Douluo Dalu: Transforming Soul Rings into Soul Veins

In the sky, dark clouds were dense, with lightning flashing and thunder roaring.

"Thunder Tribulation!?"

Gu Yuena murmured, looking at Lin Feng with some astonishment. Back then in the soul beast forest, when Lin Feng had achieved Soul King and had gathered all five elements of his Soul Veins, a thunder tribulation of great momentum had once condensed between heaven and earth.

That time, it was the first time the five elements had completed their cycle and mutual generation within Lin Feng's body, realizing the first time the Innate Treasure Pearl had been accommodated into his dantian, allowing the Soul Veins and the martial soul to connect and respond to each other.

At the same time, it was also the moment when Lin Feng's Soul King cultivation could be compared to the aura of a high-level Soul Sage. His combat power could even be on par with an expert who had just advanced to Soul Douluo!

At that time, his martial soul had not yet been completely accommodated into his body. He had only temporarily reached this step, but the new path already had a prototype, which had triggered the will of heaven and earth to send down a test. And after Lin Feng had taken out the Innate Treasure Pearl from his dantian, the thunder tribulation of that time had retreated, as if it had been faked out.

It wasn't until this time, when the Innate Treasure Pearl in Lin Feng's dantian had gathered the two qis of yin and yang and had once again undergone a transformation, that this thunder tribulation had come into being.

The planar will of the Douluo Continent had never been strong, always in a hazy state, operating according to laws and natural rules, rarely directly interfering with the living beings on the continent. But whenever a subversive power or existence was born, it would test and try them in various forms. The thunder tribulation was one of them.

It was just like when it sensed that the Douluo Star would eventually be overturned, it would autonomously nurture a Son of Fortune, looking for a new way out.

The heavenly tribulation of a soul beast, although set by the gods of the Divine Realm, the growth of the soul beast itself was a new birth time and time again, which was in line with the foundation of the planar will.

And for humans, in this period, there was originally no such thing as a thunder tribulation. It only appeared in the fourth part of Douluo Dalu. That was because with the development of the times, the pursuit of power by the soul masters on the Douluo Continent had become more and more extreme. They began to try all kinds of unprecedented cultivation methods, and had even touched the foundation of the Douluo Star.

And at this time, the Douluo Star was not yet as fragile as it was tens of thousands of years later. The thunder tribulation was not for the purpose of eliminating the born strong living beings and letting their origin return to heaven and earth, but was mainly for testing.

Because the Soul Veins and the martial soul entering the body was a brand new path!

Ever since the birth of martial souls on the Douluo Continent, the path that soul masters walked was ultimately a postnatal path. Awakening a martial soul, manifesting the power of their origin externally, and then cultivating it, letting their own cultivation gradually improve.

The cultivation of a martial soul was a separation. The martial soul was independent. The mutation of the martial soul drove the mutation of the human body. From the beginning of awakening a martial soul, a part of oneself was separated. It was unknown if the gods were secretly manipulating this, but to manifest the power of one's origin externally to become a martial soul, and then to rely on soul beast soul rings to bestow the foundation for growth, was indeed a simple and brainless operation.

And this was also one of the reasons for the poor spiritual power of the soul masters on the Douluo Continent. To separate a part of one's own power and let that part drive the growth of the main body, how could the spiritual power grow significantly?

When the state of the martial soul was also not good, then the soul master's spiritual power would also lag behind their peers. Just like the original Dugu Bo, the only way for his spiritual power to grow was on his martial soul. His martial soul also had problems. The result can be imagined, which had led to the joke of a Titled Douluo not being able to see Xiao Wu's true form.

In the later stage, although a martial soul could be transformed into a divine weapon and be symbiotic with the main body, in the end, they were two independent individuals. The martial soul was one path, and oneself was another.

And the path of Soul Veins that Lin Feng walked was undoubtedly a huge subversion of the traditional cultivation system.

