Black King Nidhogg's Blood (Part 2)

Chapter 2: Black King Nidhogg's Blood (Part 2)

Since hunting the Dragon Horn Hunting Lizard hadn't taken much energy from Moyuan, he rested briefly before immediately sitting on the ground and drawing the Ten-thousand Year Soul Ring above his head.

As Moyuan began to absorb it, wisps of black energy surged from the Dragon Horn Hunting Lizard's Ten-thousand Year Soul Ring, transforming into soul power that drilled out of Moyuan's body. One yellow and two purple soul rings then appeared, slowly undulating around Moyuan.

Vast soul power surged rapidly through his meridians, continuously being injected. The intense swelling pain caused Moyuan to frown slightly.

However, compared to what was happening in his Sea of Consciousness, the trouble from absorbing the Ten-thousand Year Soul Ring seemed insignificant.

A normal soul master's Sea of Consciousness was watery, starting as mere drops and growing into a boundless ocean as their soul power and cultivation increased.

But Moyuan's Sea of Consciousness was different.

Under the deep night, endless black land was covered by falling snow. The biting snowflakes covered the distant mountain peaks.

In the center of this land stood rows of gray tombstones, inscribed with unknown languages, making this world seem so desolate, cold, and broken.

Death and finality seemed to be its synonyms.

At this moment, Moyuan stood in this forest of tombstones, looking up at the sky in the distance, where an uninvited guest had appeared.

"Is this Soul Shock? It does seem quite powerful..."

High in the sky, the Dragon Horn Hunting Lizard, shrouded in solidified black resentment, floated ethereally. Its scarlet eyes, filled with immense killing intent, let out a piercing roar towards Moyuan.

"Roar!!!"

As if already dead, the Dragon Horn Hunting Lizard was not suppressed by its bloodline. The moment it saw Moyuan, it charged ferociously!

Facing the oncoming resentment, Moyuan's expression was calm to the extreme, his tone flat.

"Unfortunately, my Sea of Consciousness contains more than just you and me. There are other things..."

As he spoke, the Dragon Horn Hunting Lizard in the sky, with a crazed grin and overwhelming resentment, transformed into a black meteor and dived down!

The distance between them rapidly closed. The rushing wind caused Moyuan's windbreaker to flutter wildly.

"Roar!!!"

The Dragon Horn Hunting Lizard opened its bloody mouth, its sharp teeth aiming to bite Moyuan!

At this critical moment, The deep night suddenly began to shake violently. Something colossal flashed across the dark sky.

The ensuing surging wind, carrying the falling snow, turned into a terrifying storm. A pair of enormous black wings tore open the entire sky, casting a shadow on the ground!

Those massive black wings, adorned with countless grim skulls, brought endless disaster and undeniable death!

Dragon!

It was a black dragon!

How majestic and terrifying that black dragon was, so ferocious yet so beautiful, so awe-inspiring yet so suffocating.

The black dragon's eyes, like Moyuan's, were golden eyes that shone to the extreme! Flames seemed to flow within its eyes, and its head was adorned with an emperor's crown. Its scales were as dark as ink, as if they could absorb all life at a single glance!

Black King Nidhogg descended at this moment, bringing with him undeniable death!

The Dragon Horn Hunting Lizard, which had been grinning and charging at Moyuan, was now lying on the ground, at Moyuan's feet. Its entire body trembled uncontrollably, and even the monstrous resentment that enveloped it had vanished.

Having a trace of dragon blood within it and having once seen a pure-blooded dragon, it knew how powerful true dragons were. But when it saw the black dragon in the sky, it realized it had been wrong.

That was a true dragon! That was true terror!

Its appearance symbolized the end and destruction of all things!

It was the embodiment of death and disaster!

Unfortunately... the Dragon Horn Hunting Lizard's prostration could not make it invisible, nor could it escape predetermined death. The black dragon descended from the sky with a hurricane, and as the earth trembled, Nidhogg landed behind Moyuan.

