"Golden Dragon King, shut your mouth!"
Inside a Detached Villa in Aolai City, in the Douluo Federation.
The boy shouted angrily at the empty air before him.
"Boy, this king has spent six years inside your body. That is your honor. Why haven't you released me yet?"
"An honor? You possessed my Martial Soul, and now you're spouting this bullshit!"
"The fact that this king did not possess you was already doing you an enormous favor."
"So I should thank you, then?"
"No need to be so polite."
"Give you an inch and you take a mile! How thick-skinned can you be? Do you really think I don't know why you didn't possess me?"
The next moment, a terrifying radiance burst from Lin Ming's hand.
A six-story pagoda suffused with the auras of life and death, with the power of the Six Paths of Reincarnation constantly circulating through it-the Reincarnation Tower-quietly appeared in Lin Ming's hand.
But only for an instant!
Then the chains binding the pagoda tightened, dragging it back into the depths of Lin Ming's soul, where it disappeared.
"My Martial Soul is keeping you suppressed. You think you're worthy of possessing me?"
"Damn it! This king is the mighty Golden Dragon King, half of the Dragon God, the strongest being on this continent!
"Just a few days ago-no, six years ago by your Douluo Continent's reckoning-I smashed the entire Divine Realm apart! Do you know what happens when you offend me?"
"All I know is that I'm very pissed off right now, and the consequences are serious."
As he spoke, Lin Ming immediately summoned the Golden Dragon King.
He was going to teach him a lesson!
With a thought, a little golden dragon soon appeared before him, hovering in the air.
The little dragon was covered in golden scales, with a tiny pair of dragon wings. His Dragon Horns were still just two little bean-sized bumps that had yet to break through. He was nothing but a baby dragon.
Yet the baby dragon currently radiated a terrifying viciousness, and his face was exceedingly fierce, though his voice was that of a baby.
"This king is finally out! After being trapped for endless ages, to actually regain freedom this way-how ironic."
"Keh heh heh! Boy, I'll give you a chance to become this king's servant. This king guarantees you will become a god someday."
Lin Ming immediately rolled his eyes at that.
"Restrain him!"
With a thought, he sent out a command to restrain him.
The next moment, the Golden Dragon King could not move at all. The wings on his back froze in midair, and then he flopped straight down, landing on his backside.
"Ow! That hurt like hell! This feeble body. Damn it! If you couldn't preserve this king's soul, this king would never have attached himself to you, much less chosen a lowly Fire Lizard as a vessel!
"If that drop of this king's Natal Essence Blood hadn't caused it to revert to its ancestry and become a golden dragon, inhabiting a lizard would have been worse than killing this king!"
"So now you're getting picky?"
"Your Martial Soul was originally nothing but a Fire Lizard, the lowest-grade Martial Soul.
"This king evolved it into a Golden Dragon Martial Soul. That is a genuine true dragon!
"And with this king's God King-level soul, incomplete though it is, you gained a blessing from disaster.
"Yet you actually dare restrain me! You truly are an ungrateful white-eyed wolf!
"And what gives you the right to restrain me, anyway?"
"The fact that you're a Martial Soul and I'm a Soul Master. The Martial Soul you're possessing is one I awakened.
"Tell me, what are you planning to do now? Should I sell off all my property and exhaust my wealth to exchange for energy, draw your soul back into the Reincarnation Tower, and imprison you for eternity? Or will you obediently follow my orders and stop thinking about being a turncoat?"
"A Dragon King will never be a slave!"
"What if I include food and lodging?"
"Then it's not out of the question... Pah! Bullshit! What standing do you have? You think you're worthy of being my master?
"This king is a Dragon King, the Golden Dragon King, half of the Dragon God! Seventy percent of the Dragon God's lifetime power resides in me!"
"And? What bloody good does that do?"
"You... damn brat! I won't stoop to your level. Hurry up and release me!"
"I see you still can't tell the big king from the little king. Forget it. It'll just cost a little more money. Into the Reincarnation Tower you go."
"No, no, no! Bro, big bro, I was wrong, I was wrong! Don't! I finally escaped the Divine Realm. Don't lock me up somewhere else again!
"At least I was alive before. If my soul gets locked inside now, that would be a fate worse than death!"
Naturally, the Golden Dragon King also knew how terrifying Lin Ming's tower was. Its power did not belong to this world at all, and it could genuinely imprison him.
Because he had become Lin Ming's Martial Soul, he could perceive the power of Lin Ming's other Martial Soul. That was why he had been so eager to seize the upper hand. He had not expected Lin Ming to be no soft persimmon, and his plan had failed.
Damn it, would I have to bow beneath someone else from now on? How could I, the mighty Golden Dragon King, suffer such humiliation?
"I can submit to you, but you must help me recover my peak strength from when I was alive, and even help me become the Dragon God. Then, while you're at it, help me revive the Soul Beast Clan. Your Reincarnation Tower has truly heaven-defying abilities. It can absolutely do that."
"Interesting. How so?"
Lin Ming thought the Golden Dragon King looked as though he had some ideas.
"Of course! I spent a full six years researching inside your Martial Soul Space. I already have a complete plan, one guaranteed to use your heaven-defying abilities to help this king return to his peak while also restoring the glory of the Soul Beast Clan.
"That useless Silver Dragon King fled to the most comfortable place, the Douluo Continent, and actually managed to run the Soul Beast Clan into the ground. They're completely gone! It infuriates this king!
"Hmph! I originally intended to rely on the Douluo Continent's vast numbers of Soul Beasts, using their faith and flesh to restore my strength, bloodline, and divine power. But after arriving in Douluo, I found it stripped bare, with nothing left.
"This king battled wits and courage with those gods in the Divine Realm for so many years and brought down the entire Divine Realm. And her? She brought down the entire Soul Beast Clan!"
The Golden Dragon King could be said to be quite furious at that moment.
Lin Ming even felt some sympathy for him. It seemed things really were as he said.
The Silver Dragon King really was outrageously absurd. Especially after her resurrection, she had not thought about how to take revenge on humanity or how to revive the Soul Beast Clan. The first thing she said was:
"If we want to defeat humans, we must become humans. I'll go enjoy being human first."
Never mind the Golden Dragon King losing his composure. Anyone would have lost it.
But this golden dragon was no good sort either. As expected of a conglomeration of negative emotions, in his eyes, those Soul Beasts were merely materials to supply him with energy and flesh.
Of the Golden Dragon King and the Silver Dragon King, one was a capable, cruel tyrant, the sort who treated his subjects as food;
The Silver Dragon King, on the other hand, was a merciful but incompetent ruler, and even her mercy seemed misplaced. She was utterly useless.
It seemed the Soul Beast Clan really would fare considerably better following the Golden Dragon King than the Silver Dragon King. At least he was currently thinking about how to restore the Soul Beast Clan's glory and revive the Soul Beast Clan, which was on the verge of complete extinction.
"My Reincarnation Tower shouldn't be capable of something like that, should it?"
Unlike the Golden Dragon King, Lin Ming had only just awakened. Although his Martial Soul had already conveyed all its information to him, he had only just gained control of it and understood the Reincarnation Tower only halfway.
But the Golden Dragon King, by virtue of being the one under its control, had enjoyed the first glimpse of the moon from his waterside pavilion and gained six years of understanding of the Reincarnation Tower. Had Lin Ming not possessed absolute authority over the Reincarnation Tower, the consequences would truly have been unimaginable.
Sure enough, he could not underestimate anyone on the Douluo Continent-not even a dragon.
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