A Plan to Upgrade Soul Rings (Please Keep Reading)

All he had to do was throw it into the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame and refine it relentlessly, purging every trace of baleful fury, venomous resentment, and lingering obsession. Then he could extract its purest, flawless essence and pour it back into his own Soul Ring!

With the miraculous power of the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame, this method of increasing a Soul Ring's age was almost certain to work!

"When that time comes, even this eighty-thousand-year Purple Spirit Lynx Soul Ring—I can use the pure essence of countless Soul Beasts to force it up to a hundred thousand years, a million years, or even the god-tier level of ten million years!"

At the thought, delight surged through Xiao Dong. The tiny shred of regret that had lingered in his heart vanished completely.

Boom!

But while Xiao Dong was still making his plans, before he could find a Soul Beast to test his heaven-defying theory, the dormant mass of dazzling golden light in the deepest reaches of his Mud Pill Palace began to tremble violently.

Propelled past the level-twenty threshold by his eighty-thousand-year Soul Ring, Xiao Dong heard a crisp crack deep within his mind. The third seal on the Xiao Yan Inheritance shattered and broke open!

The Dou Shi level of the Xiao Yan Inheritance had officially unlocked!

Two vast torrents of information crashed into the ocean of Xiao Dong's Sea of Consciousness like golden comets of heavenly fire.

The first torrent unfurled, and the phantom of an ancient scroll rose into view, wondrously intricate and formed from countless overlapping hand seals!

Special Dou Technique: Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus!

On the Dou Qi Continent, this Dou Technique was renowned. It had been the Flame Emperor Xiao Yan's trump card for slaying foes far above his level throughout his life!

By forcibly fusing violent flames of different attributes through spiritual perception, he could unleash, at the instant of detonation, a world-ending force capable of destroying mountains and collapsing the void!

I actually unlocked Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus...

At the discovery of this famed killing art, Xiao Dong could no longer hold back the wild joy that swept across his handsome face.

For now, the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame was the only true Heavenly Flame he possessed. He could not simply conjure a two-colored or multicolored Fire Lotus capable of destroying heaven and earth. Yet with his Brain Martial Soul running in overdrive, a way around that problem came to him almost instantly.

In the original story, besides true Heavenly Flames, Xiao Yan had mastered a mysterious art that let him refine Life Transformation Fire. He had even used Beast Flames from ferocious magical beasts to force a Fire Lotus into being!

The Star Dou Great Forest on the Douluo Continent was boundless, and high-level Soul Beasts brimming with extreme fire power were countless: the Three-Legged Golden Crow, the Scarlet King's Three-Headed Hellfire, and even hundred-thousand-year Ferocious Beasts whose fire attribute was pure to the extreme!

If he caught those high-level fire-type Soul Beasts and ripped the source Beast Flames from their bodies, he could use the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame as the overwhelming core. Then the terrifying explosive power of a multicolored Fire Lotus could descend upon the Douluo Continent just as easily!

"When that day comes, I don't care if they're Sea God Pavilion Elders or god-tier powerhouses. I'll smash a two-colored Fire Lotus right into their faces and see what they use to withstand it!"

Xiao Dong gave a cold laugh, the killing intent in his eyes growing stronger.

Then his gaze shifted to the second stream of golden light as it slowly unfurled.

Third-Rank Alchemy!

Still more exquisite fire-control methods, formulas for balancing and purifying hundreds upon hundreds of complex medicinal ingredients, and recipes for many precious Third-Rank Pills flooded deep into his soul.

With this almost supernatural art of pill refinement in hand, Xiao Dong would be the undisputed supreme master of alchemy on the Douluo Continent, where the use of medicines remained crude and primitive!

This round of the Dou Shi inheritance really is extraordinarily generous...

Xiao Dong let out a long, heated breath and steadied the elation in his heart. Then he clenched his fist, and mighty Soul Power surged through his meridians like a roaring mountain flood.

Level thirty exactly!

After his Brain Martial Soul absorbed the full essence of the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and the eighty-thousand-year Three-Eyed Purple Spirit Lynx King, his cultivation had settled, as naturally as water finding its course, at the perfected bottleneck of level thirty!

He only needed to hunt one more Soul Beast and add a third Soul Ring. Then he could step into the exalted realm of a three-ring Soul Elder without a doubt and, in the same smooth stroke, break the Da Dou Shi-level seal on the Xiao Yan Inheritance!

"If I'm not mistaken, Xiao Yan obtained that famous supreme secret art when he reached the Da Dou Shi stage..."

Deep in Xiao Dong's dark eyes, a blazing light burned like twin flames.

Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Transformations!

That desperate secret art drew upon the power of heavenly fire within the body, sending one's cultivation and combat strength surging through successive, terrifying leaps for a short time!

Just imagine: Homelander's invincible body of steel already possessed strength enough to smash mountains and shatter peaks. Add the violent boost of the Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Transformations, and who on the Douluo Continent could possibly withstand the devastation of a single punch?!

"Since I'm already here, I might as well strike while the iron's hot!"

A faintly greedy smile curled Xiao Dong's lips.

In the eyes of ordinary Soul Masters, absorbing a Soul Ring beyond one's limit meant spending months, even years, stabilizing the body's meridians.

But for Xiao Dong, with his body of steel and the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame, there was no such thing as overload or backlash!

"If I find another older Soul Beast for my third Soul Ring, won't my cultivation shoot straight to level forty after I absorb it?!"

At the thought, the blood in Xiao Dong's veins seemed to boil.

His spiritual sense spread into an invisible net and swept wildly through the surroundings.

Within a few short minutes, Xiao Dong's eyes narrowed. His gaze fixed on a solitary peak and gorge more than ten miles away.

Inside the deep gorge shrouded in pink miasma, a brutally one-sided hunt was underway!

And it was a hunt between Soul Beasts!

In midair, a huge bird with a wingspan of over ten meters and feathers like blue-green tempered steel let out shrill cries again and again.

The Azure Flame Demon Eagle, a thirty-thousand-year flying Soul Beast!

Yet this predator, which should have soared through the heavens, was covered in bloody claw marks.

Worse, a strange, dense pink-purple halo wreathed its brow. It had clearly fallen into some dreadful illusion of the soul.

As the struggle dragged on, even the beating of its wings grew stiff.

On a jutting rock below, a fearsome creature crouched with chilling elegance.

It was a stunning fox clad from head to tail in translucent deep-purple crystal armor. Behind its slender, graceful body swayed seven enormous tails.

Every sweep sent ripples of mental force through the air, holding the Azure Flame Demon Eagle fast!

The Seven-Tailed Illusion Crystal Fox, a mental-type Soul Beast that had reached a full seventy thousand years of cultivation!

"Seventy thousand years..."

At the sight of the fox that made souls tremble, delight flashed in Xiao Dong's eyes.

Seventy thousand years was more than enough for his third Soul Ring!

What made his heart pound even harder was the Azure Flame Demon Eagle driven into a corner above it.

"A thirty-thousand-year flying Soul Beast. Hasn't it come right to my doorstep as the perfect sacrifice for testing whether the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame can refine essence to strengthen my Soul Ring's age?!"

Xiao Dong gave a cold laugh, and killing intent flickered deep in his eyes.

Two high-level Soul Beasts: one to become his third Soul Ring and nourish his breakthrough to level forty, the other to serve as his test material. This trip had truly been worth it!

Boom!

Without another moment's hesitation, Xiao Dong unleashed the full power of his body!

The air beneath his feet exploded into a ring of dazzling white shockwaves. A sharp sonic boom tore through the clouds as Xiao Dong pierced the sky and hurtled straight toward the lonely peak and gorge!