Chapter 57: The True Dragon Evolution Path — Evolving into the Golden Holy Dragon King
Hearing Dugu Bo's words, Lin Chen's eyes lit up. His heart was practically cheering.
Looking toward the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, he saw clusters upon clusters of immortal herbs. If he refined all of them into pills, wouldn't future soul power cultivation become vastly easier?
Under normal circumstances, if a soul master directly consumed raw immortal herbs, they could take at most one or two in their lifetime.
This was because the medicinal power would accumulate within the body and fail to be perfectly absorbed, naturally leading to drug resistance.
But if the herbs were refined into pills, allowing the body to absorb their effects to the greatest extent possible—
Then the situation would be completely different.
Lin Chen estimated that even if he refined all the immortal herbs here into pills, he still wouldn't develop resistance in the end.
After all, someone from the neighboring world, surnamed Xiao, chewed pills daily, and nothing happened to him.
Moreover, most of the immortal herbs in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well weren't of the same type. They could be refined into different categories of pills.
By consuming different types of pills, Lin Chen refused to believe his body would still develop resistance.
"Senior Dugu, it's a deal."
"But before that, I'll use some immortal herbs to refine a pill I need. Raising my soul power first will make subsequent pill refinement much easier."
Suppressing the excitement in his heart, Lin Chen looked at Dugu Bo and spoke solemnly.
After witnessing Dugu Yan's martial soul undergo a super evolution, Lin Chen was already itching to evolve his own.
And once his soul power level increased, refining pills wouldn't require such an exhausting expenditure of mental energy.
The Pill he had just refined had nearly drained him dry.
"That works."
"Take whatever immortal herbs you need."
Dugu Bo gestured toward the herbs in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, signaling Lin Chen not to hold back.
Immediately afterward, Lin Chen began harvesting the herbs he needed using specific techniques.
This time, he prepared three immortal herbs as primary ingredients, along with dozens of thousand-year spirit herbs as supplementary materials.
The three immortal herbs were:
- Nine Treasure Purple Zoysia
- Earth Dragon Golden Melon
- Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum
The Nine Treasure Purple Zoysia had the effect of strengthening one's foundation and origin, capable of enhancing the source of Lin Chen's martial soul.
The Earth Dragon Golden Melon contained Earth Dragon bloodline power and dragon aura. It could strengthen dragon-type martial souls and was especially effective for soul masters with dragon-attribute martial souls.
Lin Chen's martial soul, the Golden Dragon, carried the bloodline of the Golden Holy Dragon.
The Earth Dragon Golden Melon was perfect for helping him fully awaken that bloodline and allow the Golden Dragon to completely transform into a Golden Holy Dragon.
As for the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, it could forge a vajra indestructible body, circulate qi through the limbs, open all meridians, and greatly enhance defense and strength—allowing the physical body and martial soul to resonate in mutual amplification.
Using these three immortal herbs along with dozens of thousand-year spirit herbs to refine a pill—
Lin Chen believed that after consumption, evolving his Golden Dragon into a Golden Holy Dragon would be effortless. It might even allow it to advance toward an even higher dragon bloodline tier.
In his view, dragon-type martial soul evolution could be divided into two paths:
- The sub-dragon evolution path
- The true dragon evolution path
On the sub-dragon path, the strongest possible martial soul would only reach the level of a god-level martial soul comparable to the Nine Great Dragon Kings, yet still inferior to the Golden and Silver Dragon Kings.
The true dragon path, however, was entirely different. In the Douluo Continent, it could ultimately evolve into the Dragon God or even surpass it.
Take the Sky Azure Bull Python, for example. Its martial soul tier was equivalent to a super martial soul, even stronger than the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon in terms of raw power.
But afterward, advancing its bloodline further would be harder than ascending to the heavens.
As for the true dragon path, in Lin Chen's understanding:
- The first tier was the true dragon level, such as the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon.
- The second tier was the holy dragon level, such as the Golden Holy Dragon, Light Holy Dragon, or Dark Holy Dragon.
- The third tier was the Second-Generation Dragon King level, such as Di Tian, the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King.
- The fourth tier was the orthodox Dragon King level, such as the Nine Great Dragon Kings.
- The fifth tier was the half-body of the Dragon God, such as the Golden Dragon King and Silver Dragon King.
- The sixth tier was the supreme Dragon God level, the former ruler of the Dragon God Realm.
As for whether there are higher tiers beyond that, Lin Chen smiled inwardly. Perhaps not yet.
But in the future, there will be.
One day, his martial soul would evolve into a dragon bloodline even stronger than the Dragon God.
After making all preparations, Lin Chen sat cross-legged on the ground of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. Before him stood the alchemy furnace he had just used.
According to the alchemy records, the pill he was about to refine was called the Primordial Holy Dragon Pill.
Its effects were terrifying—rebirth and transformation came effortlessly, along with countless heaven-defying benefits.
Soon afterward, Lin Chen began refining the pill. The process was similar to before, though this time it required an additional half hour.
"It's finally done," he murmured.
From the furnace, he retrieved a golden pill.
It was perfectly round and plump, radiating a brilliant golden light. A rich medicinal fragrance filled the entire Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
The intensity of its aroma far surpassed that of Dugu Yan's pill.
Looking at the Primordial Holy Dragon Pill in his hand, Lin Chen felt that Heaven had not let his efforts go to waste.
It had only been two weeks since awakening his martial soul.
From someone with the innate soul power of merely half a level, a so-called waste—
He was about to rise into one of the most outstanding prodigies of the Douluo Continent.
He swallowed the Primordial Holy Dragon Pill in one gulp and sat cross-legged, refining its medicinal power.
The pill melted instantly upon entering his mouth.
Its overwhelming medicinal force surged violently through his body.
His meridians expanded and were reshaped. The extraordinary meridians and the Ren and Du channels were all forcefully opened by this power.
The transformation coursing through his body was beyond words.
Three hours later, Lin Chen slowly opened his eyes.
A terrifying dragon might emanate involuntarily from his gaze.
"My soul power has risen to Rank 20. There's still a large amount of medicinal power remaining. Combined with the energy of two soul rings, I might directly charge into Soul Ancestor."
He assessed his condition calmly.
But what he cared about most wasn't the rise in soul power—
It was the immense transformation of his martial soul.
"Come forth, Golden Dragon—or rather, Golden Holy Dragon King!" Lin Chen shouted toward the sky, venting his excitement.
The next moment, a majestic five-clawed golden dragon appeared above him, its entire body gleaming with radiant gold and exuding overwhelming dragon might.
This Golden Dragon was utterly different from before.
It now possessed every trait befitting a true dragon.
And it was not shaped like the Western dragons of his past life—
But rather the orthodox Eastern five-clawed golden dragon.
This was the form Lin Chen loved most and the one he was most satisfied with.
After consuming the Primordial Holy Dragon Pill, his Golden Dragon's bloodline had leapt three tiers in succession.
From the sub-dragon level, it had directly ascended to the third tier of the true dragon evolution path.
The magnitude of this transformation was indescribable.
The third tier represented the Second-Generation Dragon King bloodline—
The same level as Di Tian, the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King.
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