Chapter 1: Dragon Soul
Star Dou Great Forest, Outer Region
A disheveled young man slowly crawled up from the ground. He wiped the fresh blood from the corner of his mouth and looked back at the beast, which was undeniably dead, with a pale yellow Soul Ring floating above it. A smile finally appeared on his face.
“There are countless gamblers in this World, beast, and I have the upper hand!” With that, the young man, his legs trembling, walked to the Soul Beast's corpse, sat down cross-legged, and began to absorb the Soul Ring.
This was already the safest place; if he didn't absorb the Soul Ring now, it would probably disappear.
The young man's name was Tian Mucheng. In his previous life, he was an orphan with no parents and suffered from a terminal illness. Just before his death, he was hit by a truck and transported to the Douluo Continent.
He became an infant, but fortunately, he was adopted by a kind old man.
At first, he thought this Douluo time period was before Tang San became a god, but according to the old man, Tang San had already been a god for ten thousand years. It was then that he understood which time period he was in.
It was the time period of the Peerless Tang Sect, the time when Tang San was looking for a dog—no, looking for a son-in-law.
The protagonist of this time period was the famous Huo Yuhao, who had a pile of cheats and was even trained like a dog by Sea God Tang San!
It was like a little cow pulling its butt, incredibly awesome.
He had thought he would have some kind of golden finger like a system, but no system awakened even by the age of six, when he was supposed to awaken his Martial Soul. If it weren't for the old man at home, he probably wouldn't even have awakened his Martial Soul.
At that time, he had hoped to awaken an incredibly powerful Martial Soul, but in the end, he awakened a Dragon Soul, a soul of a dragon with no physical form.
The old man and I instantly fell silent when we saw this Martial Soul. The old man said he never imagined that I would awaken a Martial Soul that had never been recorded on the Douluo Continent.
At that time, the old man searched everywhere for information to help me but found nothing. Finally, he tested my Soul Power and found I had seven levels of Soul Power, which was a blessing in disguise.
Seeing that I had Soul Power, the old man decided to urge me to cultivate. When I reached ten levels, he planned to take me to hunt a Soul Ring.
However, misfortune unexpectedly struck. After the old man handed him a box, he was cruelly murdered by those people. At that time, he had no idea who was behind it, and even his home was gone.
In this life, he had finally found a home and a family, but in an instant, it was all gone… After a while, Tian Mucheng slowly opened his eyes.
Looking at the hundred-and-twenty-year yellow Soul Ring rising from his feet, he breathed a sigh of relief and mused, “Although the age is a bit low, the compatibility has brought significant physical improvement, otherwise this body would still be very uncomfortable right now.”
Tian Mucheng looked around and, seeing no other dangerous creatures, immediately picked up the Soul Beast's corpse on his back and hurried away. As for other tests, he would wait until he returned home, as being in the Star Dou Great Forest was simply too dangerous.
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Just before sunset, Tian Mucheng finally returned home. He placed the Gold Armor Ape on the ground, planning to exchange it for money tomorrow morning.
He sat on the bed, panting, and felt the changes in his body. He said helplessly, “It's still too strenuous. My body is too weak after all. I really don't know which dog cursed me when I was born; I've been frail and sickly since childhood.”
Fever at one year old, fever at two years old, fever at three years old, fever at four years old. It wasn't until he awakened his Martial Soul at six years old that he stopped having fevers, but his body became weaker and weaker, as if he would die if he just bumped into something.
He was simply the King of Fevers! The King of Fragility!
Now, with his first Soul Ring, his body might finally improve, so he fought for it.
He went alone to hunt a Soul Beast. Anyway, a step back was a blade, a step forward was a blade, so why not take a gamble!
In the end, Lady Luck was on his side, giving him a chance to live.
“My body has improved, but carrying the Soul Beast back alone was still too strenuous.”
