The next few months within the heavily fortified, snow-draped walls of Crimson Zenith City passed in a blur of relentless, miraculous innovation. Zhang Tian, having successfully condensed his Life Spirit Core and ascended to the rank of a Quasi-Spirit Saint, spent almost all of his time secluded in his underground laboratories and sprawling indoor courtyards, deeply experimenting with the profound, boundless potential of his newly acquired Life Energy.
He deliberately didn't try to mess with his other diverse attributes—the fire, ice, darkness, and lightning—that had all successfully reached the absolute Ultimate level. To him, learning to utilize and unleash those highly destructive elements could not be considered too difficult; after all, Zhang Tian had brilliantly utilized those very same elements in combat even without them possessing their absolute Ultimate level. The sudden, exponential increase in raw elemental power was indeed startling, capable of leveling mountains with a stray thought, but it was still perfectly, easily manageable for a man possessing his terrifying Quasi-God Realm mental strength.
Instead, he was vastly more interested in trying to push the boundaries of creation, desperately trying to find the absolute limits of the Life Energy, or rather, the unique, reality-bending abilities of the Life Energy currently saturating his Spirit Power.
And sure enough, his intense, obsessive research yielded profound philosophical and practical truths. It wouldn't be wrong to say that Life Energy is the absolute, most original energy in the cosmos; it is the fundamental root of almost all other energies. He deduced that the elements of any attribute themselves inherently possess microscopic life characteristics, otherwise, they simply couldn't exist or interact within the universe. Fire breathed, water flowed, lightning danced. Therefore, the energy of any attribute would never, ever reject the pure energy of life. Life is the ultimate source of everything and the absolute foundation of everything.
"If you control the true power of life, you can effortlessly, flawlessly control everything else," Zhang Tian murmured to himself one evening, watching a dead, withered branch in his palm instantly bloom into vibrant, emerald leaves with a mere thought.
Even as he researched, his personal strength was continuously, passively rising. This was entirely due to the autonomous, endless revolution of the emerald Life Spirit Core resting within his lower dantian. He could rapidly cultivate without even meditating, despite the fact that his Life Spirit Core was forcefully, constantly condensing his massive Spirit Power into the heavy, dense state of liquid mercury. This extreme compression process somewhat balanced his actual cultivation speed compared to the monstrously fast, Heaven-defying geniuses in his household like Zhu Zhuqing and Qian Renxue. Yet, despite the heavy compression, in these brief six months, his spirit power steadily, inevitably reached Level 76.
Well, in any case, it had been a highly productive six months since he formally began to utilize and control the Life Spirit Energy. And true enough, he had developed many new, staggering techniques. He created entirely new methods and innovative ways to utilize the Life Spirit Energy to dramatically enhance the growth of ancient plant life, perfectly heal individuals of lingering, lifelong crippling injuries, infuse his life force to artificially extend the natural lifespan of dying individuals, and do all sorts of miraculous things that bordered on divine authority.
But most importantly, he realized a world-shattering breakthrough. He discovered that by using this pure Life Energy as a universal, non-rejecting fuel, the mechanical Spirit Tool that he had previously created for condensing Self-Condensed Spirit Rings actually worked flawlessly.
To test this world-altering hypothesis, Zhang Tian and his wives had quietly ventured into the outer slums of Crimson Zenith City. They deliberately found a group of test subjects among the desperate commoners—young orphans who possessed trace amounts of spirit power but had absolutely no money, no backing, and no hope for hiring a mercenary team to go to a Spirit Hunting Forest to hunt for a spirit beast for their crucial first or second spirit rings.
There were more than two dozen of these wide-eyed, trembling experimental subjects gathered in the expansive, heavily warded central courtyard of the mansion.
"Are you sure about this, Husband?" Zhu Zhuqing asked softly, standing closely by his side. She wore a sleek, skin-tight black silk dress that desperately hugged her massive, heavy breasts and wide, curvy hips, her feline eyes reflecting a mixture of deep curiosity and protective caution. "These children are incredibly fragile. If the energy conflicts, their meridians will shatter."
