After the energy storm swept through, even the ground deep within the forest had been stripped away. The Blue Silver Grass that once covered the land everywhere had now been completely destroyed, roots and all.
Only the Blue Silver King at the very center survived. Its immense vitality allowed it to live through the storm, but only half of its body remained. Its aura was weak, like a withered tree.
Wang Li walked forward step by step, with thousands of Blue Silver vines following beside him. He knew that with the Blue Silver King's enormous life force, this was only a temporary injury and not a fatal wound.
With a wave of his hand, vines quickly moved forward and wrapped around the Blue Silver King's remaining body. The ice poison and fire poison contained within them were released.
On the Blue Silver King's remaining body, half turned ice-blue and froze into solid ice, while the other half turned fiery red and rapidly carbonized. Extreme cold and extreme heat alternated, completely cutting off its life force.
A faint wail sounded once again before finally disappearing completely.
A surging black airflow then burst out. That was the Blue Silver King's accumulated cultivation over many years. With its death, it was no longer controlled and eventually condensed into a soul ring.
Wang Li looked at the soul ring but did not absorb it immediately. Instead, he fully expanded his domain. Now that the Blue Silver King was dead, he would take over its territory.
Without the Blue Silver King, the ordinary Blue Silver Grass, along with the hundred-year and thousand-year Blue Silver Grass, had no ability to resist him.
Through the Blue Silver Domain and by borrowing the power of the Blue Silver Grass, Wang Li quickly restored himself. In every aspect, he returned to his peak state.
"An eighty-five-thousand-year Blue Silver King. For me right now, the age is actually a bit low. But your power suits me best. The Martial Soul True Body activates the power of the martial soul itself, and there is nothing more suitable for the Blue Silver King martial soul than a Blue Silver King soul beast."
After recovering, Wang Li no longer hesitated. Sitting cross-legged, he began to summon the Blue Silver King's black soul ring.
The black soul ring trembled slightly, then slowly floated over and settled onto Wang Li's martial soul, instantly merging into it.
A vibrant life force poured into his body. Wang Li sensed something different. When he absorbed other soul rings before, he always had to actively refine them before they became his own power. This time, the soul ring required no deliberate refining and naturally became part of his strength.
Perhaps this was because the power came from the same origin, allowing it to merge naturally. Wang Li began to circulate his cultivation method and actively refine it to speed up the absorption.
After a long time, something stirred in Wang Li's mind. In his mental space, the Blue Silver King appeared again, transformed into the image of an elderly human. However, it was only a remnant soul. The power within its soul ring had nearly been fully refined.
The Blue Silver King looked at Wang Li coldly.
"You will not succeed. All the members of the Blue Silver Forest are the most loyal subjects of the Emperor. They will never acknowledge a second emperor."
Wang Li chuckled and replied,
"You are not them. How do you know they will not acknowledge a second emperor? The emperor has disappeared for many years. She is probably already dead, turned into someone's soul ring. The clan needs a new emperor to lead them and accelerate their evolution."
The Blue Silver King refused to believe it.
"You are lying. That is impossible. With the Emperor's life force, as long as there are clan members somewhere, she is immortal."
Wang Li spoke the cruel truth without caring.
"What if she was deceived in love and gave birth to someone's child, suffering severe damage to her vitality so that less than ten percent of her strength remained? Would she still have the ability to be immortal?"
The Blue Silver King could not accept it and kept muttering,
"Impossible. Absolutely impossible…"
Until it finally disappeared from Wang Li's mental space, it still could not accept the truth.
After the Blue Silver King vanished, Wang Li accelerated the absorption of the soul ring. When he finally finished refining it completely, the ring joined the previous six soul rings and began to revolve around him.
Wang Li opened his eyes.
Power flowed through his body, and the endless strength made him feel very satisfied.
He opened the system panel and looked at it.
