The moment the God King Qilin finished speaking, Xia Ming felt his entire Spirit Sea violently tremble!
The God King's phantom raised a hand, and a point of golden-red divine light burst from his fingertip, transforming into an intricate, ancient totem in the void.
The totem resembled a qilin, with a dragon's head, a deer's body, an ox's tail, and horse hooves. Flames and auspicious cloud patterns coiled around its body, vivid as though it were alive.
The instant the totem took shape, a strange phenomenon erupted in the outside world!
Above Dragon City, nine-colored radiance suddenly gathered across the once-clear sky.
A hazy pillar of light descended from nothingness, ignoring every material obstruction as it directly enveloped Xia Ming.
Within the pillar, countless tiny golden runes swam like fish before all plunging into his forehead.
"Boom—!"
Xia Ming's entire body shook violently. It felt as though something that had slumbered within him for ages had suddenly awakened!
Inside his dantian, a scorching core of energy was rapidly condensing.
The core was golden-red. A qilin phantom seemed to be raising its head and roaring toward the heavens within it, and every pulse sent the blood throughout his body surging like a river!
An unprecedented sense of strength flooded through his limbs and bones.
His bones crackled sharply, while faint golden scale-like patterns surfaced over his skin before quietly fading away in an instant.
His second Martial Soul had formed!
Moreover, judging from the heavenly phenomenon triggered by this Martial Soul's awakening—
Its quality was likely no inferior to his Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff's, perhaps even greater!
Xia Ming forcibly suppressed the turmoil in his heart and focused inward.
The golden-red energy core had already stabilized somewhat, shaped like a piece of burning amber.
Deep within the core, a hazy qilin silhouette