Since Soul Beasts could only reach a maximum of a million years, they had no need to save this Dragon King essence for anyone else.
In the eyes of the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King, Di Tian and Zi JI were the only dragons left whose bloodlines met the requirements.
That boy named Jin Jiuxiao could bypass the rules, so it would not take Di Tian long to reach a million years of cultivation either.
If the path to godhood remained closed, even a million-year Ferocious Beast could not ascend to the Divine Realm. They might as well give Zi JI a push.
Two million-year pureblood true dragons-as long as the path of ascension for Soul Beasts opened...
Di Tian and Zi JI, with their million-year cultivation, could immediately ascend to the Divine Realm.
Even if that little fellow named Jin Jiuxiao could not accomplish this for the time being, a lower plane guarded by the Silver Dragon King and two million-year true dragons could still preserve the dragon race and the last embers of the Soul Beast Clan.
"Little one, clear away your stray thoughts and comprehend this carefully." Seeing Zi JI still standing there in a daze, the Fire Dragon King could not help reminding her.
"Understood." Zi JI immediately closed her eyes, carefully sensing the power of the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings' essence.
Not just their essence... there was also a trace of lingering divine power...
Three hundred and twenty thousand years...
Three hundred and fifty thousand years...
Four hundred thousand years...
Zi JI's cultivation soared like a rocket!
But the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King felt it was still not enough.
"Fire Dragon King, we've already come this far." A gleam flashed through the Ice Dragon King's eyes.
The Ice Dragon King's enormous divine remains gradually withered, and his ice-blue dragon scales dimmed at that moment.
"I know what you mean." The Fire Dragon King's divine consciousness surged, following the Ice Dragon King's lead.
Everything remaining on the Fire Dragon King's divine remains was also gathered together by him.
The two Dragon Kings exchanged a glance and nodded in confirmation. "Mm."
The souls of the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King merged into Zi JI's body, carrying everything they had left.
The divine power of ice and fire gradually formed a Giant Red-and-Blue Egg, enveloping Zi JI's entire draconic body.
Her transformation was underway.
Time passed, from sunrise to sunset.
Bi Ji, Xiong Jun, and Dugu Bo all turned toward Jin Jiuxiao in unison.
Although Jin Jiuxiao's level had not changed, his aura was growing stronger bit by bit!
"What's going on? This Immortal Herb can improve not just spiritual power, but physical strength too?"
Dugu Bo could only feel that he truly had no eye for treasures...
All these years, he had guarded a treasure trove without knowing its uses.
Sigh... he could only say that with loss came gain.
Bi Ji dismissed Dugu Bo's question without a second thought. "Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew can only improve spiritual power."
The reason Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew would not affect someone's ability to absorb other Immortal Herbs shortly after taking it was precisely because it only improved their spiritual power.
Its medicinal power would not clash with that of any other Immortal Herb.
As though something had occurred to him, Xiong Jun turned his gaze toward the spring of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. "Bi Ji, where's Zi JI?!"
Such a huge Hell Demon Dragon King, and she had vanished?
Bi Ji froze, looking toward the empty spring.
After a moment's thought, she had a guess. "It seems there's something else beneath this spring."
"Xiong Jun, Jiuxiao has contracts with all of us."
"His second martial soul manifests our cultivation as corresponding Soul Rings."
"These manifested Soul Rings also grant Jiuxiao attribute boosts."
With that hint from Bi Ji, Xiong Jun caught on as well. "You mean... besides the Immortal Herb she swallowed, Zi JI had another breakthrough after diving to the bottom of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well?"
"Yes. Judging by how much Jiuxiao's aura is growing, Zi JI's cultivation should be rising steadily."
Dugu Bo raised a hand slightly, interjecting in their conversation. "You two, who exactly is Zi JI...?"
"One of the Ferocious Beasts, the Hell Demon Dragon King."
"Zi JI had already entered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well before you arrived."
Hearing Bi Ji's introduction, Dugu Bo understood. "So that's it."
His eyes drifted toward the spring from time to time. "You can actually go down into this spring..."
Even he could only last a short while in its waters.
Yet that Hell Demon Dragon King named Zi JI had been down there all this time...
Dugu Bo suddenly shuddered.
Just how many hundreds of thousands of years of cultivation did that take...?
Hadn't she been soaking in there for over a day already?
His gaze could not help falling on Jin Jiuxiao. So these people are each more monstrous than the last...
A Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear with several hundred thousand years of cultivation, a five-hundred-and-fifty-thousand-year Emerald Swan, and a Hell Demon Dragon King whose age was anyone's guess.
The most heaven-defying one was still this Little Monster...
Level forty-six, twin martial souls, eight Soul Rings in total, and five of them were extraordinarily old Soul Rings of a hundred thousand years or more...
Just then, Jin Jiuxiao finished cultivating.
He let out a long breath. "Worthy of being an immortal-grade herb."
"This improvement..."
Seeing Jin Jiuxiao finish cultivating, Bi Ji asked, "Jiuxiao, how do you feel?"
Jin Jiuxiao answered with a smile. "I broke through two realms in a row. I already have one foot in the Soul Douluo level."
His spiritual power had always been stronger than that of ordinary people.
While he was a Soul Ancestor, his spiritual power had already been just short of breaking through to Soul Emperor.
With the enhancement and improvement from Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, it had leaped two realms and now stood at the peak Soul Saint level.
Just half a step more, and his spiritual power would break through to the Soul Douluo level.
With the Visualization Method Di Tian had given him as well, he could spend the next few years thoroughly honing his spiritual power.
He could now be said to be trading the speed of his level advancement for greater combat strength and a firmer foundation.
But how old was he now?
This human body was only equivalent to that of an eight-year-old human.
Again, levels were levels, and combat strength was combat strength.
Take Zi JI, a two-hundred-thousand-year Hell Demon Dragon King. Could her strength be treated as that of an ordinary two-hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast?
Of course not.
By the same logic, could someone really treat him as an ordinary Soul Ancestor just because he was a level forty-six Soul Ancestor?
What a joke.
His strongest strike, Thunder God's Dawn Flash, had even directly forced Dugu Bo to use his Medusa Skull skill and ninth soul skill.
That was ample proof that his path was not wrong.
"Next, I'm going to properly hone my spiritual power. The higher it is, the better."
"At level fifty, I must form my first Soul Core." Jin Jiuxiao had already made his decision.
The earlier a Soul Core was formed, the greater the benefits.
Focusing solely on raising one's level while neglecting the stability of one's foundation was what a fucking idiot did.
Your cultivation speed would not be slower than anyone else's; on the contrary, it would far surpass theirs.
You could clearly lay a firmer, stronger foundation to make yourself more powerful in the future and smooth the road ahead, yet you mindlessly focused only on raising your level?
What was that if not stupidity? With an unstable foundation, your upper limit would be locked in.
Looking across Douluo's entire cultivation system, you would discover one thing.
Get ahead by one step, and you would be ahead at every step.
Being ahead did not simply mean leading in levels, but in many different aspects.
No sooner had he finished speaking than Jin Jiuxiao noticed something wrong. "Why am I still getting stronger?"
Hadn't he finished absorbing Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew?
The original story had never said Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew could improve physical strength and various base attributes, had it?
"It might be the improvement brought by Zi JI's breakthrough," Bi Ji voiced her guess.
Jin Jiuxiao immediately summoned his second martial soul, the Poké Ball.
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The first Soul Ring manifested by his second martial soul represented Zi JI.
It had originally had only two golden markings, with an age of two hundred thousand years.
But now...
One, two, three, four, five...