Douluo Dragon King: Doumu's Blessing, I Am the Star Lord

The next morning.

The Spirit Pagoda of the Star Luo Continent was built in a coastal area.

The sea breeze blowing in through the floor-to-ceiling windows was completely different from the wind that wafted through the forests and vegetation of Shrek City year-round.

Qian Gu Xing Ci pushed open the bedroom door.

In the open kitchen, Leng Yaozhu was busy at the counter wearing a beige apron. Her long, fiery red hair hung loosely, with a few stray strands clinging to her cheeks.

As she moved, the ends of her hair gently brushed against her waist.

She was only wearing a wine-red silk nightgown, which was very thin and barely covered her upper thighs, leaving her two plump, long legs exposed.

"Good morning, Aunt Leng." Qian Gu Xing Ci snapped out of his reverie.

Leng Yaozhu, the deputy tower master of the Spirit Pagoda and the Heavenly Phoenix Douluo, was even seen wearing an apron and standing in the kitchen.

Leng Yaozhu walked over carrying a tray, the neckline of her nightgown slightly open, outlining a breathtaking figure as she bent over.

The tender, stewed tendons gleamed with an amber luster, accompanied by several delicate side dishes, their aroma filling the air.

"Dinner's ready." Leng Yaozhu pulled out the chair opposite him and sat down, tucking the stray hairs behind her ears.

Qian Gu Xing Ci picked up his chopsticks, still feeling somewhat uneasy.

Although he possessed the two essential elements of color and aroma, he was subjected to some stereotypes.

Beautiful women in high positions usually don't know how to cook.

Even if they look good, some of them taste terrible.

Out of respect for the fruits of others' labor, he first picked up a piece of stewed dragon tendon and put it in his mouth.

It's chewy and springy, stewed until tender but not falling apart. The taste isn't amazing, but it's also flawless—a delicious, home-style flavor.

It even has a slightly sweet aftertaste!

She truly was a woman who could grace a grand hall and cook in the kitchen. Qian Gu Xing Ci quickly shook his head, shaking off the jumbled thoughts in his mind.

"What's wrong? No appetite?" Leng Yaozhu raised her eyebrows slightly when she saw that he hadn't touched his chopsticks for a while, and put a large piece of dragon tendon into his bowl.

"This is a type of deep-sea dragon tendon unique to the Star Luo Empire. Eat more."

"No, it tastes great." Qian Gu Xing Ci quickly snapped out of his daze and shoveled down a couple of mouthfuls of rice. "I just didn't expect Aunt Leng to be able to cook."

Leng Yaozhu chuckled lightly, her eyes sparkling: "What, in your eyes, am I just a block of wood who only knows how to sit in the Spirit Pagoda and handle official business?"

"No, that's not it." Qian Gu Xing Ci smiled awkwardly.

Just as I finished clearing the dishes, I heard Makino's loud knocking on the door.

Dressed in a close-fitting outfit, Mu Ye entered the room and called out, "Disciple, we should go!"

Leng Yaozhu leaned back on the sofa, her gaze sweeping over the two of them indifferently: "Be mindful of your behavior."

"Don't worry, don't worry, with me here, nothing will go wrong."

The two left the city and headed straight for the canyon on the outskirts.

Zhang Geyang put aside his current affairs and waited at the entrance of the canyon.

The rock walls were charred black, crisscrossed with ravines, and the air was thick with the smell of sulfur, along with the lingering power of lightning.

Even under a clear blue sky, faint rumbles of thunder can be heard from the depths of the canyon from time to time.

"Master Zhang, this is troublesome." Mu Ye stepped forward and placed the bronze cauldron he was carrying on the ground. The cauldron collided with the ground, emitting a dull hum.

“What’s the trouble?” Zhang Geyang waved his hand.

The ultimate attribute's suppression of the same attribute is like an insurmountable chasm.

Although lightning attributes are unlikely to cause damage to extreme lightning, the Thunderous Hell Vine is said to be a soul beast with the bloodline of the Thunder God and is extremely old.

