Dragon King's Bone Burial Ground

Boom!

Between heaven and earth, violent energy surged.

Evil, fighting intent, ice lightning—all of it gathered toward that enormous phantom. Everyone stared wide-eyed.

A Title Douluo's battle could easily reshape the terrain, but they still could not borrow the power of heaven and earth. Super Douluo and Limit Douluo could manage it to a slight extent.

Then there were those who possessed domains. They could draw upon the energy of this patch of heaven and earth for their own use. Every one of them was a renowned powerhouse on this continent.

Only god-level beings could truly accomplish this. Though the range was extremely limited, it genuinely existed.

Thunder Prison Vine discovered in horror that the energy within its Thunder Hell was gathering toward that black-and-white giant dragon. It was not just it—everyone was affected.

"What Martial Soul Fusion Skill is this?!"

The four Title Douluo from the Qiangu Family and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan found it difficult to imagine that this had been unleashed by a level-sixty Soul Emperor. Yet somehow, it no longer seemed impossible. They had already seen too many incomprehensible things from him.

Battle armor that replaced soul bones, two dragon-type Martial Souls, each with two ultimate attributes...

A Self-Martial Soul Fusion Skill? They would just have to get used to it.

Under Thunder Prison Vine's horrified gaze, Black Kyurem's Freeze Shock finally finished charging. A heaven-shaking roar resounded through the sky.

A thick purple-blue beam shot forth like a Class Eight or Nine fixed-installation soul cannon. Then, a mushroom cloud rose into the air. The disciples still entangled with the thunder dragons scattered and fled at once.

"What the hell is that?"

"That was comparable to a Soul Douluo's, or a Class Eight fixed-installation soul cannon's... full-force strike?!"

Soul Engineers from Class One through Nine corresponded to Soul Masters with one through nine soul rings. Class Ten corresponded to a Super Douluo.

Even newly advanced Title Douluo would be frightened by that power... The battle armor had amplified him to the Soul Saint level, while the Martial Soul Fusion Skill had raised him again to Soul Douluo...

And that was how such terrifying power had erupted. Yu Longxing, Yu Longyue, Ma Xiaotao... countless disciples had now placed Mu Baobao on their list of people never to provoke. That name was clearly no joke.

"Kid, isn't that trump card of yours a little too outrageous? Both your Martial Souls have two ultimate attributes."

"And you can perform a Self-Martial Soul Fusion Skill. That armor can raise your strength to the Soul Saint level—what exactly is it?" Flames blazed in Yu Longyue's eyes as she asked. Her worldview had been utterly shattered.

"Let me catch my breath first!"

Mu Baobao looked completely drained, sweat soaking his entire body... He leaned against Ma Xiaotao's shoulder. Both the battle armor and Martial Soul Fusion Skill consumed enormous amounts of Soul Power and stamina. In his heart, he screamed for Huo Yuhao to hurry up and create the Soul Spirit System.

The core of that thing was Necromancy Magic. Soul beasts became wraiths after death, so it could not be replicated.

Once the dust and smoke dispersed, a crater two or three hundred meters wide appeared. Thunder Prison Vine's entire trunk had been blasted through, and a black soul ring floated above it.

Supported by Ma Xiaotao, he walked over and said, "Follow me, and you won't regret it!"

"Huh??" Ma Xiaotao froze. "You already blasted it to death. Can it even hear you? Or were you talking to me? Following you would only get me pissed to death!"

Mu Baobao rolled his eyes. "You're obviously the one who's pissing me off. You're still arguing with me even now."

A sentient soul ring meant that a soul beast's spirit and soul merged into the soul ring, allowing it to retain its will... Sky Dream Ice Silkworm was a million-year spiritual soul beast and could accomplish that... Snow Empress and Ice Empress... were more because they were powerful enough themselves. Ice Bear King and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass... relied more on the Soul Spirit System.

The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King and Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign had hidden within soul bones and soul rings, intervening in divine trials at critical moments. Da Ming, the Sky Azure Bull Python, and Er Ming, the Titan Giant Ape, did not possess such conditions.

