"Tsk, tsk. Looks like Guang Biao put some real force into that kick. He knocked my Golden Dragon King jinchuriki out for a whole day."
Li Zha walked over to the window and confirmed that Tang Wulin was still unconscious.
Yet Li Zha felt no pity whatsoever.
The Golden Dragon King's power had never belonged to the Tang family. Blue Silver Grass was their standard issue.
To put it plainly, this was all Buddha Tang's own reckless meddling. Otherwise, why would the properly sealed Golden Dragon King have charged into Tang Wulin's body and tried to burst him to death?
Buddha Tang even schemed against his own son. Truly unbeatable.
"Wulin, you can't handle the Golden Dragon King. Just give him to me!"
With a thought from Li Zha, the Blazing Dragon Spirit flew out.
"Little Flame, I'm counting on you in a moment."
"Sure! Master, just watch me!"
The Blazing Dragon Spirit trembled slightly, both excited and afraid.
The Golden Dragon King was a being above him. Without Li Zha, he would never have dared lay a claw on the Golden Dragon King, even with a bear's heart and a leopard's guts.
But now...
Heh heh!
The Blazing Dragon Spirit flew above Tang Wulin, extended his claws, and rapidly prodded the acupoints all over Tang Wulin's body.
The next moment,
Tang Wulin's body suddenly reacted. The sound of shattering shackles rang out, golden light surged from within him, and a terrifying pressure emerged.
The Blazing Dragon Spirit watched nervously.
This was the Dragon-Locking Technique he had learned from the [Mountain and River State Diagram].
The Blazing Dragon Spirit had spent three years studying Daoist arts and had gained a little insight.
Although his power was insufficient to unlock Tang San's seal,
he was now performing the Dragon-Locking Technique in reverse. The Golden Dragon King sealed inside Tang Wulin immediately sensed an opportunity and frantically unleashed all his power to break free.
Sure enough!
Seeing this, the Blazing Dragon Spirit knew success was assured.
The Golden Dragon King's power roared out of Tang Wulin's body.
Li Zha had been waiting. The Heaven-and-Earth Silk instantly flew from his hand and bound the golden dragon!
"Roar!"
The Golden Dragon King's phantom roared, shaking the room.
"Insolence!"
The phantom of a lotus dharma body manifested behind Li Zha.
"A mere wisp of remnant soul dares act so arrogantly? Get in here!"
Li Zha instantly opened the [Mountain and River State Diagram]. With a thought, he pulled the remnant spirit of the Golden Dragon King's power inside.
The golden light in the room flickered and vanished.
On the bed,
Tang Wulin let out a muffled groan of pain.
Although Tang Wulin had yet to fuse with the Golden Dragon King, that power had dwelled inside him for years, and some of it had already merged with him.
Having it forcibly ripped out now caused him immediate pain.
The Blazing Dragon Spirit leaned down, pried open Tang Wulin's mouth, and poured several pills inside.
A few were made from whale rubber mixed with supplements, which could strengthen the body.
The most important one was a counterfeit Nine-Turn Immortal Pill that the Blazing Dragon Spirit had refined himself.
Taiyi Zhenren had also left pill-refining methods in the Immortal Book, but the Blazing Dragon Spirit lacked both the ingredients and the cultivation. He could only follow the principles and use locally available materials, producing what amounted to a low-end knockoff.
Fortunately, the Nine-Turn Immortal Pill was a top-tier immortal pill to begin with,
so even an inferior counterfeit had some effect.
The pills swiftly dissolved in his mouth,
and gentle medicinal energy rapidly began healing Tang Wulin's body.
Just then,
Li Zha extended his right hand. A wisp of Samadhi True Fire appeared and instantly entered Tang Wulin's meridians.
Li Zha's control over the Samadhi True Fire was now extremely precise. He intended to burn away the traces of the Golden Dragon King's power remaining in Tang Wulin's body.
Otherwise, they would leave hidden dangers for Tang Wulin in the future.
Well,
although he was Tang San's son, Tang Wulin had done nothing wrong. Li Zha had no reason to kill him.
The Samadhi True Fire swiftly darted out, leaving not a trace of the Golden Dragon King's power inside Tang Wulin.
Not only that,
the Samadhi True Fire had also cleansed and refined all of Tang Wulin's meridians along the way. A red line appeared beside the golden line on his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul.
"Heh, Master, this kid's pretty lucky. His Blue Silver Grass actually absorbed a trace of your Samadhi True Fire. It seems to have mutated."
The Blazing Dragon Spirit laughed. "Master, congratulations on obtaining the golden dragon's power!"
