Thunder God Divinity Fragment

After seeing that it was complete, Dugu Bo had no doubts. Su Ming began absorbing it, using the Creation Qi from the Creation Furnace to improve the quality of his Thunder God bloodline.

Su Ming summoned his Martial Soul, sat cross-legged, and began drawing in the black Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring. He had only just started refining it when its enormous energy instantly filled his entire body.

Watching Su Ming's pained expression from outside, Dugu Bo was ready to forcibly interrupt him if he couldn't absorb the Soul Ring. But as time passed, the pain on Su Ming's face gradually faded, and Dugu Bo knew things were going well. Only the final blow remained: the spiritual shock.

Having been tempered by two Immortal Herbs, Su Ming could withstand the Soul Power impact from this Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring.

Su Ming then began mobilizing the Soul Power in his body to besiege the black-and-blue Soul Power from the Ten Thousand Year Thunder Hell Vine.

As time passed, the black-and-blue Soul Power in his body was steadily dissolved and absorbed under the assault of Su Ming's Soul Power. It was almost gone, but Su Ming knew that the final hurdle in absorbing a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring was the spiritual shock.

Sure enough, as the last trace of black-and-blue Soul Power was dissolved and absorbed, Su Ming's consciousness was pulled into his Sea of Consciousness.

The moment his consciousness awoke in the Sea of Consciousness, a bolt of lightning came at him head-on. Fortunately, Su Ming had been prepared. He immediately summoned the Creation Furnace in front of himself to block it.

After blocking the attack, Su Ming urged the Creation Furnace to smash straight into the Thunder Hell Vine. One blow reduced the Thunder Hell Vine's remaining soul power to a mere sliver. He had deliberately left that sliver intact so he could absorb the Soul Ring more slowly, giving himself enough time to obtain the Thunder God Divinity Fragment.

Seeing that only a sliver of its soul power remained, Su Ming began directing the Creation Furnace to pour Creation Qi into the Thunder Hell Vine's tendrils, strengthening his Thunder God bloodline.

With the help of his Golden Finger, the Creation Furnace, Su Ming precisely located the sparse divine bloodline within the tendrils. After pouring five measures of Creation Power into the faint Thunder God bloodline (ten threads made a strand, ten strands made a strip, ten strips made a measure, and one measure equaled one thousand threads), the Thunder God bloodline had grown dense enough that a battered fragment appeared within it, flickering in and out of sight.

Su Ming was overjoyed. He hurriedly poured Creation Power into the fragment. After infusing it with another ten strands of Creation Qi, it finally stopped flickering in and out of sight.

Su Ming then used Soul Power to take it out of the Creation Furnace. As soon as it emerged, his spirit body eagerly reached out and touched it. The moment he did, the Thunder God Divinity Fragment sent him a message.

The message's general content was that the First-Level God, the Thunder God, had fallen, and his divine seat had shattered into fragments of various sizes. Some had merged into bloodline power, some had been absorbed by other people, and others had been absorbed by Soul Beasts. The most intact core fragment of the divine seat had fallen in Thunder Roar Cliff, within the Star Dou Great Forest.

The message also revealed that the fragment had recognized Su Ming as its master. Since it contained too little energy, it couldn't provide a divine seat trial. However, once Su Ming broke through level sixty, he could obtain the largest fragment of the divine seat core at Thunder Roar Cliff and have it recognize him as its master.

Since the Thunder God had fallen, no one controlled the largest core fragment of the divine seat. Su Ming would only need to touch it for it to recognize him.

After that, Su Ming could use the Thunder God's divine-seat authority to set up a simple divine seat trial for himself, rapidly increasing his strength and becoming the Thunder God.

After learning all this, Su Ming was overjoyed. He knew that he had become one of the Thunder God's candidates. Unless something unexpected happened, once he reached level sixty and had the large core fragment recognize him, he could rapidly increase his strength and become the Thunder God.

Having obtained what he wanted, Su Ming used the Creation Furnace to extract the purified divine bloodline from the Thunder Hell Vine and store it in the furnace's inner space. He would absorb it after returning to Shrek Academy.

After dealing with the divine seat fragment, Su Ming dispersed the last trace of the Thunder Hell Vine's soul power. Then, using the Creation Furnace together with Cloud's innate ability, he transformed the fourth Soul Skill into two: the first was "Thunder Cloud Heavenly Punishment," and the second was "Rain of Life."

Once the transformation was complete, Su Ming was extremely satisfied with his fourth Soul Skill. One dealt group damage, the other healed a group. Perfect.

After absorbing the Soul Ring, Su Ming woke up and got to his feet. He checked the change in his Soul Power and found that he had reached level forty-two.

When Dugu Bo saw Su Ming wake up, the heart he'd been holding finally settled. He had been afraid the spiritual shock would turn Su Ming into an idiot, but now that Su Ming was awake, it meant he had succeeded in absorbing the Soul Ring.

Dugu Bo hurriedly asked Su Ming with concern.

"Little Monster, judging by the look of you, you must've succeeded in absorbing it. Good, as long as you succeeded."

Seeing the concern on Dugu Bo's face, Su Ming felt quite moved.

"I'm fine, Old Monster. The Soul Ring was a bit risky to absorb, but the rewards were worth it."

"I'm quite satisfied with my fourth Soul Skill, 'Thunder Cloud Heavenly Punishment.' It's a wide-area group attack."

"Good, good. As long as you're satisfied."

"All right, Old Monster. Let's hurry back to Heaven Dou City."

As soon as he finished speaking, Su Ming summoned his Martial Soul, and the two of them flew toward Heaven Dou City.

It was now the third day since Dugu Yan had returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy. All the large and small factions in Heaven Dou City had learned that Dugu Jian's Martial Soul had evolved.

The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, who had learned of it first, had already investigated and uncovered the facts.

At that moment, at the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.

This was Jade Dragon Mountain, the first mountain in the Nine Dragon Mountain Range occupied by the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. It was also the clan's council hall.

Inside the hall, Yu Yuanzhen was looking over the information about Su Ming that his subordinates had gathered.

"Wang Sheng. His Martial Soul was an ordinary War Tiger, and his Innate Soul Power was level two. After seeing Su Ming obtain his first Hundred-Year Soul Ring, he knelt before him in public, hoping Su Ming would help him hunt a Hundred-Year Soul Ring."

"After that, with Su Ming's help, his Martial Soul successfully evolved into a Blazing War Tiger. He then entered Shrek Academy, and he and Su Ming recognized each other again a little over a month ago."

"Dai Mubai's Martial Soul has also become a White Tiger with the Light Attribute, and there's Ma Hongjun's Martial Soul as well."

"And now it's Dugu Yan. It seems this Su Ming really has obtained a way to make Martial Souls evolve."

"But now he has the protection of that Old Poison, Poison Douluo, and they're clearly on very close terms. It seems we can't force him to talk now. We can only try to win him over."

Thinking this, Yu Yuanzhen picked up his brush and wrote a letter, then sealed it.

"Someone!"

At once, a man flew in.

When the man entered, Yu Yuanzhen handed him the letter and instructed him to deliver it to Yu Tianheng at Heaven Dou Royal Academy.

The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's council hall.

At the north end of the hall, facing south, stood a large carved chair made of rosewood. A man sat upright in it. He was Ning Fengzhi, the sect master of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

He, too, was looking over the information about Su Ming.