After Tang Buddha Ancestor became a god, he could still revive them. He even directly raised them from hundred-thousand-year Title Douluo to divine officials, allowing them to contend with Di Tian, the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King. Ji Dong and Lie Yan had both died before.

They had also been revived by the God Kings of Goodness and Evil before inheriting divine positions... Even Huo Yuhao's parents could be revived.

So what was so difficult about becoming a god?

"What secret?"

Yu Longyue roared furiously, but Mu Baobao had already begun absorbing the soul ring. Yu Longxing spoke up.

"Sis, we need to hurry too. The good spots will probably all be taken by the Qiangu Family and their affiliated clans." Yu Longyue shot him a glance. "Then take them up there. There weren't any casualties this time, all thanks to him!"

"We absolutely can't let anyone else reap the rewards."

She clenched her fists in anger. Everyone else had taken advantage of the chaos to head up, while their own clan was still here.

"I can stay and watch over him." Ma Xiaotao spoke slowly. "I'm already grateful that you stayed behind to help. You should go handle your own business."

A ferocious fire dragon appeared behind Yu Longyue, while Ma Xiaotao possessed the Evil Fire Phoenix as well... The temperature abruptly soared. Yu Longxing tugged at his sister.

"Sis, this is a couple's business. He's also from Shitlake Academy, so let's not get involved. Can people just casually reveal their secrets?" In his panic, Yu Longxing even got the name wrong, immediately drawing Ma Xiaotao's furious glare. "It's Shrek Academy. Say it wrong again and I won't let you off. Also, he and I are merely classmates, not some couple."

"Then why are you blushing?" Yu Longyue teased. After thinking it over, she felt that it did make sense.

Ma Xiaotao's expression made it obvious that she did not know either. He had even kept it from his girlfriend... so there was no way he would tell them. They could only end up with their warm faces pressed against a cold backside.

"But... thank you."

Time slowly passed. Ma Xiaotao quietly guarded Mu Baobao, and after roughly half an hour...

"Don't disappoint me."

Mu Baobao vaguely heard that voice. There had been no difficulty at all in fusing Thunder Prison Vine's soul ring. It likely believed it could not survive its fourth ten-thousand-year tribulation and had willingly accepted upon sensing his extraordinariness.

Plants were the race closest to nature. Tang Buddha Ancestor's fifth Bloodline Soul Ring had been personally bestowed by the Blue Silver King... and that was only a few tens of thousands of years old. Plants found it easier than animals to develop intelligence, but even if it resisted... Ultimate Lightning could forcibly suppress it.

It was not difficult to understand why it would gamble on that slim possibility when it was supposed to die anyway. Ice Jade Empress Scorpion had been persuaded by Sky Dream Ice Silkworm into sacrificing itself. With three hundred thousand years of cultivation, it had found it extremely difficult to survive its fourth heavenly tribulation.

Mu Baobao still felt it was rather brainless. If it did not sacrifice itself, it could still live for several thousand years.

By then, it might have gained confidence in surviving the heavenly tribulation. The Mermaid Princess had been nearly killed by Evil Soul Masters, while the Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign had been personally killed—leaving those aside—Ice Bear King Xiaobai, Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass...

At the time, Huo Yuhao had shown no sign whatsoever of inheriting a divine position or becoming a god through faith... Where had they found the courage? Even with a max-level setup, they could only live a few hundred more years if they failed to become gods. He, however, was different.

Kyurem, Zekrom, Reshiram... they had originally been first-tier gods in the Pokemon World, and had once been one entity... Thunder Prison Vine possessed the God of Thunder's bloodline, so it was not difficult for it to sense this.

"My Soul Power rose by more than one level."

Mu Baobao opened his eyes and praised it. As expected of Thunder Prison Vine. A fifty- or sixty-thousand-year Dark Demon Evil God Tiger could raise Tang Buddha Ancestor's Soul Power at the Soul Douluo level. It was not strange for this to happen to him as a Soul Emperor.