"There will be no conflict, my beautiful kitten," Zhang Tian replied, offering her a confident, reassuring smile while his hand casually rested on her slender waist, his thumb gently stroking her hip. "The Life Energy is the great equalizer. It will nurture their origins, not break them."
Ning Rongrong, wearing her elegant cyan dress, stepped forward, offering a warm, sweet smile to a particularly terrified, dirty-faced little boy of ten years old clutching a rusted sickle martial spirit. "Don't be afraid, little one. Big Brother Zhang Tian is the greatest genius in the world. He is going to give you a great gift today, entirely for free."
Ah Yin, radiating her deep, comforting maternal aura, knelt beside the children, her hands glowing with a soft blue light that eased their trembling. "Just breathe naturally. Trust in the Emperor."
Zhang Tian stepped into the center of the courtyard, where his massive, intricate metallic Spirit Tool hummed with dormant power. He gestured for the first subject, the boy with the sickle, to step onto the central platform.
"What is your name, boy?" Zhang Tian asked, his voice gentle yet carrying an unquestionable authority.
"L-Lin, my Lord," the boy stammered, dropping to his knees. "I... I only have Rank 2 Innate Spirit Power. Everyone says I am trash. B-but I worked hard and reached and my Spirit Power became Level 10 but no one is willing to help me hunt for a Spirit Ring."
"Stand up, Lin," Zhang Tian commanded. "Today, you will become a true Spirit Master and lead a new generation of Spirit Masters."
Zhang Tian placed his hands on the primary control crystals of the Spirit Tool. He closed his icy blue eyes and engaged his Life Spirit Core. A massive, brilliant torrent of pure, emerald Life Energy flooded out of his body, pouring directly into the complex, interlocking arrays of the machine. The metal hummed, vibrating with a high-pitched, melodic frequency.
"Focus on your sickle, Lin. Feel the origin of the metal," Zhang Tian instructed loudly over the hum of the machine.
The boy squeezed his eyes shut, gripping his rusted martial spirit. The Spirit Tool, fueled by the universal life essence, sent a highly precise, stimulating frequency directly into the boy's body. The life energy did not attack; it coaxed. It nourished the boy's fragile origin, drawing out the latent, genetic potential hidden within his bloodline.
Slowly, incredibly, a pale yellow light began to seep from the boy's pores. The light swirled, condensing above his head.
"Look!" Ning Rongrong gasped, her hands flying to cover her mouth in sheer, unadulterated shock. "It's actually forming!"
"Incredible," Ah Yin breathed, her crimson eyes wide with awe. "He is stimulating a human's origin identically to a hundred-thousand-year beast."
With a soft, chiming sound, a solid, perfectly stable yellow Spirit Ring snapped into existence, hovering gently before descending to encircle the boy's body. It was a flawless, four-hundred-year-old optimal first spirit ring.
The boy, Lin, opened his eyes, staring at the glowing yellow halo around him in absolute, weeping disbelief. He swung his sickle, and a sharp, crescent blade of wind erupted from the rusted metal, slicing a deep gouge into a nearby training dummy.
"I... I have an ability! I have a spirit ring!" Lin cried out, falling to his knees and bowing so deeply his forehead cracked against the stone tiles. "Thank you! Thank you, Lord Champion Marquis! You are truly a god!"
The other commoner children erupted into deafening, hopeful cheers, tears streaming down their faces as they realized their lives of poverty and weakness were permanently over.
"You truly did it, Zhang Tian," Zhu Zhuqing whispered, turning to wrap her arms around his neck, pressing her massive, bouncy breasts flush against his chest. She kissed his cheek, her eyes filled with immense pride. "You have changed the very laws of the Douluo Continent."
"This is only the beginning," Zhang Tian replied, wrapping his arm around her curvy backside and giving it a bold, possessive squeeze that made her gasp softly and blush. He looked at the gathered women, his eyes gleaming with intellectual triumph. "And the absolute best part is... it is not just a one-time creation."
