Transformation! Heavenly Tribulation! Assaulting a God-Level Martial Soul!

Boom!

An incomparable force surged through his palm and violently flooded into his body!

The Jade Python Snake Emperor Martial Soul within him completely boiled over at that moment!

That craving surged forth like a raging tide, nearly drowning Dugu Bo's reason.

Craving!

An ultimate craving!

Like a beast that had starved for three days and nights finally catching sight of prey!

Like a flood dragon trapped in an abyss finally seeing its chance to become a true dragon!

Dugu Bo gritted his teeth, enduring the impact as he carefully dug the Earth Dragon Golden Gourd completely out of the soil.

The instant the entire Earth Dragon Golden Gourd left the earth, its golden radiance could no longer be contained and shot into the sky!

A golden pillar of light pierced the heavens, illuminating the entire Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes as brightly as day.

The temperature within the valley abruptly soared. Yet it was not the alternating extremes of cold and heat from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes, but a warm presence—heavy, majestic, and carrying the aura of the earth's dragon veins.

"This is bad. The commotion is too great!"

Dugu Bo's heart tightened.

He had known that the Earth Dragon Golden Gourd was a priceless treasure, but he had never expected taking it out to trigger such a massive phenomenon.

Powerhouses within hundreds of miles would likely be able to sense that golden pillar of light.

He had to hurry!

Dugu Bo held the Earth Dragon Golden Gourd in both hands, its heavy weight pressing into his palms.

This golden gourd weighed far more than its size suggested, at least several hundred jin.

But its weight was not what mattered.

What mattered was the power contained within the Earth Dragon Golden Gourd, which was resonating madly with his Martial Soul.

The Jade Python Snake Emperor Martial Soul had already emerged beyond his control.

A massive jade-green phantom of the Snake Emperor appeared behind Dugu Bo. Its serpentine eyes, once cold and vicious, stared at the Earth Dragon Golden Gourd with such overwhelming desire that they seemed ready to drip.

After following Dugu Bo for so many years, the Jade Python Snake Emperor had never lost control like this.

"You want it?"

Dugu Bo's lips curled slightly.

The Jade Python Snake Emperor Martial Soul conveyed an even more intense yearning, even carrying a trace of pleading.

"Then... as you wish!"

Dugu Bo hesitated no longer.

He raised the Earth Dragon Golden Gourd to his mouth with both hands, opened wide, and bit down.

The golden flesh melted the instant it entered his mouth, turning into a warm liquid that flowed down his throat into his abdomen.

It was neither bitter as expected nor sweet.

The flavor was peculiar, like the scent of the earth, yet also like the taste of dragon blood.

But what was truly terrifying was the transformation that occurred after the liquid entered his body.

Boom!!!

It was like a volcanic eruption, like heaven and earth collapsing!

The energy contained within the Earth Dragon Golden Gourd completely exploded the instant it entered Dugu Bo's body!

That energy was like a violent true dragon, rampaging through his meridians. Wherever it passed, his meridians shattered inch by inch, only to rapidly heal beneath the energy's restoration.

Shattering, healing.

Shattering again, healing again.

With every cycle, Dugu Bo's meridians widened severalfold, becoming tougher and broader.

But the process was also accompanied by unimaginable pain!

It felt as if ten thousand blades were churning inside his body, as if countless ants were gnawing at his marrow.

Dugu Bo's face instantly turned deathly pale, beads of sweat as large as beans rolling down from his forehead.

Yet he clenched his teeth and did not utter a sound.

Because he could feel that the Jade Python Snake Emperor Martial Soul within him was undergoing a rebirth-like transformation!

Beneath the infusion of the Earth Dragon Golden Gourd's energy, the jade-green scales covering that massive serpent began to peel away.

What was revealed beneath the fallen scales was not flesh, but newly grown scales.

They were...

Black scales!

Black dragon scales carrying the aura of Nine Nether!

Scales of such quality were not something a serpent should possess.

Black as ink, yet with a faint dark-violet gleam flowing across their surfaces, as though they were nether iron tempered in the Nine Nether hells.

One scale.

Two scales.

Three scales.

The old jade-green scales fell away from the Jade Python Snake Emperor in vast patches, like a shedding skin, exposing the newly formed black dragon scales beneath.

Before the old scales could touch the ground, they dissolved into specks of green light and vanished into the air, as if announcing the end of an era.

Every newly grown black dragon scale, meanwhile, radiated a heart-pounding aura.

It was the pressure of the Dragon Clan!

True Dragon Might!

Not the ancient, heavy aura of earth dragon veins emitted by the Earth Dragon Golden Gourd, but a deeper, colder Nether Dragon Might that carried the meaning of death and endings!

Roar!!!!

A deep cry emerged from within Dugu Bo's body.

It was not the hiss of a snake, but... a dragon's roar!

Though it was still faint and even somewhat raw, the unique majesty of the Dragon Clan had already begun to reveal itself.

Dugu Bo's body was enduring unimaginable pain, but his spiritual power had never been clearer.

He could distinctly sense every change taking place within him.

The Earth Dragon Golden Gourd's energy transformed into a golden torrent, surging through his meridians.

This energy was not violent. It could even be called gentle.

But its gentleness was precisely because it was too vast—so vast that Dugu Bo's body could not endure it at all, and could only passively accept its reconstruction.

His meridians were being widened.

His bones were being strengthened.

His blood was being replaced.

If Dugu Bo's body had originally been a wooden house, then the Earth Dragon Golden Gourd's energy was tearing that house down and rebuilding it into a fortress with the hardest stone and steel.

And during this process, the most fundamental change was taking place at the source of his Martial Soul.

The origin of the Jade Python Snake Emperor was being permeated, fused, and reshaped by the Earth Dragon Golden Gourd's energy.

The genetic imprints of a serpent were being erased one by one.

The bloodline runes of the Dragon Clan were being engraved little by little.

This was not a simple evolution, but a complete and utter transformation!

From snake to dragon—only a single character apart, yet worlds apart in essence.

Rumble!!!!

At that moment, dark clouds began gathering in the sky above Dugu Bo's head.

They were not naturally formed clouds, but clouds drawn in by the power of some law.

It was... a Heavenly Tribulation!

Dugu Bo's heart jolted.

In the world of Douluo Continent, a Soul Master's breakthrough rarely triggered changes in the heavens, much less a Heavenly Tribulation.

There was only one exception.

When some form of power touched upon the domain of gods!

"With the Earth Dragon Golden Gourd's power and the foundation of the Jade Python Snake Emperor, is it going to directly assault a god-level Martial Soul?!"

Dugu Bo gritted his teeth, both shocked and delighted.

But soon, the dark clouds gradually dispersed again.

Not because the Heavenly Tribulation had vanished, but because... it was not enough yet.

Though the Earth Dragon Golden Gourd's age far exceeded expectations, it was still just a sliver short of allowing the Jade Python Snake Emperor to directly transform into a god-level Martial Soul.

In the end, that Heavenly Tribulation did not descend.

Dugu Bo could not tell whether he felt fortunate or regretful.

But the changes within his body were far from over.

The Earth Dragon Golden Gourd's energy began to merge with the Jade Python Snake Emperor's innate venom.

Originally, the Jade Python Snake Emperor's poison was pure biological venom—fierce, domineering, and lethal at the sight of blood.

But when the Earth Dragon Golden Gourd's earth attribute fused into it, the nature of the venom began to change.

Dugu Bo's spiritual power keenly caught this transformation, and a sudden realization rose within him.