It's unrealistic to expect immunity when there's an absolute disparity in power. That's precisely why Qian Gu Dong Feng didn't deliberately conceal Qian Gu Xing Ci's ultimate lightning attribute.

Otherwise, it would be easy for someone to hide an attribute or even a martial soul in order to plan for a soul spirit.

Chapter 110 Innate Secret Technique, Tengteng, Don't Cry

“Speaking of which, it is said that our Body Sect once had a Thunderous Hell Vine on the verge of collapse, and the scene there is very similar to this place.” Mu Ye stroked his chin and looked around at the environment deep in the canyon.

Zhang Geyang smiled after hearing this: "You're right, this is the place where the Thunderous Hell Vine once lived."

Mu Ye said no more, and reached out to pat Qian Gu Xing Ci on the shoulder: "Are you ready?"

Qian Gu Xing Ci nodded with a firm look in his eyes.

Deep purple vines sprouted from the ground behind Zhang Geyang, each one shaped like a bamboo joint and covered with fine lightning patterns.

Dark clouds gathered at a visible speed, pressing down on the canyon in layers, with silvery lightning snaking through the clouds and thunder rumbling in.

His mere appearance caused such a celestial anomaly!

The Thunderous Hell Vine is born with intelligence. When it first sprouts, it is like a bamboo shoot, only a short segment, and it must grow in a place where lightning is abundant.

It takes a hundred lightning strikes to equal the cultivation of an ordinary soul beast for a year.

In its early stages, its growth was extremely slow. Before it reached a hundred years of cultivation, it could only passively wait for natural lightning to descend, and its cultivation speed was more than ten times slower than that of ordinary soul beasts.

However, once it breaks through a century, it can actively attract lightning to strike itself, receiving a hundred lightning strikes in a single night, and its cultivation speed will be completely transformed.

Zhang Geyang's Thunderous Prison Vine is only one step away from the 50,000-year mark.

"Boom!"

A thick, deep purple bolt of lightning, as thick as a water bucket, tore through the clouds and descended!

The Coiled Dragon Staff appeared before him. Its entire body resembled a dreamlike crystal, with swirling starlight within. At the moment the lightning struck, it slowly liquefied, countless leaping arcs of electricity merging into it, emitting a soft sizzling sound.

A clear and melodious dragon roar resounded through the canyon. The Demon-Slaying Dragon soared into the sky. The stars that originally covered its body faded away and were replaced by raging lightning. Its entire body was filled with purple-gold lightning, transforming into a pure lightning dragon!

Qian Gu Xing Ci gracefully landed on the golden star crown atop the head of Po Xie Long, his aura suddenly changing from gentle and peaceful to explosive and unrestrained like thunder.

To him, stars and lightning are essentially like water and ice. However, he is far less adept at using lightning than at the power of stars, so he uses it less often.

Mu Ye and the higher-ups of the Spirit Pagoda all agreed that once he absorbed the lightning-attribute soul spirit, this discomfort would naturally resolve itself.

Instead of defending itself, Qian Gu Xing Ci charged straight towards the lightning pillar!

"Brother Mu, your approach is too wild! You're just going to abandon all defense and take the hit head-on?!" Zhang Geyang's eyelids twitched; he had never seen such a brave person before.

Mu Ye stood to the side with his arms crossed, "Master Zhang, this is nothing."

Xing Ci's physical strength is almost at the level of a Super Beast Soul Saint, and with the Ultimate Lightning protecting him, I think you'll have to unleash lightning strength at least at the level of a Title Douluo."

Zhang Geyang's lips twitched, but he didn't reply.

"Upgrade! One million volts!" Mu Ye's eyes lit up as he looked at the golden runes emerging from beneath the skin of the Ancient Star Relic, and he immediately shouted.

"What the hell?" Zhang Geyang was completely confused and chuckled, "This is almost his limit. Too much of a good thing is bad."

