Douluo, my clone Groudon

Chapter 386 Devil's Island, Evolution Across Time and Space

The energy on the surface of the Yin-Yang Eye of Ice and Fire was completely absorbed, and the soul of the Golden Tree also accumulated a huge amount of energy.

Gula was not satisfied; his cold gaze swept over the trembling immortal herbs in the valley.

"Hand over all your essence of immortal herbs." His voice brooked no argument.

The immortal herbs were bleeding inside, but facing this evil star that could even annihilate the divine thoughts of the sea god, they didn't dare to have a single thought of resistance. They could only endure the pain and force out the essence of their primordial energy accumulated over their long years.

In an instant, orbs of light of various colors drifted toward Gula, and the rich medicinal fragrance was almost overwhelming.

Gula collected all these essences, without eliminating them completely.

He knew that destroying or taking away all the immortal herbs in this place would likely enrage Tang San of the God Realm, prompting Tang San to personally intervene, disregarding the rules. Currently, he did not want to face the wrath of a God King.

More than two days had passed, and the three-day deadline that Gula had promised the Red King was fast approaching. But he was not anxious, patiently waiting for the Three-Eyed Golden Lion to begin to adapt to its cultivation level, which had surged to twenty thousand years.

Then, he took the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and activated spatial teleportation again, appearing in a desolate mountainous area.

"What are we doing here?" The Three-Eyed Golden Lion looked around in confusion. The energy here was scarce, and there was nothing special about it.

Gura didn't answer, but took a deep breath, his eyes flashing with a mixture of silver and emerald light—this time, he didn't use simple spatial teleportation, but rather a spacetime tunnel combined with Celebi's talent!
He grabbed the three-eyed golden lion and stepped into the twisted, spinning, bizarre passage.

After a period of intense dizziness, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion suddenly opened its eyes and found itself in a completely unfamiliar place.

An indescribable sense of oppression filled the air, and the sound of the surrounding waves carried a frenzied atmosphere.

What terrified her even more was that Gula completely enveloped her with a subtle layer of spacetime power, as if isolating her from something.

"Where...where is this? It's terrifying..." The three-eyed golden lion trembled. Her instincts as a mythical beast told her that this place was extremely dangerous, and her luck in turning misfortune into good fortune seemed to have been greatly weakened here.

More importantly, the invisible yet close connection between her and the Star Dou Great Forest has been completely severed!
She looked at Gula in horror: "Where did you take me? Why can't I sense the Star Dou Great Forest anymore?!"

Gula glanced at her indifferently and said something that struck her like a thunderbolt: "This is ten thousand years in the future. Because you, as an auspicious beast, ultimately sacrificed yourself to humanity, the Star Dou Great Forest... is no longer what it used to be, and its core circle has been annihilated in history."

"Impossible! You're talking nonsense!" The three-eyed golden lion instinctively and fiercely refuted, unable to accept this fact due to the pride of the auspicious beast and the reason for becoming a traitor.

Gula ignored her shock and resistance, and quickly confirmed the timeline through the "Soul Network" of this era.

It has been six months since he announced his seclusion, and Tang Wulin should be in his second year of high school.

He quickly locked onto the target location: the sea area outside Beihai City in the northeast of Douluo Continent, a place known as the forbidden zone of life or Devil Island. He grabbed the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, took a step forward, and continued to teleport.

The island is an ominous, pitch-black color; the rocks, the land, and even the dead trees are all black, exuding an aura of death and destruction.

However, in some areas, plants grow strangely abundantly, brimming with immense life energy.

Here, two diametrically opposed divine energies—destruction and life—intertwine and balance, forming a unique Jedi.

This is the remnant of the power left behind after the fall of the God of Destruction and the God of Life. The two energies restrain each other, preventing the leakage of destructive energy.

Once upon a time, a generation of Shrek Seven Devils perished here. Their consciousness combined with these two divine powers, transforming into the Seven Old Demons, who became the training ground for Shrek Academy's students in later generations.

The spirit beasts surrounding the island have become exceptionally violent, and there have even been sightings of 100,000-year-old sea spirit beasts.