He addressed the stunned crowd. "I realized that if I infuse vastly more life energy into the spirit ring through the spirit tool, the Spirit Ring condensed will automatically scale and grow in age until it reaches the absolute maximum level that the individual's current physical body can safely endure. And this isn't just for the initial condensation. After condensation, once the Spirit Master eventually trains, becomes physically stronger, and acquires more spirit rings, they can return to this Spirit Tool. Through the application of my Life Energy, the ages of their previously acquired Spirit Rings can be safely, permanently enhanced until the value matches the latest, highest threshold of the Spirit Master's newly forged physique."
"Heavens..." Ning Rongrong whispered, her mind reeling from the strategic implications. "That means... a Spirit Master could eventually have an entire set of ten-thousand-year black rings, or even red rings, simply by upgrading their body and returning to the machine!"
"Exactly," Zhang Tian smirked.
This was truly a shocking, wondrous development for Zhang Tian and even his entire inner group. It was the very first time in human history that something as audaciously impossible as Zhang Tian's Self-Condensation Spirit Ring had actually been put forward in theory, and it had actually, flawlessly worked in practice.
The only lingering problem for now was the sheer, massive lack of enough pure Life Spirit Energy. The process drained him significantly. Zhang Tian was currently only a Level 76 Spirit Saint, not an infinite God. To mass-produce this on a continental scale for armies of Spirit Masters, he would need an endless reservoir. But he wasn't worried; he felt with absolute certainty that this limitation he would be able to easily, permanently resolve after ascending and becoming a true God.
With the rings conquered, Zhang Tian's ambitious research was now shifting towards the ultimate prize: the Self-Condensation of Spirit Bones.
And that specific field was actually a very, very difficult topic for him for now. He had absolutely no idea where to properly begin, as Spirit Bones certainly were profound, concentrated treasures of Heaven and Earth. They didn't just enhance Spirit Power or merely grant the abilities of the Spirit Beast; they fundamentally, genetically altered and strengthened an individual's physical physique greatly. Creating matter and bone from pure energy was a step beyond mere ring condensation.
Well, he was not in any rush. He had eternity to figure it out.
For today, he was putting the research aside. He was planning to go along with his sexy wife, Zhu Zhuqing, and even his devoted Limit Douluo, Bibi Dong, back to the dangerous depths of the Star Dou Great Forest. He needed to personally hunt a very specific, legendary Spirit Beast for his favorite kitten, as she had finally, miraculously reached Level 70 and desperately needed her Seventh Spirit Ring to unlock her Martial Spirit Avatar.
Now, although Zhang Tian could have easily had Zhu Zhuqing use his newly perfected Spirit Tool to condense a flawless, optimal Spirit Ring without hunting a single Spirit Beast, he had absolutely no choice but to hunt this one specific creature in particular. He didn't just want an avatar; he actively wanted to evolve Zhu Zhuqing's Hell Civet spirit entirely into a God-Ranked entity.
And the key to that evolution was naturally none other than that mythical nightmare: the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger.
"Are you ready to evolve your spirit, my beautiful kitten?" Zhang Tian asked, standing in the opulent foyer of the mansion later that afternoon.
Zhu Zhuqing nodded, her dark eyes flashing with lethal anticipation. She was wearing her sleek, highly functional, yet incredibly scandalous combat suit that tightly gripped her thick thighs and accentuated her impossibly thin waist. "I am ready, Hubby. I will not disappoint you."
Bibi Dong stepped into the foyer, radiating mature, awe-inspiring majesty. She wore a deep purple, high-slit gown that showcased her long, pale legs and her massive, heaving breasts. "I am at your command, Husband," she purred, her pink eyes filled with submissive adoration.