From the initial soul beast soul ring entering the body to condense a Soul Vein, to now directly self-condensing a Soul Vein and having the martial soul enter the body, Lin Feng had already done what his predecessors had never imagined. Within his body, the yin-yang and five-element Soul Veins had perfectly fused with his martial soul, forming a brand new, unprecedented power system.

This power system not only made his cultivation speed far exceed that of his peers, but more importantly, his spiritual power also grew to an unprecedented extent with it. His soul seemed to have a strange connection with the primordial qi between heaven and earth, able to perceive more and deeper mysteries of the universe.

From the beginning of their birth, Soul Veins possessed two basic abilities.

One, to nourish the body, to give the body the possibility of being strong. At the same time, the growth of the body would feed back to the Soul Vein, increasing its strength. The two would advance side by side.

Two, to comprehend the power of the laws within it, allowing the soul master to comprehend the power of the laws within it in advance. This kind of comprehension was something that the traditional soul masters who relied on soul rings to improve could not compare to. The direct advantage this brought was—to let the soul master be at ease in the use of the abilities contained in the Soul Vein and to more easily create their own soul skills.

The Soul Veins allowed the new power obtained during a soul master's growth to be truly retractable at will. And the martial soul entering the body was a key step in this process.

It returned the martial soul to its foundation, back into the soul master's body.

The martial soul was like a seed. It was fine to let it grow into a towering giant tree in the outside world. But to return to its origin, to let this foundation for advancement return to the inside of a person's body, making it a source that nourished the soul and the physical body, was Lin Feng's unique creation.

The two were combined into one, and cultivated as one body. This was the reason why a body martial soul was so powerful.

Because for a body martial soul, the martial soul is a part of the body. If the martial soul a person is born with is himself, then one can imagine how powerful he would be. To be invincible at the same rank would also be normal!

After the martial soul enters the body, it is no longer just an external symbol of power, but is integrated with the soul master's body and mind, breathing together, growing together, and transforming into a foundation.

From then on, the martial soul was just a projection of the main body. And the main body became the most solid support for the martial soul.

The two Soul Veins of yin and yang were self-condensed by Lin Feng. They intertwined within his body, like the alternation of day and night, endlessly generating.

And although the predecessor of the five-element Soul Veins were soul beast soul rings, they had long since been purified in the True Qi, and had even more so just transformed into ultimate attributes. The current Lin Feng could be said to be the one and only self, with no other source of impure energy on his body besides the primordial qi of heaven and earth.

This was the new path! It was the new law!

This was the innate path!

Lin Feng had already completed the prerequisites for the Ring Condensing Method and the Meridian Shaping Method. A soul master could already achieve self-condensing a soul ring and then condensing a Soul Vein. To have an ordinary soul master directly condense a Soul Vein, there was still a longer road of research to walk.

And once it was realized, it would be the advent of a new system. The position of a Soul Vein was not fixed. The Soul Vein itself was not fixed either.

A Soul Vein was the key to a soul master's advancement, the carrier of soul power and laws. It could be a soul ring, a Soul Vein, a type of gas, or a dan bead!

When the martial soul returns to oneself, the power to break through the cultivation bottleneck also lies within oneself. The new law can then evolve all dharmas.

It was the same for soul beasts. Their origin was within themselves. When Lin Feng completed his research on the human "Innate Soul Evolution Art," he might as well try to research the skill of soul beasts.

Lin Feng stood erect under the thunder tribulation, the faint two qis of yin and yang circulating around his body. Above the dome of the sky, the thunderclouds rolled, as if the heavens were enraged. One after another of thick lightning bolts, like angry dragons, shuttled through the cloud layer. Accompanied by deafening thunder, the entire heaven and earth changed color for it.

Qian Renxue couldn't help but be a little worried. The thunder tribulation in the soul beast forest back then, she and Ling Yuan were both present. Just seeing the formation had already made their hearts tremble with fear. Let alone the thunder tribulation Lin Feng was facing at this moment. Its scale and power seemed to be even a notch higher than that time.

