This was... the so-called ancestral Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Spirit?
Yu Longyue looked at the Thunder Dragon before him, feeling rather helpless.
Where's your dignified bearing?
You don't have any at all, do you?
"This..." Yu Longyue hesitated, then turned to his grandfather and father to seek their opinions.
A satisfied smile appeared on his grandfather's face. He nodded and said, "Since he's willing, you should accept him. A Soul Spirit like this will be immensely beneficial to your future growth."
"Besides, it wasn't easy for him to find someone he was so pleased with. Our family has worked with him for over five thousand years, and we've finally fulfilled his request."
Yu Qitian looked equally approving. He knew the value of this Thunderbolt Sacred Dragon Soul Spirit. For any Soul Master with a Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul, a Soul Spirit like this was something they could only dream of.
If he had absorbed this Soul Spirit, he would now be a Thunderbolt Sacred Dragon rather than a Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon.
"Master, please don't look down on this little dragon. It was only in recent years that I barely managed to evolve into a Thunderbolt Sacred Dragon." The Thunder Dragon resting on Yu Longyue's shoulder sighed. "If I truly am unworthy of you, that's only natural, but if you must blame someone, blame the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King for bullying me too far! The Dragon God has long been gone, yet he still follows the Dragon Clan's old rules. That Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King drove me into a corner, so I fled the Star Dou Great Forest and found the Yu Family, becoming the Soul Spirit of the strongest member of your family in each generation."
"What's going on?" Yu Longyue was baffled. He hadn't said a thing, so why did the dragon think himself unworthy?
He was overjoyed to have a Soul Spirit so well suited to him.
The only drawback was that the dragon had a grudge against the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King.
The Thunder Dragon gritted his teeth and spoke as though lodging a complaint with Yu Longyue. "Master, did you know that among the Nine Great Dragon Kings of the Dragon Clan, there were kings who governed every kind of element, yet none who governed lightning? Even our liege, the Silver Dragon King, rarely uses the lightning element."
"Because lightning is excessively violent and has an even stronger attribute of destruction, the Dragon God wiped out the Thunder Dragon lineage countless times when he was still around. That is why dragons with the Thunder Attribute are so few and far between. But the Thunder Dragon lineage has always defied the heavens. The Dragon God would not permit us to exist, yet we insisted on living, gradually growing stronger by absorbing heavenly lightning, evolving from Thunder Dragons into Thunderbolt Sacred Dragons, and then into Thunder Dragon Kings."
"Although our lineage is affected by the Dragon God Bloodline, we will never bow our heads and submit to it. The strongest of our clan, the Thunder Dragon King, even rebelled against the Dragon God, though his end was a miserable one. Sigh, come to think of it, he did it to protect us. That is why so few Thunder Dragon Kings have ever been born-far too few. You could count them on one hand."
Only then did Yu Longyue understand.
No wonder... my Martial Soul and Golden Dragon King Bloodline fight every day. So that's why.
"And you, Master, possess the Thunder Dragon King Martial Soul. The reason your Soul Power increases so slowly is that you possess the Ultimate Lightning attribute. Once a Soul Master with an Ultimate Attribute Martial Soul reaches the Soul Elder level, their cultivation speed becomes several times slower than that of ordinary Soul Masters. But they are absolutely invincible at the same level, and even attacks of the same attribute cannot harm you at all."
"Although I don't know how you came to possess the Thunder Dragon King Martial Soul, Master, by all rights, this Martial Soul should never appear in a human. Yet you are clearly human, and you possess such a Martial Soul..." The Thunder Dragon seemed somewhat impatient as he continued, "And at your age, you've already reached the Soul King level. It seems you are the chosen one! Perhaps, by some unseen design, you are the one chosen by the Dragon God."
"Among the Dragon Clan, the Thunder Dragon lineage symbolizes rebellion, refusing to submit to a king who sits high above us and knows only to slaughter our lineage without cause. And each time a Thunder Dragon King is born, he is a leader who sounds the horn of revolution, leading us to overthrow every part of the Divine Realm's system."
"Heaven's will! This is heaven's will..."
Hearing this, Yu Longyue was startled.
Could it really be true?
He really was the one chosen by the Seven-Colored Divine Dragon, and he had been given the task of overthrowing God King Tang San's rule.
The dragon had guessed it all correctly.
"Master, you need only give the order, and we will follow you without conditions!"
The Thunder Dragon spoke excitedly.
The corner of Yu Longyue's mouth twitched. "All right, I agree to let you become my Soul Spirit, but could you stop calling me 'Master' all the time? It's a little weird."
