Galactic Starburst

After dealing with the Silver Emperor Skyfalcon, the group continued onward.

Their next target was the Ten Thousand Year Golden Earth Dragon King.

That Spirit Ring had been prepared for Qian Renxue.

The Golden Earth Dragon King's territory lay east of Golden Lake in the Star Dou Great Forest.

A century ago, the area's original owner, the Golden Crocodile King, had been killed by Golden Crocodile Douluo and turned into his Spirit Ring.

Later, a Golden Earth Dragon King took over the place.

Golden Crocodile Douluo himself had provided this information.

Golden Lake was carpeted in lush green grass, its waters shimmering with ripples. A faint golden glow filled the entire surface of the lake.

Golden Crocodile Douluo struck out with his palm. Accompanied by a dragon's roar, the Golden Earth Dragon King revealed himself!

Bai Ge took one look and felt his entire worldview crumble. "This thing deserves to be called a dragon? Are you kidding me?!"

There was no helping it. What stood before him was a massive, entirely golden Tyrannosaurus Rex!

It was vastly different from either the Eastern divine dragons or Western evil dragons he had imagined.

"Senior Golden Crocodile, don't make a move yet. Let me test the power of my Third Spirit Ability."

Golden Crocodile Douluo was somewhat taken aback, then burst into hearty laughter. "Good lad! No wonder you're the man Young Miss has taken a liking to. A newborn calf truly fears no tiger!"

Bai Ge stepped forward and raised his right hand high. Endless light gathered in his palm—

"Galaxy... Starburst!"

With a heaven-destroying, earth-shattering momentum, Bai Ge's right hand slammed fiercely into the Golden Earth Dragon King. Amid a miserable howl, the Golden Earth Dragon King suffered grave injuries!

The residual force even blasted a pit several meters deep and more than ten meters wide into the ground!

"Only this much?" Bai Ge sighed, somewhat dissatisfied.

To Bai Ge, Spirit Rings were merely keys used to unlock the inheritances of the twelve Golden Saint Cloth.

And Soul Power was nothing more than fuel for driving his Cosmos.

In the original work, the Saint Cloth warriors used the Star Power of the eighty-eight constellations of the heavens to drive their Cosmos. But that power was excessively fierce and overbearing, and to a certain extent, it depleted one's lifespan.

Shion from the original work was an example. Once he became advanced in age, his power declined greatly, and Saga killed him outright.

Douluo had the same problem. Although Sea God Douluo Bo Saixi had said in the original work that a Titled Douluo's base lifespan was around two to three hundred years, after reaching level ninety-one, every additional level extended one's lifespan by a hundred years.

In other words, taking Golden Crocodile Douluo as an example, he should theoretically be able to live beyond a thousand years.

But based on Bai Ge's experience from reading countless fantasy novels, the age at which one broke through to Titled Douluo determined one's potential.

Before becoming a Titled Douluo, one's lifespan was only a hundred years. Breaking through at eighty, breaking through at fifty, or, like Tang Hao in the original work, breaking through at forty-four while in the prime of life with ample lifespan remaining—these were certainly not comparable.

Moreover, a Spirit Master's breakthroughs meant fighting Spirit Beasts, and injuries were perfectly normal.

And during a breakthrough, the body had to endure the impact of Soul Power, which could very easily leave hidden injuries.

Losing lifespan was perfectly normal.

In the original work, Sword Douluo lost an arm and was never able to make another breakthrough for the rest of his life.

The cultivation methods of Douluo Continent were simply far too crude. They had absolutely no concepts such as meridians or acupoints. They simply relied on martial soul talent, meditation, and absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth before converting it into Soul Power.

That was why they valued Innate Soul Power so highly. To them, it was equivalent to a martial artist's sense of qi.

Without Innate Soul Power, there was no possibility of cultivation whatsoever.

Low Innate Soul Power also meant poor efficiency in absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, which was why the Grandmaster's life had been so tragic!

This was fucking absurd!

Therefore, it was not strange in the least that they would damage themselves and leave behind hidden injuries during breakthroughs.