Gula teleported again, summoning all his avatars to Devil's Island.

What is a dead end for others is a treasure trove for him.

The remaining energy of the two great god-kings is enough for him and the souls of his incarnations to evolve once more.

But the prerequisite is to ensure the evolution of the Golden Tree first.

What energy could be more suitable for nourishing the Golden Tree than the life essence left behind by the God of Life?

The purpose of going to the Yin-Yang Well of Ice and Fire is simply to accumulate basic energy and avoid excessive consumption of the precious residual divine power in this place.

After the avatars appeared, they teased the Three-Eyed Golden Lion. Qing Liuli, the most unruly and mischievous of them all, immediately used telepathy to force a tragic historical fragment about Huo Yuhao and Wang Qiu'er into the Three-Eyed Golden Lion's mind.

“No… how could this be… a sacrifice… of the Golden Dragon Spear…” The three-eyed golden lion was struck as if by a heavy blow, collapsing to the ground, its three eyes filled with confusion, pain and disbelief, its expression changing drastically.

Qing Liuli, meanwhile, was laughing heartily on the side.

Gula did not stop it; this was merely a minor incident to make the "tool" realize reality.

He released the Golden Tree Spirit once more, unleashing an ancient memory soul skill that caused it to frantically absorb the incredibly pure life energy originating from the God of Life on Devil Island.

The golden tree's spirit trembled violently, and its branches and leaves became increasingly dazzling and crystalline at a visible speed, as if they were cast from real gold. Its life level began to surge dramatically, and the ancestral evolution that had reached its bottleneck finally began to break through.

Such a huge commotion instantly alerted the "guardians" of Devil's Island.

Seven distorted, blurry, neither-soul nor-spirited, unique consciousnesses composed of destructive and life energy—the Seven Old Demons—quickly emerged from various parts of the island and surrounded them.

"Stop!" the Demon of Desire roared, his voice capable of stirring the deepest desires and fears in people's hearts. "Do you know where you are? Recklessly absorbing energy and disrupting the balance will cause the entire northern part of the continent to be devastated once the destructive energy erupts!"

"This is a forbidden area of ​​Shrek Academy!"

The Devouring Demon's voice was deep and resonant; he possessed the ability to devour all energy. He warned:
"Leave now, or don't blame us for being impolite!" They could sense that the group in front of them was extremely dangerous, but their duty to protect this place was paramount.

Gula glanced at the seven old demons, each with a different appearance, and said calmly, "You've come at the right time, saving me the trouble of looking for you."

"Arrogant!" The Seven Demon Elders roared in fury. They had lived for hundreds of years, and had never been so looked down upon.

The Demon of Desire launched the first attack, casting an invisible and intangible illusion that amplified all the desires and fears within the opponent's heart.

The Greedy Demon's spiritual power pierced through everyone's consciousness like sharp thorns. The Nightmare Demon wove a nightmare that would drag people down. The Sloth Demon emitted waves that made people drowsy and caused their soul power to stagnate.

The Demon of Destruction unleashed an energy attack brimming with destructive power.

The Gluttonous Demon and the Devouring Demon frantically absorbed the surrounding energy to replenish themselves and attempted to interfere with the Golden Tree's absorption.

However, Gura and his incarnations possessed unimaginable spiritual power and vitality.

The weakest of the seven was a two-word Battle Armor Master, and Gula's true form had undergone multiple transformations. Illusions, mental shocks, and negative status effects had little effect on them!
"Attack!" Gula commanded.

Mu Yi, manipulating countless plants, instead suppressed the old demons' control over life energy. The Yin and Yang energies of Yin Wan Sheng flowed, dissolving the destructive energy. Qing Liuli's mental storm countered, causing confusion within the old demons' own consciousness…

Gula himself was like a tiger among sheep, combining the sharpness of his sword soul realm with his powerful physique, each attack precisely tearing apart the energy-based bodies of the old demons.

