"My Martial Soul evolved!"
While Spirit Hall and the major sects began deploying their forces,
Dugu Yan, the first to finish absorbing her pill within the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, rose to her feet in delighted surprise.
After she fully absorbed the earth dragon golden melon pill, her jade phosphor snake Martial Soul successfully evolved into a true dragon Martial Soul-and an outstanding one at that: the Earth Saint Dragon.
How could she not be thrilled?
From then on, not only would she no longer have to worry about the life-threatening Martial Soul poison from her jade phosphor snake Martial Soul, but she also possessed a far more powerful true dragon Martial Soul.
"Not bad!"
Ji Yang nodded slightly as he looked at Dugu Yan in her state of Martial Soul Possession, her lustrous black hair tinged with earthy yellow and a faint layer of earthy-yellow dragon scales covering her hands and skin.
It seemed Dugu Yan really had succeeded.
That was something worth celebrating.
"What about your Soul Skills? Did they change along with it? And has your cultivation speed slowed down?"
Ji Yang asked.
The former question needed no explanation: he was checking whether the earth dragon golden melon pill had helped Dugu Yan's first two Soul Skills undergo corresponding changes.
As for the latter, he was checking whether Dugu Yan's Earth Saint Dragon was a Martial Soul possessing the ultimate earth attribute.
"My Soul Skills changed. The bloodline essence within the earth dragon golden melon pill drove the evolution of my first two Soul Skills, turning them into new Soul Skills suited to my Martial Soul."
"As for my cultivation speed... hmm? It really does seem to have slowed down a lot. Is that normal?"
Dugu Yan's expression was initially joyful, but it soon turned worried.
Her Martial Soul had clearly evolved into a true dragon Martial Soul, and her talent seemed to have grown stronger too, so why had her cultivation speed slowed down instead?
Did that make any sense?
"Of course it's normal. That's because your Martial Soul possesses an ultimate attribute. It can suppress all Martial Souls of the same attribute that lack an ultimate attribute, as well as the effects of their Soul Skills. At the same time, it is no longer countered by the attributes that originally countered it, unless the other party also possesses an ultimate attribute."
"Slower cultivation is an effect of having an ultimate Martial Soul, at least until you break through to the Soul Saint realm. Once you become a Soul Saint, your cultivation speed will return to normal, and may even become much faster."
Ji Yang explained.
"So that's how it is!"
Understanding dawned on Dugu Yan.
With that, she no longer felt worried.
That said, she was still a little dejected.
The thought that her cultivation would become so slow from then on inevitably made her anxious.
Had the benefits of an ultimate Martial Soul not been so overwhelmingly powerful, she might even have preferred not to have an ultimate attribute.
"Don't worry about your cultivation speed. I have pills that aid cultivation. From now on, you'll cultivate faster than ordinary people, not slower!"
Seeing Dugu Yan's dejection, Ji Yang reassured her.
"Mm-hmm!"
Dugu Yan's eyes lit up at his words, and she nodded repeatedly.
She had actually forgotten about that.
Since Ji Yang could refine such powerful pills, producing pills beneficial to cultivation would naturally be no trouble at all.
Her worry had been unnecessary from the very beginning.
"Since your Martial Soul has successfully evolved, go ahead and absorb this! It's a Soul Spirit Pill containing an earth-attribute lesser dragon Soul Spirit."
"After you've absorbed the Soul Spirit Pill, absorb this Soul Blood Pill too, and let your Soul Spirit evolve into a true dragon Soul Spirit."
Ji Yang handed Dugu Yan a Soul Spirit Pill and a Soul Blood Pill.
This Soul Spirit Pill was not one he had refined earlier in the Star Dou Great Forest, but one he had finished refining in the Sunset Forest not long ago.
After refining everything within the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well that could be refined, he had nothing else to do, so he left the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to hunt a Soul Beast for Dugu Yan.
In the end, he found this earth-attribute lesser dragon Soul Beast, which was a fairly suitable choice for Dugu Yan's Soul Spirit.
Its age was just a little low: it had only recently passed the thousand-year mark.
But age had never been a problem for Ji Yang.
Besides, that age was very suitable for Dugu Yan, who had yet to take a Whale Rubber Pill or a Soul Body Pill.
Furthermore, once he used the corresponding true dragon bloodline to evolve this lesser dragon Soul Spirit, it would become an earth-attribute true dragon Soul Spirit, making it even more suitable for Dugu Yan.
That was what mattered most.
And he already possessed that true dragon bloodline.
It was not a true dragon bloodline taken from another Soul Beast or Da Ming, but one that came from the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings.
After refining the spring water of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, he had been surprised to discover that it actually contained the bloodlines and essence of the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings.
Presumably, after the remains of the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings fell into this spring, their bloodlines and essence seeped out of their bodies and merged with its waters, creating this exceptionally unusual Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well on the Douluo Continent.
Since the spring water of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well was so intimately connected to the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings themselves, it was little wonder that it could injure the nine-hundred-and-ninety-thousand-year-old Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, whose body had undergone partial Dragon Transformation.
Had the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King not been strong enough, and had the power of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well's spring water not been diluted so severely that most of it was lost,
the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King would likely have been gravely wounded merely by coming into contact with the spring water, rather than needing it to injure him from within.
After discovering this, Ji Yang began repeatedly using the spring water of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to refine pills.
In the end, he not only obtained a large quantity of Soul Blood Pills and Origin Pills from the Fire Dragon King and Ice Dragon King, but also used a new ability of his Bagua Alchemy Furnace Martial Soul to separately extract attributeless true dragon Soul Blood Pills and Origin Pills.
The Soul Blood Pill he gave Dugu Yan was one of those.
With these pills, not only Dugu Yan, but he and Da Ming would also benefit greatly in the future.
Da Ming had a chance to transform from an Azure Dragon into an even more powerful dragon, while his Crimson Flame Fire Dragon Soul Spirit could use them to ascend into a Fire Dragon King Soul Spirit.
It was just that he had not yet had time to venture into the depths of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and investigate the remains of the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings beneath it.
Otherwise, even treasures such as the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings' Soul Bones and Dragon Cores would have found their way into his possession.
However, with the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings' Soul Blood Pills and Origin Pills already in hand, Ji Yang was more concerned with whether their remains contained anything even more extraordinary.
Things such as the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings' Divine Cores, divinities, immortal spiritual energy, and laws of ice and fire.
If these things truly existed, they would help him on his future path to godhood.
In particular, dragon divinities were not limited to dragons or other Soul Beasts. Humans could inherit them as well, provided they possessed the corresponding bloodline.
Just like Lan Xuanyu: even though he was human, he could still inherit the Dragon God Divinity because he possessed the complete Dragon God Bloodline within his body.
And so on!
If no better option presented itself in the future, choosing to become the new Fire Dragon King would not be bad either.
Not only was the Fire Dragon King's divinity at the God King level, but choosing to become the Fire Dragon King while possessing a human body would also spare him from the "Dragon God's curse" that prevented Soul Beasts from becoming gods.
Why wouldn't he gladly do it?
And even if he had no use for it, declined that path, or found a better option in the future, giving it to someone close to him would be a good choice too.
"Thank you!"
Dugu Yan naturally knew nothing of Ji Yang's thoughts and ambitions. Instead, she was overwhelmed with delight and excitement over the Soul Spirit Pill he had just given her.
A Soul Spirit-this was something she had yearned for so intensely. Not long ago, she had been terribly envious of the two Soul Spirits Ye Lingling possessed.
And now, she could have a Soul Spirit of her own?
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