Golden Dragon Three Transformations, Activate! Taking On the Forest Overlord, the Titan Giant Ape

"Human."

The Sky Azure Bull Python's deep, resonant voice interrupted his thoughts.

Its massive bull head lowered slightly, its azure eyes filled with scrutiny and profound confusion.

"Why has your Soul Ring mutated into a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast's?"

"This is far beyond the capabilities of ordinary Soul Masters, or even Soul Beasts."

Its tone carried the steadiness unique to a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, yet it could not conceal its astonishment.

Lin Qing reined in his surging emotions.

After giving it some thought, he felt there was nothing worth hiding.

He raised his head to meet the Sky Azure Bull Python's gaze and calmly explained, "It should be caused by the special nature of my Martial Soul."

"The core attribute of my Golden Dragon Martial Soul is 'Ultimate Power.'"

"During the absorption of Soul Rings, Ultimate Power seems capable of performing something like 'tempering' and 'purifying' the energy within the Soul Ring itself."

"It's like refining Iron Ore into Refined Iron. That's roughly what I mean."

"The energy this time was too immense and may have triggered a deeper transformation, forcefully raising the quality of the Soul Ring."

"Ultimate Power..."

The Sky Azure Bull Python slowly repeated those words. A trace of understanding flashed through its enormous eyes, followed by even deeper emotion.

Human Soul Masters of this era did not understand the concept of Ultimate Attributes.

But as a Soul Beast, it knew full well the weight carried by the word "ultimate."

Any miracle now seemed less surprising.

"Roar! Roar roar!!"

The Titan Giant Ape, Er Ming, beside them did not have so many complicated thoughts.

Impatiently, it pounded its rock-like chest with its massive fists, producing muffled booms.

Its lantern-sized eyes glared intensely at Lin Qing, brimming with eager provocation.

It raised one forelimb and awkwardly, yet unmistakably, gestured for a head-on clash.

"Roar roar..."

A low, urging growl rumbled from its throat.

Its meaning could not have been clearer: enough talking. Now that you've shown yourself, let's find out what you're really made of through a fight!

The Sky Azure Bull Python glanced at its simple-minded, brawny brother, a hint of helplessness flashing in its eyes.

Then it turned to Lin Qing and said, "Er Ming says it wants to personally test just how far your strength has reached. To see whether you can protect Xiao Wu and Wu'er."

It paused, a trace of barely noticeable teasing entering its voice.

"It seems rather unconvinced by your performance in restraining the Thousand Jun Ant Emperor earlier, as well as the strange mutation of this Soul Ring. Or perhaps it is simply extremely curious."

Lin Qing was not startled by this. Instead, he was delighted.

A blazing Fighting Spirit flared in his eyes!

"Just what I wanted!"

He laughed aloud, his voice brimming with confidence.

"I've just obtained this new strength, and I've been itching to use it. I also wanted to find an opponent with enough weight to properly gauge myself against!"

He truly wanted to know how terrifying his strength had become under the horrifying combination of Golden Dragon Three Transformations and the third layer of Thousand Jun Dragon Power.

Before him stood the forest's overlord of strength, the Titan Giant Ape, said to possess boundless power. Was it not the perfect whetstone and measuring tool?

One had to know that ordinary Titled Douluo might not even be worth mentioning before Er Ming.

Even a Level 95 Super Douluo would have to exert tremendous effort to defeat it.

"Er Ming."

Lin Qing crooked a finger at the Titan Giant Ape, his smile radiant.

"You'd better be careful!"

The Soul Power within him, like soldiers hearing the charge, instantly boiled over!

Three Blood-colored Soul Rings shone!

Every enhancement Soul Skill activated without reservation.

"Golden Dragon Three Transformations, activate!"

"Thousand Jun Dragon Power, third layer, activate!"

"Boom—!!!"

Invisible yet incomparably heavy shackles within him snapped and shattered in rapid succession.

Lin Qing's already restrained aura erupted like an ignited powder keg, crazily soaring!

A visible pale gold shockwave mixed with a Blood Halo exploded outward in a ring.

The dazzling golden light was no longer restrained. It burst forth as though a sun had exploded within his body.

His entire figure was illuminated like a divine statue cast from pure gold.

The muscles across his body visibly swelled and bulged beneath the golden radiance.

His once well-fitting clothes stretched taut, nearly tearing apart.

The fine golden Dragon Scale patterns beneath his skin flickered madly with unprecedented brilliance.

"Roar—!"

Pure Dragon Might capable of making souls tremble spread through the air like tangible pressure.

The greatest transformation came to his arms.

Blinding golden light gathered.

With a soft "puff," the sleeves on both his arms instantly shattered into fragments.

What emerged were two savage, perfect golden Dragon Arms, overflowing with the raw aesthetic of violence!

From shoulder to the backs of his hands, they were completely covered in hard, magnificent golden Dragon Scales.

His five fingers transformed into sharp Dragon Claws.

The Golden Dragon Arms' contours overflowed with explosive power.

Merely looking at them allowed one to sense the terrifying brute force within, enough to level mountains and split peaks!

Even the surrounding air emitted an overloaded buzzing sound.

A terrifying force that made the earth beneath his feet tremble spread outward from Lin Qing.

The Sky Azure Bull Python's massive body instinctively tensed slightly at that moment.

The gravity in its enormous azure eyes had never been stronger.

From this tiny human before it, it clearly sensed a dangerous aura capable of threatening even itself!

Rather than being afraid, the Titan Giant Ape, Er Ming, grew excited beyond measure.

"Roar—!!!"

He threw back his head and unleashed a deafening roar!

The purest, fiercest flames of Fighting Spirit burned in his enormous eyes.

The power radiating from this tiny creature completely ignited the competitiveness and ferocity belonging to the Forest Overlord deep within his bloodline.

"Roar!"

Er Ming waited no longer and made no attempt to probe him.

That mountain-sized fist, carrying the simplest yet most extreme aesthetic of violence—the power to crush everything—howled with a dull, terrifying sound as it smashed viciously downward at the glittering Lin Qing!

Before the fist even arrived.

The pressure alone had already crushed the ground around Lin Qing into a depression.

"Good! I've been waiting for you!"

Golden Glow flared wildly in Lin Qing's Dragon Eyes.

The muscles of his draconic right arm suddenly bulged as he threw a similarly unadorned, straight punch upward!

What he wanted was the purest, most primal, most blood-boiling kind of clash—strength against strength!

To see whether the Forest Overlord's power was more terrifying, or whether his Golden Dragon Power, after countless horrifying enhancements, was superior!

In the next instant, the two vastly different-sized fists, both containing power capable of Destroying Heaven and Earth, collided explosively in midair!

"Boom—!!!"

The deafening sound that erupted in that instant had already surpassed the realm of ordinary noise!

It was more like the dull explosion caused by a meteor crashing into the earth's core!

A solidified ring-shaped soundwave became an invisible scythe, sweeping outward from the collision point with a sharp whoosh!

Within several hundred meters, every tree as thick as a bowl was snapped cleanly in half.

For a time, wood chips flew everywhere!

Even thicker ancient trees were shaken so violently that branches and leaves rained down, trembling all over.