Nine Transformations of the Golden Dragon! Thousand Jun Dragon Power! Humanoid Tyrannosaurus! One Punch Dragon!

"How... how is this possible?!"

For the first time, an almost humanlike expression of extreme shock appeared on the Sky Azure Bull Python's enormous Bull Head.

It had lived for tens of thousands of years and had seen Soul Masters absorb Soul Rings before.

But the sight before it was simply unheard of, completely overturning everything it knew!

Wasn't a Soul Ring's age determined the moment a Soul Beast died?

How could it... change?

And this was a qualitative leap from ten thousand years to a hundred thousand years.

"Roar?!"

Er Ming, the Titan Giant Ape, was dumbfounded as well.

He scratched his furry head, his lantern-sized eyes filled with pure confusion and incomprehension.

Unable to figure it out, he simply stopped thinking about it.

He only felt that the Red Circle looked more powerful than the Black Circle.

So he let out a low roar toward Lin Qing, as though asking a question.

"Dad's Soul Rings turned red! They're so pretty, like rubies!"

Lin Rourou blinked her clear eyes, her Small Face full of amazement.

"Red? Are Red Soul Rings powerful? Are they stronger than Dad's old ones?"

Lin Wu'er tilted her head curiously.

Lin Qingzhu nodded gently. Her gaze never left Lin Qing, who was enveloped in golden light, as she answered softly but with certainty.

"Yes. Red means a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring. They're incredibly, incredibly powerful."

At the exact instant the three Soul Rings completely transformed into Blood Red!

"Boom!!!"

A vast energy fluctuation several times more powerful than before erupted from the three Blood-colored Soul Rings, like a dormant volcano finally reaching its breaking point!

They hummed and trembled as though breaking free from their final restraints. With no further obstruction, they completely and perfectly merged into Lin Qing's body.

The Soul Rings underwent their ultimate fusion with his own Soul Power and with the Golden Dragon Martial Soul deep within his soul.

"Urgh!"

Lin Qing, seated cross-legged on the ground, suddenly shuddered.

An unprecedented, ocean-like surge of immense power finally found an outlet and burst forth from the deepest part of his body.

He could clearly feel the barriers of his Soul Power Level.

Under the impact of that torrent, they rose steadily higher!

Level 83... Level 84... Level 85... Level 86... Level 87... Level 88... Level 89...

He advanced with unstoppable momentum!

Without the slightest resistance!

In the end, the torrent of Soul Power struck fiercely against the chasm representing a qualitative transformation—the threshold of Level 90—with the force of ten thousand jun!

"Rumble!"

A world-splitting boom rang out from the depths of his soul.

Level 90!

The bottleneck shattered in a single charge!

A pale gold storm of Soul Power pressure, vast and surging far beyond anything before, spread explosively outward from Lin Qing.

It was the aura of a Titled Douluo.

Though still incomplete, it had already taken shape, majestic and weighty.

Immediately afterward, three alluring, profound Blood-colored Soul Rings carrying an inscrutable rhythm rose one after another from beneath his feet, slowly pulsing with suffocating pressure.

Blood red, blood red, blood red!

The light of the three Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings reflected off one another, making Lin Qing appear like a God of War descending upon the world.

The Soul Ring absorption was a complete success!

Lin Qing, a Level 90 Titled Douluo.

And an unprecedented Level 90 whose first three Soul Rings were all Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings![]

Lin Qing's eyelids flew open, and two sharp gleams shot forth with a whoosh!

Within those golden Dragon Pupils, two clusters of Golden Flames seemed to burn eternally, dazzling enough to seize one's soul.

He rose slowly to his feet and tensed his entire body—

"Crack! Crack! Pop! Pop!"

A series of crisp yet dull explosions from his Bone Joints rang out from within his body like firecrackers.

Just hearing them made one feel the sheer strength packed within him.

"It worked!"

Lin Qing was absolutely exhilarated.

This effect is even better than I imagined!

With a slight inward inspection.

