A Thirty-Thousand-Year Thunder Dragon-Python Rampages, the Holy Sword Subdues the Sacred Beast

A violent surge of thunder-element energy erupted from the bottom of the lake.

The once-calm golden lake seemed to boil.

Vast sprays of golden water shot into the sky.

They turned into a torrential downpour that swept in every direction.

The surface churned violently.

A huge whirlpool rapidly formed in the center of the lake.

Accompanied by a piercing hiss,

a colossal creature burst from the whirlpool, breaking through the water.

It was more than thirty meters long.

Its entire body was covered in dark green scales as large as water vats.

Its head was dragonlike, yet not quite a dragon's.

Its gaping maw was lined with interlocking fangs.

Blue arcs of electricity, thick as wrists, coiled around its powerful body.

It was a Bloodthirsty Thunder Dragon-Python.

Its cultivation was at least thirty thousand years.

It was the true underground overlord of this Crystal Forest.

It had been lurking in the depths of the lake,

waiting for the moment the Holy Radiant Unicorn let down its guard.

Devouring this sacred beast, which carried the bloodline of the Light Dragon Clan,

would be enough to bring about a qualitative leap in its bloodline.

It might even transform from a dragon-python into a true dragon.

The Bloodthirsty Thunder Dragon-Python came with a nauseating stench,

lunging straight at the Holy Radiant Unicorn on Lake Heart Island.

The Holy Radiant Unicorn awoke in an instant.

It sprang to its feet.

The two pairs of pure white wings on its back spread wide.

It let out a clear, piercing whinny.

The golden horn on its forehead erupted with dazzling light.

A bolt of sacred lightning, thick as a barrel, shot from its horn.

It struck the oncoming Raging Thunder Dragon.

Boom.

Golden lightning collided violently with blue electrical arcs in midair.

A dazzling ball of light erupted.

The powerful shock wave blasted a huge vacuum into the lake water.

The Holy Radiant Unicorn had a noble bloodline,

but its cultivation was only six thousand three hundred years.

Before the overwhelming power of a thirty-thousand-year Soul Beast,

its slight elemental advantage could not bridge the gulf in cultivation.

The massive body of the Raging Thunder Dragon smashed through the ball of light.

The Raging Thunder Dragon whipped its thick tail.

With a gale that could sweep all before it,

it slammed into the Unicorn.

Thud.

The Unicorn let out a cry of agony.

Its snowy white body flew backward like a kite with a severed string.

It crashed heavily into the hard white rocks of Lake Heart Island.

The rocks shattered.

A few pure white feathers drifted through the air.

A trace of golden blood trickled from the Unicorn's mouth.

It struggled to get back to its feet,

but the Raging Thunder Dragon gave it no chance to catch its breath.

Its enormous body circled once in midair.

It opened its gaping maw,

and bit down hard at the Unicorn's neck.

At that moment, with the Unicorn on the brink of death,

a cold voice rang out at the edge of the Crystal Forest.

"My Soul Ring. You dare touch it?"

Su Chen stood on the shore.

A murderous glint flashed in his eyes.

He would never allow this beast to destroy the top-grade Soul Ring he had set his sights on.

"Kill it."

Su Chen issued the Death Warrant.

Before his words had even faded,

Yue Guan and Gui Mei had already vanished from where they stood.

Two Peak Douluo at rank ninety-five

had no need to test the waters against a thirty-thousand-year Soul Beast.

Yue Guan appeared directly above the Raging Thunder Dragon.

The seventh black Soul Ring beneath his feet suddenly lit up.

"Martial Soul Avatar."

A gigantic Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum bloomed in midair.

Its golden light instantly outshone the lightning on the Raging Thunder Dragon.

Yue Guan raised his right leg high.

Bearing the peerless pressure of a Titled Douluo,

he brought his foot crashing down on the Raging Thunder Dragon's head.

Crack.

The Raging Thunder Dragon's hard skull gave a sharp snap.

The immense force drove its colossal body out of the sky and straight into the ground.

It slammed into the edge of Lake Heart Island.

The tremendous impact made the entire lake shudder.

The Raging Thunder Dragon let out a roar of fury and alarm.

It thrashed wildly,

trying to break free of Yue Guan's hold.

The blue electrical arcs across its body flared tenfold in an instant,

turning into a raging pool of lightning.

It tried to char the human above it to a crisp.

Just as the lightning pool was about to erupt,

a black shadow slipped without warning from the darkness beneath the Raging Thunder Dragon's belly.

Gui Mei's hands became two pitch-black blades.

Without mercy, he drove them into the gaps between the scales on the Raging Thunder Dragon's soft underbelly.

"Infinite Ghost Shadow Strangling."

Gui Mei gave a cold shout.

Hundreds of black vengeful spirits surged through the wounds and into the Raging Thunder Dragon's body.

