Di Tian stood silently by the bedside, looking down at Tang Wulin who was deeply asleep on the bed.
Moonlight filtered through the gaps in the curtains, casting faint shadows on the still-youthful face of the boy.
However, Di Tian's gaze at this moment appeared unusually grave.
This gravity did not stem from any sudden compassion making him reluctant to act.
For the grand plan of his clan, erasing the existence of a mere human boy would not stir too many ripples in his heart.
What made him feel the situation was thorny was that this matter seemed far more complicated than he had anticipated.
Initially, he thought extracting the Golden Dragon King's Bloodline power from the body of a human boy who was merely a one-ring Spirit Master would be a simple task.
However, after conducting a meticulous probe with his Divine Sense and spirit power just now, he realized the situation was far from that.
That Divine Core, containing the Golden Dragon King's violent Origin, had actually fused deeply with the boy's flesh, blood, Meridians, and even his Soul's Origin in a way Di Tian had never seen before!
It wasn't a simple parasitic attachment; it was more like a form of symbiosis.
The difficulty of completely and thoroughly separating it far exceeded his initial estimate.
However, Di Tian never intended to preserve the boy's life. Since he didn't need to worry about the host's survival, his methods could be more direct and violent.
With his hundreds of thousands of years of cultivation and profound understanding of Dragon Clan power, he felt he should be able to accomplish the task entrusted to him by his master if he acted decisively.
"Boy," Di Tian thought indifferently to himself, "blame your ill fortune for bearing something that should never have belonged to you."
Then, he slowly raised his right hand, fingers slightly spread.
In his palm, a wisp of pure, pitch-black spirit power quietly emerged, condensed as fine as silk.
The next moment, this wisp of black spirit power, along with his mental force, silently vanished into the space between Tang Wulin's eyebrows.
With a calm expression, Di Tian guided that refined spirit power, probing deep into Tang Wulin's body towards the point of connection with the Golden Dragon King's Divine Core.
However, just as the tip of the spirit power was about to touch the edge of the Divine Core radiating violent golden light... Di Tian's expression suddenly changed drastically!
The connection between him and that wisp of spirit power was abruptly severed in an instant!This sudden turn of events caught him off guard, and Di Tian instinctively tried to pull back and retreat.
But before he could even react, Tang Wulin, who had been lying quietly on the bed, suddenly floated into the air!
Tang Wulin's body flipped in mid-air, assuming a posture of standing suspended in space.
He lowered his head slightly, "looking" down at Di Tian by the bedside from a superior angle.
At this moment, in Di Tian's perception, the aura emanating from Tang Wulin had undergone a complete and earth-shattering transformation!
If before, he was just an ordinary human Spirit Master boy.
Then now, what radiated from his body was a vast, majestic, and terrifying pressure!
This pressure wasn't ostentatious, yet it enveloped the entire space like an invisible Domain in an instant.
Di Tian felt his own body was immobilized by this aura; he couldn't move at all now!
The tightly shut eyelids of "Tang Wulin" slowly lifted.
What was revealed, however, were not the boy's clear, bright eyes.
Within those eye sockets, pupils and whites were gone, replaced only by a pure, deep, watery blue hue!
The gaze was icy, devoid of emotion, like a deity high above, indifferently watching the creature below.
Simultaneously, intensely blazing golden light erupted from "Tang Wulin's" body, instantly illuminating the entire dim dormitory room with a brilliant golden glow!
Though unclear about the cause of this incredible turn of events, the completely out-of-control situation before him made Di Tian, the Lord of all Spirit Beasts, feel his heart sink heavily, waves of shock crashing within!
What shook him even more profoundly was that the aura emanating from "Tang Wulin" at this moment... he had only ever felt it from his master, the Silver Dragon King!
Without a doubt, the power displayed by the boy before him was definitely not something any human Spirit Master on the continent could possess!
"Tang Wulin," standing suspended in the air, slowly raised his right hand, pointing a finger towards Di Tian from a distance.
