The geographical location of the Dou Ling Empire is somewhat advantageous yet awkward.
Looking at the overall situation, it borders the Tian Hun Empire to the west and the Star Luo Empire to the south.
The distance across the Star Dou Great Forest is almost equivalent to traveling from the center of the Tian Hun Empire to its southernmost tip—it’s simply too far…
Thus, out of necessity, the seven-year-old Lan Xuanyu gave up the idea of going to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt for spirit rings.
Instead, he followed the Xuan Ming Sect’s hunting team to the Dou Ling Empire’s Panlong Forest.
Because the Dou Ling Empire has the weakest comprehensive national strength and Soul Guidance Device development among the three original nations of the Douluo Continent, it has instead managed to preserve this Spirit Beast gathering place, which was quite famous during the Spirit Hall era.
Although far less famous than the Star Dou Great Forest, one can find Spirit Beasts ranging from ten or hundred-year levels to thousand or ten-thousand-year levels in the Panlong Forest.
There are even legends of a Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Beast in the depths of the forest.
The primary purpose of the Xuan Ming Sect’s hunting trip was to obtain a second spirit ring for the sect’s second Young Lord, Xu Sanshi, and then incidentally help Lan Xuanyu hunt for his.
Although Lan Xuanyu quite disliked the word ‘incidentally’…
after Xu Sanshi obtained an eight-hundred-year-old Clear Water Tortoise spirit ring, it was finally Lan Xuanyu’s turn.
Lan Xuanyu had long since planned which Spirit Beast he needed for his first spirit ring.
The leader of the Xuan Ming Sect group was a seven-ring Spirit Saint, about forty years old and looking quite brawny.
He was also the head steward of the Xuan Ming Sect, responsible for this hunting operation.
At a deep water pool, Lan Xuanyu and the others stopped.
Seeing the faint, long light-blue shadow in the pool, Lan Xuanyu’s eyes immediately lit up.
He found it—his target!
Lan Xuanyu pointed at the long light-blue shadow with great excitement: “Steward Chen, I choose this Jade Water Spirit Dragon for my first spirit ring.”
The Jade Water Spirit Dragon, a Sub-Dragon species Spirit Beast, was rumored to possess a trace of Water Dragon Bloodline.
Although it was a hundred-year Spirit Beast, its water control was not at all inferior to thousand-year or even ten-thousand-year Spirit Beasts.
For a Spirit Master with a Dragon Martial Soul, it was an extremely rare high-quality spirit ring.
This was the most suitable and highest quality Sub-Dragon species Spirit Beast they had found in the Panlong Forest during this time.
Steward Chen’s expression stiffened.
He patted Lan Xuanyu on the shoulder: “Little Lan, according to the cultivation method left by Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang in the history books, plant-type Spirits like your Blue Silver Grass should follow the path of poison and control, just like the ancestor Sea God Tang San ten thousand years ago.”
“Although this Jade Water Spirit Dragon has a Sub-Dragon Bloodline, its talent is water control.
You should listen to me and choose a Datura Snake instead.”
Lan Xuanyu shook his head and smiled confidently: “Thank you, Steward Chen.
I know all of this, but I want to forge a path completely different from Ancestor Tang San!
Please believe me, I am certain!”
Steward Chen instinctively frowned.
Lan Xuanyu’s speech and behavior didn’t seem like those of a seven-year-old child, yet he appeared exceptionally naive in certain aspects; otherwise, one would truly doubt his age…
After thinking it over, he felt that geniuses always have their own ideas, so it wasn’t appropriate for him to say more.
“Alright, be careful.
If there are any problems, I will interrupt your absorption process.
Remember, your own life is always the most important thing.”
A three-hundred-year-old Jade Water Spirit Dragon was naturally no match for a Spirit Saint.
Steward Chen dealt with it in short order, leaving it with one breath left before tossing it in front of Lan Xuanyu.
Looking at the Jade Water Spirit Dragon lying on the ground, gasping its last breaths, a cold glint flashed in Lan Xuanyu’s eyes.
This Jade Water Spirit Dragon was called a dragon, but in appearance, it looked more like a hybrid of a dragon and a snake.
It was about five meters long, with a snake’s head, no dragon wings or horns, though its body was covered in fine dragon scales.