Good heavens, the Soul Power in his body surged and roared like floodwaters bursting through a dam, so vast it was outrageous.

The Golden Dragon Martial Soul also conveyed waves of joy and delight.

It was as though it had eaten its fill and was still burping, utterly satisfied.

What delighted him most was the Golden Dragon's Ultimate Power attribute.

This thing actually had such a hidden function?

It was practically identical to the Clear Sky Hammer's forging and purification effect.

It repeatedly tempered and purified the energy of the three Ninety-Thousand-Year Soul Rings as though forging metal, forcibly refining them into Hundred-Thousand-Year quality!

What did that mean?

It meant the Soul Skills he obtained were genuine Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Skill level!

Of course, the Soul Power increase was not as absurd as absorbing three complete Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings. It stopped after charging all the way to Level 90.

On second thought, he understood.

"Back then, Ah Yin Sacrificed herself for Tang Hao, giving him all of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast's cultivation, life force, and soul in their entirety. That was why he shot straight from Level 89 to Level 92."

"This is more like a 'self-service version.' The raw materials—the Ninety-Thousand-Year Soul Rings—were a little lacking, so reaching Level 90 is already enough."

Although their quality had become a hundred thousand years, the energy within them was still from ninety thousand years.

It still had to obey the law of conservation of energy, after all.

But getting Hundred-Thousand-Year quality Soul Skills for free was already an outrageous profit. He could laugh himself awake from dreams over that!

Lin Qing calmed himself and carefully sensed the new Soul Skills he had obtained.

The moment he did, another enormous surprise dropped right onto his head!

His Soul Skills were not like Tang San's rigid system, where every Soul Ring came with only one fixed skill.

Every Blood Red Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring had given him two Soul Skills!

[First Soul Ring]

"Golden Dragon Transformation": All Attribute Boost 100%, lasts thirty minutes.

"Thousand Jun Dragon Power": Strength Amplification 200%, lasts thirty minutes.

[Second Soul Ring]

"Golden Dragon Transformation": All Attribute Boost 100%, lasts thirty minutes.

"Thousand Jun Dragon Power": Strength Amplification 200%, lasts thirty minutes.

[Third Soul Ring]

"Golden Dragon Transformation": All Attribute Boost 100%, lasts thirty minutes.

"Thousand Jun Dragon Power": Strength Amplification 200%, lasts thirty minutes.

"Gasp!"

Even Lin Qing was startled.

"This boost... isn't it a little too simple and brutal?!"

Especially when he discovered that the Soul Skill Golden Dragon Transformation did not seem to belong exclusively to these three Soul Rings.

It was a special effect naturally possessed by the Golden Dragon Martial Soul itself, or perhaps a hidden fixed Soul Skill.

A more domineering name for this Soul Skill surfaced in his mind—Nine Transformations of the Golden Dragon.

With every additional Soul Ring, he could gain another "transformation." Right now, he could activate Golden Dragon Three Transformations.

There were nine transformations in total, and every transformation could increase all attributes by 100%.

"Nine Transformations of the Golden Dragon... just hearing that name gets my blood pumping!"

The effects of "attribute boost" and "attribute amplification" were not simply added together.

The more he thought about it, the brighter his eyes became.

An attribute boost directly raised the body's base attributes by an entire level.

Attribute amplification, meanwhile, multiplied those attributes again on that new, higher foundation!

This was multiplication, not addition!

With all Nine Transformations of the Golden Dragon activated, his base attributes would multiply several times over.

Then he could stack the pure Strength Amplification brought by his other Soul Rings on top of that.

The image was too beautiful.

Lin Qing felt as though his brain could barely calculate it all.

"As expected, the Golden Dragon's style has always had only one word written all over it: 'reckless!'"

He could not help grinning.

He quite liked this kind of straightforward approach.

One force could overcome ten techniques.

Before Ultimate Power, all flashy Soul Skills were Paper Tigers.

Lin Qing could already see his future fighting style racing headlong down the path of a Humanoid Tyrannosaurus and One Punch Dragon.