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No sooner had he thought of it than he acted. Ling Yu quickly climbed out of bed and headed for the training room.

This time, he did not activate gravity mode. Sitting cross-legged on the floor, he willed it, and dense arcs of electricity once again appeared over his body. His pupils seemed filled with lightning, transforming completely into Lightning Eyes.

He held out his palm and looked at the dense arcs covering his body. Although they emerged from within him, he knew they were merely the result of his martial soul combining with the energy inside him. They existed only on the surface of his body and had little effect on his cells.

What he needed to do now was control the lightning on his body's surface to stimulate his cells, increasing their activity so his body could absorb the surrounding Soul Power faster. At the same time, it could make his physical body tougher and stronger.

Ling Yu's lightning-filled eyes returned to normal, and he controlled the lightning on his body's surface, drawing it back until it vanished.

"Let's start with my arm!"

Blue arcs of electricity sprang from his arm. Then, using his Spiritual Power, he forcibly controlled the lightning on the surface of his skin and drove it toward his cells.

"Gah!"

A tearing pain instantly shot through his arm. He quickly recalled his martial soul, then lowered his head to look at his arm.

A black scar, as though it had been scorched, had already appeared on his arm. Pain showed on his face despite himself.

"This really isn't something an ordinary person can endure. Just the first step nearly crippled my arm. If I weren't fairly skilled in the breathing and circulation method and able to recover my body quickly, I wouldn't dare try this!"

His first attempt had failed!

Ling Yu's mind began racing. The frequency of the lightning should start at the lowest point and gradually increase. At the same time, he needed to continuously observe the upper limit of what his cells could endure with his Spiritual Power and record the lightning frequencies for each stage of cellular stimulation.

With that thought, Ling Yu formed a hand seal and assumed the Heartless Toward Heaven posture, accelerating his breathing and circulation method to heal the injury on his arm.

An hour later, after feeling no more pain from his arm, Ling Yu opened his eyes again.

He once more made several tiny bolts of lightning emerge from his arm and controlled them to stimulate it again.

Sizzle, sizzle!

A faint sound came from his arm. Sweat began to bead on his forehead as he stared intently at the spot where the lightning stimulated his arm.

His Spiritual Power continuously examined the stimulated area, and a faint numbness immediately spread through his arm.

"A little stronger!"

Ling Yu could clearly sense that while his cells had become more active, they had obviously not yet reached their limit.

As the arcs on his arm gradually intensified, the crackling sounds grew clearer as well.

He kept the rate at which the lightning increased exceedingly slow. As time passed, the Spiritual Power in his mind was heavily depleted. His face turned deathly pale, his lips gradually lost their color, and his pajamas were completely soaked through with sweat.

"Just a little more, just a little more!"

His eyes were bloodshot as he stared fixedly at his arm. Arcs of lightning coiled around it, while his skin faintly emitted a pale golden glow. However, the light was far too dim, and Ling Yu's depleted Spiritual Power could not distinguish it for the moment.

A few minutes later, when the frequency rose once more, buzz! A faint sound came from his arm, and the pale golden light burst forth completely. Feeling that the lightning-stimulated area of his arm absorbed energy at nearly twice the speed of the rest of his body, Ling Yu finally revealed a slightly pale smile.

Thud!

With a dull thud from the floor, Ling Yu finally could no longer withstand the mental exhaustion and fainted.

In the dim room, only his arm continued to emit a pale golden glow.

Ling Yu did not know where he was. When he opened his eyes, he found himself in an utterly pitch-black space. It was dim and lightless, so quiet it was frightening.

There was no wind, no sound, no movement of any kind. There was only endless darkness and solitude!

Suddenly, a beam of light appeared before him. It completely illuminated the space, and Ling Yu finally saw his surroundings clearly.

People, beasts, birds!

All kinds of living creatures stood there, their faces devoid of light and their expressions bleak and sorrowful. The sky above their heads had shattered into countless fragments, while the earth beneath their feet was covered in endless cracks!

The stars had fallen, and the sun and moon were dim and colorless, making everything seem utterly lifeless!

This was a shattered universe!

"What on earth is this...?"

Just as Ling Yu stared wide-eyed at the broken world before him, overwhelmed by shock and terror, a dragon's roar suddenly rang out across the universe.

Roar!

As the dragon's roar echoed through the universe, an enormous creature beyond all description appeared before every living being.

Its body was simply too vast. Any one of its scales was broader than an entire galaxy. Its massive body coiled and curled, filling the entire universe.

Ling Yu stared at the scene in disbelief. What kind of creature was this, to possess such unfathomable power?

As if answering Ling Yu's question, the gigantic creature holding up the universe began to shrink rapidly. As its body grew smaller, its appearance gradually emerged.

Its head resembled a camel's, its horns a deer's, its eyes a rabbit's, its ears an ox's, its neck a snake's, its belly a clam's, its scales a carp's, its claws an eagle's, and its paws a tiger's!

This was clearly a dragon! A dragon of Huaxia!

Yet unlike ordinary dragons, this giant dragon was entirely golden. A pair of wings grew from its back, it had five claws, and its wings shimmered in five colors.

"Yinglong!"

Having read the Classic of Mountains and Seas, Ling Yu recognized the creature at once. Wasn't this Yinglong, known as the Creation Divine Dragon?!

Yinglong was the Ancestral Dragon. In the Classic of Mountains and Seas, he was praised as the Creation God. He had nurtured Pangu and fathered the phoenix and Jianma. Jianma then gave birth to the Qilin. Yinglong was the ancestor of all birds and beasts.

He was the undisputed, peerless God of War of myth!

"Could the myths be real?"

The thought could not help surfacing in Ling Yu's mind. The Ruan Ji Collection recorded that Yinglong's body was so vast that when he "stretched himself," the universe could not contain him, yet when he "shrunk himself," he could move freely through the gaps between all things.

Wasn't the scene before him proof of it?

Suddenly, while Ling Yu was still immersed in shock, countless drops of water flowed from Yinglong's body. Countless stars surrounded him, and endless elements emerged beneath his five claws. With a glare from his eyes, the sun and moon lost their color!

The droplets gathered together, then continuously flew toward the sky and the earth.

The shattered universe fused back together, the earth returned to normal, life began to revive, and stars flew from his body toward every corner of the universe, replacing the dead stillness of space.

Ling Yu did not know whether it was an illusion, but after completing all this, he felt that Yinglong's eyes were fixed tightly upon him, as if examining him, as if anticipating something!

At that moment, Ling Yu felt the space around him begin to distort and spin. He raised his head and looked once more at the giant dragon ahead, but all he saw was a golden light flying toward him.

"Xiao Yu! Xiao Yu!"

Ling Yu abruptly opened his eyes. The fleeting golden glint in his eyes startled the woman before him so badly that she took two steps back.

"What... happened to me?"

Ling Yu looked at the beautiful woman beside him, a hint of confusion appearing on his face.

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