Condensing the First Soul Core, Xu Jiujiu's Lucky Little Hand, Entering the World in Full!

For three days straight, Qiangu Yunche remained motionless like a blood-red statue. Until the morning of the fourth day, a crisp cracking sound rang out beside everyone's ears.

The massive blood-red cocoon exploded with a boom. Qiangu Yunche let out a long howl, and his left leg came down like a gigantic axe. A razor-sharp blood-red gleam cleaved straight through the sea surface for several thousand meters ahead, creating an enormous vacuum zone.

The 200,000-year Evil Spirit Orca left leg bone Soul Skill, Orca Demon Axe—an extremely terrifying single-target attack Soul Skill!

After splitting the sea, Qiangu Yunche felt utterly refreshed. The enhancement brought by a Beast Soul Ring and Beast Soul Bone was simply immense. His strength, speed, endurance, and every other attribute had skyrocketed. Calling him a humanoid tyrannosaur would practically be an insult to him!

At the same time, however, Qiangu Yunche discovered an extremely practical problem.

Because his total Soul Power was simply too immense, coupled with its exceptionally high quality, Qiangu Yunche possessed, at the Soul Emperor level, an amount and quality of Soul Power comparable to those Title Douluo who had desperately condensed their first Soul Core, only to remain trapped at rank ninety or ninety-one for the rest of their lives.

As everyone knew, after ordinary Soul Masters entered the Title Douluo realm, their Soul Power would gradually transform from liquid into solid. They could only rely on Soul Cores to break it down and absorb it. Otherwise, let alone improving their cultivation, even circulating their Soul Power would become a problem.

That was also why absorbing a Beast Soul Ring and a Soul Bone had only raised Qiangu Yunche's Soul Power by four and a half ranks.

What troubled him even more was that once he returned, he would have to condense his first Soul Core. Otherwise, his future cultivation speed would likely be several times slower than even an ultimate-attribute Soul Master at the Soul Emperor level.

Watching Qiangu Liting and the others gather around him, Qiangu Yunche reined in his thoughts, and a smile appeared on his face once more...

After returning from the sea, Qiangu Yunche explained the predicament he faced to his parents.

After careful deliberation, Qiangu Liting still decided to help Qiangu Yunche condense his first Soul Core at the Soul Emperor realm.

Even though doing so meant that Qiangu Yunche would have to condense a second Soul Core when breaking through to Title Douluo, and a third Soul Core when breaking through to Limit Douluo.

But Qiangu Liting had faith in Qiangu Yunche.

Qiangu Yunche was a seed of godhood nurtured by the Qiangu Clan with all its resources and effort. If he wanted to break through humanity's limits and attain godhood, then he had to accomplish what ordinary people considered impossible.

Luck was part of strength, but relying entirely on luck was a sure path to death.

Inside the Qiangu Clan's secret chamber, Qiangu Yunche sat cross-legged with his eyes shut.

Over the previous seven days, under the guidance of Qiangu Liting and seniors such as the Cangming Thunder Dragon Emperor, who had experience condensing Soul Cores, he had grasped the core principles of Soul Core condensation. What he was doing now was turning theory into practice—and this was also the most dangerous step.

The enormous, nearly violent Soul Power within his body was circulating at an astonishing speed. With every cycle, his liquid Soul Power was compressed a little further.

This was the first step in condensing a Soul Core—completely transforming abundant Soul Power from liquid to solid.

Unlike ordinary Soul Masters, who chose to take this step only at the Soul Douluo or even Title Douluo realm, Qiangu Yunche had to accomplish it at the Soul Emperor level.

Qiangu Yunche understood the danger involved better than anyone.

Once something went out of control during Soul Core condensation, the best-case outcome would be a Soul Power rampage and crippled cultivation. The worst-case outcome would be exploding to death on the spot.

Therefore, once he began, Qiangu Yunche had to make every step flawless!

Seven days passed. Fourteen days passed. Twenty-one days passed...

As time passed, the Soul Power vortex floating before Qiangu Yunche's brow became increasingly solid. The liquid Soul Power, once vast as the sea, was continuously compressed and purified. Its volume shrank dramatically, while its quality rose geometrically. His spiritual power poured into the vortex like a tide, controlling the rhythm of compression inch by inch.

There were only three places within a Soul Master's body where a Soul Core could be formed: the dantian, the chest, and the brow.

Of them, the dantian was the easiest place to form a Soul Core, while the brow was the most difficult.

The reason was simple. Behind the brow lay the human brain, and the Sea of Spirit—the core region governing a Soul Master's soul and consciousness—was located within the brain. Should the fusion fail, the Soul Master's brain would inevitably suffer severe damage, and they might even die as a result.

But in order to make condensing his second and third Soul Cores easier in the future, Qiangu Yunche had to take this risk now.

On the morning of the thirty-first day.

A muffled boom came from within Qiangu Yunche's body, making the entire secret chamber tremble.

