"Not good, the volcano's erupting!"
Meng Zhongqi had just unleashed a Soul Skill at the crater, sending vast amounts of ice-type Soul Power surging out and freezing this active volcano shut.
As the saying went, better to channel the flow than block it!
How could mortals fathom the power accumulated within a volcano? Now the volcano erupted with a roar, and endless flames ran rampant.
Billowing smoke and dust spewed from the crater, forming a volcanic ash cloud directly above it that blotted out the sky and sun.
This was the Grim Reaper's scythe, an equally merciless harvesting machine. The clouds formed from volcanic ash spread outward in every direction.
At the sight, Meng Zhongqi could not help turning pale with alarm.
Although Titled Douluo possessed the extraordinary power to alter the weather in an area, their strength was still far too insignificant compared with nature's boundless might.
The volcano erupted, endless smoke and dust sweeping across the land as volcanic ash towered into the clouds, forming a kilometer-high column of smoke.
Even someone as powerful as a Titled Douluo had to retreat before its fury!
Volcanic ash seeped into every opening. This was the Grim Reaper beckoning.
"Fifth Soul Skill-Molten Fire Dragon Bomb!"
A volcanic rock burst out of the crater amid thick smoke, its flight path taking it straight toward Meng Qianqiu.
Before Meng Zhongqi could act, Meng Qianqiu gave a sharp cry. He rose to his feet, dazzling firelight appearing in his hands as he drew upon the surrounding lava's power and formed a fireball.
Rumble!
Holding the molten fireball, Meng Qianqiu immediately channeled his Soul Power and thrust the projectile from his hands. Like a fleeting meteor, the molten projectile flew at tremendous speed, charging onward without slowing and smashing head-on into the enormous volcanic rock, some four or five meters long!
Their collision unleashed a dazzling burst of firelight.
Struck by this blow, the enormous volcanic rock broke into countless fist-sized chunks, scattered as densely as stars, which rained down on the two of them.
External Soul Bone Skill-Fire Realm Dragon Fist!
Red light shone from Meng Qianqiu's left hand. A mass of violent fire-attribute power transformed into a ferocious giant dragon, wrapping around his left arm as he swiftly punched toward one of the volcanic rocks.
"This is..."
"An offensive External Soul Bone!"
"And not just one External Soul Bone, but a pair-the left and right palm bones. My dear grandson, what luck you have!"
At the sight, Meng Zhongqi's eyes nearly bulged. Who could have expected Meng Qianqiu to obtain a pair of left and right palm bones from the Blazing Fire Dragon King after absorbing its Soul Ring!
One left and one right, the Blazing Fire Dragon King's two palm bones each actually carried a powerful close-combat Soul Skill.
"You wear through iron shoes searching in vain, only to find it without the slightest effort."
"Those close-combat Soul Skills I've been longing for-you've actually gathered two at once through External Soul Bones!"
Meng Zhongqi marveled at Meng Qianqiu's luck as well. Whether External Soul Bones appeared depended heavily on luck, and their drop rate was extremely random.
Generally speaking, very few people could absorb two External Soul Bones in succession, but Meng Qianqiu clearly was no ordinary person.
"Fire Realm Dragon Fist, break!"
Meng Qianqiu gave a sharp cry. Every volcanic rock within ten meters in front of him was struck by the Fire Realm Dragon Fist, reduced to fine powder scattered across the ground.
"Cough, cough!"
"Grandpa, we shouldn't stay here!"
Volcanic ash consisted of tiny glass fibers. Even pulverized into dust, it was extremely lethal to ordinary people.
It was also extremely lethal to Soul Masters. Put plainly, Soul Masters were merely extraordinary ordinary people, not yet fully transformed into all-powerful, fearless gods walking the mortal world.
"All right!"
"My dear grandson, let's hurry!"
Meng Zhongqi grabbed Meng Qianqiu, and the two turned into streaks of blue and red light, one ahead of the other. Their speed abruptly soared as they slashed across the sky, swiftly fleeing toward the outermost edge of the mountain range.
"That was close, far too close!"