The battle was almost entirely one-sided. Although the Seven Demon Kings possessed bizarre abilities and were nearly immortal due to their advantageous terrain, they were quickly defeated one by one in the face of absolute power and perfect elemental counters. Their energy forms became flickering and difficult to reassemble. Gula and his avatar Yin Wansheng exchanged a glance, their thoughts in perfect harmony.

"Their consciousness exists due to their obsession and the remnants of divine power. They have suffered for nearly a thousand years, and it is time for them to be free," Gula said calmly.

"And this pure body, which is a fusion of life and destruction divine energy... is an excellent material for souls."

Yin Wansheng replied, his eyes gleaming with longing for the ghost's creation.

The two reached an agreement. Gula then used his powerful soul and spacetime abilities to detach, purify, and free the Seven Old Demons' consciousness, which had been struggling for thousands of years, from its energy body, thus ending their doom.

Without the support of consciousness, the seven pure, black-green intertwined energies slowly merged, transforming into a larger, more balanced, and unique energy body containing the true meaning of life and death.

Yin Wansheng stepped forward and summoned his Yin-Yang Ghost Emperor Martial Soul. Gu La made a move, injecting the vitality of the Forest Authority and the power of the Grass Slab's laws into that energy, like the most exquisite carving knife, awakening its spirit and endowing it with a brand new, pure spirituality!
hum!
The burst of energy emitted a dazzling black and white light, eventually transforming into a blurry yet powerful spirit that slowly merged into the Yin-Yang Ghost Emperor's Martial Soul, becoming its second soul spirit.

A powerful force containing the cycle of birth and death returned to Yin Wansheng's body.

After doing all this, Gula and the other incarnations, especially Mu Yi, did their best to help the Golden Tree spirit absorb life energy.

Under the frenzied infusion of the remaining essence of the God of Life, the energy accumulated by the Golden Tree's spirit finally reached a critical point.

Its branches and leaves, which were originally as bright as gold, gradually lost their metallic luster from the roots, transforming into a vibrant and lively emerald green of varying shades.

The immense aura of light did not disappear, but rather it was completely contained, transformed, and sublimated into a more fundamental life force that nourishes all things.

Its life essence is undergoing an astonishing leap. The massive energy previously accumulated within its soul has now transformed into the most perfect resources, supporting it in completing this most crucial and difficult step.

From an ordinary golden tree, it evolves into the legendary ancient tree of life, the progenitor of all plants!

On the entire Devil's Island, the extremely dense life energy surged like rivers flowing into the sea, frantically pouring into the ever-changing phantom of the ancient tree of life.

When nearly 80% of the island's life energy had been absorbed, under the final push of a faint wisp of destiny's power, passively guided by the Three-Eyed Golden Lion—

hum!
A buzzing sound, seemingly from the ancient wilderness and resounding deep within the soul, rang out.

The spirit of the ancient tree of life suddenly erupted with an indescribable emerald light.

The light was not dazzling, yet it contained a supreme meaning that allows all things to grow and life to continue.

Its form has become completely stable. Although it may still have some gaps and defects compared to the ancient tree of life in true mythology, its essence has already entered the realm of gods.

The remaining flaws can be gradually accumulated and remedied over a long period of time.

The spirit of the Ancient Tree of Life has successfully evolved!
In that instant, Gula felt that all the soul skills of his second martial soul had undergone earth-shattering evolution and enhancement, and his perception and control of life had reached a completely new level, but now was not the time to study them carefully.

Almost at the same time that the Tree of Life completed its evolution, the delicate balance that had been maintained on Devil's Island for ten thousand years was completely shattered.

With most of the life energy no longer suppressing it, the destructive energy that was originally confined deep within the island instantly lost its balance. Like a wild horse, it began to surge and expand violently, and a black aura of destruction soared into the sky, as if it wanted to destroy everything.

"Suppress it!" Gula shouted.

He and all his avatars acted simultaneously. Mu Yi manipulated the remaining plants on the island to form a large array, Yin Wansheng used the power of Yin and Yang to try to harmonize them, Qing Liuli used her powerful spiritual energy to build a barrier, and Bai Yuan devoured the power of destruction... By working together, they temporarily suppressed the first outbreak of destructive energy.