They savaged its organs and meridians.

The Raging Thunder Dragon let out a scream of utter agony.

The lightning pool gathered across its body instantly collapsed.

Under the combined assault of two Peak Douluo,

the thirty-thousand-year Soul Beast couldn't last even one full exchange.

But thirty-thousand-year Soul Beasts had astonishing vitality.

Faced with the threat of death,

the Raging Thunder Dragon-Python fell utterly berserk.

Ignoring the tearing agony inside its body,

it detonated the thunder-element source within itself.

A layer of blood-red light appeared across its body.

Countless bolts of raging lightning, thick as barrels, erupted from it

and blasted indiscriminately in every direction.

It was a final act of mutual destruction.

More than a dozen of the wildest bolts of lightning

locked directly onto Su Chen on the shore.

"Your Highness the Holy Son, watch out!"

Yue Guan cried out in alarm.

He was about to break away and rush back to defend Su Chen,

but saw that Su Chen made no move to dodge.

A cold smile curled the corner of Su Chen's mouth.

He moved his mind.

The pair of Dark Red Dragon Wings, three meters across, spread open behind him.

The power of his fifty-thousand-year External Soul Bone erupted in full.

Across the Dragon Wings,

Abyssal Demon Patterns flashed wildly.

A powerful blend of wind, thunder, and shadow surged around him.

Su Chen snapped his wings together,

completely enclosing his body inside them.

Boom.

More than a dozen bolts of raging lightning slammed into the Dark Red Dragon Wings.

The explosion everyone expected never came.

The moment those violent bolts touched the Dragon Wings,

they were like water absorbed by a sponge,

quickly merging into the Abyssal Demon Patterns.

The fifty-thousand-year Abyssal Winged Demon Tiger

had possessed domineering wind and thunder attributes to begin with.

Against attacks of the same element from creatures younger than itself,

this External Soul Bone granted absolute immunity and absorption.

The lightning energy flowed through the Dragon Wings into Su Chen's body

and was instantly crushed by the black-and-white vortex of the Chaos God-Demon Art.

It became pure nourishment,

replenishing Su Chen's body.

Su Chen spread his wings again.

There wasn't a single scorch mark on him.

Even his breathing hadn't faltered.

Yue Guan and Gui Mei watched the scene,

stunned beyond words.

A Soul Master at rank twenty-two

had blocked the dying counterattack of a thirty-thousand-year Soul Beast with nothing but an External Soul Bone.

It completely defied all common sense in the Soul Master World.

"Don't waste time. Finish it."

Su Chen's voice rang out with uncanny clarity over the thunder.

Yue Guan and Gui Mei stopped holding back.

A giant golden petal sword condensed in Yue Guan's hand.

He severed the Raging Thunder Dragon's neck vertebrae in one slash.

Gui Mei, meanwhile, shot out a claw.

He crushed the Raging Thunder Dragon's heart in one go.

The enormous dragon body slumped heavily onto the rocks.

Its life force was gone for good.

A deep black Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring slowly rose from its corpse.

Su Chen didn't spare the Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring a glance.

The Dark Red Dragon Wings behind him fluttered slightly.

He turned into a streak of light.

Lightly crossing the lake,

he landed steadily on the white rocks of Lake Heart Island.

His gaze locked directly onto the Holy Radiant Unicorn lying in a pool of blood.

The Unicorn was badly wounded.

Its pristine white coat was stained with blood.

A gash deep enough to expose bone split its abdomen.

It was the fatal blow left by the Raging Thunder Dragon.

If not for the exceptionally strong self-healing ability of its light attribute,

an ordinary Soul Beast would already have died.

Seeing Su Chen approach,

vigilance and hostility filled the Unicorn's eyes.

It knew that this human was with the two terrifying experts from earlier.

Soul Beasts and humans

were natural enemies.

The Unicorn struggled to raise its proud head.

The golden horn on its forehead glimmered once more with faint arcs of electricity.

The aura around it grew extremely unstable.

A violent energy compressed wildly within its body.

"Your Highness the Holy Son, step back."

Yue Guan flashed to Su Chen's side.

"This beast knows it can't survive. It's going to detonate its Soul Ring."

A six-thousand-three-hundred-year-old Soul Beast detonating its Soul Ring

would unleash power no weaker than a Soul King's full-force strike.

Su Chen didn't retreat a single step.

He looked at the Light Saint Beast, refusing to yield even in the face of death,

and a hint of admiration flashed in his eyes.

Only a proud, top-tier bloodline like this

was worthy of becoming a Soul Ring for his Judgment Holy Sword.

"You want to die? It won't be that easy."

Su Chen slowly raised his right hand.

The portion of his Soul Power in his dantian that belonged to light surged to life.

Brilliant golden light burst from his palm.

The Judgment Holy Sword appeared, gripped firmly in his hand.

