Chapter 259 - Douluo: Emerald Poison Emperor [259]
The four Soul Masters who touched the threshold of divine-level spiritual power were, respectively, a Soul Master with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon martial soul, a Soul Master with the Fire Phoenix martial soul, a Soul Master with the Spirit Crystal martial soul, and a Soul Master with the Space-Time Ruler martial soul.
The Soul Master with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon martial soul was the one Chen Ming had just encountered. However, the Fire Phoenix Soul Master who had touched divine-level spiritual power was not the same one Chen Ming had seen earlier but was the ancestor of that Fire Phoenix Soul Master.
This Soul Master originated from the direct lineage of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon clan and was the biological child of the clan's leader at the time. When awakening his martial soul, he was born with innate full soul power. His background and innate talent were already among the top in the world. With a determined will and sharp intellect, he grew to become extraordinarily powerful.
More importantly, he was also someone blessed with an immense fortune, perhaps even the Child of Destiny of that era.
During his Soul Emperor stage, while traveling the continent, he encountered a 50,000-year-old Thunder Hell Prison Vine and absorbed it as his seventh soul ring. Beneath the remnants of the vine, he discovered the remains of a deceased Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon, from which he obtained a Dragon Core.
At level 80, he led others to hunt down and kill a 100,000-year-old Thunder Dragon, absorbing its 100,000-year soul ring and acquiring external soul bones for his claws.
At level 90, while exploring uncharted territories, he encountered a living 100,000-year-old Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon. After a fierce battle, he killed it and absorbed its soul ring and soul bone, devouring its dragon soul and body. Over the next 20 years, he ascended to the rank of Ultimate Douluo, with his spiritual power touching the threshold of the divine realm.
His strength at the time was unmatched on the continent. Even the High Priest of the Angel Clan was no match for him without using divine artifacts. However, he cared little for fame and fortune. Due to his frequent contact with the remnants of divine beasts, he remained oblivious to the concept of faith-based godhood and the power of belief.
In his understanding, the only path to godhood was one of improving the essence of life, as soul beasts did. Thus, after becoming an Ultimate Douluo, he chose to accumulate power and forcibly break through.
After dominating the continent for several centuries, his spiritual power broke through to the divine realm. However, his physical body had aged too much, and the immense spiritual power caused irreversible damage to his body. Even the strength of the continent's most powerful beast martial soul and the abilities of an Ultimate Douluo could not halt the gradual collapse of his physical form.
Of course, in Chen Ming's view, this was likely because the Douluo Plane's current level was no longer compatible with this path of life essence breakthroughs. Otherwise, as a Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Soul Master, his physical body should have reached the divine realm before his spiritual power did.
He could have used his spiritual power to prolong his life on the continent for hundreds or even thousands of years. However, after realizing that he had no hope of breaking through, he refused to cling to life any longer. Instead, he entered the Douluo Hall to await death.
Upon entering the Douluo Hall, his immense power immediately attracted the attention of the Angel God. He then engaged in a battle with the Angel God, enduring three strikes from the Angel God, who wielded the body of the million-year-old Emperor Auspicious Beast, before losing his ability to fight.
After learning of the Angel God's plan, he voluntarily joined her efforts, becoming her believer and guardian. Among the Ultimate Douluo under the Angel God's command, he was the strongest.
Chen Ming had heard of the legends surrounding this Ultimate Douluo. His actual experiences were not far from the legends.
However, because of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon clan's long-standing pride and the passage of time, most Soul Masters on the Douluo Continent, including Chen Ming, as well as the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon clan itself, believed that the legends were exaggerated. They thought someone couldn't have once dominated even the Angel Clan's successors and refrained from godhood purely out of disdain.
Today, Chen Ming discovered that such a powerful figure truly existed in history. A figure who genuinely refrained from godhood out of disdain.
If not for the Thunder God's divine position being shattered, Chen Ming believed that this individual would have easily claimed the Thunder God's divine position.
