Dragon God's Decision

A meaningful smile appeared on the Dragon God's previously astonished face.

"If he cultivated step by step, his future achievements would indeed be limitless. But... with such a bloodline, why should he be bound by a single form?"

His gaze seemed to pierce through the void, seeing the figure of the Sea God in the God Realm. A teasing curve lifted at the corner of his mouth.

"Take Tang San. Even as a mortal, he bore Twin Martial Souls. After becoming a god, he held both the Sea God and Asura God divine positions, roaming the God Realm with unmatched freedom."

"My grandson is the child of the universe, his talent surpassing Tang San's by ten thousandfold. Why can't he do the same?"

Golden light flickered in the Dragon God's eyes. A plan had already formed in his mind, and his voice carried both arrogance and anticipation:

"That mere Dragon God divine position truly can no longer contain his future."

"But since he bears the universe's laws of destiny, he will surely create his own divine position in the future and become the supreme God of Destiny!"

"Since that is the case, why not let him have both?"

"With his left hand, he shall wield the Dragon God's authority, controlling all elements and ruling the entire beast race; with his right hand, he shall grasp the divine position of destiny, governing the universe's causality, fate, and the flow of fortune."

"Two divine positions!"

"This is the path he deserves! I will make him the only lord of dual gods across all heavens and worlds, one who controls both laws and destiny!"

Thinking of this, the Dragon God could already imagine what the future would look like.

"What if he wants to inherit the Dragon God's position but lacks the Silver Dragon King's bloodline? Then he should take the Silver Dragon King first."

After all, the dragon race had no word for "incest" in its dictionary. To ensure the purity of their bloodlines, dragons had always done things this way.

"Oh, right. I need to go back and retrieve the Ascension Dragon Pillar as a gift for my grandson."

Just after the Dragon God departed, at the instant the vast blessing came to an end, the heavenly phenomena abruptly ceased.

As if to echo the conclusion of that sacred ritual, Douluo Star once again underwent a reversal of stars and time. The ink-black sky shed its night in the blink of an eye, and the blazing sun once more hung high overhead. Black turned to white, and it instantly became daytime again.

The billions of living beings on Douluo Continent fell into a daze once more. They had just been shocked by day turning into night, only to watch the darkness instantly roll back into daylight. This unnatural spectacle made countless people wonder whether they were hallucinating.

"Th-this... what exactly is going on?"

The upper echelons of the major factions stared at the restored sky, looking at one another in bewilderment. The shock in their hearts refused to subside.

In the God Realm, as the fluctuations below calmed, the violent God Realm Nexus finally quieted as well, returning to its usual order. Though the five God Kings harbored doubts, they could also sense that the unfathomable aura had vanished, as if nothing had ever happened.

In the depths of the universe, everything returned to its original state, tranquil and peaceful, as though that earth-shaking ascension had been nothing more than an illusory dream.

Yet for Yu Chen, who stood at the center of it all, everything was incomparably real.

He slowly retracted his massive dragon body, returning to human form as he landed. The instant he stood upright, he could clearly feel the earthshaking changes within his body.

His cultivation had been compressed to an extreme. His Soul Power had been purified to an unimaginable degree. Even the Golden Dragon King bloodline within him, nourished and tempered by the power of destiny, had directly risen in status, crossing the boundaries of race and truly reaching the level of the Dragon God!

What delighted Yu Chen most was that the negative effects and violent factors that had always plagued him within the Golden Dragon King bloodline had been completely removed by this cleansing. What remained was only pure, ultimate power.

Yu Chen clenched his fists, feeling the surging power within him, and could not help laughing aloud.

"I actually broke through directly to Rank 63! And this Soul Power quality... it's terrifying. Although I'm only at the Soul Emperor level, the total amount of this compressed and purified Soul Power is absolutely enough for me to fight an ordinary Titled Douluo one-on-one!"

He released his soul rings—six red rings.

Just as he was marveling at it, a thought suddenly stirred in his mind, and he sank his senses deep into his body.

What he saw left him stunned once again.

Within his dantian and sea of consciousness, two crystalline cores radiating dazzling light had appeared—they were Soul Cores!

And they had formed naturally!

"No, these aren't ordinary Soul Cores..."

Yu Chen sensed them carefully and instantly understood where the two Soul Cores had come from.

This was fusion and qualitative transformation!

The first had condensed from the Golden Dragon King bloodline under the extreme compression of the laws of destiny. It was entirely golden, containing all the essence of the Golden Dragon King and the ultimate physical strength of the Dragon God's level.

The second had condensed from the materialized power of destiny that had merged into his body. Mysterious and unfathomable, it circulated with the fortune of the heavenly way. It was a Destiny Dragon Core.

The two Dragon Cores did not conflict. Instead, they supported one another, slowly rotating like yin-yang fish. A sense of intimacy from the depths of his soul arose naturally.

The two formed complementary horns and nourished one another. Golden physical power and purplish-gold laws of destiny fused perfectly, endlessly cycling and granting him a foundation beyond all reason.

At that moment, the two Soul Cores that had just condensed within Yu Chen's body seemed to be completely stimulated by some opportunity. In particular, the Destiny Dragon Core wreathed in purplish-gold light suddenly spun to its utmost limit.

"Boom—!"

A dazzling purplish-gold pillar of light shot from the baihui point atop Yu Chen's head into the heavens. Ignoring the barriers between planes, it pierced directly through the sky of Douluo Continent and connected in a straight line to the distant, mysterious center of the universe!

This was a proclamation of destiny's authority, marking the official arrival of a new generation's ruler of destiny.

Under the residual waves of that vast energy, the few immortal-herb guardians who had still been immersed in their shock over "night turning into day" finally came back to their senses as if waking from a dream.

They felt the lingering pressure around Yu Chen and instinctively wanted to retreat. Their eyes were filled with deep apprehension as they stared fixedly at this seemingly young but unfathomable youth.

Yet in the very next second, their sharp senses caught the abnormality in their surroundings.

Within the range covered by the pillar of light, they discovered in astonishment that the circulation speed of the Soul Power within their bodies had instantly increased severalfold! Their previously stagnant bottlenecks showed signs of loosening, while even the immature immortal herbs around them were frantically absorbing the special energy permeating the air. Their medicinal effects were visibly increasing.

This was... a cultivation boost?!

They widened their eyes, exchanging incredulous glances before abruptly looking toward Yu Chen.

This ability to strengthen others of the same kind, gather the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and increase the cultivation speed of all things nearby—this passive auspicious aura was practically like that legendary one—the Emperor Auspicious Beast!

The apprehension in their hearts instantly transformed into fervor and reverence. They understood at once.

"Th-this isn't right. Isn't this basically a second Emperor Auspicious Beast?!"

"No, he's even more terrifying than that Three-Eyed Golden Lion in Star Dou Forest. This is the bearing of a true emperor!"

As the immortal herbs' hearts churned with emotion, the core lake at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well suddenly began to roil violently.

"Splash—!"

Along with the rise of two ancient, weathered auras, two enormous, illusory dragon figures slowly emerged from the water.

The Icefire Dragon Kings rose from the lake, their dragon faces filled with shock. The two dragons exchanged a look and reached an unspoken understanding. "Holy shit, that's insane! This... this change in the young master?"

"The young master is naturally an Emperor Auspicious Beast, and he also bears the fortune of our dragon race. This is the rise of our dragon race!" The two dragons instantly burst into laughter, looking incomparably delighted.