The dual attributes of Ultimate Light and Ultimate Fire bloomed together.

An aura of pure divinity, countless times stronger than the Holy Radiant Unicorn's,

descended upon Lake Heart Island like heavenly might.

Under its radiance,

the surrounding golden lake water grew even clearer and more crystalline.

Holding the holy sword,

Su Chen looked like a god of light who had descended into the mortal world.

An inviolable majesty radiated from every inch of him.

The Holy Radiant Unicorn froze instantly.

The energy compressing within it to detonate itself abruptly stopped.

It opened its golden eyes wide

and stared at the sword in Su Chen's hand in disbelief.

As a top-tier sacred beast with the bloodline of the Ancient Light Dragon Clan,

it was keenly sensitive to the light attribute.

On this sword,

it sensed the most primal and supreme laws of light.

It was the aura of a higher being, one before whom all light-aligned creatures had to bow in reverence.

This aura crossed the boundaries of species and cultivation,

striking straight into the depths of its soul.

The hostility and madness in the Unicorn's eyes gradually faded.

In their place came submission born from the depths of its bloodline.

It stopped resisting.

Slowly, it folded its two pairs of wings.

Then it pressed its proud head heavily against the white rock,

offering Su Chen its most complete submission.

Yue Guan and Gui Mei stared, dumbfounded.

For a Soul Beast to submit to a human of its own accord

was unheard of in the history of the Douluo Continent.

Even a Peerless Douluo

could only kill one by force.

There was absolutely no way to make a Soul Beast bow its head willingly.

"The suppression of an Ultimate Attribute is actually this terrifying."

Yue Guan murmured to himself.

Su Chen held the Judgment Holy Sword with its tip pointed downward

and walked step by step toward the Unicorn.

He reached out with his left hand

and gently stroked its golden horn, covered in lightning patterns.

"Since you've submitted,"

"then become my power."

Su Chen's voice was calm,

but held not the slightest trace of pity.

The Judgment Holy Sword in his hand became a golden bolt of lightning

and pierced the Unicorn precisely between the brows.

It met no resistance.

The Unicorn's body twitched slightly,

then its eyes closed for good.

There was not a hint of pain on its face.

Instead, it wore a peaceful expression, as if released and welcomed into a sacred pilgrimage.

Specks of golden light rose above its corpse,

eventually condensing into a deep yellow Soul Ring, its surface tinged faintly with purple.

A top-tier Soul Ring from a six-thousand-three-hundred-year-old beast.

It radiated pure fluctuations of light and thunder.

Su Chen put away the Judgment Holy Sword

and sat cross-legged beside the Unicorn's corpse,

preparing to begin this epoch-making absorption beyond his rank.

"Elders, stand guard."

Su Chen gave a brief order.

He closed his eyes.

The Chaos God-Demon Art began to run at full power.

His right hand drew in the Soul Power.

The deep yellow Thousand-Year Soul Ring turned into a streak of light

and settled directly around his body.

Boom.

An energy ten times more violent than the Dark Nightmare Demon Tiger's

surged into Su Chen's meridians.

The source power contained in a six-thousand-three-hundred-year-old Soul Beast

was enough to burst a Soul Grandmaster apart in an instant.

Su Chen's body shuddered violently.

A fine layer of blood instantly seeped across the surface of his skin.

The bones in his body creaked under the strain.

Yue Guan and Gui Mei's hearts leapt to their throats.

They watched Su Chen's condition with rapt attention,

ready to forcibly sever the connection to the Soul Ring at any moment.

But Su Chen's brows only furrowed slightly.

The perfect body forged by the Marrow Cleansing Pill once again revealed its terrifying resilience.

Though his meridians had been stretched to their limit,

they were like tough dragon sinews,

holding the violent energy in place with all their might.

The black-and-white vortex of the Chaos God-Demon Art spun furiously,

rapidly breaking down and absorbing the energy pouring in.

The very next moment, as his body weathered the impact,

the Unicorn's remnant soul transformed into a tiny golden silhouette

and rushed straight into Su Chen's Sea of Consciousness.

Yet the remnant soul harbored neither resentment nor killing intent.

As soon as it touched the spiritual power emanating from the Million-Year Head Soul Bone,

it willingly dispersed into the purest spiritual nourishment,

merging with Su Chen's consciousness.

That was the greatest benefit of subduing it with the holy sword.

There was no Soul Shock.

The absorption proceeded with exceptional ease.

Two hours later,

Su Chen's tightly shut eyes snapped open.

Brilliant golden light burst from his right eye.

A Thousand-Year Soul Ring, purple-black in color,

floated steadily beneath his feet.

"Ding."

"Congratulations, Host, on successfully absorbing a six-thousand-three-hundred-year Soul Ring beyond your rank."

"The god-level selection quest has been completed."