Black Dragon Douluo Emerges from Seclusion, the Guardian System Arrives

Douluo Continent, Spirit City, Spirit Hall, rear mountain of the Worship Hall

The night sky was blanketed by heavy clouds. In an instant, lightning flashed and thunder roared, gale-force winds howled, and bolts of lightning cleaved through the black curtain of night like sharp swords.

Thunder boomed like war drums, deafeningly loud. Dense clouds churned, and within them, a Black Dragon seemed to appear and vanish as it wound through the cloud cover.

A massive dragon head parted the rolling clouds. Its eyes shone as brilliantly as the stars, blooming with dazzling, multicolored light like vibrant gemstones. The Black Dragon looked down at the mountain below.

Its hundred-meter-long black body stood like a Great Wall rising through the night. Before its body, the mountain seemed utterly insignificant.

A hurricane swept through like a savage beast, its devastating force ravaging the forest. Trees swayed unstably beneath the gale, as though they might be snapped in half at any moment.

Within the forest stood a steel gate over ten meters tall and five or six meters wide. The bronze-colored gate was pressed tightly against the rock wall.

Boom! A tremendous force sent the steel gate flying dozens of meters away before it crashed heavily onto the ground.

With the steel gate gone, a deep cave was exposed to the air as the dust gradually settled.

A young man emerged from the cave. He wore a set of mysterious, imposing black robes, their gold-threaded dragon patterns winding across the dark fabric and glimmering faintly.

His waterfall-like black hair fell freely over his shoulders. His exquisite face resembled a finely carved piece of jade, with sword-like brows slanting toward his temples, starry eyes bright as cold stars, a straight nose, and thin lips pressed together.

The nobility and coldness flowing from his bearing seemed innate, keeping others at a distance.

At that moment, nine soul rings appeared beneath the young man's feet. Black, black, black, black, black, black, red, red, red—nine fearsome soul rings fully revealed themselves.

The continent's publicly acknowledged optimal soul ring configuration was yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black, black, black, red. Yet this young man's soul rings had utterly surpassed the continent's recognized optimal configuration. He had even absorbed a ten-thousand-year soul ring that only a Soul King at level fifty could normally absorb.

When he had still been in the Soul Master realm, his first soul ring had already reached ten thousand years—something unimaginable.

"After years of seclusion, time had slipped by. My Soul Power Level has actually reached level ninety-five. A nineteen-year-old Title Douluo at level ninety-five—who in this world could reach my Soul Power Level at this age?" the young man said with emotion.

He was a transmigrator named Lin Xiao.

He had transmigrated to Douluo Continent nineteen years ago. When he had first arrived, he had been nothing more than a bewildered infant abandoned on the streets. He had thought that just after transmigrating, he would have to die all over again.

Unexpectedly, a blond young man had picked him up. Only afterward had he learned that this blond young man was actually Qian Xunji, the Pope of Spirit Hall.

Pope Qian Xunji had taken pity on him and adopted him as his godson. He also had a younger sister named Qian Renxue. He knew Spirit Hall's future fate, but as a child, he had been powerless.

In the end, when he awakened his martial soul, fate did not go as he wished. Though he had desperately wanted to stop it, Qian Xunji still died just as he had in the original story, and his sister Qian Renxue lost her father because of it.

From that moment on, he had sworn that even without a system or cheat, he would do everything in his power to change Spirit Hall's future fate. Even if it cost him his life, he would not hesitate!

But in a warped world like Douluo Continent, martial soul quality determined everything. Fortunately, his martial soul was not weak: the Black Dragon, an external-release martial soul that possessed its own consciousness.

It was similar to the pig-like Luo Sanpao, but his martial soul was no trash martial soul like Luo Sanpao. It was a top-tier martial soul, and he possessed Innate Full Soul Power!

The Black Dragon martial soul had its own consciousness, but his commands were absolute. By chance, while refining Soul Power, he discovered that his Black Dragon martial soul could actually refine Soul Power on its own.

He could refine Soul Power himself, while his martial soul could also refine Soul Power and cultivate. One plus one was greater than two. He believed this was his cheat.

When he went to Star Dou Forest to hunt for soul rings, he encountered a dying ten-thousand-year soul beast. He decided to gamble, betting that his martial soul could absorb a ten-thousand-year soul ring!

While his god-grandfather Qian Daoliu was not paying attention, he killed that dying ten-thousand-year soul beast and began absorbing its ten-thousand-year soul ring. Though reckless, he had confidence in himself!

In the end, he got his wish and absorbed the ten-thousand-year soul ring. Afterward, his god-grandfather Qian Daoliu showed him exactly what it meant to be flayed alive. He could not get out of bed for an entire month!

After absorbing his first soul ring, he had entered seclusion to cultivate. His own Soul Power Level was the highest priority. His future enemies would be powerful, and if he wanted to protect Spirit Hall, he needed to put in tremendous effort!

During the period he had spent cultivating in seclusion, his younger sister Qian Renxue had ultimately still left Spirit Hall and gone to the Heaven Dou Empire to carry out the Usurpation Plan. There was nothing he could do about it.

Finally, at the age of seventeen, he cultivated his Soul Power Level to ninety and absorbed the soul ring of a hundred-thousand-year Earth Dragon soul beast. His title became Black Dragon—Black Dragon Douluo!

He became the youngest Title Douluo on the continent.

And now, his Soul Power Level had reached level ninety-five. In Spirit Hall's records, no one had ever become a Title Douluo at the age of seventeen!

It could be said that in ten thousand years, he was the only Soul Master on the continent to reach the Title Douluo rank at seventeen!

At that moment, a dragon's roar resounded through heaven and earth. The Black Dragon winding through the clouds in the night sky flew toward Lin Xiao.

Its body gradually shrank until it was palm-sized. It landed atop Lin Xiao's head, coiled its body there, yawned, and fell asleep.

His Black Dragon martial soul had no hobbies other than sleeping. If Lin Xiao had not pushed the Black Dragon to cultivate, his martial soul might have slept all day long.

[Detected that the host's Soul Power Level has reached level ninety-five. The Guardian System is beginning binding.]

A mechanical voice echoed in Lin Xiao's mind, and his expression became complicated.

A system?

How could he not know what a system was!

A system was a cheat. With one, Tang San, Tang Hao, and even Tang San with the dual godhoods of the Sea God and Asura God were nothing but small fry.

He just had not expected his system to arrive only after he became a Title Douluo!

Though it was somewhat late, it was not too late. Despite having Soul Power at level ninety-five, he still lacked the confidence to change Spirit Hall's future fate.

His opponent was Tang San, a man blessed with immense destiny, memories from two lifetimes, and the protection of the God Realm's two supreme gods, the Asura God and Sea God!

Turning misfortune into fortune and seeking advantage while avoiding harm—those were merely basic operations for him.

Lin Xiao did not believe that just because he was a transmigrator, he could surpass Tang San in terms of destiny.

[System binding successful. As the name suggests, the Guardian System allows the host to choose a person to protect. Guide that person on the path of cultivation until they become a god, and you will receive the Guardian's final reward.]

[Three guardian choices are now available. Please choose, host.]