Douluo: Star Crown Glory

Chapter 52 Sacrifice
The night was shrouded in darkness, and the moonlight sprinkled on the lake. However, no one appreciated such a beautiful sight. Everyone by the Moon Lake was nervously staring at Xu Mingxi who was sitting cross-legged on the ground.

After swallowing the cockscomb sunflower, Xu Mingxi only felt an unknown burning sensation rising from the deepest part of his body, gradually spreading to his limbs and bones.

It seemed as if every part of his body was being burned by flames. Severe pain swept through his body. Xu Mingxi gritted his teeth and swallowed the painful wail that was about to burst out.

Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower is an extremely domineering Pure Yang Immortal Grass, and the Star Crown Martial Soul originally did not have any attributes related to it. Now, it is much more difficult to artificially mutate it than to evolve the martial soul.

The clan leader and others were paying attention to the movements around them, but their eyes involuntarily glanced at Xu Mingxi, only to see that his skin was red from being burned.

Xu Mingxi's entire body exuded a burning aura. With his body as the center, the plants around him had dried up and died. The four elders closest to him had to step back away from him.

Everyone waited from night to day, and from day to night. Under the sect leader's suspicious gaze, starlight came from all directions and gathered on Xu Mingxi.

The red skin gradually regained its color, and his expression changed from ferocious to calm. As the heat dissipated, Xu Mingxi slowly opened his eyes.

A golden light flashed, and Xu Mingxi's originally black eyes turned golden, neither sharp nor wantonly peaceful, but filled with a majestic aura.

Two pairs of golden eyes looked at each other, and the Yangyanwu let out a cry. A brilliant golden-red light spread from between its brows, transforming into a circle of golden-red halo that instantly spread out.

The blood-red flame burned on its body, burning up its life, burning up its cultivation, burning up everything it had, and transformed into a golden-red shadow that sank into Xu Mingxi's body.

In Xu Mingxi's sea of ​​consciousness, the figure of Yang Yanwu emerged and shattered directly. Only a remnant soul rushed out, gathering all the energy of its soul beast body and turning into a pitch-black soul ring.

"I have to obey the orders of the Venerable God. My remaining soul will reside in the spirit ring. Let me see how far you can go."

A clear female voice suddenly sounded in Xu Mingxi's ears. The words she spoke were thought-provoking, but he had no way to think about the deeper meaning behind them.

He was originally a level 70 Soul Emperor. Most of the medicinal power of the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower could not be transformed into soul power growth and was basically stored in the body. Now, under the sacrifice of Yang Yanwu, it was pulled out.

The two energies gathered in his body, constantly interweaving and entangled. Fortunately, they had the same properties, so Xu Mingxi did not explode and die, but severe pain broke out in his body, far more violent than before.

The pain almost made him faint. He wanted to bite the tip of his tongue to wake himself up, but due to his inexperience, he bit off a piece of flesh. The smell of blood filled his mouth, but fortunately he finally woke up a little.

Sweat kept oozing out from his head and was evaporated by the high temperature before it hit the ground. Xu Mingxi's body was constantly cycling between destruction and repair.

The starlight from all around flowed into his body, not only speeding up his recovery, but more importantly, as the starlight flowed through his meridians, the energy exploding in his body seemed to be sorted out, constantly merging, and gradually returning to normal.

Under the worried gazes of everyone, Xu Mingxi opened his eyes, his seventh soul ring lit up, and a huge star crown phantom emerged.

Everyone could clearly see that among the three gems in the middle of Xu Mingxi's star crown, the golden gem on the right was stained with a touch of bright red. At this moment, this golden-red gem was the brightest existence in the eyes of everyone at night. Even the silver gem on the left that gathered infinite moonlight could not cover its edge.

As Xu Mingxi raised his right hand, a golden-red light shone out from the star crown. The sect leader reached out to touch it. He felt a hint of gentleness from the light, but more of it was an overbearing heat.

"Mingxi, did you really succeed?"

"Yes, just as we thought, I can already use sunlight to a certain extent."

Xu Mingxi became very excited. He did not expect that his idea could actually succeed, but he soon calmed down. He wondered what Yang Yanwu meant by that sentence when he sacrificed himself.

Xu Mingxi could understand that after the death of a soul beast, a part of its soul would remain in the soul ring. If he had the chance in the future, he would definitely revive Yang Yanwu. But who was the Venerable God?

Looking up at the sky, in the night sky shrouded in darkness, only the bright moon and stars hung high. Xu Mingxi had some guesses about the supreme gods that Yang Yanwu mentioned. On this Douluo Continent, only those who could be called supreme gods by Yang Yanwu existed.

What he didn't know was that at the moment he absorbed the soul ring and began to control the sunlight, a goddess cast her eyes on him and added a new mark on his body.

With the death of Yang Yanwu, Moon Lake returned to peace. The giant tree on the island in the middle of the lake looked at Xu Mingxi with complicated eyes, and the face on the trunk disappeared, returning to its usual normal appearance.

Moon Lake is the junction of the core area and the inner area of ​​the Star Dou Great Forest. A hundred thousand year soul beast or even stronger soul beast may appear at any time.

Xu Mingxi and the two elders no longer recognized the path they took to obtain the fifth soul ring, so they could only choose to return along the scorch marks in the forest and the poison array left by Dugu Bo and set off on their journey home.

There were no blind soul beasts invading along the way. The sect leader led the team and galloped wildly in the Star Dou Great Forest. Just when they returned to the territory of the Yangyan Bird, a roar was heard not far away, attracting everyone's attention.

They didn't want to cause any trouble and wanted to leave the Star Forest as soon as possible. However, a sharp and even violent cry following the roar made Xu Mingxi, who was walking at the end, turn around suddenly.

He will never forget this cry, the cry that came from the giant-winged eagle martial spirit. The scabbed scar that almost ran through his entire back seemed to be a little painful at this moment, and the past events emerged in Xu Mingxi's mind.

"Master, wait, let's go over and take a look."

The Sect Master looked at Xu Mingxi's eyes filled with murderous intent and knew that there must be some person or soul beast in that direction that attracted him. It would not hurt to go and take a look. As the young Sect Master of the Xingguan Sect, it is better not to leave any loopholes in his mind.

Xu Mingxi stared at the direction where the roar came from, hatred bursting out in his heart, but he did not let it get to his head. He cautiously groped his way closer to the place where the sound came from, but the scene before him shocked him.

(End of this chapter)