At that time, she had thought it was just a heaven-and-earth phenomenon. She had not expected that it was really related to Lin Feng.

"Gu Yuena, how come Xiao Feng needs to undergo a thunder tribulation? He's a human!" Qian Renxue asked anxiously, her gaze fixed on Lin Feng's tenacious figure.

Gu Yuena gently shook her head, a complex look flashing in her eyes. "His path is, after all, different from the others. What Xiao Feng is pursuing has already surpassed the limits of a traditional soul master. The fusion of his martial soul and Soul Veins is his own original cultivation method. Such a change will naturally attract the test of heaven and earth."

"But I also didn't expect that the planar will could actually react for this..."

"Then... then will he be in danger?" Qian Renxue's voice carried a trace of a tremble. She couldn't imagine what would happen to her if Lin Feng had any mishap in this thunder tribulation.

Gu Yuena was silent for a moment and slowly said, "Danger, naturally there is. But for him, it is not a threat. It has not reached the power of a soul beast's heavenly tribulation to become a god."

"Although the thunder tribulation is strong, it is also a tempering. If he can pass it, he will get unimaginable benefits. He is a forerunner. The plane should give him preferential treatment."

"Can't we help?"

Gu Yuena frowned, a serious look on her face. "No. This is a test of the planar laws. Once we intervene, it will attract an even greater disaster. The power of the thunder tribulation will go up another level."

"And at that time, even if I were to protect him, I would have to use divine-level strength. That would expose our current situation. If the Divine Realm happens to investigate, we will be in a passive position."

Qian Renxue pursed her vermilion lips, her eyes full of unwillingness and worry, but she also understood that what Gu Yuena had said was true. She tightly clenched her two fists, her nails almost digging into her palms, yet she felt no pain at all. Her gaze never left Lin Feng.

When they had first met, her soul power was already level 28, and Lin Feng's was level 6.

Now, they had both ascended to Soul Sage. Lin Feng's true combat power had already reached Limit Douluo, while Qian Renxue, even if she had inherited the first-generation Seraphim's use of power and divine skills, at present she could only fight a Titled Douluo.

A Soul Sage fighting a Titled Douluo, perhaps for other soul masters it was a fantasy, but for the Qian Renxue at this time, it was as normal as could be. And yet, she was still unwilling.

From being ahead at the beginning, to being neck and neck later, to now being left far behind by Lin Feng, she, as his partner, had both pride and helplessness in her heart.

The pride was that her beloved could be so outstanding, creating an unprecedented path of cultivation; the helplessness was that she found it seemed to be more and more difficult to keep up with Lin Feng's pace. This gap made her feel an unprecedented pressure.

"Wait for me. I will soon be able to do it too," Qian Renxue murmured in her heart, her voice carrying a trace of stubbornness.

The Snow Empress's trio arrived at this time. When they saw the scene before them, they were all so shocked they couldn't speak.

In the sky, the tribulation clouds were dense, as if the entire world were shrouded by this world-destroying power. And Lin Feng was standing alone under the thunder tribulation, the two qis of yin and yang circulating around his body, like an unyielding war god.

"This... this... this is a thunder tribulation?!" The Tianmeng Ice Silkworm swallowed a mouthful of saliva. For this fellow who had eaten a large amount of Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow and had grown to 990,000 years by sleeping, he had never experienced the great calamity that came once every hundred thousand years. When he saw this might of heaven and earth, his heart was shocked beyond words, his voice carrying a tremble of disbelief.

"Lin Feng... can he really do it?" The Ice Empress's voice carried a trace of uncertainty. She couldn't imagine how that slender body could withstand such a terrifying thunder tribulation's bombardment.

The Snow Empress said softly, "I also really want to know." Her gaze moved slightly. At this time, her cultivation had already reached 690,000 years. For the upcoming next heavenly tribulation, she had confidence, but not much. This opportunity to observe a thunder tribulation up close was not to be missed. She was even already thinking, should she transform and re-cultivate?

