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[Note: Venom boosts all attributes. If Soul Skills are also boosted, the effect stacks on top of them as an Independent Multiplier!]
At the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest, on a cliff beside a barren mountain.
A writhing lump of black slime crawled out from a pile of rubble, cursing furiously.
"Holy fucking shit!"
"I only asked the cosplayer to put on a black-stocking Venom outfit to spice things up..." The lump of black slime bounced twice on the ground, its voice muffled. "Was there really any need to turn me into Venom?"
"And where the hell am I, anyway?"
Venom was an extraterrestrial symbiote from the Marvel Universe. Bonded to a host, he could enhance their abilities and take on all sorts of forms.
But without a host, Venom couldn't use any of his abilities. He was just a lump of black slime.
This place was in the middle of nowhere. He couldn't even see a living thing. Who the hell could he bond with?
Jiang Ce grumbled and cursed for a while, then could only start moving slowly, looking for a host.
After all, this form of his was just too shabby.
Just then, a rumbling sound came from the distance.
Jiang Ce looked up. A slender figure staggered toward him from afar, covered in blood and breathing heavily, with a colossal beast in pursuit.
Jiang Ce's spirits lifted.
Why did that person look more and more familiar?
She had ink-black hair and wore a skintight outfit that showed off her explosive curves to perfection.
Most importantly, they jiggled wildly as she ran.
Even as she fled for her life in such a sorry state, her figure was outrageously good.
In principle, the stronger the host, the better for Venom.
But as a certified horndog, he naturally thought a mount like this would be even better.
When there was work, the mount could do it; when there wasn't, he could do the mount.
Besides, bonding with one person didn't mean he couldn't bond with anyone else.
Bonding with a human host first to acquire their memories and learn what world he was in was the most important thing, wasn't it?
But why did this young woman look more and more familiar?
"Holy shit, Liu Erlong? Why is she so young?"
Jiang Ce immediately understood what world he'd landed in—Douluo Continent, and decades before the story began.
He was glad Liu Erlong was still so young, but as Venom, he probably counted as a Soul Beast.
In this damnable world, Soul Beasts weren't allowed to become gods.
In that case, he could use Venom's abilities to raise the mount in front of him into a God King. That ought to work.
As Jiang Ce pondered, the Soul Beast pursuing Liu Erlong charged over too.
It was more than five meters long, covered from head to toe in dark red scales, with thick limbs. It opened its mouth and unleashed a scorching dragon's breath.
It was an eight-thousand-year Red Flame Earth Dragon, an exceptionally aggressive breed of dragon Soul Beast whose strength was enough to rival a Soul Ancestor.
Twelve-year-old Liu Erlong had never received any proper instruction. Now she was only a Level Twenty-Six Great Soul Master, more than an entire major rank behind her pursuer.
"Damn it—"
She dodged the dragon's breath head-on, but the shockwave flung her away. Her body slammed hard into a rock, and a trickle of blood escaped the corner of her mouth.
The Red Flame Earth Dragon had already reached her. It raised a massive claw, ready to bring it down.
Liu Erlong's eyes were full of unwillingness.
She rolled across the ground, narrowly evading the Red Flame Earth Dragon's attack.
Looking at the cliff not far away,
Even if she died, she'd never let that thing slap her to death!
"Damn Soul Beast! If you've got the guts, jump after me!"
She leaped.
"Holy shit!"
"She's really going for it?"
Jiang Ce hurriedly shifted his body—no, don't! My mount!
He immediately leaped after her, putting every last bit of strength he'd stored up into chasing that graceful figure.
Liu Erlong plummeted rapidly. When she saw the trees below the cliff, her eyes lit up.
She twisted in midair and reached for a tree.
Crack.
She finally caught hold of a branch, slowing her fall.
But the branch snapped.
"Not good!"
Liu Erlong lost her balance and kept falling. She smashed through several trees, flipping over and over, until she ended up hanging upside down from a large tree.
Liu Erlong suddenly spat out a huge mouthful of blood and passed out on the spot.