"Don't celebrate too soon. The big one hasn't arrived yet."
Li Zha watched Tang Wulin intently.
The Blazing Dragon Spirit was puzzled, but assumed a fighting stance nonetheless.
Sure enough,
the next moment,
Tang Wulin suddenly opened his eyes. Yet the presence in his gaze was completely unlike his usual self. It had become vast and profound, and golden divine power surged forth.
"Who did this?!"
The power of Tang San's divine consciousness inside Tang Wulin now took control of his body. This divine consciousness avatar immediately realized what had happened and roared in fury.
"You're the one who took the golden dragon's power from Wulin! You've already earned your death!"
Li Zha scoffed.
"Heh, Tang San, I saved your son from being burst apart by the Golden Dragon King. Instead of thanking me, you dare curse me?!"
Behind Li Zha, the lotus body lowered its gaze.
Tang San's divine consciousness immediately wavered. He looked up at Li Zha's lotus body in shock and uncertainty.
"You... you're a god too?! What god are you? Where did you come from?!"
Far away within the black hole, Tang San abruptly opened his eyes, desperate for his gaze to pierce the endless distance and see Tang Wulin on Douluo Star.
Inside Tang Wulin, the aura of Tang San's divine consciousness grew chaotic and panicked.
"I am the Great Deity of the Three Altars and Seas! A mere Sea God-why do you not bow before me?!"
Boom!
The lotus body radiated tremendous pressure.
To his horror, Tang San discovered that his Sea God's power had been directly suppressed.
However,
his knowledge far exceeded that of the Silver Dragon King, Gu Yue, and he quickly realized what was wrong.
"So that's it. Somehow, you obtained a godhood inheritance, but you have the form without the substance!"
"Hahahaha! Wonderful! Since you took my son Wulin's Golden Dragon King power, hand over the godhood of the Great Deity of the Three Altars and Seas to him!"
Tang San sneered,
then controlled Tang Wulin's body to launch an immediate attack at Li Zha.
Li Zha lunged forward instead. As he activated his lotus body, his Sea of Consciousness trembled.
"Heh, courting death!"
Tang San instantly recognized an opportunity and launched a divine consciousness attack. His powerful divine consciousness invaded Li Zha's Sea of Consciousness.
Li Zha grunted. Blood seeped from the corner of his mouth, yet his lips curled upward.
"Brat! Hand over the godhood!"
Tang San roared, only to suddenly discover that the moment his divine consciousness entered Li Zha's Sea of Consciousness, his surroundings changed.
His divine consciousness sensed that he seemed to have passed through a space, leaving him feeling extraordinarily far from Douluo Star.
"Where is this?"
Tang San's divine consciousness stared around in bewilderment, discovering birdsong, fragrant flowers, and drifting immortal energy.
Dense energy surged through this space, several times stronger than even that of his Douluo God Realm!
Tang San's divine consciousness laughed wildly.
"So that's it! You little brat, you were actually lucky enough to obtain a fragment of another Divine Realm!"
"From the looks of it, this Divine Realm was on a far higher level than the Douluo God Realm!"
"This is something you can't handle, brat!"
Inside the Mountain and River State Diagram, Tang San's divine consciousness avatar swiftly charged toward Li Zha's spiritual form.
Clearly,
Buddha Tang intended to control Li Zha and seize both his godhood and this space.
Li Zha picked up the [State-Guiding Brush] and revealed a sunny smile.
"Outside, I'd still call you Buddha Tang. But now that you're in here, you're just a Little Scumbag!"
"You want to steal my things? Go discuss it with my grandmaster, Taiyi Zhenren!"
The brush in Li Zha's hand moved swiftly.
Inside the [Mountain and River State Diagram], Li Zha could manifest anything and anyone he had ever seen.
To deal with Little Scumbag,
the one Li Zha would manifest this time was Taiyi Zhenren!
Boom!
A terrifying pressure descended.
Tang San's divine consciousness avatar blankly raised his head toward the sky.
"What thief dares seize my granddisciple's treasures and inheritance? Die!"
Taiyi Zhenren was fiercely protective of his own, so he struck without hesitation.
Tang San's divine consciousness avatar looked all around but could see no one. The next moment, his avatar shattered instantly!
In the Douluo God Realm,
Tang San gasped frantically, shocked. "What kind of joke is this?! The one chance to act that I left inside Wulin was wiped out in an instant?!"
"Just what god is this Great Deity of the Three Altars and Seas?! And who is this Taiyi Zhenren?!"
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