Though the pitch-black space briefly welcomed the light, the atmosphere remained eerily silent.
Plop~
The dull sound of water rippling slowly echoed, and the dark space was fully illuminated.
This was a unique space. The vast area wasn't formed by solid materials like rock or wood but instead constantly rippled like flowing liquid. A green, life-glowing fluid pulsed and shimmered, resembling living water.
Anyone knowledgeable would recognize this liquid as the core essence of life on Douluo Star—the most vital waters of the Lake of Life.
At this moment, in the heart of this sacred lake, a silver-white figure lay prostrate on the ground. A ferocious wound marred its abdomen. Though the wound no longer bled, it radiated a divine golden glow that clashed with an ominous black-red energy.
This was none other than the Silver Dragon King, split from the fallen Dragon God by the Asura God. It embodied the Dragon God's wisdom and elemental powers.
With a slight movement of its body, the previously dazed Silver Dragon King furrowed its brow—it had aggravated its injury.
But this pain was far from enough to cloud its mind.
Rationality returned to the Silver Dragon King's eyes, which now brimmed with thoughtfulness.
Perhaps it had been asleep for too long; the Silver Dragon King felt its mind was frighteningly sluggish. This sense of stagnation irritated it, so it gently shook its majestic and graceful dragon head, attempting to clear its thoughts.
"Master, has something happened?" a concerned voice softly asked.
Di Tian, maintaining his human form, swiftly entered the space and knelt before the Silver Dragon King.
The Silver Dragon King fell silent for a moment, gazing into Di Tian's golden eyes and recalling some unpleasant memories from the past.
But the past was the past. Born under the mandate of heaven, the Silver Dragon King was destined to lead the dragon race back to its peak.
Remembering its mission, the Silver Dragon King's once-clouded mind cleared completely. After pondering the earlier question, it asked in a melodious feminine voice:
"Di Tian, did you sense a familiar presence from the outside just now?"
Di Tian's eyes clouded with confusion.
Once the personal guard of the Dragon God, he possessed the strength of a God King. But since the fall of the divine throne, his power had dwindled to barely that of a quasi-divine peak. How could he possibly extend his spiritual awareness across the entire Douluo Continent to detect such a presence? His current maximum range barely covered the entire Star Dou Forest.
Anything further was beyond his reach.
Thinking about his own weakness only deepened Di Tian's sorrow, even filling him with guilt.
He had failed the Dragon God's expectations and couldn't even perform the simple task of sensing a presence. Bowing his head in shame, he said:
"Forgive me, Master. My current strength is insufficient, and I did not sense the presence you mentioned."
"Is that so…"
The Silver Dragon King sighed softly, and the vast lake space once again fell into silence.
The Silver Dragon King didn't blame Di Tian. It soon realized it had been unreasonable to expect such a feat from him, given how far his cultivation had regressed.
But though the Silver Dragon King was a god, it still hailed from the primal beast race and lacked the empathy to comfort Di Tian. Instead, it sank into deep thought.
At this moment, the Silver Dragon King was pondering why that presence had felt so familiar.
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Due to the ice-fire body tempering, Ye Wen's martial soul—though yet to obtain its fourth soul ring—had already awakened the attributes of ice and fire. Given the high essence of his martial soul, these attributes directly evolved into extreme ice and extreme fire. Once the soul ring was in place, Ye Wen could proudly call himself a master of an ultimate attribute martial soul.
But that wasn't the most important part. The most critical development was that Ye Wen's martial soul had undergone an evolution—it had awakened the Silver Dragon King bloodline inherited from Gu Yuena!
As one of the most revered soul beast bloodlines in the Douluo world, even though Gu Yuena in Ye Wen's world had elevated the Silver Dragon King martial soul to an entirely new level, its essence remained unchanged.
Thus, miraculously—even separated by mountains and rivers—the Silver Dragon King and Gu Yuena experienced a bloodline resonance.
And this resonance jolted the Silver Dragon King awake!
However, Ye Wen was cunning. Though his martial soul's aura was powerful, he understood the principle that "a tall tree attracts wind." Thus, he immediately used the Xuan Yuan Technique to seal off his martial soul's presence.
Because of this, the recently awakened Silver Dragon King was left in a state of confusion and disconnection.
Finally, after some contemplation, the Silver Dragon King gradually realized that the presence it had sensed bore an uncanny resemblance to its own power!
Its pupils abruptly dilated.
"What is going on here?"
Though some soul beasts on Douluo Star carried traces of the Golden Dragon King and Silver Dragon King bloodlines—such as the future Emperor Auspicious Beast, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion of Douluo Continent, or the unique Silver Dragon soul beasts of the Sun and Moon Continent—no matter how close their bloodlines were to the original Golden and Silver Dragon Kings, they could never compare to the true sources of their bloodlines.
This was because all dragon-type soul beasts were creations of the Dragon God's will. Unless the Dragon God willingly divided its essence, no dragon race could match the nine Dragon Kings or the Golden and Silver Dragon Kings, who were directly imbued with the Dragon God's essence.
Yet now, a presence unmistakably told the Silver Dragon King that there existed someone similar to it—
No!
After carefully reflecting, the Silver Dragon King was horrified to realize that although the presence had been brief, even while in slumber, its bloodline instinctively trembled in response.
This phenomenon shouldn't have occurred.
It was the innate fear and submission of a lower dragon to a higher one!
The Silver Dragon King's gaze grew vacant as it muttered inwardly:
"What is happening? As half of the Dragon God, my bloodline should surpass all dragon races. Why did I instinctively feel fear?"
Carrying the Dragon God's wisdom, the Silver Dragon King suddenly had a flash of insight. A theory surfaced in Gu Yuena's mind.
"Could it be… Father God isn't dead!?"
The moment this thought emerged, the Silver Dragon King's expression turned ecstatic.
No one knew the immense pressure weighing on its heart, even after years of slumber. With only one God King, how could it possibly revive the soul beast race against a divine realm with five other God Kings? That was nothing short of a pipe dream!
Unlike the reckless Golden Dragon King, the intelligent Silver Dragon King knew better than to think it could single-handedly take on five God Kings.
But upon reflection, the Silver Dragon King realized something was amiss. The presence it sensed was closer to itself—not the aura of the Dragon God it remembered.
However, the Silver Dragon King quickly stopped dwelling on it.
It came to a realization: idle speculation here was meaningless. It needed to take action and make changes!
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