Chapter 14: THe Soul Core belonging to Soul BEast

The soul power being input into the Soul Guidance Array continued to increase until it reached a certain peak.

"Boom!"

The dark wooden cane in his hand struck the ground with a forceful blow, and the hunched old body of Elder Wu straightened.

Immediately after, the seventh-ranked black soul ring flickered, and his body began to swell as a pair of deep blue dragon wings unfolded.

In no time, he transformed into a massive dragon, crackling with blue electrical arcs, with a body length of ten zhang—this was the true form of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon martial soul.

"Roar!" An exhilarating dragon's roar burst from Elder Wu's mouth, and the Soul Guidance Array fluctuated violently. The white halo changed into a seven-colored hue, transforming into a beam of light that soared toward the sky.

Just as the seven-colored light pillar was about to break through, a black shadow flashed and with an incredible speed, slapped toward Elder Wu, who was in his martial soul true form.

"Who?!"

By the time this titled Douluo reacted, a slender hand had already pressed against his chest. The wind from the palm howled, shredding his flesh into blood mist, and his bones were crushed into powder, scattering into the air.

In the blink of an eye, a powerful titled Douluo had perished.

The last words he had uttered were now the final words he would ever speak in this world.

The thirty white-ranked soul masters were all stunned. The invincible existence they had just appraised had been struck into dust by a single palm, without even being able to use his battle armor.

"Run!"

It was the leading black-ranked soul master who shouted out, bringing all the others back to their senses, and they began to scatter and flee.

However, although the black-ranked soul master shouted out a warning, he did not choose to stay behind. Instead, he was the fastest to run.

With glowing light spots attached to eleven parts of his body, the three-word battle armor was instantly donned, and he activated a secret technique to escape rapidly into the distance.

A powerful titled Douluo like Elder Wu, with a top-tier Beast Martial Soul like the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon, was obliterated by a single palm while in his martial soul true form.

Would he stay behind to block the way? That was a joke!

Not only did he refuse, even if he were willing, it would be of no use. The black-robed figure who could crush a titled Douluo with one palm could easily destroy this eight-ring soul Douluo in a three-word battle armor, as if crushing an ant.

He had not underestimated the magic empress' strength—he had simply overestimated his own speed at escaping.

"Bang!"

The instant the magic empress withdrew her hand from striking Elder Wu into dust, she crossed her thumb and middle finger, snapping her fingers.

In an instant, the world changed. The broken and varied land turned into an ocean with a sky in the same hue. A massive dark-blue whale leaped from the sea, opening a mouth large enough to swallow the mountain cliff.

Within the giant mouth, a whirlpool appeared, its gravitational pull overwhelming, and in a moment, all thirty white-ranked soul masters were sucked into the belly of the whale.

It wasn't until the last and strongest black-ranked soul master, who had fled the furthest, was also swallowed by the giant whale that it closed its mouth and disappeared back into the sea.

Once again, the desolate mountain forest returned to peace.

At the same time, in a different place.

Inside the Dragon Valley small world, Emperor Tian remained in meditation, still as a colorful clay figurine with no movement.

He indeed planned to undergo the million-year soul beast tribulation within the Dragon Valley small world. After absorbing the Dragon God's soul, he could clearly sense that the small world of the Dragon Valley had the ability to block the secrets of heaven and was much more resilient than the outside world.

It was only natural; if the Dragon Valley small world did not have the ability to block heaven's secrets, the ancient Moon would have already come here to absorb the Dragon God's soul for healing.

And precisely because of the strength of the world's boundary, the powerful dragon soul within the Dragon Valley had not leaked out, while external passages to enter the Dragon Valley had been created.

Outside the Dragon Valley small world, finding a safe location to undergo the tribulation was not easy.

After all, the current lord of the plane had already been replaced secretly. For the sake of the Heavenly King's ten-thousand-year plan, they might not interfere openly, but it was impossible to guarantee that they wouldn't cause trouble during his tribulation.

Furthermore, after absorbing the Dragon God's soul, his cultivation had begun to repeatedly approach the million-year limit. The time available to suppress his cultivation was insufficient to search for another tribulation site that could block the secrets of heaven.

At this point, Emperor Tian had to use the last moments he could suppress his cultivation to make the final preparations for undergoing the million-year soul beast tribulation and to develop the third soul core unique to soul beasts!

It was said that soul beasts are born with one fewer dantian than humans, so they could not form a third soul core. This was pure nonsense.

Both soul beasts and humans in the Douluo Plane were born because of the Dragon God, so how could there be such a disparity?

Since tens of thousands of years ago, when the dual soul cores were formed using the Yin-Yang complementing method, he had been attempting to form a third soul core. But, without exception, all of his attempts had failed.

The most recent attempt was three thousand years ago, when he was breaking through the ninety-million-year soul beast tribulation. Once again, the result was failure, as expected.

It wasn't that he didn't know the correct method to form the third soul core of a soul beast—it was simply because his strength was insufficient.

Under normal circumstances, a soul beast would need a cultivation of around 700,000 years to have a chance at successfully forming the Yin-Yang complementing dual soul cores.

Once the Yin-Yang complementing dual soul cores were formed, with a cultivation of 700,000 years, a soul beast could rival a peak quasi-god in the extreme limit of a titled Douluo, standing at the pinnacle of the plane.

However, from that point forward, the growth in cultivation and battle power would slow down immensely.

Thus, it would be very difficult to form the third soul core before reaching the million-year limit.

Now, after absorbing the Dragon God's soul, Emperor Tian finally had the confidence to succeed.

Thanks to his foresight in the divine realm, he knew the correct way for a soul beast to form a third soul core.

Based on the purer bloodline advantage of soul beasts compared to humans, the third bloodline soul core could be formed using the method of same-position resonance.

It would reside within the bloodline, transform into a bloodline factor, and flow through the body's meridians and channels, resonating with the Yin-Yang complementing dual soul cores.

This was exactly what Emperor Tian was attempting to do now, as his once-vibrant red blood turned into seven colors, spreading throughout his body.

At times, the blood became seven-colored as it flowed, then reverted to its original red, and at times, it even condensed into red soul core particles, only to transform into seven-colored soul core particles again.

Until the frequency of the bloodline soul core's compression and rotation could resonate at the same frequency as the already-existing dual soul cores.

"Roar—Roar—"

Emperor Tian's body, like that of an old monk in deep meditation, began to tremble slightly, and deep dragon roars echoed.

The colorful skin on his body's surface cracked, peeling off in sheets onto the ground.

He suddenly stood up, and with a mighty dragon roar that shook the heavens, his dragon might became overwhelming, instantly dispelling the surrounding energy, and his body reached nearly the size of the universe's true void.

The third soul core, the bloodline soul core, was formed!

He had become a unique example in the plane, one that even the Silver Dragon King, Gu Yue Na, with her stronger cultivation and background, had not surpassed.

Just at this moment, the wind stirred!

"Whoosh—"

The poised million-year soul beast tribulation could no longer be suppressed!

(End of Chapter)