"Luo Chen, from this day forward, our hearts will beat as one, faithful until death."
Gu Yue made her solemn vow, then threw herself into Luo Chen's arms and kissed him straight on the lips. Their two burning hearts pounded fiercely in unison.
Meanwhile, outside the sky screen, the Silver Dragon Kings of the Spirit Hall era and the Peerless Tang Sect era were especially excited.
"Dragon Valley! This is Dragon Valley, where our dragon race fell all those years ago!"
"Di Tian, find it!"
"If the Dragon God's Heart really is in Dragon Valley, perhaps we won't have to wait until that era!"
"And the soul beasts won't go extinct!"
"Yes." Di Tian accepted the order and departed.
He had thought the extinction of the soul beasts was already set in stone. Who could have imagined there was still a chance to change it?
Hope flared in Di Tian's eyes once more.
Of course, if Luo Chen had heard those words, he would only have advised them to give up.
Dragon Valley moved around. It had merely landed on the Star Luo Continent during this period. Twenty thousand years ago and ten thousand years ago, who knew what forgotten nook it had been hiding in?
Within the sky screen, the two finally drew apart after a long while.
"I'll be going now." Gu Yue's cheeks were scarlet. This was the first time she had taken the initiative...
Without waiting for Luo Chen's reply, she hurried away.
Luo Chen shook his head helplessly. In terms of age, Gu Yue was older than him by who knew how much, yet she still got shy.
Just then, Gu Yue doubled back.
"What is it?"
Luo Chen asked.
"Oh, I forgot to tell you. The Emperor Auspicious Beast traveled here from ten thousand years ago. She's recuperating in the Lake of Life right now." Gu Yue's expression was somewhat unnatural.
After saying that, she left again.
Clearly, she had learned something about what had happened between the Emperor Auspicious Beast and Luo Chen.
Wang Qiu'er was here too?
Did that mean he could claim another system reward?
What reward would he get this time?
The scene of their time alone together surfaced in Luo Chen's mind.
If Luo Chen had not pretended to be asleep, he might never have heard Wang Qiu'er's confession in his entire life.
[Qiu'er, you're still far too proud to admit your feelings.]
Outside the sky screen, Vina fell silent for a long time upon hearing this. No one knew what she was thinking.
Within the Body Sect, ever since Huo Yuhao arrived, Du Busi had passed on all his experience to him.
He had held absolutely nothing back, which stirred resentment in his original direct disciple, Long Aotian.
Long Aotian had drunk a great deal that day. When he came to find Vina, he happened to see her standing there in a daze.
He had admired Vina for a long time, but ever since she met Luo Chen, she had barely paid him any attention.
"Princess Vina, are you still waiting for Luo Chen?"
Long Aotian reeked of alcohol, but Vina remained as composed as ever. "Senior Brother Aotian, please leave. I'm going to rest."
As her words fell, she walked straight past Long Aotian toward her room.
"Vina!" Long Aotian spun around. "Do you still have Luo Chen lodged in your heart, unable to forget him?"
"..."
Vina did not answer, but her steps grew uneven.
"But does Luo Chen really care about you? He already has other women by his side!" Long Aotian raised his voice.
They had both seen everything shown on the sky screen.
Only then did Vina slowly stop. Her expression remained cold as she spoke indifferently.
"What does my caring about Luo Chen have to do with whether he cares about me?"
Hearing this, Long Aotian's resolve shattered. He collapsed to the ground in bitter frustration and roared at Luo Chen on the sky screen.
Vina, meanwhile, returned to her room, revealing an expression no one else had ever seen.
"Luo Chen, I'll wait for you until the seas dry up and the rocks crumble, until heaven and earth grow old."
"Until this beauty withers away, and even the eternal snows melt..."
Meanwhile, within the sky screen, Luo Chen released his Devouring Ancestral Talisman martial soul after Gu Yue left.
Dragon Valley could seal martial souls and soul skills, but it could not seal Luo Chen's martial soul.
Luo Chen's martial soul did not belong to this world, and its quality far surpassed any bloodline in the Douluo World.
