Douluo Continent: Gretchen at the start, empowered by the Star God.

Chapter 7 First Martial Soul Evolution

"The last immortal herb..." Lang Lei took out the Earth Dragon Golden Melon. He could feel that his first martial soul was yearning for the power of this immortal herb.

The Earth Dragon Golden Melon can enhance the user's sensitivity to the earth, and has an extremely powerful strengthening effect on earth element martial souls.

It's a pity that Lang Lei's first martial soul and bloodline have nothing to do with the dragon race, otherwise his bloodline could probably be purified.

Without much hesitation, Lang Lei consumed the Earth Dragon Golden Melon, and golden light gradually enveloped him.

"So beautiful..." Gretchen murmured as she lay in bed looking at this side, and then fell silent again.

Lang Lei, who absorbed the immortal herb this time, clearly felt a slight pain in his body, and the pain became more and more intense as time went on.

Lang Lei forced himself not to cry out. His martial spirit automatically appeared, enveloping him layer by layer, leaving only a small gap for him to breathe.

Since he had not acquired a soul ring, Lang Lei's level could not be increased temporarily. Therefore, Lang Lei once again chose to transfer the extra pure soul power in his body into his second martial soul, Heavenly Fire Judgment.

After all, opportunities to acquire a large amount of soul power at once are rare, and soul bones are not so common. Although the absorption of the immortal herb this time has greatly improved Lang Lei's talent, the soul power he has cultivated is still a drop in the ocean for the Heavenly Fire Judgment. Moreover, he also needs to cultivate to improve his level.

However, this decision wasn't too bad. At least, Lang Lei clearly sensed that the first soul ring of his second martial soul, Heavenly Fire Judgment, had reached a 100,000-year condensation progress...

After an unknown amount of time, the soil covering Lang Lei peeled away layer by layer, revealing the Lang Lei that was encased within.

Countless golden points of light surrounded Lang Lei, and his originally black hair turned into brown hair.

Those points of light are Lang Lei's current martial soul—Earth Dragon Dust.

Lang Lei exhaled, withdrew his martial spirit, and his brown hair gradually turned back to black.

"Brother Lang Lei, you look even more handsome now..." At this moment, Gretchen's ethereal and calm voice rang out.

"Hmm? Little Gretchen isn't asleep yet?" Lang Lei, not bothering to check on his own martial soul, came to the bedside.

"Brother Lang Lei, I... can't sleep..." Gretchen said softly as she sat up.

"Even fusion warriors need to rest~" Lang Lei pulled the blanket over Gresh and covered her with it, then patted the pillow, gesturing for Gresh to lie down.

"Brother Lang Lei, just like Mother Aponia..." Gretsch took Lang Lei's hand.

"Haha, really?" Lang Lei thought of that magnanimous woman.

"Pull me up to sleep." Gretchen looked at Langley.

"Okay, little Gretchen is still a child..." Lang Lei smiled, moved a stool to sit on the edge of the bed, and reached out to hold Gretchen's hand again.

"Okay, goodnight, Brother Lang Lei..." Gretchen smiled, a rare occurrence, and closed her eyes.

Looking at Gretchen, who seemed to be asleep, Lang Lei gradually developed a knowing smile.

"Thank you for coming, little Gretchen." Lang Lei gently patted Gretchen's head.

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It was only then that Lang Lei began to focus on himself again.

"Little Gretchen said I've become prettier, it must be the effect of my martial soul evolving..." Lang Lei speculated, "And I've grown quite a bit taller too..."

He was originally about the same height as Gretchen, but now he is visibly much taller than Gretchen.

According to the feedback from his martial spirit, his martial spirit evolved from mud into [Earth Dragon Dust], and he gained quite a bit.

His physical strength is still unknown, but it has certainly improved significantly.

Furthermore, Earth Dragon Dust is also unusually endowed with two innate skills, one of which is a passive skill, and the other is actually a domain-type skill!

The passive skill is pretty good; it's called "Solid Ground." As the name suggests, when Lang Lei's feet are on the ground, his soul power is continuously replenished, eliminating fatigue.

It can be said to be a great passive battery life capability.

Secondly, Dust Dragon Domain: Increases Lang Lei's own defense by 100% within the domain, slows enemies' movement speed by 36%, and when activated, it also inflicts a "Stun" effect on enemies, immobilizing all skills of all enemies within the domain for one minute.

The area of ​​his domain isn't very large right now, only about twenty meters in radius, but that's not a problem; he's a melee fighter after all! The domain is centered on himself, so it's more than enough. As his level increases, the area will expand!

Furthermore, what surprised Lang Lei the most was not the two percentage-based boosts, but the "Intimidate" effect.

Not just soul skills! But all skills! And for a full minute! And with an area-of-effect effect upon activation!

If Langley weren't still sleeping with little Gretchen, he would have loved to dance right there and then.

Most importantly, Lang Lei's talent has improved a lot. He is no longer the weakling with first-level innate soul power. He can at least be considered a genius on the continent, probably around the eighth or ninth level of innate soul power.

Lang Lei didn't know the cultivation speed of the others; this was probably just his guess, but it didn't matter.

In his plan, cultivation wasn't the best way for him to increase his soul power. With the help of his second martial soul, Heavenly Flame Judgment, hehe... of course, he'd eat rare and precious herbs!

"However, in order to safely absorb the immortal herbs, we just came out of the Star Dou Great Forest..." Lang Lei said with emotion.

He doesn't have an adaptive spirit ring right now. Although he has three draws given by leveling up, he doesn't think he'll be lucky enough to draw whatever he wants.

Even if he could make a wish and enter a lottery, there were countless items in the lottery pool that were more powerful than the adaptive spirit ring, and he hoped that he could draw something even more powerful than the adaptive spirit ring.

Therefore, the only way forward right now is to re-enter the Starry Sky.

"Ding, master's wish detected. [Accompanying Quest: Soul Ring Acquisition]"

Accompanying Mission: Soul Ring Acquisition

Mission objective: Obtain the second soul ring of the first martial soul, Earth Dragon Dust.

Task Rewards: Number of Lottery Draws × ?, Soul Bone (Quality Unknown), Custom Anchor Point × 1.

Note: The number of draws and the quality of the soul bone depend on the number of years the host has acquired the soul ring.

Mission penalty: None. Does Gretsch's comforting words count?

"Hmm? What a pleasant surprise!" Lang Lei was quite happy. He had originally gone to acquire a spirit ring, but this way he could get even more rewards and increase his combat power even further. Why not?

"But this mission penalty..." Lang Lei looked at the sleeping, adorable little Gretchen, "Are you sure it's not a reward...? I'm starting to get tempted!"

Elita: "..."

(End of this chapter)