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As they approached the dark area, the strange pressure grew stronger. Xiao Yuan slowly stopped, his dark eyes filled with emotion as he gazed at the center of the sea of the Thunder Sea. There, a colossal dragon, its body gleaming as if cast from gold, coiled and twisted, golden lightning emanating from its surface! This was the pill lightning that only Ninth Grade Golden Pill Core could attract— the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning! A look of amazement appeared in Xiao Yuan's eyes.
If a ranking of Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning were to be created, similar to Heavenly Flame Ranking, then this lightning would at least be among the top three.
Only when Ninth Grade Golden Pill is refined will this Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning appear in the world. Every time this thunder appears, it is earth-shattering, and the heavens and earth tremble. Even Dou Sheng Expert is insignificant under its thunderous power. In some ancient books, there are many stories of the strange phenomena that the alchemists who reached the peak of their craft attracted when they refined Ninth Grade Golden Pill pill.
The most awe-inspiring of these phenomena is the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning. Even ordinary Dou Sheng Expert would be reduced to ashes in an instant if they were touched by it.
Of course, even in the most prosperous ancient times, the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning was extremely rare. In the present day, there has been no news of the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning appearing on the continent for thousands of years. This means that in these thousands of years, no Ninth Grade Golden Pill has ever appeared on the Dou Douqi Continent!
That kind of almost divine pill, perhaps only Xiao Yuan has a chance of refining it for the time being.
A golden thunder dragon coiled in the deepest part of the Thunder Sea, its eyes closed, golden arcs of electricity flashing continuously on its body. A destructive power was quietly spreading out, causing the surrounding Void Space to appear distorted and on the verge of breaking apart.
Countless Black Demon Lightning surrounded the Golden Lightning Dragon a thousand feet away, as if they were paying homage to their king.
"Tsk!"
Watching this scene, Xiao Yuan also examined the details of the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning Dragon with great interest.
However, the faint sound was unusually loud in the silent space. As a result, many of the Black Demon Lightning suddenly turned around and charged towards Xiao Yuan like angry giant pythons.
Seeing the Black Demon Lightning rushing towards him, Xiao Yuan remained fearless, not even using his Heavenly Flames, letting the violent Black Demon Lightning strike him.
For him, even swimming in the Thunder Sea of Black Demon Lightning wouldn't be a problem.
However, this Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning Dragon is quite powerful. According to human levels, this thunder dragon is roughly equivalent to the level of Seven Star Dou Sheng.
At that level, if Xiao Yuan weren't now Emperor Realm Soul, he probably wouldn't dare to be so arrogant.
Xiao Yuan's arrogant and provocative behavior, standing still, attracted more and more Black Demon Lightning. In an instant, the depths of the lightning pool boiled over, and a massive amount of Black Demon Lightning surged out, rushing towards Xiao Yuan from all directions.
Xiao Yuan ignored them, enduring the Black Demon Lightning, and walked towards the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning Dragon.
Deep within the Thunder Pool, seemingly sensing Xiao Yuan's approach, the coiled Golden Lightning Dragon slowly opened its tightly closed eyes, its pupils flashing with lightning and thunder, reflecting the entire world within its enormous eyes.
With a single open of its mouth, the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning Dragon unleashed a massive golden bolt of lightning, approximately a hundred feet long, which shot out at near-light speed with a hissing sound. In just a flash, it struck Xiao Yuan.
"Hiss!"
A massive golden lightning bolt enveloped Xiao Yuan, the Bei Wang, and Xiao Yi. Huge arcs of lightning flashed continuously, and the Black Demon Lightning that had been charging towards them immediately stopped and fled far away, not daring to touch them at all.
"Ouch, it still hurts a little!"
Amidst the arc of lightning, Xiao Yuan gasped, gritting his teeth and letting out a muffled groan.
The Heavenly Flames within his body was operating at full power, refining the terrifying energy within the golden lightning.
The Life and Death Heavenly Talisman also emitted black and white energies to protect Xiao Yuan's body.
As the Heavenly Flames removed the destructive factors from the golden lightning, a vast and extremely destructive energy suddenly surged from Xiao Yuan's body.
Having prepared in advance, Xiao Yuan controlled this vast energy, urging it to circulate along his meridians. Wherever this energy passed, tiny golden lightning arcs flickered, causing waves of stinging pain within Xiao Yuan's body. However, this pain was clearly insignificant compared to the pure and abundant energy.