At the same time, when Luo Chen used his Devouring Ancestral Talisman martial soul to absorb energy, he took in not only the dragon souls within the dragon clouds, but also the energy of the entire Dragon Valley!
That was how domineering the Devouring Ancestral Talisman was. Whatever kind of energy reached Luo Chen, it was all converted into soul power.
Thus, both his spiritual power and soul power were rising rapidly!
His soul power climbed little by little, from level 95 to 96, then 97.
It finally came to an abrupt halt at level 98. Luo Chen knew this was not because Dragon Valley lacked energy, but because he needed to condense his third soul core!
Luo Chen's soul cores were much like those of the Spirit Ice Douluo in the original story. His first soul core was a spiritual soul core, his second was an Ultimate Ice soul core, and they likewise operated through Yin-Yang Complementarity.
For his third soul core, Luo Chen intended to use his Devouring Ancestral Talisman as the core, relying on its devouring power to drive the other two soul cores!
This was also the first time Luo Chen had revealed how his soul cores operated on the sky screen!
Outside the sky screen, in the Spirit Hall era, the vast majority of Titled Douluos had already condensed soul cores.
The few existing Limit Douluos had also discovered that to condense a new soul core, they needed their original soul core to drive its operation.
However, they were uncertain about the precise method, so they had not rushed to draw conclusions.
Bibi Dong and Qian Daoliu, in particular, had argued endlessly over this matter.
Qian Daoliu believed the two soul cores should spin in exactly the same direction, resonating at a synchronized frequency.
One would be primary and the other secondary. The primary soul core would guide the secondary soul core to rotate in sync, allowing the two streams of soul power to overlap in the same direction and nourish each other without any opposing clashes.
Bibi Dong, however, insisted on another view.
She believed that method of operating the soul cores was wrong.
The two soul cores should spin in completely opposite directions, one yin and one yang, orbiting each other. Two streams of soul power with mutually repelling attributes would constantly collide and blend, forming a looping yin-yang vortex.
Their opposing spins would create a pulling force that compressed soul power to the extreme, allowing the two energies to neutralize each other, cancel out conflicts, and sustain an endless cycle.
Now, the method Luo Chen displayed was unquestionably Yin-Yang Complementarity-the very method Bibi Dong advocated.
Within the sky screen, as Luo Chen condensed his third soul core, vast amounts of energy escaped the soul cores' control and began leaking out wildly.
Fortunately, he had his Devouring Ancestral Talisman martial soul to absorb the escaping energy again.
"If I'd chosen dual soul cores using Isotopic Resonance back then, condensing a third soul core might have been much easier, but it would also have severely limited my strength."
"I have the Devouring Ancestral Talisman martial soul. Even if something goes wrong during the process, I can remedy it in time."
"Qiu'er is strong enough. When the time comes, I can have her take the path of Yin-Yang Complementarity too. As for Jiujiu..."
Luo Chen fell silent for a moment before continuing, "She should stick to Isotopic Resonance."
With the resources available in the current Legend of the Dragon King era, raising someone to Limit Douluo was hardly difficult. Besides, without the strength of a Limit Douluo, how could she keep the new Star Luo Empire Federation under control?
Upon hearing this from the sky screen, Bibi Dong had already decided that she, too, would pursue yin-yang complementary dual soul cores. In any case, she had an undying body and could not die.
Qian Daoliu, however, still chose Isotopic Resonance to play it safe.
By now, Luo Chen on the sky screen had already arranged everything that would follow, because there was simply no way he could lose the Five Gods' Duel!
"Looks like once I've dealt with matters in the Star Luo Empire, I'll have to visit the Tang Sect's Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and snag some hundred-thousand-year-old immortal herbs."
"Ten thousand years ago and twenty thousand years ago, the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well was in Sunset Forest. But now, Sunset Forest has long since been destroyed by the Tang Sect, and they've hidden the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well away too."
That gave Luo Chen quite a headache.
"Whatever. I know roughly where Sunset Forest was anyway. At worst, I'll use the most cumbersome method and comb through every inch."
Outside the sky screen, in the Spirit Hall era, Dugu Bo was dumbfounded upon hearing this.
"Hold on, wait. Whose Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well did you say it was???"
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