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Moments later, a spatial ripple shimmered once more at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. From the fractured void emerged two figures: one golden-haired and one blue-haired.
Seeing the blue-gold-haired young man, the blue-haired girl immediately beamed and threw herself into his arms. Ye Lan patted Ye Lingling's back softly. "Lingling, thank you for coming. It must have been exhausting."
Lingling shook her head, murmuring, "This is my duty. Ye Lan, do you need me for something?"
Qian Daoliu looked on with equal curiosity, wondering what plan Ye Lan had in mind that required him to fetch Ye Lingling.
"Indeed. I need the help of the Holy Begonia Armor to nurture the Blue Silver Grass—the Radiant Being," Ye Lan explained with a nod.
Qian Daoliu raised an eyebrow. "Oh? Xiao Lan, are you planning to obtain your seventh soul ring?" He paused. "Are we not using a man-made soul ring? I could help you nurture a nine-hundred-thousand-year artificial ring right now. We should still have enough time."
Ye Lan shook his head. "I plan to utilize the sacrifice mechanism of a hundred-thousand-year soul beast to push my soul power level even higher. The God Realm is in a state of anomaly, and Gu Yuena's behavior is very wrong—it's as if she's become a completely different person. Time is running out. I must make every preparation to face the coming crisis."
A flash of surprise crossed Qian Daoliu's eyes. He mused for a moment before saying, "Won't the age of a soul ring produced by cultivation be too low? A hundred-thousand-year ring and a nine-hundred-thousand-year ring are worlds apart in tier!"
Ye Lan took Ye Lingling's hand and smiled. "Grandpa, just watch. Try not to let your jaw hit the floor!"
"The nerve! Your grandfather has seen everything," Qian Daoliu huffed, standing tall. "Let me tell you, just a few hours ago, Gu Yuena's Finality had the entire Heaven Dou Empire too terrified to fight, yet your grandfather's expression remained as calm as ever."
"Lingling, let's begin!" Ye Lan said, looking into her blue eyes with absolute focus.
"Mhm!!" Ye Lingling nodded heavily.
A golden light and a faint pink radiance erupted from their palms, the brilliance slowly subsiding to reveal Ye Lan clad in the Nine Heart Holy Begonia Armor. The suit was primarily white, accented by golden "Nine Heart Begonias" at the shoulders, chest, and legs, with delicate pink floral patterns etched across the surface. Metal-textured plates encased every part of his body except for his head.
Ye Lan closed his eyes, sensing Lingling's presence embracing him within the fusion. When he opened them, he unleashed his soul rings.
Deep Yellow, Purple, Black-Purple, Blood Red, Gold-Red, Blood Red.
Behind him, Lingling's rings also manifested: Yellow, Yellow, Purple, Purple, Black, Black, Red.
Eight years had passed since the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament. Lingling had not slacked in her cultivation, successfully rising from Rank 49 to Rank 73. Because Ye Lan had gifted her the Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Empress Right Leg Bone and provided her with immortal herbs and whale glue, her physical constitution had surged. This allowed her to successfully absorb a hundred-thousand-year artificial Nine Heart Holy Begonia ring for her seventh skill.
The effect of the Holy Begonia Armor was to grant Ye Lan the use of Lingling's soul power and soul rings while recovering twenty percent of his soul power every second. This caused Ye Lan's soul power to skyrocket to the level of a Spirit Douluo. Feeling the near-infinite reserves within him, Ye Lan focused. "Grandpa, watch closely!!"
A jade-gold domain expanded from Ye Lan's body: the Life Domain. The growth rate of all nearby life forms increased tenfold!
Ye Lan's fifth soul ring flared with light: Blue Silver Sublimation was activated! The growth rate of all Blue Silver Grass increased another tenfold!
Then, the Heart of Life at his chest erupted with emerald radiance. The growth rate of all nearby life increased another tenfold!
An unknown bonus from his unique constitution added another fivefold multiplier! Finally, the natural properties of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well added another tenfold boost!