Deep within his brow, a golden sphere of light slowly settled into place.

It rotated slowly, and every turn drew Soul Power from heaven and earth into Qiangu Yunche's body like countless rivers flowing into the sea.

The first Soul Core was complete!

Qiangu Yunche opened his eyes, and a golden glint flashed through them. Feeling the Soul Core within his body beating like a heart, enlightenment suddenly dawned upon him.

The Soul Core could not directly increase his cultivation, but it granted him a Soul Power recovery rate and circulation efficiency far beyond anything he had possessed before.

From now on, he would cultivate automatically every moment of every day, while his Soul Power endurance in battle had increased severalfold. More importantly, this Soul Core, condensed so early, had laid an incomparably solid foundation for his future path.

Seeing that Qiangu Yunche had finally succeeded, Qiangu Chengjun and the others, who had been standing guard nearby, finally let out long breaths of relief.

Qiangu Chengjun stepped forward and patted Qiangu Yunche on the shoulder before sighing.

"You brat really are monstrous. You successfully condensed your first Soul Core at the Soul Emperor level. Your cultivation will probably begin exploding again from here on out. This old man declares that you will definitely become a Title Douluo before the age of twenty."

The energy required to condense a Soul Core was enormous. Other than the Sea of Life, the only thing remaining in Qiangu Yunche's body was the Evil Orca King's origin energy that he had yet to digest, which was not enough to support him in rapidly completing the condensation of his first Soul Core.

Therefore, the rest of the energy Qiangu Yunche needed could only be obtained from the outside world.

And the Domain of Destruction was undoubtedly the best way to obtain it.

Over the past few days, the Qiangu Clan's Title Douluo had continuously taken turns entering the Domain of Destruction in groups of three, releasing their Soul Power without restraint for the Domain of Destruction to drain. Once one group had been drained dry, the next would take its place, cycling endlessly. Together with the Soul Core's own frenzied devouring of the energy of heaven and earth, Qiangu Yunche had not been troubled by insufficient energy.

It was precisely because of their help that Qiangu Yunche had been able to rapidly complete the condensation of his first Soul Core within a month.

"I still have to thank you, Second Grandfather, and the others for your help. If I had relied solely on myself, I probably would have needed another two months just to finish condensing my first Soul Core."

Qiangu Yunche said with a soft laugh.

"There's nothing to thank us for. Watching you youngsters grow so outstandingly is the greatest comfort and joy for us old fellows." Qiangu Chengjun spoke softly. "That soul hunt a month ago brought the clan five more top-grade Soul Bones. Among them, that 80,000-year Evil Orca Trunk Bone was given by Liting to Zhanfeng. I also gained some insight from that battle, and together with the pills your mother refined earlier, I have a feeling that I will break through to rank ninety-seven within three months at most."

Zhanfeng was Qiangu Chengjun's grandson, Qiangu Zhanfeng.

When the 80,000-year Evil Orca Trunk Bone was mentioned, Qiangu Yunche could not help clicking his tongue.

Last time, they had killed more than three hundred Evil Spirit Orcas in total. Afterward, the work of checking whether the corpses had produced Soul Bones had basically been carried out by Yang Shu and Xu Jiujiu.

Then, Xu Jiujiu's lucky little hand seemed to have received the blessing of the God of Luck. From over three hundred Soul Beasts, she had actually pulled out five top-grade Soul Bones over 30,000 years old!

That worked out to a drop rate of nearly one in sixty, stunning everyone present.

And that trunk bone was the most precious among those five Soul Bones.

As thanks for Xu Jiujiu's incredible luck—or perhaps because her future parents-in-law approved of their daughter-in-law—Qiangu Liting also gave Xu Jiujiu a 50,000-year Evil Orca Right Leg Bone.

The leg Soul Bones produced by Evil Spirit Orcas possessed only one of two Soul Skills: Orca Tooth Shatter Slash or Evil Demon Orca Axe. The former was a large-scale group attack, while the latter was a powerful single-target attack. Either one could become one of Xu Jiujiu's strongest trump cards.

After a pause, Qiangu Chengjun added,

"Oh, right. That little princess of the Xu Family is still waiting for you. Aren't you two heading to Star Luo City together afterward? I'll be going with you. If nothing unexpected happens, I will most likely become the head of the Star Luo Imperial Family's Offering Hall and remain stationed in Star Luo City."

Qiangu Yunche felt somewhat emotional. It seemed that after this series of events, the clan had finally resolved to cooperate with the Star Luo Empire and pave the way for his path to godhood.

"If that's the case, then the clan can make its preparations and enter the world completely."

At present, Shrek Academy, the Body Sect, and the Sun Moon Empire's Mingde Hall formed a three-way balance on the continent. A triangle was stable, and the Qiangu Clan intended to become the fourth force that shattered that stability, completely seize this era from the other three, and lead the creation of a brand-new age...