After resting for nearly an hour, thanks to the help of the Milk Bottle and the elixir, Xu Zhengyang's body recovered to about 70%.
However, Xu Zhengyang couldn't care less about that now. He sat cross-legged next to the Scarlet Gold Earth-Splitting Tiger, holding the Tiger-Head Zhan Gold Spear Golden Spear in his hand. Three Soul Ring, one yellow and two purple, appeared on the Tiger-Head Zhan Gold Spear.
Immediately afterwards, Xu Zhengyang used his mental power to guide the black Soul Ring and slowly slip it onto the Tiger-Head Zhan Gold Spear.
In an instant, a surge of energy, like a tsunami, rushed into Xu Zhengyang's body, making his entire body seem on the verge of collapse.
In particular, at the same instant, a huge golden tiger stormed into Xu Zhengyang's mind, roaring repeatedly, as if it wanted to devour everything in his Sea of Spirit.
At this moment, Xu Zhengyang looked to be in very bad condition. His skin was cracked all over his body, and blood was seeping out from the cracks, making him look like a blood-soaked person.
His face, in particular, appeared extremely contorted and contorted in pain.
This was Xu Zhengyang's first time absorbing Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring. Even though he was mentally prepared, he was still overwhelmed by the overwhelming energy, unable to breathe. His blood was rapidly draining away, and a terrifying energy penetrated deep into his skin and bone marrow, causing excruciating pain throughout his body, making him feel as if he were about to collapse at any moment.
At this critical moment, Xu Zhengyang suddenly roared, his whole being appearing incredibly arrogant, as fierce and domineering as a tiger.
"I will never surrender, even if I die in battle! I will never back down!"
The voice seemed to emanate from the depths of Xu Zhengyang's heart, as if representing the most primal instincts of Xu Zhengyang body. At this moment, Xu Zhengyang's blood began to boil, and a terrifying masculine energy burst forth from his body. This energy represented indomitable spirit, fiery passion, and absolute strength.
Even now, his meridians, dantian, and even his soul felt as if they were being scorched and ravaged by a terrifying force.
But Xu Zhengyang exuded a fiery red aura, and even after being knocked down countless times, he could rise again and again. This was true indomitable spirit and tenacity, true arrogance, like the tiger, the king of beasts.
At the same time, the Devil Tiger's Eye between Xu Zhengyang's eyebrows suddenly opened, and his entire body was enveloped by a special spiritual power. Especially in his Sea of Spirit, the Tiger-Head Zhan Gold Spear and the Purple Brilliant Heaven-Destroying Dragon fought against the golden giant tiger with all their might. Even though they were being defeated step by step, they still resisted desperately.
At this critical moment, a giant eye suddenly appeared in his Sea of Spirit. This was the Devil Tiger's Eye. The Devil Tiger's Eye not only greatly enhanced Xu Zhengyang's mental power, but also emitted a terrifying ray that shot straight at the golden phantom tiger.
And so, time and again, Xu Zhengyang stood up at the brink of collapse, fighting back desperately, even when his blood ran dry, even when his bone marrow seemed to evaporate, even when his bones were shattered time and time again, he stubbornly stood up each time.
This is Xu Zhengyang's special physique, a unique characteristic bestowed upon him by the Tiger-Head Zhan Gold Spear, giving him the most masculine body in the world, Pure Yang Physique like a tiger.
Three full days passed, and Xu Zhengyang's body, which had been covered in blood, gradually calmed down and recovered, with even his chapped skin healing rapidly.
When Xu Zhengyang opened his eyes again, he felt as if he had been through another world. He felt that he had become even stronger after being tempered by this extreme pain.
Finally, he succeeded. Xu Zhengyang successfully absorbed the 21,000-year-old Soul Ring, the Tiger-Head Zhan Gold Spear. In fact, Xu Zhengyang felt that the tiger head on the Tiger-Head Zhan Gold Spear was even more lifelike, as if it had given him even greater power.
"I finally succeeded! I've finally become stronger again!"
Xu Zhengyang clearly felt that after absorbing Soul Ring of a higher level, his body was much stronger. Especially under the shock of this terrifying Soul Power, his meridians seemed to have become much smoother, and even his whole body seemed to have grown a few centimeters taller, now standing at 1.87 meters.
