The Lotus's Abnormality

Zhu Zhuqing was going to become my wife just like that? Dai Yao felt a sense of unreality in his heart.

Not long ago, he had still been struggling to survive. Now, not only had he become a prince, he was also about to marry a great beauty.

At that thought, the corners of his mouth could not help but curl up.

Wiping the drool from the corner of his mouth, he still had serious business to attend to.

Thinking back to the duel from a few days ago, he still felt lingering fear. If Dai Mubai had not been so desperate to win, he probably would have lost that duel.

"I'm still too lacking in real combat experience. Once I get to the Academy, I'll need to fight more real battles," Dai Yao decided.

The other matter was his second martial soul, the cyan lotus.

At the mention of the cyan lotus, Dai Yao's mood darkened a little.

When he had obtained his First Spirit Ring not long ago, the cyan lotus had forcibly absorbed a seven-hundred-year spirit ring, nearly killing him. Although he had successfully absorbed it with the cyan lotus's help, the pain during the process had been far too unforgettable.

With a thought, Soul Power gathered, and a cyan lotus appeared in his palm.

"Hmm?" Dai Yao stared at the cyan lotus, his eyes widening.

"Th-this... this, this!" He was so shocked that he stammered.

A yellow spirit ring had appeared on the cyan lotus.

"What the hell? Why does the cyan lotus martial soul have a spirit ring? I clearly didn't attach a spirit ring to the cyan lotus!" Dai Yao thought it over from every angle, but he still could not come up with an answer.

"At the time, there was only the Mystic Water Turtle's spirit ring. There weren't any other soul beasts that had been killed." Dai Yao stroked his chin in thought.

Then he made an unbelievable guess. "Don't tell me this spirit ring was formed by the cyan lotus itself."

"Then what advantage do my Twin Martial Souls even have?"

As everyone knew, the greatest advantage of Twin Martial Souls was that after using the first martial soul's spirit rings to cultivate to Titled Douluo, every spirit ring attached to the second martial soul could be at least over fifty thousand years old.

Dai Yao was close to breaking down. The greatest advantage of Twin Martial Souls was gone. Anyone would find that unbearable.

Immediately afterward, he thought of a solution. "From now on, I'll attach spirit rings to the cyan lotus and stop cultivating the White Tiger Spirit. I'll treat the White Tiger Spirit as my second martial soul."

"Since I won't use the White Tiger Spirit anymore, I can't keep using the Fourth Prince's identity. From now on, I'll hide my name and create another identity to disguise myself." Dai Yao spoke fiercely.

"It's just a pity that I've already wasted one spirit ring slot on the White Tiger Spirit."

Looking at the cyan lotus martial soul, his feelings were complicated and hard to put into words.

"Then let me see what skill this spirit ring has."

He stretched out his right hand and gathered Soul Power above it. The cyan lotus's first spirit ring lit up, blooming with dazzling radiance.

The cyan lotus kept growing larger. Its soft stem became straight and hard, while its petals gathered together, forming a sharp tip and broad body like a spearhead. The lotus leaves around it became the spear tassel.

After using the First Spirit Skill, the cyan lotus directly transformed into the Cyan Lotus Spear.

"I wonder how powerful it is." Dai Yao was thoughtful.

Immediately after, he went behind the Cold Palace. The space there was very large, and the ground was paved with stone slabs half a foot thick. These slabs were said to have come from the Far North Land. They were incomparably hard and could withstand a Soul Elder's full-force attack.

The foundation of the entire Imperial Palace was laid with this kind of stone slab.

In one corner behind the building, there were also some leftover stone slabs piled up. He had once trained Eight Extremes Collapse here, and even at its greatest power, he could not damage them in the slightest.

Dai Yao gripped the spear with both hands, crouched slightly, bent his waist, and gathered strength. Then, with both hands, he thrust forward, and the Cyan Lotus Spear stabbed out.

When the Cyan Lotus Spear touched the stone slab, it sank straight in as if cutting through tofu, as though there was not the slightest resistance.

This was a stone slab that could withstand a Soul Elder's bombardment, yet it had been pierced through so easily by the Cyan Lotus Spear!

"No, this isn't like a knife cutting tofu. The Cyan Lotus Spear decomposed the material in the stone slab. That's why there was no resistance at all!" Dai Yao thought in shock.

Decomposing matter—what a terrifying ability!

This was the power of rules. With one thrust, matter was decomposed into nothingness.

In the Douluo worldview, perhaps only gods possessed such an ability.

At that moment, Dai Yao did not feel joy. Instead, he felt boundless terror. Originally, he had been worried that exposing his Twin Martial Souls would draw assassination attempts from various factions.

But he had not expected the cyan lotus martial soul's First Spirit Skill to involve the power of gods. Once someone learned of it, those who hunted him down probably would not be humans, but gods!

Although gods could not directly enter the stage in Douluo World, their spokespeople could: the Sea God's spokesperson Bo Saixi, Angel God's spokesperson Qian Daoliu, and Asura God's inheritor, Peak Douluo Tang Chen.

Cold sweat kept sliding down Dai Yao's face. Just thinking about the consequences of exposing this power was terrifying. When the time came, it could truly be said that there would be ten deaths and no life.

"In prehistoric novels, after Pangu split open the heavens, the Chaos Cyan Lotus was not tolerated by the Heavenly Dao and split into several supreme treasures. Among them, its stem transformed into the God Slaying Spear."

"This overbearing power of rules really does match the name of the God Slaying Spear. Could this spear be the legendary God Slaying Spear, and could the cyan lotus really be the Chaos Cyan Lotus?" Dai Yao thought delightedly.

Previously, he had named the cyan lotus Chaos Cyan Lotus only to make it sound more domineering. But now, all kinds of strange signs showed that his cyan lotus martial soul really was the Chaos Cyan Lotus.

Hiss—

Dai Yao sucked in a breath of cold air.

Just as he was feeling delighted, a wave of weakness suddenly spread through his body. Immediately after, he collapsed limply to the ground and spat out a mouthful of blood.

He gasped for breath in great gulps, as if he had just fought a bitter battle, his energy completely drained.

The God Slaying Spear in his hand also turned into specks of starlight and vanished.

He no longer even had the strength to stand. He could only use both hands and feet to slowly crawl back inside. When he reached the bed, he braced his hands against it, gritted his teeth, and with one fierce burst of effort, finally shifted his body onto the mattress.

"So this is the aftereffect of using the Chaos Cyan Lotus's First Spirit Skill? It's way too terrifying." Thinking back to the experience just now, when all his strength had left him and his spiritual power had been drained dry, Dai Yao still felt a lingering fear.

"The side effect is too severe. I have to be careful when using the God Slaying Spear, or if I run into an enemy, after one strike I'll have no strength left to fight back." But he had to admit, this spirit skill was immensely powerful. It attacked the enemy on the level of rules, and could absolutely become his trump card.

Right now, his body was weaker than it had ever been. Sleepiness kept weighing his eyelids down, but his heart was filled with deep unease. If anyone came to kill him now, he would undoubtedly die. Gritting his teeth, he assumed a cross-legged sitting posture and began to cultivate.

As if responding to his diligence, the Chaos Cyan Lotus in his spiritual world also began to scatter cyan light, nourishing his dried-up spiritual power.

And in a place he did not notice, the Chaos Cyan Lotus quietly unfurled one petal...

Time hurried by. Dai Yao spent an entire day cultivating, and his body had already recovered by more than half, while his spirit had also improved greatly.

Just then—

Knock, knock, knock—

A knocking sounded at the door.