Douluo: Emerald Poison King

Chapter 458 - Taking Everything and Making Nothing
After beating up the Evil Emperor, Chen Ming did not simply let go of his fear of him. Instead, he first stirred up the surrounding life, further transforming the vast jungle he had polluted into a strange entity similar to a demon realm. Then, he summoned the soul of the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger and used the divine power of the God of Sin to recharge it once more.

The Dark Demon God Tiger, empowered by divine power, could at least rival a normal ferocious beast of four or five hundred thousand years of age before its divine power was exhausted. Unless it encountered beings like Xiong Jun, Princess Hai, Di Tian, ​​the Deep Sea Demon Whale King, or even the Silver Dragon King, no unexpected situations would arise.

The Evil Emperor could clearly see that the humans opposite him didn't trust him, but to be honest, he knew his own limitations. After Chen Ming finished his preparations, the Evil Emperor, still feeling uneasy, set up a mental field around himself.

This wasn't meant to defend against Chen Ming; the Evil Emperor used it purely to defend against his descendants and other soul beasts.

After all, no one knew the true nature of the Evil Eye clan better than the Evil Emperor. Although he cared for his descendants, it was largely due to special circumstances. Otherwise, without a leader to suppress them, it would be perfectly normal for the Evil Eyes to devour each other.

After agreeing on their plans, the Evil Emperor finally made up his mind under Chen Ming's gaze and the sharp aura of the Ascending Dragon Sword, and began the sacrifice. With the influence of the laws of heaven and earth, Chen Ming also began to skillfully unleash his abilities.

When Chen Ming modified the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger last time, he was already able to control how to shape the Wisdom Soul Ring. Now, compared to before, he not only has several more soul skills, but also has made great progress in his spiritual realm. With the active cooperation of the Evil Emperor, the shaping process of the Wisdom Soul Ring went very smoothly.

Chen Ming's body is very strong, and he also has two soul cores within him for support, so he could even successfully absorb the Evil Emperor's soul ring by force. In terms of mental strength, he is a level higher than the Evil Emperor, so there is no need to worry about the Evil Emperor's power being too strong and causing any adverse effects on him.

It is true that the soul rings produced by soul beasts condense a significant portion of the soul beast's cultivation, but they are definitely not capable of condensing all of the soul beast's power into one ring.

A spirit ring can at most occupy about 30% of a spirit beast's own power. In rare cases, the remaining portion will condense into a spirit bone, but there is still a considerable amount of waste. If it is a different kind of spirit beast, the proportion of spirit power remaining in its body will be even greater.

Take the Deep Sea Demon Whale King, for example. He obtained a million-year soul ring and a million-year soul bone, and even before his death, he was able to condense an inner core for his wife. This core later greatly aided the Demon Emperor in becoming a million-year soul beast and achieving godhood.

According to later generations' calculations of spirits, a single spirit can provide multiple spirit rings. A 100,000-year spirit can provide a spirit master with up to five 100,000-year spirit rings, while a ferocious beast-level spirit can provide six ferocious beast spirit rings at once. Moreover, spirits can be passed down to their descendants to continue absorbing and condensing spirit rings.
This shows just how low the utilization rate of a soul beast's own power is under normal circumstances. This is also why soul beast sacrifice can provide such a significant boost to a soul master.

Because sacrifice involves a soul beast burning itself to its limit and then offering itself to a soul master, the utilization rate is far, far higher than the normal absorption of soul rings. In the original novel, a large part of Tang San's soul power increase during his Title Douluo period came from the sacrifices of the two great beast kings, the Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape.

Chen Ming's main reason for wanting the Evil Emperor's cooperation was not because he admired the Evil Emperor so much, but because he wanted to completely exploit the Evil Emperor's nearly 800,000 years of accumulated wealth.

To put it bluntly, although the Evil Emperor was inferior to the Deep Sea Demon Whale King in every aspect except for his spiritual power, and his cultivation was more than 200,000 years behind, the Evil Emperor's cooperation would have a greater effect on Chen Ming than absorbing the Deep Sea Demon Whale King's soul ring, soul bone, and inner core. As the Evil Emperor's spiritual power and life force burned to their limit, his soul completely separated from his body and merged into Chen Ming's body, becoming Chen Ming's eighth soul ring. Nearly 800,000 years of accumulation were integrated into Chen Ming's body, reshaping Chen Ming's body and spirit.

The eighth spirit ring lit up, and seven complete golden patterns appeared. The eighth golden pattern was almost perfect. At this moment, Chen Ming burned his divine power and his usual accumulation, using the power of a higher realm to invade the evil emperor's spirit ring and soul.

Soul beasts cannot become gods, but the Evil Emperor is not a soul beast in his current state. Heavenly tribulations cannot affect him, and the plane cannot limit his strength. The eighth golden pattern was completed instantly, followed by the slow formation of the ninth pattern.

Feeling his soul quality rising under the nourishment of divine power, the Evil Emperor immediately mustered all his energy and cooperated with Chen Ming to mobilize all his power.

After a full day and night, when the energy of the entire Demon Forest had thinned considerably, the ninth golden pattern on the Evil Emperor's Soul Ring finally came to a complete finish, and the color of the Soul Ring changed from red with gold to gold with a hint of red.

With Chen Ming's current resources, he could potentially use this opportunity to push the Evil Emperor's soul ring to 990,000 or even 1 million years, completely transforming it into a divine ring, if he were to risk everything. However, this would be too inefficient for Chen Ming, as the gains would far outweigh the effort, so he naturally wouldn't consider it at this time.

As for soul skills, Chen Ming was already quite adept at them. With the connection to the world's consciousness, Chen Ming easily entered the area of ​​world laws, searching for every ability of the Evil Emperor. Then, relying on his god-level cultivation, he selected and gradually fused these abilities to create soul skills suitable for himself.

Chen Ming chose Soul Shatter as his first skill, which was derived from the Evil Emperor's refined abilities in mental attacks combined with Chen Ming's own insights. It could easily extract the enemy's soul and crush it into dust, a destructive force that was almost irreparable.

Given Chen Ming's current spiritual level, even a high-ranking official in the divine realm would have their soul and divine position shattered if struck by this skill. There would be no way to save them.

Chen Ming chose the Evil Emperor's trump card, Light of Time and Space, for his second skill. This skill could cause the target hit to age instantly over millions of years. Even though Di Tian's race and strength were superior to the Evil Emperor's, Di Tian was still severely injured after being hit by the Evil Emperor's skill and it took him a great deal of effort to recover.

It's important to know that the Star Dou Great Forest is home to Bi Ji, the strongest healing-type soul beast, and the Lake of Life, a place teeming with the gold of life. Without their help, even after the Evil Emperor recovered from the damage from the Dragon God's Claw, Di Tian would likely still be unable to escape the wounds left by the Evil Emperor.

(End of this chapter)