"Come on! Let me see if you, this might of heaven and earth, can truly block my path forward!" Lin Feng shouted loudly. The yin and yang qi circulating around his body instantly boiled, transforming into one after another of brilliant light rings that enveloped his entire person within.

The thunder tribulation in the sky seemed to have heard his call. In an instant, in the thunderclouds, a pillar of thunder a full hundred zhang wide fiercely condensed, carrying a world-destroying momentum as it fiercely chopped down at Lin Feng. This first thunder tribulation, carrying a pure power of lightning, was like a divine punishment descending, vowing to annihilate all challengers into nothingness.

Lin Feng's face did not change. The five-element Soul Veins in his body circulated. The five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, under the control of his will, quickly gathered in his palm, forming a five-colored light shield that met the terrifying pillar of thunder.

"Boom!" The lightning and the light shield collided, bursting out with a deafening roar. The entire space seemed to tremble at this moment. However, the seemingly indestructible pillar of thunder, the moment it came into contact with the five-colored light shield, was weakened layer by layer, and finally turned into harmless electric light that dissipated in the air.

"Boom—"

Another bolt of lightning collided with Lin Feng's five-element shield. Lin Feng was unharmed.

In the thunderclouds, as if sensing Lin Feng's resistance, they rolled even more furiously. Immediately after, the thunderclouds changed. Metal, wood, water, fire, earth—the five elements and five colors evolved here!

"Primordial... elemental tribulation!" Tianmeng shouted in shock.

The five-colored elemental thunder tribulation came one after another, respectively representing the five attributes of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. Each one contained an even stronger energy than before.

"The five elements mutually restrain each other. Thunder belongs to metal. I will use a wood shield to melt it," Lin Feng thought to himself. His figure did not move. He was already prepared to welcome the subsequent thunder.

When the golden thunder came, he used fire to counter it; when the wood thunder descended, he used metal to cut it; when the water thunder surged, he used earth to cover it; when the fire thunder was scorching, he used water to extinguish it; when the earth thunder was heavy, he used wood to loosen it.

Five huge pillars of lightning illuminated this northern domain. In the churning sea of thunder, the thunder drums rolled, like the most primitive roar between heaven and earth. Every roar shook the hearts and minds of everyone present.

Lin Feng's figure was like lightning, shuttling through the five-colored thunder tribulation.

"This... how is this possible?" The Tianmeng Ice Silkworm was dumbfounded. He had never seen anyone be so at ease in such a terrifying thunder tribulation, let alone being able to use the principle of the five elements mutually restraining each other to resolve the thunder tribulation.

The Ice Empress and the Snow Empress also looked at each other. Although they knew that Lin Feng's talent was extraordinary, they had not expected that he would actually be this strong.

A brilliant light shone in Qian Renxue's eyes.

However, this was just the beginning.

The thunderclouds condensed again. This time, the five-colored elemental thunder tribulation no longer appeared alone, but fell at the same time, intertwining into a huge elemental net that completely surrounded Lin Feng.

"Five-Colored Divine Light, out!" Lin Feng let out a low shout. The five-element Soul Veins in his body instantly erupted. The five-colored divine light gathered around his body, transforming into a brilliant and ultimate divine light that shot up to the sky, head-on clashing with the five-colored elemental thunder tribulation.

The divine light and the thunder tribulation met, bursting out with a dazzling light. The entire heaven and earth seemed to be illuminated by this power. In the fierce collision, Lin Feng, relying on the power of the Five-Colored Divine Light, gradually gained the upper hand, defeating the five-colored elemental thunder tribulation one by one!

Just when everyone thought the thunder tribulation was about to end, the sky suddenly split open with a huge crack, from which an even more terrifying aura surged out. It was a seven-colored thunder tribulation symbolizing fire, water, earth, wind, light, dark, and space. Each one contained a destructive power, as if it wanted to swallow the entire world.