In Chen Ming's opinion, this person's growth path bore some resemblance to the future Yuhao. Except this person had no ties to the unfortunate Shrek Academy or the Tang God King. Moreover, although he too acquired a Dragon Core, he did not suffer the backlash that rendered him unable to stand upright. Though, in the end, the outcomes seemed to mirror each other in some ways.
As for the four Super Douluo, the Angel God provided a detailed introduction. However, to be honest, Chen Ming did not feel much connection to them. He simply remarked to the Angel God about the Flame Lion clan still being part of the Spirit Hall to this day.
After holding the Angelic Sacred Sword, the Angel God's remnant consciousness grew visibly more excited. Under Chen Ming's gaze, the Angel God gritted her teeth and extracted part of her origin power and will, feeding it to the Angelic Sacred Sword.
The Angelic Sacred Sword, which had absorbed the origin of the Auspicious Beast before it became a divine artifact and had also been refined by the Angel God's divine power, found the Angel God's origin power utterly irresistible.
If it weren't just a sword, it might have shown visible excitement. Otherwise, such a scene would have been too indecent to describe.
"I have secretly imbued part of my divine consciousness into the Angelic Sacred Sword. When you return the sword to its place, I will use the prayers of the current High Priest to secretly contact him."
"And as for you..."
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The Angel God hesitated. "You took such a great risk to enter the Douluo Hall. I ought to reward you; otherwise, not only would you feel disheartened, but I would also worry that you might report the Douluo Hall's secrets to the Divine Realm."
"Although if you did report this to the Divine Realm, the other four Divine Kings would certainly not spare the God of Asura lightly, and I might even regain my divine position or go even further. But the Douluo Plane's millennia of accumulation would..."
After explaining that exposing this matter to the Divine Realm would pose no personal risk to her, the Angel God continued speaking to Chen Ming.
"I see your soul power is likely around level 60 or so. It seems you've absorbed one... or perhaps two God-bestowed soul rings?"
"I've only absorbed one God-bestowed soul ring, which was given to me during your divine trial. It became my fifth ring. My sixth ring came from a fierce beast."
Chen Ming released his martial soul and demonstrated it to the Angel God.
Seeing Chen Ming's soul ring configuration of purple, purple, black, black, and red, the Angel God visibly froze. The five nearby titled Douluo, who had unknowingly risen to watch, were equally dumbfounded.
Wait, where are your first three soul rings? Are you not a titled Douluo with a soul ring configuration of yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black, black, and red, but instead a Soul Emperor who defies all logic from the very first ring?
And while we could tolerate your fifth soul ring having two golden lines as it was a God-bestowed ring, how in the world does your sixth ring have five golden lines? Are you telling us you killed a 500,000-year-old fierce beast and directly devoured its soul ring?
A 500,000-year-old beast and a 200,000-year-old beast are not in the same league at all!
Even Ultimate Douluo isn't as peerless as you—this is beyond ruthless!
Please tell us that this 500,000-year-old fierce beast willingly sacrificed itself to you out of despair. One of your rings alone exceeds the combined age of all of our spirit rings!
Initially, the Angel God had planned to offer Chen Ming three guaranteed 100,000-year God-bestowed soul rings and some soul bones to secure him and prevent him from leaking any information. However, after seeing that 500,000-year soul ring, the Angel God realized her initial offer was far too low.
This was no mere prodigy—this was a monster. Compared to his growth speed, her progress back then seemed far too conservative.
At less than 15 years old, Chen Ming was already a level 63 Soul Emperor with dual soul cores, a 500,000-year-old fierce beast ring, spiritual power approaching divine consciousness, and a body transitioning toward divinity.
Offering 100,000-year rings would now seem insulting. With his strength, hunting 100,000-year beasts would be as easy as slaughtering pigs.
No, this level of talent must not fall into the hands of the Divine Realm, especially the God of Asura.
The Angel God gritted her teeth, her gaze firm.
As an experienced deity who had seen the world's highs and lows, she made her decision.
She would raise the stakes!
Even if she had to empty the Douluo world's millennium-old treasury, the investment in this prodigy would be completely worth it.