The Tyrant Dragon, in terms of power type, almost represents the part of the Dragon God's strength inherited by the Golden Dragon King. Thus, it can be considered an extension of the Golden Dragon King's bloodline power.
In fact, the Tyrant Dragon is also related to the Mountain Dragon King.
After all, the Dragon God's power was limited, and the powers bestowed upon other dragon races overlapped significantly.
The most overlapping aspect was his own immense power as a great dragon.
The Tyrant Dragon represented pure force, while the Mountain Dragon King transformed into mountains and possessed mountainous power, which was incredibly potent.
Strictly speaking, the Mountain Dragon King's power could even approach that of the true Golden Dragon King in terms of sheer force.
The difference lay in their mechanisms of power.
However, their similarities in the abilities they inherited were undeniable.
At this moment, the Mountain Dragon King personally guided and organized the ancestral Tyrant Dragon's dragon soul energy to help Jiang Wuyue solidify a new bloodline spirit soul, nurturing a continuation of this ancestral Tyrant Dragon.
Simultaneously, he infused some of his own power into the process.
This was a form of assistance.
Helping Jiang Wuyue better evolve his bloodline to the level of a Dragon King.
As time passed, Jiang Wuyue absorbed the dragon soul energy, then began absorbing the soul bone left behind by the ancestral Tyrant Dragon under the Mountain Dragon King's guidance.
The soul bone left by the ancestral Tyrant Dragon resembled those of hundred-thousand-year soul beasts, capable of transforming into any type of soul bone to provide for soul masters.
Before being fully absorbed, any part of this dragon skeleton could transform into a soul bone.
Under the Mountain Dragon King's influence, it transformed into a torso bone.
However, as the power within the dragon bone condensed and formed a torso bone, Xu Yuan noticed the bones from the Tyrant Dragon's arms detaching and falling to the ground, seemingly transforming into another existence.
The Tyrant Dragon's hands were relatively small compared to its massive body, but they were excellent points of force exertion, capable of generating significant power.
As a martial soul, Jiang Wuyue always manifested the Tyrant Dragon's martial soul in the form of dragon claws. On Jiang Wuyue, the short-arm issue didn't manifest.
Nevertheless, the physical structure of the Tyrant Dragon was undeniable.
The difference between the ancestral Tyrant Dragon and the regular one was that its dragon claws were quite robust, exuding a strong sense of power. The most impressive aspect of the entire dragon skeleton was these thick arms.
Moreover, on the back of this ancestral Tyrant Dragon, the skeletal area where its dragon wings had transformed was also quite large, incomparable to the tiny wings of a regular Tyrant Dragon.
However, as the soul bone fused, the shadow of the Tyrant Dragon behind Jiang Wuyue kept changing.
The soul bone contained the essence of the ancestral Tyrant Dragon's bloodline, and once fusion was complete, it essentially meant merging with its bloodline.
Jiang Wuyue's Tyrant Dragon gradually changed form, becoming the appearance of the ancestral Tyrant Dragon.
Behind him, the shadow of the Tyrant Dragon gathered dragon souls, gradually condensing into a spiritual entity.
The entire process lasted a considerable amount of time, a full three days.
Three days later, Xu Yuan saw the newly condensed spiritual entity open its eyes, a flicker of sentient light flashing in its vertical red pupils.
The nine Dragon Kings were somewhat excited.
It succeeded!
This was a good reference.
After all, not all the great dragons in the Dragon Graveyard had residual souls left. Over these few months, they had already helped convert the residual souls they could find into spirit souls, but there were still very few. Many dragons, like this ancestral Tyrant Dragon, had their residual souls dissipate, leaving only their skeletons.
However, even without residual souls, a kind of instinctual consciousness remained attached to the dragon bones, providing a basis for them to condense spirits.
Thus, using human soul masters to nurture bloodline spirit souls from similar martial souls bore fruit.
At this moment, Jiang Wuyue was sitting cross-legged on the ground, with the shadow of his martial soul appearing behind him, showcasing the form of the ancestral Tyrant Dragon.
Outside his body, rings of soul rings spiraled.
Four purple, two black.
Six soul rings arranged in order.
The Mountain Dragon King looked at the Light Dragon King.
The Light Dragon King nodded, exchanging positions with the Mountain Dragon King and taking over the guidance.
"Although you fused the soul bone first, the energy inside the soul bone was actually used by us to fuse with the dragon soul energy to create this spirit. You merely received the soul bone and its corresponding soul skill, but the energy wasn't fully absorbed. Only when you fuse the spirit soul will you truly absorb this power," the Mountain Dragon King explained, reminding Jiang Wuyue.
