Douluo Dalu: The Legend of Heavenly Ruler

--- Chapter 231 ---

"Hmm..."

"What a weird method."

"Also, what's this connection between soul and origin?"

Within a blacksmith workshop below the Supreme Pontiff Palace, Yunlong was learning the Principle of Soul.

He only understood 10% of it because it was too vast and profound, which was surprisingly hard to learn compared to when he learned Time Law..

[You learned Time Law faster because you have Ryumyaku's help, Host]

[Your comprehension is definitely higher compared to others, but it obviously wasn't enough to learn six concepts of Time Law]

[Without external help, you probably only learned three concepts at most]

"Neo... I don't know if you're trying to be sarcastic or not." Yunlong shook his head wryly.

[System incapable of being sarcastic, so the previous remark essentially was a fact]

Yunlong blankly stared at the system panel and couldn't help but twitch his mouth. "Whatever." He sighed slightly.

He gradually moved his gaze to the darkish-red spirit ring, which was floating above the ground.

"360,000 years old spirit ring."

"Dark Devilgod Tiger who possessed Evil Attribute..." Yunlong quietly said while laying his body on the floor.

He was conflicted because his twin dragon martial soul had to be balanced.

Without a light-attribute spirit ring from Angel God's trial, Yunlong actually wouldn't be able to balance his martial soul because Moryo's reward spirit ring contained potent darkness.

"I possessed two other spirit rings from killing Tang Chen and Asura God's trial." Yunlong closed his eyes. "Combined with this cat's spirit ring, I still lack another spirit ring."

"Let's check the corpse first." He suddenly opened his inventory and pulled out Dark Devilgod Tiger's corpse.

The corpse was still warm, and red blood was running out with brimming vitality.

Yunlong used bloodline absorption and sensed a newfound vigor invade his body, slowly reaching over his chest. A bloodline crest gradually was created with the shape of a dark tiger's head.

[You have received Devil God Domain]

"Well, not bad." He smiled slightly.

Yunlong had decided to absorb two spirit rings he recently stored from the quest's reward.

He slowly dragged out two red spirit rings from the system inventory and infused his spirit energy into them. "Let's absorb these first." He closed his eyes again.

Yunlong's twin martial dragon souls released a faint cry, and they gradually approached both red spirit rings.

"...This would take some time." Yunlong focused his attention on these spirit rings.

A few minutes have passed after Yunlong started to absorb his second spirit ring for twin dragon souls, and the wall beside him suddenly was moved, revealing a secret passage.

"Yunlong?" Bibi Dong emerged from the darkness and noticed Yunlong was absorbing red spirit rings, which surprised her for a second.

"Eh, I thought he was researching soul spirit?"

Bibi Dong briefly observed Yunlong and muttered, "I was about to tell him about the incoming tournament..."

"However, let's not disturb him." She slowly shook her head and walked away from the room.

Bibi Dong understands a spirit master needs a great focus to absorb spirit rings, especially 100k spirit rings. Even she had a tough time in the past with it.

"Should I stay to help him..." Bibi Dong suddenly halted her steps, but a reminiscence of what happened a few weeks ago abruptly invaded her mind.

Bibi Dong's face was flushed, and her entire body became hotter for some reason, which caused her to breathe heavily.

"No, control yourself, Bibi Dong." She mumbled while feeling the heat in her chest.

Bibi Dong glanced at the workshop briefly and decided to finish her job first because it was more important than her personal lust.

She calmly grasped the wall near her and swiftly flowed spirit energy into it, causing a wall to move away in front of her.

As Bibi Dong walked out of the secret passages, Kaguya and Gu Yuena approached her with a solemn expression.

"Where is Yunlong?" Gu Yuena asked while crossing her arms.

Kaguya didn't say much and only nodded her head in consent because they wanted to ask the same thing. "...Where is he?" She quietly questioned.

"He's absorbing spirit rings at the moment, don't disturb him." Bibi Dong naturally answered.

She calmly stared at these women and continued, "Don't worry, he should be fine."

"Aren't you afraid he is going to fail when absorbing those spirit rings?" Gu Yuena frowned slightly, to which Bibi Dong responded with a chuckle.

Bibi Dong shook her head and confidently answered, "He's my beloved. I trusted him more than I trusted myself."

'As expected, this woman is hard to read...' Gu Yuena quietly thought while observing Bibi Dong's body.

"Well, excuse me, I have a few things to do." Bibi Dong gradually smirked and left both of them alone in the quiet corridor.

"Ah yes, you should visit the bright spirit city... Just remember not to cause any destruction there." She added while walking away.

"Hmm..." Kaguya glanced at Gu Yuena. "Should we?"

Gu Yuena pondered for a moment because it's been a while since she saw humans other than Yunlong, his maids, and others, so she was kind of curious about their condition at the moment.

'Did humans become stronger or weaker...' Gu Yuena nodded her head slightly.

"Let's go." Gu Yuena slowly moved away from the corridor.

Kaguya briefly stared at the wall where Bibi Dong appeared before and marked it with her spiritual energy. If something horrible happened to Yunlong there, she should be alerted immediately.

--- Hidden Workshop ---

Yunlong released a sigh because he successfully absorbed both spirit rings without any problem, which surprised him as Gluttony didn't help this time.

"Hmm?" He slowly opened his eyes.

Yunlong abruptly noticed the dark devilgod tiger's spirit ring forcefully absorbed into his true evil dragon martial soul.

He panicked slightly because a violent burst of energy entered his body, which caused his true evil dragon to release a faint cold roar.

"Are you kidding me..." Yunlong muttered with a speechless expression.

[You have absorbed Dark Devilgod Tiger's spirit ring]

[Evil God's Curse inappropriately was bestowed upon you...]

Crack!

Yunlong's right arm abruptly released a bone-breaking noise, and he gazed at it with a solemn expression. "This is bad..." He muttered while trying to suppress this evil influence within himself.

Dark Devilgod Tiger's corpse released an ominous aura and slowly turned into a purple liquid.

The purple liquid was the dark devilgod tiger's essence that still had its consciousness, which literally only had one purpose, cursing Yunlong's body.

Yunlong couldn't move his body, and the purple liquid quickly invaded his right arm.

Thud!

He felt his entire right arm throbbed and muttered, "What an annoying cat, even after you die... You still want to curse me, huh?"

Yunlong squeezed his right arm with his other hand and slowly calmed the essence with spirit energy. It was a useless effort because the evil influence went berserk when he calmed it down.

"I need a strong holy or light element."

"Renxue..." Yunlong whispered while teleporting himself toward Angel God's trial.