abnabooks Chapter 18 Azure Dragon Guardian! Azure Dragon Riding the Wind!
Chapter 18 Azure Dragon Guardian! Azure Dragon Riding the Wind!
The absorption process took much longer than Qing Mufeng had anticipated.
After the deep purple soul ring entered his body, the violent wind and wood energy surged through his meridians like an enraged python tearing at the walls of his meridians.
The soul power of 5,900 years was so profound that it was suffocating.
Qing Mufeng gritted his teeth, veins bulging on his forehead, and sweat poured down his face, soaking his clothes.
His body was trembling slightly, and a layer of fine blood beads seeped from his skin, a sign that the capillaries in his meridians had ruptured after being impacted by the soul power.
But he didn't panic.
Deep within his dantian, the Azure Dragon Martial Soul opened its golden vertical pupils, coldly staring at the rampaging, deep purple soul ring.
Instead of rushing to suppress it, it acted like a patient beast tamer, waiting for the power of the spirit ring to be exhausted.
Qing Mufeng was also waiting.
He activated the Azure Dragon Technique, opening all four paths and guiding the raging wind and wood energy to circulate through his meridians.
With each cycle, the power of the uprising is weakened by one point, and his meridians are widened by one point.
It hurts, it really hurts.
It felt like someone was repeatedly sanding the inside of his meridians with sandpaper, or like countless fine needles were piercing outwards from inside his body.
Every meridian and every acupoint is under tremendous pressure.
But he could feel that his physical condition was undergoing a qualitative change.
The meridians are widening, the acupoints are expanding, and the muscles, bones, and internal organs are all being tempered by that wind and wood energy.
The soul power of 5,900 years, though violent, also contained astonishing life energy.
Pain and happiness.
Qing Mufeng had heard this sentence countless times in his previous life, but he had never understood it as deeply as he did today.
Time passed by, second by second.
Qing Zhengyue, Liu Yunlan, Qing Hongyuan, and Shen Wanqing stood guard around Qing Mufeng, facing the four directions, forming a four-corner protective formation.
Their eyes scanned the surrounding forest, wary of any soul beasts that might be attracted by the smell of blood.
Occasionally, low-level soul beasts would approach, but they would be scared away by a single glance from Qing Zhengyue.
One hour.
Two hours.
Three hours.
……
It wasn't until the sky went from dark to light and then back to dark again, a full half-day, that Qing Mufeng's breathing gradually became steady and his trembling gradually stopped.
The deep purple spirit ring finally fused with his martial spirit.
Qing Mufeng opened his eyes.
His golden vertical pupils were even more intense and deeper than before, with faint blue wind patterns flowing deep within them.
With a thought, three spirit rings slowly rose from beneath his feet.
yellow.
purple.
purple.
The first spirit ring is deep yellow and has been around for eight hundred years.
The second spirit ring is purple and will last for 1,600 years.
The third spirit ring, deep purple, 5,900 years old.
Three spirit rings slowly rotated around his body, and the spirit power fluctuations were several times stronger than before he absorbed them.
Qing Mufeng closed his eyes and sensed the soul power within his body.
Level 34.
From level 30 to level 34, it spanned a full four levels.
He took a deep breath, suppressed his excitement, and began to experience the new soul skill brought to him by the third soul ring.
In my mind, inherited memories surged like a tide.
Third Soul Skill: Azure Dragon Guardian
Soul Skill Attributes: Wood Attribute + Wind Attribute + Azure Dragon Power (Triple Composite Defense Skill)
Soul Skill Effect:
Based on wood, utilizing wind, and with the power of the Azure Dragon at its core, it forms a three-layered, interconnected defense.
First Layer - Wind Vortex: Soul power is released outward, forming a high-speed rotating wind vortex on the body surface, which twists, deflects, and disperses incoming attack power.
Second Layer - Wooden Armor: Beneath the vortex of wind, wood-attribute soul power condenses into a layer of soft yet tough wooden armor, absorbing the residual damage after being weakened.
Third Layer - Azure Dragon Power: The power of the Azure Dragon bloodline is infused into the wind vortex and wooden armor, greatly increasing the speed of the wind vortex and the toughness of the wooden armor, making the dispersing force stronger and faster.
The three layers work together, providing far greater defensive capabilities than a simple wind shield or wooden shield.
Faced with physical attacks, the wind vortex distorts the trajectory at high speed and disperses the impact force, while the wooden armor buffers and absorbs it, and the power of the Azure Dragon doubles the rotation speed.
Faced with soul skill attacks, the wind vortex decomposes the energy structure, the wooden armor assimilates the residual energy, and the power of the Azure Dragon greatly increases the toughness and resilience of the wooden armor.
When faced with toxins or curses, use wind walls for isolation, wood-elemental purification, and the power of the Azure Dragon to enhance the purification effect.
This is a defensive soul skill that can be upgraded.
As the soul power level increases, the wind vortex will rotate faster and faster, the wooden armor will become more and more resilient, and the blessing of the Azure Dragon's power will become stronger and stronger.
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After digesting the inherited memories, Qing Mufeng smiled slightly.
Attacks are aided by Azure Dragon's Claw, recovery by Spring Returns to Earth, and defense by Azure Dragon's Protection.
It combines offense, healing, and defense.
His combat system finally formed a closed loop at this moment.
But this is not all.
In addition to soul skills, the third soul ring also brings a third innate divine power.
Qing Mufeng closed his eyes and focused his consciousness into his dantian.
The Azure Dragon Martial Soul floated in that hazy little world, with three soul rings slowly rotating around it.
Deep within the Azure Dragon, a third light is awakening.
It was a ball of blue light, brighter and more vibrant than the previous two.
Within the ball of light, countless wind patterns swirled, like miniature tornadoes spinning wildly in the confined space.
Qing Mufeng's consciousness touched that ball of light.
The next instant, a massive amount of information flooded into his mind.
Third Divine Power: Azure Dragon Riding the Wind
Supernatural power effects:
The Azure Dragon of the East flies without wings.
This is an instinct etched into the Azure Dragon's bloodline; it requires no wings, no soul skills, it is an innate talent.
Wingless flight: One can walk on air on one's own, without the need to condense any external flight organs. Soul power is transformed into wind power to support the body and soar freely in the sky.
Speed Explosion: Flight speed far exceeds that of agility-type soul skills of soul masters of the same level. It is explosive from the start, accelerates extremely fast, and turns flexibly.
Wind Control: Can sense and manipulate the surrounding airflow to form wind walls for defense, wind blades for attack, wind vortexes to trap enemies, and wind bindings for restriction.
Wind perception: Perceiving the surrounding environment through air movement; everything within a radius of 100 feet is within the perception range.
Instinctive Consumption: Consumption is extremely low, as natural as breathing. This is not a soul skill, but a bloodline talent, an ability that the Azure Dragon is born with.
Its growth potential is as follows: as the soul power level and the degree of awakening of the Azure Dragon bloodline increase, the flight speed, flight altitude, flight distance, and the precision and power of wind control will all increase in tandem.
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After Qing Mufeng finished processing the information from the supernatural power, his heart was pounding.
Wingless flight.
It doesn't need wings or any external organs; it can fly on its own.
This is an ability that only a true Azure Dragon possesses.
He took a deep breath and stood up.
"Feng'er, how are you feeling?" Liu Yunlan was the first to rush over, looking her grandson up and down to make sure he wasn't injured.
"Very good, Grandma," Qing Mufeng said with a smile, "better than ever before."
Qing Zhengyue walked over, glanced at his grandson, and nodded slightly: "Level 34, the third soul ring was absorbed very successfully."
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