This World Was Too Dark.

To fully awaken the Mythical Bloodline within his body, a vast and pure supply of energy was indispensable.

At the very least, it had to be power on the level of this world's Divine Power to qualify as nourishment for his bloodline awakening. Energy below God-level had no hope whatsoever of helping with the awakening.

This made Li Chang'an realize that the bloodline hidden within his body was probably an extremely high-end existence even in this world. Once it fully awakened, his chances of becoming a god in the future would be much greater.

Perhaps after awakening his Mythical Bloodline, he might not even need to rely on any god position. He might be able to become a god on his own.

To him, that held an unparalleled temptation.

After all, all this time, even with many advantages, deep down Li Chang'an had never truly felt confident about whether he could become a god.

As a Transmigrator, he had neither a Cheat nor any Golden Finger... even with the help of his Soul Beast Clone, at most it could make him cultivate a little faster. Limit Douluo was the end of the road. Becoming a god was fundamentally impossible.

And without a Cheat, setting aside the long path of gathering Faith, the only way to become a god was to accept a God Trial... the key was that for something like a trial, whether you could pass actually depended entirely on whether the god found you pleasing to the eye. It was full of uncertainty.

If a god liked you, they would open back doors for you everywhere and try to make every trial simple and easy to pass. Even if you failed, they would give you a chance to make up for it, practically begging you to inherit their god position. For example, those two fellows, the Sea God and the Asura God in the Original Work, treated Tang San practically like their own son. They even resurrected him after he died.

But if a god disliked you, then the God Trial you faced would be hell-level, utterly impossible to pass. Even if you got lucky and passed, you could forget about inheriting the god position.

For example, Tang Chen in the Original Work went through endless hardship and wasted decades before finally completing the Eighth Test in a near-death struggle. He was only one step away from inheriting the god position. Yet his body just so happened to be unable to withstand it, and in the end, he could only helplessly pass the results on to his great-grandson, Tang San. That allowed Tang San to directly skip the previous trials, easily inherit the position of Asura God, and finally achieve Dual God Positions.

Wasn't this clearly the Asura God secretly targeting him?!

Because didn't all of this look far too coincidental?

He just so happened to be one step away from inheriting the god position, his body just so happened to be unable to withstand it, the result just so happened to be transferable, the person beside him just so happened to be Tang San, and Tang San just so happened to also be one of the trial takers, able to directly inherit the result.

And most coincidentally of all, that guy just so damned happened to be his great-grandson? That was basically a direct inheritance of his estate.

Coincidence?

Coincidence, my ass.

When so many coincidences were added together, it was no longer as simple as coincidence.

From this, it could be inferred that perhaps even Tang San's reincarnation into the Tang Family was because Tang Chen was undergoing the Asura God's trial, so he was simply arranged into that family... everything was the Asura God's scheme, creating a series of coincidences and using his subordinate, the Rakshasa God, as an excuse to fool people.

Otherwise, how could the Rakshasa God, a mere Level One God, actually meddle in the inheritance selection of a dignified God King? And even reduce the inheritor who was just one step away from inheriting the god position to the brink of death?

Rakshasa God, why the hell are you so awesome?

Was a God King really that weak?

Many plot points in the Original Work revealed unreasonableness everywhere. If it were only a novel, it could still be explained as the author messing up the writing. But now that Li Chang'an was in reality, looking back at that series of seemingly "coincidental" plots in the Original Work made them seem very thought-provoking.

They were simply full of sinister backroom manipulation everywhere!

This world was too dark.

Li Chang'an felt that if he did not have some trump cards, then even if he could obtain the Sea God Nine Trials, inheriting the Sea God's position would probably still be very uncertain.

After all, who knew whether the Sea God might suddenly feel that Tang San looked more pleasing to the eye, or whether Asura might threaten the Sea God into changing the inheritor and kick him, a trial taker still undergoing the inheritance, aside. Or perhaps he might even treat him, the trial taker, as a sacrifice to pave the way for Tang San to inherit the Sea God's position. Just like Tang Chen, who completed the first eight trials of the Asura God, the result he bought with certain death ended up becoming someone else's wedding dress.

Although judging by the plot of the Original Work, the possibility of the Sea God turning against him was not high, it was still possible, wasn't it?

Entrusting his life and everything he had to someone else's good character, hoping they would not harm him, was not what he wanted.

So Li Chang'an urgently needed a trump card. He needed a kind of power that could let him jump out of the chessboard created by the gods of the God Realm, become a Chess Player, and control his own fate!

And in his view, the many Mythical Bloodlines hidden within his body represented a possibility of transcendence!

The prerequisite was fully awakening the bloodline.

Given his current situation, if he wanted to obtain God-level energy, the two Dragon Souls before him were probably his only chance.

After all, the Sea God's side was filled with far too many uncertainties. Because of that, even though he clearly knew there was risk in targeting these two Dragon Souls, and that he might not necessarily gain anything even after taking that risk...

Li Chang'an was still tempted.

"I'll gamble on it!"

"The bold feast while the timid starve."

"Besides, these two Dragon Souls clearly have no intelligence, only lingering instincts... I've taken two immortal herbs, and my aura has already merged with this place... as long as I hide far away and pay attention to concealing myself, my safety should still be guaranteed," he encouraged himself inwardly.

Next.

Li Chang'an quietly hid in a corner, using the Dragon Corpse to block his body. Then he summoned his martial soul, the Azure Scale Sword. With a thought, his Sword Soul transformed into Serpent Form!

It was an Azure Serpent Emperor about ten meters long and as thick as a water barrel. Compared to the Soul Beast Clone, the snake transformed from his martial soul was much smaller.

Under his control, the Azure Serpent Emperor manifested in Serpent Form twisted its body and slowly approached the two nearby Dragon Souls that were swimming purely on instinct...

As it drew closer and closer.

The two Dragon Souls still looked dazed and ignorant, merely swimming around on their own. It seemed as if they could not sense the Azure Serpent Emperor's existence at all.

Seeing this, Li Chang'an thought it was settled. But unexpectedly, in the next instant, a sudden change occurred!

The moment the Azure Serpent Emperor approached to within about two meters of the two Dragon Souls, the somewhat illusory bodies of the Dragon Souls, which had seemed completely unaware, instantly erupted with waves of dazzling, resplendent light. Then they attacked it with surging dragon might.

Li Chang'an, who shared vision with the Azure Serpent Emperor, was startled. He had no time to react before the two Dragon Souls bit into the Snake Body.

In an instant, a pain that pierced deep into his soul surged forth!

Along with it came freezing cold and scorching heat. Li Chang'an's main body showed an expression of pain. A martial soul was originally part of a Soul Master's body, like hands and feet. Because of that, when the martial soul was attacked, the Soul Master would also be affected to a certain degree.

The two Dragon Souls bit down hard on the Azure Serpent Emperor's body. Terrifying forces of freezing cold and scorching heat flowed through their dragon fangs and into his body. They were clearly illusory Dragon Souls, yet at this moment, it was as if they possessed solid bodies and could actually attack the Azure Serpent Emperor directly.

Fortunately, after eating the Ice Fire Immortal Herbs earlier, Li Chang'an's martial soul and body now had a certain degree of immunity to ice and fire. If someone else had been bitten by the two Dragon Souls, even a Limit Douluo would have turned into ice slag or ash on the spot!