The Six Immortal-Grade Fierce Beasts had already carried their true forms, backs pressed tightly against the cliff wall of the valley, each one trembling with fear.
"Ahhh! They're coming over!"
The youngest, the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, was pale with shock.
Even the Ink Jade Divine Bamboo, that tall, pitch-black figure, shook the arm of the Aromatic Silk Beauty and said, "Xiangxiang, hurry and think of a way!"
However, the handsome face of the Aromatic Silk Beauty was already etched with ugliness and struggle.
He cursed inwardly: Think of a way? Think of what way?
Leaving this valley meant being struck by lightning, but staying meant the crisis of being refined.
They indeed possessed one or two hundred thousand years of cultivation, but their experience in the life of beasts and the strength of their bodies were far inferior to the fierce beasts that had truly fought their way up through hardship; how could they possibly withstand a Heavenly Tribulation specifically designed to punish fierce beasts?
It was at this moment that the three outsiders, carrying the remnant souls of the Two Kings of Water and Fire, walked up before them.
The Holy Dragon King pointed at the Earth Dragon Golden Melon and turned to ask for instructions: "Emperor, according to the principle of the Five Elements where Earth generates Metal, this subordinate needs to fuse with this Earth-element immortal treasure to strengthen this metal-attribute shell."
His current body had been constructed using a drop of the Life Gold from the million-year Lovesick Heartbreak Red after he had found the reincarnation of the Dragon Emperor.
Now, encountering an Earth-element immortal treasure like the Earth Dragon Golden Melon, he naturally could not let it go.
The Goddess of Love also pointed to the Gazing Autumn Begonia and stated truthfully: "My consumption in condensing my second spirit ring is not small; I need to replenish my spiritual power and, incidentally, further stabilize my soul body."
The Aromatic Silk Beauty hurriedly shouted: "Emperor, didn't you promise not to pick us?"
"Correct, I promised not to touch the six of you." The Dragon Emperor did not deny it.
But the Six Immortal-Grade Fierce Beasts... all understood the subtext: I promised, but these two beside me never did.
The Water and Fire Dragon Souls mobilized the power of the Blazing Spring and the Cold Spring, using the form of red and blue dragon qi to pin the six immortal plants down, making it difficult for them to move.
"It's over." The Earth Dragon Golden Melon and the Gazing Autumn Begonia revealed expressions of despair.
The other four fierce beasts were even already thinking about how to extend their roots into the soil of these two old friends so they could absorb nutrients as early as possible...
Yet, the Dragon Emperor unexpectedly added: "Therefore, I will not allow my subordinates to pick you, either."
"I am the Emperor; I never go back on my word, nor do I play word games."
The situation reversed drastically, and the tense atmosphere vanished instantly.
The Six Immortal-Grade Fierce Beasts felt as if they had been granted amnesty: Could you please not pause so long when you speak...
Xiao Qiu and Gua Gua, who had been named, immediately began to express their gratitude: "Yes, yes, yes! You are the Emperor; you are the true Emperor of us plant-type soul beasts!"
But the Dragon Emperor, relying on his memories of wandering the world, poured a bucket of cold water: "Then offer up a portion of your essence."
"I believe that you two can also produce essence products similar to the Blazing Glue, Cold Dew, and Qiluo Heart that the Infernal Delicate Apricot and Aromatic Silk Beauty have produced."
The expressions of the Gazing Autumn Begonia and the Earth Dragon Golden Melon stiffened; naturally, they were immensely resistant in their hearts.
Ten thousand years ago, the Infernal Delicate Apricot had been locked in a furnace and forced to refine her entire body's essence into Blazing Glue, causing her body's origin to lag behind her cultivation growth rate even to this day.
But compared to being picked and devoured, the two immortal-grade fierce beasts still preferred the choice of damaging their own origins to save their lives.
The Earth Dragon Golden Melon turned its head and dove into its "melon house," creating quite a commotion of scraping beams and removing pillars.
When it poked its head back out, a golden dragon pearl was already held in its dragon mouth.
Looking at the Gazing Autumn Begonia, it reached toward the top of its own true form, painfully snapping off one of the two autumn begonia leaves on its crown.
