Side Story: The Golden Dragon King's Divine Core

Tang Wulin fought Zhang Yangzi. In this match, Tang Wulin proved his strength. Blue Silver Grass was no useless martial soul in his hands.

Zhang Yangzi's Dark Phantom Eagle martial soul granted him the ability to fly, and its first soul skill, Dark Curtain, was itself a rather good control-type soul skill. Unfortunately, Zhang Yangzi currently had only one soul skill and lacked offensive methods.

Tang Wulin used only Blue Silver Grass's first soul skill, Savage Growth, to bind Zhang Yangzi into a dumpling and smoothly win the match.

After this battle, everyone's fixed impression of the Blue Silver Grass martial soul changed greatly.

So Blue Silver Grass could be this powerful too!

Teacher Wu had indeed been right: there were no useless martial souls, only people willing to be useless.

The same was true for Zhang Yangzi himself. Before the match began, he had been brimming with confidence that he could win. Although Tang Wulin was a Grand Soul Master, his martial soul was Blue Silver Grass after all, while Zhang Yangzi's was the Dark Phantom Eagle, and his soul power had reached level nineteen. Winning should have been effortless.

However, reality told Zhang Yangzi that things were not as he had imagined.

A genius was a genius, even if his martial soul was Blue Silver Grass.

Having lost, Zhang Yangzi cheered on his good friend Wang Jinxi as he left the arena.

Their childhood trio in Class One had already suffered two consecutive defeats. Whether they could claim their first victory depended entirely on Wang Jinxi's match against Xie Xie.

Zhang Yangzi thought that both Jinxi and Xie Xie had soul power at level nineteen, but Jinxi's Bone Dragon King martial soul was of extremely high quality. Beating Xie Xie, an agility-attack-type soul master, should not be much of a problem, so long as nothing unexpected happened.

Except if nothing unexpected happened, then something unexpected was bound to happen.

At the start of the match, things did indeed unfold as Zhang Yangzi had expected. Wang Jinxi gained the upper hand, but no one had expected that Xie Xie was not only a genius with twin martial souls—he could use both martial souls simultaneously.

Wang Jinxi was defeated just like that by Xie Xie's first soul skill, which had twice the power.

Class One's childhood trio thus achieved a new milestone—three consecutive losses.

"Our Class One this year is really full of hidden talents. A nine-year-old Soul Elder, a nine-year-old Grand Soul Master, and now another genius with twin martial souls."

"Isn't that so? Look, true geniuses are all low-key, completely unlike certain people who love showing off the moment they have a little strength."

Wei Xiaofeng: Are you openly taking shots at me like this? Am I just air to you?

In Class One, everyone only looked at Meng Xinghe, Gu Yuena, and Xu Xiaoyan with the awe reserved for geniuses. Now that he had revealed his twin martial souls, Xie Xie also received those awestruck looks.

Twin martial souls had been synonymous with genius since ancient times. Even in this era, where one needed spiritual power to form contracts with soul spirits, soul masters with twin martial souls remained powerful.

Soul rings enhanced soul masters in every aspect. One extra martial soul meant nine additional soul ring slots.

With all other conditions being completely identical, a twin-martial-soul soul master's achievements would certainly surpass those of a single-martial-soul soul master.

It could be said that after revealing his twin martial souls, Xie Xie had ascended to and firmly claimed the fourth seat among Class One's geniuses.

The top three seats among Class One's geniuses naturally belonged to the three absurd monsters: Meng Xinghe, Gu Yuena, and Xu Xiaoyan.

"Twin martial souls..."

Tang Wulin was somewhat envious as he said inwardly:

"Big Brother Huo, wouldn't it be wonderful if I were also a genius with twin martial souls?"

"Little Wulin, if you had twin martial souls, you would be even more talented than your classmate Xie Xie. But don't lose heart. Everything now is the best arrangement."