"A volcanic eruption, a natural disaster descending upon the world!"
"Even someone as powerful as a Titled Douluo can only flee before such a world-destroying natural disaster. Nature's might is immeasurable!"
Meng Zhongqi sighed. Only after cultivating to the Titled Douluo realm had he learned the vastness of the universe and the breadth of heaven and earth, and explored the wonders of the world's rules.
"Without becoming a Titled Douluo, you remain an ant!"
"Beneath the vast heavens, among the countless living beings, a Titled Douluo is merely an ant before the boundless world and infinite universe!"
"At most, just a mayfly capable of flight."
"Only when a mayfly rides the wind into the nine heavens and glimpses the wonders of the universe does it understand the breadth of heaven and earth. Otherwise, we Soul Masters are no different from frogs at the bottom of a well!"
Meng Zhongqi spoke quietly. For Titled Douluo, each level was a whole new heaven, and this was even more true beyond rank ninety-five.
Super Douluo could comprehend their Martial Soul Origin, gain an initial glimpse of the secrets of heaven and earth, and thereby wield a portion of the world's rules.
The world's rules were the laws of the universe!
Even if Soul Masters comprehended only a sliver of a law, they could use their Martial Souls to leverage the power of heaven and earth, thereby gaining tremendous abilities.
"Although I possess a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and have condensed a Soul Core and martial soul avatar armor, I'm afraid I can only reach Limit Douluo in this lifetime, with no chance of entering the legendary demigod realm."
"But, Qiu'er!"
"You're different. Your foundations are deep, and with us guiding you, your future potential is limitless. You have a chance of reaching the demigod realm."
"Only by breaking through to demigod can you master a law, thereby gaining the foundation to become a god at rank one hundred-a living god!"
As Spirit Hall's fifth elder, Meng Zhongqi had come into contact with many secrets over the past few years. He knew very well that a deity was enshrined in the Qian Family's ancestral grounds, Douluo Hall.
"A demigod?"
"A demigod is only a god of the mortal world!"
"My goal isn't merely to become a god of the mortal world!"
A gleam flashed through Meng Qianqiu's eyes. As a transmigrator, he knew several paths to godhood. Becoming a demigod was not his goal.
There were several paths to becoming a god at rank one hundred.
One could seek out divine trials, inherit a divine seat through their legacy, become a new deity, and then ascend to the Divine Realm.
Or one could follow the example of the ancient sages, break through to the demigod realm, condense a divine seat and Divine Equipment, establish self-created godhood, and then ascend to the Divine Realm.
Both paths had their advantages and disadvantages.
The former made becoming a god less difficult and had a high success rate. After ascending to the Divine Realm, one could quickly take up one's position, saving a great deal of trouble for nothing.
The latter made becoming a god extremely difficult, had an extremely low success rate, and took far too long. However, it granted tremendous combat strength and extremely high potential after attaining godhood, allowing one to make a bid for the supreme God King realm.
The former meant taking on another's karma and easily falling under another's control. Its growth potential was also extremely low; once one ascended, breaking through again was very difficult.
"Grandpa!"
"My fifth Soul Ring is forty-eight thousand years old. Its Soul Skill is Molten Fire Dragon Bomb, a long-range offensive Soul Skill."
"But while absorbing the Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring, I also unexpectedly obtained two palm bones, left and right, from the Blazing Fire Dragon King!"
"This pair of external palm bones gave me two close-combat Soul Skills: Fire Realm Dragon Fist and Explosive Heavy Fire Fist."
"I'm sure you're familiar with Fire Realm Dragon Fist. My father's eighth Soul Skill is Fire Realm Dragon Fist."
"Explosive Heavy Fire Fist is a strength-enhancement Soul Skill!"
"The Blazing Fire Dragon King palm bone in my right hand can increase my strength tenfold out of nowhere. Its duration also depends on the depth of my Soul Power!"
"Combined with my first Soul Skill, it directly doubles my combat strength!"
Meng Qianqiu's first Soul Skill was already an enhancement-type Soul Skill. Paired with this Soul Bone Skill, it was truly like giving wings to a tiger.
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