Finally, with an expression of heartache, it sent the begonia leaf, along with the clear dew on the surface of the leaf, before the Dragon Emperor.
"The Earth Dragon Pearl, Gua Gua offers it to my Emperor."
"The Begonia Tear, Xiao Qiu offers it to my Emperor."
Once the golden dragon pearl and the clear dew were in hand, the Holy Dragon King and the Goddess of Love actually skipped the absorption step and fused the essence directly into their bodies or soul bodies on the spot.
While these two subordinates were cultivating, the Dragon Emperor did not remain idle.
In the herb garden surrounding the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, the immortal plants that had not yet gained intelligence were dazzling; aside from the six fierce beasts, he could always find one suitable for himself.
But under the guidance of the Two Kings of Water and Fire, the Dragon Emperor walked in the opposite direction, toward the well of the Yin Yang pond.
From the very beginning, the Dragon Emperor had said with disgust: "I am not Tang San; I have no interest in soaking in your corpses' water."
But under the strong entreaties of the Two Kings of Water and Fire, he still paced toward the spring eye.
As soon as he reached the shore, the remnant souls of the Two Kings of Water and Fire flew off the Dragon Emperor's shoulders and dove toward the surface of the pond behind the original location of the Lovesick Heartbreak Red.
Although these two remnant souls found it difficult to speak, they still circled frantically around the inner wall of the shore, ripples of urgent intent spreading outward.
The Dragon Emperor stood at the edge of the pond and bent over, using his excellent core strength to support himself as he tilted his upper body to look into the inner wall.
And so, on the red and blue dividing line, a cluster of purple-green light caught his eyes.
It was a cluster of lingzhi; each stalk had a purple cap and green leaves, with stems and roots connected, causing these purple-green cloud fungi to cluster into a group.
"Purple-Green Dragon Mushroom? And an eleventh-grade one at that."
One must know that the soul power of the Douluo Plane was a product that emerged only when the divine power of the dragon race, which had perished in the past, spread across Douluo and combined with the essence of heaven and earth.
Therefore, every soul beast and martial soul had a chance to undergo dragonification, which was why anyone related to dragons could possess a unique advantage on the Douluo Plane.
And with the Dragon Emperor's experience, he could naturally see: the predecessor of this object was the Nine-Grade Purple Mushroom, a "dragon-transformed" product after absorbing sufficient water and fire dragon qi.
After transforming into a dragon, much like a fish leaping over the Dragon Gate, the Dragon Mushroom sprouts green leaves that resemble scales.
These green leaves once appeared twenty thousand years ago, serving as the "cheating tool" of the Tang Sect founder, Tang San.
It was during the final Spirit Master Tournament hosted by Martial Soul Hall.
Led by Tang San, the Shrek Seven Devils collectively ignored the tournament regulations during a break in the opening, consuming seven Dragon Mushroom Leaves in advance to secure their final victory.
The Dragon Mushroom Leaves consumed by the original Shrek Seven Devils were precisely the secondary medicine of this Purple-Green Dragon Mushroom—the companion green leaves growing beneath the cloud-like mushroom cap.
"Perhaps this is the very same Purple-Green Dragon Mushroom from back then; it seems it wasn't given to the Spirit Master Yu Xiaogang after all, but instead cultivated back into seeds," the Dragon Emperor mused, feeling a sense of relief.
Otherwise, with the Purple-Green Dragon Mushroom to refine his martial soul, the Golden Sacred Dragon spirit master Yu Xiaogang might have possessed the aptitude to become a god.
He reached out, surrounded by the Water and Fire Dragon Souls, and plucked the cluster of Purple-Green Dragon Mushroom.
His pure gold pupils reflected the purple and green hues, and at such close proximity, a strand of pure dragon aura, untainted by any water or fire essence, drifted into the Dragon Emperor's nostrils.
The Nine-Grade Purple Mushroom successfully transforming into a dragon becomes the Ten-Grade Purple-Green Dragon Mushroom.
When the Purple-Green Dragon Mushroom produces offspring and forms a cluster, the quantitative change triggers a qualitative shift, resulting in an Eleven-Grade peerless immortal herb.
Yet, the Dragon Emperor sighed, "What a pity."
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