This was the advantage of Twin Martial Souls. One extra Martial Soul meant nine additional soul rings, all at the highest age one could endure. Add the six main soul bones, and gaining four or five levels of Soul Power was more than easy.

Soul Masters stuck at a certain rank could use this to break through their bottlenecks. Tang Buddha Ancestor and Huo Yuhao's advancement speed in their later years... had practically been faster than at low levels, because they continuously fused soul rings and soul bones.

"Unfortunately, Zekrom still hasn't hatched," he muttered. The black-and-white twin dragons were almost always awakened by humans with the wishes of ideals and reality. Thunder Prison Vine alone naturally was not enough, but four soul rings should be sufficient.

"You're awake?"

Ma Xiaotao quietly crouched beside him, completely unlike her usual fiery temperament.

"Then let's go up!"

She did not say much. She constantly remembered what Mu Baobao had said: even those beside her had to be guarded against to some degree. It would already be fortunate if they did not stab them in the back... but if they harbored such thoughts, they could strike more accurately and viciously.

Time would reveal everything. Since that was the case, they would leave it to time. The two exchanged a glance.

"Mm, let's go."

As before, they swiftly passed the hundred steps, and an enormous plaza appeared before their eyes.

It was extremely strange. Plazas were generally located in the very center, but this one was at the outermost edge. Beyond it stood five rows of platforms... white, yellow, purple, black, and red.

The white platforms were entirely unoccupied, because one could no longer participate in the competition after obtaining the Dragon Transformation Method.

Those who knew their own limits would wait until they were strong enough before coming. Only one or two of the innermost yellow platforms were occupied, while none remained among the purple and black platforms.

Several red platforms remained, but after seeing who occupied them, probably no one would dare approach.

Battle Heaven Douluo, Unyielding Douluo, his granduncle Thunder Douluo, and an old man in a wheelchair, equally aged. He was likely the Qiangu Family's Universe Douluo. Who would dare sit together with those ancestors?

On the other side of the mountain was what made them widen their eyes. A colossal pure-white form glimmered with golden radiance.

A giant dragon skeleton hundreds of meters long lay across the mountainside. If one climbed up from the side, one would likely discover that its tail and limbs hung over the cliff.

"So it really isn't one?"

Mu Baobao fell into thought. This dragon was about the same size as the many dragon skeletons described in Legend of the Dragon King and Ultimate Douluo. It should only be an ordinary Radiant Sacred Dragon. The Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well belonged to Dragon Kings.

That information was naturally unreliable. First of all, the God Realm would never allow Dragon King remains to fall into a lower plane, and the lower plane could not bear them either... A first-tier god at their peak was not like Qian Renxue, Bibi Dong, or Tang San, gods who had only just inherited their positions. They could burn away half a lower plane with a single flame, while a God King descending upon it...

Would probably leave it riddled with holes. Dragon Kings could be God Kings, while outstanding ones were first- or second-tier gods... If adult dragons were not suppressed like Di Tian.

Becoming divine officials, the lowest rank of gods, would pose no problem at all. The two dragon souls at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well had only become demigods and quasi-gods after ten thousand years of cultivation.

Sacred Dragon Eternal White Armored Earth Dragon Tuoba Xi and Elephant Armor Sect's Diamond Mammoth Huyan Zhen had both been stuck at the Soul Douluo rank for decades. After joining Spirit Hall, Tuoba Xi became a Title Douluo elder, but Huyan Zhen did not.

White Dragon was a sub-dragon lineage of the Radiant Sacred Dragon. White Armored Earth Dragon was born from a White Dragon and some unknown earth dragon. Clearly, after occupying the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, the Radiant Sacred Dragon's remains had contributed greatly.

The remains had completely merged with the mountain itself. Otherwise, Spirit Hall would have long moved them to Spirit City rather than allowing them to become something in present-day Shrek City. Their aura was also extremely weak.