A moment later, the violent energy in the golden lightning was completely transformed into pure Dou Qi, flowing through Xiao Yuan's five Qi Mansion. Under this refining process, Xiao Yuan was pleasantly surprised to find that his Douqi Realm had directly broken through to the Three Star Dou Sheng!
Sure enough, although he had developed resistance to the Black Demon Lightning, if he could refine some of the energy of the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning, his improvement would be significant! At this moment, the massive body of the Golden Lightning Dragon suddenly exploded into huge arcs of lightning, containing a mournful dragon roar that resounded throughout the world. The surrounding Black Demon Lightning was also terrified and retreated far away.
"Spiritual Energy is gathering; has the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning begun its attempt to gather spiritual energy?"
This scene brought Xiao Yuan back to his senses from his joy, and a thoughtful look appeared on his face.
Although the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning is extremely terrifying, it does not yet possess intelligence. In other words, it cannot yet be called a living being. The so-called gathering of spirit is to condense intelligence. If successful, it will become the only Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning Dragon in the world with intelligence.
This kind of naturally born creature has no lifespan. If managed properly, the Xiao Clan will possess a super guardian beast that can protect Xiao Clan forever! This is enough to ensure that the Xiao Clan will forever stand at the pinnacle of the Douqi Continent!
Xiao Yuan did not believe that the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning Dragon could successfully gather spiritual energy on its own.
The power of the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning is too great, so if one tries to condense spiritual intelligence, one will suffer a great backlash.
"Crack!"
A golden thunderstorm, one-fifth the size of the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning, exploded violently on its body surface. Golden arcs of lightning, filled with destructive power, surged wildly. Faced with this backlash explosion from within its body, even the mighty Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning could only struggle incessantly. However, amidst its frantic struggle, some Spiritual Energy began to slowly emerge from its cold, emotionless dragon eyes, making it appear more alive and no longer as cold and sculpted as before.
"Boom!"
As some Spiritual Energy surged from the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning Dragon's eyes, the backlash within its body intensified. Deep, rumbling thunderous sounds continuously emanated from its body, and each terrifying explosion caused Xiao Yuan to shake his head with a look of regret.
"Waaah!"
Just as this thought flashed through Xiao Yuan's mind, the overwhelming Black Demon Lightning around him seemed to sense it instinctively. Immediately, a strange sound carrying a sense of sorrow emanated from the entire Thunder Sea. Then, countless Black Demon Lightning surged together, rushing out one after another towards the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning.
Countless Black Demon Lightning, upon contact with the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning's body, would transform into tiny black currents, invading its interior. As they entered, the violent explosions within the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning gradually subsided. Clearly, these Black Demon Lightning were using their energy to resist the backlash from within the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning.
With the help of numerous Black Demon Lightning, the Spiritual Energy within the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning Dragon's eyes grew increasingly dense. However, at the same time, its originally dazzling golden body became increasingly dim, and the backlash made it weaker and weaker.
"Roar!"
Amidst the mournful roar of the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning, the Black Demon Lightning deep within the Thunder Sea went berserk, fearlessly charging into its body. However, as the Spiritual Energy within the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning Dragon's eyes grew increasingly dense, the explosion within its golden body became even more frenzied. The destructive ripples that spread from the explosion made even Xiao Yuan, who was far away, feel a chill run down his spine.
"It's going to fail."
As an outsider, Xiao Yuan appeared quite calm. He glanced around and shook his head. The backlash within the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning was increasing exponentially. At this rate, no matter how many times the Black Demon Lightning charged forward, it would be unable to suppress the backlash. Once it could not be suppressed, the intelligence that the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning had painstakingly condensed would be shattered once again.
Having seen the outcome, Xiao Yuan sighed softly. This Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning had taken countless years to form, and its failure to gather spiritual energy was indeed a pity. Although Heaven had endowed it with great power, it had also deprived it of the right to easily gain intelligence.
"Boom boom boom!"
Deep within the Thunder Sea, the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning lay coiled, its body dim and lifeless, its golden form now appearing ethereal. Faced with the terrifying backlash, it was powerless to resist.
As the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning lay resignedly in the depths of the Thunder Sea, the surrounding Black Demon Lightning also ceased its assault, circling around the former and emitting low groans filled with sorrow.
"Alas, the gathering of spirits has failed."