Then, an even more terrifying gale began to sweep through! Nidhogg opened its mouth!

The trembling Dragon Horn Hunting Lizard offered no resistance, or rather, it couldn't even conceive of resisting!

The gale subsided, its mouth closed, and the Dragon Horn Hunting Lizard vanished into Moyuan's Sea of Consciousness.

Silence once again enveloped this black land. In the gray graveyard, only Moyuan and Nidhogg, two pairs of golden eyes, one large and one small, still shone brightly.

A cold wind blew a strand of Moyuan's hair across his face. He turned to face the giant black dragon, the symbol of death, and gazing at this perfect body that seemed to have been created by a god, he couldn't help but sigh:

"No matter how many times I see it, I can't help but be momentarily stunned. It's hard to imagine that Nidhogg is my martial soul, no, it's the blood of Black King Nidhogg..."

The blood of Black King Nidhogg, this was the martial soul of the transmigrator Moyuan.

In his previous life, after graduating from university at twenty-two, Moyuan became a working stiff. His usual hobby was reading novels. After a stroke of 'luck' one day after work, he was reborn on Douluo Continent, in the Heaven Dou Empire.

Both his parents were Soul Elders, and they died unexpectedly when Moyuan was five years old while hunting soul beasts for money.

His parents' martial souls were both ordinary bow-and-arrow type Tool Martial Souls. Moyuan originally thought his martial soul would also be a bow, but after awakening his martial soul, he realized he was wrong.

His martial soul was not a bow, but dragon blood, the dragon blood of Nidhogg!

This Nidhogg was not the black dragon from Norse mythology on Blue Star that gnawed at the World Tree, but the black dragon from the writer Qingmian Beast's book that destroyed the world after awakening!

The Emperor who created the White King, the Four Kings, and all the Dragon Race!

And when his martial soul awakened, Moyuan also entered his Sea of Consciousness. Here, he discovered a black dragon, and it was--Black King Nidhogg!

However, this Black King seemed a bit off. He wasn't like the Black King described in the original work. Moyuan felt he was more like a vessel.

After seeing this terrifying Black King, He conveyed some information to Moyuan.

Through the information, Moyuan learned that unlike all Soul Masters who hunt Soul Rings for Soul Skills, he also had to hunt Soul Rings, but what he obtained was not Soul Skills, but His blood.

For every major realm advancement, after Moyuan obtained a Soul Ring, he could exchange blood with the Black King, replacing one-tenth of the blood in his body with Dragon Blood and increasing its purity by 10%.

And after possessing Dragon Blood, depending on the purity and proportion of the Dragon Blood, Moyuan could use corresponding Yan Ling and obtain some knowledge of Alchemy.

For example, at the current three-ring stage, Moyuan could basically use all Yan Ling below Sequence Number 70, as well as simple self-forging and Alchemy related to elemental control.

Of course, due to the change in rules, the release of Yan Ling was also linked to Soul Power, and the Soul Power consumed by Yan Ling increased according to the change in power.

The reason he was able to use Sequence Number 89, Jun Yan, just now was... he had undergone a blood surge.

Through spiritual means, suppressing the 'human' part within his body and enhancing the 'dragon' part, this was a blood surge, also known as the Bloodline Refinement Technique.

Moyuan had used a blood surge to increase the content and purity of Dragon Blood in his body to 40% before he could use Jun Yan.

Of course, there were side effects to the blood surge.

However, unlike the 'slow descent into hell' and Certain Death ending in the original work, his use of a single blood surge would only result in a period of weakness.

But that was only for a single blood surge. If Moyuan underwent four blood surges, he could indeed temporarily boost his strength to the point of using Yan Ling of the level of 'Black Sun' and 'Judgment', but the price would be that his body would be occupied by the Black King in his Sea of Consciousness.

From then on, he would die, the Black King would descend, and then destroy this world.