"The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger is extremely powerful, Zhuqing," Zhang Tian explained, his tone shifting into an academic lecture as the three of them stepped onto the teleportation array. "In legends, it is said to be a horrific mutation that occurred when an actual Evil God descended upon a pure White Tiger. It forcibly turned the White Tiger's holy light attribute into a dense darkness attribute, producing terrifying black wings of corruption, as well as a lethal, scorpion tail-like Evil God Hook."
With a flash of spatial light managed by Bibi Dong, the opulent foyer vanished, and the humid, ancient air of the Star Dou Great Forest rushed over them.
"Generally speaking," Zhang Tian continued, holding Zhu Zhuqing's hand as they walked through the dense, shadowed foliage of the mixed region, "all Spirit Beasts have a minuscule chance to eventually manifest as human Spirits in our bloodlines. But the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger is an absolute exception. There has never, ever been a human born with it as a Martial Spirit. This is entirely because the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger actually doesn't have a mere, ordinary darkness attribute. Rather, it possesses the pure, concentrated 'evil' attribute left behind directly by the Evil God, a foul energy that simply cannot be endured by fragile human genetics."
Bibi Dong nodded, her Limit Douluo senses expanding to scan the woods. "It is an anomaly of nature. If it were to be evaluated according to human Spirit levels, then it would easily be considered a peak, god-tier Spirit, directly comparable in raw quality to the Seraphim."
"Exactly," Zhang Tian agreed, his icy blue eyes tracking the subtle shifts in the plant life around them. "Such a first-rate, terrifying spirit beast is easily enough to challenge enemies that vastly surpass it in age. In other words, a mere ten-thousand-year-level Dark Demon Evil God Tiger could effortlessly challenge and even kill hundred-thousand-year-level apex spirit beasts."
He stopped, his hand resting on the trunk of an ancient oak. "The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger possesses an extremely overbearing, parasitic talent. However, it doesn't mature through standard, peaceful cultivation, and its natural cultivation is extremely, agonizingly difficult. It can rise in strength quickly only by actively, brutally devouring other powerful Spirit Beasts or devouring human Spirit Masters' raw spirit power."
"Consequently," Bibi Dong then added as she shared bits of her own knowledge, "no matter in what specific environment the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger appears, it immediately becomes the primary focus of the indiscriminate, unified hatred of all local Spirit Beasts, who would naturally seek to exterminate it before it grows strong enough to threaten their own lives."
"Well… It can be considered a lonely, hated king," Zhang Tian smirked. "Moreover, it possesses six distinct, incredibly powerful elemental attributes: Evil, Darkness, Space, Time, Thunder, and Wind. All of them are very useful and devastatingly powerful, which would be absolutely perfect for enhancing my dear Zhuqing's ultimate potential."
He wasn't entirely sure if just the spirit ring of this mutated spirit beast would be enough to help Zhu Zhuqing's spirit fully evolve. But that legendary, condensed core—the bead of the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger—should definitely, flawlessly be able to help Zhu Zhuqing's spirit entirely, permanently evolve into a god-tier entity.
Thus, Bibi Dong, Zhang Tian, and Zhu Zhuqing moved silently together deeper into the Star Dou Great Forest. Due to Zhang Tian's supreme, recognized status as the Child of Nature, and even with his spirit being a God-Level Plant spirit, the forest itself was eager to aid him. He casually used the sprawling network of plants to passively find the exact location of the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger.
They soon tracked it down in the deep mixed region. It seemed to be in a highly isolated, shadowed canyon where it was actually successfully able to completely hide its terrifying presence from ordinary beasts by using its powerful, innate spatial attribute to warp the light and scent around it. But unfortunately for the beast... the ancient plants around it silently, willingly whispered its exact coordinates directly into Zhang Tian's mind.
They stepped out onto a high rocky ridge overlooking the canyon.
Below them, resting atop a pile of massive, crushed beast bones, was the target. It was a massive, pitch-black tiger, easily twice the size of a normal beast. Terrifying black wings, resembling demonic bat wings, were folded against its muscular back, and a long, segmented tail ending in a wicked, glowing grey stinger whipped aggressively back and forth.
