Douluo Continent: An Adventure Begins in Wuhun City

With this will to survive, he managed to endure those five years of hellish torment and survived without any major incidents.

Fortunately, the suffering was not in vain.

His body has undergone tremendous changes, which has also made him understand why his martial soul, despite its immense power, has been cultivating so slowly.

His martial spirit is darkness, the ultimate darkness, which is the opposite of the ultimate light.

Light represents warmth, hope, and holiness.

Darkness represents coldness, loneliness, and death!

In other words, this is not a martial spirit that a normal person can cultivate. Theoretically, only the dead can cultivate this dark martial spirit.

Chen Yao was a living person with abundant yang energy before, so how could he cultivate this extremely yin and evil dark martial soul?

His body was completely incompatible with the Dark Martial Soul, which is why he only had a pitiful level 4 when his Martial Soul awakened.

This is why his cultivation speed is almost comparable to that of Yu Xiaogang, who has half a level of innate soul power.

And this Nine Netherworld Lotus seems to share the same origin as the energy of his Dark Martial Soul.

Rather than saying it was to help him forge a celestial embryo, it was actually just to use the energy of the celestial lotus itself to permeate his body and soul in advance.

Let him get used to the dark energy that represents death and annihilation.

After he has fully adapted, his body will be completely destroyed, allowing the Dark Martial Soul to completely merge with him.

In other words, he is now fundamentally different from ordinary Soul Masters.

Ordinary Soul Masters' Martial Souls are derivative manifestations of their souls. They need to be activated through some medium within the body, somewhat like external objects, and can be destroyed or damaged.

Chen Yao has now completely merged with the Dark Martial Soul, or rather, he has become darkness itself!

Now that he has figured out the characteristics of his own martial soul, his cultivation will no longer be hindered.

As for the tentacles extending from the martial soul, in the end, they were nothing more than the manifestation of Chen Yao's evil thoughts back then.

However, he didn't admit that he had such a perverse sense of humor, so he attributed it all to his martial spirit.

After Chen Yao completed his transformation within the Nine Nether Immortal Lotus, he also obtained a piece of information from it.

He also understood why he had been suddenly drawn into this place from the Yin-Yang Well of Ice and Fire.

It turns out that the Nine Nether Immortal Lotus is not a celestial object that originally existed in the Douluo Continent.

Rather, it was something carried by an extraterrestrial deity from a time so distant that history cannot be traced back.

She arrived in this universe by accident, but was not welcomed by the local gods and was regarded as a heretic, known as an alien evil god.

Unfortunately, her power was too terrifying; nearly half of the divine realm was destroyed in her hands.

But in the end, she was no match for the combined might of the gods and the supreme artifact of the divine realm, which she was defeated by the combined might of the gods and the kings of that time.

Although she was severely injured and disappeared, she gained faith in this world through this battle and was revered as the Dark God Queen!

The divine realm does not recognize this title, and she herself scoffs at it, preferring her original title in the world: Dark Lord!

Later, because he harbored resentment towards the divine realm, the Dark Lord did not intend to swallow his anger. He found an old dragon who was also rejected by the divine realm and planned to storm the divine realm together to overthrow the rule of those god-kings.

Overjoyed at the Dark Lord's invitation, the old dragon wept tears of joy and immediately led his descendants, fully prepared for the journey.

Later, they did indeed invade the realm of the gods and severely damaged the God King.

Just as he was about to succeed and, after a period of recuperation, could take over the realm of gods in one fell swoop, the Dark Lord sensed the world's disgust and rejection, and at the same time, he brought a guiding light.

Following this guidance, she found her way home.

After some internal struggle, she still chose to step into it, because in her world, she still had attachments she couldn't let go of.

The Dark Lord seemed to have foreseen the old dragon's defeat after his departure.

Unlike her own energy, which represents destruction and death, she seemed to still harbor some lingering feelings for the past.

That is to leave a backup plan.

She had long sensed that this world called Douluo Continent was different from others in this universe.

Although there are many limitations, the martial spirit is too malleable, and perhaps a suitable candidate will emerge in the future.

With a try-it-out mentality, he sent the Nine Nether Immortal Lotus and his own inheritance to the Douluo Continent.

Because of the special nature of the Nine Nether Immortal Lotus, it was deliberately chosen to be the place where the old dragon's two offspring perished in the previous great battle.

Although their strength was nothing special in the eyes of the Dark Lord, they were still the burial place of two powerful beings comparable to gods. The death energy they transformed into after their deaths could well maintain the nutrients of the Nine Nether Immortal Lotus.

Within this Nine Nether Immortal Lotus, a trace of divine thought was imbued by the Dark Lord.

Over countless years, this divine thought transformed into the obsession and instinct of the Nine Nether Immortal Lotus.

This is why, after sensing Chen Yao's martial soul, which was perfectly compatible with it, it was able to take the initiative and drag a cowardly guy into the fray.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 67 Refined in an instant!

The more Chen Yao recalled, the brighter his eyes shone.

The information about the Nine Nether Immortal Lotus naturally includes the location of the Dark Monarch's inheritance.

