Five-Thousand-Year Golden Crocodile

Only after hearing Dugu Yan's method did Dugu Bo clap his hands and praise, "Brilliant, brilliant! Our Dugu family is saved at last."

No one understood the Dugu family's suffering better than Dugu Bo.

Dugu Bo's mother had contracted the Jade Phosphor Serpent Poison while pregnant with him. Not long after giving birth to him, she died.

His wife died after becoming pregnant and giving birth to his son.

The son he had raised began suffering backlash from the Jade Phosphor Serpent Poison after awakening his martial soul. He endured pain from childhood and died young.

His daughter-in-law was also poisoned by the Jade Phosphor Serpent after becoming pregnant with Dugu Yan. She died after giving birth to Dugu Yan.

Dugu Bo had lost his mother in childhood, his wife in youth, and his son and daughter-in-law in middle age. Now, both he and his only descendant—his only granddaughter—had been poisoned by the Jade Phosphor Serpent and were also facing death.

All alone, he had watched one family member after another die before him.

This bleak fate had tormented Dugu Bo at every moment.

It was as though several shackles had bound him tightly in place.

And as though several whips were constantly lashing his soul.

Now, his granddaughter had told him there were several ways to solve the problem with his and his family's martial souls. Dugu Bo could not help but weep with joy.

The shackles that had long tormented his heart suddenly shattered.

He and his granddaughter, Dugu Yan, would now be able to live normal lives into old age. Who could understand the joy he felt?

After crying for a long while, Dugu Bo instructed, "Granddaughter, don't tell anyone that the problem with our Dugu family's martial souls has been resolved, understand?"

Dugu Yan wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes and nodded rapidly. "I understand, Grandpa."

Only then did Dugu Bo say, "I'll try it first. If there's a viable method, then you can try it."

Dugu Yan nodded in agreement.

Sunset Forest.

Through the multi-directional search of several soul beasts, Wang Chen finally found where the Golden Crocodile Clan's soul beasts lived.

Using the concealment effect of the Dream God Divine Armor Fragment and the two-hundred-thousand-year soul beast skull bone, Wang Chen entered the Golden Crocodiles' territory.

Golden Crocodile soul beasts were herd creatures that lived in a mineral-vein swamp within Sunset Forest.

The mineral vein contained dense metal-element energy, providing the Golden Crocodile Clan with a stable supply of metal-element energy.

At that moment, thousands of Golden Crocodiles of varying ages lay sprawled across the water, basking in the sun.

Golden light shimmered from their backs. Among the thousands of Golden Crocodiles, one that was over seven meters long lay at the edge of the mineral vein, pawing at the soil within it.

Ten-year Golden Crocodiles were in their juvenile stage and generally did not exceed 2.5 meters in length.

Hundred-year Golden Crocodiles measured between 2.5 and 4 meters long.

Their scales had a gray base speckled with fragmented gold spots, like gold-bearing ore. Their snouts were short and thick, their teeth white with a faint yellow tint, their eyes dark gold with vertical pupils.

Their limbs were short and thick, their claws pale gold, and their strength already surpassed that of ordinary soul beasts of the same age.

Upon reaching a thousand years, they grew to between five and eight meters in length.

Their scales took on a reddish-gold base color, with dark-gold cloud patterns across them.

Their snouts became long and sturdy, their teeth translucent dark gold, and their eye sockets gleamed with flowing gold as brutality filled their gaze.

The armor along their backs and tails rose into golden ridges. Their tails were thick and long, ending in hammer-like golden spikes.

After ten thousand years, they measured between ten and eighteen meters long. Their scales became pure gold without any impurities, covered in ancient golden runes. Their snouts were covered in golden bone armor, and their teeth shone jade-bright gold.

As for hundred-thousand-year Golden Crocodiles, Wang Chen had yet to see any information on them, but they should have exceeded eighteen meters in length.

The Golden Crocodile Wang Chen was watching measured roughly six or seven meters long.

