Chapter 5: Five Soul Bones? Refining the Young Dragon King Clone, the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well!
"Finally... is it coming out?"
On the surface of the thick cocoon of light, cracks began to spread rapidly like a spiderweb.
A sacred, majestic, and domineering Dragon Might was constantly seeping out through the cracks.
Boom!
The cocoon of light exploded completely, and shards of golden light flew everywhere.
"Ang—!!!"
A loud, high-pitched dragon roar instantly pierced through the thick rock layers and soared into the clouds!
There was no longer the slightest grunt of a pig in this sound; instead, it was a pure roar belonging to a high-ranking Dragon Clan!
As the golden light dissipated, a majestic beast appeared before Yu Jingcheng.
It was over five meters long, its entire body covered in brilliant Golden Dragon scales.
Every single scale seemed like a meticulously carved piece of art, shimmering with a metallic luster.
The originally comical pig nose had vanished, replaced by a majestic and ferocious dragon head.
Two spiral-shaped golden dragon horns grew from the top of its head, pointing straight toward the firmament.
Its limbs were thick and powerful, with claws like hooks that easily carved deep marks into the hard rocky ground.
Its eyes were pure gold, with sacred flames burning within its vertical pupils; every glance it cast was intimidating.
Where was there even a trace of 'Luo San Pao' left?
This was clearly a Light Holy Dragon!
Luo San Pao's body had originally contained the Light Holy Dragon Bloodline.
Yu Xiaogang could use a Martial Soul Fusion technique with Flender and Liu Erlong to summon the Light Holy Dragon (Golden Holy Dragon).
Ten thousand years later, the Martial Soul of Mu En, a descendant of Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong, was also the 'Light Holy Dragon.'
All of this proved that point.
Under the stimulation of the Light Holy Dragon Bloodline within the golden dragon pellet,
the evolution that had failed because of Yu Xiaogang was finally completed!
"Roar?"
The newly born Light Holy Dragon seemed curious about its own changes.
It lowered its head, looking at its sharp dragon claws, and then turned its gaze toward Yu Jingcheng.
Man and dragon looked at each other.
An intimate connection originating from the depths of the Soul arose spontaneously.
It was no longer that trash Martial Soul that could only fart or even run away out of fear.
It was Yu Jingcheng's most loyal battle partner, an extension of his will!
"Good!
Very good!"
Yu Jingcheng stepped forward and reached out to pat the massive dragon head.
It felt cold and hard to the touch, brimming with a sense of power.
The Light Holy Dragon docilely nuzzled his palm, two streams of hot white Qi puffing from its nostrils.
"From this day forth, Luo San Pao no longer exists in this World."
A light of ambition flashed in Yu Jingcheng's eyes as he stroked the dragon horns and whispered softly,
"You are a true Dragon King.
Follow me, and let this Douluo Continent tremble under our Dragon Might!"
"Soul Splitting Refinement!"
Yu Jingcheng shouted low, and the golden light at the center of his brow brightened suddenly.
A streak of pure mental Origin separated from his Sea of Consciousness.
It transformed into a miniature golden dragon and dove straight into the brow of the young Golden Earth Dragon King on the ground.
Buzz!
The young dragon's originally dull and lifeless eyes snapped open, a flash of intelligent light passing through its pupils.
A wondrous sensation flooded his heart.
Yu Jingcheng felt as if he had become two people.
One perspective was the tall, handsome human body, while the other was the young dragon crouching on the ground.
The two perspectives did not interfere with each other; their thoughts were synchronized, yet they could think independently.
"This feeling... is truly wonderful."
The young Golden Earth Dragon King opened its mouth; though the sound it made was immature, its tone was exactly the same as Yu Jingcheng's.
"Come back."
Yu Jingcheng beckoned.
The young Golden Earth Dragon King immediately hopped onto his shoulder obediently.
Like a golden pet lizard, it affectionately nuzzled his cheek.
Having done all this, Yu Jingcheng flipped himself onto the Light Holy Dragon's broad back.
"Let's go to our new home."
"Ang—!"
The Light Holy Dragon gave a low growl, tucked its wings, and carried Yu Jingcheng and his Clone toward the darker tunnel deep within the cavern.
This tunnel was one that Yu Jingcheng had meticulously excavated and widened over the past year.
