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The power of time surged within the silver bubble upheld by the Forest Sea Space, repeatedly washing and purifying the seven-colored dragon soul clouds and dragon essence that had been condensed to their utmost essence, bringing them infinitely close to a pure energy form.
The black hole vortex formed by Ultimate Devouring intertwined with the Gravity Vortex, functioning like an efficient centrifuge, further separating and refining the mixed energies.
In this ocean of energy composed of the final legacy of the dragon race, Gu La's avatars underwent their respective transformations.
Following the evolution of Bai Yuan and Bo Xi's spirit souls, the next to undergo a qualitative change was Yin Wansheng.
His spirit soul—the Yin-Yang Two-Headed Dragon—was already a powerful entity containing dragon lineage.
Now, under the nourishment of the vast and pure Yin-Yang dragon essence from numerous fallen true dragons, it thrived as if experiencing a drought-ending rain.
The two ferocious dragon heads emitted excited hisses, their bodies wildly writhing and expanding in the seven-colored energy.
The distinction between the black scales and white scales became more pronounced, exuding the pure essence of Yin and Yang. The dragon horns became even more rugged and sharp, and dragon claws began to emerge from beneath their abdomens!
"Roar—Aaaah—!!!"
Accompanied by two distinct yet harmonious dragon roars, the Yin-Yang Two-Headed Dragon's body underwent a tremendous transformation.
The pitch-black Yin Dragon and the pristine Yang Dragon completely separated yet remained tightly connected, forming a Yin-Yang True Dragon with its head and tail joined, continuously cycling Yin and Yang!
No longer a mere dragon serpent—it had become a true dragon! The dragon majesty it exuded was no less than that of the powerful true dragon souls outside.
The evolution of the spirit soul fed back into the martial soul.
Yin Wansheng's Yin-Yang Ghost King martial soul vibrated intensely. The Yin and Yang forces within the martial soul foundation reached an unprecedented perfect balance under the influence of the vast dragon essence and the stimulation of the spirit soul's evolution.
It was no longer a conflict between eerie ghostly aura and holy light but transformed into a profound and mysterious Tai Chi state that embraced all things.
His soul power skyrocketed like a rocket, breaking through three levels consecutively. However, knowing the importance of a solid foundation, Yin Wansheng immediately activated a secret technique, guiding the surging soul power and dragon essence to compress and condense furiously within his dantian core.
Buzz—!
A Yin-Yang soul core, flowing with dual Yin and Yang energies and exuding a stable-as-a-mountain yet agile-as-the-wind aura, successfully condensed.
At the moment the soul core formed, it forcibly suppressed his rapidly growing soul power back to the critical point of level fifty-three. However, the purity, total amount, and control over Yin and Yang powers had undergone earth-shattering changes.
The road ahead was now wide open!
Next, Mu Yi's transformation began.
His spirit soul, Adamantine Wood, after absorbing massive amounts of dragon cloud and dragon soul essence imbued with dragon blood, underwent a dramatic change in form.
The originally iron-hard branches were covered with fine dark golden dragon scale patterns. The roots grew thicker and more twisted, deeply embedding into the bottom of the energy pool like dragon claws gripping the ground.
On the tree canopy, instead of ordinary leaves, "Dragon Blood Divine Leaves" resembling dragon scales, shimmering with metallic luster and intense life force, crystallized.
The Adamantine Wood spirit soul—evolved into the Dragon Blood Divine Tree, a top-tier plant-type spirit soul comparable to true dragons.
The feedback from the spirit soul's evolution was terrifying. The abundant dragon blood essence surged into Mu Yi's body like a flood, ruthlessly tempering his physical form.
His bones cracked loudly, increasing in density. His muscle fibers were wrapped around by dragon tendons, becoming incredibly resilient.
Faint traces of dark golden patterns akin to Dragon Blood Divine Tree leaves appeared on his skin. Under the nourishment of the Dragon Blood Divine Tree spirit soul, his physique strength soared instantly, rivaling that of initial Title Douluo-level warriors.
His sheer physical defense was not inferior to wearing two-character battle armor!
Simultaneously, his main martial soul—stimulated by dragon essence—spontaneously initiated a Golden Awakening.
The martial soul's phantom appeared behind him, seemingly cast in gold, exuding a sacred and immense vitality and natural majesty.
The Golden Awakening-enhanced martial soul voraciously devoured dragon blood essence like a bottomless pit, accumulating a strong foundation for future breakthroughs.
Liu Niandao's situation was unique; he possessed twin martial souls: the Tool martial soul Twelve Nine-Leaf Flying Knives and the mental martial soul Psychic.
Neither could evolve through the Ancient Memory soul skill or trace back to their bloodline origins. Gu La focused on his two spirit souls.
His weapon martial soul's spirit was a sentient metal life born from a top-tier "Soul-Refined Metal."
