At the bottom of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, those two beams of ice-blue and crimson divine light, manifested from the remnants of the Ice Fire Dragon King, carried heaven-toppling rage and god-level majesty. Like two torrents of destruction, they slammed violently into the Thunder Sacred Dragon True Body that Yu Yuanchen had transformed into!
"BOOM--!"
A muffled, thunderous explosion erupted at the bottom of the spring! The terrifying shockwave of energy instantly displaced the surrounding spring water, creating a brief vacuum zone!
Yu Yuanchen felt an unimaginable force strike him, as if he had been hit head-on by two ancient divine mountains! Even though he was currently in his Martial Soul True Body state and possessed an incredibly formidable physique, he was still shaken by this power—which had erupted purely from the instinct of the god-level dragon souls—to the point where his bloodline power churned. His massive dragon body was sent flying backward uncontrollably, slamming heavily into the hard wall of the spring with a dull thud.
On his dragon scales, lightning flickered violently, dissipating most of the impact. He was not injured, but a raging storm had been stirred up in Yu Yuanchen's heart.
Such powerful strength! Just a remnant instinctual counterattack has such momentum... A God King Level existence is truly terrifying! He steadied his form, his dragon eyes filled with gravity.
He could clearly feel that the strike just now was not aimed at him personally; it was more like "morning grumpiness" after being disturbed, an instinctual rejection of external contact by the dragon bones. If he had rashly touched them with his hand just now, he would likely have been eroded by that ice and fire divine power in an instant, with unimaginable consequences.
Furthermore, he could foresee that if he tried to force his way closer or touch the dragon bones again, it would inevitably provoke an even more powerful, perhaps even desperate, counterattack from the two dragon king remnants as they exhausted their remaining origin power! In that case, even with his Martial Soul True Body and immunity to ice and fire, he would definitely not come out unscathed.
"Forcible seizure is absolutely impossible..." Yu Yuanchen deactivated his Martial Soul True Body and returned to human form, hovering in the pitch-black spring water with his brows tightly locked as he frantically thought of a countermeasure.
"The dragon bones reject foreign objects, but what if the aura is of the same origin..." A gleam of light flashed in his eyes. "My Thunder Sacred Dragon Martial Soul possesses the True Dragon Bloodline; we belong to the same dragon race! If I approach with the aura of our kin, will the rejection weaken?"
Thinking of this, he did not hesitate.
"Seventh Soul Skill, Thunder Sacred Dragon True Body!"
In an instant, he transformed once again into the majestic purple-gold sacred dragon! But this time, he did not stop; he circulated his cultivation technique with all his might, unleashing the bloodline aura of his Thunder Sacred Dragon Martial Soul without reservation! At the same time, he activated to the limit a brand-new Dragon Transformation Secret Method—a technique he named "True Dragon Transformation," which he had improved upon based on his own vast bloodline power and which far surpassed the original version of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan!
"ROAR--!"
A dragon roar that seemed to come from the primordial era erupted from his throat, low and majestic, carrying the pure aura of the dragon race! The dragon scales all over his body became more solidified, his dragon horns grew magnificent, his dragon claws sharpened, and his entire dragon body seemed to be cast entirely from purple-gold divine metal, flowing with blazing lightning and vast dragon might! At this moment, from his bloodline to his aura, he was no different from a true, living Thunder Sacred Dragon!
After completing all this, Yu Yuanchen cautiously and slowly approached the two massive dragon king skeletons once again.
Sure enough, this time, although the ice-blue and crimson dragon soul phantoms still emerged, and their dragon eyes still held vigilance and majesty, the intense rejection and intent to attack had clearly weakened significantly. They circled the dragon bones, emitting silent low moans, seemingly scrutinizing and identifying this aura that was of the same origin yet somewhat unfamiliar.
Yu Yuanchen felt a surge of joy and continued to approach slowly. However, when he reached a distance of about ten zhang from the dragon bones, the two dragon soul phantoms became restless again, emitting warning-like low growls, and ice and fire divine power began to gather. Clearly, ten zhang was the limit of their tolerance. Any closer, and it would likely trigger an attack again.
"Still not enough..." Yu Yuanchen stopped his movement, a trace of helplessness flashing in his dragon eyes. An aura of the same origin could reduce rejection, but it was clearly not enough to make these two God King Level remnants fully accept him as a "strange kin."
