Chapter 269: Blue Silver Sacrifice, The Emperor Returns! Natal Soul Ring?
As the Blue Silver King issued the command for sacrifice, The wind in the forest suddenly stilled.
At the same time, every single Blue Silver Grass in the forest bloomed with dazzling blue light.
Tiny, glimmering blue particles slowly rose from the veins of the grass blades.
With a gust of wind, they spread across the mountains and plains, weaving a flowing galaxy throughout the forest.
Starlight cascaded from above, while beneath their feet, a sea of light surged.
Vast and pure life force erupted from the roots of every Blue Silver Grass buried deep underground.
Even the frail grass sprouts growing within cracks in stone poured out every bit of vitality accumulated over their entire lives, without holding anything back.
Countless streams converged from every direction.
In the end, they condensed into a blue torrent stretching across heaven and earth.
Carrying the Blue Silver Clan's devotion and hopes, it surged toward Ah Yin's translucent remnant soul.
Layer upon layer of blue currents gently, yet irresistibly, wrapped around Ah Yin's figure.
Like countless hands of vegetation, they firmly supported her crumbling soul, severing every possibility of her fading away.
In just a few breaths, a round, full blue cocoon quietly floated in the center of the forest clearing.
Fine plant-like patterns flowed across its surface.
Every pattern was engraved with the life imprints passed down through the Blue Silver Clan.
Upon the Blue Silver King's massive true body, brilliant golden light also bloomed.
That golden radiance was the origin life force; it had condensed through eighty-five thousand years of bitter cultivation.
It was the only foundation it possessed to break through into the hundred-thousand-year level and complete the clan's transformation.
Countless golden vines extended from its body, tightly wrapping around the blue cocoon.
It continuously poured its origin life force and foundation into the cocoon, into Ah Yin's soul, without the slightest hesitation.
A spiritual fluctuation, carrying both sobbing emotion and relief, pierced through the cocoon and entered Lin Qingmo's mind.
"The Emperor has returned. My Blue Silver Clan has finally waited for this day."
This had never been a simple energy gift.
This was the sacrifice of life energy from the entire Blue Silver Clan toward their emperor—the most extreme and complete sacrifice possible.
Across the entire Douluo Continent, countless soul beast races existed.
Yet races willing to sacrifice the vitality of their entire clan for their emperor could be counted on one hand.
Beast-type soul beasts often harbored selfish desires.
Conflict among their own kind and survival of the fittest were common. Achieving complete unity across an entire race was almost impossible.
Only a special race like Blue Silver Grass, whose bloodlines were connected and whose Emperor served as their sole core, could unite the will of the entire race and perform such a heaven-shaking act.
Hundreds of millions of Blue Silver Grasses used their own life force as fuel.
They burned away everything they had, only to nourish their emperor, helping her reconstruct her soul and restore her body.
The blue cocoon's radiance grew increasingly dazzling.
Its texture also became more solid and heavy.
From its initial translucent form, it gradually transformed into a warm, dense sapphire-like substance, with life force inside so concentrated it seemed ready to overflow.
Inside the cocoon, Ah Yin's translucent figure gradually grew more solid as it was nourished by the massive life force.
Her once-blurred facial features gradually became distinct.
Gentle brows, clear eyes, and an incomparably beautiful face slowly shed their illusion and revealed themselves to the world.
That was an elegance belonging solely to the Blue Silver Emperor.
Gentle and warm, yet carrying the nobility and authority of the supreme ruler of all vegetation.
Though she still remained within the cocoon, that imperial aura had already spread throughout the forest.
The aura surrounding her also steadily rose and surged upward.
From the faint trace of presence in her remnant soul state that had nearly faded away, it rose against the tide.
The thousand-year soul beast barrier shattered instantly.
The threshold of a five-thousand-year soul beast stabilized in the blink of an eye.
The vast divide of ten-thousand-year soul beasts was no more than a shallow ditch she could cross with a single step.
In a short amount of time, her aura had already recovered to the level of a thirty-thousand-year soul beast.