Jiang Wuyue focused intently, carefully listening to what the Mountain Dragon King said.
When the Mountain Dragon King spoke at this moment, it must be important advice.
"But this power is too vast; at just seventy levels, you might not be able to withstand it."
The Mountain Dragon King's words almost made Jiang Wuyue laugh.
I am a Tyrant Dragon martial soul master; what spirit soul can I not handle?
But soon he realized.
He really might not be able to handle some spirits.
For example, Fierce Beast spirits!
With the superhuman physique brought by the Tyrant Dragon martial soul, especially after cultivating blood essence power, he was confident in fusing a hundred-thousand-year spirit.
So, this ancestral Tyrant Dragon spirit was at the Fierce Beast level?
Isn't it a newly created spirit soul?
Xu Yuan, standing beside, wasn't surprised at all.
Even at the beast spirit level, it was somewhat low.
Being able to follow and continuously guard the Dragon God, even symbolically, this ancestral Tyrant Dragon was undoubtedly a deity, likely a first-tier god.
Even if it didn't turn into a spirit after death, just the dispersed dragon soul energy and the energy left in the soul bones creating a new spirit could reach divine-level status.
Unfortunately, it seemed too much power had dissipated, so it was only at the Fierce Beast level.
But even at the Fierce Beast level, it was beyond Jiang Wuyue's capacity.
His previous six soul rings didn't even have a single hundred-thousand-year ring, yet he was directly about to bear a Fierce Beast soul ring, the impact was unimaginable.
"This matter is handed over to Guangming. He can separate some power, first enhance the strength of your first three spirits, then fuse this spirit."
As the Mountain Dragon King spoke, he handed over the guidance to the Light Dragon King.
The Light Dragon King began guiding the spirit's power.
"In your human division, a Spirit Abyss realm spiritual power can fuse five spirits. If it can hold a Fierce Beast spirit, the remaining four spirits should be distributed according to the Spirit Sea realm. You are currently in the middle Spirit Abyss realm, holding two thousand-year spirits and one ten-thousand-year spirit, which is fine. However, fusing an orange spirit soul would cause problems."
Xu Yuan's gaze shifted.
Indeed, this was troublesome.
But obviously, the nine dragon kings had a solution.
"But this ancestral Tyrant Dragon spirit soul is different. Strictly speaking, this spirit is a bloodline spirit soul derived from your martial soul. Its pressure on you will mostly remain in the bloodline, putting less pressure on your spiritual power, though it will still have some. So I will distribute its spiritual power to your three spirits, reducing the ancestral Tyrant Dragon spirit's mental pressure to below a hundred-thousand-year level. This way, the burden on your spiritual power will be equivalent to a ten-thousand-year black spirit."
Jiang Wuyue couldn't speak at this moment and could only nod to show agreement with this plan.
In the era of spirit souls, the restrictions on soul masters absorbing spirits were extremely harsh. Even encountering a hundred-thousand-year spirit, not everyone had the opportunity to fuse it. Basically, only soul masters with Spirit Domain realm spiritual power could consider absorbing a hundred-thousand-year spirit.
Unless the soul master had Spirit Abyss realm spiritual power and only two purple spirits at the sixth ring.
Once a sixth-ring Soul Emperor had a black spirit, as long as their spiritual power hadn't reached the Spirit Domain realm, they absolutely didn't qualify to fuse a hundred-thousand-year spirit.
Moreover, even in the former case, with only two purple spirits, their physical fitness would hardly support absorbing a seventh-ring hundred-thousand-year soul ring.
"This is indeed a special solution, but unfortunately, it doesn't benefit me much."
Xu Yuan was now facing a certain lack of spiritual capacity.
Of course, his insufficient capacity was only unable to meet the needs of three martial souls. Simply adding a hundred-thousand-year or beast-level spirit to one martial soul was still manageable.
By now, Xu Yuan's spiritual power had entered the high Spirit Abyss realm, and to solve the problem of spirit capacity, it was rapidly advancing towards the Spirit Domain realm.
In reality, he now had four spirits, none of which were hundred-thousand-year spirits.
"This time, I should absorb a new spirit soul; otherwise, my soul power has been stuck at seventy levels for too long. It's a loss."
The so-called 'Ten Core Competencies of Martial Souls' are rubbish.
No rush to obtain soul rings for breakthroughs?
