Chapter 224 The Fallen Gangzi Meets the Golden Holy Dragon Luo Sanpao Again! The Holy Son of the Heavenly Beast Sect.
Meanwhile, in the Perfect World, in the Upper Realm.
Deep in a primeval forest shrouded in poisonous miasma year-round.
"Cough cough, damn it, what kind of hell is this place?"
A gaunt middle-aged man, dressed in rags, with disheveled hair and covered in terrifying claw marks of varying depths, stumbled and hid in a dark, damp cave.
This person was none other than Yu Xiaogang, the Douluo Continent theory master who had been forcibly captured by Tianmu and brought to the Perfect World not long ago.
When Yu Xiaogang was first born into this world, he was full of vigor and ambition.
He keenly sensed the outrageously dense spiritual energy in this place and believed that it was the perfect place for him to break through his lifelong inability to break through the level 29 destiny!
In order to completely say goodbye to his past self who was a good-for-nothing, he made an extremely crazy decision: to abandon Luo Sanpao and achieve his own success!
After all, in his self-righteous theory, Luo Sanpao was a defective product that failed to mutate, a pig that could only fart, and the culprit who dragged him down from becoming an unparalleled powerhouse!
Once he gets rid of this burden, in this spiritually rich high-dimensional world, Yu Xiaogang will definitely be able to rebuild his foundation and awaken a true top-level martial soul!
However, reality dealt him a harsh blow.
After losing Luo Sanpao, he lost even the last bit of soul power defense, and was completely reduced to a weak mortal who was not even as good as a child in the Great Wilderness.
In the past few days, he tried several times to hunt low-level ferocious beasts in the Great Wilderness to obtain the so-called soul ring. As a result, he was teased and chased by a red-eyed rabbit with a single horn for three mountains, and almost had his sternum crushed by a grazing armored sheep!
"I was careless..."
"The beasts in this higher-dimensional world, even the cubs without cultivation, have incredibly strong physical bodies."
Yu Xiaogang leaned against the rock wall, hissing in pain.
However, just as he was starving and dizzy, and was preparing to die in the cave.
An extremely pungent, fishy stench wafted from the depths of the cave.
Upon smelling the aroma, Yu Xiaogang was instantly energized and quickly endured the excruciating pain as he crawled over in the dark.
Using the faint light filtering through the cracks in the cave, he saw the carcass of a ferocious boar-like beast, as big as a small mountain, covered in stiff black hair!
The ferocious beast had clearly been dead for some time. Its fatal wound was in its abdomen, which appeared to have been ripped open by some kind of even more terrifying bird of prey, which had devoured its internal organs, leaving only a massive mutilated body and a pool of black blood.
In the eyes of the natives of the Perfect World, this was nothing more than a lowly black-armored hyena, whose meat was too tough even to be used as blood food.
But in Yu Xiaogang's eyes, this was simply a priceless treasure!
"What terrifying bone density! What astonishing residual malevolent energy!"
Yu Xiaogang was so excited that he trembled all over. He seemed to have forgotten the pain and pounced on it like a mad scholar, starting to measure the pair of huge fangs that looked like scimitars with his hands.
Feeling the metallic texture remaining on the dark hair, his eyes lit up, and at the same time, the sense of superiority as a master once again took over his mind.
"Based on my years of experience studying martial spirits and spirit beasts, judging solely from its size and the hardness of its bones, this boar-like ferocious beast was at least a terrifying existence of 100,000 years in its previous life!"
"Ten thousand years! Even in the heart of the Star Dou Great Forest, that would be absolute dominance!"
While Yu Xiaogang was frantically filling in the blanks in his mind, he also mercilessly dragged Luo Sanpao out of his mind and whipped his corpse.
"We're both pigs, but look at this guy's physique and tusks!"
"And look at that good-for-nothing Luo Sanpao, all he does is eat white radishes and fart! They're worlds apart!"
"Getting rid of that trash martial soul was truly the best decision I, Yu Xiaogang, have ever made in my life!"
After the initial excitement subsided, Yu Xiaogang immediately sat down cross-legged, closed his eyes, formed a strange hand seal, and began to wait patiently on the side.
He was waiting for this 100,000-year-old soul beast to extract that legendary 100,000-year-old soul ring, which was as red as blood.
But he waited and waited for two whole hours, and apart from the increasingly strong stench of the corpse making him dizzy, there was no sign of any spirit ring.
"No, this isn't Douluo Continent. The laws of heaven and earth are completely different here. There's no concept of spirit rings here!"
Yu Xiaogang suddenly opened his eyes, slapped his thigh, and finally realized the problem.
"But without a spirit ring, how can I absorb the power of this 100,000-year-old spirit beast?"
Yu Xiaogang frowned, and suddenly a word flashed through his mind that he had overheard the occasional passing local cultivators chatting on the edge of the Great Wilderness these past few days.
"Moving blood", "tempering the body", "refining qi and blood".
"Qi and blood, physical strength?"
Thinking of this, Yu Xiaogang's gaze slowly fell on the pool of black blood that had already congealed beneath the carcass of the black-armored hyena.