After absorbing the Fourth Soul Ring, Xu Zhengyang's Soul Power reached an astonishing peak of level 42, very close to level 43.
At the same time, this absorption of the Soul Ring beyond the limit also granted Xu Zhengyang a very good Soul Skill:
Scarlet Gold Mad God Slash.
When using this Soul Skill, the Tiger-Head Zhan Gold Spear is swung, and the spearhead suddenly lights up, capable of slashing out a crescent-shaped crimson-gold light blade. The movement of the crescent-shaped light blade is controlled by the user's mental power, and its direction of movement can be changed. It is as fast as lightning and has a special corrosive effect on enemies. Metal that comes into contact with it turns into iron filings within three seconds. The enemy's energy defense is reduced by 80%, and physical defense is reduced by 50%.
This is a top-tier attack skill, and it allows the user to control the number of crescent-shaped light blades emitted each time as their Soul Power increases. The higher the Soul Power, the more blades are emitted. Moreover, each crescent-shaped light blade is controlled by mental power. According to Xu Zhengyang's estimate, this Soul Skill can emit up to nine crescent-shaped light blades at once in the future.
The more Xu Zhengyang analyzed it, the more he felt how powerful this skill was. Even when he became Titled Douluo in the future, this Soul Skill Soul Skill would still be very useful, and it had great potential for development.
Furthermore, this Soul Skill can not only restrain any Soul Master, but also restrain Soul Engineer even more. Almost all Soul Tool in the world are made of metal, especially some defensive Soul Tool. They can either be cut in half directly or turn into iron filings within three seconds. In particular, it can reduce the enemy's energy defense by 80%, so wouldn't it be able to restrain all defensive Soul Skill?
Not to mention that the crescent-shaped light blade can be controlled by mental power, which means that the attack can be curved and can also catch the enemy off guard at certain times.
After confirming the gains from the Fourth Soul Ring, Xu Zhengyang began dissecting the corpse of the Scarlet Gold Earth-Splitting Tiger. Unfortunately, no Soul Bone was found. However, the corpse of the Scarlet Gold Earth-Splitting Tiger was a highly nourishing substance, comparable to a thousand-year-old spiritual medicine.
After everything was dealt with, Xu Zhengyang began to pay close attention to the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold, as this large quantity of Dragon-Patterned Black Gold was the biggest gain of the trip.
Xu Zhengyang forcefully slashed at the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold with his Darkgolden Terrorclaw. The black Dragon-Patterned Black Gold emitted a crisp sound Darkgolden Terrorclaw cut several centimeters into the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold before being unable to advance any further.
"Such hard Dragon-Patterned Black Gold! Its quality and hardness are truly comparable to Extraterrestrial Meteoric Copper, and its unique dragon attributes make it a rare treasure."
Xu Zhengyang didn't think too much about it anymore, and started mining with the Darkgolden Terrorclaw. Given the hardness of Dragon-Patterned Black Gold, it would probably take several months to mine it all with any other mining tools besides the Darkgolden Terrorclaw.
Xu Zhengyang controlled the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold block to the size of a basketball and began to dig deeper, but the deeper he dug, the more alarmed he became.
Even a piece of Dragon-Patterned Black Gold the size of a basketball weighs hundreds of kilograms, many times heavier than gold. So far, Xu Zhengyang has dug up nearly a hundred pieces of Dragon-Patterned Black Gold, weighing more than ten tons.
Just then, Xu Zhengyang felt as if the Darkgolden Terrorclaw had struck an extremely hard object, which it was unable to destroy. This object was surrounded by iron ore, making its shape completely invisible.
After only a moment's hesitation, Xu Zhengyang tried to dig away the iron ore around the object. Unexpectedly, the hard object was extremely large, and its color was dark yellow. It also emitted a special energy and looked somewhat like a bone.
Xu Zhengyang became increasingly alarmed as he dug, and it took a full day before the object gradually began to emerge.
What appeared to Xu Zhengyang at that moment was a giant claw, over three meters long and over one meter high, seemingly from some kind of giant Soul Beast, which had not decomposed even after countless years.
"No wonder so much Dragon-Patterned Black Gold is produced here. If I'm not mistaken, an extremely powerful dragon-type Soul Beast must have perished here, and it's the aura of that dragon-type Soul Beast that gave birth to so much Dragon-Patterned Black Gold."
