The Golden Dragon King's Devouring Ability? The Sky Screen's Top Ten: Mighty Lion Eighth, Azure Luan Seventh!

"Never felt better."

Gu Yuan grinned and rolled his left arm. The air immediately rang with the crackling sound of ice crystals forming.

He swung his right arm, and the scorching wave of heat warped the air around him.

"Your Soul Power stopped at Level 95, exactly as I expected."

Gu Yuena nodded, then changed the subject. A glimmer of wisdom shone in her violet eyes.

"But there's something else I'm curious about."

Gu Yuena extended a slender finger and gently touched Gu Yuan's chest, right over the core of his Golden Dragon King Bloodline.

"Why can your Golden Dragon King Bloodline devour the bloodline origins of other dragons and grow stronger?

"According to the memories I inherited, even the Dragon God himself couldn't so forcefully devour the power of his own children.

"The Golden Dragon King Bloodline represents the Dragon God's power and body, while I represent control over the elements and the spirit.

"Our powers should share the same origin, not devour each other."

Gu Yuena was deeply puzzled.

As she understood it, although the Golden Dragon King Bloodline was violent, it was primarily a pure form of power. It shouldn't possess this "devouring" ability to prey on bloodlines of the same origin.

At her words, Gu Yuan's heart stirred.

The truth was, even he couldn't fully explain the phenomenon.

When he had crossed over and completely fused with the Golden Dragon King Bloodline,

he had faintly sensed that the human clone created by the system seemed to naturally possess some strange "devouring" quality.

When this talent, unique to him, encountered the Golden Dragon King's instinct for destruction, the two hadn't clashed. Instead, they had fit together perfectly, like water blending with milk.

In the end, it had given rise to a plundering ability beyond everyone's understanding—one that might even surpass the Dragon God Origin.

Or perhaps the Dragon God had always possessed the ability to plunder?

After all, the Creation Divinity that Gu Yuena, the Dragon God's other half, had inherited at her birth was cleaved from the Dragon God himself.

It had originally belonged to the Dragon God, who had plundered it after slaying the Phoenix God.

(Douluo IV mentioned it.)

"Na'er, perhaps... your understanding of the Golden Dragon King Bloodline isn't complete."

Gu Yuan spoke with deliberate gravity, steering Gu Yuena's thoughts.

He raised his hand. Golden Bloodline Power flowed across his palm, radiating an intimidating, domineering force.

"You're right. You represent the Dragon God's elements and wisdom, the master of reason. But what about the Golden Dragon King?"

Gu Yuan looked straight into her eyes and spoke, word by word.

"What it represents isn't just the Dragon God's power and body. More importantly, it represents the most primal... madness, fury, and desire for destruction in the Dragon God's heart when the Divine Realm turned against him!"

"What?!"

Gu Yuena's slender frame trembled. Clearly, his words had shocked her.

"Devouring and plundering are both part of destruction."

Gu Yuan continued explaining.

"The essence of the Golden Dragon King Bloodline is that of a tyrant who pursues ultimate power and destruction!

"By its instincts, all things can serve as nourishment. Bloodlines from other dragons, especially those of the same origin, are the greatest delicacies!

"It wasn't negotiating with the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings. It was forcibly collecting what it considered its 'territory' and 'property'!

"That's how domineering it is!"

His words crashed through Gu Yuena's mind like a thunderbolt.

She had always thought of the Golden Dragon King as merely her own other half, gone berserk. She had never imagined that its very essence was such pure "evil" and "destruction"!

She looked at Gu Yuan, her expression turning intensely complicated. She was shocked and enlightened, but above all, a trace of unmistakable worry showed in her eyes.

She reached out again and gently stroked Gu Yuan's chest, feeling the pulse of that domineering bloodline. Then she asked softly:

"Then... will that mad instinct devour you?"

Feeling the coolness of her fingertips and the concern in her voice, Gu Yuan's heart warmed.

This lovestruck girl was already starting to worry about him.

Gu Yuan turned his hand over and clasped Gu Yuena's soft, boneless hand, holding it tightly in his palm. He gave her a confident, gentle smile.

"Don't worry, Na'er."

"It may be a mad tyrant, but I'm the master who controls it."

Gu Yuan smiled as he spoke.

As soon as Gu Yuan finished speaking, the Sky Screen appeared once more!

[Top Ten Hidden Experts, Eighth Place]

[Mighty Lion Douluo]

In the image, a burly old man, as imposing as an iron tower, strode through the flames.

His hair and beard bristled wildly, their color a blazing red-gold. Flames that seemed capable of burning everything surrounded him.

With a deafening roar, the phantom of a huge fire lion appeared behind him and howled at the sky.

[Identity: Fourth Offering of the Spirit Hall's Worship Hall.]

[Martial Soul: Blazing Lion.]

[Level: Level 97 Power Attack System Peak Douluo.]

[Assessment: Flames scorch the heavens; peerless in strength.

In terms of pure explosive force and destructive range, even some Level 98 Titled Douluo would have to avoid his edge.]

This concise, forceful introduction lasted only a moment.

The Soul Masters across the continent hadn't even recovered from the numb shock of seeing yet another Spirit Hall offering make the list when the image shifted again.

A clear, cool blue gale scattered the blazing red that had filled the sky.

A piercing, high-pitched bird cry rang through the clouds. Unlike the Mighty Lion's rough roar, this cry brimmed with pride and sharpness, as if it had come from the highest reaches of the heavens.

[Top Ten Hidden Experts, Seventh Place]

[Azure Luan Douluo]

In the image, a gale howled.

A man clad in blue-green robes stood suspended in the air. His expression was stern, his bearing cool and aloof, as if he had left the mortal world behind.

Behind him, a gigantic blue-green divine bird soared with its wings spread. Each beat of its wings stirred up a gale fierce enough to tear through space.

[Identity: Third Offering of the Spirit Hall's Worship Hall.]

[Martial Soul: Azure Luan.]

[Level: Level 97 Agility Attack System Peak Douluo.]

[Assessment: The wind howls through the heavens; he is the ancestor of wind.

He possesses ultimate speed and mastery over the wind element. Absolute ruler of the skies, he slays with invisible blades of wind.]

In less than half a cup of tea's time, the eighth and seventh places had been revealed one after another.

The continent was once again in an uproar. Yet compared with the utter shock of seeing Guang Ling Douluo appear for the first time, people now fell into an almost suffocating silence.

The ninth place was an offering of the Spirit Hall.

The eighth place was an offering of the Spirit Hall.

And the seventh place... was still an offering of the Spirit Hall.

An emotion called "despair" began to spread through the hearts of the major powers' leaders.

But they weren't as shocked as they had been at first. After all, Guang Ling's earlier reveal had already exposed much of the Spirit Hall's strength.

Gu Yuena flashed with Gu Yuan and arrived in Suotuo City.

Inside a teahouse in Suotuo City,

Gu Yuena watched the two figures flicker across the Sky Screen and disappear. Her violet eyes narrowed slightly as she gently swirled the teacup in her hand.

"The Blazing Lion and the Azure Luan... one commands the ultimate fire and strength, the other the ultimate wind and speed."