Powerful Domain

Tongue Blade at the tip of the snake-headed staff precisely pierced deep into the Ice Dragon Beast's eye socket.

The Ice Dragon Beast let out a painful wail, and the frost it exhaled dispersed into a cloud of white mist in the air.

Dugu Yan's Jade Phosphor Red Poison surged tremendously in effectiveness under the Domain's enhancement.

With a flick of her snake tail, the silver longsword in her hand swept up a streak of jade-green light and slashed across the Thunder Giant Python's neck, actually carving a wound deep enough to expose bone.

The youths exchanged glances, their eyes filled with the same shock.

Their soul skills had become this much more powerful!

Yet Lu Mingfei's Emperor Domain did not stop expanding.

The pale golden light continued to spread outward.

Thirty meters... three hundred meters!

Like a silent tide washing over a dried-up riverbed, it engulfed the broader battlefield ahead as well.

The first to sense that something was wrong was the eldest young master of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect.

He was in the midst of fighting two ten-thousand-year soul beasts, condensing lightning spheres between his hands, when he suddenly felt the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon martial soul within him shudder violently.

A stream of pure bloodline energy poured out from the depths of his martial soul, like thirsty roots nourished by rainfall.

He looked down at his hands in astonishment. The dragon-scale patterns emerging on his skin had become clearer than before.

The blue electric arcs around him had also grown noticeably thicker.

He mobilized his soul power and unleashed a soul skill. Its power had actually doubled.

The impact of a Soul Sage suddenly advancing in strength amid a chaotic battle was immediate.

His lightning spheres blasted through the defenses of the two soul beasts, completely suppressing their assault.

Dragon Duke Meng Shu sensed the change as well.

The silver dragon-headed staff in his hand suddenly let out a clearer, more resounding dragon's roar.

The phantom of the dragon head at the staff's tip became much more solid.

The silver light blades unleashed with every sweep became longer than before.

His expression shifted slightly, and a trace of surprise and suspicion flashed through his cloudy old eyes.

He vaguely sensed that this boost was coming from somewhere behind him, but the battlefield was too chaotic for him to turn around and investigate.

Dugu Bo's reaction was the strongest of all.

As a Titled Douluo, his Jade Phosphor Snake Emperor martial soul had already reached the realm of the emperor of all snakes.

Although the dragon bloodline within him was sparse, the enhancing power from the Domain still stirred a faint resonance within his body.

He could feel his snake venom becoming somewhat fiercer, while the poison spread several beats faster than usual.

He abruptly turned around, his emerald-like eyes precisely locking onto the pale golden glow behind him.

His pupils suddenly contracted at that instant.

At the center of that pale golden Domain stood a small, thin figure.

That little boy he had seen once before in Dragon Valley.

He was currently standing amid the encirclement of five thousand-year soul beasts, a deep purple soul ring emerging around his body.

Pale golden light flowed endlessly around him, making him seem like a deity stepped out of an ancient myth.

A purple soul ring!

His first soul ring was already a thousand-year purple ring!

Dugu Bo had seen countless exceptional geniuses, but he had never heard of any soul master whose first soul ring had reached the thousand-year level.

Everything Douluo Continent knew told him otherwise.

The upper limit of a first soul ring was four hundred and twenty-three years. Beyond that limit, the soul ring would backlash against its host.

But this child before him had not only broken through the four-hundred-year limit, he had even awakened a Domain based on a thousand-year soul ring!

A Domain.

Dugu Bo drew in a sharp breath.

As a Titled Douluo, he understood better than anyone how precious Domains were.

A Domain was not something one could obtain through cultivation alone.

It could only be born when multiple conditions—martial soul, soul power, mental strength, talent, opportunity, and more—reached perfect harmony at the same fitting moment.

Even among Titled Douluo, not everyone could awaken a Domain.

Yet this child had gained a Domain of his own immediately after attaching his first soul ring.

The eldest young master of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect also sensed the abnormality behind him. Seizing the gap after driving back the two soul beasts, he turned and happened to see the pale golden radiance surrounding Lu Mingfei.

He froze for a moment, then saw his son Yu Tianheng's right hand, already transformed into a dragon's claw, within the Domain's halo.

His pupils abruptly shrank.

Yu Tianheng's soul power was still far from the Soul Elder realm. How could he possibly display signs of dragonification ahead of time?

Unless... that Domain was strengthening his bloodline.

It was as if a bolt of lightning had struck through the eldest young master's mind, and he instantly understood everything.

When he had encountered Lu Mingfei and Huang Fei earlier, Lu Mingfei had not hunted that Ironclad Dragon Bear. He had assumed the boy lacked talent and did not dare absorb a five-hundred-year soul ring. He had even felt a trace of disdain.

But now, he understood it all...

Lu Mingfei had not hunted the Ironclad Dragon Bear because his talent was poor. On the contrary, it was because his talent was too extraordinary.

A five-hundred-year soul ring simply was not worthy of his attention!

What he wanted was a better soul beast, higher quality—and he had actually been secretly laughing at him back then.

The eldest young master felt his face burn hot with embarrassment.

But that shame was quickly overwhelmed by an even more intense emotion.

A Domain! Dragonification, bloodline enhancement, a thousand-year purple ring...

If this child could join the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect, what would that mean for the entire Yu Clan?

A Domain capable of strengthening the bloodlines of dragon-type martial souls was simply an invaluable treasure to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect!

The way he looked at Lu Mingfei changed in an instant, shifting from scrutiny to burning fervor, like a fierce beast that had scented prey.

Dragon Duke Meng Shu also turned around. His cloudy old eyes suddenly brightened when he saw the Domain surrounding Lu Mingfei.

His discerning eye was naturally sharp, and he could clearly see this Domain's enhancing effect on martial souls with dragon bloodlines.

He glanced at his granddaughter, Meng Yiran.

The snake-scale patterns on the young girl's body had yet to fully fade, clearly indicating that she had gained considerable benefits as well.

A Domain bearer capable of making his family's descendants' bloodlines purer—if they could pull someone like that into their camp...

Dragon Duke Meng Shu narrowed his eyes, already calculating in his heart.

He was even considering whether betrothing Yiran to this boy would allow him to settle this marriage arrangement!

Although the boy looked young now, that was not an issue for soul masters.

Besides, talent was something that could be seen from an early age. It was better to settle it early than late.

However, the changes on the battlefield did not give them much time to think.

A dull, thunderous boom came from the darkness deep within Dragon Valley.

It was completely different from the previous rumbling of the beast tide, carrying a far more ancient and terrifying aura, as though something deep beneath the earth was awakening.

All the soul beasts...

Whether hundred-year, thousand-year, or ten-thousand-year...

Stopped running at the same moment.

Their entire bodies trembled as they collapsed to the ground, burying their heads in the earth.