Nine Nether Beast Glares Down on All Creation! God King of Destruction Stunned! A Sensation!

Lin Yuan abruptly activated his Nine-Nether Ao Bloodline.

A terrifying beastly apparition, dozens of times larger than before, rose from the ground behind him.

The apparition threw back its head and roared at the sky. No sound emerged, yet wave after wave rippled through the surrounding space.

In an instant, Lin Yuan seemed to become a greedy black hole in the cosmos.

The powers of Ultimate Fire and extreme cold in the spring water were torn away by his brutally forceful method and devoured into his body.

A terrifying aura capable of destroying heaven and earth radiated from him.

The deathly pressure from the ancient, primordial wilderness weighed so heavily on Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan that even breathing became difficult.

Dugu Yan hid behind her grandfather and looked up at the boy at the vortex's center. His eyes were closed, and his face was full of arrogance.

His black hair whipped wildly in the surging air, and his whole being radiated an aura of one who could blot out the sky with a single hand.

Dugu Yan stared, entranced, her beautiful eyes shimmering.

He was so handsome.

How could there be a man in this world with such an overbearing presence?

Dugu Bo, meanwhile, was drenched in cold sweat. He felt a power that seemed capable of easily erasing him, and his heart filled with horror.

"What a peerless monster."

"Once this boy grows up, I'm afraid no one under heaven will be able to stop his brilliance!"

At the same time,

the instant this destructive power erupted, the distant Divine Realm was rocked by an extremely violent tremor.

Within the majestic, imposing Temple of Destruction,

a towering figure wreathed in dark purple lightning abruptly opened his eyes.

Extreme shock flashed in the eyes of the God King of Destruction.

Beside him, the Goddess of Life, her whole body glowing with an emerald-green light, also rose to her feet in astonishment.

They looked at each other and saw the same shock in one another's eyes.

"This aura..."

"He's already completed the First Trial we set for him?"

The God King of Destruction drew in a sharp breath of divine energy.

"What kind of monster is this successor I chose?"

"..."

An incomparably violent energy raged at the center of this strange spring.

At that moment, the dormant bloodline of the Nine Nether Beast had been ignited.

Above the spring, the beastly apparition expanded outward with brute force, rising from the ground like a black demonic mountain that blotted out the sky.

Its wolf-shaped body was covered in impenetrable, shadowy scales.

Nine tails, thick as dragon veins, lashed wildly through the air, tearing apart visible waves of force.

The giant beast abruptly raised its imposing head and let out a roar that seemed to tear through the void, directed at the boundless firmament.

Then the black fissure at the center of the Nine Nether Beast's brow began to writhe slowly.

Its third eye opened amid the oppressive atmosphere.

The eye was formed entirely of deathly energy and destruction, radiating an aura that looked down on all creation.

All the spiritual energy of heaven and earth gathered around the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well instantly lost its original course.

Like a hundred rivers flowing into the sea, it was forcibly drawn into the open vertical eye.

Even the red and white mists rising from the spring were devoured without a trace.

Dugu Bo, standing on the bank, was already stunned, his old eyes wide as saucers.

Such a brutally forceful way of seizing the natural fortune of heaven and earth was simply unheard of!

At the same time, above the endless void, in the Divine Realm,

purple-black lightning coursed across the dome of the grand, imposing Temple of Destruction like raging dragons.

On the crystal platform at the center of the temple,

the God of Destruction stood shoulder to shoulder with the Goddess of Life.

Their gazes pierced the barriers of countless planes and calmly watched the mist-shrouded forest on Douluo Continent.

"What a terrifying bloodline pressure."

"Even across the endless void, I can clearly sense that pure, utterly unrestrained savagery."

The God of Destruction was enveloped in rolling lightning, his voice carrying a rare note of admiration.

"First Trial of the divine examination: perfectly completed."

The God of Destruction's voice rumbled through the temple like thunder.

He abruptly raised his right hand. A surge of purple-gold divine power, dense to the extreme, pierced through the clouds and plunged straight toward Douluo Continent.

The divine power struck the young man below with pinpoint accuracy, entering his body.

It was the generous reward for completing the divine examination.

Lin Yuan's First Soul Ring, which had originally been four thousand years old, began to transform at an astonishing speed.

Its original purple deepened and gradually condensed into an extremely viscous black-purple.

Watching this, the Goddess of Life was dazzled, her compassionate emerald-green eyes filled with admiration.

"He truly shines too brightly."

"Pure destructive power can actually fuse so perfectly with the life force I bestowed, inside his still-young body."

Hearing his wife's assessment, the God of Destruction nodded in full agreement.

"Such talent is truly unmatched throughout the ages."

"Even all the successors throughout history combined cannot compare to his peerless brilliance."

Just as the two supreme gods were praising their successor,

an upheaval suddenly struck in an instant.

The apparition of the Nine Nether Beast, standing proudly in the spring below, abruptly raised its head.

Two beams of dark light shot from its pitch-black third eye, piercing straight through the firmament.

Its gaze ignored the barriers between planes, as if it were looking directly at the two supreme gods inside the Divine Realm's great hall!

At that moment, the air in the hall seemed to freeze.

The hearts of the God of Destruction and the Goddess of Life both gave a sharp jolt.

The two ancient deities who stood at the summit of the Divine Realm actually felt a real trace of wariness and threat in the boy's gaze.

It was an intensely powerful intuition.

Once that body had fully matured and ascended to the Divine Realm, he would absolutely have the strength to tear the two of them to shreds!

After a long while,

the immense power below, which had made even the gods' hearts tremble, finally ebbed away like a receding tide.

Lin Yuan drew every trace of pressure back into his body.

He could clearly feel that his reserves had reached an utterly terrifying level.

As soon as he obtained a suitable Soul Ring, the Soul Power pent up inside him would surge at once, like a volcano erupting.

Water splashed.

Lin Yuan landed steadily on the bank and slowly opened his eyes.

A chilling gleam of shadowy light flashed through his deep black eyes.

Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan stood a few steps away. At that moment, the grandfather and granddaughter looked at him as if he were some humanoid monster.

"I'm going to pick some Immortal Herbs."

Lin Yuan's voice was calm as he broke the silence.

With that, he strode straight into the medicinal garden, where radiant light shimmered everywhere.

He showed no restraint.

One top-grade Immortal Herb after another—each enough to set the outside world ablaze with bloodshed—was swiftly picked and put away.

Before long, he had gathered a great many Immortal Herbs of various attributes.

After finishing, Lin Yuan turned around and looked at Dugu Yan, standing not far away.

He reached over to a nearby section of vine and plucked a translucent, jade-green fruit that gave off a faintly sweet, fishy scent.

Then he walked over to the girl.

"Here."

He simply held the fruit out to her.

"This is called the Jade Linglong Saliva Fruit."

Seeing the girl's somewhat bashful expression, Lin Yuan patiently explained.

"This Immortal Herb's attributes are exceptionally compatible with your Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Soul."

"Swallow it, and not only will it completely solidify your foundation, it'll also greatly enhance the poison your Martial Soul already possesses."