After being drained for over a hundred thousand years, not even a god could endure it. These bones looked as though they could turn to dust and scatter at any moment. During the era of Legend of the Dragon King, Tang Wulin disguised himself as a Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan disciple and took part in Gu Yuena's martial marriage contest without transforming into a dragon, yet he was not discovered.

Clearly, these remains had not lasted ten thousand more years. Mu Baobao inwardly sighed in regret as well. The Nine Great Dragon Kings had all been granted bloodlines by the Dragon God, and the Golden Dragon King and Silver Dragon King were fully comparable to them. He had once wondered whether finding all nine Dragon King remains would allow him to inherit the Dragon God.

That idea had fallen through. Let alone Dragon King remains, the God Realm would never allow the remains of outstanding dragons to fall into lower planes, lest they rise again... overthrowing them and exposing their usurpation.

Only the Dragon God inherited by Lan Xuanyu was allowed. If anyone else showed even the slightest sign of this, Tang Buddha Ancestor and the God Realm would likely have strangled them in the cradle.

Yet he could still sense the vast dragon power contained within the Radiant Sacred Dragon remains. The Dragon Transformation Method was entirely Dragon Power Body Tempering. Douluo Continent was simply too vast, and many people arrived at the same ideas.

Tang Wulin's Heavenly Thunder Body Forging, Lan Xuanyu's Dragon Power Body Tempering, even Zhuo Shi's self-created Nine Styles of the Great Dragon—the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan had already developed them by this time, so it was not strange.

The Radiant Sacred Dragon Ruins were likely formed when the Dragon Core fused into Sacred Mountain. Mu En had accidentally discovered it due to their Martial Souls sharing the same origin. Spirit Hall had missed out on an unparalleled treasure.

"What are they doing?"

On the plaza, a Break Evil Dragon and a Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon were locked in battle. Two disciples from the clans were fighting.

Some disciples from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan stood without taking seats on the yellow-tier platforms. They grabbed a disciple and asked what was happening, and he explained the situation.

"Brother Mu has finished absorbing his soul ring?" the disciple asked fearfully. Mu Baobao's domineering figure remained etched into his mind. Even Qiangu Zuiren, ranked first among the younger generation, would likely only retreat in defeat.

"As you can see, the Dragon Transformation Method is Dragon Power Body Tempering. Naturally, the farther forward your position is, the better."

"Every year, some people manage to get good positions by tagging along, but those who refuse to accept it can challenge those ahead and replace them. This year is naturally no exception."

Mu Baobao and Ma Xiaotao felt that this was quite reasonable upon hearing it. Without this rule... how many people could rely on help from friends around them to seize good spots? Reserving spots was very popular on Blue Star.

This was still fairly just. The two currently fighting were both five-ring Soul Kings, and their strength was nearly equal.

After asking around, they learned that they were ranked ninth and tenth among the younger generation. Few people deliberately remembered such rankings... Just like among a thousand people, one might have a vague impression of the top hundred.

Among the top hundred, the top ten were memorable. Yet even seventh or eighth place could be blurry, while ninth and tenth could be replaced at any time.

One red and one purple dragon battled continuously with fists and staffs, lightning filling the entire arena... He had instantly defeated eighth-ranked Qiangu Youchou with two moves. He could not be bothered to remember ninth and tenth place, who could be replaced at any time.

After leaving here, he might rarely have dealings even with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. Title Douluo rarely appeared more than a few times, so the chances of disciples encountering one another were practically nonexistent.

In the end, the Qiangu Family disciple seemed to defeat the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan disciple by a narrow margin. However, the latter then challenged someone weaker and seized his position... before taking a seat.

This repeated in turn. The clan elders clearly had no time to watch them fool around, so they stipulated that each person could challenge once and be challenged once, for a total of two times. A third battle would merely be handing oneself over to others, since little Soul Power would remain.

People continuously won, while the losers gave up their positions, drawing countless sighs. "People need to know where they belong. If they insist on snatching a spot..."

"By then, they won't have any strength left for Dragon Power Body Tempering. They might as well wait until next year."

"If you lack the fortune, no matter how good something is, you won't be able to enjoy it!"