Boom!!!
Inside the room, waves of Soul Power spilled from Yu Xiaogang's body.
Had Flender not protected the room with his Soul Power in time, that surge would surely have shattered it!
"Ah!"
Suddenly, a scream burst from Yu Xiaogang's mouth without warning.
"Xiaogang!"
"Teacher!"
Hearing Yu Xiaogang scream, Flender and Tang San immediately grew anxious and rushed over to him.
At that moment, Yu Xiaogang's face was hideously contorted by excruciating pain.
"No, breaking through to Soul Elder definitely couldn't cause this much pain!"
Yu Xiaogang gritted his teeth. It was only a breakthrough to Soul Elder; there was no way it could cause him such agony.
His Martial Soul was a mutation of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon. Could the Ginseng King's medicinal effects make his Martial Soul evolve back into the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul?
Yes, that had to be it!
Because, according to his theoretical research.
The body felt pain while absorbing a Soul Ring because, apart from the impact of the energy within the Soul Ring.
Some of that pain also came from the changes the Martial Soul underwent under the Soul Ring's enhancement.
And now, he was not absorbing a Soul Ring, so that could only mean his Martial Soul was changing-changing into the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul!
Hahaha! Come, my Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon!
Shatter, you level-thirty bottleneck that has trapped me for half my life!!
Yu Xiaogang shouted and roared madly in his heart, almost able to hear the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul's soaring roar beside his ears.
But just then, Yu Xiaogang's Martial Soul, Luo Sanpao, suddenly appeared.
Luo Sanpao's face was filled with pain, its plump body curled into a ball.
As his Martial Soul, it naturally knew what its master had eaten.
That was no medicine for increasing Soul Power and unleashing potential.
It was poison that burned away lifespan and risked Martial Soul degeneration in exchange for a few levels of Soul Power and a short-term increase in Soul Power absorption speed!
Once its effects wore off, the poison's backlash would be enough to take its master's life.
After all, its master was already over fifty. If he sacrificed more of his lifespan, he truly would not have many years left!
Luo Sanpao frantically sent out thoughts telling him to stop, that he could not keep absorbing it.
Yet Yu Xiaogang merely gave it a look of deep loathing.
Hmph, it's all because of you, you worthless thing, that I, the Grandmaster, have been mocked for so long.
Now that my true Martial Soul is about to appear, you still want to stop me.
You truly have courted death!
Yu Xiaogang ignored Luo Sanpao, enduring the pain as he accelerated his absorption of the Ginseng King once more.
This time, he, Yu Xiaogang, would succeed. Not only would he break through to Soul Elder, but he would also evolve his Martial Soul into the one he should have possessed: the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon.
Luo Sanpao's eyelids slowly closed. In the final second before they shut completely, it cast its master a despairing glance.
If its master had not treated it as a pig and fed it carrots every day, even absorbing Soul Rings from pig-type Soul Beasts rather than dragon-type ones.
Otherwise, how could it have ended up in this strange form, neither dog nor pig?
After Luo Sanpao's eyes closed completely, it turned into a streak of purple light and returned to Yu Xiaogang's body.
And at that very moment, the connection between Flender's Martial Soul and Yu Xiaogang's Martial Soul was completely severed.
With that, the Golden Sacred Dragon vanished from existence entirely.
In an instant, the pain receded like the tide, and a swollen, faintly painful sensation appeared in his abdomen.
"This feeling-it's coming, it's coming! This must be the sign that I'm breaking through to Soul Elder and my Martial Soul is evolving into the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon!"
Feeling the swelling in his lower abdomen, Yu Xiaogang grinned from ear to ear.
From this day onward, he, Yu Xiaogang, would no longer be the Yu Xiaogang with a Trash Martial Soul!
Here it comes!
Yu Xiaogang's eyes widened, and he suddenly strained.
Boom!!!
In an instant, an unidentified liquid, foul, pungent, and nauseatingly repulsive, gushed from Yu Xiaogang's lower body.
At that moment, Yu Xiaogang actually felt an unprecedented sense of comfort.
But in the next second, his expression abruptly stiffened.
"My... my Soul Power!"
Feeling his Soul Power steadily fade, Yu Xiaogang fell into utter panic.
"No, no, no! Please, stop disappearing! Stop disappearing!"
Yu Xiaogang reached out with both hands, grabbing wildly at the air.
It was as though he wanted to catch the Soul Power constantly draining from his body.
"Wait, does my Soul Power draining away mean my Martial Soul has evolved successfully, and I need to cultivate again from scratch?"
Yu Xiaogang's little flat-topped head suddenly kicked into gear, letting him understand why his Soul Power was fading.
"That must be it, that must be it. Then, next..."
Yu Xiaogang slowly stood, utterly disregarding the filth-covered clothes he still wore.
"Come forth, my Martial Soul, Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon!"
Boom!
A thunderbolt crashed down from the sky, and the next second, torrential rain began pouring outside.
Inside the room, Yu Xiaogang gazed at the little spotted pig before him, with its pig's snout, pig's ears, and black and blue spots, and sank into utter despair.
"How could this happen? Wasn't my Soul Power fading because my Martial Soul's evolution meant I needed to cultivate again from scratch?"
"And that just now-wasn't that expelling the impurities from my body?"
Yu Xiaogang wept in despair. He could not understand it. The signs of Martial Soul Evolution had clearly already appeared in his body.
So why, in the end, had his Martial Soul not evolved, but regressed instead?
Even his Soul Power had dissipated from level twenty-nine to level eleven.
In fact, what Yu Xiaogang had done just now had indeed expelled impurities.
It was just that those impurities were not from his body, but from the Ginseng King.
At the last moment, Luo Sanpao had used that trace of Golden Sacred Dragon bloodline within its body.
It had helped its master expel the Ginseng King's energy from his body, and, well, the price was.
It had gone from a Golden Sacred Dragon cub to a genuine pig.
As for Yu Xiaogang's Soul Power, that was because.
As a Golden Sacred Dragon cub, Luo Sanpao possessed an extremely powerful innate essence.
Combined with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's resources, that had pushed Yu Xiaogang to level twenty-nine.
But as the Golden Sacred Dragon bloodline within its body vanished, Yu Xiaogang, who had reached level twenty-nine by relying on its essence, naturally had to repay that Soul Power.
Rather than saying Yu Xiaogang had earned level twenty-nine through hard work.
It would be more accurate to say it had come from Luo Sanpao's Golden Sacred Dragon essence.
And level eleven was Yu Xiaogang's true talent.
It was the level Yu Xiaogang could reach after cultivating into his fifties.
"No! No!"
"Why!?"
"You damned heavens, why are you doing this to me!?"
With a spurt, overcome by rage and immense grief, Yu Xiaogang abruptly spat out a large mouthful of blood.
"Xiaogang!"
Seeing his old friend spit out a large mouthful of blood, Flender disregarded the filth on him and immediately rushed forward, gathering Yu Xiaogang into his arms.
"Xiaogang, hold on! You have to hold on!"
Flender desperately poured Soul Power into Yu Xiaogang's body.
But that only kept Yu Xiaogang conscious for another second or two.
In the end, Yu Xiaogang's eyes still rolled back, and he lost consciousness completely.
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