At this moment, this metal spirit was submerged in a seven-colored furnace formed by countless true dragon souls, dragon blood essence, and dragon essence!
The extremely pure dragon origin energy acted like the hottest flame and the most powerful forging hammer, fiercely scouring and tempering this metal spirit soul.
Impurities were removed from the metal, and its sentience rapidly increased under the nourishment of dragon souls. The internal structure of the metal became more perfect and dense under the flushing of dragon essence, faintly exuding a divine glow beyond the mundane.
It was only one step away from the legendary Heavenly-Refined realm!
Only when Mu Yi's forging skills broke through to the eighth-level Saint Craftsman level would there be an opportunity to harness its power, invoking the forces of heaven and earth to complete the ultimate Heaven-Forging, clearing all obstacles for ascending to a million-year spirit soul.
Meanwhile, this process greatly benefited Mu Yi's understanding of the mysteries of Heaven-Forging, undoubtedly aiding his advancement to the ninth-level Forging Master realm years earlier.
His psychic spirit soul—the Evil Eye Tyrant—took another path.
The Evil Eye Tyrant race was gifted, and this particular one excelled in mentally interfering with reality. However, they weren't stronger with more attributes; quite the opposite, the purer and more singular their attributes, the higher their mental potential and strength.
Gu La precisely controlled the energy flow, guiding those remnants of powerful true dragons possessing single-element attributes to act like whetstones, using their pure elemental essence to repeatedly scour and temper the miscellaneous secondary attributes within the Evil Eye Tyrant spirit soul, such as fire, ice, and wind.
"Hiss—!"
The Evil Eye Tyrant spirit soul let out a painful hiss, but its main body—the large, terrifying eye filled with formidable mental power—grew brighter and purer.
The light from the tentacles and secondary eyes gradually dimmed and receded. Ultimately, all secondary attributes were forcibly stripped away and annihilated, leaving only the purest, most domineering mental attribute!
Its form became more condensed and restrained, the main eye deep as a black hole, exuding a chilling mental fluctuation.
Its potential now rivaled that of its ancestors, the terrifying existence that once ruled the demonic forest—"Evil Emperor, Overlord of the Evil Eyes"!
Finally, it was the turn of the sole female avatar, Qing Luli.
Her martial soul was the most enigmatic and hardest to transform: the Pure Jade Heart Lamp, with her spirit soul being the even more sinister "Harmful Heart Beast"!
This was an intangible and formless demon that fed on the negative emotions and mental vulnerabilities of living beings.
Contrary to suppressing it, Gu La guided the remnants of fallen true dragons, filled with resentment, hatred, and violence, to nurture the Harmful Heart Beast like raising a venomous insect.
"Jejeje—!"
Under the endless nourishment of dragon soul resentment, the Harmful Heart Beast emitted a spine-chilling shriek.
Its form became more solid and terrifying, gradually coalescing from a vague shadow into a figure with twisted horns, clad in broken dragon scale phantoms, with eyes burning with eerie green soul flames—a "True Demon of Harmful Heart."
Its demonic might was overwhelming, emitting a spiritual pollution capable of driving those with weak minds instantly insane.
Its greatest characteristic was being "pervasive" and "betrayal-inducing."
As long as living beings were nearby, it could bypass spatial barriers, silently planting thoughts of betrayal, suspicion, and greed deep within their hearts, inciting internal chaos.
More terrifying was its extremely bizarre nature; ordinary soul contracts couldn't fully restrain it.
It even had the ability to deceive the contract and disobey commands without severe backlash after paying a certain price.
However, Qing Luli was well-prepared for this.
Her Pure Jade Heart Lamp martial soul was the natural nemesis of such dark, corrupt, and mental demons.
In a world where mental will cultivation was generally overlooked, this pure purification force targeting the mind was even more effective than sacred attributes.
Just as the True Demon of Harmful Heart coalesced, at its peak demonic might, and attempted to betray its master, Qing Luli's eyes snapped open.
The Pure Jade Heart Lamp in her hand suddenly burst forth with unprecedented brilliance.
"Purifying World Jade Light!"
Nine columns of pure, flawless jade light, imbued with great wisdom, compassion, and purity, shot out from the lamp, instantly intertwining into a blooming, enormous "Nine-Colored Jade Lotus," firmly enveloping the newly formed True Demon of Harmful Heart.
"Hiss-hiss-hiss—!"
Like a hot branding iron pressed onto ice.
The thick demonic energy, resentment, and negative energy of dark dragon souls on the True Demon of Harmful Heart emitted piercing wails under the illumination of the Jade Lotus, rapidly dissolving and evaporating.
The demon writhed in pain, attempting to bewitch Qing Luli, but the light of the nine-colored lotus acted like the strongest barrier, isolating all evil thoughts.