Xiao Yuan shook his head, his feet treading through the void. In a flash, he appeared deep within the Thunder Sea, gazing at the enormous Golden Lightning Dragon, which was thousands of feet long. At this moment, the dragon glanced at him with its extremely dim eyes, but did not launch any further attacks.
"Waaah!"
Faced with Xiao Yuan's renewed intrusion, the Black Demon Lightning became enraged and roared as it tried to charge forward. However, when Xiao Yuan's terrifying soul power emerged, all the Black Demon Lightning trembled and retreated.
The Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning Dragon clearly hadn't expected that this human, whose Dou Qi cultivation was inferior to his, would possess such terrifying soul power. A sense of powerlessness immediately appeared in his eyes.
In the end, it was a complete loss!
Xiao Yuan's body hovered in front of the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning. His tiny body was like an ant, yet his calm voice caused a ripple to appear in the dim dragon eyes of the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning.
"An exchange? I'll take the power, and you'll take the intelligence?"
Xiao Yuan gently pressed his palm on a dragon scale between the eyes of the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning, and his soul power surged forth. Then, he pulled hard, and instantly, the brilliant golden lightning was forcibly extracted from the body of the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning. Faintly, the golden lightning gathered into a giant lightning dragon about a hundred feet long.
The extraction went smoothly. Even the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning Dragon at its peak could not pose any threat to Xiao Yuan, who had now cultivated his soul power to the half-step Divine Palace Realm, let alone in its current weakened state.
Moreover, it was willing to relinquish power for the sake of intelligence; it was already weary of this aimless, instinct-driven, and aimless existence. "What terrifying destructive power!"
Golden flames erupted from Xiao Yuan's palm, transforming into a massive fire net that tightly bound the golden lightning dragon. This was the power within the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning, but its destructive potential exceeded Xiao Yuan's tolerance limit. If such energy were inhaled, even he would be severely injured on the spot.
"Roar!"
The golden lightning dragon struggled frantically within the fire net, trying to escape, but without anyone specifically directing it, it seemed powerless to do so.
"Seal up!"
Within the Life and Death Heavenly Talisman suspended between Xiao Yuan's brows, black and white energies swirled out, transforming into an array. Immediately, the golden fire net enveloped the golden lightning dragon and began to rapidly shrink, eventually transforming into a miniature lightning dragon that burrowed into Xiao Yuan's arm, turning into a golden dragon pattern.
After doing all this, Xiao Yuan turned his gaze to the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning in front of him. Due to the power being drawn away, the latter's body directly transformed into a small golden dragon about ten feet long.
Xiao Yuan gently stroked the dragon head of the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning with his palm. With a change of hand seal, the Spiritual Energy between heaven and earth quickly gathered and finally transformed into a seed of Spiritual Energy, which slowly invaded the body of the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning. The Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning was probably equivalent to Dou Zun level existence at this time. Now that Xiao Yuan was taking action to gather spiritual energy for it, the backlash would naturally not occur again.
Looking at the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning that suddenly blazed with Spiritual Energy in the dragon's eyes, Xiao Yuan smiled slightly. Having given up power, regaining intelligence would obviously be a piece of cake.
"From now on, you will be the only Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning in the world that possesses sentience!"
Xiao Yuan transformed a drop of the Ancient Void Dragon's blood into Dragon Mark and slapped it onto the forehead of the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning, saying with a smile.
This Dragon Mark cannot restrain the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning Dragon, but it will allow Xiao Yuan to recognize it the next time he sees it.
In addition, the Dragon Mark also contains a trace of soul power. Firstly, it helps Xiao Yuan determine the status and location of this little pet. Secondly, it can exist as a kind of inherited memory similar to that of the magical beast race, teaching Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning to cultivate Dou Technique and get to know this world that is extremely new to him.
Xiao Yuan did not intend to keep it by his side right now.
After all, for the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning Dragon, the vast world is what he wants to see most right now.
After planting the Dragon Mark, Xiao Yuan patted the little dragon head of the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning Dragon, then turned and flew away towards the outside of the Thunder Pool.
Deep within the Thunder Pool, the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning Dragon gazed at the departing white-clad figure. After a surge of energy, it transformed into a handsome young man dressed in white, bearing a striking resemblance to Xiao Yuan, with a golden Lightning Mark between his brows.
"Mother."
After a long pause, he stammered and spoke somewhat awkwardly.