After comforting him, Huo Yuhao thought, Without the Golden Dragon King Divine Core, not only would you be a genius with twin martial souls, but you would also have received the Goddess of Life's blessing. Even on Douluo Continent, you would have been a peerless genius destined to become a god.

But now... all I can say is that this is fate. Everything will get better.

Meng Xinghe lived a normal academy life, plain and unadorned yet incredibly fulfilling.

Until one week later, when Meng Xinghe brought Gu Yuena to Tang Wulin and initiated an important side story—the Golden Dragon King's Divine Core.

My name is Tang Wulin. I am a first-year freshman at East Sea Academy. Having cultivated to the rank of Grand Soul Master at the age of nine, I am undoubtedly a genius, but there are classmates in my class even more talented than me.

During the week after school began, I had not interacted much with them. We were merely ordinary classmates, until today, when they came to find me. Their serious expressions gave me a bad feeling—they had come with ill intent!

Spirit Pagoda, an exclusive cultivation room for internal personnel.

Tang Wulin looked at the two uninvited guests and was the first to break the silence. "Classmate Meng Xinghe, Classmate Gu Yuena, do you... need something from me?"

"Yes, we do. Sit down and let's talk. No need to be formal."

After saying that, Meng Xinghe sat down on the sofa with Gu Yuena. Tang Wulin also sat on the sofa opposite them, completely forgetting that this was his cultivation room and that Meng Xinghe had turned guest into host.

Though Tang Wulin appeared calm on the surface, he was frantically calling for Big Brother Huo in his heart.

The two freaks from his class had come looking for him at the same time, and they had even precisely located him in the Spirit Pagoda's cultivation room. This was simply terrifying!

Big Brother Huo, save me!

"Don't be afraid, Little Wulin. They have come to you because of something. Don't panic. Just listen to what they have to say, and you'll understand."

Huo Yuhao's voice rang out, calming Tang Wulin's panicked heart considerably.

"Classmate Tang Wulin," Meng Xinghe began in a steady tone, "this is rather complicated, so it would be better for Classmate Gu Yuena to explain it to you."

He nodded toward Gu Yuena. Gu Yuena gave a slight nod in return, then looked at Tang Wulin and said:

"I sensed the bloodline of the Golden Dragon on you. The Golden Dragon's bloodline is exceedingly rare, so I suspect that you possess a dragon clan treasure related to the Golden Dragon."

"Don't rush to deny it. You'll understand once you feel it for yourself."

With that, Gu Yuena deliberately released a trace of the Silver Dragon King's bloodline aura.

A streak of golden patterns appeared along Tang Wulin's arm, forming a golden dragon scale on his palm.

"What are these?" Tang Wulin curiously looked at the golden dragon scale on his arm. At the same time, Gu Yuena's perfectly timed gasp of surprise reached his ears.

"How could this be? Such a pure Golden Dragon bloodline... Could it be that the dragon clan treasure on you is actually the legendary..."

Gu Yuena covered her O-shaped mouth with her hand. The surprise on her face was neither too much nor too little—just right.

For today, she had painstakingly practiced her acting for an entire week.

"What is it?" Tang Wulin's curiosity was completely piqued. He even forgot to ask Big Brother Huo.

Gu Yuena took a deep breath and, with a burst of acting skill, said:

"Have you heard the legends of the dragon clan? The Dragon God, ancestor of the dragon clan, split into two. One became the Golden Dragon King, progenitor of the Golden Dragon lineage, while the other became the Silver Dragon King, progenitor of the Silver Dragon lineage."

"The Silver Dragon's bloodline flows within me, which is why I can sense the Golden Dragon bloodline in you. My earlier perception was vague, and I could not determine the purity of the Golden Dragon bloodline in you. But just now, I confirmed it. The Golden Dragon bloodline in you is extremely pure, almost comparable to my Silver Dragon bloodline."

"So I guessed that the dragon clan treasure on you might be the divine core left behind after the legendary Golden Dragon King's death."