The Red Flame Earth Dragon stood at the cliff's edge. It peered down into the abyss, shook its head, then turned and left.
A few moments after Liu Erlong passed out, a lump of black slime landed on her with a splat and bounced twice on those two enormous mounds.
"Holy shit, how big are those? They even cushioned my fall!"
Jiang Ce bounced twice on the trampoline before seeping completely into Liu Erlong's body.
He quickly checked his host's condition—multiple broken bones, damaged internal organs, and only a thread of life left.
"Thank goodness, thank goodness. My mount!"
His regenerative ability activated at once, stabilizing her vital signs, setting her broken bones, and repairing her internal organs.
At the same time, his replication ability kicked in, sharing his host's memories.
Liu Erlong, the illegitimate daughter of Yu Luomian, Second Boss of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. She took her mother's surname, Liu.
Her mother had come from a brothel, and the two of them had been kept in an outer residence, but their lives were far from easy.
At six, she awakened a mutated Fire Dragon Martial Soul with an innate Soul Power of Level 8.
Because of her mother's background, and because she herself was an illegitimate daughter,
she had worked tirelessly throughout her childhood to become stronger, all for the sake of getting justice for her mother!
But before she could achieve her goal, her mother died of illness when she was ten. From then on, she was on her own.
At twelve, she was a Level Twenty-Six Great Soul Master, scraping by in Heaven Dou City by taking low-level commissions.
Three days ago, she had taken a job gathering herbs in the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest. She'd strayed into the territory of an eight-thousand-year Red Flame Earth Dragon and been hunted down.
As her injuries healed, Liu Erlong suddenly opened her eyes and warily surveyed her surroundings.
She was just about to turn over when the branch beneath her swayed. A bottomless abyss lay below, so she immediately steadied herself and didn't move an inch.
"I actually survived." Then she noticed something even more astonishing—her injuries had completely healed.
"Good instincts. Your reflexes are pretty good, too."
Suddenly, a voice came from within her body.
Liu Erlong's pupils contracted. Her Martial Soul possessed her in an instant. She sprang and twisted through the air, landing by the tree's roots and steadying herself as her gaze swept over the surroundings like a blade.
"Not bad, not bad."
The voice sounded again, making Liu Erlong even more wary.
Before she could react, black liquid surged out over her clothes and instantly wrapped around her from head to toe.
Her tattered skintight clothes were replaced by a Black Latex Suit,
which fit snugly, outlining every curve of her full, shapely figure.
Venom symbiosis state.
Base attributes multiplied, with multiple additional abilities fully unlocked.
A black tendril emerged from Liu Erlong's chest and formed Venom's head!
"Nice to meet you. You can call me Venom, or Jiang Ce." The face curled into a smirk. "I need a mount right now. In exchange—"
"Get off me!"
Before Jiang Ce could finish, Liu Erlong violently tore at the Venom skintight suit covering her.
The feeling of the symbiote wrapping around her whole body made every hair on her stand on end—
It was as if she'd been shoved into a pool of hot spring water: warm and suffocating, every inch of her skin clinging tight, as if countless hands were embracing her all at once.
The sensation filled her with unbearable shame.
Yet no matter how hard she tore at it, it was like pulling at a mass of sticky stuff that kept stretching into strands. She couldn't get it off.
"Stop struggling. It's no use."
Liu Erlong stopped tearing at it.
"As my mount, I'll give you strength."
"Get off me."
"Oh?" Jiang Ce's voice took on a teasing lilt. "Don't you... want to beat those ugly bastards back into the dirt? Don't you want to make the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect pay?"
Liu Erlong stopped.
"What kind of strength can you give me?"
"Feel it for yourself."
Jiang Ce chuckled softly and turned into black liquid, retreating into Liu Erlong's chest.
The shared-permission function of the symbiotic form activated, and their abilities fully linked up.
Liu Erlong's pupils contracted sharply—
She could clearly feel the Soul Power inside her surging upward. The bottleneck that had held her at Level 26 shattered with a roar, and her level climbed all the way to 29.
Then,
even greater power continued to pour through the Symbiotic Link.
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