"A Sixty Thousand Year Old specimen," Zhang Tian calculated, his eyes gleaming.
Defeating this Sixty Thousand Year Old Dark Demon Evil God Tiger was absolutely not a tough, challenging task for Bibi Dong. Although Zhang Tian actually wanted to test his own newly acquired physical strength and Life Spirit Core against this legendary Spirit Beast—which, despite its age, could easily fight against two Hundred Thousand Year Old Spirit Beasts with powerful bloodlines, making this Sixty Thousand Year Old tiger effectively equivalent in combat prowess to that of a Level 97 Super Douluo—he decided against taking unnecessary risks with Zhu Zhuqing's prize.
"Let me handle this foul creature, Husband," Bibi Dong purred, her pink eyes flashing with Limit Douluo authority.
"Go ahead, Dong'er," Zhang Tian permitted. But he offered a strict warning. "But remember what I told you earlier…You must not look down on this Spirit Beast. It possesses terrifying, god-level attacks. Its trump card is the Life and Death Arena, a spatial-time lock that forces you into a child's body to fight it. If that strikes us, it could be a complete, humiliating defeat for us. Do not let it use its spatial or time abilities."
"Understood, my Lord," Bibi Dong replied, her expression turning incredibly cold and ruthless.
Thus, Bibi Dong hadn't held back her power or looked down on this spirit beast in the slightest, despite it possessing a cultivation of merely Sixty Thousand Year Old age.
She stepped off the ridge, floating into the canyon. Instantly, she unleashed her primary Spirit. Her beautiful, mature form was possessed by the horrific, towering phantom of her Death Spider Emperor spirit. Her aura exploded, instantly suppressing the entire canyon with the suffocating pressure of a Level 99 Limit Douluo.
The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger roared in sudden, panicked fury, its red eyes snapping open. It tried to beat its black wings to tear a spatial rift and escape the overwhelming threat.
"Sixth Spirit Ring Ability: Bloodsucking Spider Thorns!" Bibi Dong declared coldly.
Her black sixth spirit ring flashed. The ground beneath the massive tiger violently erupted. Hundreds of incredibly thick, razor-sharp, dark purple spider thorns quickly shot upwards towards the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger. Because she was actively restraining it entirely with her absolute Limit Douluo Spirit Power, and utilizing her profound Spatial Power and the crushing energy of Heaven and Earth to lock the spatial coordinates around the beast, the tiger was entirely paralyzed.
SKRRRCH!
The thorns pierced through its black wings, pinning them to the rock, and wrapped tightly around its legs and its dangerous scorpion tail. The beast roared, thrashing wildly, but the thorns began to rapidly drain its spirit power, rendering it incredibly weak and completely immobile in a matter of seconds.
The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger glared up at these three humans with raw, unadulterated rage, but even greater helplessness and profound defeat. It definitely couldn't defeat a prepared Limit Douluo who had sealed space itself. Even its absolute trump card, the Life and Death Arena, required a precious few seconds of time to gather specific temporal energy before attacking its enemy, time that Bibi Dong ruthlessly denied it.
"Take your prize, my kitten," Zhang Tian ordered, stepping down into the canyon with Zhu Zhuqing.
Zhu Zhuqing didn't hesitate. She summoned her Hell Civet spirit, her sharp claws extending. She moved with blinding, lethal grace. With a single, brutal slash of her dark claws, she severed the massive tiger's jugular, ending its dark reign.
Almost immediately, a highly condensed, incredibly powerful, deep black spirit ring rose from the massive corpse, pulsing with terrifying, chaotic energy.
Zhang Tian stepped up behind Zhu Zhuqing. He placed his large, warm hands firmly on her curvy hips, instantly infusing a massive, soothing wave of his pure Life Energy directly into her meridians.
"Do not be worried about the chaotic energy within this immense Spirit Ring, Zhuqing," Zhang Tian whispered confidently into her ear, his life force reinforcing her body. "I am with you. Boldly sit down and start absorbing this Spirit Ring."
