Crushing a Remnant Soul with Ease-Choose Two of Four Ten Thousand Year Spirit Skills? Level 42: Dragon Emperor's Dominating Body and Saint Dragon's Fury!

Tuoba Tingxue looked a little worried.

"This one is three thousand years older than the fifteen thousand Changqing expected. Will the strain on his body and the Soul Shock be too much?"

A flash of eagerness crossed Yin Changqing's eyes. He answered without hesitation.

"Mother, don't worry!

Eighteen thousand years is just right. My body and mind can take it!"

"Good!

That's the spirit! You're my son, all right!"

Yin Yu laughed heartily. He grabbed Yin Changqing by the shoulder, turned into a streak of black light, and shot toward the valley like lightning.

A moment later, a deafening roar shook the valley.

A massive beast over fifteen meters long, covered head to tail in heavy dark-gray scales, glared at the three intruders. The savage aura of a ten-thousand-year soul beast radiated from it.

It was an eighteen-thousand-year Ironclad Tyrannosaurus!

"Roar!"

The Ironclad Tyrannosaurus stamped the ground apart in fury and charged at them, its enormous body bearing down with the force of a landslide.

"Beast, you won't hurt them!"

Yin Yu gave a cold snort. He did not even bother to fully release his Martial Soul. The terrifying pressure of a Titled Douluo alone crashed down!

Boom!

The once-fearsome Ironclad Tyrannosaurus took the blow like a hammer strike. Its huge body slammed into the ground, leaving a vast crater.

Its bones creaked under the pressure. It could no longer move.

Tuoba Tingxue drew the Saint Dragon Dagger and handed it to Yin Changqing.

"Changqing, go on. Finish it."

The Saint Dragon Dagger's unusual material made it perfect for the final blow.

Yin Changqing took the short blade and walked up to the Ironclad Tyrannosaurus's head. With one swift stroke, he pierced a vital point.

The Ironclad Tyrannosaurus died on the spot, and a black Soul Ring slowly rose above its corpse.

"Absorb it. Your mother and I will guard you!"

Yin Yu stood nearby, his expression grave.

Yin Changqing nodded and sat cross-legged. He summoned his Light Saint Dragon Martial Soul and circulated his Soul Power, drawing the Soul Ring toward himself.

As the black Soul Ring descended, a flood of violent energy surged into his body.

Deep within Yin Changqing's sea of consciousness, the massive remnant soul of the Ironclad Tyrannosaurus raised its head and roared.

Driven by a heavy, furious resentment, it lunged at the core of his consciousness, trying to unleash a devastating Soul Shock!

"A mere Sub-Dragon's remnant soul dares to defy me?"

Yin Changqing's consciousness stood proudly at the center of his sea of consciousness. He gave a cold snort.

Boom!

Two vast and incomparable waves of Dragon Might, one gold and one black, surged up within his sea of consciousness!

To his left, the Light Saint Dragon shone with dazzling, sacred golden light.

To his right, the Dark Sacred Dragon gathered a tyrannical black aura that seemed capable of devouring heaven and earth!

Caught between the pressure of the two supreme dragons, the Ironclad Tyrannosaurus's remnant soul could not even cry out. It was pinned beneath the waves of his sea of consciousness, unable to move.

At a thought from Yin Changqing, the phantoms of both dragons roared and breathed out. They blasted the remnant soul to pieces, turning it into pure spiritual energy that merged entirely with the core of his mind.

With the remnant soul destroyed and absorbed, Yin Changqing's mental power not only escaped unscathed but surged higher.

Without Soul Shock to hinder him, the immense energy within the eighteen-thousand-year Soul Ring rampaged through Yin Changqing's Meridians.

But his body, tempered by Whale Rubber until it rivaled a Soul Sage's, held the energy firmly in check and converted it smoothly into his own Soul Power.

At the same time, a crisp system notification sounded in Yin Changqing's mind.

