The Legend of the Dragon King

Meanwhile, the vision before the crowd’s eyes became warped. Even though it was just the briefest of moments, they could not hear anything and all they could see was distorted light. It felt as if they had all fallen into a dreamworld.

Then, they saw the giant golden dragon twist its body in midair and dodge a stream of five-colored flame falling from above in an ingenious manner. It reached the side of the Five Elements Qilin avatar and extended its claws to strike. The blow sent the Five Elements Qilin tumbling through the air.

As a martial soul avatar, the Golden Dragon King avatar was still superior when it came to its strength and bloodline.

What happened?

The entire crowd was in an uproar. Everyone down to the most ordinary commoner had felt something during that moment earlier.

Could it be that they were daydreaming? They had clearly seen that the light on the Golden Dragon King had faded completely after being struck by the Five Elements Truefire. How had it changed so suddenly? Contrary to being hit by the Five Elements Truefire, it now had the upper hand?

On the main platform, more than ten people had stood up at this point in the box located in the distance.

They simply could not believe their eyes.

Despite the Smiley Face Douluo being a composed person, he found that it was difficult for him to control his emotions at this moment. He could not refrain himself from shouting aloud, “Awesome!”

En Ci had an absent-minded look in his eyes. The emperor Dai Tianling was feeling relieved and flabbergasted at the same time.

What had actually happened a moment ago? Could it be that this was a fairytale?

“It’s the Time Backtrack!” En Ci spat out these words from his mouth with slight difficulty.

In midair, the gigantic golden dragon’s glow dimmed for a moment after it had slapped away the Five Elements Qilin. It soon returned to normal, but its body had also paused for a moment.

Yes, Tang Wulin utilized his spiritual domain during the most crucial moment.

He relied on the Time Backtrack to force a change in time on a small scale. He returned his Golden Dragon King avatar back to one moment ago before it was struck by Five Elements Truefire and also counterattacked as well.

It was not struck by Five Elements Truefire, so the continuous life-threatening attacks that followed did not come. Everything had changed.

This was the most powerful trait of the Time Backtrack Domain. It was also the reason why the Smiley Face Douluo was so shocked when he discovered that Tang Wulin had such a spiritual domain in his possession.

Meanwhile, it was not only his opponent who was taken aback by this turn of events, as Tang Wulin himself had not expected it.

The Five Elements Cycle Domain unleashed by the Qilin Douluo Tong Yu was an auxiliary-type domain that could remove almost all control-type soul skills. It was capable of greatly enhancing Tong Yu’s affinity connection with his five elements’ attribute to a large extent and strengthened his abilities.

Most importantly, it was also a spiritual domain!

This signified that Qilin Douluo’s spiritual cultivation base had already reached the Spirit Domain realm and discovered his spiritual domain. In this sense, he was equal to Tang Wulin. Moreover, he would have already had his spiritual domain for an even longer period of time. His spiritual cultivation base had triumphed over Tang Wulin.

Additionally, his eighth soul skill that launched the final strike was magnificent and its attacking power was simply frightful to the eyes. It was an individual attack that could even threaten Tang Wulin, despite his martial soul avatar and the Golden Dragon King’s powerful bloodline as well as the Body Sect’s Innate Secret Technique. How could anyone else endure such a thing?

Tong Yu was slapped away by Tang Wulin’s claw. The scales on his body scattered all over and a few deep wounds were left behind on his skin. He was a little sluggish too.

What happened? He had had a clear upper hand and completed his counterattack. How had everything suddenly changed? He had also shared that dreamlike feeling in his spirit in that moment earlier. However, despite being the one who bore the full force of that attack, he recovered the quickest due to his potent spiritual power.

It was a time-type domain ability. What was it? Was it a spiritual domain?

He had already found his spiritual domain at such a young age?

At once, the two competitors finally parted and paused momentarily for the first time since the beginning of the competition. However, there was no doubt that they were both deeply shocked by each other’s abilities.

As these powerhouses fought each other, there was only admiration and more vigilance in their hearts at that moment.

The Golden Dragon turned its body around. The golden light shone from its body and transformed into faint golden mist to protect itself. That was the Dragon Air. As that happened, the aura diffused from its bloodline became even more powerful. Tang Wulin unleashed the Dragon Might from the Golden Dragon King Bloodline without the slightest hesitation.