He pondered for a moment, a trace of determination flashing in his eyes. It seemed he had no choice but to use his final trump card.
His massive dragon claw flipped, and nine crystal-like fragments, flashing with purple lightning and each of a different shape, yet radiating the same dragon might and ancient aura, appeared in his palm. These were the inherited treasure of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan—the True Dragon Nine Crowns!
These were the nine fragments formed after the head soul bone of the ancient Thunder Dragon King shattered upon its death, containing a portion of the Thunder Dragon King's origin power and soul imprint. Its main functions were threefold: first, to burn potential and temporarily increase the age of the user's multiple soul rings to 99,999 years, thereby explosively increasing combat power; second, the effect of significantly boosting spiritual power, which all head soul bones possess; and third, the most important point, "Dragon Soul Awakening"—to stimulate the remaining Thunder Dragon King soul imprint within the fragments to gain a brief dragon soul blessing, making the user's soul infinitely close to that of a true ancient thunder dragon—the Thunder Sacred Dragon!
However, its usage restrictions were also extremely severe, placing a terrifying burden on the user's body. Without the cultivation foundation of a Titled Douluo, using the complete True Dragon Nine Crowns was almost certain death! Even for an ordinary Titled Douluo, there was a risk of losing one's life! Moreover, it required an extremely high purity of the user's dragon bloodline. In the current Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, apart from Sect Master Yu Boxuan and Great Elder Yu Qingtian, who could resist the backlash with their deep cultivation levels of Level 97 and Level 95, only Yu Yuanchen, who possessed the true Thunder Sacred Dragon bloodline after his martial soul evolution, could perfectly withstand its power without being too greatly affected.
Yu Yuanchen was not trying to use it to boost his combat power at this moment, but rather to utilize its core power of "Dragon Soul Awakening"!
"Dragon Soul Awakening, activate!"
Yu Yuanchen gave a low shout in his heart, and vast soul power poured into the True Dragon Nine Crowns. In an instant, the nine crystal-like fragments erupted with dazzling purple lightning, turning into nine streaks of light that instantly adhered to his massive dragon head, as if crowning him with a majestic thunder dragon crown!
"ROAR-AWOOO--!!!"
A more ancient, vast, and domineering dragon might, seemingly originating from the source of thunder, erupted violently from within Yu Yuanchen's body! His Thunder Sacred Dragon True Body underwent another change; more complex and ancient thunder patterns appeared on his dragon scales, his dragon horns became more ferocious, his entire dragon body seemed to expand by a circle, and his aura surged instantly, filled with the vastness of the primordial era! At this moment, he seemed like the ancient Thunder Dragon King himself!
This time, the two ice and fire dragon king remnant phantoms were clearly shaken! The vigilance and rejection in their dragon eyes weakened significantly, replaced by a trace of confusion, doubt, and... a faint sense of recognition, as if they had encountered an existence of the same level? Their circling speed slowed, and their low moans became much more peaceful.
Yu Yuanchen was overjoyed and slowly swam forward. Ten zhang, nine zhang, eight zhang... This time, he did not encounter any obstruction! He finally succeeded in approaching the two massive dragon skeletons!
Feeling the vast dragon might and residual divine power fluctuations radiating from these two God King remains at close range, Yu Yuanchen's heart was filled with awe. He dared not have the slightest offensive action, let alone damage the dragon bones; that would be absolute suicide and would instantly provoke the most insane counterattack from the remnants.
His goal was not the dragon bones themselves, but the near-infinite, pure dragon power contained within them!
He coiled between the two intertwined massive dragon bones, his dragon claws resting on them. At the center of his brow, the broken Thunder God Seal heated up slightly, resonating with the soul core in his Dantian. A secret method he had obtained from the Thunder God inheritance, which originally required divine power to drive—the God-Bestowed Soul Ring Condensation Method—slowly flashed through his mind.
Normally, creating a God-Bestowed Soul Ring required consuming a large amount of divine power. The meager divine power produced by his own broken god position was not even enough for his own cultivation and comprehension, and he could not bear to waste it like this. But now, with these two God King dragon bones as a nearly inexhaustible energy source, all problems were solved!
He cautiously operated the secret method, and through the connection between his dragon claws and the dragon bones, like a trickle, he extremely slowly yet continuously drew out wisps of incredibly pure, yet diametrically opposed dragon power from the two dragon bones. One was cold and yin, supple and long-continuous; the other was hot and yang, rigid and violent.
