Because hunting the dragon-horned lizard hadn't drained Mo Yuan's energy, he rested briefly before immediately sitting cross-legged on the ground, pulling the ten-thousand-year spirit ring to his head.
As Mo Yuan began to absorb it, wisps of black energy emanated from the dragon-horned lizard's ten-thousand-year spirit ring, transforming into streams of spirit power that emanated from his body. Three spirit rings, one yellow and two purple, then emerged, slowly rising and falling around him.
The immense spirit power surged through his meridians, flowing continuously and relentlessly. The intense pain caused Mo Yuan to frown slightly.
But compared to what was happening within his spiritual sea, the troubles of absorbing the ten-thousand-year spirit ring pale into insignificance.
The spiritual sea of an ordinary spirit master is like water, initially a trickle, transforming into a vast, boundless ocean as his spirit power and cultivation grow.
But Mo Yuan's spiritual sea was different.
Under the deep darkness of the night, heavy snow drifted across the endless black landscape. The cold flakes blanketed the towering peaks in the distance.
In the center of this land, gray tombstone after gray tombstone, inscribed with an unknown language, made the world seem desolate, cold, and desolate.
Death and the end seemed to be synonymous with this place.
Mo Yuan stood amidst the tombstones, gazing up at the distant sky. There, an uninvited guest appeared.
"Is this a soul shock? It certainly looks powerful..."
High in the sky, a dragon-horned lizard, shrouded in a solidified black resentment, floated ethereally, its eyes crimson with murderous intent as it roared at Mo Yuan.
"Roar!!!"
As if dead, the dragon-horned lizard was no longer restrained by its bloodline. The moment it saw Mo Yuan, it charged with fury!
Facing the overwhelming resentment, Mo Yuan maintained a profoundly calm expression, his tone calm and composed.
"Alas, my spiritual sea encompasses more than just you and me. There are others..."
As he spoke, a dragon-horned lizard in the sky, with a maddened grin and a monstrous rage, swooped down like a black meteor.
The distance between them rapidly closed, and the raging wind sent Mo Yuan's windbreaker careening.
"Roar!!!"
The dragon-horned lizard opened its bloody maw, its sharp teeth biting into Mo Yuan!
At this crucial moment,
the deep night suddenly began to violently tremble. A massive creature flashed through the dark sky.
The ensuing raging wind, swirling the drifting snow, transformed into a terrifying storm. A pair of massive black wings split the sky, casting a shadow across the ground!
Those massive black wings, adorned with countless white skulls, brought with them endless calamity and undeniable death!
A dragon!
A black dragon!
How majestic and terrifying, how ferocious and beautiful, how awe-inspiring yet suffocating.
Like Mo Yuan, its eyes were a dazzling golden brilliance! Flames seemed to stream from them, its head a crown like an emperor's, and its scales a deep black, almost inky black, as if sucking life from them! At this moment, the
Black King Nidhogg arrived, bringing undeniable death!
The dragon-horned lizard, which had been charging at Mo Yuan with a smirk, now lay prostrate at the ground, at his feet. Its body trembled madly, and even the overwhelming resentment that enveloped it vanished.
As someone with a trace of dragon blood in its veins, and having once witnessed a pure-blooded dragon, it knew the true power of a true dragon. But when it saw the black dragon in the sky, it realized it had been mistaken.
That was the true dragon! That was the true terror!
Its appearance symbolized the end and destruction of all things!
It was the embodiment of death and disaster!
Unfortunately... the dragon-horned lizard's kneeling couldn't render it invisible, much less allow it to escape certain death. A black dragon descended from the sky, bringing a hurricane. As the earth trembled, Nidhogg landed behind Mo Yuan.
Then, an even more terrifying gust of wind swept in! Nidhogg opened his mouth!
The trembling dragon-horned lizard offered no resistance, or perhaps it simply couldn't muster the desire to resist!
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The raging wind dissipated, its mouth closed, and the dragon-horned lizard's form vanished into Mo Yuan's spiritual sea.
Silence once again enveloped the black earth. Amidst the gray forest of tombstones, only Mo Yuan and Nidhogg's two pairs of golden eyes, one large and one small, still shone.
A chill wind ruffled a strand of Mo Yuan's hair. He turned to face the massive black dragon, a symbol of death. Gazing at its perfect form, seemingly crafted by a god, he sighed deeply,
"No matter how many times I see it, I can't help but be dazed. It's hard to believe Nidhogg is my martial spirit. No, it's the blood of the Black King Nidhogg..."
The blood of the Black King Nidhogg—this is the martial spirit of the time-traveling Mo Yuan.
In his previous life, Mo Yuan graduated from university at the age of twenty-two and entered the workforce. His hobby was reading novels. One day, after work, he struck it lucky and was reborn in the Heavenly Soul Empire of Douluo Continent.
His parents, both Soul Masters at the Soul Venerable level, died accidentally when Mo Yuan was five years old while hunting soul beasts for others.
Both of Mo Yuan's parents' spirits were ordinary bow-like weapon spirits. Initially, Mo Yuan thought his own spirit was similarly a bow, but after awakening, he discovered his mistake.
His spirit wasn't a bow, but dragon blood—the blood of Nidhogg!
This Nidhogg wasn't the black dragon from Norse mythology that devoured the World Tree on Blue Star, but the black dragon from the author's book, the Green-Faced Beast, that awakened and destroyed the world!
The same black dragon that created the White King, the Four Great Kings,
and the Emperor of all dragons! When his spirit awakened, Mo Yuan entered his own sea of consciousness, where he discovered a black dragon: the Black King Nidhogg!
However, something seemed off about this Black King. He wasn't like the Black King described in the original novel; Mo Yuan felt he was more of a vessel.
Upon meeting this terrifying Black King, he relayed some information to Mo Yuan.
Through this information, Mo Yuan learned that unlike all spirit masters, whose spirits hunted spirit rings to gain spirit skills, his own would also hunt spirit rings, but instead of spirit skills, he would obtain his blood.
Every time Mo Yuan reaches a higher realm, after obtaining a spirit ring, he can exchange blood with the Black King, replacing one-tenth of his blood with dragon blood and increasing its purity by 10%.
With dragon blood, Mo Yuan can use corresponding Word Spirits and gain knowledge of alchemy, depending on the purity and proportion of the dragon blood.
For example, at the third ring, Mo Yuan can use almost all Word Spirits below sequence number 70, as well as simple self-forging and elemental control alchemy.
Of course, due to changes in the rules, the release of Word Spirits is now linked to soul power, and the soul power consumed by Word Spirits increases with their power.
The reason he was able to use Sovereign Flame, sequence number 89, just now was because... he had a blood burst.
Through mental means, he suppressed the "human" part of his body and enhanced the "dragon" part. This is a blood burst, also known as the bloodline refining technique.
Mo Yuan used the Sovereign Flame only after a blood burst, increasing the dragon blood content and purity to 40%.
Of course, this blood burst has its side effects.
Unlike the "slow march to hell" in the original novel, which inevitably leads to certain death, using a single burst of blood only weakens him for a short period of time.
But it's only a single burst of blood. If Mo Yuan were to burst blood a fourth time, he could temporarily boost his strength to the point where he could wield Word Spirits like "Black Sun" and "Judgment." However, the price he pays is that he will be possessed by the Black King of the Sea of Spirit.
From then on, he dies, the Black King descends, and destroys this world.
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