In the blink of an eye, every living thing within the jade-gold domain shuddered as their internal life force surged violently. The Blue Silver Divine Attendant suddenly woke from its chaotic consciousness. It trembled with excitement, letting out a roar: "The God!! This is the gift of the God!! How can a lowly servant deserve such a blessing from my Lord?!"
The ten-thousand-year Blue Silver Forest surrounding the attendant began to pulse with blue soul-light. Even the mindless Blue Silver Grass let out the most joyous cheer since their birth.
With all the growth multipliers stacked together, the life force acceleration reached a staggering fifty thousand times!
The most terrifying part was that by using the Ancient Beast's Touch within the fusion, Ye Lan's soul power surged another hundred percent, reaching the level of a Title Douluo. This meant Ye Lan could mature the tens of thousands of Blue Silver Grasses in the forest from the forty-thousand-year level to the hundred-thousand-year level in the shortest time possible.
Qian Daoliu was stunned by the surging healing power within his own body, but he felt a flicker of fear watching the environment. Herbs, spirit plants, insects, butterflies, and hummingbirds were evolving and growing at a rate visible to the naked eye. The most obvious change was the forest outside the well, which was shooting upward at a horrific speed. Every ten minutes, the maturity of the dense Blue Silver Forest increased by an entire year.
"Still not enough!" Ye Lan shouted. "Lingling! This is going to hurt a bit. Hold on!!"
"As long as you're here, it doesn't hurt!" Lingling's consciousness whispered, hugging him tighter.
Ye Lan used the Formless Blade to slit his wrists, letting droplets of golden blood fall toward the forest. This was Ultimate Life Blood, boosted fivefold by the Heart of Life. It acted as the most potent catalyst in existence.
With the blood as fuel, the forest's maturity began to soar every second.
Thirty meters! Fifty meters! Seventy! Eighty! One hundred meters!!!
In just over ten minutes, the height of the outer Blue Silver Forest exploded from twenty meters to a hundred. Their maturity successfully leaped from forty thousand years to the hundred-thousand-year mark!
In that instant, countless Blue Silver consciousnesses flared in Ye Lan's mind.
"My Lord!!" "God!!" "Great One!!"
Tens of thousands of joyful mental shouts flooded his brain. Yet, Ye Lan didn't find it annoying; instead, his mind became clearer. Each cry of joy pushed his mental strength higher and higher.
Qian Daoliu watched as the well was completely encased by the forest. He looked at the trees in shock. Every single plant in that forest was now a hundred-thousand-year soul beast! Tens of thousands of them.
The implications were staggering. While he had the power to wipe them out if they were gathered together, if these tens of thousands of hundred-thousand-year beasts were scattered across the empire to conduct guerrilla warfare or ambushes, it would be a catastrophe beyond reckoning. An entire nation could be leveled in days.
Qian Daoliu wiped cold sweat from his brow. "Xiao Lan... are you planning to use these hundred-thousand-year grasses to counter-attack the Myriad Beast Empire? While they could destroy a nation, I doubt they can stop Di Tian or the Silver Dragon King. If those two don't care about their citizens' lives, they could destroy these plants one by one."
Ye Lan shook his head. "Grandpa, this is only the first step. What comes next is the core of the plan!"
Ye Lan stilled his mind and communicated with the Heart of Life. Momentarily, the heart transformed into the Ancient Tree of Life. Ye Lan circulated his soul power, using the Super Divine Tool to gestate a Seed of Life.
A jade-gold seed drifted out from Ye Lan's chest. Sensing its aura, Qian Daoliu was shocked. Can he truly create something from nothing? The seed's life force was faint but incredibly noble in tier.
Ye Lan opened his eyes and sighed in relief. If he didn't have the Heart of Life, he would have used a Blue Silver Empress seed. But with the Heart, he could nurture the most perfect form of Blue Silver Grass: the Radiant Being.
The tier of the Seed of Life was no different from a God King, sufficient to grow a plant that approached that level. Ye Lan used the Formless Blade to merge a large amount of his golden blood with the seed. Under the fifty-thousand-fold acceleration, the seed greedily absorbed the blood.