Qing Luli sat cross-legged at the center of the lotus pedestal, solemn and dignified, chanting profound purification mantras. The lamp's light grew increasingly intense.
This mental confrontation lasted for a long time. In the end, under the absolute suppression of the Nine-Lotus Treasure Lamp, the demonic body of the True Demon of Harmful Heart was thoroughly purified and dispersed, leaving only the purest, refined essence of heart power.
That was the residue of countless absorbed and transformed negative emotions and dragon souls, free of impurities—"Heart Essence."
Simultaneously, its intelligence attempting to betray the contract was completely erased, leaving behind only a powerful, pure, and fully controlled spirit soul essence.
Qing Luli inhaled sharply, drawing all this vast and pure heart essence and spirit soul essence into her body.
Her Pure Jade Heart Lamp martial soul trembled violently. At the lamp's core, a brilliant lotus seed quietly bloomed, swiftly growing into nine sacred lotuses of various forms and colors, slowly rotating around the core.
Pure Jade Heart Lamp—evolved into the Nine-Lotus Treasure Lamp.
The light of the nine lotuses can illuminate all darkness in the hearts of men, dispel all kinds of evil influences, and protect the pure land of the mind from dust!
Thus, all six of Gu La's avatars completed the evolution of their spirit souls, and their martial souls also gained varying degrees of enhancement or sublimation.
Gu La's true form also used this vast dragon soul essence to reforge and strengthen his own physique, completing a deep transformation. His blood essence was like a blazing furnace, each movement containing the power to tear apart space.
The colorful liquid energy pool gradually dried up, and the huge dragon cloud vortex in the sky slowly dissipated.
The dragon essence in the entire dragon tomb area had noticeably thinned, and the true dragon souls were now less than one-tenth remaining. This gluttonous feast, which had lasted for an unknown duration, finally approached its end.
Approximately seven days after the opening of the Dragon Valley.
From the direction of the core dragon tomb valley, a dazzling nine-colored pillar of light shot into the sky, then slowly receded.
A powerful and complex intent swept across the entire Dragon Valley, carrying relief, decisiveness, and a touch of indescribable fatigue. That was Gu Yue's presence—she had successfully absorbed the core power left by the Dragon God.
Immediately afterward, the entire small world of the Dragon Valley began to violently quake.
Spatial laws were forcibly rewritten and peeled away by a powerful will.
Gu La clearly felt that the Dragon Valley was detaching from Douluo Star's spatial coordinates, being pushed towards an unknown depth of the universe by some force.
"It's time to leave." Gu La immediately issued an order.
The silver bubble domain instantaneously contracted. The Forest Sea Space closed.
All the avatars' presences were instantly masked and concealed by Gu La's powerful telekinetic force. They moved like seven shadows blending into the environment, silently rushing towards the entrance of the Dragon Valley.
Almost simultaneously, the spatial repulsion force of the Dragon Valley erupted abruptly.
All life forms not belonging to this fragile small world were forcibly "pushed" out by an irresistible force.
Outside the Dragon Valley entrance, in the mountain forest.
Space twisted momentarily, and the battered Tang Wulin and Dai Yun'er were tossed out like garbage, heavily crashing to the ground, still unconscious.
Subsequently, several other figures from the Tang Sect were thrown out.
Just as the spatial fluctuations were about to subside, seven barely perceptible spatial ripples flashed past.
Gu La and his six avatars vanished on the spot upon landing, having prepared their telekinetic concealment and future premonition to mask their presence, leaving no trace behind.
When the Tang Sect's strong responders, Black One and Wu Lao (Elder Wu), arrived, they only saw the unconscious Tang Wulin, Dai Yun'er, and a few other Tang Sect disciples, along with a chaotic ground.
They vigilantly surveyed the surroundings but found nothing.
What shocked them was that the closure time of the Dragon Valley had significantly advanced, and the appearance of violent spatial fluctuations just moments ago indicated that something major had occurred within the Dragon Valley.
Wu Lao and Black One quickly revived the Tang Sect disciples. Tang Wulin recovered astonishingly fast, among the first to wake up: "What happened?"
He felt dizzy, sensing that he had slept for a very long time, but had no recollection of what transpired during that period.
Fortunately, he possessed the Golden Dragon King bloodline. Even while unconscious, dragon souls and dragon clouds naturally gathered and tempered his physique and blood essence.
Black One asked around, but no one knew what had happened.
Wu Lao's face darkened; he could no longer sense the existence of the Dragon Valley small world, signifying that the Tang Sect had lost a major treasure trove, and the losses to the Star Luo branch were immense!
Wu Lao decided against guarding the Dragon Valley anymore. After some discussion, the two agreed to send the Tang Sect disciples back and report upwards. The disappearance of the Dragon Valley was a matter of grave importance, and they couldn't handle it alone.
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