Evolution

Splash!

Zhao Xuan fell from the sky, plunging straight into a lake. The icy water instantly enveloped his body, and caught off guard, he gulped down several mouthfuls of lake water.

"Pah!" He quickly surfaced and hurriedly spat out the water he had not yet swallowed. If he kept drinking, his stomach would soon be full.

He swam to shore, shook the water from his body, then looked around in confusion. "Where... am I?"

The night was already deep. Stars glittered in the sky, and a bright silver moon hung overhead. Before him lay a small lake. A gentle breeze shattered the moon's reflection upon the water, sending silver ripples spreading outward. Shadows of trees surrounded the area, while fireflies danced gracefully through the air.

Zhao Xuan felt somewhat at a loss. Where had that Titan Giant Ape sent him with one slap?!

I wonder if Xiao Wu is all right. Zhao Xuan worriedly thought, wishing he could cultivate to the rank of Titled Douluo as soon as possible, return, and slap that Titan Giant Ape to death.

He checked his body. One of his ribs was probably broken, but there did not seem to be any other serious problems.

Still, even if it was only one broken rib, it hurt like hell.

"Damn it, that hurts!"

Zhao Xuan leaned against a large tree by the lake and sat down, his left ribs throbbing with piercing pain.

Looking around, everything was pitch-black, carrying a somewhat eerie and terrifying atmosphere.

Zhao Xuan could not help sighing. Then, enduring the pain, he sat cross-legged and began recovering his Soul Power.

He slowly closed his eyes. All he could see was darkness, but just as Zhao Xuan calmed himself and prepared to recover, he felt a faint tremor in his mind, as though something was about to break through its seal.

Suddenly, a flash of purple light streaked past.

Zhao Xuan abruptly opened his eyes and looked around, but there was nothing there.

"Was that an illusion?" Zhao Xuan muttered with a frown.

He warily scanned his surroundings, yet nothing strange happened.

His thoughts raced, and Zhao Xuan suddenly covered the purple mark on his forehead with one hand, looking thoughtful.

"Could it be this?"

This mark had not been there at first. However, after Zhao Xuan awakened his Martial Soul, it had gradually appeared. It had emerged soundlessly and without warning. If its color had not grown increasingly deep, Zhao Xuan might not even have known such a thing was on his forehead.

To confirm his suspicion, Zhao Xuan closed his eyes once more.

The instant he closed them, the purple light appeared again, flashing past in the darkness.

Zhao Xuan instantly caught sight of its form. That purple light was actually a divine lightning bolt!

Zhao Xuan froze as an ancient memory gradually surfaced.

"It's that divine lightning bolt I saw back then!"

Zhao Xuan suddenly remembered the spatial rift that had torn across the heavens when he died in his previous life. This purple divine lightning had flickered within it.

Moreover, when he had fallen into that chaotic world, he had been struck by this purple divine lightning.

"How could this thing be inside my body?"

Zhao Xuan had a headache. He had only fallen into that chaotic world for a few seconds, but the pain within it was something he would never forget. Even now, merely recalling it made his entire body tremble!

Aside from the boundless chaos continuously crushing his soul,

the drifting purple divine lightning would also strike him from time to time. Back then, it had felt as though his entire soul were about to be torn apart.

Just as Zhao Xuan was puzzled, the purple divine lightning he had captured with his consciousness began to change. Then, he felt his heart suddenly seize up, and the blood and qi flowing throughout his body came to a halt.

Zhao Xuan was utterly horrified and did not know what to do.

The purple divine lightning suddenly transformed into brilliant purple-gold runes and vanished into the endless darkness, only to gradually emerge within his brain.

In that instant, Zhao Xuan's heart began functioning again. Its pounding was so loud that it seemed audible to his ears. With every beat, the blood and qi throughout his body surged at extreme speed, racing through his fragile blood vessels.

He could even faintly hear something like the rushing sound of flowing water.

Zhao Xuan's entire body began to ache violently. The purple-gold runes in his mind followed the flow of his blood into every corner of his body, but the rapidly surging blood damaged the walls of his blood vessels.

The purple-gold runes possessed an extraordinary power. Every ruptured blood vessel was filled and repaired by purple-gold runes. Amid this cycle of destruction and restoration, Zhao Xuan's body began emitting a faint purple-gold radiance, making him look incomparably sacred from afar.

But Zhao Xuan was not enjoying himself. The surging blood made his scalp tingle, while his mind became hazy. Even his five senses seemed to be cutting in and out, as though he were gradually becoming blind, deaf, and mute!

Zhao Xuan immediately panicked.

A layer of fine blood droplets emerged from the pores on the surface of his body, mixed with faint black impurities. Tiny runes also began appearing across his skin.

Pfft!

Zhao Xuan could not help coughing up a mouthful of blood. It reeked horribly, but after spitting it out, his entire body felt much lighter.

Zhao Xuan's will began to blur. He could sense that his body was undergoing another transformation, but the pain coming from every part of his body was more than he could bear.

The Soul Power throughout his body seemed completely useless during this transformation, suppressed so thoroughly by those mystical purple-gold runes that it could not move at all.