Indeed, at each multiple-of-ten level, even without obtaining a soul ring, the cultivated soul power would still exist within the soul master's martial soul, just without any visible growth. In reality, once a soul ring is obtained, this soul power would manifest as the upper limit of soul power breaks through.
However, there was a fatal issue: without obtaining a soul ring, the speed of cultivating soul power was still calculated based on this level.
Even between level forty and forty-one, there was a noticeable difference in cultivation speed, as one signified a Soul Sage, while the other was merely a Soul Elder.
Moreover, without feeling any growth in soul power, the motivation to cultivate couldn't always remain at its peak, and the daily increase in soul power wouldn't reach the extreme possible for the current soul power level.
Precisely because of this, once someone believed in such a theory and delayed half a year or even a year waiting for a suitable soul ring, that was truly a huge loss.
If absorbing a new spirit, Xu Yuan preferred to absorb a hundred-thousand-year spirit.
And the methods to obtain a hundred-thousand-year spirit were limited.
"The academy's foundation doesn't have a suitable spirit for my Brain martial soul, so I'll have to look in the Spirit Pagoda. After Wuyue absorbs the spirit, we'll both go tower climbing."
The Spirit Pagoda's restriction was age under thirty, with no limit on soul power levels.
Therefore, both Xu Yuan and Jiang Wuyue could attempt tower climbing.
With Xu Shengqun present, Xu Yuan felt there wouldn't be a situation where he'd get blocked during tower climbing, arbitrarily assigned a suitable spirit soul, and thus lose the strength to endure until the corresponding floor.
While Xu Yuan was contemplating, Jiang Wuyue's soul rings began to change.
First were his third and fourth soul rings, whose colors grew deeper, and a figure emerged—a Steel Armor Dragon. The Steel Armor Dragon let out a roar, its entire body rapidly changing, its skin quickly strengthening, turning as hard as steel, with its dark skin exuding immense power.
This was just the beginning.
Not long after Jiang Wuyue's third and fourth soul rings turned black, his first and second soul rings began to change.
This time, it was a giant dragon-like creature. Xu Yuan searched his memories for a long time before finding the origin of this giant dragon. It was a Giant Beast Dragon, powerful enough to rival the Titan Ape in strength.
Xu Yuan's eyes flashed with surprise.
Jiang Wuyue's spirit was quite good.
To think he could obtain the spirit of a Giant Beast Dragon.
And it was his first spirit.
No wonder this guy could dig so thoroughly into the power attributes of the Tyrant Dragon martial soul.
The Giant Beast Dragon's size was no less than that of the Tyrant Dragon. As it underwent mutation, its size rapidly expanded.
"Hmm!" The Mountain Dragon King also exclaimed in surprise: "I thought I sensed a familiar aura. So your first spirit is a Giant Beast Dragon. In that case, let me give him a bit of opportunity as well."
Saying that, the Mountain Dragon King split off a strand of his dragon soul power and infused it into the Giant Beast Dragon.
The state of the spirit was peculiar. Under the exploration of the nine Dragon Kings, they had already developed means to quickly recover dragon soul power, which made him not hesitate too much when splitting off this strand of dragon soul power.
Of course, it was also because this portion of power was not a significant proportion.
Otherwise, if too much dragon soul power was lost, it would be difficult for him to recover.
The Giant Beast Dragon let out a roar toward the sky, showing a respectful expression to the Mountain Dragon King, then began to change.
Its enormous, monster-like form continued to expand, seemingly transforming into a mountain.
"Is the Giant Beast Dragon a branch of the Mountain Dragon King?" Xu Yuan showed a puzzled expression.
Does the Mountain Dragon King also have bloodline extensions?
The everlasting Mountain Dragon King made Xu Yuan think that all mountain dragons were Mountain Dragon Kings, subconsciously forgetting that the Mountain Dragon's bloodline could combine with other dragons to form new dragon races, but these were not Mountain Dragons.
Clearly, only degenerated bloodlines could fail to be Mountain Dragon Kings.
The Giant Beast Dragon seemed to be a type of dragon resulting from the degeneration of the Mountain Dragon King's bloodline.
The Giant Beast Dragon underwent transformation, also becoming a ten-thousand-year spirit.
At this point, all of Jiang Wuyue's soul rings turned into black ten-thousand-year soul rings.
The power of the ancestral Tyrant Dragon spirit was still being transmitted, increasing the years of the three ten-thousand-year spirits.
Upon reaching a certain level, the Light Dragon King stopped this transmission.