Gula's eyes flashed again, and his fifth spirit ring lit up—Ancient Memories!
This ancient memory, empowered by the Tree of Life's status as the progenitor of plants, has become incredibly powerful.

The ability to trace back to the source of bloodlines has been greatly enhanced, and because it has become the "progenitor" itself, it can provide almost all the missing "genetic material" for evolution, greatly reducing the consumption of pure energy.

He summoned the first spirit, the Titan Bear.

"Your opportunity has arrived!"

The Titan Bear spirit roared with excitement. Its bloodline, originating from the Gravity Titan, had a natural affinity for the "destruction," "ending," and "heavy" connotations contained within destructive energy.

It frantically devoured the pure destructive energy that had been temporarily suppressed.

Guided by immense destructive power and ancient memories, the form of the Titan Bear's spirit began to undergo a dramatic transformation.

Its body became even more majestic, its muscles bulging like mountains. The dark gold color faded, and countless mysterious black patterns representing power and gravity appeared on its dark skin.

Its mastery of gravity increased rapidly, and it began to touch upon deeper levels of the "laws of gravity".

Ultimately, it successfully broke through its limits and evolved into a god-level soul spirit—the Gravity Titan!
Although its potential and rank are far inferior to the Ancient Tree of Life, which is the progenitor of life, it is still a terrifying existence.

The other avatars also absorbed the remaining destructive energy or the last remaining life energy on the island, according to their own attributes.

Yin Wansheng's Yin-Yang Ghost Emperor Martial Soul further merged with the newly born Spirit of Life and Death Reincarnation, and the Yin-Yang True Dragon mastered the power of life and death, making its soul power aura increasingly profound and eerie.

Bai Yuan's gluttonous phantom absorbs life to strengthen its blood and qi. With the "end" aspect of destruction, the devouring power becomes more solid. The Abyss Devouring Beast merges with the power of destruction, activates the power of the annihilated world, and further strengthens the devouring power.

Qing Liuli absorbed the scattered spiritual fluctuations and emotional fragments to strengthen her mental power, while the evil demon plundered the Seven Old Demons' ability to create fear demons, see through the flaws in people's hearts, and strengthen desires.

The wood strengthens its connection with the ancient tree of life, making the attributes of the ultimate wood even purer. The Dragon Blood Divine Tree reaches the level of the ultimate wood, and its bloodline power breaks through to the level of a true dragon, complementing its martial soul.

All the souls have completed their second, crucial transformation!
Liu Niandao's metal soul spirit was further tempered, imbued with the power of destruction, greatly increasing its power. It was only one elemental lightning tribulation away from being forged into a heavenly forge. The spiritual power of the Evil Eye Tyrant Overlord Soul Spirit also became purer, gazing intently.

Bo Xi was the most unlucky, because the attributes didn't match and the changes weren't significant; he only used life energy to strengthen his blood and qi and lay the foundation for his soul.

Three days passed in a blink of an eye.

After Gura absorbed all the energy and retrieved all his incarnations and souls, the entire Devil's Island had changed drastically.

The special force field that had enveloped the island for millennia, a tapestry of life and destruction, vanished completely, leaving it no different from any other deserted island. Only the land remained dark, as if telling a story of the past.

In the distance, a sharp whooshing sound came from the air.

From the direction of Beihai City, reconnaissance soul-guided aircraft belonging to the Beihai Fleet cautiously approached, circling and observing the "Devil Island" that had suddenly lost all energy fluctuations. Clearly, the drastic changes here had attracted the attention of the Federation.

Gula glanced at the three-eyed golden lion, who was still in shock and confusion, and then felt the transformative power within his body before leaving.

"It's time to go back."

He grabbed the three-eyed golden lion, and the power of spacetime surged again, pinpointing the time anchor point from which he had come, before disappearing instantly.

All that remained was the empty Devil's Island, and in the distance, reconnaissance planes filled with doubt and vigilance.

(End of this chapter)