Body Refining Third Layer? Fourth Realm, Dragon Body Perfection!

In an instant, Yu Xiaoheng's bones began transforming into a Jade-like Crystal luster. Deep within his marrow, specks of lightning flickered and danced.

Thunder Bone Solidification!

In merely a few moments, Yu Xiaoheng had crossed the two stages that had once seemed impossibly distant!

But this was not the end.

The Thunder Pool's energy remained vast and boundless.

Yu Xiaoheng closed his eyes, his entire body entering a profound state.

He could "see" his blood surging through him. Every drop contained a thread of golden Sacred Dragon Power and silver-blue Lightning Power.

He could "hear" his heart beating powerfully, each pulse pumping that blood containing dual powers throughout every corner of his body.

His strength, speed, defense, physique...

All of them were skyrocketing at an unimaginable rate!

Outside the Thunder Pool.

"He's... he's devouring the Thunder Pool!"

An Elder of the Blue Electric Sect cried out, his voice cracking with excitement.

On the Viewing Platform, Tang Wei, who had originally been watching with something of a spectator's amusement, abruptly rose to his feet.

His eyes burned as he stared at the center of the Lightning Vortex, two words bursting from his lips:

"Monster!"

The Clear Sky Sect revered precisely this kind of dominance, this kind of fearless advance!

Ning Zhenyuan rose as well.

He lightly applauded. "Congratulations, Sect Master Yu. This time, we may truly have witnessed the rise of a Young Dragon... no, a True Dragon."

While the outsiders were stunned, the clan members of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan had fallen into frenzied jubilation.

"The Holy Dragon is protecting Young Master Xiaoheng!"

"Our clan shall prosper! Our clan shall prosper!"

Cheers and shouts resounded through the heavens.

Yu Yuanzhen stood at the edge of the platform, the fierce wind whipping his robes with a loud rustle. He neither smiled nor spoke, yet his faintly trembling shoulders and fists clenched so tightly that his knuckles turned white revealed the turmoil in his heart.

Like Father, Like Son!

Yu Luomian's expression shifted constantly.

He looked at the figure within the Thunder Pool, then at Liu Erlong beside him, who was already weeping with joy. The anger in his heart quietly dissipated.

Is this... the future of our Blue Lightning Sect?

Though Yu Xiaoheng had indeed used Second Dragon before, the talent and will he now displayed were simply... terrifying.

And besides... he had actually been willing to take such risks for Second Dragon...

All hostility vanished from Yu Luomian's face.

At some point.

Among the cheering Blue Lightning Sect disciples, another voice joined in—one that had once been filled with fury, but was now equally excited and fervent.

Liu Erlong knelt on the ground, both hands tightly covering her mouth to keep herself from crying aloud.

Tears slipped through her fingers, scalding and fervent.

She knew that Brother Xiaoheng had survived.

Not only had he survived, but he was becoming stronger in a way she could not comprehend.

And... he had taken this risk for me!

That was enough.

Yu Xiaoheng knew nothing of the outside world's clamor.

At this moment, all of his mind was immersed in the earth-shattering transformation within his body.

The protection of the Sacred Dragon Bone did not merely block damage.

Those countless slender golden threads resembled an incomparably profound Transformation Array.

Before the violent energy of the Thunder Pool entered his body, it first passed through the filtering and purification of that Golden Light Net.

Its mixed and chaotic will was erased, leaving only the purest lightning essence. Nurtured and balanced by Sacred Dragon Power, it transformed into streams of vast yet gentle life energy that poured into his limbs and bones.

This was no longer simple cultivation, but a tremendous stroke of fortune!

A... bestowal of power, guided by Ancestor's Will and fueled by the entire Thunder Pool!

Under such ultimate nourishment, every cell in his body cheered and rejoiced.

Dragon Scales First Manifestation and Thunder Bone Solidification, the two major realms, were merely appetizers for this transformation.

Very soon, his flesh, tendons, membranes, and even his internal organs began their final strengthening under the cleansing surge of energy fused from Sacred Dragon Power and Thunder Force.

Golden Light faintly flowed beneath his skin.

Thunder Patterns within his bones grew ever clearer.

His blood surged like thunder, like a Dragon Roar!

At a certain moment, Yu Xiaoheng's body gave a slight tremor.

An unprecedented sense of completeness welled up in his heart.

It was as though every muscle and every inch of bone and tendon had reached the most perfect state they could attain at this stage.

Strength, speed, defense... all became one, without the slightest flaw.

The fourth realm of Lightning Pool Body Tempering, Dragon Body Perfection!

He had succeeded!

For an ordinary disciple of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, achieving Dragon Body Perfection would make their Physical Body strong enough to dominate Soul Masters of the same rank. It could even raise the Year Limit of Spirit Rings they could absorb by more than a thousand years!

However, that usually required reaching level forty or even level fifty.

By then, Soul Masters could often attempt to absorb a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring. They would not choose Spirit Beasts unsuited to them merely to push the limit of a Spirit Ring's Year Limit. Natural body refinement still had its effects, but those effects were displayed more in combat power than in absorbing Spirit Rings.

But Yu Xiaoheng was different.

What he needed most right now was to absorb a Spirit Ring and stabilize his evolution!

The benefits.

Were worlds apart from those of ordinary clan members!

And...

What they perfected was the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Body.

But Yu Xiaoheng, under the fortune bestowed by the Sacred Dragon Bone, had perfected a bloodline of even greater nobility... the Golden Sacred Dragon Body!

At this moment, he possessed absolute confidence.

For his First Soul Ring, let alone a thousand years—even two thousand, or three thousand years—he could absorb it all!

This was the foundation brought by the Golden Sacred Dragon!

Yet the transformation had not stopped.

Once his Physical Body reached perfection, the pure energy still pouring endlessly into him seemed to find a new outlet.

It began gathering toward the source of Yu Xiaoheng's Martial Soul.

The phantom of the Golden Sacred Dragon Young Body floating behind him had originally been purely golden, but now it began undergoing a strange change.

Streams of silver-blue lightning condensed to the extreme rose from Yu Xiaoheng's chest.

They did not disperse. Instead, they began intertwining and tracing themselves across the chest of the Golden Sacred Dragon Young Body.

Profound patterns slowly took shape.

It was not any writing or symbol known to the world. Its form was ancient and primitive. At its core was something like a Vertical Pupil, while countless fine lines branching like lightning extended around it, forming an intricate and majestic totem.

It was branded upon the chest of the Golden Sacred Dragon Young Body, as though it had been there since birth.

Thunder Mark!

Buzz—

The instant the Thunder Pattern formed, the Holy Dragon phantom behind Yu Xiaoheng suddenly trembled. The pressure it radiated instantly surged severalfold!

If the Golden Sacred Dragon before had been noble and majestic.

Then now, it possessed an additional dominance, as though it held authority over Destruction and Judgment!

A realization came to Yu Xiaoheng naturally, and he instantly understood.

This Thunder Pattern was proof that his Martial Soul had risen in quality after absorbing the Thunder Pool Origin!

From now on, his control over lightning would no longer be mere invocation, but... command!

From this day onward...

The final shortcoming of the Young Master of Blue Lightning Sect—

Bearing the name Blue Lightning, yet possessing no Thunder Force.

Had been completely remedied!