Lan Xuanyu: A Naturally Evil Sub-Dragon, I'll Come Personally... (Seeking Collection and Follow-up Reads)

The Douling Empire's geographical position is both slightly advantageous and somewhat awkward.

In terms of its overall situation, it borders the Heaven Dou Empire to the west and the Star Luo Empire to the south. The distance across the Star Dou Great Forest is equivalent to traveling from the center of the Heaven Dou Empire to its southernmost tip—it is simply too far.

Therefore, there was no other choice. Seven-year-old Lan Xuanyu had to abandon the idea of hunting for a soul ring in the Star Dou Great Forest and instead followed the Xuanming Sect's hunting party to the Panlong Forest in the Douling Empire.

Because the Douling Empire has the weakest comprehensive national strength and soul guidance technology among the three original nations of the Douluo Continent, it has managed to preserve this gathering place for soul beasts, which was quite famous back in the Spirit Hall era. Although it is far less renowned than the Star Dou Great Forest, one can find everything from ten-year and hundred-year soul beasts to thousand-year and ten-thousand-year ones in the Panlong Forest, and there are even legends of hundred-thousand-year soul beasts deep within the forest.

The primary purpose of this Xuanming Sect expedition was to obtain a second soul ring for the sect's second young master, Xu Sanshi, and to help Lan Xuanyu hunt for his own ring along the way.

Although Lan Xuanyu was quite displeased with the term "along the way"...

After Xu Sanshi obtained an eight-hundred-year Qinshui Turtle soul ring, it was finally Lan Xuanyu's turn.

Lan Xuanyu had long since planned what kind of soul beast he needed for his first soul ring.

The leader of the Xuanming Sect party was a seven-ring Soul Saint, around forty years old and looking quite burly. He was also the head steward of the Xuanming Sect, responsible for this hunting operation.

At a deep pool, Lan Xuanyu and the others stopped. Seeing the faint blue shadow flickering in the water, Lan Xuanyu's eyes lit up instantly.

Found it—his target!

Lan Xuanyu pointed at the faint blue shadow with great excitement: "Steward Chen, I choose this Azure Spirit Dragon for my first soul ring."

The Azure Spirit Dragon is a sub-dragon soul beast. Rumor has it that it possesses a trace of water dragon bloodline. Although it is only a hundred-year soul beast, its water control capabilities are not inferior to thousand-year or even ten-thousand-year soul beasts. For a master with a dragon-type martial soul, it is an exceptionally rare, high-quality soul ring.

This was the highest-quality sub-dragon soul beast with a suitable age they had found in the Panlong Forest during this entire time.

Steward Chen's expression stiffened. He patted Lan Xuanyu on the shoulder: "Little Lan, according to the cultivation methods left behind by Master Yu Xiaogang in history books, plant-type martial souls like your Blue Silver Grass should lean toward poison and control, just like the ancestor Sea God Tang San did ten thousand years ago."

"Although this Azure Spirit Dragon has a sub-dragon bloodline, its talent is water control. You should listen to me and choose a Mandala Snake instead."

Lan Xuanyu shook his head and smiled confidently: "Thank you, Steward Chen. I know all of that, but I want to walk a path completely different from that of the ancestor Tang San! Please trust me, I am certain of this!"

Steward Chen instinctively frowned. Lan Xuanyu's speech and demeanor were not those of a seven-year-old, yet in some aspects, he appeared exceptionally childish; otherwise, he would have truly doubted the boy's age.

After some thought, he figured that geniuses always had their own ideas, so he didn't say anything more.

"Fine, be careful yourself. If there are any problems, I will interrupt your absorption process. Remember, your own life is always the most important thing."

A three-hundred-year-old Azure Spirit Dragon was naturally no match for a Soul Saint. It was dealt with in short order by Steward Chen, who left it with one breath remaining and threw it in front of Lan Xuanyu.

Looking at the Azure Spirit Dragon lying on the ground, gasping for air, a cold glint flashed in Lan Xuanyu's eyes.

