A Soul in Two Bodies: Am I the Golden Dragon King? Martial Souls: Golden Dragon King and Golden Dragon Spear! (Please Add to Favorites!)

Douluo Continent, Heaven Dou Empire, Suotuo City.

"My head hurts..."

Gu Yuan jolted awake amid a tearing pain.

He discovered that his consciousness had been split in two, giving him two entirely different "perspectives."

One perspective came from a frail, undersized body.

He was lying on a rickety old wooden bed in a simple earthen house. The air was thick with a damp, musty smell.

Through the gap in the window, he could see the distinctive streets of Suotuo City.

Memories surged in like a tide. He was a six-year-old orphan named Gu Yuan, with no father or mother, who had barely survived until today thanks to the charity of kindhearted people in the city.

The other perspective was filled with endless darkness, cold, and savagery!

It was a sacred, empty forbidden land, and his "body" was so enormous it defied imagination.

Every scale seemed forged from gold, containing enough terrifying power to tear stars apart.

Yet he was "bound"—or perhaps had bound himself—within a Dragon Cocoon, continuously absorbing the Divine Power of the Divine Realm to grow stronger.

Now, the Golden Dragon King's strength had already reached the God King level.

"The Divine Realm... the Forbidden Land of Gods... the Golden Dragon King?"

Two perspectives, two utterly different sets of memories, frantically intertwined and collided in Gu Yuan's mind before slowly merging.

Gu Yuan was stunned.

He, an ordinary person from the twenty-first century, had merely gone to sleep. How had he transmigrated into the world of Douluo Continent?

And this wasn't an ordinary transmigration!

"One soul, two bodies?"

Gu Yuan's consciousness was utterly shaken.

"My soul is occupying both a six-year-old orphan and... the Golden Dragon King sealed in the Divine Realm?!"

Gu Yuan tried to focus and found that he could freely switch between the two dominant perspectives.

When he focused his consciousness on the human body, the pain of the Golden Dragon King's enormous body seemed to lie behind frosted glass, blurred and distant.

But when Gu Yuan sank his consciousness into the Forbidden Land of Gods, the sensation of world-destroying power and the boundless rage of being suppressed swept over him.

He almost lost himself in it.

"I didn't devour the Golden Dragon King's soul... No, it's more like... assimilation?"

Gu Yuan quickly sorted out the situation.

When the Dragon God had cleaved the Golden Dragon King from himself, only the purest power and an obsession with destruction had remained. The Golden Dragon King's intelligence had all but vanished.

Gu Yuan's soul had arrived during this brief window, like a perfect vessel, carrying and assimilating that obsession and power.

He had become the sole master of both bodies.

"Whew... talk about starting with a royal flush!"

Gu Yuan gasped, his human body drenched in cold sweat from the shock to his consciousness.

Not only had he gained the Golden Dragon King's body, he had also inherited its core power, which came from the Dragon God!

Just then, the orphanage's battered wooden door creaked open. A disheveled old man, still bleary-eyed with sleep, came in and shouted impatiently:

"All right, all right, get up!

A Spirit Hall deacon is coming today to awaken your Martial Souls for free. Get moving!"

Martial Soul Awakening!

Gu Yuan's heart stirred.

He followed a noisy group of children into the courtyard and watched as the deacon, dressed in the standard Spirit Hall uniform, deftly arranged six black stones.

"Next, Gu Yuan."

Gu Yuan took a deep breath and stepped into the center of the hexagram formation.

He already knew what to expect. Since he had assimilated the Golden Dragon King, his Martial Soul...

"Bzzz—!"

The instant the deacon poured Soul Power into the formation, a terrifying aura beyond description erupted from Gu Yuan's body!

Brilliant golden light shot into the sky, as if it would turn all of Suotuo City gold!

"ROAR—!!!"

A dragon's roar that shook the soul echoed through the clouds. Behind Gu Yuan, the majestic phantom of a miniature golden dragon slowly appeared.

It was clad in golden scales, its eyes the color of molten gold. Its innate nobility and aura of destructive power made everyone present—including the widely traveled Spirit Hall deacon—go weak at the knees, desperate to kneel in submission!

"W-what kind of Martial Soul is that?!"

The deacon's voice trembled.

Before he could recover from his shock, another change occurred!

Beside the phantom golden dragon, a long spear quietly took shape. It was entirely golden, with a golden dragon design coiling around its shaft.

Its spearhead gleamed with a sharp edge. Just looking at it made people feel as if their souls might be pierced!

"T-Twin Martial Souls?!"

The deacon's eyes nearly bulged from their sockets.

Gu Yuan, however, looked thoughtful.

This should be a Companion Martial Soul.

One Martial Soul existed as an adjunct to another.

It could just barely be counted as Twin Martial Souls, but it was fundamentally different from ordinary Twin Martial Souls.

Gu Yuan extended his right hand. Golden light flickered in his palm as the miniature Golden Dragon King Martial Soul coiled there.

Then Gu Yuan extended his left hand, and the Golden Dragon Spear appeared at his call, settling firmly into his small hand.

"Come on, child. Let's test your Soul Power."

The deacon tremblingly held out a blue crystal ball.

Gu Yuan placed his hand on it.

"Crack—"

The light inside the crystal ball only shone for an instant. Before it could even fill with a single speck of light, a crisp crack rang out.

"Crack... Boom!"

Under the deacon's horrified gaze, the Soul Power testing crystal ball exploded into a cloud of powder!

"Innate... Innate Level 20 Soul Power!!"

The deacon shrieked, his face alight with fervor and disbelief.

Twin Martial Souls!

And one of them was of an unimaginable quality!

Innate Level 20 Soul Power!

What an incredible talent!

If he reported this to His Holiness the Pope...

Gu Yuan's expression, however, instantly turned cold.

A calmness and murderous intent far beyond his years appeared on Gu Yuan's tender face.

Gu Yuan knew all too well what Innate Level 20 Soul Power meant.

If it was exposed, Spirit Hall would stop at nothing to take control of him.

He didn't want to become anyone's pawn, much less be cut apart for research.

"Luckily, nobody saw..."

Gu Yuan looked around. The children had already fainted from the dragon's might, and this little orphanage was tucked away in a remote location. Though the commotion had been great, it hadn't caught the attention of any powerful figures in the city.

The only witness was the Soul Grandmaster deacon standing right in front of him.

"I..."

The deacon had just begun to speak when he met Gu Yuan's golden eyes, which looked anything but human.

Deep within those eyes, he seemed to glimpse a god looking down upon all living beings. The boundless majesty and will to destroy left him dazed in an instant.

Gu Yuan didn't kill him. He merely used a trace of the Golden Dragon King's spiritual power to erase his memories of "Innate Level 20 Soul Power" and the "Companion Martial Soul."

Then he implanted a false belief: "Innate Full Soul Power, Martial Soul: Golden Dragon."