The Sacred Dragon Reaches Its Evolutionary Threshold

"Did he win? I knew Gu Han would win!"

Not far from the main training grounds, in a patch of woods.

When she saw Gu Han send Xiong Ba flying with a single slash, Qian Renxue, standing atop a large tree and gazing toward the training grounds, could not help but reveal a delighted smile on her stunningly beautiful face.

She was truly happy that Gu Han had defeated Xiong Ba and proved himself.

Did he win?

At the other end of the woods.

Seeing Gu Han emerge victorious, Bibi Dong, dressed in a dark purple papal robe and holding the Pope's Scepter, also showed a trace of satisfaction and relief on her mature, beautiful, dignified face.

However, among the watching crowd.

While friends such as Wang Hao, Yue Kong, and Ghost Spirit were thrilled that Gu Han had defeated Xiong Ba.

Even more people were furious and unwilling to accept reality.

The reason they had insulted Gu Han before was because they believed him to be trash.

But if Gu Han was no longer trash.

Would that not prove that they had been blind before?

Filled with anger, many people immediately found an outlet when they saw the Sun Radiance Sword in Gu Han's hand and began shouting loudly.

"He actually used a weapon! Soul battles clearly only allow Martial Souls, not weapons. He's cheating!"

"Hmph! If you can't win, then you can't win. What kind of ability is cheating? Trash really can't stand losing!"

"This soul battle was unfair!"

Hearing the curses and accusations around him, Gu Han felt extremely speechless, though he had expected this already.

After all, far too many of the spectators around him were his haters.

They had always believed him to be trash, so they felt completely justified in insulting him.

Now that they had discovered he might cast off that label, they naturally could not accept it.

But Gu Han had no intention of indulging them. After sheathing the Sun Radiance Sword, he turned, swept his gaze over the crowd, and sneered loudly.

"So using a weapon counts as cheating? Who says so, you?"

"This soul battle never said weapons weren't allowed, did it?"

"You say it's unfair, but Xiong Ba is four or five years older than me. Is it fair for him to fight me in a soul battle?"

"If you don't like me, just say it. Stop making so many excuses. Aren't you ashamed of how hypocritical you are?"

Gu Han's words caused many people in the surrounding crowd to flush red, yet they were left speechless.

They wanted to keep cursing and condemning Gu Han.

But Xiong Ba truly was several years older than Gu Han. If they insisted on discussing fairness, then the soul battle itself had not been fair either.

"I lost!"

At that moment, Xiong Ba walked over, his face somewhat pale. Though his fists were clenched and he was clearly unwilling to accept it, he took a deep breath and straightforwardly admitted his defeat.

After Xiong Chuan helped him up.

Although Xiong Ba was deeply unwilling, a loss was a loss.

As a genius of the Blood Demon Berserk Bear Family, Xiong Ba could be protective of his own, but he could also accept defeat.

"This soul battle was fair. I, Xiong Ba, lost. I admit that I underestimated Gu Han before. He truly is qualified to be His Holiness the Pope's disciple!"

After admitting defeat, Xiong Ba even turned toward the crowd and spoke up for Gu Han in a solemn voice. Only after clasping his fists toward Gu Han did he turn and leave with Xiong Chuan supporting him.

He had not expected Xiong Ba to be such a man of action, one who could accept defeat.

He had lost, yet still spoke up for him.

This gave Gu Han a slight favorable impression of Xiong Ba, his enemy.

This Xiong Ba was not bad. He was a real man!

At Spirit City Junior Soul Master Academy.

With the conclusion of Gu Han and Xiong Ba's soul battle.

The one-year agreement that had caused quite a stir in Spirit City came to an end just like that.

The result of this soul battle quickly spread throughout Spirit City.

Many people in Spirit City found it unbelievable that Gu Han had actually defeated Xiong Ba.

But after learning the details of the soul battle, nearly half of them felt.

Since Gu Han could achieve Martial Soul Evolution, he was certainly not the trash described in the rumors. He could be considered an outstanding genius and was indeed qualified to be His Holiness the Pope's disciple.