Next, Ye Lan communicated with the forest's consciousness. "Commence the Blue Silver Awakening Ceremony! Sacrifice yourselves to the Seed of Life!"
Instantly, every Blue Silver Grass received the command. One by one, the hundred-thousand-year plants condensed their life force and soul power into blue orbs of light, surging toward the seed. If the sacrifice of a normal plant was a stream and a forty-thousand-year plant was a moon, the sacrifice of tens of thousands of hundred-thousand-year grasses was like a blue sun, dozens of meters wide.
Qian Daoliu watched as the blue suns merged into the seed. The seed cracked, sprouted, and grew! It was covered in galactic silver-gold patterns, identical to Ye Lan's martial soul. In seconds, the blue suns and Ye Lan's blood pushed the Radiant Being to the hundred-thousand-year level!
Then, Ye Lan used the Formless Blade to force out a massive amount of blood. He immediately activated Lingling's seventh skill, Nine Heart Holy Begonia Avatar, and her sixth skill, Mass Recovery. A giant Holy Begonia unfolded behind him, showering him in pink, white, and gold petals.
Because the armor recovered twenty percent of his soul power every second, Ye Lan could spam the recovery skill indefinitely to replenish his blood as fast as he lost it. The torrent of golden blood flowed into the Radiant Being.
Twenty thousand years! Thirty thousand! Forty thousand!
As the plant's maturity soared, the sky turned pitch black. Dark clouds massed over the well, crackling with white lightning.
BOOM!!!
The thunder terrified the local animals, sending them fleeing. "A Heavenly Tribulation?!" Qian Daoliu whispered.
Ye Lan's sixth ring flared blood-red: Black Tortoise Divine Body was activated for the Radiant Being. He continued to feed it life force, ignoring the lightning as if it didn't exist.
The newborn Radiant Being whispered, "My Lord, I am no longer afraid!"
Bolts of lightning slammed into the plant. Yet, the tribulation that terrified all soul beasts felt non-existent to this plant. Any branch shattered by lightning was instantly repaired by the Ultimate Life power. The tribulation was a joke in the face of an infinite supply of divine blood.
Fifty thousand years! Sixty! Seventy thousand!
The clouds grew denser. The sun vanished. The only light came from the lightning and the glow of the plant itself. Six waves of tribulation hammered the plant, but the Radiant Being began to actually absorb the lightning's power.
Ye Lan smiled. But as it reached seven hundred thousand years—the equivalent of a Semi-God stage for a soul beast—its growth speed plummeted.
"Has it reached its limit?!" Qian Daoliu was awestruck. He was witnessing the birth of a miracle: a seven-hundred-thousand-year soul beast nurtured in minutes.
"Not enough!!" Ye Lan roared. He wasn't doing this alone; he was with Lingling! This wasn't the armor's limit yet! The speed of his blood flow was actually falling behind the recovery speed of the Holy Begonia.
Ye Lan's eyes flashed with guilt. "Lingling, it's going to get even more painful!"
"I'm not afraid with you!" she replied firmly.
A blue light appeared on Ye Lan's right arm—the Water Dragon King's Claw. Qian Daoliu gasped. "Ye Lan, your physical constitution has reached the peak of a Quasi-God?! This external bone has evolved to 990,000 years?!"
In the midst of his shock, Ye Lan's right arm shifted into the Ice Dragon King's Claw, and he plunged it directly into his own heart.
THUMP!!
Ye Lan turned deathly pale as heart-blood sprayed out like a geyser.
"Xiao Lan!!" Qian Daoliu shouted, breaking into a cold sweat.
"I'm fine!" Ye Lan's color instantly returned, then cycled back to pale, then red again. The flow of heart-blood and the recovery of the armor formed a perfect, brutal balance.
Nourished by the Ultimate Life power of the Heart of Life, the Radiant Being's maturity surged again!
Eighty thousand years! Ninety thousand!
Purple lightning began to swirl within the black clouds, intent on stopping the birth of this being. White, blue, and purple bolts fell like rain, completely submerging the golden-blooded plant. The hundred-meter plant was repeatedly shattered, its jade stem filled with black, root-like veins of lightning.