Xu Zhengyang didn't hesitate any longer and continued digging around the area, putting all the excavated soil and iron ore into the Soul Tool.
After nearly ten days of digging, the enormous skeleton finally began to be fully revealed to Xu Zhengyang. Even with his strong will, Xu Zhengyang couldn't help but tremble with fear.
What came into view was a gigantic skeleton, nearly a hundred meters long and over twenty meters high. Even though it had long since perished and all its flesh and blood had been gone, its empty giant eyes still exuded an extremely terrifying aura.
"What a powerful dragon! Although I don't know what kind of dragon it is, I'm certain it's a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast —no, it's definitely a Fierce Beast -level dragon Soul Beast."
At that moment, a faint restlessness appeared within Xu Zhengyang's body. His Second Martial Soul, which he had never used before, seemed to want to break free of his body.
At the heart of all this is the head of the giant dragon, where there is a bead about ten centimeters in diameter, fiery red in color, inlaid in the very center of the giant dragon's skull.
At this moment, Xu Zhengyang seemed to have thought of something, and a sudden surge of joy welled up in his heart.
"Could this be Dragon Pearl, or perhaps Dragon Pill? No wonder there are no Soul Bone on this giant dragon. Legend has it that the Dragon Pill is formed from the essence of a dragon's entire life, a true treasure. It can not only greatly enhance Soul Power and strengthen physique, but it can even lay the foundation for condensing Second Soul Core."
Thinking of this, Xu Zhengyang immediately summoned his Second Martial Soul. A strange Martial Soul, about eight meters long and resembling a dragon or a snake, appeared instantly. It was the Purple Brilliant Heaven-Destroying Dragon, which was not fully awakened.
At this moment, Xu Zhengyang clearly felt that this Dragon Pill had an extremely fatal attraction for the Purple Brilliant Heaven-Destroying Dragon, but it also had extremely terrifying destructive power, and even a terrifying ferocious aura.
At this moment, the Purple Brilliant Heaven-Destroying Dragon looked at the Dragon Pill with not only longing in its eyes, but also a fear from its very core, as if the Dragon Pill core was countless times more powerful than the unformed Purple Brilliant Heaven-Destroying Dragon.
"If I could absorb the Dragon Pill, or if the Purple Brilliant Heaven-Destroying Dragon could absorb the Dragon Pill, would it be possible for the Purple Brilliant Heaven-Destroying Dragon to fully awaken?"
However, in just a moment, Xu Zhengyang dismissed this idea. The energy contained in this Dragon Pill was too immense, far exceeding the limits of his body. In particular, the fierce aura of the dragon pill seemed to instantly vanish even when Xu Zhengyang approached it with his spiritual power. Even his spiritual power was affected by the fierce aura of the Dragon Pill.
Thinking of this, Xu Zhengyang controlled the Purple Brilliant Heaven-Destroying Dragon to slowly approach the dragon's head and the Dragon Pill. Just then, the Dragon Pill emitted a strange aura. At the same time, the huge dragon bones seemed to be stimulated. The originally empty eyes now emitted two piercing lights, staring intently at the unformed Purple Brilliant Heaven-Destroying Dragon.
Immediately afterwards, the Purple Brilliant Heaven-Destroying Dragon and the Dragon Pill seemed to resonate with each other, as if they sensed each other's most primal dragon attributes, and were actually attracted to each other.
The Dragon Pill, which was originally embedded in the center of the giant dragon's skull, seemed to be touched and began to slowly fly up, slowly approaching the Purple Brilliant Heaven-Destroying Dragon.
The moment the two sides made contact, a terrifying dragon force surged into the body of the Purple Brilliant Heaven-Destroying Dragon. The Purple Brilliant Heaven-Destroying Dragon seemed to be severely injured instantly. Even Xu Zhengyang felt that his body was subjected to a terrifying force that rushed straight to his soul, as if it was about to collapse at any moment.
Xu Zhengyang was well aware that the dragon power contained within this Dragon Pill was far too strong, exceeding his own limits. He had no choice but to grit his teeth and forcefully retract his Second Martial Soul, the Purple Brilliant Heaven-Destroying Dragon.
As the Purple Brilliant Heaven-Destroying Dragon returned to his body, the terrifying pressure gradually dissipated, but even so, Xu Zhengyang was already covered in sweat.