Zhu Zhuqing naturally didn't delay. She trusted her husband with her life. She sat cross-legged on the rocky ground, pulling the massive black ring toward her body.
The moment the ring touched her, her face paled. The immense, violently chaotic energy of the Black Spirit Ring was actually not inferior in the slightest compared to that of a true Hundred Thousand Year Old Spirit Ring. It exerted massive, crushing physical pressure over Zhu Zhuqing's meridians. Simultaneously, the incredibly vile, dark resentment will hidden within the Spirit Ring was violently attacking, desperately trying to shatter Zhu Zhuqing's Spiritual Sea and turn her into a mindless, evil beast.
But unfortunately for the dead tiger's will, Zhu Zhuqing was no ordinary Spirit Emperor. Her mental force had been consistently, profoundly enhanced to the absolute Limit Douluo level by Zhang Tian, who had been actively sharing the pure Purple Qi harvested by his Blood Silver Grass with her during their dual cultivation sessions. Her mental fortress was impenetrable. It was completely impossible for the tiger's lingering resentment to be able to affect Zhu Zhuqing's iron will. She easily crushed the mental attack and focused entirely on assimilating the physical energy.
While she was deeply focused on absorbing the Spirit Ring, Zhang Tian remained incredibly alert, his icy blue eyes scanning the massive corpse.
And sure enough... exactly as he predicted.
Suddenly, the chest cavity of the dead tiger glowed with a sickly, dark grey light. A small, perfectly round, dark grey Bead violently tore through the flesh, flying rapidly up into the air. The bead pulsed with intense spatial energy, and it was actually about to aggressively break space, tearing through a small spatial rift it had independently created to flee and leave this world entirely, seeking a new host.
But Bibi Dong was infinitely faster and far more ruthless.
"You belong to my Husband," Bibi Dong sneered. She flashed through the air, her pale hand reaching out to firmly snatch that Bead right out of the sky before it could cross the threshold. She held it in her tight grip without letting it go, and she even aggressively utilized the terrifying, dark divine force of her Rakshasa God authority to forcibly, absolutely prevent the bead from tearing space again, crushing its escape mechanism.
Soon... the frantically vibrating bead calmed down entirely as the spatial tear closed behind it, rendering it inert in her palm.
Zhang Tian came forward, his eyes gleaming with excitement. He asked Bibi Dong if she was alright, and she offered a warm, submissive nod. She then respectfully handed him this priceless, legendary bead.
Zhang Tian carefully observed this dark grey bead, feeling the six distinct elemental attributes swirling within it. He then stared at Bibi Dong, narrowing his eyes, and directly asked the Rakshasa God's divine sense lingering within Bibi Dong's Spiritual Sea.
"Rakshasa," Zhang Tian projected his thought. "Tell me immediately. Is there any active, lingering divine sense belonging to another God hidden within this bead?"
A moment later, the Rakshasa God's divine sense responded to him with a scoff of dismissal. "You worry too much, mortal. There is absolutely no divine sense in it. There is only the incredibly pure, condensed soul and bloodline of that tiger you have killed. This specific tiger species just had luckily acquired a stray, diluted drop of the bloodline of a First Class Evil God who operates under the Evil God King eons ago. It is not a divine trap."
Zhang Tian let out a long, heavy sigh of profound relief.
If it was actively related to some observing god, he didn't know how to safely approach using it. Especially that incredibly eccentric, terrifyingly powerful Evil God King and his equally unpredictable wife, the Goodness God King. Those two supreme God Kings had a notorious, twisted history in the Divine Realm of actually torturing their chosen individuals with their sadistic, moral games and psychological trials while passing down their divine legacies. Zhang Tian was pretty damn sure that he didn't want anyone among his beloved group to get anywhere near their convoluted divine legacies; their immense strength as God Kings be damned. He wanted his women safe and under his own control, not playing games for the amusement of cosmic voyeurs.