"If I don't call you Master, then... Lord Dragon King? Lord Patriarch?"
"...You'd better go back to calling me Master."
"Master... then, shall I become your Soul Spirit now?" The Thunder Dragon swayed his body, looking a little eager.
"Sure."
The next second, a dazzling light shone from the Thunder Dragon's body. He then transformed into a beam of light and entered Yu Longyue's body.
Yu Longyue felt a powerful force flowing through him, and his cultivation rose tremendously as a result.
What was more, the entire process was completely painless.
As soon as the power of the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Spirit entered his body, it submitted. With his Martial Soul and bloodline stirring, the dragon offered all of that power to him.
"Thank you, Master!"
The Thunder Dragon's voice rang out in Yu Longyue's mind, sounding extremely excited and satisfied.
Yu Longyue could feel the Thunderbolt Sacred Dragon's power merging perfectly with his Martial Soul. He had now truly become a Soul King.
He had also leaped straight from level 50 to level 53. That was only because of his Ultimate Lightning attribute; otherwise, he would already have jumped past level 55.
Five Soul Rings flashed into view. The fifth Soul Ring was not red, but purple, blue, and red.
A Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring imbued with so much of the Thunder Attribute really was extraordinary.
Yu Longyue marveled inwardly at the sight.
He was a Soul King now, and one with a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring at that.
"I did my best. I've only just become a Hundred-Thousand-Year Thunderbolt Sacred Dragon, and I haven't reached the Ferocious Beast level. If I did, there'd be a chance I could evolve into a Thunder Dragon King. At that point, hmph, would that mere Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King dare come after me again? Taking advantage of me when I was down-what a despicable man! No, a despicable dragon!"
Yu Longyue: "..."
Why did he feel that this Soul Spirit was a bit of a goofball?
Wasn't he supposed to have the golden finger of an old grandpa inside him?
"Good, good, good!" Grandpa said the word three times in a row, looking delighted. "With a Thunderbolt Sacred Dragon as your Soul Spirit, your strength is bound to advance by leaps and bounds. Your future achievements will be limitless. I really can see the hope of becoming a god in you."
"Even Tang San twenty thousand years ago and Huo Yuhao ten thousand years ago couldn't compare to you at your age, could they? The Ultimate Lightning attribute, a thirteen-year-old Soul King, hahahaha..."
At the thought, Grandpa couldn't help bursting into laughter, showing just how happy he was.
Yu Qitian was all smiles as well. "Longyue, you now have the strength of a Soul King. Next, you can start thinking about how to improve your Battle Armor. That's also why we're sending you to Shrek Academy for further study."
"Build good relationships with more capable classmates and develop a circle of friends of your own. The more friends you have in the future, the more help you'll have. Understand? If you want to become sect master, you must cultivate people of your own. That's also one of the family's tests."
"Yes." Yu Longyue nodded.
Yu Qitian glanced at him. "But you did well in your previous tests. You passed them all perfectly and even exceeded the requirements, silencing some voices in the family. Good, but remember, you mustn't grow arrogant."
"All right, all right. Stay at home for a few days before going to Shrek Academy." Grandpa chuckled cheerfully and raised a hand to interrupt Yu Qitian's lecture. "There's no rush, no rush."
Yu Qitian couldn't help shaking his head. He looked at Yu Longyue:
"Keep your grandpa company for a few days. I'll go to Shrek first and take care of everything that needs arranging."
"Then will I be bullied when I go to Shrek?" Yu Longyue asked timidly. "I heard Shrek's teachers are really overbearing."
He remembered how Silver Moon Douluo had given Gu Yue a terribly hard time during Shrek's entrance examination. Reading that part had raised his blood pressure and made him see red.
"Who would dare bully my little prodigy?" Grandpa was the first to object. "Xiao Yue, if any teacher there dares abuse their authority to bully you, tell them your dad's name. It'll scare the courage out of them dozens of times over. They definitely won't dare bully you."
Dark lines appeared on Yu Qitian's forehead. "Dad, you make me sound like some kind of bully."
"Aren't you? You kicked up such a huge fuss decades ago, as though you were afraid there might be someone under heaven who didn't know you." Grandpa spoke flatly, his face expressionless. Then he turned to his precious grandson and affectionately stroked his little head. "If even your dad's name doesn't work, use that communication software you created-what was it called... Koukou? Call your grandpa, and I'll stand up for you."
"I haven't been out to stretch my muscles in years. I'm afraid some people may no longer recognize me."