Within his hazy, chaotic consciousness, the purple-gold runes gradually occupied Zhao Xuan's entire body. Strings of tiny purple lightning snakes continuously flashed across his skin, galloping like joyful little foals.

Crackle!

A blazing purple-gold divine lightning bolt suddenly flashed through his consciousness, its aura as shocking as the creation of heaven and earth.

As the divine lightning passed, his muddled consciousness immediately split apart. Boundless chaos scattered in all directions, while a purple-gold radiance expanded from a tiny point, opening up the endless chaos and forming a world of its own.

Zhao Xuan's consciousness gradually awoke. When he opened his eyes, he saw pure purple-gold, with ethereal chaos beyond it.

At the center of the purple-gold region within the chaos stood a little child. He looked as though he had been carved from the same mold as Zhao Xuan, but he was still young, with a round head and face. A lightning-shaped mark rested between his brows, and he too had a pair of curious, wide eyes.

Zhao Xuan found it strange. He felt as though he were looking at this little child, yet it also seemed that this little child was him.

An idea flashed through his mind, and Zhao Xuan hesitantly thought, Nascent Soul?

The little child's expression changed. He furrowed his brows slightly, looking equally hesitant. With a thought, Zhao Xuan's field of vision seemed to change, but with nothing but purple-gold surrounding him, he could not tell the difference.

However, when he looked down, he found that he had hands and feet. They were chubby and exceptionally adorable.

Zhao Xuan suddenly understood. The one who had just been looking at this Nascent Soul was a portion of his divided consciousness.

There was nothing at all in the empty space around him, making it incomparably lonely. As for the chaos beyond, it was utterly silent and lifeless.

This seemed to be... the Sea of Consciousness?! And his current state was... a Nascent Soul?!

Zhao Xuan was stunned. How had he somehow opened up a Sea of Consciousness?

No matter how hard he thought, he could not understand it. Then, in a daze, he seemed to remember something.

The Nascent Soul waved a hand, and a phone and computer appeared to his left and right, Zhao Xuan's bonded objects.

However, to Zhao Xuan now, these two things seemed rather strange. They did not appear to be as simple as Martial Souls.

The computer was on his right, yet when Zhao Xuan looked at it, the words "Creation" inexplicably surfaced in his consciousness. The phone was on his left, yet when he looked at it, the words "All Things" surfaced in his consciousness.

Frowning, Zhao Xuan could not understand their meaning. Too many questions had appeared during this transformation!

Suddenly, Zhao Xuan's consciousness moved and returned to his physical body. He once again felt the existence of his body and Soul Power. His body was many times stronger than before, and his Soul Power seemed to have surged as well, though compared to this powerful body, it appeared somewhat insignificant.

Zhao Xuan had no time to concern himself with these changes. The spiritual sense he had released earlier seemed to have caught some movement.

He turned his gaze toward a patch of woods beside him and quietly waited for whatever was coming.

(P.S.: This book has no outline, so some matters need to be filled in gradually.)

(P.S.:

The author's idea is that if this book is to be finished, then the later events of Douluo Continent will definitely need to be touched upon. Gods appear in the later stages of Douluo Continent, but the author does not want the protagonist to become a god in the manner of Douluo Continent.

The protagonist himself possesses some of the qualities of a Chaos Demon God, though he is not quite complete. After all, every Chaos Demon God has its own Great Dao of origin. This time, the Purple Heaven Divine Lightning that had always remained within the protagonist was integrated into his body, completing his nature as a Chaos Demon God.

As for the two Martial Souls, they can be regarded as the protagonist's accompanying spiritual treasures as a Chaos Demon God.

The computer is also called a calculator, and its original purpose is calculation and deduction. Thus, the author gave it the property of "Creation." It probably will not have any unusual soul skills, only the function of Creation, such as deducing things, or even deducing soul rings without needing to hunt Spirit Beasts.

As for the phone, it will mostly use its current functions, such as communication, entertainment, reading news, buying and selling, and so on. Many things can be seen and done through a phone, so the author gave it the trait of "All Things," both because it has many functions and because the author could not think of a better term. Ahem...

The protagonist's first three soul skills mainly draw from mobile signal characteristics and Telecommunication Fraud, while the fourth skill is planned to use the function of a camera.

Therefore, the protagonist should mainly fight with his body and the Purple Heaven Divine Lightning in the future. The various soul skills produced by the phone will serve as support, while the computer will be purely supportive. The Purple Heaven Divine Lightning can also be treated as a Martial Soul, since it may have variations in its techniques. However, since this is a Douluo fanfic, no matter what, it should still follow the feel of Douluo Continent, including its battles. Though it may occasionally go off the rails and not feel like Douluo Continent. Please forgive that.)

That is all. If you do not like it, please do not flame it! Discussion and suggestions are welcome; the author will selectively accept them as he pleases! Let me say it again: if you flame it, I'll shut down... really shut down. The author thinks he has strong mental resilience, but he is actually weak as hell. Ahem...

You can see that the author also has an unfinished book from several years ago. It was written on impulse, and this one was the same. However, quite a few readers are supporting this one now, so it will not be abandoned so easily.