But in the eyes of Lan Xuanyu, the orthodox second generation dragon god, this was a desecration of the Dragon Clan’s noble Bloodline!
[Naturally evil Sub-Dragon, I shall personally execute you, this traitor to the Dragon Clan!]
Lan Xuanyu slowly crouched down and opened his hand.
Vines of the Blue Silver King emerged from his palm, coiling around the Jade Water Spirit Dragon like a snake around a pillar.
They emitted a faint blue-silver glow, and thread-like strands entered the Jade Water Spirit Dragon’s body through its wounds.
As if Parasites were crawling everywhere inside its body, the originally half-dead Jade Water Spirit Dragon suddenly convulsed violently.
However, the Blue Silver King’s vines tightly bound it, and a shimmering blue light flowed along the vines into Lan Xuanyu’s body, as if…
stealing something.
Indeed, Lan Xuanyu was imitating Tang San’s former cultivation method on Planet Falan, using the Mysterious Heaven Skill to devour that meager trace of Dragon Clan Bloodline within the Jade Water Spirit Dragon to gain the ability to control water!
Follow the old path of his grandfather Tang San?
What a joke!
Didn’t these fools know that his strength in his previous life was even above his grandfather, the Sea God Tang San?
The power of the Dragon God was simply not something the Sea God could rival!
Whether it was the Blue Silver King or the Blue Silver Emperor, in Lan Xuanyu’s view, they were far inferior to the power of the Dragon God.
The Dragon God’s power was also the direction he was most proficient in, so he chose Water Element Control for his first Spirit skill, just like in his previous life.
The Blue Silver King Spirit was of the wood attribute and had no water control ability, but that didn’t mean Lan Xuanyu had no solution.
Drawing from his grandfather’s improvements to the Mysterious Heaven Skill and the dragon-hunting Body Tempering operations of the Shrek Seven Devils of that generation on Tianlong Star, Lan Xuanyu found his own path of the Dragon God.
And that was the Fusion and sublimation of Bloodlines!
In the early stages, the spirit rings he chose would primarily focus on elemental control.
Once he grew stronger, he would enter the Core Area of the Star Dou Great Forest to find his mother, obtain her Silver Dragon King Bloodline, and completely master elemental power.
Then he would enter the Dragon Valley and the God Realm, and with his grandfather’s help, obtain the Golden Dragon King Bloodline and the Dragon God’s skeletal remains to become the Dragon God!
This was a harder and more distant path than in his previous life.
Now, without Tang Wulin and Gu Yuena to protect him, he could only compromise while he was weak, using the Bloodlines of Sub-Dragons or even dragon-like Spirit Beasts as substitutes.
An hour later, the “Hidden Dragon Divine Art” passed down by the Dragon God and the “Mysterious Heaven Skill” passed down through the Tang family line within Lan Xuanyu’s body were operating frantically, finally completely absorbing that strand of Dragon Clan Bloodline from the Jade Water Spirit Dragon.
The Jade Water Spirit Dragon was now as dead as could be.
Its dragon scales had dimmed, and its long body had shriveled up as if its essence had been sucked dry.
A yellow hundred-year spirit ring appeared on the Blue Silver King Spirit vines in Lan Xuanyu’s hand.
Droplets of water appeared on the grass leaves, shining brightly, as the aura of life emerged along with the fresh scent of plants.
Lan Xuanyu slowly opened his eyes and looked at the yellow hundred-year spirit ring, his mind stirring.
The water droplets on the grass leaves seemed to come to life.
Under his control, they gathered into a stream and transformed into a small vortex made of condensed water, about a foot in diameter.
Just like his Spirit skill in his previous life, it was Water Element Control, except that because it was a hundred-year spirit ring, it was much stronger than when he first started in his previous life.
Lan Xuanyu finally smiled, a very happy smile.
His hard cultivation this year had not been in vain.
Although he had only absorbed one spirit ring, his spirit power had leaped forward to Rank 16!
His exclusive path of the Dragon God had begun!
…Looking at the very happily smiling Lan Xuanyu, and then at the shriveled Jade Water Spirit Dragon, for some reason, Steward Chen felt a chill in his heart.
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