The tip of his finger glowed faintly as an extremely condensed, dazzling beam of light burst forth from it without warning!
That radiance was not spirit power, but a force of a higher level.
Di Tian's pupils contracted to pinpoints, phantom dragon scales reflexively appeared all over his body, his protective spirit power and formidable Physical Body instinctively pushed to their limits!
However, before this beam of light, all his defenses were like thin ice under sunlight, shattering upon contact!
"BOOM!!!"
An overwhelmingly powerful force squarely struck Di Tian's chest!
Di Tian's tall frame was instantly sent flying backward!
The incredibly sturdy dormitory wall shattered and collapsed like paper under his impact, bricks and stones flying, dust billowing!
His body's momentum didn't diminish, crashing through several walls in succession. Amidst deafening roars, he forcibly blasted a passage through the dormitory building, finally smashing into the open ground outside the Donghai Academy dormitory!
The ground shook violently. Under the impact, a massive crater over ten meters in diameter and several meters deep abruptly formed!
Dirt and rubble shot into the sky. Di Tian's figure was deeply embedded at the bottom of the pit, the surrounding ground covered with terrifying, spiderweb-like cracks.
"Pfft!"
A mouthful of scalding blood, no longer suppressible, violently sprayed from Di Tian's mouth, splattering a stark dark gold color at the bottom of the pit.
The clothing on his chest was completely shredded. On the exposed skin, a bone-deep wound slowly seeped blood. The edges of the wound retained faint blue-gold specks of light that were still eroding his flesh and Spirit Power.
The intense pain and the turmoil within his internal organs were far less than the shock in his heart!
Deep within those dragon eyes, now slightly dimmed from injury, uncontrollable terror welled up.
Simultaneously, four words instantly surfaced in his mind!
Sea God's Light!
Twenty thousand years ago, during that Battle of tthe Three Gods that decided the continent's fate, even from deep within the core area of the Star Dou Great Forest, Di Tian had distantly sensed this power!
That was the signature power of the Sea God; he absolutely could not be mistaken!
He had thought this trip would be a simple task, retrieving power that rightfully belonged to the Dragon Clan for his master.
He never expected that within this seemingly ordinary human boy's body, not only did the Golden Dragon King's Divine Core lie dormant, but the Sea God had also left behind such a terrifying contingency measure!
This turn of events completely disrupted everything!
Those watery blue eyes of "Tang Wulin" calmly looked past the hundred-meter distance and the billowing dust, gazing into the deep pit.
When he saw that the injured figure had not perished on the spot but was instead struggling to rise, the space around it beginning to distort violently—clearly preparing to tear through space and escape—a trace of gravity crossed that perpetually indifferent and unperturbed face for the first time.
"To withstand a strike of my Seagod's Light and not die... even though it was just a Clone that acted!"
"Tang Wulin" thought to himself. Those on the continent capable of this should be few and far between.
That's right. Naturally, the one currently controlling this body was not Tang Wulin.
It was his biological father, the Sea God, Tang San!
More precisely, it was a Avatar left by Tang San on his son's body to protect him!
The power of this Avatar diminished with each use and could not be replenished from the outside world.
Therefore, even though he knew the other party was about to escape, he did not continue to attack.
He could only watch helplessly as the tall figure's body surged with intense black light, space cracked open like a shattered mirror, and the figure vanished into it, disappearing without a trace.
"Damn it! How dare you disrupt my Ten Thousand Year plan!"
Driven by Tang San's consciousness, Tang Wulin's still-youthful, even somewhat pretty face now displayed a ferocity utterly incongruent with his age.
A chilling killing intent spread from those watery blue eyes.
Tang San's voice issued from Tang Wulin's throat.
"You who hide your head and show your tail... you'd better not let me find out who you are."
"Otherwise... I will definitely grind your bones to dust and annihilate your soul!"
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A/N:
5 Power Stones = 1 Extra Chapter
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