Chen Ming felt that the two of them were clearly trying to run away from the issue. They hurriedly brushed everything aside.
The whole process went even more smoothly than Chen Ming had imagined.
After casually saying a few words, Di Tian directly flew Chen Ming to the mountain outside Heaven Dou Imperial Academy and dropped him there. Then he took Long Na'er and disappeared somewhere.
It was as if Chen Ming's existence made them feel extremely awkward and conflicted. They had no idea how to face him, so they simply chose to act like turtles and hide.
"Little Earth, do you know what's going on?"
Looking at the figures disappearing in the sky, Chen Ming asked the new soul that had appeared in his mind.
"My Lord, I genuinely have no idea. I'm nothing but an actor in all of this."
Inside Chen Ming's spiritual sea, the soul of the former Heavy Armored Earth Dragon, now the Mountain Giant Dragon, spoke to Chen Ming from the heart.
When Chen Ming's spiritual power broke through to the Spirit Abyss realm, he could already sense the Spirit Beast souls sleeping inside his Martial Soul and spiritual sea because of their sacrifices. He could also try to awaken them.
It was just that Chen Ming had not needed to wake them up for now, so he had not done so.
During this most recent sacrifice, Chen Ming had directly preserved the Mountain Giant Dragon's soul, allowing it to remain within his spiritual sea in a fully conscious state.
In theory, a sacrifice was supposed to merge the Spirit Beast's soul entirely into the Martial Soul.
In practice, however, this was merely what it looked like from the outside — as though the hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beast's soul had vanished completely.
But that was, in fact, a misconception. Setting aside Ah Yin, who survived her sacrifice, and Xiao Wu from the original story, whose soul was preserved, the other hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beasts did not truly cease to exist either. Rather, they merged with the Spirit Ring and entered the Spirit Master's spiritual sea.
As long as one's spiritual power reached a certain level, one could find the sleeping Spirit Beast souls inside their spiritual sea.
Otherwise, in the original story, the souls of the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape could not have been revived by Tang San later and then thrown into the Clear Sky Sect as guardian beasts.
After all, when those two sacrificed themselves to Tang San, they had no method to preserve their own souls.
If it were not for this reason, then with the rules of the Douluo world, no matter how far Tang San chased after Xiao Wu, even a God King could not revive two great Spirit Beasts out of nothing.
At first, when the Mountain Giant Dragon discovered that he had not become a divine beast the moment he woke up as he had imagined, he felt a little surprised.
Especially when he realized that he had actually awakened in a soul state, he was even more shocked.
He even felt a tiny bit awkward.
After all, he had just spoken so boldly, thinking he could gamble once and lie down all the way to success. But now, he was suddenly told that he still had to stay here and work hard for a while longer.
In theory, as Chen Ming's subordinate now, he should directly reveal Di Tian and the Silver Dragon King's identities, and also explain the truth about the ruin.
But the Mountain Giant Dragon kept feeling that Chen Ming was deliberately not asking him about the ruin and was purposely skipping that topic. So he also chose to play dumb and pretend he knew nothing.
Anyway, if Chen Ming asked, he would tell him. If Chen Ming did not ask, he would not say anything.
That way, he would offend no one.
Chen Ming shook his head and returned to his cave residence at Heaven Dou Imperial Academy.
After that, while taking out some metal and playing with it, he began asking the Mountain Giant Dragon's soul in his mind about his Spirit Abilities and Spirit Bone.
"I can roughly understand the others, but what kind of ability is this Golden Claw? Why do I feel like it doesn't have much to do with the dragon clan?"
Chen Ming used his Spirit Bone ability, Golden Claw, and looked at his left arm, which had turned into a special kind of metal. His eyes showed some curiosity.
He took out the toughest metal he had refined before and lightly poked it with his finger. His finger pierced through the metal as easily as poking tofu.
Chen Ming had barely exerted any force at all — like a hot knife through butter, the metal simply crumbled before his left hand.
Was this hardness?
Chen Ming shook his head. He could clearly feel that the true effect of this ability was not that simple.
The metal transformation was the surface effect, yes — but layered atop the metallic portion was a special field of force, a stance that granted him the ability to destroy even top-grade metals as easily as a hot knife through butter.
The metallic arm was formidably strong in its own right, but it was that hidden field — that underlying stance — that was the true source of its destructive power.
And as Chen Ming circulated his Spirit Power, he could feel certain energies within the metal being drawn through his left hand into his body, merging into his Spirit Power through a mechanism he didn't yet fully understand, slowly tempering both his Spirit Power and his physical form.
And as Chen Ming circulated his Spirit Power, he could feel certain energies within the metal being drawn through his left hand into his body, merging into his Spirit Power through a mechanism he didn't yet fully understand, slowly tempering both his Spirit Power and his physical form.
One had to know that his current spiritual power was already equal to a Limit Douluo, and his physical strength was equal to a Level 96 Super Douluo with a tool Martial Soul.
At his current level, even most devouring-type abilities would have little effect. Unless he devoured powerful Spirit Beasts or Spirit Masters, it would be extremely hard for ordinary energy to change him.
Yet devouring a mere piece of rare metal could bring him a slight change. That efficiency was simply ridiculously high.
"My Lord, I once accidentally swallowed a piece of metal that contained an extraordinarily powerful life force. But rather than benefiting me, that metal turned on me — devouring my own life force in return. As a result, even though I had survived my hundred-thousand-year Heavenly Tribulation, I fell into a state of rapid aging not long after, far sooner than I should have."
"When I sacrificed myself, that metal combined with my Spirit Core and finally turned into your current left arm bone. This Golden Claw truly wasn't my ability. Or rather, it wasn't completely my ability."
"I had a move called Yellow Dragon Claw, which could turn my body into alloy and cause extremely powerful destruction. This may have mutated based on my original Spirit Ability."
The Mountain Giant Dragon did not understand Life Gold. After all, it was something Di Tian had brought over and told him to swallow.
He only knew that it was definitely a treasure, but as for what it did and how it should be used, he knew nothing at all.
However, one thing was certain.
He absolutely believed that thing was worth more than his dragon life.
That vast life force was equal to dozens of times the accumulation in his body. It was just condensed together and almost impossible to break down.
When he sacrificed himself, that metal fused with his Spirit Core and turned into a Spirit Bone.
Even he himself could not explain how that had happened.
Nor was he sure what the principle behind it was, or whether it was a good thing or a bad thing.
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