Martial Soul Evolution: Poison Dragon! Ultimate Poison! A Hundred-Thousand-Year Fourth Ring, and a 100,000-Year Poison Dragon Pill!

Dugu Yan, at the very center of the storm, had gone completely blank.

All she could feel was an overbearing, awe-inspiring energy that somehow felt intimately connected to her bloodline.

It forced its way into her body.

Then a young man's voice, slightly roguish yet utterly unquestionable, boomed deep within her mind:

"Little girl, don't be afraid."

"Do you want to become stronger?

Do you want to escape the agony of poison backlash?

Do you want to stand among the strongest at the peak of this continent?

Or maybe you want to become a god?"

"I'm in a good mood today, so I'm giving you a fortune beyond your wildest dreams!"

"Open your heart and mind, and accept me!"

"Sacrifice—!!!"

Boom!

With a furious roar from the depths of Yu Nan's soul,

his two hundred thousand years of cultivation exploded completely.

But this was no destructive blast. Instead, it transformed into a pillar of violet-gold light that reached from heaven to earth,

completely engulfing Dugu Yan's petite body.

Dugu Yan's Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Soul possessed her of its own accord, beyond her control.

But under the wash of that violet-gold light, the originally emerald scales began to fall away, replaced by scales of violet-gold—harder and more regal.

Her snake eyes became dragon eyes, and dragon scales sprouted along her tail!

She skipped straight past the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor, evolving into the super Martial Soul, Poison Dragon!

Ultimate Poison!

At Dugu Yan's feet, beyond her original two yellow Soul Rings and one purple Soul Ring,

a fourth Soul Ring slowly began to take shape, its crimson glow radiating a heart-stopping aura.

The terror in Dugu Bo's eyes gradually gave way to stunned disbelief.

His mouth gaped wide enough to fit an egg.

"This... this is..."

"Voluntary sacrifice?!"

Dugu Bo was utterly dumbfounded.

He stared in disbelief, even rubbing his eyes in case he was dreaming.

"This... this Poison Dragon is really sacrificing itself to Yan Yan?!"

As a Title Douluo, Dugu Bo knew all too well what the word "sacrifice" meant.

It was the most tragic and most overbearing ritual in the Soul Beast Realm.

Unlike hunting a Soul Beast and absorbing its Soul Ring, which exposed one to Soul Shock and physical rejection,

a sacrifice meant that a Soul Beast willingly burned its life and soul, offering everything it had to a Soul Master.

The success rate was one hundred percent!

And this was a mighty Ferocious Beast that had survived a two-hundred-thousand-year heavenly tribulation!

"A two-hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast's sacrifice...

That means a two-hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and a guaranteed two-hundred-thousand-year Soul Bone!"

Dugu Bo's breathing quickened and his heart pounded, as if it were about to leap from his throat.

What excited him even more was the change he saw in Dugu Yan.

Her Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Soul, which had possessed her, was undergoing a complete metamorphosis in the violet-gold light.

Back when Dugu Bo had finally absorbed his ninth Soul Ring after countless hardships and become a Title Douluo,

his Martial Soul had only then barely evolved from the Jade Phosphorous Serpent into the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor, earning him the title of the world's greatest poison user.

But now Yan Yan's Martial Soul had skipped the Serpent Emperor stage entirely and was evolving into the legendary "dragon"!

The Poison Dragon was the absolute superior Martial Soul to the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor, the pinnacle of poison-attribute Soul Beasts!

"This is a heaven-sent fortune!

A True Dragon is rising in my Dugu Family!"

But his joy lasted only a moment.

Dugu Bo's excited old face suddenly stiffened as a deeper worry washed over him.

Cold sweat broke out in an instant.

"No... wait!"

"This Poison Dragon has a full two hundred thousand years of cultivation!"

Dugu Bo stared fixedly at the pillar of violet-gold light, the green gleam in his eyes flickering with worry.

Though sacrifice could bypass the absorption threshold and allow a Soul Master to perfectly fuse with a Soul Ring,

the sheer, terrifying volume of energy was still very real!

What level was Yan Yan now?

She had only just reached level forty!

Her meridians, her dantian, her physical strength—all were still at the level of a Soul Ancestor.

It was like pouring an entire ocean into an ordinary teacup!

No matter how gentle or willing the water was, the cup would shatter under such an overwhelming volume!

"A two-hundred-thousand-year energy surge...

Yan Yan, can you really withstand it?"

Dugu Bo wished he could rush in and bear some of the burden for his granddaughter.

But under the absolute suppression of the sacrificial field, he could only watch helplessly, pacing like an ant on a hot pan.

At the center of the pillar of light,

Yu Nan, now in a soul state, had also noticed the problem.

"Damn, this is trouble."

Yu Nan looked at Dugu Yan's meridians, which had once been fairly broad and resilient.

Now, before his vast, ocean-like dragon power, they seemed so slender and fragile.

He had only injected a small portion of his source energy, and Dugu Yan's meridians were already groaning under the strain.

Fine cracks had even begun to appear.

Dugu Yan's pretty face had flushed red, her brows knitted tight. She was clearly enduring immense pain.

"That little body's even more fragile than I thought."

Yu Nan sighed inwardly.

After all, this was two hundred thousand years of cultivation, tempered by the lightning of a heavenly tribulation. Its quality was astonishingly high.

If he forced all of that two-hundred-thousand-year source energy into her,

then even with the sacrifice, Dugu Yan would explode and die in an instant, becoming a dazzling blood-red firework.

Then they'd both die, and it would all be over.

"Looks like I have no choice but to use that method."

Yu Nan acted at once, rapidly forming hand seals with his soul body inside Dugu Yan's spiritual sea.

Just as Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had sealed its source when Huo Yuhao couldn't withstand its sacrifice,

he could do the same!

"If you can't swallow a fat man in one bite, pay in installments!"

With a thought, Yu Nan forcibly cleaved the surging source energy of two hundred thousand years in half!

"Condense!"

Yu Nan gave a low shout.

The most violent and weighty portion—the source energy of one hundred thousand years of cultivation—rapidly compressed and condensed under his control.

In the end, it became a smooth, dragon-eye-sized bead, wreathed in violet-gold light and radiating terrifying poison.

The Poison Dragon Pill!

Then Yu Nan carefully guided the Poison Dragon Pill, slowly sinking it deep into Dugu Yan's dantian, in her lower abdomen.

He placed layer upon layer of seals around it.

"I'll store this hundred thousand years of cultivation in your dantian for now. Think of it as a power bank."

"Once your body grows stronger, you can slowly digest and absorb it."

Having finished, Yu Nan looked at the remaining hundred thousand years of source energy in his hand.

Though half of it was gone, it still glowed an eye-catching red, radiating a heart-stopping pressure.

"This remaining hundred thousand years is just enough to condense your fourth Soul Ring, reshape your meridians, and complete your Martial Soul Evolution!"

"Little girl, bear with it. This is the last step!"

Guided by Yu Nan's will,

the remaining hundred thousand years of source energy transformed into a gentle torrent.

It surged through Dugu Yan's entire body, then gathered at her feet.

Hum—!

The light faded.

That terrifying ring, which had originally borne two golden patterns, still radiated a formidable pressure, but its color had softened somewhat.

At last, it settled into a scarlet-red hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring!

Even so, this was unprecedented in the history of Douluo Continent.

A hundred-thousand-year fourth ring!