Your injuries have almost healed. After applying the medicine this time, you should recover in a few days, but remember, try not to let the wound get wet before it's fully healed."
The middle-aged man, shirtless, felt a cool comfort from his back as the medicine took effect. He turned to the young man and said gratefully:
"Thank you, Divine Doctor Ji Xiang. My wife grew some vegetables; please accept them."
This Divine Doctor Ji Xiang, as the middle-aged man called him, never charged for treating patients.
But everyone needed to make a living. Therefore, people who came to Ji Xiang for treatment would bring various daily necessities as payment for medical fees.
"Thank you." The young man, Ji Xiang, did not refuse, accepting the middle-aged man's gesture of goodwill.
After seeing off the last patient, Ji Xiang went to the backyard to process the medicinal herbs drying in the courtyard. Midway through, a gray airflow surged from him, condensing into a somewhat ethereal old man in black robes.
Upon appearing, the old man in black robes looked towards the northeast of the continent with surprise.
Ji Xiang stopped his work, walked to the old man's side, and asked curiously, "Teacher, what happened?"
"It's nothing," the old man in black robes shook his head slightly and looked at Ji Xiang beside him, saying:
"Your teacher vaguely sensed a very powerful Power of Destiny surging towards the sky from the northeast of the continent."
"This Power of Destiny is exactly the same as the Power of Destiny that pulled me from outer space of this planet several months ago."
"If my prediction is correct, these two Powers of Destiny share the same origin and nature; they are one. And the person who triggered the earlier Power of Destiny should be the root cause of this torrent of destiny."
"Disciple, with your teacher's help, you have obtained the God of Light Divine Position Inheritance. Your future is destined to intersect with that person."
"However, we do not know if that person is good or evil, so, disciple, you need to be mentally prepared."
Hearing this, Ji Xiang nodded obediently and replied:
"Teacher, Ji Xiang understands."
After speaking, Ji Xiang asked somewhat confusedly, "However, there is one thing I have always wanted to understand. My Martial Soul has nothing to do with light; why do you think I can inherit the God of Light Divine Position?"
Upon hearing this, the old man in black robes chuckled and replied:
"Martial Souls are merely products unique to the rules of your world. They originate from your ancestors' bloodlines, not from yourselves."
"Light is everywhere. Although your Martial Soul does not possess the attribute of light, you have a pure and flawless Heart of Light."
"If we were to use the terms from my world, you are a Child of Light, possessing extremely high affinity with the light element."
"In other words, you yourself are compatible with the God of Light Divine Position. Your teacher merely helped you fulfill your cultivation potential."
Ji Xiang nodded in understanding and replied:
"Regardless, I must thank heaven for letting me meet you, teacher. Otherwise, I would still be an ordinary person without any Soul Power. Even with a Heart of Light, I wouldn't have obtained the God of Light Divine Position Inheritance."
"Teacher, after absorbing the Death power from that patient's wound just now, I have already broken through to level twenty-nine. In a few more days, I should break through to level thirty, and then I can go and obtain my third Spirit Ring."
As he spoke, a look of longing appeared on Ji Xiang's pure and flawless face.
He had gone from an ordinary person without Soul Power to a level twenty-nine Soul Grand Master in less than four months.
Although Ji Xiang found it strange that his teacher could possess two such opposing attributes as light and death simultaneously, he had personally experienced over the past few months that this teacher, who called himself "Death Saint Archmage, Calamity of the Undead," was a genuinely kind person.
Ji Xiang did not reject the method Ilex taught for absorbing pure death power to increase his Soul Power; while kind, he wasn't rigid.
Using this method to absorb the death power emanating from patients' wounds caused no harm to them, so Ji Xiang had no psychological burden.
The death power he absorbed with this method, after being purified by his teacher, could enhance his Soul Power cultivation without any side effects.
Over these past few months, due to the Sea God Empire's constant warfare, a large number of soldiers had been injured on the battlefield. Although only a small portion of these soldiers sought his treatment, the death power he obtained allowed his cultivation to advance by leaps and bounds within these few months.
While the death power generated on the battlefield made Ji Xiang a little envious, his own weak strength did not yet permit him to go to war; the probability of death was too high, and furthermore, wars weren't always happening.
Though the death power absorbed from the patients who came to him for treatment was small, it was safe and steady.
Ji Xiang was a doctor by nature, and he enjoyed doing this himself.
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