Host: Wang Li
Martial Soul: Blue Silver King Lv6 (Evolving)
Soul Power: Level 71 (54%)
Trait: Vitality Lv6 (As the one-in-ten-thousand king among Blue Silver Grass, the Blue Silver King possesses immense life force, a powerful body, terrifying strength, and rapid recovery)
Passive: Tenacity Lv6 (Anything that cannot kill me will make me stronger. When facing abnormal states, as long as I do not die directly, my physique will greatly strengthen after recovery)
Domain: Blue Silver Domain Lv4 (The exclusive domain of the Blue Silver Emperor and a necessary domain for the Blue Silver King to evolve into the Blue Silver Emperor)
Soul Rings: First Soul Ring (Equipped), Second Soul Ring (Equipped), Third Soul Ring (Equipped), Fourth Soul Ring (Equipped), Fifth Soul Ring (Equipped), Sixth Soul Ring (Equipped), Seventh Soul Ring (Equipped)
Soul Bones: Dream Flower Demon Head Bone (Equipped), Ten-Thousand-Year Evergreen Left Arm Bone (Equipped)
Combat Experience: 12840
Everything else was secondary. Wang Li had chosen the Blue Silver King as his seventh soul ring because he wanted the most suitable Martial Soul True Body.
He tapped the seventh soul ring and entered another interface.
Soul Skill: Blue Silver True Body (Body transforms into Blue Silver. Life force increases by 85%. All soul skills increase by 85%. Every Blue Silver Grass plant can become the host's main body. As long as Blue Silver Grass does not completely die out, the host will be immortal. Activating the Blue Silver True Body greatly increases stamina and mental consumption, but there are no aftereffects and no weakened state afterward)
Source: Blue Silver King (As the one-in-ten-thousand king among Blue Silver Grass, the Blue Silver King possesses immense vitality, a powerful body, terrifying strength, and rapid recovery)
Age: 85,632
Wang Li felt extremely excited. Although the enhancement was a bit low, he could increase the age later. If it eventually became a million-year soul ring, the enhancement would reach 1000%.
More importantly, it granted immortality. With his first soul skill, he could create a Blue Silver Forest. Looking across the entire Douluo Continent, who could destroy an entire Blue Silver Forest in a single attack?
As for consumption, with his recovery ability, he did not fear it at all. Through the Blue Silver Domain, he could also quickly restore himself by drawing power from the Blue Silver Grass. This Blue Silver True Body was practically a permanent skill.
At that moment, Wang Li thought about a serious question. On Douluo Continent, those gods who could be injured by hidden weapons,did they possess the power to destroy the Star Dou Great Forest in a single strike?
Standing up, Wang Li raised his eyebrows and walked toward the Blue Silver King's corpse. With a wave of his hand, he controlled Blue Silver vines to destroy the remains. A right arm bone glowing with blue light appeared before his eyes.
"A soul bone. And it's a right arm bone!"
Wang Li was overjoyed. He already had a left arm bone and was missing a right arm bone. This one had come at the perfect time.
He took out the soul bone and began absorbing it. There was no difficulty at all. After several hours, Wang Li finished refining it.
Now he possessed a head bone, a left arm bone, and a right arm bone. What he still lacked were the torso bone, left leg bone, and right leg bone.
After sensing it carefully, he learned the ability of the right arm bone.
"Blue Silver Avatar. It consumes power to create avatars. Each avatar has less than one-tenth of my main body's strength, but there is no limit to their number. They can be stored anywhere with abundant Blue Silver Grass."
"They can organize and command the local Blue Silver Grass, and my will can descend through them. How much power I can exert then depends on the quality and quantity of the Blue Silver Grass in that area."
"This skill… well, it doesn't directly increase my combat power. I'll just make do with it. After all, it's an eighty-five-thousand-year soul bone, a treasure that could stir chaos in the soul master world."
The harvest was abundant. Wang Li had already achieved half of his goal for this journey. The remaining task was to be crowned emperor.
His gaze swept around the surroundings. His second soul ring suddenly lit up, and life force spread outward. He was going to rebuild the Blue Silver Forest.
Deep within the forest, the land had already been devastated by his battle with the Blue Silver King. But under the nourishment of life force, Blue Silver Grass began to grow again. The ruined earth once more turned into a vast blue field.
Wang Li unleashed all his power. On his martial soul, a golden halo shone with unprecedented brilliance. That was the recognition he had gathered from the Blue Silver Grass throughout the entire Heaven Dou Empire.
Behind him stood the support of more than half of all the Blue Silver Grass on the continent.
"People of the Blue Silver Forest, the old emperor is dead and a new emperor must rise. I wish to be crowned. Who supports it, and who opposes it?"
Within the endless golden halo, Wang Li looked solemn, like a god. A gentle yet cold aura emanated from him. He could be a gentle ruler or a cold ruler, depending on the choice of his subjects.
The golden halo continued to expand, soon covering the entire Blue Silver Forest. All the Blue Silver Grass bowed their heads.
