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

Chapter 69: Overfilled
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"From what you're saying, you've tried it?" Xuanming asked.

"My seventh spirit ring was also the opportunity for my Azure Phosphorous Serpent Martial Soul to evolve into the Azure Phosphorous Serpent Emperor. At that time, I acted impulsively and absorbed an Azure Phosphorous Serpent Emperor with more than 50,000 years of cultivation," Dugu Bo said.

"Although I succeeded by chance, I never want to recall that feeling in my life."

For Beast Soul Masters, if they can encounter a Soul Beast that corresponds to their own Martial Soul and is of similar age, almost no one will give up!

Sometimes, even if people know they don't have the ability, many people will still try.

Absorbing that kind of spirit ring not only provides an incredibly powerful boost, but also brings many unexpected benefits. If successful, the future is promising.

But if we fail, we will die without a burial place!
“I heard from Yan Yan that your first spirit ring is eight hundred years old, which means you have already experienced that feeling once,” Dugu Bo said.

"You don't necessarily want to do it again, do you?"

"I don't want to," Xuanming said.

"But some things, whether I want to do them or not, have little to do with whether I do them or not."

When he absorbed that eight-hundred-year-old spirit ring last time, he felt like he was about to die. If it weren't for the Blood Spear's devouring properties, which reduced the pressure on him to fuse spirit rings in the mid-to-late stages, he might already be dead.

He doesn't have masochistic tendencies, and he doesn't want to experience something so dangerous again.

"Are you so eager for power?" Dugu Bo asked.

"Would you really take such a huge risk to gamble?"

Absorbing a Limit Soul Ring, to put it bluntly, is not much different from gambling!
No one who has absorbed a limit spirit ring dares to say that they could succeed in persisting if they did it again.

“I don’t crave power, I just need it,” Xuanming said.

"You know I'm unlucky. My bad luck might strike at any time, and I'll have to experience life hanging by a thread again."

"I don't want to regret it later. If I had taken a chance in the past, maybe that kind of thing wouldn't have happened."

"Your temperament is quite surprising. It would be great if you could change that temper a bit more," Dugu Bo said.

"Then why didn't you join the Spirit Hall before?" Xuanming asked.

"Your skills are quite good, but it would be even better if you could change your temper a bit."

Dugu Bo's eye twitched slightly. "Do you know what your biggest weakness is?"

“Temperament?” Xuanming asked.

"No, it's your mouth!" Dugu Bo said speechlessly.

If this kid didn't have this mouth and was mute, he would be perfect!

"Hmm?" Dugu Bo suddenly stopped and looked into the depths of the darkness.

Xuanming followed Dugu Bo's gaze and, with his powerful night vision, clearly saw a pair of vertical pupils, gleaming with an eerie light, staring at them from the bushes a hundred meters away.

Because he was searching for thousand-year-old soul beasts, Dugu Bo suppressed his aura to the point that he could only expel hundred-year-old soul beasts.

It seems the other party sees them as prey.

"What kind of soul beast is that?" Xuanming asked.

“The Thunder Python with the bloodline of a thunder dragon is an extremely ferocious hunter among thousand-year-old soul beasts,” Dugu Bo said. “If the time is right, you can be considered to have your luck turned around.”

Xuanming was somewhat puzzled, but before he could say anything, a strong sense of palpitation suddenly surged up!

On instinct, Xuanming summoned the Blood Spear, gripped it tightly in his hand, and held it diagonally in front of him.

In his gaze, blue and white lightning suddenly gathered on the body of the Thunder Python, which was a hundred meters away. Its coiled body exerted force, and the giant python, as thick as a bowl, flew from the air like a white lightning bolt, as if it would rush to his eyes in the next second.

Under this intense threat, Xuanming subconsciously released a white light domain to defend against it.

But the white lightning bolt flying through the air was not affected after it rushed into the area.

"What are you panicking about?" Dugu Bo instantly released a powerful soul force, which transformed into a wall of void, blocking the sudden attack of the Thunder Serpent.

"Your domain has a great disruptive and suppressive effect on unsuspecting people, but it is not very effective against things whose power has already been unleashed."

As he spoke, a ghostly green light flashed in Dugu Bo's eyes. The Azure Phosphorus Serpent King's Poison directly invaded the body of the Thunder Python through his soul power, and in just a few breaths, it was half-dead from the poison.

Xuanming looked at the Thunder Serpent with a slight tremor in his heart.

What kind of crazy speed is this?

“The Thunder Python, this kind of soul beast can transform its own lightning attribute power into the ultimate acceleration effect. Once it launches a surprise attack, it is like lightning breaking through the sky. During this time, the lightning on its body surface will also condense into lightning wings,” Dugu Bo said.

"The lightning wings that a hundred-year-old Thunder Serpent can only be used as an acceleration aid, a thousand-year-old one can achieve short-term flight, and ten thousand-year-old one is almost equivalent to having grown wings."

"Moreover, their heads have exceptionally hard armor, and if they are attacked and collided with without warning, they will be either killed or maimed."

"Unfortunately, this Thunder Serpent is nearly three thousand years old, so you can't use it."

Even a Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Soul Master who needs to hunt for his fourth Soul Ring would hesitate if he encountered the Thunder Python, which is nearly three thousand years old!
While the age of a spirit ring is important, if the attributes of the spirit beast and the spirit itself are compatible, it can often make up for the difference in the age of the spirit ring, and may even provide a greater boost than a spirit ring with a higher age.

"What are you doing?" Dugu Bo looked at Xuan Ming with suspicion as he pierced the eyes of the Thunder Serpent with a blood spear, killing it.

Xuanming sensed the blood spear that had begun to devour the Thunder Serpent and looked at the slowly rising purple soul ring. "You said my limit is 2,500, but that's just a rough range, isn't it?"

Dugu Bo narrowed his eyes. "Are you crazy? The limit of spirit rings can only go down, absolutely not up. Even if you exceed it by the slightest bit, you will surely die!"

There is no room for moderation at the limit; excess leads to overflow! And overflow inevitably leads to death!
"Probably not." Xuanming closed his eyes and began to draw in and absorb the soul ring.

"You!" Dugu Bo's face darkened.

"If you die here, I'll be the one who suffers!"

"Then you'd better take good care of me, and don't let me die here." Xuanming said his last words before concentrating on absorbing the soul ring.

The violent energy of the soul ring surged into the blood spear, impacting Xuanming's body and causing him to tremble uncontrollably.

Seeing this, even though Dugu Bo was very unhappy, he could only wait to the side, releasing his aura to drive away the surrounding soul beasts.

The two thousand five hundred he mentioned was indeed a conservative estimate. After all, he knew this kid was rebellious and would never agree to less than what he said; he would only ask for more.

If it were an ordinary soul beast, it wouldn't matter, but the soul ring energy of this kind of soul beast with a powerful bloodline is incomparable to that of an ordinary soul beast's soul ring.

Although this Thunder Serpent is less than three thousand years old, the danger of absorbing it is absolutely no less than that of those soul rings that are three or four thousand years old!
I should have stayed out of this mess!

Yan Yan! You've caused Grandpa so much suffering!

(End of this chapter)