And it was still rising.
No one knew what level she would ultimately recover to.
Lin Qingmo's attention remained completely focused on the figure inside the cocoon, a genuine smile appearing at the corner of his lips.
Bibi Dong stood quietly at his side, her cold phoenix eyes resting upon the cocoon without speaking.
Her perception had already enveloped the entire forest, precisely capturing the shocking, rapid transformation of the life aura within the cocoon.
"Using an entire clan's life force to sacrifice for an Emperor... in all of the Douluo Continent, perhaps only the Blue Silver Clan could accomplish something like this."
Bibi Dong's voice carried a rare trace of emotion as it softly sounded beside Lin Qingmo's ear.
Lin Qingmo nodded slightly.
"The Blue Silver Clan exists throughout every corner of the Douluo Continent. Wherever there is land, there is Blue Silver Grass."
"They've merely remained obscure because they lacked an emperor to lead them."
"Now that the Emperor has returned, every Blue Silver Grass on the continent will move for her."
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Time slowly flowed onward.
Three hours passed in the blink of an eye.
The blue light throughout the forest gradually receded.
The Blue Silver Grass life force sacrifice had finally come to an end.
The brilliant blue light that had once covered the forest completely gathered into the cocoon at the center of the clearing.
The cocoon surrounding Ah Yin gradually changed from deep azure to a warm, crystal-clear emerald green.
It floated quietly in the forest.
Its aura was calm and heavy, yet it contained endless vitality capable of overturning rivers and seas. It had completely stabilized.
The Blue Silver King's true body also withdrew all its golden radiance.
Its originally thick and resilient vines had become slightly withered.
Its leaves had lost their former luster, clearly indicating a significant loss of origin.
Yet it still held its body upright and deeply bowed toward the emerald cocoon, every inch of its vines filled with reverence and devotion.
A gentle spiritual fluctuation, like flowing water, slowly spread out from the cocoon and accurately landed upon the Blue Silver King's consciousness.
That was Ah Yin's will, carrying the gentleness and authority unique to an emperor.
Receiving her will, the Blue Silver King's vines trembled slightly.
It slowly turned around and lowered its massive body toward Lin Qingmo, performing an incomparably solemn and respectful salute.
Lin Qingmo raised an eyebrow, surprise and confusion flashing through his heart.
"Lord Lin Qingmo."
The Blue Silver King's thick and gentle voice clearly rang through the forest.
"The Emperor has issued her command, instructing me to follow your orders and guide you in awakening the bloodline power hidden deep within your martial soul, helping you condense a natal soul ring unique to the Blue Silver lineage."
The instant those words fell, Lin Qingmo's pupils contracted sharply, and his eyes suddenly lit up.
Having transmigrated here, he had long since memorized the original Douluo story thoroughly. Naturally, he understood just how astonishing the significance of those words truly was.
In the original work, Tang San had completed the second awakening of his martial soul right here within this Blue Silver Forest, under the Blue Silver King's personal guidance.
From a worthless martial soul found everywhere, it directly transformed into the world's one and only Blue Silver Emperor martial soul.
He even condensed a natal fifth soul ring capable of evolving alongside his own cultivation.
That natal soul ring ultimately grew into a hundred-thousand-year red soul ring, granting Tang San unparalleled combat power.
Yet after the overwhelming joy came an equally overwhelming confusion.
Tang San awakened the Blue Silver Emperor bloodline because he was Ah Yin's biological son.
The purest direct bloodline of the Blue Silver Emperor flowed through his body, making him the rightful successor of the Blue Silver Clan.
But he, Lin Qingmo, was neither Ah Yin's child nor did he possess the slightest direct bloodline connection with the Blue Silver Emperor.
His original martial soul was merely an ordinary Blue Silver Grass, found everywhere across the Douluo Continent.
Logically speaking, he simply did not possess the bloodline foundation of the Blue Silver Emperor.
So, how could he possibly awaken a bloodline and condense a natal soul ring unique to the Blue Silver lineage?
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