Even as such, Tang Wulin still remained vigilant as he paid close attention to the Qilin Douluo. He refused to let himself get shot by the opponent’s Five Elements Truefire. The Five Elements Truefire was genuinely too terrifying. It felt like almost all the energy he had was washed into nothingness when he was struck by the attack. It was Tang Wulin’s first time encountering such a soul skill.

The Five Elements Qilin looked at Tang Wulin with a burning gaze. It widened its mouth and a deep voice echoed out, “You’re very powerful. That’s truly a waste. If I still have time, I would really like to wait until you’ve cultivated to the rank of Limit Douluo before we engage in a great battle. That will certainly be a splendid event. It’s hard to find a worthy opponent.”

It was the first time the Qilin Douluo had spoken since the two of them met each other.

His voice sounded a little hoarse, but it carried a peculiar magnetic charm, making it easy for him to leave behind an impression in people’s minds.

Tang Wulin answered with a deep voice, “You’re even more powerful. I can sense that you haven’t exerted all your strength yet. Please express your entire cultivation base. I hope to witness the coming of that overwhelming force.”

Tang Wulin had already pushed the matter of this competition’s victory and defeat to the back of his mind. What he wanted even more was to fight against the Qilin Douluo at his peak condition.

Tong Yu did not speak anymore. There seemed to be something mysterious in the Five Elements Qilin’s eyes. There were wildness and anticipation in his gaze, but Tang Wulin felt as if he had also seen a trace of deep sorrow.

Was that what he was feeling?

At that moment, Tang Wulin found himself recalling what had happened when he was almost killed by the Five Elements Divine Needle earlier without realizing. Just when it seemed death was about to befall him, the Five Elements Divine Needle suddenly changed direction. If it had continued on its trajectory, the fatal strike would have swept past his forehead but would not have penetrated through his brain.

There was no doubt that the opponent was showing him mercy at that time. The Qilin Douluo did not appear to be as brutal as he appeared on the surface. What was his backstory then?

Both of them had almost simultaneously launched their attacks once again. Tang Wulin accelerated, flapping the wings on his back while the Bluesilver Emperor vines surged up like a swarm of bees from underneath his body. This time, the vines did not attempt to wrap around the opponent but around his own body.

Tang Wulin felt like he could not use his Golden Dragon King avatar to fight against the Five Elements Qilin due to the disparity of their cultivation bases and the opponent’s terrifying Five Elements Truefire. Thus, he could only make changes to himself.

His massive body, over thirty meters in length, seemed to be being penetrated by the Blue Emperor Vines, but the giant dragon’s body began to reduce in size during the process. It swiftly shrank until it was only ten meters in length and looked to be about the size of the Five Elements Qilin.

The scales turned from their original golden color to blue-gold. It’s attributes had undergone a massive transformation as if it had metamorphosed. For the first time ever, his energy fluctuation caught up to the Qilin Douluo.

The Five Elements Qilin was slightly stunned. ‘He’s capable of transforming like this, huh? This looks a little like a martial soul fusion skill, right?’

Indeed, it was a martial soul fusion skill. It was Tang Wulin’s blood soul fusion skill and the perfect fusion between his bloodline and martial soul. He named the transformation “the Dragon Emperor Avatar”.

This was also one of the reasons for his confidence when consenting to the Battle of Five Gods. It was a fusion that could only be completed after his cultivation base had broken through to the Soul Douluo realm. He completely fused his blood soul fusion skill with his fighting capacity, but it was no longer acting as a distracting martial soul fusion skill.

In his Dragon Emperor Avatar state, every attack was launched in the blood soul fusion skill state. If Tang Wulin was allowed to don his battle armor under such circumstances, it would be his most powerful form.

On the main platform, En Ci’s originally upright back had already leaned back to the seat. He felt like there were many ups and downs in life, despite his experience. How many secrets was Tang Wulin hiding in his own body? How many trump cards did he actually have in his grasp?

When they first learned that Tang Wulin was the Tang Sect’s Sect Master, many people including En Ci disregarded the matter at first. He did not think that Tang Sect chose Tang Wulin because they ran out of options, but he felt that their decision was overly rash.

With the presence of the Heartless Douluo and the Amorous Douluo, could it be that they were unafraid that such a young boy chosen as their Sect Master would become the target for assassination? Despite his future as a Limit Douluo, doing so would only result in putting too great a burden on him and possibly even lead to his premature downfall.

Let alone outsiders, even the man in charge of the Tang Sect in the Star Luo Empire, the Smiley Face Douluo, had acknowledged Tang Wulin’s identity after conversing with the Amorous Douluo afterward on multiple occasions.