The Reincarnation Tower and the Golden Dragon King's Ambition: Bro, I Really Want to Improve

"Kid, you have absolutely no idea how terrifying your martial soul really is. Your second martial soul doesn't belong to this world at all.

"Even I find it frightening."

Lin Ming inwardly rolled his eyes at that. As if I needed you to tell me! I know perfectly well what my martial soul is like.

The Reincarnation Tower was his greatest cheat, his strongest source of confidence in this world.

A truck driver had mistaken him for someone else and accidentally run him over, killing him. To make up for his mistake, the truck driver had compensated him with a random prize draw.

And he had drawn this Reincarnation Tower, which contained the Six Paths of Reincarnation, one path on each floor.

Its fundamental core ability was to help people reincarnate, and it could also control reincarnation. It defied the heavens.

Precisely because his martial soul was so heaven-defying, it had remained sealed.

The dozen or so chains on the tower bound this heaven-defying martial soul of his, leaving him unable even to summon it as his martial soul.

That was why his martial soul awakening had only awakened his Fire Lizard Martial Soul.

Otherwise, he could have used the advantage of twin martial souls to find himself a good faction.

The Legend of the Dragon King was the era in which there was the least need to hide one's talents. In this era, monstrous prodigies were as common as dogs, geniuses roamed everywhere, and twin martial souls were already a dime a dozen. Hardly anyone would try to harm someone for having twin martial souls.

What a shame!

This body's original martial soul had been a fire lizard, with rank-three innate soul power, which was already pretty good.

Then the Golden Dragon King had arrived and modified it, evolving it into the Golden Dragon Martial Soul. Fortunately, becoming a martial soul that manifested outside his body hadn't reduced his soul power to rank 0.5. Instead, his innate soul power had increased by two ranks. His innate soul power was now rank five, which counted as middling aptitude.

Lin Ming knew his martial soul was terrifying, but he didn't know how this connected to the revival of soul beasts.

Just then, the Golden Dragon King spoke again:

"Your martial soul possesses abilities that even gods have never possessed: extracting souls and bestowing souls.

"It can forcibly strip away and extract the soul of any existence, sealing it inside the Reincarnation Tower without any loss whatsoever.

"Then it can freely bestow these soul spirits stored in the Reincarnation Tower upon any vessel, whether human, soul beast, or animal."

"Hold on, you're exaggerating way too much.

"Leaving aside the enormous amount of energy it takes, at my current stage, I can only control souls that willingly let me extract and bestow them. It's all about equivalent exchange."

"That's only how things are now. There's always hope for the future."

The Golden Dragon King chuckled:

"So, as long as you have the Reincarnation Tower, you're the god of this world. When someone dies, you preserve his soul and bestow it upon another body, and he can come back to life.

"Kid, have you ever considered ruling the entire world?"

"I don't have ambitions that big for now, but once I have the strength, that's only natural.

"But you still haven't told me what this ability of mine has to do with you saving the annihilated Soul Beast Clan.

"I can guess that you want me to use soul spirits, extracting the soul beasts' souls from them and helping them reincarnate and return to life.

"But even if they come back to life, won't they still just be animals? A soul can't create a bloodline out of thin air, so what the hell is the use?"

"No, it is useful.

"It wouldn't have been useful, but with me here, it is. I'm the heart of this plan."

"Tell me more!"

Lin Ming was very interested in this!

"I am the Golden Dragon King, the other half of the Dragon God.

"The Dragon God was the origin of all soul beasts. All soul beasts were born under the Dragon God's influence after his death, and the most crucial elements were his divine power and his blood.

"And yours truly happens to have both.

"My blood is the origin blood from which all soul beasts originated.

"All soul beasts contain a portion of my genes, which also allows me to perform genetic modification on them.

"As long as I'm here, none of this will be a problem.

"First, use your Reincarnation Tower to find the most suitable vessel for a soul beast's soul and successfully reincarnate it.

"During its recovery, it will regain some of its bloodline, more or less.

"Then I'll use my origin power to completely reconstruct its bloodline according to the lineage of that soul beast's soul, restoring its genes. There will still be tiny discrepancies, but I can essentially achieve a perfect resurrection.

"After all, for soul beasts, the soul is what matters most."

"I understand, but what do I get out of this? Why should I help you? Give me a reason that'll convince me."

Lin Ming looked utterly impervious to persuasion.

Hearing this, the Golden Dragon King instantly blew up:

"Damn it! This is the first time I've ever asked anyone for help, and you dare refuse?"

"Just because you ask, I have to help? You think way too highly of yourself.

"I don't do things without benefits. Besides, with my current abilities, using the Reincarnation Tower takes an enormous amount of energy. I don't have that kind of money to burn."

"I'll find a way to make money, so please."

"You actually know how to back down?"

"Bro, I really want to improve, but right now, everything depends on you. I'm genuinely out of options.

"If you won't do it, I can't do it alone. Besides, it's not as if you won't benefit. I'm your martial soul now. If I get stronger, don't you benefit too?

"And as long as my origin bloodline grows stronger, you'll receive feedback, such as an increase in your cultivation speed."

Hearing that, Lin Ming immediately sat cross-legged to sense his soul power.

He discovered that his soul power cultivation speed through meditation was simply at the normal level for rank-five innate soul power.

"Who the hell are you trying to fool?" Being duped by a baby dragon really made him lose his composure.

Seeing this, the Golden Dragon King immediately explained:

"Right now, I only have 3% of my origin bloodline left. I've already used up that drop of origin essence blood. After stabilizing my soul and improving this martial soul, I only have 3% of my origin bloodline remaining in my body.

"What could you possibly feel from a 3% increase?

"Once it reaches 30% or 100%, I guarantee you'll feel it.

"Besides, soul beasts are treasures from head to toe. Whether it's obtaining soul rings or hunting soul beasts for soul bones and soul beast materials, you can make a fortune.

"Think about it. Any being resurrected through your Reincarnation Tower will bear its brand for life and will never be able to betray you.

"That means these soul beasts will all be your private assets. You can use them however you like. You could kill one every day without repeating a single one.

"Or I could drain their essence blood and leave their corpses for you to use, turning their souls and energy into soul spirits again. Their flesh could even be eaten. Wouldn't that be insanely satisfying?"

"Golden Dragon King, you really do live up to being an amalgamation of negative energy. How is this preparing to revive the soul beasts? You're treating the entire Soul Beast Clan as your own consumables.

"Your purpose in reviving the soul beasts is to devour their essence blood and remedy the deficiencies in your own bloodline."

"I was their king to begin with. Besides, they're already dead. What's wrong with using their souls to satisfy my own needs?

"And I'm actually getting things done. It's not as if I'll eat them all. Eating half is enough.

"I'll eat half and protect half, keeping the supply flowing endlessly.

"Unlike that useless Silver Dragon King! Never mind not using them herself, she lets others squander them. It absolutely infuriates me."

"You really have a deep grudge against the Silver Dragon King."

"Of course. If I could beat her, I'd devour her right now.

"Anyway, you'll be responsible for reviving the soul beasts' souls, and I'll be responsible for reviving their genes.

"Once these resurrected soul beasts gradually grow stronger, completing their genes and bloodlines step by step, the two of us will slaughter them for meat.

"I only want the essence blood. Everything else is yours."