Li Fu sprang forward after receiving the order and shattered the Golden Armored Earth Dragon's cervical vertebrae with a single palm strike.
Boom!
The Golden Armored Earth Dragon's massive body crashed to the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust.
The other Golden Armored Earth Dragons were terrified by the might of a Titled Douluo. Without even bothering with their fallen companion, they frantically fled in the direction farthest from Li Fu.
Very soon, only Dai Weisi, Li Fu, and the dying Golden Armored Earth Dragon remained at the scene...
Not wanting to risk further complications, Dai Weisi swiftly killed the Golden Armored Earth Dragon and absorbed its soul ring on the spot.
A 7,800-year Golden Armored Earth Dragon soul ring was completely within Dai Weisi's absorption range. With the support of the third layer of the Complete True Heart Method, he should have finished absorbing it in less than half an hour, barring any accidents.
Yet Li Fu waited beside him for over two hours, and Dai Weisi still had not finished.
At this point, the loyal old servant was beginning to regret agreeing to let Dai Weisi absorb such a high-year soul ring.
Urgh!
Suddenly, dazzling golden light burst from Dai Weisi's chest, back, arms, and legs all at once. Still absorbing the soul ring's energy, Dai Weisi let out a sharp cry of pain.
The golden light grew increasingly solid until it gathered into a suit of gleaming golden armor. Its bracers, shoulder guards, battle skirt, and greaves were covered in dragon scales, while a fierce dragon head formed a breastplate over his chest, awe-inspiring and intimidating.
Combined with Dai Weisi's youthful and handsome features, he looked majestic and heroic—truly a Young God General.
At the sight of this transformation, Li Fu's pupils abruptly contracted. He immediately spread his Soul Power around Dai Weisi, concealing the golden light to prevent the disturbance from spreading and drawing back those two people from earlier, especially that Titled Douluo.
Though Li Fu appeared calm on the surface, his heart was in turmoil.
As expected, His Highness is favored by the gods. A mere Golden Armored Earth Dragon that has not even reached ten thousand years actually produced an External Soul Bone—and an armor-type one that suits His Highness perfectly. This must be the gods' arrangement.
It seems just as His Highness said. Even his soul bones have already been arranged by the gods.
As Li Fu continued imagining things while carefully standing guard over Dai Weisi, Dai Weisi gradually opened his eyes after a short while.
In truth, Dai Weisi had noticed that something was off while absorbing the soul ring. But only after opening his eyes did he realize just how great the changes to his body were.
This is...
Way too handsome!
It was a set of light armor that covered his entire body. The shoulder guards, bracers, battle skirt, and greaves were all densely covered in dragon scales. The coolest part was the golden divine dragon on his chest. Its head was dignified and domineering, perfectly occupying the position of the breastplate.
Whether it was Lu Bu's Beast-Faced Swallowing-Head Chain Armor or Sun Wukong's Golden Chainmail Armor, neither could compare to Dai Weisi's golden armor in appearance.
At this moment, Li Fu no longer needed to explain anything. Dai Weisi knew that he had struck it lucky.
Like Li Yang, who had stepped in dog shit, Dai Weisi—the genuine lucky bastard—had gained an External Soul Bone of his own. It was even an unprecedented full-body armor-type External Soul Bone.
He named it—the Golden Dragon Swallowing Heaven Armor!
Though this "Golden Dragon" was only a Golden Armored Earth Dragon for now, External Soul Bones grew stronger alongside their owners. Once Dai Weisi ascended to godhood, it would eventually evolve into armor bearing the traits of the true Golden Dragon King!
After Dai Weisi learned to control the Golden Dragon Swallowing Heaven Armor and stored it within his body, Li Fu withdrew the Soul Power he had spread around them and looked at Dai Weisi with undisguised admiration.
In the old man's eyes, Dai Weisi had quietly gone from being a certain god's "potential successor" to "the successor chosen by a god."
Dai Weisi had no idea what the old man had been imagining. He thought Li Fu was merely marveling at his luck.
Sensing the third soul skill he had just acquired, Dai Weisi could not help sighing.
"I didn't expect to get this skill after all..."
That was right. Dai Weisi's third soul skill followed the traditional path of the Star Luo Empire's Dai Family.
A transformation-type enhancement soul skill: White Tiger Vajra Transformation.
Naturally, the 7,800-year soul ring Dai Weisi had absorbed was completely different in quality from the barely-thousand-year soul ring Dai Mubai had absorbed in the original story. Not only had it brought him an enormous amount of Soul Power, raising him directly to level 33, but the skill itself was also vastly different.
In the original timeline, both Dai Weisi's and Dai Mubai's Adamantine White Tiger Transformations increased attack, defense, strength, and abnormal-status resistance by 100% for half an hour.
But Dai Weisi's version of the Adamantine White Tiger Transformation now had three stages:
The first stage was a passive state with no cost. It increased attack, defense, strength, and abnormal-status resistance by 50%, and lasted permanently.
The second stage consumed Soul Power. According to the family inheritance records, it should have been similar to the original timeline's version, but the enhancement had risen to 120% and lasted for one hour.
The third stage was an overclocked mode. It consumed twice as much Soul Power as the second stage, raised the enhancement to 200%, and lasted for ten minutes.