"This ancestral Tyrant Dragon spirit exists more as a bloodline spirit soul for you, exerting minimal pressure on your spiritual power and even having little dependence. Its growth and recovery need your bloodline as the foundation, so cultivating blood essence power and enhancing your bloodline are the correct paths to unlocking its power."
Speaking, the Light Dragon King again handed over the guidance to the Mountain Dragon King.
The Mountain Dragon King took over and finally allowed Jiang Wuyue to fuse with the ancestral Tyrant Dragon spirit.
The fusion officially began.
"I'll control the power of its soul ring for you, giving you the chance to gradually fuse."
Xu Yuan watched from the side, even using the Seven Forbidden Techniques and Dream Realm Space to feel every detail of the process.
These nine Dragon Kings had quite a thorough understanding of spirits.
They could already perform such delicate operations on spirits so quickly.
As for soul rings, their understanding was also profound. They could allow the soul ring's power to be absorbed by the soul master in batches, thereby reducing the difficulty of fusion.
"All of these are worth learning from and something I need to learn from."
Xu Yuan wasn't worried about his inability to fuse soul rings but rather the essence of soul rings involved in these techniques, which he needed to understand.
This would greatly aid his further research and control of soul rings.
Time passed.
Absorbing a Fierce Beast soul ring took longer, a full five days passed, and Jiang Wuyue's seventh soul ring outside his body still hadn't fully condensed.
But it was close.
Xu Yuan widened his eyes, wishing it would slow down a bit more.
After all, the nine Dragon Kings still had some tricks up their sleeves, their control over soul ring power was quite sophisticated, allowing him to learn a lot.
Unfortunately, the fusion was nearing its end, and the nine Dragon Kings had stopped controlling, letting Jiang Wuyue absorb the remaining soul ring on his own.
Another day passed, and outside Jiang Wuyue's body, that circle of orange soul ring finally condensed into shape.
On this orange soul ring, there were circles of golden patterns. Upon closer inspection, there were five of them!
"Equivalent to a five-hundred-thousand-year Fierce Beast?" Xu Yuan was also astonished.
This time, they seemed to have given Jiang Wuyue an exceptional spirit.
"If I don't give Brother Wang Jinyang a similarly good spirit, wouldn't it seem like favoritism?"
Xu Yuan shook his head, deciding not to continue considering this direction.
Wang Jinyang was still years away from being able to fuse a beast spirit, so there was no need to consider it for now.
"What about Big Brother? He seems to not have broken through to the ninth ring yet, stuck at eighty-nine levels. Should I help him find a Fierce Beast spirit?"
To be honest, Xu Yuan wasn't sure about the configuration of his eldest brother Ah Ruheng's soul rings, having no impression in his mind.
However, the Body Sect should be similar to Shrek Academy, possessing hundred-thousand-year spirit soul inheritance.
Thus, Ah Ruheng likely had a hundred-thousand-year soul ring, and it would fit him perfectly.
If a particularly suitable Fierce Beast spirit couldn't be found for him, it would be better to stick to his original absorption plan.
"As for the Body Sect's spirit inheritance, I haven't inquired yet. I should ask Teacher when I have time."
"Brother, if it weren't for you, I really wouldn't have been able to obtain such a good spirit." Jiang Wuyue stood up, looking at his seven soul rings, overwhelmed with excitement.
This, this, this.
Originally, he was just following the normal soul master's soul ring configuration, but now he was enjoying the treatment of an overpowered soul ring setup?
Not only was the new soul ring overpowered, but even his original soul ring configuration had undergone transformation.
All soul rings reached ten-thousand years or above.
What an opportunity!
And all of this was brought by Xu Yuan.
Jiang Wuyue could feel that even the Mountain Dragon King, who was the kindest among the nine Dragon Kings, didn't go so far as to impart everything. There were many complications in the fusion of this ancestral Tyrant Dragon spirit, especially the technique of allocating soul ring power and transferring it to other spirits, which were extra efforts.
Considering this was their first contact, even with the Tyrant Dragon martial soul, these dragon souls had no reason to do so much for him.
Thus, it was all due to Xu Yuan's influence.
"Well, a five-hundred-thousand-year beast soul ring. When you return, I wonder what expressions those people from the Blood God Legion will have," Xu Yuan said, stroking his chin.
Jiang Wuyue scratched the back of his head.
"Brother, aren't you at seventy levels too? Aren't you going to pick a Fierce Beast-level dragon spirit soul here?"
Xu Yuan waved his hand.
"No, no, no. I just helped you; don't harm me."
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