The two strands of dragon power were drawn out and surged into his body along his dragon arms. Yu Yuanchen immediately activated the Thunder God Seal at his brow, using that wisp of faint divine power as a guide to drive the secret method, slowly stripping and filtering the extreme ice and fire attributes contained within these two strands of dragon power—attributes capable of freezing the soul and burning everything to ashes—leaving only the most original, incomparably vast dragon power energy.
Even so, the two filtered strands of dragon power still carried traces of yin-soft and rigid-violent characteristics, making them difficult to fuse directly. Yu Yuanchen had long been prepared; he exerted his full strength to drive the Thunder God position to bless his own Thunder Sacred Dragon bloodline and the power of the True Dragon Nine Crowns, injecting the incomparably pure and domineering thunder attribute into these two strands of dragon power!
Zzzzt! The purple-gold lightning, like the most impartial judge between heaven and earth, forcibly intervened between the yin and yang! Under the domineering reconciliation of the thunder power, the two strands of dragon power, carrying yin-soft and rigid-violent characteristics, began to be forced to fuse, entwine, and compress!
This was an extremely meticulous and mentally exhausting process. Yu Yuanchen was fully focused, using his powerful spiritual power to precisely control every bit of power, using the Thunder God Seal and his soul core as the core to continuously inject the filtered origin dragon power, while using the thunder power to temper, fuse, and compress it!
Time passed silently at the bottom of the spring. It was unknown how much time had passed when, in front of Yu Yuanchen's dragon head, a light sphere about the size of a fist, entirely deep purple-gold in color, with countless naturally formed, incredibly complex thunder and dragon-patterned runes intertwined on its surface, and seemingly containing a miniature thunder dragon swimming and roaring inside, slowly condensed and took shape!
The prototype of the God-Bestowed Soul Ring was complete!
This soul ring prototype, based on the origin dragon power of the two great God Kings, guided by thunder divine power, and condensed by the Thunder God secret method, was of such high quality and immense potential that it far exceeded an ordinary Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring!
However, the moment the soul ring prototype was successfully condensed, an unexpected change occurred!
The two dragon king remnant phantoms, which had been relatively calm, seemed to have sensed something and suddenly became restless! They accelerated their circling around the dragon bones, emitting low dragon roars filled with dissatisfaction and warning, and their cold and scorching gazes locked onto Yu Yuanchen again. Although they did not attack directly, the intense sense of rejection surged again!
They seemed to have finally discovered that this "kin" was secretly stealing the power of the dragon bones they were guarding!
Yu Yuanchen was startled and immediately stopped drawing the dragon power. His dragon claw reached out and firmly grasped the formed purple-gold soul ring prototype. At the same time, he did not hesitate to immediately restrain the aura of the True Dragon Nine Crowns, deactivate the Dragon Soul Awakening state, and turn his massive dragon body, fleeing toward the surface of the spring at the fastest possible speed!
He could feel that the rage of the two dragon soul phantoms behind him was rapidly gathering, and the ice and fire divine power began to fluctuate violently. If he didn't leave now, he might not be able to leave at all!
"Splash!"
Water splashed everywhere as Yu Yuanchen's figure shot out from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well like an arrow, landing steadily on the shore. His breathing was slightly rapid, but his eyes were filled with excitement and joy.
"Brother Yuanchen!" Ye Zhilan, who had been waiting anxiously, immediately came up to meet him. Seeing that he was unharmed, she breathed a sigh of relief, and then her gaze was attracted by the purple-gold light sphere in his dragon claw that radiated heart-palpitating energy. "This is..."
"It's done!" Yu Yuanchen deactivated his Martial Soul True Body, returned to human form, and held the soul ring prototype, which had its light restrained but contained terrifying energy, in his palm, a smile curling the corner of his mouth. "My Ninth Soul Ring!"
He looked back at the spring water that was gradually returning to calm, feeling a lingering fear but also a trace of anticipation: "Although those two dragon king remnants have no intelligence, their instincts remain. Stealing their dragon power this time has likely disturbed them. However, it is fortunate that they lack intelligence; perhaps after some time, they will forget my aura... At that time, perhaps I can try again."
After all, the God King dragon power at the bottom of the spring was, for him now, an almost inexhaustible treasure! One must know that the so-called Immortal Herbs only grew after absorbing a portion of the divine power dissipated by the two great dragon kings.
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