In an instant, a cool sensation spread through Chen Tianyuan's Sea of Consciousness, like a breeze smoothing away his resentment.
Electrolux's voice thundered, pulling Chen Tianyuan back.
Coming to his senses, he felt a lingering dread. One more step, and his mind would have been clouded, plunging him beyond all hope of recovery.
"If you treat hatred as firewood, it will eventually burn out. Your road will not take you very far."
Hearing this, Chen Tianyuan calmed himself and settled his surging Sea of Consciousness.
Just then, dense light element surged toward him. In a mere instant, Chen Tianyuan felt his mind clear, and even his martial soul stirred with delight.
Mu En chuckled. "The Golden Tree seems very fond of you. Go inside."
"Take the room at the far end of the passage on the left. Sit on the cushion inside, and you can begin cultivating and seeking insight."
Chen Tianyuan pushed open the door, and an extraordinarily dense rush of light element struck him in the face. He stepped inside and closed the door before carefully examining the room.
The room measured a full twenty square meters. Plant roots as thick as an arm covered the floor, walls, and ceiling. These roots were pure gold and emitted a white glow, which explained why he could see clearly despite the absence of any lamps.
Aside from the cushion in the center, the room contained no furnishings or decorations, leaving it rather empty.
As he absorbed the light element, so dense it was like water, the Light Dragon Clan bloodline within Chen Tianyuan began to stir.
Chen Tianyuan sat on the cushion and soon entered a state of cultivation. At the same time, all the light element in the room began gathering around him.
The light element seemed endless, pouring frantically into his body. Under its influence, his Purple Lightning Tyrant Dragon actually manifested behind him of its own accord.
The originally silver-purple Purple Lightning Tyrant Dragon martial soul actually radiated a golden halo.
The golden and silver radiance echoed each other, then slowly merged into an entirely new gilded silver hue.
With the release of his martial soul, the Light Dragon Clan bloodline, which had fused with the Heavenly Dragon Horse's pure dragon bloodline, completely suppressed the ultimate lightning and gained full control of the martial soul. After that, Chen Tianyuan's martial soul actually began actively absorbing the light element.
Meanwhile, the gold of life that had become one with Chen Tianyuan released vast amounts of life energy within him. Even the surface of his body lit up with a green glow. Yet he did not absorb this life energy, nor did it remain within him. Instead, it poured straight out through his body.
The golden plant roots in the room eventually absorbed all the life energy he released. After absorbing it, they fed back even more light element.
Vitality was the one thing Chen Tianyuan lacked least, while the Golden Ancient Tree likewise had no shortage of light element. Without any communication at all, the two had actually struck a mutually beneficial bargain.
As this exchange continued, the concentration of light element in the room kept rising, actually reaching the level of ultimate light.
The ultimate light continuously washed over Chen Tianyuan's martial soul, strengthening the Light Dragon Clan bloodline within it.
Mu En's voice suddenly rang out in Chen Tianyuan's mind.
"Don't worry. The vitality you're losing is like a single ladle of water drawn from the ocean. It won't affect you at all. The light attribute energy released by the Golden Ancient Tree can improve the quality of your martial soul. As for how far it can go, that depends entirely on your fortune."
Chen Tianyuan's martial soul was already a super martial soul. If it improved further, wouldn't it reach the threshold of a god-level martial soul?
Spirit Hall, the strongest power ten thousand years ago, had possessed the inherited Six-Winged Angel martial soul, a god-level martial soul whose bearers almost all had an innate soul power of rank twenty.
Ten thousand years ago, the concept of ultimate attributes had not existed. But placed in the present day, the Six-Winged Angel would unquestionably have been a triple-ultimate martial soul: ultimate light, ultimate fire, and ultimate divinity...
As the ultimate light continued cleansing him, and the Light Dragon Clan bloodline continued drawing in light element, Chen Tianyuan could clearly feel the soul power within him splitting completely in two. Half was ultimate lightning, and half was light approaching the ultimate level, with a sharp divide between them.
Before Chen Tianyuan absorbed his third soul ring, his body had contained only ultimate lightning soul power. But after he absorbed the soul ring of that ten-thousand-year-old Heavenly Dragon Horse, its pure dragon bloodline fused with his Light Dragon Clan bloodline, changing the ratio of soul power within him to nine to one: ninety percent ultimate lightning soul power and ten percent light element soul power.
Now, however, bolstered by the dense light element released by the Golden Ancient Tree, his light element soul power could actually contend with his ultimate lightning soul power despite not having reached the ultimate level.
The two streams of soul power collided relentlessly within Chen Tianyuan. The ultimate lightning soul power belonged to him, while the light element soul power came from the Golden Ancient Tree. Soon, the ultimate lightning soul power began losing ground, and the light element soul power advanced like an army bearing down on the border, attempting to devour it completely.
Meanwhile, a portion of the vitality released by the gold of life flowed through his meridians.
Miraculously, the immensely violent ultimate lightning soul power actually fused with this vitality, and a strange, entirely new soul power abruptly appeared within him.
This soul power contained both the destructive aura of ultimate lightning and the aura of life. Two elements that should have opposed each other had actually achieved a crude fusion.
But the instant this aura leaked out, Chen Tianyuan's Sea of Consciousness actually split open!
A pitch-black fissure without a trace of light tore through the emerald-green Sea of Consciousness from top to bottom, as deep as a bottomless abyss.
His Sea of Consciousness suffered a devastating blow, and even his soul teetered on the brink of shattering. At that critical moment, the vitality released by the gold of life arrived just in time, bridging the two sides of the fissure like an adhesive bandage. Yet the fissure continued slowly widening. Once his Sea of Consciousness shattered, only death would await Chen Tianyuan.
Even Electrolux, who had once been a deity, had never encountered such a situation. He swiftly analyzed the source of the problem, finally pinpointing that new soul power.
Destruction and life should have been two opposing extremes, yet at this moment, they had accidentally fused into one in a crude fashion...
Electrolux's divine sense instantly seized control of the body. His spiritual power entered Chen Tianyuan's meridians and actively dissolved the new, unknown soul power.
At the same time, his spiritual power rapidly compressed the light element soul power within the body. In an instant, all the light element soul power within Chen Tianyuan sublimated into ultimate light soul power.
Enveloped by Electrolux's divine sense and guided by his spiritual power, the ultimate light soul power fused with the weakened ultimate lightning soul power.
In an instant, the two streams of soul power spun and intermingled, giving birth to an entirely new purple-gold soul power. It possessed the violence and destruction of ultimate lightning, along with the gentleness and searing heat of ultimate light. Yet it was fundamentally unstable. Without Electrolux controlling its balance, it would very likely fall apart.
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