It led directly to the true core Forbidden Land of the Sunset Forest!
As they went deeper, the surrounding air began to turn eerie.
At times it was unbearably hot, as if they were in a furnace.
At other times the cold was biting, with frost even forming on the rock walls.
Relying on its powerful physique and the protection of its light attribute, the Light Holy Dragon traversed this environment of alternating ice and fire as if on level ground.
Yu Jingcheng sat on the dragon's back with a relaxed expression.
With a wave of his hand, he took out several pieces of bone radiating different lusters from a bundle he had previously hidden in a rock crevice of the cavern.
Four ten-thousand-year spirit bones and one thousand-year Soul Bone.
These were his spoils of war from the past year.
"I certainly went to great lengths for today."
Yu Jingcheng toyed with a ten-thousand-year right arm bone emitting a faint black light, a cold glint flashing in his eyes.
"The greatest risk of Possession and re-cultivation is the period of weakness."
"To prevent other high-level Soul Beasts from taking advantage of my vulnerability,
over this past year, I have nearly slaughtered every Soul Beast near the core circle of the Sunset Forest with a cultivation over thirty thousand years."
This was exactly why Yu Xiaogang, who was only Rank 29, could survive so long in the Sunset Forest and even make it near here.
Because the true overlords had long since become the bones in Yu Jingcheng's hands and the bloody food in his belly.
As for why Yu Xiaogang came to the Sunset Forest?
That was also part of Yu Jingcheng's scheme.
Through Soul Masters entering the Sunset Forest, he had spread information to the outside World.
Under multiple factors, Yu Xiaogang chose to enter the Sunset Forest to try his luck.
He hadn't expected his luck to be so explosive.
He directly obtained the sacrifice of the 100,000-year Golden Earth Dragon King!
Although the drawback was losing all of his memories,
Yu Xiaogang had now achieved his wish of a Heaven-Defying change of fate, hadn't he?
"Pity, they're all just some tens-of-thousands-of-years trash."
Yu Jingcheng somewhat disdainfully tossed the ten-thousand-year spirit bone back into the bundle.
"For the current me, anything that isn't a hundred-thousand-year spirit bone is simply not worthy of being absorbed."
"If I absorbed this garbage, it would only defile this divine body of mine that possesses infinite potential."
However, despite his disdain, Yu Jingcheng didn't plan to throw them away.
"I'll keep them."
"In the future, whether used to nurture subordinates or taken to an auction house to exchange for resources,
or even... used to win people over, they are all good bargaining chips."
In this World, no Soul Master can resist the temptation of a Soul Bone.
Even a Titled Douluo would be moved upon seeing a ten-thousand-year spirit bone.
Take Yue Guan, for example.
Right now, Yue Guan probably hasn't become a Titled Douluo yet.
But in the original story, as a dignified Super Douluo, Yue Guan surprisingly didn't have a single Soul Bone on him.
That shows how rare they are.
While Yu Jingcheng was lost in thought, the view ahead suddenly opened up.
A burst of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, so dense it was extreme, mixed with a strange medicinal fragrance, rushed toward him.
"We're here."
A sharp light burst from Yu Jingcheng's eyes.
The Light Holy Dragon lunged out of the tunnel exit and landed steadily on the edge of a valley.
The scene before him was enough to make anyone in the World go mad.
In the center of the valley, a strange spring was emitting curling mists.
The spring water was clearly divided: one side was a milky-white cold spring emitting a bone-chilling cold; the other was a vermilion hot spring with roiling, scorching bubbles.
The red and white spring waters did not interfere with each other, yet they met at the center, forming a perfect Taiji pattern.
And around the spring grew countless strangely shaped, colorful plants.
Some burned like fierce fire, some were as transparent as ice crystals, some were shaped like a full moon, and some looked like swimming dragons.
Every single one was an Immortal Herb rarely seen in the outside World!
The Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well!
This precious land, which in the original story belonged to the Poison Douluo Dugu Bo,
at this moment, before Dugu Bo had discovered it or fully occupied it,
had completely become Yu Jingcheng's prize!
"Hahahaha!"
Looking at the Immortal Herbs covering the ground, Yu Jingcheng could hardly stop himself from laughing out loud.
With such a god-tier start, how could I possibly lose?