"Rumble—"

The bursting, dissipating lightning and the power of heaven and earth had peeled away a layer of the frozen earth here. Dust filled the air. Even the distant ice peaks were trembling under the aftershocks of this power.

"Boom—"

The seven-colored thunder tribulation suddenly descended. The entire world seemed to have lost its brilliance in an instant, being swallowed by the light of this seven-colored thunder tribulation.

Lin Feng's figure shook. He felt an unprecedented pressure. The power of this seven-colored thunder tribulation was far greater than the previous five-colored elemental thunder tribulation. It was as if it wanted to tear his physical body and soul apart.

He spread his two hands, and the two qis of yin and yang transformed into two huge vortices, one black and one white, intertwining with each other, actually forcefully tearing the seven-colored elemental thunder pillar apart.

"Cough—"

Lin Feng gritted his teeth. The True Qi in his dantian was mobilized. The golden True Qi traveled through the two qis of yin and yang, like a swimming dragon, providing him with a continuous source of power. On the surface of his body, a faint golden light appeared. That was the body-protecting divine light produced after the fusion of True Qi and the five-element soul power, resisting the aftershocks of the thunder tribulation.

The great earth trembled. Gu Yuena and the others had no choice but to retreat. The ice plain under Lin Feng's feet had long since turned to dust, leaving only a deep pit. The surroundings were filled with an intertwined aura of scorching and cold. That was the trace left after the confrontation between the thunder tribulation and Lin Feng's power.

"Xiao Feng!" Qian Renxue cried out in surprise.

"Calm down," Gu Yuena said in a low voice, but her heart was somewhat uneasy. This might, I'm afraid it already has the level of a demigod?

Finally, the seven-colored thunder tribulation's power gradually weakened.

"The five elements mutually generate, yin and yang harmonize. The power of heaven and earth can also be used by me!"

"Wind and thunder are not in the five elements but are in the category of nature. Light and dark belong to yin and yang and should be one. And space is the foundation of all things. I, Lin Feng, today, with these five-element Soul Veins, the two qis of yin and yang, with the might of heaven and earth, will forge an immortal body!"

Lin Feng chanted in a low voice. Although his voice was light, it contained an endless confidence and determination.

He released the protective shields of his True Qi and soul power!

And the divine thunder, the moment it came into contact with Lin Feng's body, actually, as if attracted by some power, slowly merged into his body.

"This... what is going on?" The Tianmeng Ice Silkworm widened his eyes. He absolutely could not understand what was happening before him.

And the Snow Empress and the Ice Empress also looked at each other. They also could not explain this strange scene. However, they could clearly feel that Lin Feng, after absorbing the divine thunder, the power in his body seemed to have had another qualitative leap.

The True Qi in Lin Feng's body surged wildly. The five-element Soul Veins and the two qis of yin and yang frantically rotated within his body, like a huge vortex, continuously devouring and fusing the power of the seven-colored divine thunder.

In his dantian, the two qis of yin and yang intertwined, their colors becoming deeper; and the five-colored brilliance shone. Gradually, the sound of wind was drumming, and lightning was sparkling, as if a small universe was slowly taking shape within Lin Feng's body!

At the same time, the treasure pearl in his spiritual sea, its chaotic qi was even denser. The Innate Treasure Pearl was almost about to become a solid entity.

"He... he is using the power of the thunder tribulation to temper himself?" the Snow Empress murmured.

The tribulation clouds had retreated. In the golden light, Lin Feng slowly opened his two eyes. The pair of eyes seemed to contain the universe and the stars, deep and unfathomable.

His entire body emitted a faint brilliance. The worldly primordial qi was crazily surging towards him. This was the feedback from heaven and earth after passing the thunder tribulation.

"Success..." Lin Feng whispered to himself. Feeling the unprecedented, majestic power within his body, a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

A demigod's body, forged.