Though called a dragon, the Azure Spirit Dragon looked more like a hybrid of a dragon and a snake. It was about five meters long, with a snake's head, no dragon wings or horns, and fine dragon scales covering its body.

But in the eyes of Lan Xuanyu, the orthodox second-generation Dragon God, this was a desecration of the noble bloodline of their dragon race!

A naturally evil sub-dragon, I shall personally execute you, you traitor to the dragon race!

Lan Xuanyu slowly squatted down and opened his hands. The vines of the Blue Silver King emerged from his palms, coiling around the Azure Spirit Dragon like a snake wrapping around a pillar. A faint blue-silver radiance emanated from them, threading into the Azure Spirit Dragon's body through its wounds like silk.

As if being burrowed into by parasites, the half-dead Azure Spirit Dragon suddenly convulsed violently, but the Blue Silver King's vines held it firmly. A shimmering blue light flowed along the vines into Lan Xuanyu's body, as if... stealing something.

Yes, Lan Xuanyu was imitating the cultivation method Tang San once used on the Falan Planet, using the Mysterious Heaven Technique to devour the meager trace of dragon bloodline within the Azure Spirit Dragon to gain the ability to control water!

Follow the old path of his grandfather Tang San? What a joke! Did these idiots not know that his strength in his previous life was even greater than that of the Sea God Tang San?

The power of the Dragon God was so immense that it was simply incomparable to that of the Sea God!

Whether it was the Blue Silver King or the Blue Silver Emperor, in Lan Xuanyu's view, they were far inferior to the power of the Dragon God. The power of the Dragon God was also his area of greatest expertise, so he chose his first soul skill to be water element control, just as in his previous life.

The Blue Silver King martial soul was wood-attributed and lacked water control, but that did not mean Lan Xuanyu had no way around it.

By drawing inspiration from his grandfather's improvements to the Mysterious Heaven Technique and the dragon-hunting body-tempering actions of the Shrek Seven Devils of that generation on Tianlong Planet, Lan Xuanyu had found his own path to the Dragon God.

That path was the fusion and sublimation of bloodlines!

In the early stages, he would choose soul rings primarily for elemental control. Once he became strong enough, he would enter the Great Fierce Lands of the Star Dou Great Forest to find his mother and obtain her Silver Dragon King bloodline, fully mastering elemental power.

Then, he would enter the Dragon Valley and the God Realm, and with his grandfather's help, obtain the Golden Dragon King bloodline and the Dragon God's remains to achieve the status of Dragon God!

This was a path more difficult and longer than his previous life. Now, without Tang Wulin and Gu Yuena to protect him, he had to compromise while he was still weak, using the bloodlines of sub-dragons or even dragon-like soul beasts as substitutes.

An hour later, the Hidden Dragon Divine Technique passed down by the Dragon God and the Tang family's exclusive Mysterious Heaven Technique were running frantically within Lan Xuanyu, finally absorbing that trace of dragon bloodline from the Azure Spirit Dragon completely.

The Azure Spirit Dragon was now dead beyond a doubt. The dragon scales on its body had dimmed, and its long body had shriveled up, as if its essence had been drained away.

The yellow hundred-year soul ring appeared on the Blue Silver King vines on Lan Xuanyu's hand. Tiny droplets of water appeared on the blades of grass, shining brilliantly, and the aura of life emerged along with the fresh scent of plants.

Lan Xuanyu slowly opened his eyes, looked at the yellow hundred-year soul ring, and his mind stirred.

The droplets of water on the grass blades seemed to come alive. Under his control, they gathered into a river, forming a small vortex of condensed water about a foot in diameter.

Just like his soul skill from his previous life, it was water element control, but because it was a hundred-year soul ring, it was much stronger than when he had first started in his past life.

Lan Xuanyu finally smiled—a very happy smile.

His hard work this year had not been in vain. Although he had only absorbed one soul ring, his soul power had leaped forward to level 16!

The path of the Dragon God, exclusive to him, had begun!

Looking at the very happy Lan Xuanyu, then at the shriveled Azure Spirit Dragon, Steward Chen felt a chill for some unknown reason.