Ninety-one thousand! Ninety-three! Ninety-seven! Ninety-nine thousand years!!
"It's a success!!" Qian Daoliu cried out.
The Radiant Being had reached the peak of the Quasi-God tier for soul beasts. Its jade body, flowing with galactic gold patterns, now held a faint purple aura. It had completely immunized itself to lightning. The clouds vanished instantly, and golden sunlight bathed the plant once more.
Ye Lan sensed that no amount of blood could push it further. There was a barrier preventing it from reaching the million-year mark.
"So this is the limit," Ye Lan murmured. "Commence the sacrifice!!"
"As you command! It is my honor!" the Radiant Being replied with deep respect.
A flash of pink and gold signaled the end of the fusion. Ye Lan and Lingling separated. "Thank you, Lingling," Ye Lan said gratefully.
"I'm just happy I could do something for you," she smiled, her warmth clearing his exhaustion.
The massive Radiant Being erupted into a brilliant gold-red light. Shimmering particles of soul power flooded into Ye Lan's body. An interface flared in his mind.
Soul Skill Selection (0/1)
Skill Name: Blue Silver Radiant Being — Martial Soul Avatar Passive Effect: Having absorbed the power of the Heavenly Tribulation, the Blue Silver Grass evolves into a God-King tier Martial Soul. It gains a fourth ultimate attribute: Ultimate Lightning. Final damage is increased by 100%.
Active Skill: Activate the Avatar. The life force of all Blue Silver Grasses is increased by another 100%. The size of all Blue Silver Grasses is increased by another 100%.
Note: Avatar bonuses belong to an independent multiplier category.
Requirement Met: Ultimate Life, Ultimate Lightning, Ultimate Fire, Ultimate Water, Life Sharing. All Blue Silver summons (in Avatar state) can be fused into the Blue Silver Life Mecha Form.
Life Mecha Form: Fuses soul rings, soul bones, divine tools, elements, life, soul power, and self-created skills into a single entity.
Ye Lan looked at the interface, which only offered this single, cold option for his Avatar. His heart felt warm. This skill was beyond terrifying! The bonuses were in an independent multiplier bracket, and the ability to fuse everything into a "Mecha" form was game-changing.
He locked in the selection: Martial Soul Avatar.
Next, the power of 990,000 years of soul power flooded his body. Every cell crackled with lightning. It felt as if his body was being torn apart. His eyes glowed purple as he experienced the soul-level agony of evolving a new Ultimate attribute.
"AAAAAAAAHHH!!!!" His muscles spasmed violently. Every part of him was submerged in a sea of pain.
"Ye Lan!!!" Lingling screamed, her heart breaking. She spammed her recovery skills, burying him in a mound of Holy Begonia petals.
Qian Daoliu felt a surge of panic. He couldn't imagine the pain the boy was in. Watching Ye Lan's twisted form, he finally understood why the boy was so strong. This pain would drive a normal man to suicide, yet Ye Lan endured it, letting the lightning temper every cell.
To wear the crown, one must bear its weight. For the first time, Qian Daoliu truly recognized Ye Lan's iron will. It was a spirit that even a god might struggle to match.
Inside Ye Lan's consciousness, an eternity passed—perhaps a second, perhaps ten thousand years. When he finally woke, Lingling immediately tackled him to the ground. She was sobbing uncontrollably, her body trembling against his chest.
Ye Lan stroked her hair. "I'm back."
Qian Daoliu waited until she calmed down before asking, "Xiao Lan, how much did your soul power increase?"
"I went from Rank 70 directly to Rank 77. Rank 78 is not far off. Most importantly, my martial soul has evolved again. I now possess the power of lightning," Ye Lan smiled.
"Good! Good! Good!" Qian Daoliu laughed, though his eyes turned worried. "Your strength is beyond my perception now, but I don't know if it's enough to defeat Gu Yuena. I cannot see through her depth either."
"I don't know her true strength either," Ye Lan murmured. "But even if I lose, I still have Lingling to help me."
Ye Lingling squeezed his hand tightly, wiped her tears, and nodded.
(End of Chapter)