"Well, well, it actually is a Dragon Core..."
The corners of Xu Cheng's mouth rose involuntarily.
In the original story, Mu En had entrusted it to Long Xiaoyao before his death, asking him to pass it on to Huo Gua. It had laid the groundwork for Huo Gua's wildly overpowered cheats later on.
A Dragon Core, to use Snow Empress's explanation, was a dragon's core.
As its name suggested, it gathered the essence of a true dragon. But perhaps to keep the cheats from becoming too outrageous, the original story had only stated that absorbing this Dragon Core would send bodily defenses soaring-to rival those of an actual soul beast.
But something containing the essence of a dragon's entire lifetime naturally held tremendous energy as well. Accelerating soul power cultivation was merely its most basic use. With enough intent, one could even mutate one's martial soul, developing it toward that of a dragon.
And why call this Dragon Core the starting point of Huo Gua's later meteoric rise?
Was it because of the epic enhancement to his physique?
Exactly.
That brought the discussion to soul cores.
According to Douluo soul master studies, an ordinary person's soul power was gaseous, its most basic and lowest state. But upon growing stronger and reaching the Soul Douluo realm, that soul power would transform from gas to liquid, allowing a soul master to store more soul power within their body.
When advancing from Soul Douluo to Titled Douluo, one condensed a soul core, transforming liquid into solid. If the transformation succeeded, one advanced to Titled Douluo.
The volume available for storing soul power within a soul master's body was fixed, but changing its state allowed more soul power to fit within it.
However, the transformation from liquid to solid released tremendous energy. This was