If the Blue Silver King were still alive, it could have united all the Blue Silver Grass in the forest to reject Wang Li's ascension. But now it was dead, and the Blue Silver Grass closest to it had been nearly wiped out during the battle.
Now there was no Blue Silver Grass capable of resisting Wang Li, who carried the recognition of more than half of the continent's Blue Silver Grass.
Bits of energy emerged from the Blue Silver Grass and gathered together, forming a deep blue ocean, with Wang Li at its center.
Outside the forest, Dugu Yan, who had been sitting on a rock and swinging her jade-like legs, noticed the disturbance and quickly stood up.
"Grandpa, should we go inside and take a look?"
Dugu Bo stood with his hands behind his back. Seeing the vast sea of life energy gathering within the forest, he was shocked as well, but he calmly replied,
"There's no need to rush. Xiao Li's aura inside the forest is only getting stronger. This isn't a bad thing for him. Perhaps he has obtained some opportunity."
For Wang Li, it truly was a great opportunity. At the center of the forest, immense life force poured toward him. His entire body was dyed a deep blue.
From the inside out, his organs and limbs were nourished by the enormous life force from his own kind. His level of life was undergoing a transformation.
He had no bloodline to awaken, but the immense life force of the Blue Silver Emperor would allow him to completely transform and eventually become the origin of a new bloodline.
At the same time, the seven soul rings around him,black, black, black, black, black, red, black,were all dyed with a hint of blue. Eventually, all the blue light gathered into the seventh soul ring.
That soul ring came from the Blue Silver King. With power from the same origin and the blessings of all the Blue Silver Grass, its age began to break past its limits.
The eighty-five-thousand-year soul ring began to increase again. Under the blue glow, the black ring slowly turned red.
Two days and two nights passed without anyone noticing.
The seventh soul ring had long turned blood red, and its age had reached an astonishing one hundred and fifty thousand years.
Everything finally settled. All the energy dispersed, and Wang Li at the center of the forest appeared once more.
However, his appearance had changed. His medium-length hair had grown long and turned deep blue. His height and physique had become more balanced.
His face had not changed, but he looked more handsome than before. When he slowly opened his eyes, his deep blue pupils were like gemstones,profound, bright, and mesmerizing.
Wang Li stood up and opened the system panel again.
Host: Wang Li
Martial Soul: Blue Silver Emperor Lv7 (Evolving)
Soul Power: Level 72 (49%)
Trait: Endless Life Lv7 (As the unique emperor among Blue Silver Grass, the Blue Silver Emperor possesses nearly immortal life force. Even if life is extinguished, vitality can reignite)
Passive: Unyielding Will Lv7 (Will surpasses the body and can forcibly interfere with reality. Even after death, as long as a remnant soul or body remains, one can return and become even stronger)
Domain: Blue Silver Domain Lv5
Soul Rings: First Soul Ring (Equipped), Second Soul Ring (Equipped), Third Soul Ring (Equipped), Fourth Soul Ring (Equipped), Fifth Soul Ring (Equipped), Sixth Soul Ring (Equipped), Seventh Soul Ring (Equipped)
Soul Bones: Dream Flower Demon Head Bone (Equipped), Ten-Thousand-Year Evergreen Left Arm Bone (Equipped), Blue Silver King Right Arm Bone (Equipped)
Combat Experience: 12840
Wang Li was deeply shocked. This was the life force that even allowed a Blue Silver Emperor to survive after sacrifice.
However, there was a small problem. Anyone capable of killing him would probably not leave behind his soul or corpse for him to revive.
Well, it seemed a bit useless, but it was still a form of protection. With all these immortality-like abilities, even a Titled Douluo could not easily kill him.
Stretching lazily, Wang Li felt completely refreshed.
Then he thought of something, and his right arm began to glow.
Soon a phantom figure flew out from his body. It looked exactly like Wang Li but was made purely of energy.
The two Wang Lis looked at each other. Wang Li's eyes were filled with intelligence, while the other's gaze was somewhat empty.
Wang Li snapped his fingers, and the other Wang Li vanished. In truth, it had not disappeared but had been stored within the Blue Silver Forest.
Where Blue Silver Grass flourished, the Blue Silver Avatar could exist indefinitely, and Wang Li's will could descend through it.
In other words, every movement within the Blue Silver Forest could not escape his awareness. His will could descend there at any time and exert combat power not much weaker than his main body.
"Let's go. Don't keep Grandpa and Sister Yan waiting."
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