Advancing to Blue Silver Emperor Requires Surviving a Heavenly Tribulation to Become the Sole Emperor?

That was the ability to command all grasses!

As long as they were Blue Silver Grass, he could command them at will.

This ability ranked below only the Blue Silver Emperor and Blue Silver Kings with cultivation higher than his own.

"Y-You... how did you suddenly advance to become a Blue Silver King?!"

Within the Ancestral Land, the eighty-thousand-year-old Old Blue Silver King had already condensed an aged face with his spiritual power.

At this moment, that old face was filled with an expression as if he had seen a ghost.

His eyes were wide as he stared fixedly at Lan Lingcang, who had just taken human form, completely unable to comprehend what was happening before him.

This utterly overturned everything he had known about plant-type Soul Beasts over his eighty thousand years!

An ordinary Blue Silver Grass that had originally possessed only a few hundred years of cultivation had crossed a gap of fifty thousand years and become a Blue Silver King in less than half an hour?

If word got out, every Soul Beast in the entire Star Dou Great Forest would think he had gone mad.

And what terrified the Old Blue Silver King most was that it was not over yet!

The terrifying aura around that handsome youth not only had not stopped rising, but was continuing to soar at an astonishing speed!

"Continue sacrificing yourselves to me!"

Lan Lingcang paid no attention to the Old Blue Silver King beside him.

He had never felt better. The sensation of power flooding wildly into every limb and bone was so intoxicating that he could not pull himself away from it.

The instant his vitality began to drain away, it was forcefully replenished by his suddenly elevated cultivation limit.

Sixty thousand years of cultivation!

Seventy thousand years of cultivation!

Eighty thousand years of cultivation!

The golden glow around Lan Lingcang grew increasingly brilliant, while violent Soul Power fluctuations transformed into tangible ripples that spread wildly outward, ring after ring.

The Old Blue Silver King was now so terrified that he could not utter a single word. His aged face twisted violently as he could only instinctively prostrate himself on the ground and tremble.

Ninety thousand years of cultivation!

A terrifying bloodline pressure swept recklessly outward from the Blue Silver Ancestral Land as its absolute center, reaching the more distant regions of the Star Dou Great Forest.

Countless low-level Soul Beasts living nearby could only let out mournful whimpers beneath this sudden pressure, desperately burying their heads in the dirt.

Finally, when the golden patterns on Lan Lingcang's body completely transformed into blue-gold patterns.

One hundred thousand years of cultivation, achieved!

There were no bottlenecks and no obstacles. At this moment, the tyranny of the Demon Contract was displayed to the fullest.

As his hundred-thousand-year cultivation fully stabilized, Lan Lingcang's bloodline underwent another ultimate ascension.

The Blue Silver King bloodline advanced into the Blue Silver Emperor bloodline!

Lan Lingcang slowly opened his eyes and casually raised a hand, clearly sensing the terrifying power contained within his body.

Of course, that power was only relative. It definitely could not compare to the hundred-thousand-year Titan Giant Ape or Sky Azure Bull Python.

But compared to his previously weak self, it was the difference between heaven and earth!

"So this is the realm of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast. It truly is wondrous."

He could sense what seemed to be a blue crystal circulating within his body.

This should be the Soul Core that automatically condensed after reaching the level of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.

This was also likely why a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast was guaranteed to produce a Soul Bone after death—because of this Soul Core.

The corner of Lan Lingcang's mouth curled up slightly. He then prepared to test the Blue Silver Emperor's exclusive ability to command its kin.

As the Blue Silver Emperor, he should have been able to sense the breath of every Blue Silver Grass on Douluo Continent and exercise absolute control over them.

Full of anticipation, he closed his eyes and activated the Blue Silver Domain!

One li.

Ten li.

A hundred li.

His domain covered an extremely vast range, and he truly sensed the existence of countless Blue Silver Grasses.

Yet he discovered that although he could communicate with them and issue commands, he could not achieve absolute control.

If absolute control meant one hundred percent, then his current control over the clan was ninety-nine percent.

"What is going on?"

Lan Lingcang frowned, turned his head, and looked toward the Old Blue Silver King beside him, who was still lying on the ground pretending to be dead.

"Hey, stop playing dead. Get up and answer me."

Lan Lingcang's voice was not loud, yet it carried the majesty of one in authority. It was the absolute suppression that the imperial bloodline he naturally emitted exerted over lesser bloodlines.

The Old Blue Silver King shuddered and nervously raised his head, his eyes filled with reverence as he looked at Lan Lingcang.

The Old Blue Silver King did not know how this young clansman before him had accomplished all this in less than half a day.

But the incomparably pure imperial bloodline aura emanating from him could not be faked.

Under such absolute bloodline suppression, the Old Blue Silver King could not even summon the slightest thought of resistance.

Moreover, faced with such a terrifying being capable of creating miracles in an instant, he had no desire to resist.

"Respected... new Emperor, what are your orders?" The Old Blue Silver King's tone was humble to the extreme; even his form of address had changed.

Lan Lingcang looked at him and directly voiced the doubt in his heart. "I have already advanced into a Blue Silver Emperor, so why can't I sense the absolute ability to command the entire Blue Silver Clan across the continent?"

Hearing this question, the Old Blue Silver King froze for a moment before hurriedly answering truthfully.

"Reporting to the new Emperor, it is because our Blue Silver Clan can only have one true Emperor in the same era."

Lan Lingcang raised a brow and asked, "You mean another Blue Silver Emperor is still alive?"

He had originally thought he had traveled to an era after Ah Yin had already sacrificed herself, but now it seemed... that was not the case?

The Old Blue Silver King sighed. "Yes. Although our old Emperor has dispersed her cultivation, taken human form, and left the forest, as long as she lives, she remains the Blue Silver Emperor acknowledged by the entire clan."

"Although you possess the Emperor's bloodline and cultivation, by human standards, you can currently only be considered the heir apparent."

Lan Lingcang: ...

"Then what must I do to become the sole new Emperor?"

The Old Blue Silver King explained respectfully, "Unless your cultivation can surpass that of the old Emperor before she took human form."

"In other words, you must face and successfully survive the first Heavenly Tribulation of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast."

"Only after being tempered by the lightning of the Heavenly Tribulation will your strength and level of life undergo a true qualitative transformation."

"At that time, you will become the sole Emperor of the Blue Silver Clan."

After hearing the Old Blue Silver King's explanation, Lan Lingcang finally nodded in sudden realization.

It had to be said that this bloodline inheritance of the Blue Silver Clan was indeed incredibly domineering.

The Blue Silver Clan could only have one Blue Silver Emperor. Only after that Emperor died could a second appear.

Yet this "rule" had been broken by him through the Demon Contract.

But breaking it was not enough. If he wanted to become the sole Emperor, he had to become stronger than Ah Yin!

And Lan Lingcang was not worried in the slightest. Wasn't it just a hundred-thousand-year Heavenly Tribulation?

He had the Hextech [Nine Lives]. If he truly could not survive it, he could simply sacrifice one life!