Douluo Continent: My Martial Soul is the Black Dragon, I am the Lord of the Gods

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"Xuan Ming!"

For the first time, a violent fluctuation appeared on Gu Yuena's beautiful face. She clearly felt that Xuanming's divine soul was being torn apart by countless dragon souls, and the nascent divine spark she was condensing was also shaking violently, on the verge of collapse.

If this continues, he will not only fail to become a god, but may even perish, be assimilated by the Dragon Tomb, and become part of these countless vengeful spirits!

Can't wait any longer!
She gritted her teeth, a resolute glint in her eyes.

With her jade hand raised, a crystal radiating a nine-colored halo and containing indescribable immense energy and law fluctuations slowly emerged—the Heart of the Dragon God!
This final divine artifact of the dragon race represents the culmination of the dragon god's authority and power, and is also the key to the birth of a new dragon god.

However, the Heart of the Dragon God also contains extreme danger. It requires a truly complete Dragon God bloodline to control.

Gu Yuena inherited the power of the Silver Dragon King, but lacked the essence of the Golden Dragon King's bloodline.

If she forcibly absorbs it, the outcome is almost predictable.

It wasn't that she controlled the Dragon God's Heart, but rather that she was devoured and consumed by the complex power contained within the Dragon God's Heart, which belonged to the complete will of the Dragon God. This power became nourishment for the artifact, waiting for the next possible successor with a more complete bloodline.

However, looking at the figure in the center of Dragon Valley struggling to survive amidst the backlash of countless dragon souls, whose aura was becoming increasingly chaotic, Gu Yuena showed no hesitation.

She remembered the instructions the Ice Dragon King had given her before he vanished, entrusting Xuanming to his care.

She remembered the promise she had made.

"If necessary... I will give everything."

The whispers faded into the wind of the Dragon Tomb.

The next moment, Gu Yuena no longer hesitated. She poured her own Silver Dragon King's original power into the Dragon God's Heart without reservation. At the same time, she guided the nine-colored crystal to slowly merge into her brow!

"boom--!"

An indescribable surge of terrifying energy erupted instantly, and nine-colored divine light soared into the sky, illuminating the entire Dragon Tomb in a magnificent display!
The heart of the Dragon God was truly activated, and the supreme laws belonging to the Dragon God began to manifest. The vast pressure even temporarily suppressed the raging dragon soul!

However, Gu Yuena's face turned deathly pale instantly, and her body trembled uncontrollably. She could clearly feel that her consciousness and her origin were being frantically pulled and devoured by the even more ancient, larger, and more violent will within the Heart of the Dragon God!
The supreme will of the Dragon God is forcibly eroding her soul, trying to assimilate her!

In the center of Dragon Valley, Xuanming suddenly looked up.

When he saw the exquisite figure on the distant mountain peak, enveloped in nine-colored divine light, yet whose aura was rapidly weakening, like a candle flickering in the wind, an unprecedented tremor tore apart his soul, far more intense and real than the gnawing of the thousands of dragon souls around him!
The power within him, which had been fluctuating violently due to the backlash from the dragon soul, was completely ignited at this moment by a more extreme and colder emotion!
It wasn't anger, it wasn't despair, but a kind of... absolute, unquestionable denial!

Deny the possibility that she might sacrifice herself for him!

Deny the outcome that is unfolding before our eyes!

"Om-!"

Within Xuanming's body, the nascent divine core, which had been struggling to survive under the impact of the five divine kings' wills and the backlash of countless dragon souls, seemed to have received some ultimate stimulus and suddenly burst forth with unprecedented light!
It's not ice blue, not blood red, not dark purple, not platinum, and not emerald green...

It is a pure white that is so pure that it seems to encompass all things, yet also seems to negate everything!

Ultimate light is also ultimate nothingness!
The light instantly swept out from Xuanming's center!

This light was not warm, but rather carried a sense of absolute "stillness" and "rule".

It did not dispel the desolation of the Dragon Tomb, nor purify the resentment of the Dragon Soul; instead, it... brought everything to a standstill. The roaring phantom of the Dragon Soul froze in the air, the surging primordial energy of the Dragon Clan ceased its flow, and even the indiscriminately watching remnant soul of the Dragon God in the high heavens seemed to have its blurry outline frozen in time.

