Xiao Jinchen walked over to the two glowing orbs and took a closer look.
Inside the two beams of light were miniature ice and fire dragons. They were writhing constantly, giving off powerful soul energy.
"Soul Origin?" Xiao Jinchen murmured uncertainly. "Did I blast them until only their Soul Origins remained?"
"They're actually Soul Origins. I should be able to devour them directly." Xiao Jinchen brightened at the thought.
Azure soul power rapidly surged from Xiao Jincheng's palm, shot out in one swift motion, and seized the soul source of the Icefire Dragon King.
"Buzz!"
Just as Xiao Jinchen's palm touched the Ice-Fire Dragon Kings' Soul Origins, they began to struggle wildly. The force of it nearly knocked them from his grasp.
"Hmph!"
Xiao Jinchen's gaze turned sharply cold. With a snort, Emperor Flame surged from his palm, directly suppressing the struggling Soul Origins of the Ice-Fire Dragon Kings.
"Pfft!"
Xiao Jinchen opened his mouth and swallowed the Ice-Fire Dragon Kings' Soul Origins.
After swallowing the Soul Origins, Xiao Jinchen's body gave a slight shudder. Then an exceptionally pure power of Soul Origin spread out, finally coiling around his forehead before streaming into him through his mouth, nose, and pores...
As more and more Soul Origin was absorbed, an unusual crystalline layer, like water crystal, gradually appeared over the surface of Xiao Jinchen's soul...
As Xiao Jinchen continued absorbing the Ice-Fire Dragon Kings' Soul Origins, invisible ripples of soul energy spread out in waves, radiating from him.
The invisible waves of soul power expanded beyond the Ice-Fire Yin-Yang Well, even enveloping the entire Sunset Forest. Every living creature in the forest felt, in that instant, a pressure that came from the depths of its soul.
Outside.
Beside the Ice-Fire Yin-Yang Well, Ice Empress sat on a green stone, swinging her snow-white legs. Grumpily, she grabbed an Immortal Herb and yanked at it, nearly toppling over backward. After making sure no one had seen her embarrassing stumble, she held a leaf between her teeth and propped her chin in her hands. Blinking her big amber eyes, she muttered, "I'm so bored..."
"Buzz!"
Just as Ice Empress was muttering under her breath, an overwhelmingly powerful wave of soul energy suddenly surged up from the bottom of the Ice-Fire Yin-Yang Well, enveloping the entire Sunset Forest.
"Plop!"
The leaf in Ice Empress's mouth dropped to the ground. Like a kitten whose tail had been stepped on, she sprang up from the green stone, her legs, which had been swinging idly, snapping straight.
Ice Empress stared at the Ice-Fire Yin-Yang Well with her beautiful amber eyes wide open, unable to believe what she was seeing. She even forgot to breathe, her mind filled with a huge question mark spinning wildly.
"What on earth is A-Chen doing down there?!"
At the bottom of the Ice-Fire Yin-Yang Well.
"Phew."
His spiritual power had reached the Limit Douluo realm!
Feeling his own powerful spiritual strength, Xiao Jinchen grinned.
"Hm? I devoured the dragon souls of two Dragon Kings, yet my spiritual power still hasn't reached the level of a God-level powerhouse." Xiao Jinchen was a little puzzled, but didn't dwell on it.
After savoring his joy for a while, Xiao Jinchen turned his gaze toward the Ice-Fire Dragon Kings' skeletal remains in the distance.
With a thought, he quietly activated Three Thousand Lightning Movement and shot toward the Ice-Fire Dragon Kings' remains as a streak of blue lightning.
The blue lightning arrived in an instant. When it was barely an inch from the two enormous skeletons, it faded away, and Xiao Jinchen landed as lightly as a falling leaf, standing firmly on the broad back of the Fire Dragon King.
"Sucking Palm!" Xiao Jinchen's gaze swept over the area, pinpointing the Fire Dragon King's chest. Without the slightest hesitation, he curled one hand into a loose fist, and a gentle yet irresistible suction force suddenly erupted.
"Crack!"
With a crisp snap, a torso bone radiating a rich aura of Origin Qi was forcibly pulled out of the Fire Dragon King's skeleton, floating above his palm.
"Finally got it." Xiao Jinchen's lips curved up. Using the same method, he also obtained the Ice Dragon King's torso bone.
Xiao Jinchen carefully examined the two God-level Spirit Bones in his hands.
The Ice-Fire Dragon Kings' two Torso Soul Bones floated above Xiao Jinchen's palm.
The one on the left was a deep ice blue throughout, as if carved from ten-thousand-year-old black ice. Chilly frost swirled across its surface, and fine crystalline patterns could be seen flowing through its seams.
The one on the right was a mass of searing dark red. Its surface looked like obsidian formed from cooled lava, yet within it surged scorching fire energy that made the air ripple with heat.
The two entirely different auras—one cold, one hot—intertwined and clashed in Xiao Jinchen's hands, yet maintained a perfect balance.
Xiao Jinchen casually put the two heavy Ice-Fire Dragon Kings' torso bones into his Storage Ring.
Spirit Bones were the main ingredients for refining pills, while on the Dou Qi Continent, Spirit Bones were called Magic Cores.
It wasn't that Xiao Jinchen didn't want to absorb them; he simply couldn't! Du Busi had once given him a hundred-thousand-year-old right arm bone, but during the process of absorbing it, it had actually melted! That was right, melted! It had dissolved until not even a scrap remained!
At the time, Xiao Jinchen and Du Busi had been dumbfounded. Who could have imagined someone absorbing a Spirit Bone only for it to melt away? Xiao Jinchen had felt heartbroken for quite a while. Perhaps it was because he had Heavenly Flames inside him; the moment he absorbed a Spirit Bone, the flames burned it away.
"Time to head out." Xiao Jinchen patted his tattered clothes, ruined in his struggle against the Ice-Fire Dragon Kings' dragon souls.
As soon as he finished speaking, Xiao Jinchen lightly tapped the tip of his foot against the ground. His figure transformed into a streak of blue lightning and shot skyward through the spring at the center of the Ice-Fire Yin-Yang Well.
"Splash!"
With a crisp burst of splashing water, a powerful rush of air suddenly swept the surface of the Ice-Fire Yin-Yang Well aside. A downpour poured down, covering an area of a thousand zhang around the well. Ripples spread across the lake, and the pattering rain rang out without end through the mountain valley.
Xiao Jinchen emerged from the water like a blue dragon, landing steadily on the green stone beside the Ice-Fire Yin-Yang Well.
Ice Empress, who had been sitting nearby in a daze, didn't even have time to react before the spring water drenched her from head to toe. The Immortal Herb she'd been holding between her teeth was swept away by the rush of air, gone who knew where.
"Plop!"
Ice Empress slipped and tumbled awkwardly off the green stone, landing squarely on her backside on the wet rock.
"Cough, cough, cough..."
Ice Empress choked on several mouthfuls of water and began coughing violently. Her once delicate, adorable face was now covered in water droplets, and her hair clung damply to her cheeks. She looked just like a drowned rat.
Ice Empress hurriedly wiped the water from her face. When she looked up, she met Xiao Jinchen's expression as he struggled to hold back a laugh.
Only then did Ice Empress suddenly realize what she looked like—her wet hair was plastered to her face, her clothes clung tightly to her body, and she was sitting on the ground. She couldn't have looked more wretched.
A rush of heat shot from the base of her neck to the tips of her ears.
"Xiao! Jin! Chen!" Ice Empress pointed at Xiao Jinchen and shouted angrily.