Golden Iron Triangle

For soul beasts, taking human form held a fatal allure.

A soul beast's cultivation was a lengthy process, while humans needed only a hundred years to close the gap with soul beasts.

For someone like Snow Empress, who had cultivated for over a hundred thousand years to reach her current level, a gifted human needed only a century to rapidly narrow the gap with him. Yet for Snow Empress to advance further, he would need tens of thousands more years of cultivation. If a human gained a god's favor, they could soar to the heavens in a single step and reach a realm that soul beasts could never attain in their entire lives.

This world was simply that unfair.

But taking human form also carried risks. Soul beasts needed to cultivate near the aura of humans, and before Level 70, a soul beast's aura could not be concealed before a Title Douluo. Thus, no matter how badly they wished to take human form and cultivate, soul beasts did not dare take such a risk.

Only soul beasts who knew they could not survive their heavenly tribulations were willing to gamble on it.

Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and Sea Princess quickly completed their transformations.

Their auras weakened, turning them from powerful ferocious beasts into weak soul beasts. Their bodies also rapidly shrank into the forms of six-year-old humans.

The three of their martial souls were based on their former soul beast forms.

Snow Empress's was the Ice Sky Snow Woman, Ice Empress's was the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion, and Sea Princess's was a mermaid.

The three sat cross-legged and condensed their soul rings.

Snow Empress condensed an incomparably deep purple thousand-year soul ring, while Ice Empress and Sea Princess also reached the thousand-year soul ring level.

"You may invoke the authority of the Cosmic Star-Sealing Map to conceal the colors of your soul rings. On this unfamiliar continent, displaying some talent can earn you resources, but talent that is too heaven-defying will instead invite unnecessary wariness."

After hearing this, the three used the Cosmic Star-Sealing Map's authority to conceal their soul ring colors, turning them into ordinary hundred-year soul rings.

Immediately afterward, Qian Xunyi refined three drops of purple-gold blood and gave them to the three women to consume.

Meanwhile, Qian Xunji observed from the side as Overlord Blood altered their martial souls.

The Ice Sky Snow Woman martial soul became surrounded by purple-gold light, and her eyes turned purple-gold as well.

Its attribute remained Ultimate Ice, but its overall attributes increased by an entire tier.

The jade-green stripes of the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion turned purple-gold, making it even more ferocious than before.

Sea Princess's hair turned purple-gold, her aura became more vast, and her spiritual power even more terrifying.

Because of a single drop of Overlord Blood, all three martial souls had evolved into higher-grade martial souls.

At the same time, Overlord Blood granted the three of them a domain: the Overlord Domain!

Its effects were self-enhancement: +30% to all attributes, with attribute boosts increasing as opponents were continuously defeated. Enemy weakening: -30% to all attributes, an aura suppression that made it difficult for enemies to exert their full strength, with the degree of weakening expanding as opponents were continuously suppressed. Special: Overlord aura could be made tangible, forming a purple-gold domain with effects such as slowing, intimidation, suppression, and more.

Qian Xunyi nodded in satisfaction. "Use this as your foundation. Become powerhouses of that continent—and soul engineers."

Snow Empress and the other two nodded. "We will not fail your mission."

After Snow Empress and the other two headed to the Sun-Moon Continent, Qian Xunyi returned to the Douluo Continent with Tianmeng and Evil Emperor.

"Um, Master." Sky Dream Ice Silkworm sidled up to Qian Xunyi and said fawningly, "My spiritual power is relatively high, so I'm perfectly suited to becoming a soul engineer. How about I take human form too? Believe me, I'd be more suitable than Snow Empress and the others for becoming a soul engineer."

Qian Xunyi patted Sky Dream Ice Silkworm on the shoulder. "No rush with soul engineering. The Sun-Moon Continent is right there. Everything that should be ours will become ours sooner or later. But you and Evil Emperor possess spiritual power at the Limit Douluo level. If you became human and had to cultivate back to this point, wouldn't that waste decades? You and Evil Emperor are the assistant directors I've already cast for my next script!"

Assistant directors? Evil Emperor's eyes rolled as he asked, "My lord, do you have some arrangement in mind?"

"Let's return to the Douluo Continent first. If we're late, we'll miss it," Qian Xunyi said.

Douluo Continent, Body Camp.

Red Star gave his usual report on Yu Xiaogang's recent situation.

"After that lung fog failed to find anything while searching Sunset Forest, he encountered two people, one named Liu Erlong and the other Flender. The three formed a Trinity Martial Soul Fusion Technique centered on Yu Xiaogang, then called themselves the Golden Iron Triangle and traveled the Douluo Continent together," Red Star reported.

"Mm..." Qian Xunyi was currently at sea. "I won't be able to return anytime soon. Let your brothers in the Body Camp handle this. Without ruining the relationship between those three, just make sure that lung fog Yu Xiaogang doesn't live too comfortably."

"Leave it to us. Some of the Body Camp's special brothers have missed Yu Xiaogang very much," Red Star said.

After returning to the Douluo Continent and failing to find the Icefire Yin Yang Well in Sunset Forest, Yu Xiaogang gave up on his idea of defying fate and changing his destiny.

So, he decided to follow the path of his previous life and first obtain his martial soul fusion technique.

Because he had met Flender and Liu Erlong later in this life, by the time he approached them, a hint of affection had already begun to grow between Liu Erlong and Flender.

How could Yu Xiaogang tolerate that?

Thus, he arranged a chance encounter in Coconut Grove City.

While Flender and Liu Erlong were strolling through a lantern festival, Yu Xiaogang appeared amid the crowd. With his hands clasped behind his back, his maggot-like body gave a shudder as he released the melancholic aura of a scholar, immediately drawing Liu Erlong's curiosity.

Thus, Flender and Liu Erlong approached Yu Xiaogang, and after several exchanges, the three began interacting.

Liu Erlong was drawn to Yu Xiaogang's indomitable spirit—despite being burdened by his martial soul, he still refused to give up on changing his fate.

Then one day, while cultivating, Yu Xiaogang deliberately released Luo Sanpao's aura, triggering resonance between himself, Liu Erlong, and Flender. Thus, their martial soul fusion technique appeared.

As the dominant party, Yu Xiaogang held absolute control over Flender and Liu Erlong.

Liu Erlong, who had originally been somewhat interested in Flender, began leaning toward Yu Xiaogang.

Flender could only watch helplessly as the woman he loved, who should have been his, repeatedly looked at Yu Xiaogang's vast knowledge with starry eyes, utterly at a loss.

One day, Liu Erlong broke through to Level 50 and could hunt a soul ring to become a Soul King.

Flender went ahead to clear the path, Yu Xiaogang walked in the middle with his hands behind his back, and Liu Erlong protected the weak yet knowledgeable Yu Xiaogang in front of her.

A Flame-Headed Lizard blocked the trio's path.

Flender rushed forward to fight the Flame-Headed Lizard desperately, while Yu Xiaogang stared intently at it and began his introduction. "This is a ten-thousand-year Flame-Headed Lizard. It is fire-attributed. Its habitat is... its habits are... it can provide..."