Well, he didn't say any of that out loud to the Rakshasa God's Divine Sense. But he confidently kept the dark grey bead safely with him, slipping it into his spatial ring while staring proudly at the meditating Zhu Zhuqing.
It took nearly three agonizing, intense days for Zhu Zhuqing to finally finish flawlessly absorbing this monstrous Spirit Ring.
But after successfully absorbing it... the results were breathtaking. One could say Zhu Zhuqing's physical body had undergone a miraculous, highly erotic transformation, and changed physically to become even more incredibly, devastatingly physically mature.
Her seductive, feline allure had become even overwhelmingly greater. Her already massive breasts had become noticeably larger and heavier, pushing aggressively against the tight fabric of her combat suit. Her incredibly seductive body became even sexier; her curvy, plush hips widened significantly to emphasize her fertility, while her impossibly thin, toned waist seemed to narrow even further, creating an hourglass figure that defied logic. Furthermore, there was a new, incredibly tantalizing, dark trace of seductive, evil temperament radiating from her pale skin—a dangerous, bad-girl vibe that instantly made Zhang Tian's dick twitch with hard, aggressive lust.
She opened her dark eyes, which now possessed a faint, alluring crimson ring around the pupil. She stood up, stretching her long, flawless legs like a lazy, satisfied predator.
"You look absolutely, sinfully edible, my kitten," Zhang Tian purred, stepping forward to boldly grab her wide hips, pulling her flush against him and kissing her deeply, savoring the new, dark flavor of her spirit power.
While taking in her incredibly sexy changes and giving her firm buttocks a bold, stinging spank that made her giggle seductively, he stepped back and asked her to show her newly awakened martial spirit.
Zhu Zhuqing nodded, her spirit power flaring. Behind her, the phantom materialized. It had drastically transformed from the sleek, shadowy form of the Hell Civet into the massive, muscular, and terrifying shape of a Tiger. However, as Zhang Tian observed the dark phantom, it didn't seem as though this evolution transformation was completely finished. The wings were missing, and the scorpion tail was merely a blurry silhouette. It lacked the absolute, terrifying pressure of the true Evil God.
"The ring was not enough to force a total genetic rewrite," Zhang Tian deduced, his brilliant mind racing. He felt that this was an absolutely perfect, golden opportunity.
He told Zhu Zhuqing to sit back down and rapidly recover her Spirit Power. "Rest for a moment, my love. I am going to help you perfectly absorb this bead of the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger. It should provide the missing genetic material to help you entirely, flawlessly evolve your spirit into the true Dark Demon Evil God Tiger."
Zhu Zhuqing nodded eagerly, her dark eyes shining. She was incredibly excited to be able to evolve her spirit to a god-tier level, eager to become an even sharper, more perfect weapon for her husband.
The specific, highly dangerous method that Zhang Tian boldly chose to help her absorb the artifact was actually to forcefully turn this dark grey Bead directly into her own, personal Spirit Core. It was a process essentially similar to how the ancient, majestic Ancient Golden Tree had miraculously condensed the emerald Life Spirit Core directly within his own body just months ago.
But his task today was actually a lot easier in application. He didn't need to infinitely compress raw atmospheric energy or dangerously infuse too much foreign energy from scratch; the bead was already a perfectly formed, highly condensed core. He rather just needed to successfully, safely fuse this existing bead directly into the Lower Dantian of Zhu Zhuqing without destroying her body.
"Dong'er, I need your help for this," Zhang Tian ordered, positioning himself behind the seated Zhu Zhuqing.
Bibi Dong immediately stepped forward, placing her elegant hands firmly against Zhang Tian's broad back. She helped him flawlessly by continuously, steadily supplying him with her massive, ocean-like Limit Douluo Spirit Power. While she did this, Zhang Tian acted as the ultimate filter, utilizing his new foundation. He seamlessly converted all that raw, lethal Limit Douluo Spirit Power directly into pure, soothing Life Spirit Energy before using his Life Spirit Energy to carefully, meticulously start this delicate fusion process, wrapping the dark bead in a cocoon of emerald light and sinking it into Zhu Zhuqing's abdomen.