The human body's meridians were inherently quite fragile. With such crude and reckless methods, not dying was already due to the extraordinary innate gifts of Douluo people, who possessed martial souls and were blessed by heaven.

One had to know that the Spirit Master system on Douluo Continent had already existed for a full ten thousand years!

Who knew what these people had even been doing all that time.

Thinking of this, Bai Ge felt immensely fortunate.

His cultivation technique had been personally tailored for him by the system, using Virgo's Cosmos meditation method from the world of "Saint Cloth Warriors" as its foundation, adding the universe primal energy cultivation method from "Swallowed Star," and then incorporating Innate Formless Sword Qi.

Thus, Bai Ge had already surpassed the people of the Douluo world by far from the very first step.

Likewise, the strength of Bai Ge's abilities depended solely on his cultivation.

Therefore, he was very dissatisfied with that Galactic Starburst strike just now.

By Bai Ge's estimation, it had only reached the level of a Sixth Sense Cosmos.

It merely bore the name "Galactic Starburst." It was simply tarnishing that name.

Especially since Bai Ge's strike was less "Galactic Starburst" and more "Galactic Star Dusting Fist."

The former was an area attack, while the latter was a single-target attack!

But Golden Crocodile Douluo and the others, Qian Renxue included, were utterly dumbfounded.

Because that strike had already been enough to kill an ordinary Spirit Emperor.

Yet Bai Ge was only a Soul Elder right now!

Although they knew this brat's martial soul was compatible with Her Highness's and could produce a Martial Soul Fusion Skill, meaning it had to be a Divine Spirit on the same level as the Six-Winged Angel Spirit.

Its power even surpassed top-tier martial souls like the Seven Kill Sword and the Clear Sky Hammer, but wasn't this far too outrageous?

Bai Ge paid no attention to that. He waved a hand before Qian Renxue's eyes. "Xue Er Jie, stop spacing out. Hurry up and kill it so you can absorb its spirit ring!"

"Ah?! Okay."

Qian Renxue came back to her senses, raised the Sacred Sword, and stabbed the Golden Earth Dragon King straight through with a single strike.

Then, she began absorbing the spirit ring.

Two hours later, Qian Renxue slowly woke up. "Strange, why didn't the Soul Shock from the ten-thousand-year spirit ring happen?"

Golden Crocodile Douluo and the other two also looked at one another in bewilderment.

Since they could not figure it out, they simply stopped thinking about it. In any case, successfully absorbing the spirit ring was a good thing.

Qian Renxue had never been one to dwell on things.

But when she turned her head, she saw Bai Ge grinning foolishly to himself.

"Hey, what are you so happy about?"

"Sky Azure Vine, Dragon Scale Fruit, plus the Golden Earth Dragon King's Dragon Tendon and Dragon Marrow—with these four treasures, we can raise our physical strength to a terrifying level!"

Bai Ge was so delighted that he was practically beside himself. "I found them earlier in the Golden Earth Dragon King's lair.

"With these, Xue Er Jie, the absorption limit for your seventh spirit ring can be raised to a Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Ring!"

"Stop focusing only on those. This is for you."

As Qian Renxue spoke, she tossed a spirit bone to Bai Ge. "I have the Angel Divine Gear, so I don't need this."

This spirit bone was golden-red. It actually floated above Bai Ge's hand, and appeared to be an arm bone. Five slender finger bones pointed upward, each fingertip emitting a faint golden-red glow.

"This is... the Golden Radiance Left Arm Bone from the Fifty Thousand Year Golden Earth Dragon King? Xue Er Jie, you really are absurdly lucky!"

On the other side, Serpent Spear Douluo She Long and Pufferfish Douluo could not help shedding tears of envy at the sight of the spirit bone.

But neither dared entertain any improper thoughts.

Golden Crocodile Douluo's spirit bones were complete. More importantly, his Ninth Spirit Ring was a Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Ring, which meant Golden Crocodile Douluo possessed a Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Bone!

With him keeping watch, there naturally would be no problem.

Moreover, She Long was originally Qian Renxue's trusted confidant, but envy was unavoidable.