Time, space, energy, consciousness... everything came to an absolute stillness under this pure white light!
Only Xuanming at the center of the white light, and Gu Yuena on the distant mountain peak who was still being eroded by the power of the Dragon God's Heart, seemed to have transcended this stillness.

And in that instant when everything came to a standstill—

"boom!!!"

A bolt of lightning, whose color was indescribable, seemed to be the first ray of light at the beginning of the universe, or the final judgment at the end of all things. It pierced through layers of void, ignored the barriers of the Dragon Tomb, and descended directly!

It did not originate from the sky of the Douluo Continent, but rather from the deeper laws of the universe itself. Its color, like the white light erupting from Xuan Ming, is that ultimate, all-encompassing yet all-denying pure white!
The goal of this pure white lightning is not destruction, but... baptism and rebirth!

It fell straight toward the white light source at the center of that still world—Xuanming!
Lightning strikes!

There was no earth-shattering explosion, no agonizing screams as one might have imagined.

The moment the pure white lightning touched Xuanming's body, it was like a drop of water merging into the ocean, silently seeping in.

But at this moment, the entire Dragon Tomb emitted an ancient, unbearable wail, and began to tremble violently! It was as if this burial ground, which bore the last hope of the dragon race, could not withstand the power of the laws originating from the very source of the universe!

Within Xuanming's body, the nascent divine core, which was on the verge of collapse due to the backlash of the dragon soul, began to condense and materialize at an unprecedented speed under the infusion of pure white lightning!

The resentment and roars of countless dragon souls, the unwillingness and anger of the dragon race's decline, the hopes of the Ice and Fire Dragon King, Gu Yuena's sacrifice, his own journey of killing, perseverance, confusion and determination... all of it, good and bad, light and dark, belonging to humans and belonging to the dragon race...

All of them were forcibly compressed, melted, and purified under the cleansing of that pure white lightning!
It is no longer a simple aggregation of energy, but a manifestation of laws, a crystallization of will, and the final confirmation of his unique path in the Xuanming realm!
A crystal emitting a hazy white light, with countless tiny runes of law seemingly constantly arising and ceasing inside, was taking shape at the core of his soul with unstoppable force!

Divinity... coalescing!
The pure white divine light was not dazzling, but it carried a majesty and indifference that transcended all things, as if it itself was part of the rules.

In this still world, where only pure white lightning flashes, Xuanming slowly raised his head. In the depths of his icy blue eyes, the original emotions had faded away, replaced by a divine radiance as vast and cold as the cosmos.

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The realm of gods, the supreme temple.

The five God-Kings, who had been closely monitoring the situation inside the Dragon Tomb through the Divine Test Mark and even secretly guiding the illusionary trials, suddenly stood up almost simultaneously! The unchanging majesty and calmness on their faces were replaced by an unprecedented shock and solemnity!

In the center of the temple, the huge mirror of light constructed from pure law power, which originally reflected the scene of the Dragon Tomb—the roaring dragon soul, the churning energy, the Xuanming struggling to hold on, and Gu Yuena on the verge of collapse due to the Dragon God's heart—all of it was instantly covered by an indescribable... pure white!

That was neither light nor darkness.

That was a kind of... absolute "stillness"!
A terrifying force that seems to completely "freeze" time, space, energy, and even cause and effect!
Immediately afterwards, the pure white lightning that pierced through the void and originated from the very essence of the laws of the universe descended!

"What is that?!" The God of Destruction's dark purple pupils contracted violently, and the aura around him that could end all things became momentarily disordered.

He had never seen such a bizarre "tribulation lightning" before!
It doesn't exude an aura of destruction; instead, it carries a sense of... almost cold-blooded "reconstruction" and "confirmation"!

“It’s not any known law or attribute…” Killing intent and astonishment mingled in the blood-red eyes of the Asura God. He was in charge of killing and judgment and was most sensitive to the nature of energy, but at this moment, he was completely unable to analyze the essence of that pure white lightning!
The Goddess of Kindness and the Goddess of Life exchanged a glance, both seeing disbelief in each other's eyes.

In that white light, they felt no beauty of life, no warmth of kindness, only an absolute, icy coldness...

negative!

While denying everything, the white light also dominated everything it enveloped with an arrogant attitude!
That's not inheritance, not integration, but a denial and reshaping of all existing rules!
That pure white divine spark seemed to be both the beginning and the end of all rules. (End of Chapter)