Chapter 114: The Bold Are Fed, the Timid Starve
The golden dragon claw struck from above, slicing the trembling Qirong Tongtian Chrysanthemum cleanly in half. A violent and destructive aura surged forth, flooding into its body and completely shattering its life force.
Having grown within the Ice-Fire Yin Yang Well, it carried traces of the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings' aura. How could it possibly resist Lin Yun, whose Golden Dragon King bloodline had now been fully unsealed? Thus, this scene unfolded—Lin Yun slaughtering a hundred-thousand-year soul beast as easily as slaughtering a chicken.
The Qirong Tongtian Chrysanthemum's life completely dissipated, and from its corpse emerged a blood-red soul ring radiating with terrifying energy fluctuations.
Hundred-Thousand-Year Qirong Tongtian Chrysanthemum Soul Ring.
Ignoring the ten-thousand-year Qirong Tongtian Chrysanthemum torso bone floating within the ring, Lin Yun sat cross-legged, placed the flower containing ten thousand years of refined essence into his mouth, and guided the soul ring to descend upon him.
The Dragon Devourer talent once again proved to be the MVP, madly digesting the medicinal powers of both the Glimmering Autumn Dew and the Qirong Tongtian Chrysanthemum, while also helping Lin Yun absorb the soul power of the hundred-thousand-year soul ring.
Vast streams of soul power, immortal herb essence, and Golden Dragon King bloodline energy blended together chaotically inside Lin Yun's body like a boiling cauldron.
Among these forces, the power of blood and vitality was the strongest—almost completely dominating the others.
Taking advantage of the Qirong Tongtian Chrysanthemum's continued medicinal surge, Lin Yun began compressing his vital energy, channeling it toward his lower dantian, where it condensed into a crimson crystal.
Though it seemed slow, the blood-red crystal rotated at an astonishing speed, voraciously devouring Lin Yun's blood energy to strengthen itself. It rejected all soul and spiritual energy to ensure absolute purity of the blood force.
This was the embryonic form of the Blood Essence Soul Core.
Thanks to his absorption of the Glimmering Autumn Dew, the immortal herb's power had greatly enhanced his spiritual strength, allowing him to multitask—absorbing the soul power from the ring while simultaneously guiding the Golden Dragon King's bloodline to condense the Blood Essence Soul Core.
Once this core fully formed, Lin Yun would be able to suppress the berserk bloodline within him and gain complete mastery over the Golden Dragon King Martial Soul.
Having consumed three immortal herbs that fortified the body, Lin Yun now had the foundation to attempt this feat even as a Soul King. Without that, even with his Golden Dragon King heritage, he might have been drained dry and barely managed a prototype.
With such a rare opportunity before him, Lin Yun naturally chose to push forward.
Though the rampage of his bloodline had nearly consumed him in madness, it was also the perfect chance to seize full control of that power.
As the energy from the soul ring was steadily digested, the blood-red hundred-thousand-year soul ring finally settled into Lin Yun's fifth ring position, merging seamlessly with the other four before retracting into his body.
The absorption completed, the bottleneck of the Soul King realm shattered instantly. Lin Yun's soul power surged upward.
The immense energy of the hundred-thousand-year soul ring alone raised his level by three, reaching fifty-three. The residual medicinal potency from the immortal herbs then pushed him another three levels higher—to fifty-six.
If not for the Qirong Tongtian Chrysanthemum's soul bone being of relatively low age—and, moreover, a torso bone—absorbing it might have even elevated him to the Soul Emperor level.
At his current cultivation speed, even with daily use of heavenly treasures and assistance from the Sun Scripture, it would still take four to five months to advance a single level.
Without such extraordinary boosts, gaining five levels would have required at least a year and a half of hard cultivation.
This journey to the Ice-Fire Yin Yang Well had greatly accelerated his path to power.
With the soul ring fully absorbed and the turbulent energy settling, Lin Yun could now focus entirely on condensing his Soul Core.
The formation of a Soul Core was the first true threshold into the ranks of top powerhouses. In the original legends, Huo Yuhao was the first genius to form a Soul Core before reaching the ninetieth level; all others condensed theirs only upon breaking through at eighty-nine.
The Soul Core—was the mark of the strong.
Without sufficient foundation, one could never hope to condense a Soul Core. Either one waited patiently to reach the Title Douluo realm before forming it, or one would never touch that level in an entire lifetime.
Its difficulty was self-evident.
To absorb a soul ring while simultaneously forming a Soul Core—Lin Yun's actions were no different from walking on a tightrope over an abyss, where one wrong move could shatter him completely.
But as the saying goes, the bold feast while the timid starve. Without daring to go mad, how could Lin Yun ever hope to tame the even greater madness of the Golden Dragon King's bloodline?
As the Soul Core grew stronger, Lin Yun managed, just before it spiraled out of control, to focus his entire mind on subduing the Blood Essence Soul Core.
He steadied the turbulent blood energy with his soul power, while his spiritual strength soothed the unstable core, bringing both forces into balance.
The chaotic core stabilized, and streams of blood energy flowed into it in an orderly rhythm, nourishing its embryonic form. Under Lin Yun's control, what had once threatened to erupt into a nuclear explosion transformed into a stable, ever-generating fusion core.
A scarlet vortex.
From the outside, it resembled a black hole—surrounded by swirling currents of blood energy forming a crimson whirlpool. Yet within that black hole lay the true essence: a Soul Core condensed to the highest degree of vitality.
It was indeed the perfect metaphor—"nuclear explosion" or "nuclear fusion."
Either it would destroy him, or it would become a stable, limitless reactor of power.
With this Blood Essence Soul Core, Lin Yun's path to achieving a divine body was nearly assured, even if he never encountered another fortuitous opportunity in physical cultivation.
"Success!"
Peering inward, Lin Yun exhaled deeply as he saw the Blood Essence Soul Core revolving steadily in his lower dantian. The violent and frenzied emotions that had plagued his soul were now completely gone, signifying that he could wield the Golden Dragon King's power freely from this moment on.
Now, his martial soul could shift at will between the Golden Dragon and the Golden Dragon King. In ordinary times, he could conceal himself as the Golden Dragon, but in moments of crisis, a single thought would awaken the full divine might of the Golden Dragon King.
This transformation was permanent—unlike Bei Bei or Xu Sanshi, who had to burn their life force for brief awakenings.
A majestic dragon roar echoed through the heavens as Lin Yun's eyes snapped open. His blood-red vertical pupils radiated boundless dragon might, and even the Ice-Fire Yin Yang Well seemed shrouded in a crimson haze.
This was the true Golden Dragon King!
"I didn't expect you to succeed. It seems my wife and I have underestimated you," a calm yet astonished voice said with a faint chuckle.
The moment that voice sounded, all immortal herbs within the Ice-Fire Yin Yang Well—except for Lin Yun, the Ice Emperor, and Di Tian—instantly fell into slumber.
"Uncle Huo!"
(End of Chapter)
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