Tian Mucheng glanced at the Gold Armor Ape on the ground, estimated his heart rate, and then began to check his first Soul Skill.
A translucent white Dragon Soul appeared on Tian Mucheng's palm. The moment the yellow Soul Ring rose, the translucent white Dragon Soul was instantly covered in gold.
Rip
His brain suddenly ached intensely, as if an invisible giant hand was tearing it apart, causing excruciating pain.
“It hurts so much!” Tian Mucheng clutched his incredibly painful head. A minute passed, and he could no longer bear it. His vision went black, and he fainted.
The unconscious Dragon Soul at this moment enveloped Tian Mucheng's body.
When Tian Mucheng woke up again, he found himself in an unfamiliar place. The scene before him looked like a starry sky, or perhaps a sea of stars!
“Spirit Sea?”
Tian Mucheng quickly recognized where this was. If he wasn't mistaken, this was the legendary Spirit Sea. He remembered that Huo Yuhao's Spirit Sea was opened with the help of the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm. He hadn't expected to open his own unintentionally.
Boom… The Spirit Sea trembled, and two Dragon Souls flew out, one white and one gold, appearing before him.
Tian Mucheng approached them with great confusion. Surely his Martial Soul wouldn't harm him, would it?
But he had ultimately been mistaken.
The white Dragon Soul seemed to have found its backbone and flew directly into Tian Mucheng's body. A terrifying mental force began to affect his nerves. He clutched his head and knelt there, the excruciating nerve pain preventing him from even screaming.
What sin had he committed? It was like this when he transmigrated, and it was like this now...
A moment later, Tian Mucheng lay there like a dead dog. “Huff… huff…” He gasped for air, staring blankly at the golden and white Dragon Soul above his head, as if he had been reborn.
At this moment, he finally understood what his golden finger was: to create avatars to seize luck and feed it back to his body, otherwise he would eventually die due to his physical weakness.
His physical body, in order not to be rejected by the World's plane, had directly weakened several times, becoming this sickly state.
How to seize luck was to have his avatar build his reputation or join a force to seize the reputation of various major forces, such as joining the Sea God Pavilion and becoming its Pavilion Master; this also counted as a way of seizing luck.
Shrek, Star Luo, Sea God Pavilion, Holy Spirit Cult, Sun Moon, Body Sect, and so on, were all places where he could scheme for luck.
Tian Mucheng gazed at the golden Dragon Soul, muttering, “Is it the gold element?”
“To create an avatar, you must select a trait from your own personality: arrogance, wrath, lust, cowardice…”
He slowly sat up, his expression becoming serious, and fell into deep thought. The avatar would unconditionally obey the main body's commands; however, the choice of personality trait was crucial. A slight oversight could lead to unexpected situations due to the avatar's character flaws.
After a long time, Tian Mucheng chose the source of arrogance. He already knew where the gold element would be suitable: the Sun Moon Empire!
There, Soul Tool geniuses were countless, but Soul Master geniuses were pitifully few, and most of them grew by taking drugs. A gold element avatar going there could receive preferential treatment and learn Soul Tool technology, which was killing two birds with one stone.
Xiao Hongchen's Three-Legged Golden Toad Martial Soul was a gold element, and an avatar with the same gold element would not lose much to Xiao Hongchen.
He would never have imagined that this decision would bring him such a huge surprise in the future!
As soon as Tian Mucheng made his decision, he immediately began to act. The golden Dragon Soul was part of the white Dragon Soul, and also part of his body. The arrogant personality began to be imbued into the golden Dragon Soul.
An hour passed. Tian Mucheng wiped the sweat from his forehead and finally breathed a sigh of relief, saying, “It's finally successful!”
A golden-haired man stood before him, his features somewhat similar to his own, yet with many differences. It seemed that the arrogant personality had greatly changed the avatar!
“You shall be called Jin Tianming, and your Martial Soul shall be the Shining Gold Ancient Dragon!”
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