[Host has successfully absorbed the Soul Ring of an eighteen-thousand-year Ironclad Tyrannosaurus. The "Choose Two of Four" Spirit Skill system has activated.]

[Choose two of the following four Spirit Skills for your fourth Soul Ring:]

Option One: [Saint Dragon Judgment]

Type: Single-target, maximum-power attack Spirit Skill

Effect: Focuses light and extreme physical force into a single point to deliver a devastating strike of judgment.

Grants 80% physical penetration and 100% Light Judgment damage. Deals an additional 100% damage to enemies with evil or darkness attributes.

Option Two: [Dragon Emperor's Dominating Body]

Type: Powerful defense and control-immunity Spirit Skill

Effect: Instantly forms a suit of golden Holy Dragon scale armor upon activation, reducing physical and elemental damage taken by 70% and granting immunity to all control effects for 10 seconds.

Automatically grants 1 second of invulnerability when struck by a fatal blow (24-hour cooldown).

Option Three: [Earth Dragon Emperor Quake]

Type: Wide-area control and group-burst Spirit Skill

Effect: Strikes the ground to fracture the earth and unleash gravitational shockwaves across a 200-meter radius, dealing massive physical impact damage and forcibly launching and stunning all enemies in range for 3 seconds.

Option Four: [Saint Dragon's Fury]

Type: Maximum critical-hit enhancement Spirit Skill

Effect: Upon activation, raises physical critical-hit chance to 100% and critical-hit damage by 100%. Every attack also deals true damage equal to 10% of the user's maximum health. Lasts for half an hour.

After reading the four options in detail, Yin Changqing marveled inwardly.

As expected of the system. Any one of those four skills would be a dream come true for an ordinary soul master.

Yin Changqing quickly weighed his choices.

Option Two, [Dragon Emperor's Dominating Body], offered 70% damage reduction, ten seconds of control immunity, and invulnerability against a fatal blow. It was a top-tier lifesaving skill.

Option Four, [Saint Dragon's Fury], would combine with the enormous percentage boosts from his first three Spirit Skills to unleash an outrageous burst of physical and true damage.

"System, I choose Option Two, [Dragon Emperor's Dominating Body], and Option Four, [Saint Dragon's Fury]!"

As Yin Changqing made his decision, the black Soul Ring contracted sharply and merged completely into his body.

The surging energy of the eighteen-thousand-year Soul Ring flowed smoothly into his Soul Power. He broke through the level-40 threshold he had just reached and climbed straight to level 42.

Yin Changqing opened his eyes and let out a long breath. Faint gold and black dragon patterns flowed across his body.

Yin Yu and Tuoba Tingxue, who had been standing guard nearby, both breathed sighs of relief.

Tuoba Tingxue stepped forward and looked her son over carefully, delight in her voice.

"Changqing, how do you feel?

Are you hurt anywhere?"

"Mother, I'm fine."

Yin Changqing stood up with a faint smile.

"The absorption went smoothly. My Soul Power rose straight to level 42."

"Level 42?!"

Yin Yu's eyes lit up. He patted his son on the shoulder and laughed.

"An eighteen-thousand-year fourth Soul Ring and a level-42 Soul Ancestor at twelve! You're one of a kind in the entire history of Douluo Continent!"

Tuoba Tingxue asked curiously.

"Changqing, what Spirit Skill did the Ironclad Tyrannosaurus give you?"

At a thought from Yin Changqing, four Soul Rings slowly appeared beneath him: one yellow, two purple, and one black. The deep black ring was especially striking.

"Father, Mother, this Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring gave me two Spirit Skills."

Yin Changqing explained.

"The first is Dragon Emperor's Dominating Body. When activated, it reduces all damage by 70% and makes me immune to control effects for ten seconds. It can also block one fatal attack when it matters most.

The second is Saint Dragon's Fury. When activated, every attack is a critical hit, and critical-hit damage is doubled. Each attack also deals true damage equal to 10% of my maximum health. It lasts half an hour."