"This is a sign of my breakthrough in the secret technique of my Body Sect!" Mu Ye said, pulling Zhang Geyang aside for a long time.

Its current strength is roughly at the Contra level.

Qian Gu Xing Ci was charred black all over and looked extremely miserable.

The powerful physique granted by his original martial soul, coupled with the terrifying self-healing ability bestowed by the Blue Silver Emperor, meant these injuries were not a major problem. Furthermore, with the Golden Dragon King's friendly investment, Thunder became a key that unlocked the door to progress.

Makino said, "This is a sign of a breakthrough in our sect's secret techniques."

The innate secret technique has four realms: Body Integration, Marrow Cleansing, Reshaping, and Golden Body. Once these four steps are completed, one can attempt the third awakening of their Martial Soul!

The essence of the Body Sect's innate secret method is to activate and stimulate the innate energy of the human body in the fetal state, and to reverse the innate energy after birth, tempering the body's strength to the limit of human beings, which is the god-level that countless people pursue!

However, innate energy dissipates rapidly after birth. Therefore, most practitioners of innate secret techniques begin before their martial soul awakens. The difficulty of cultivation after martial soul awakening is incomparable.

There has been almost no one in history who has been able to break through to the Golden Body realm in this state, and the realm of the Golden Body Arhat is even more hopeless.

Those who succeeded undoubtedly received extraordinary opportunities, such as rare herbs or sacrifices of spirit beasts...

When Mu Ye heard about Qian Gu Xing Ci's situation, his first feeling was regret.

It's a real tragedy that the strongest original martial soul cannot be awakened three times!

However, Qian Gu Xing Ci seemed to exist in the mortal world as if he were merely playing a game, enveloped by an invisible and imperceptible membrane, untouched by worldly dust. This prompted Mu Ye and Han Tian Yi to add a separate page to the cultivation conditions of the innate secret techniques!

Zhang Geyang couldn't dissuade him, so he carefully increased the power of the thunder.

Leiming Yanyu Teng swayed its bamboo-like vines reluctantly.

Poor working-class guy!

Zhang Geyang tricked it into believing it could summon lightning, making it think that Zhang Geyang had some way to stop its collapse. Now it realizes that it can indeed summon heavenly lightning, and the intensity is not the drizzle it imagined, but the one who gets struck is someone else!

The charred flesh on Qian Gu Xing Ci's body kept peeling off, only to be reborn again.

Through his translucent skin, one could see his glistening bones, which, under the baptism of thunder, became even more indestructible.

Seeing that the time was right, Makino immediately called for a halt.

Mu Ye raised his hand and used his soul power to support the ancient star verses, which had turned into a pile of black charcoal, and placed them into the bronze cauldron that had been prepared in advance.

The cauldron was filled with dark green medicinal liquid, which boiled violently as soon as it came into contact with Qian Gu Xing Ci's body.

Qian Gu Xing Ci subconsciously activated the innate secret technique of the Body Sect, and a blue-gold halo rose outside the cauldron, like the sun hanging in the sky. The rich life force caused new green shoots to emerge on the scorched rock walls of the entire canyon.

The one most sensitive to this aura at the scene was none other than Lei Mingyan Yuteng.

Its power has been suppressed by Zhang Geyang for many years, so it has fallen into a dormant state similar to that of the Tyrannosaurus Rex inside Tang Wulin's body.

Leiming Yanyu Teng: Teng Teng, don't cry, you won't be hungry if you fall asleep!

Huh? The aura of the life core? How did it become so weak?

How can it move? Isn't it a tree?

Lei Mingyan Yuteng's consciousness was in a state of chaos.

That must be the Child of Nature, right?

This speculation is no different from the ancient star-telling theory that he should address his uncle's eldest brother's son.

Top-tier plant-type soul beasts should be very familiar with the Child of Nature.

Inside the bronze cauldron, Qian Gu Xing Ci's consciousness was perfectly clear.