Even in the eight lower realms, large tribes in the Great Wilderness would use the true blood of ferocious beasts combined with various spiritual herbs to boil and have children bathe in the medicinal cauldron to temper their bodies.
Although the process is extremely painful, it lays an unparalleled foundation.
But Yu Xiaogang knew nothing about these things. He didn't even have a pot, let alone any supplementary medicine.
"Those who achieve great things throughout history have always endured hardship and toil!"
"To break free from the shackles of lower dimensions, the most extreme methods must be employed!"
Thinking of this, Yu Xiaogang gritted his teeth and, in front of the entire Douluo Continent, pounced directly on the pool of congealed black blood.
He scooped up the foul-smelling blood clots with both hands, closed his eyes, and forced back the nausea churning in his stomach, swallowing them down in large gulps like a wild beast drinking blood!
"vomit--"
The strong smell of earth and rotting flesh assaulted Yu Xiaogang's senses, making him want to vomit several times. However, he tightly covered his mouth and forced himself to swallow the pig's blood!
Because there wasn't enough blood to completely immerse him, he even frantically smeared the remaining semi-congealed blood on his thin chest, limbs, and cheeks like mud.
It looked exactly like a monster that had just crawled out of a cesspool.
However, this is, after all, the blood of even the lowest-level ferocious beast in a higher-dimensional world, and the violent essence contained within it is simply beyond the capacity of a Soul Master's fragile meridians on the Douluo Continent to withstand.
"Aaaaaah!"
The moment the pig's blood entered his stomach, Yu Xiaogang felt as if he had swallowed a burning ember!
A violent, ferocious aura began to surge wildly through his limbs and bones, tearing his muscles apart.
The excruciating pain was so intense that he rolled on the ground, and even fine beads of blood seeped from his skin.
But he persevered.
Driven by an extreme obsession with proving to the world that he was not a waste, he managed to survive this wave of blood and energy depletion.
Several hours later, Yu Xiaogang, lying in the blood and grime, slowly opened his eyes.
"Click-clack..."
Then, he struggled to his feet, and as he moved his limbs slightly, a crackling sound like popping beans came from his body!
He was horrified to discover that his broken sternum, which had been broken by a wild rabbit, had miraculously healed!
Even on his arms, which were originally as withered as twigs, muscles that were not there before had started to bulge.
He tried to clench his fist and slammed it against the rock wall beside him.
"Bang!"
He actually smashed a shallow crater into the hard rock!
And his fist didn't even break the skin!
"Hahaha, power! I feel the power!"
Looking at his hands, stained with the stench of pig's blood, Yu Xiaogang was so excited that he roared to the sky, tears streaming down his face along with the blood.
Although he hasn't even touched the threshold of the Blood Transformation Realm yet, and at most only has a few hundred or a thousand pounds of strength, in his own eyes, this is already a heaven-defying fortune that has transformed him completely!
"Facts have proven that my 'Perfect Douluo Theory' is absolutely correct!"
"There are no useless martial spirits, only useless soul masters!"
"As long as one dares to break with convention and directly devour the energy source of this higher-dimensional world, even a mortal can instantly become an immortal!"
"Getting rid of that useless burden, Luo Sanpao, is indeed the first step on my path to invincibility!"
Extreme self-confidence, or rather extreme arrogance, caused Yu Xiaogang to become completely inflated.
He now believes that given enough time, even the most powerful gods and immortals would bow down to him under his master's theories.
With this invincible aura, Yu Xiaogang casually wiped the blood off his body with a leaf, then strode out of the cave.
Completely unaware that some subtle changes had already occurred in her body.
...
He hadn't gone far when he encountered a group of local rogue cultivators hurrying along an ancient, desolate road.
Yu Xiaogang pricked up his ears and, with his slightly sharper hearing, caught snippets of what these people were saying.
"Hurry up! If we're late, we won't even get a sip of soup!"
"Have you heard? There's been unusual activity at the Sunset Burial Pit, three thousand miles ahead. It's suspected that ancient ruins have been discovered!"
"Not only that, I heard that even the geniuses of those reclusive sects have been alarmed!"
"It is said that the peerless holy son of the Heavenly Beast Sect has also rushed over there with his newly found companion!"
"A new companion? Could it be the Golden Sacred Dragon that the Heavenly Beast Sect has recently risen to prominence?!"
"That's right! It's the Golden Sacred Dragon! It's said that although the little guy is still in its infancy, it's golden all over, and its auspicious aura is soaring to the sky. As soon as it underwent bloodline advancement, it caused all beasts to submit to it, and it's being treated like a precious treasure by the Holy Son of the Heavenly Beast Sect!"
Sure enough, the moment Yu Xiaogang heard the words "Golden Sacred Dragon," he stopped abruptly in his tracks.
"Golden Sacred Dragon?"
"In this vast wilderness, someone actually dares to claim to possess the Golden Sacred Dragon?!"
Thinking about all this makes Yu Xiaogang want to laugh.
In this world, who understands the Golden Sacred Dragon better than Yu Xiaogang?
Back in Douluo Continent, he personally summoned the sacred and inviolable golden holy dragon phantom using the Golden Iron Triangle's martial soul fusion skill!
(End of chapter)