Because the Dark Lord himself had long since left this world, he was unable to use his own power to subject the gods to divine trials like the native deities. Therefore, he left behind a place of inheritance in the Douluo Continent.

The location of the land of inheritance was crystal clear in Chen Yao's mind.

What lies within this inheritance is the core legacy of that Dark Lord, capable of transcending the distorted rules of the Douluo Continent and reaching the pinnacle of the God King's legacy!

However, since this inheritance was left behind by the Dark Lord out of guilt towards that old dragon, it is naturally related to soul beasts.

The message states that after Chen Yao passes the test, receives the inheritance, and cultivates to the level of God King, he must fulfill the will of her and the old dragon from back then and overthrow the God Realm.

This can be seen as helping the Dark Lord vent her anger over the severe injury she suffered in the God Realm back then, and also as giving a glimmer of hope to the soul beasts in this world who are constantly persecuted by soul masters because of the rules.

However, this is not a strict requirement.

Because the Dark Lord had long since left this world, at an unknown distance, it was impossible for him to leave any hidden dangers on Chen Yao across such a vast distance of time and space.

She couldn't force Chen Yao to carry out her wishes.

However, the original words stated in the information were:

"When you grow to become a God-King and grow tired of meaningless immortality, you can consider what I said: overthrow the God Realm, and I will take you to experience a wider world."

My successors must know that when I attacked the realm of gods, I was not even a fraction of my full strength…

Chen Yao pondered, the meaning of which was probably that the Dark Lord had left some kind of backup plan, allowing people to travel from here to her other world.

That world could make Chen Yao stronger than the God King.

However, the prerequisite is that Chen Yao needs to help her destroy the God Realm.

After thinking about it, Chen Yao put it out of his mind.

Just kidding, he's only at the beginning. Since the Dark Lord didn't leave any hidden dangers, if he wants to enforce it, we'll talk about it later.

After all, Chen Yao would only know whether the "meaningless immortality" mentioned by the Dark Lord was meaningful or not after experiencing it first!

Dispelling his distracting thoughts, Chen Yao slowly stood up, but suddenly noticed something unusual. He subconsciously looked down and then a smile appeared on his lips.

"Great! Very good! You're full of energy!"

The Nine Nether Immortal Lotus only helped him absorb dark energy and fuse with the dark martial soul. There were no side effects. His original functions remained the same, and now it seemed even better than before.

Then, Chen Yao turned his head and looked at the two dull-colored soul rings behind him.

Chen Yao slowly raised his hand, and a wisp of black mist emanated from his fingertips, swirling around the two soul rings.

Instantly, under the influence of that aura, the two soul rings began to be filled with evil energy.

The color then began to deepen.

Ultimately, it transformed into two deep, dark halos.

From a distance, it appears to be just an ordinary ten-thousand-year-old soul ring.

However, upon closer inspection, it can be seen that this spirit ring is much purer in color than the black and gray ten-thousand-year spirit ring, as dark as ink and as deep as abyss.

Furthermore, it was covered with dense, strange and mysterious patterns, radiating pure dark energy, yet it had no trace of the aura of a soul beast!

As the dark lord of another world, he looked down on the Douluo Continent system and disdained to integrate the energy of those beasts into his own body.

The Dark Lord, who seemed to have a phobia of germs, naturally did not want his successor to be tainted by the aura of soul beasts and become neither human nor beast.

Although darkness and light are at opposite ends of the spectrum, they do not signify depravity!

Darkness, too, must remain pure!

The Dark Lord, having considered this point, was unable to change the rules of Douluo Continent due to her diminished strength at the time.

However, a magic formula was also left behind in the Nine Nether Immortal Lotus.

Named

"Black Zhe"

It allows Chen Yao to expel the aura of the soul beast from the soul ring and assimilate its energy into pure dark energy, making it originate from the same source as himself.

In other words, now that Chen Yao is one with his martial soul, he no longer needs to follow the prescribed path to circulate his soul power, connect with his soul rings, and release his soul skills, unlike other soul masters.

He had mastered these soul skills as if they were second nature, and could activate them with a single thought!

And this "black jujube" has the same effect on soul bones.

Thinking of this, Chen Yao's eyes flashed, and his jade-like palm pressed down hard on the lotus seat of the Nine Nether Immortal Lotus.

Suddenly, the Nine Nether Immortal Lotus seemed to receive some kind of stimulation.

The petals unfurled, then twisted and stretched wildly, surging overwhelmingly into the depths of this dark place.

As the one who single-handedly destroyed half of the divine realm, the Dark Lord, having left behind a legacy, would naturally not be too stingy.

Even in her own world, this Nine Nether Immortal Lotus was a supreme treasure, resembling both medicine and artifact, with endless wonders; otherwise, she wouldn't have carried it with her at all times.

Back then, when the Nine Nether Immortal Lotus enveloped and transformed Chen Yao, it was also during this process that Chen Yao marked the Nine Nether Immortal Lotus and refined it.

Now, this Nine Nether Immortal Lotus can be seen as a divine artifact left to Chen Yao by the Dark Lord.

At least in Chen Yao's opinion, this Nine Nether Immortal Lotus is definitely much more powerful than a certain blue three-foot rake weighing 108,000 jin.