This time... the delicate, highly invasive process took much longer than a mere ring absorption. As for the lingering, vicious soul of the tiger hidden within that bead... it was ruthlessly, completely dealt with and obliterated by Zhang Tian's Quasi-God mental power the moment it touched her flesh. He didn't want to leave behind even a microscopic fraction of a chance for this dark soul to attempt to take possession of Zhu Zhuqing in the distant future, just in case one day Zhu Zhuqing's mental force was temporarily weak or compromised.
The painstaking fusion continued relentlessly for nearly two entire, grueling weeks in the depths of the canyon.
And only after that exhaustive fourteen-day period was it finally done. Even the immensely powerful Bibi Dong was heavily sweating and breathing hard, her vast spirit power reserves significantly exhausted by the continuous, two-week drain. Fortunately, due to Bibi Dong's lingering, terrifying Limit Douluo aura permanently staining the canyon walls, absolutely no spirit beast in the Star Dou Great Forest dared to approach them at all during the vulnerable process.
Once this fusion was finally, completely done... the results were world-shaking.
Zhu Zhuqing stood up, her body bathed in a terrifying, chaotic mixture of dark, evil, and spatial energies. Her entire martial spirit had fundamentally, permanently transformed into that of the legendary, god-tier Dark Demon Evil God Tiger!
Behind her, the massive, pitch-black tiger phantom solidified entirely, sporting massive, demonic black wings. And most incredibly, she even perfectly inherited that terrifying Evil God's Hook!
SKRRCH!
With a sickening, metallic sound, the base of her spine shifted, and a long, segmented, incredibly lethal scorpion tail ending in a glowing grey stinger erupted from her lower back, manifesting permanently in the form of a peerless, priceless external spirit bone! It whipped back and forth, entirely under her conscious control, dripping with temporal and spatial venom.
Now, when Zhu Zhuqing fully activated her newly evolved god-ranked spirit... the transformation was absolute. On her smooth, pale forehead, a dark, pulsing black word "King" slowly appeared, marking her as the absolute apex predator. Her body became even more beautifully, devastatingly seductive, while simultaneously radiating a deeply dark, incredibly dangerous, yet overwhelmingly charming aura that made her look like a true, literal Goddess of Seduction.
Zhang Tian was incredibly happy and deeply satisfied that his audacious, scientific plan to artificially evolve her spirit had worked flawlessly. She had not only evolved, but she had even successfully acquired a true Spirit Core—the Dark Demon Evil God Bead—now resting securely in her dantian, providing her with such powerful, multi-elemental attributes like himself.
She was currently standing proud at the incredibly high level of 75, having absorbed the residual energy of the core. She was a true, unparalleled powerhouse.
"You are perfect," Zhang Tian declared, stepping forward to pull his dark goddess into a fierce, rewarding kiss, ignoring the lethal stinger whipping excitedly behind her.
With their monumental goals achieved, the trio then decided to finally take their leave from the dangerous, humid depths of the Star Dou Great Forest and use Bibi Dong's spatial manipulation to return safely to the sprawling, snow-covered mansion in Crimson Zenith City.
Later that evening, a grand, highly celebratory banquet was held in the main dining hall. This incredible, world-shattering good news was joyously shared with absolutely everyone in the mansion about Zhu Zhuqing's highly successful, unprecedented evolution of her Martial Spirit.
She stood before the long table, demonstrating her terrifying new aura and her lethal, swinging external spirit bone. The women gasped in awe and cheered for their sister. It was no longer the stealthy, standard Hell Civet any longer. She wielded a true, undisputed God-Ranked Spirit: the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger! The foundation of Zhang Tian's empire had just grown exponentially more terrifying.
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A/N: Check out my other novels [Villain: Manipulating The Heroines Into Hating The Protagonist] and [Harem Master: Seduction System].
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