The Third Soul Core Belonging to the Soul Beast

The Soul Power fed into the Soul Guidance Array continued to increase until it reached a certain peak.

Boom!

Wu Lao slammed the Jet-Black Crutch in his hand against the ground, and his previously hunched body straightened.

Immediately afterward, the seventh-ranked black soul ring flashed, and his body began to expand as a pair of deep-blue dragon wings unfurled.

Very quickly, he transformed into a massive dragon over thirty meters long, its entire body crackling with blue lightning—the Martial Soul Avatar of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Beast Soul.

Roar! An impassioned dragon roar burst from Wu Lao's mouth. The Soul Guidance Array abruptly underwent a violent change, its white halo turning seven-colored before becoming a pillar of light that shot into the sky.

Just as the seven-colored pillar of light was about to pierce open a passageway, a black afterimage flashed forth. At a speed too fast for the eye to follow, it struck Wu Lao, who was in his Martial Soul Avatar state, with a palm.

"Who?!"

By the time the Titled Douluo reacted, a fair hand had already pressed against his chest. Palm wind howled as flesh was sliced apart into drifting blood mist, while his bones shattered into dust and scattered through the air.

In an instant, a powerful Titled Douluo had fallen.

His earlier cry of shock became his final words in this world.

All thirty White-Ranked Dou Zhe were dumbstruck. The invincible being they had just assessed had been reduced to ash with a single palm strike, without even having the chance to use his battle armor.

"Run!"

It was the leading Black-Ranked Dou Zhe's explosive shout that finally jolted everyone out of their stupor, sending them fleeing in all directions.

Naturally, although this Black-Ranked Dou Zhe had warned them, he did not choose to stay behind. Instead, he was the fastest to flee.

Specks of light attached themselves to eleven parts of his body. His Three-Word Battle Armor equipped itself in an instant, and after activating a secret technique, he fled into the distance at top speed.

Wu Lao had been an immensely powerful Titled Douluo, with a top-tier Beast Soul like the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon. Yet while in his Martial Soul Avatar state, he had been killed by a single palm strike and ground to dust.

Have him stay behind? What a joke!

It was not that he was unwilling; even if he were, it would not make the slightest difference. Since the black-robed figure could kill a Titled Douluo with one palm strike, killing an Eight-Ringed Soul Douluo and Three-Word Battle Armor Master like him would be no different from crushing an ant.

He had not underestimated the Demon Empress's strength. He had merely overestimated his own speed.

Snap!

The moment the Demon Empress withdrew the fair hand that had killed Wu Lao, her thumb and middle finger crossed, producing a crisp snap.

In an instant, heaven and earth changed. The mottled land was replaced by an endless expanse of sea and sky, and an Azure Blue Whale leaped from the surface, opening a mouth large enough to swallow a cliff.

Within its enormous maw, a vortex appeared, its pull immensely powerful. In an instant, the thirty weak White-Ranked Dou Zhe were sucked into the whale's belly.

Only after the strongest Black-Ranked Dou Zhe, who had fled the farthest, was sucked into the whale's belly did the leaping Azure Blue Whale close its mouth and sink beneath the sea, vanishing without a trace.

The sparsely populated mountain forest returned to tranquility once more.

At the same time, in another place.

Within the Dragon Valley Small World, Di Tian remained in meditation like a seven-colored clay figure, utterly motionless.

He truly intended to undergo the Million Year Soul Beast Tribulation within the Dragon Valley Small World. After absorbing the Dragon God's dragon soul, he could clearly sense that the Dragon Valley Small World had the ability to shield heavenly secrets, and that its interior was sturdier than the outside world.

That made sense. If the Dragon Valley Small World did not possess the ability to shield heavenly secrets, Gu Yuena would have long since come here to absorb the Dragon God's dragon soul and heal her injuries.

It was also because the world barrier was so sturdy that the powerful dragon souls within Dragon Valley had not escaped outside, while passages into Dragon Valley could still be opened from the outside.