Although Gu Han had relied on a weapon to defeat Xiong Ba.

It was a fact that Gu Han's Martial Soul was a juvenile Sub-Dragon Species soul beast, extremely small in size and incapable of Martial Soul Possession.

Xiong Ba, on the other hand, was a soul master whose Martial Soul was the top-tier Blood Demon Berserk Bear.

If Gu Han had not possessed sufficient strength himself, then even with a divine weapon in hand, he still would not have been Xiong Ba's match.

Yet nearly half the people still could not change their view of Gu Han.

They still believed that Gu Han had only defeated Xiong Ba by relying on a weapon.

That was cheating, an unworthy victory!

But Gu Han paid no attention to any of this.

After this one-year agreement came to an end.

Since the year was drawing to a close, Spirit City Junior Soul Master Academy soon began its annual holiday, allowing students who lived outside Spirit City to return home for the New Year.

Of course, this had nothing to do with Gu Han.

During the holiday.

Gu Han continued feeding the Sacred Dragon Light Attribute dragon soul beast flesh and Spirit Medicine in the mornings. In the afternoons, he met with Qian Renxue, and the two went to the Archives to read together. At night, he cultivated at home.

Occasionally, he would go shopping and have fun around Spirit City with his senior sister, Hu Liena.

In the blink of an eye, a year passed.

Over this year, under Gu Han's influence, Qian Renxue's personality and way of thinking became even more different from those in the original work.

Though the main change was still in her way of thinking.

Qian Renxue could still, just as in the original work, thirst for talent, treat the worthy with humility, and remain gentle and magnanimous in temperament.

But under Gu Han's influence, Qian Renxue was no longer overly softhearted.

Gu Han had always emphasized that one should treat friends with the warmth of spring, but enemies with the ruthless cold of winter!

If someone was destined to be an enemy, then there was no need to be softhearted or think of subduing them.

Instead, one had to go all out and eradicate them completely!

It was like dealing with evil people.

Being lenient toward evil people was harming kindhearted people!

Because if one evil person was forgiven, they might harm or even kill more kindhearted people in the future.

And being softhearted toward enemies was harming oneself!

Gu Han's emphasis on this point finally gave Qian Renxue's character a measure of decisiveness and ruthlessness.

Over this year, Gu Han's influence on and changes to Qian Renxue also successfully earned him another three Heavenly Points.

Of the three Heavenly Points he had gained, Gu Han used only one for now, deducing a Sacred Dragon Spear Technique.

As for the remaining two Heavenly Points, Gu Han intended to save them for the time being.

Over the course of this year, through constant feeding of Sacred Dragon Light Attribute dragon soul beast flesh and Spirit Medicine, the Martial Soul: Sacred Dragon took another great step toward dragon form.

Not only had the pair of small Golden Dragon Wings on its back grown considerably, but its four limbs had become Dragon Claws. The bulges atop its head had finally transformed into Dragon Horns, its head had become a true dragon head, and it had even grown dragon whiskers.

But after evolving to this point, no matter how Gu Han continued feeding it Light Attribute dragon soul beast flesh and Spirit Medicine.

The appearance of the Martial Soul: Sacred Dragon barely changed any further.

That pair of fan-sized ears never disappeared, and the small tail behind it never became a dragon tail.

It still remained some distance away from being a true Golden Sacred Dragon.

After Gu Han used the Heavenly Transformation System to analyze the Sacred Dragon, he discovered that it had reached an evolutionary threshold.

He would need the flesh of a hundred-thousand-year Light Attribute dragon soul beast with higher cultivation and purer dragon blood, or top-tier Spirit Medicine, for the Sacred Dragon Martial Soul to break through the threshold and truly evolve into a Golden Sacred Dragon.

This gave Gu Han quite a headache.

Damn it, now anything below the neck can't be written. The second chapter I just posted got flagged for review immediately. I don't think I even wrote anything inappropriate!

This is seriously disgusting.