Douluo Continent: My Martial Soul is the Black Dragon, I am the Lord of the Gods

Chapter 17 Black Dragon Devours Its Master?

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A little while later, the dinner that Dugu Yan had bought for five people was once again completely consumed by Xuanming.

"Are you...enough?" Dugu Yan asked somewhat uncertainly.

"That's enough, thank you." Xuanming was a little embarrassed, but he was really too hungry to stand it anymore.

This was the first time he had eaten his fill since his martial spirit awakened.

"Don't be shy, I'll go buy more if it's not enough," Dugu Yan said.

“That’s enough,” Xuanming said.

"That's good..." Dugu Yan observed Xuanming's body with great curiosity.

How can such a big child eat so much?
"What's wrong?" Xuanming asked.

"I'm wondering, where did you store all that food you ate?" Dugu Yan asked, stroking her chin thoughtfully.

It's no exaggeration to say that the chicken, duck, fish and meat she bought were almost as heavy as Xuanming himself!

Where did all that food go?
“Some soul beasts can eat food equivalent to several times their own weight. One meal can last for months, or even a year, without needing to eat anything else,” Ye Lan said.

“Soul masters who possess the corresponding martial souls of those soul beasts can also do similar things.”

"So amazing?" This was the first time Dugu Yan had ever heard of such a thing.

"However, these special attributes can only be obtained after a Soul Master reaches level 30," Ye Lan said.

The power of a beast spirit requires sufficient soul power to manifest; the more powerful the beast spirit, the higher the required soul power level.

Take the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex Martial Soul as an example. Starting from level 30, every time a Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex Soul Master obtains a Soul Ring, a dragon-like feature will appear on their body when using the Martial Soul. By level 70, they can truly transform into a dragon.

In other words, only when a Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Soul Master reaches level 70 can they truly achieve Martial Soul Possession and the unity of human and soul.

While other beast spirits don't exhibit the same dramatic changes as the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Spirit, the true difference in strength between spirits, whether beast spirit or weapon spirit, only becomes apparent at level 70.

Before level 70, the strength of one's martial spirit can influence the course of a battle to some extent, but not by much.

However, once you reach level 70 and activate your Martial Soul True Body, the true power of those powerful Martial Souls will be revealed.

Even among the same Martial Soul True Body, the Martial Soul True Body of a top-tier Beast Martial Soul like the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex can crush or even instantly kill most other Beast Martial Souls!

A seventh-ring Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Soul Saint would not be at a disadvantage even when facing most eighth-ring Soul Douluos.

“But he’s not even a Soul Master yet,” Dugu Yan said, puzzled.

"The martial soul has mutated," Ye Lan said.

"His mutation is not only in the parts you can see, but also in the parts you can't see."

"Most martial soul mutations are inferior; this is the first time I've seen one like his."

The two most representative martial soul mutations in the world of soul masters today are Yu Xiaogang, the son of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's sect leader Yu Yuanzhen, and Tang Yuehua, the daughter of the previous sect leader of the Clear Sky Clan.

"What are your parents' martial spirits?" Ye Lan asked.

"Dragon-type martial soul?"

“My mother has the Black Serpent Martial Soul, and my father has the Spear Martial Soul,” Xuanming said.

"Black snake?" Ye Lan frowned slightly.

"Dragons and snakes are essentially the same family. Although the probability of mutation is very low, it's not impossible, but..."

"What is the quality of your mother's martial spirit?"

“She’s not a Soul Master, and I don’t know either,” Xuanming said.

"Not a Soul Master?" Ye Lan was taken aback.

"What's wrong?" Dugu Yan asked, puzzled. Ye Lan sighed, "The mutation of a martial soul is always a two-way street."

"The inferior mutation that turns from strong to weak, although it weakens in strength, will also gain some special abilities as compensation."

"And the stronger the mutated martial soul becomes, the more troublesome its flaws become!"

"Some flaws are even fatal!"

Dugu Yan was taken aback. "This...is that not necessarily true?"

Ye Lan shook her head. "Perhaps. However, I've lived a long life and was a wanderer in the martial world when I was young. I've seen quite a few mutated martial soul masters, but without exception, they all follow this rule."

"If his mother's Black Serpent Martial Soul is powerful enough, then his mutated Black Dragon Martial Soul might be a mutated atavism of a Martial Soul bloodline, but if he's not even a Soul Master..."

"I hope I'm just overthinking it."

Aside from the two dragons behind her making the child look somewhat different from others, she hadn't yet discovered any other flaws in this martial soul mutation.

“Then perhaps the two dragons he can’t retract on his back are a defect of his Martial Soul mutation?” Dugu Yan said.

"Flaw?" Ye Lan paused.

"Is there anything about you two dragons that you find wrong?"

“Something’s not right…” Xuanming looked thoughtful.

"Maybe not."

“Didn’t you say that when they have a seizure, even you get beaten up?” Dugu Yan said.

"Would you consider this a flaw?"

Ye Lan was taken aback. "They're not under your control?"

“It is somewhat out of control,” Xuanming said.

"The night I awakened my martial soul, I was almost bitten to death by them while I was sleeping."

"But I fought with them, and I won, and they behaved themselves."

"Bite them to death? Didn't you say they were under your control?" Dugu Yan said.

“After that fight, he was under my control,” Xuanming said.

When he first awakened, the two dragons were indeed disobedient, but they didn't attack him intentionally. They simply went out of control and went crazy, unable to distinguish friend from foe.

But after the fight, the two dragons quieted down. Although they would still have problems when they encountered external stimuli, like when Chrysanthemum Ghost chased Dugu Bo and he was affected by the berserk state of his martial soul, the two dragons needed him to do his best to suppress it in order to barely stabilize them. But at least they would not attack him like they did at the beginning. At most, they would make a mistake like a cat's tail.

“That should be it,” Ye Lan said.

When she first saw Xuanming, she sensed the ferocity of his two black dragons, which were merely being suppressed.

Since these two black dragons attacked Xuanming, it means that after the martial soul mutated, the black dragons had a tendency to devour their master, or at the very least, there was a risk of them going out of control.

Whether it's a tendency to devour its master or a loss of control, it can be quite fatal if problems arise at critical moments!

"Your martial spirit is very dangerous. You should be more careful when cultivating in the future," Ye Lan said.

“Senior Dugu also mentioned this to me. He said that the risk of my martial spirit going out of control is very high, and that I should be careful,” Xuanming said.

"But I don't feel it's that big."

"Not that big?" Ye Lan found it somewhat amusing.

Even Dugu Bo said that the risk of losing control was very high, which means that the Black Dragon Martial Soul is extremely dangerous!

The child was able to suppress this ferocity because his willpower was strong enough to make the black dragon martial spirit obey him.

However, the child doesn't seem to have any self-awareness.

(End of this chapter)