A safe place outside the Dragon Valley Small World to undergo the tribulation was not easy to find.

After all, the current Plane Master had long since been replaced without anyone noticing. For the sake of Tang God King's Ten Thousand Year Plan, he might not interfere openly, but there was no telling whether he would tamper with Di Tian's heavenly tribulation.

Moreover, after absorbing the Dragon God's dragon soul, his cultivation had repeatedly begun surging toward the million-year limit. The time he could keep it suppressed was not enough for him to seek out another place capable of shielding heavenly secrets where he could undergo the tribulation.

Thus, Di Tian intended to use the final period during which he could still suppress his cultivation to make one last preparation for the Million Year Soul Beast Tribulation: opening a Third Soul Core belonging to soul beasts!

It was widely said that soul beasts were born with one fewer Dantian than humans, and therefore lacked the conditions to condense a Third Soul Core. That was complete nonsense.

Both soul beasts and humans on the Douluo Plane had been born from the Dragon God. How could one be favored while the other was slighted?

Ever since he had condensed Dual Soul Cores through the Yin-Yang Complement method tens of thousands of years ago, he had continuously attempted to condense a Third Soul Core, but every attempt had failed.

The most recent attempt had been three thousand years ago, when he broke through the nine-hundred-thousand-year soul beast tribulation. As expected, it had still ended in failure.

It was not that he did not know the correct method for soul beasts to condense a Third Soul Core. His strength simply had not been sufficient.

Under normal circumstances, a soul beast needed a cultivation of around seven hundred thousand years before it had any chance of successfully condensing Yin-Yang Complement Dual Soul Cores.

Once it condensed Yin-Yang Complement Dual Soul Cores, it could rely on seven hundred thousand years of cultivation to rival a peak Quasi-God among Limit Douluo, standing at the pinnacle of the plane.

But likewise, the subsequent growth of its cultivation and combat power would become exceedingly slow.

As a result, it would be difficult to possess the strength and cultivation needed to condense a Third Soul Core before reaching the million-year threshold.

Only now, after absorbing the Dragon God's dragon soul, did Di Tian have confidence in succeeding.

Thanks to the foresight he had possessed back in the Divine Realm, he knew the correct method for soul beasts to condense a Third Soul Core.

Drawing upon the purer bloodline advantage soul beasts possessed over humans, he would use homologous resonance to condense a Third Bloodline Soul Core.

Hidden within the bloodline, it would become bloodline particles that flowed through the body's cycle and the Seven Meridians and Eight Extraordinary Vessels, resonating with the Yin-Yang Complement Dual Soul Cores.

That was precisely what Di Tian was doing now. His once vibrant crimson blood was turning seven-colored and spreading throughout every part of his body.

At times, it flowed as seven-colored blood; at times, it reverted to bright red blood; at times, it condensed into blood-red Soul Core particles; and at times, it condensed once more into seven-colored Soul Core particles.

Only when the compression and rotation frequency of the Bloodline Soul Core could resonate at the same frequency as the already-existing Yin-Yang Complement Dual Soul Cores did it stop.

"Roar—roar—"

Di Tian's body, still as a meditating old monk, began to tremble slightly, releasing waves of deep dragon roars.

The glazed, multicolored scales on the surface of his body cracked, peeling away piece by piece and falling to the ground.

He abruptly rose to his feet. His soaring dragon roar shook the heavens, and his Dragon Might reached its peak, instantly dispersing the surrounding energy. Within several meters of him, it was nearly equivalent to a vacuum in space.

The Third Soul Core—the Bloodline Soul Core—was complete! He had become a singular exception within this plane. Even Gu Yuena, the Silver Dragon King, whose strength and foundation surpassed his, had not broken this precedent.

Just then, the wind stirred! "Whoosh—"

The Million Year Soul Beast Tribulation, which had been poised to strike, could no longer be suppressed!