Judging by its age, it should have been between five and six thousand years old.

"It'll be you."

With a thought, Wang Chen immediately used the Dream God Divine Armor Fragment and the two-hundred-thousand-year skull bone to launch an attack on the five-thousand-year Golden Crocodile.

An invisible force emanated from Wang Chen's head in the distance and silently entered the Golden Crocodile's mind.

The Golden Crocodile had originally been basking in the sun while absorbing the surrounding metal-element energy.

All of a sudden, the five-thousand-year Golden Crocodile froze, then quietly walked away from the Golden Crocodile Clan.

After it had moved far away from the Golden Crocodile Clan, Wang Chen looked at the Golden Crocodile before him.

Wang Chen had read quite a few fanfics in his previous life. There had been rumors that torturing a soul beast more before its death could increase the chance of it producing an external spirit bone.

Looking at the five-thousand-year Golden Crocodile before him, Wang Chen activated the Dream God Divine Armor Fragment and the two-hundred-thousand-year skull bone.

An invisible strand of spiritual power formed in Wang Chen's mind and rushed directly into the Golden Crocodile's sea of consciousness.

What Wang Chen cast on the Golden Crocodile was none other than a dream space, allowing it to be killed over and over in its dream until the nine-thousand-nine-hundred-and-ninety-ninth time.

After Wang Chen activated his soul skill, the Golden Crocodile's entire body trembled. Terror filled its eyes, its limbs went limp, and it collapsed onto the ground.

After a quarter of an hour, the Golden Crocodile finally died.

Immediately afterward, a purple spirit ring appeared above the Golden Crocodile's corpse.

The spirit ring floated in midair, exerting a powerful pull on Wang Chen. This was his chance to break through to level ten.

Without any hesitation, Wang Chen ordered the two thousand-year soul beasts under his control to stand guard for him.

Wang Chen immediately sat down cross-legged, circulated his cultivation technique, and guided the nearby spirit ring toward himself.

As soon as the purple spirit ring reached Wang Chen, it immediately burrowed into his body.

The instant the purple spirit ring entered his body, Wang Chen felt a surging mass of soul power erupt from within it.

There was no doubt that this was the spirit ring's backlash. If Wang Chen failed to endure it, he risked exploding to death.

Wang Chen circulated his cultivation technique with all his strength, refining this mass of soul power.

The soul power rampaged through his meridians, seeking to burst them apart and make Wang Chen explode to death.

However, Wang Chen's meridians had always been different from those of ordinary people.

Wang Chen's meridians were his martial soul, far stronger than an ordinary person's meridians.

Furthermore, Wang Chen's meridians had been tempered by the Eight Petal Immortal Orchid, Strange Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, Narcissus Jade Muscle Grass, Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, and Fiery Apricot Delicate, making them far stronger than before.

Rather than saying this soul power was assaulting his meridians, it would be more accurate to say it was assaulting Wang Chen's martial soul.

The power of a five-thousand-year Golden Dragon was simply not enough to crush Wang Chen's meridians.

Still, although his meridians withstood the washing of soul power without suffering damage, the side effects of the soul power battering them placed enormous pressure on Wang Chen's body.

At this moment, the veins all over Wang Chen's body bulged, his face was flushed red, and cold sweat covered his forehead.

He looked like a container desperately suppressing something within him that was about to explode.

Fortunately, Wang Chen's physical body had also undergone repeated tempering.

It had been tempered by Hundred-Year Whale Glue, Thousand-Year Whale Glue, Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Glue, the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone, the Dream God Divine Armor Fragment, a two-hundred-thousand-year head soul bone, the Eight Petal Immortal Orchid, Strange Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, Narcissus Jade Muscle Grass, Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, and Fiery Apricot Delicate. In addition, Wang Chen had already begun to grasp the threshold of the Indestructible Diamond Body.

As Wang Chen circulated his cultivation technique, faint threads of golden light emerged around his body.

The threads of golden light intertwined and interwove around Wang Chen, forming a massive net.