Chapter 34: Evil Spirit Bone Dragon, Golden Awakening (4K)

Death Canyon.

The ink-black heavy clouds coiled like giant pythons, and the torrential rain covered the sky and the earth. Two figures came through the storm, and the evil wind was everywhere, blowing the shadows they dragged behind them to sway.

"Forty-nine days..."

Mu Ye sighed deeply, his face showing a bit more vicissitudes. He looked at Zhao Xuanzhen beside him and said: "Fighting to the limit every day is a harsh test for both the body and the spirit. The forty-ninth day is the limit for the second awakening. Any more will hurt the Soul Master's roots.

So, today is the last chance. If you don't succeed... you become benevolence!"

"Mm."

Zhao Xuanzhen nodded gently, his figure falling into the ghost-like black canyon. His soul power surged slowly, and his three ten-thousand-year soul rings rose one by one, looking exceptionally solemn against the backdrop of the storm.

Clenching his fists tightly, Mu Ye couldn't figure it out. The True Self is the pinnacle of the Benti Martial Soul. The second awakening should have been completed in about twenty days, and at the latest, it shouldn't have exceeded thirty days.

By the thirtieth day, Mu Ye had already felt a haze in his heart. By the forty-ninth day, even a generation of Benti Sect Master was so nervous that his palms were sweating crazily.

The second awakening is the foundation of the Benti Martial Soul's strength, which surpasses ordinary martial souls. Mu Ye dared not imagine if the legendary god-grade Benti Martial Soul could not undergo a second awakening, would the Benti Sect's concepts completely collapse.

"Xuanzhen."

Mu Ye seemed to have made a certain decision, his eyes gradually becoming sharp, and he said: "Today's extreme training is different from the past. Your enemy is no longer waves of weak undead, but the last remaining monster in the Death Canyon.

I will break the seal of the ancestors and awaken an undead king that far exceeds the limit of a Soul Master."

Most disciples of the Benti Sect who undergo the second awakening are three-ring Soul Masters or four-ring Soul Sects. The life of every Benti disciple is precious, so the Benti Sect does not allow excessive dangers to exist in the Death Canyon and regularly clears out those monsters.

Only one undead was an exception. Its bloodline was very noble during its lifetime, and the Benti ancestors couldn't bear to kill it easily, so they sealed it and left a sect instruction.

If the Benti Sect gives birth to an evildoer, and ordinary pressure cannot force out his limits, then release this undead and let it become the last touchstone for the second awakening of the Benti descendants!

Streams of dark golden light rushed into the core of the Death Canyon. Mu Ye used the Benti Sect's secret techniques to break the seal, and the sleeping monster began to wake up!

"Roar——"

A hoarse roar came from the distance, and a hurricane rose in the Death Canyon. Thousands of withered branches, wrapped in rain and sand, condensed into a black vortex, and the soul fire lit up the eerie dark green in the pitch-black world!

Undead creatures crave life aura. Capturing the tempting life energy, a pair of wide bone wings spread out, and the king rose from the ground, unveiling its mysterious veil!

A dragon-like creature, its pitch-black skeleton cast into an indestructible body. Its skull was ferocious and terrifying, and two clusters of green flames leaped in its hollow eye sockets. Its dragon claws were full of bone protrusions, and three spear-like bone spurs grew backward at the joints.

The King of the Death Canyon, Evil Spirit Bone Dragon!

The Evil Spirit Bone Dragon roared at the sky, and the wind and rain were like the subjects of the dragon clan, twisting the clouds with the sound waves. The king's roar spread throughout the Death Canyon, and the fear in the hearts of the undead creatures arose spontaneously. They trembled and prostrated, not daring to approach at all.

The bone wings flapped violently, and the Evil Spirit Bone Dragon descended like a black meteor. Even though they were a hundred meters apart, Zhao Xuanzhen still felt the tearing pain of his face being cut by the strong wind!

The first and third soul rings flashed simultaneously!

His black hair turned into a pale, glass-like color, and Zhao Xuanzhen's whole body presented a semi-transparent jade luster. The black and white two-colored air currents gathered into a rotating Tai Chi diagram. The third soul skill, Infinite Dao, strengthened and amplified, superimposed on the advanced version of the first soul skill, Qi Follows the Heart, Qi Moving Shanhe!

With Zhao Xuanzhen's heaven-defying combat values, a full-powered Qi Moving Shanhe could easily kill 99% of Soul Masters of the same rank in the Douluo Dalu, but a hint of human-like mockery flowed in the Evil Spirit Bone Dragon's green beast pupils.

A pair of forelimb dragon claws slashed out, the gale rushing forth like a gas explosion. Circular black ripples churned the rain, using raw, violent force to brazenly suppress the "Moving Shanhe" technique!

"Boom!!!"

The earth cracked under the explosion of the two major skills, and the vegetation instantly shattered into fly ash. Zhao Xuanzhen's pupils were dyed dark blue, and walls of earth rose around him!

"Sinister wind, evil water..."

The earth walls shattered under the unbearable load. A wisp of blood flowed from the corner of Zhao Xuanzhen's mouth. The dark blue was bone-chillingly cold. He saw the attributes of the Evil Spirit Bone Dragon, which were the evil-mutated wind and water elements!

According to the different bloodlines of the dragon clan during their lifetime, bone dragons possess different attributes. The Bone Long Wang under the Holy Spirit Sect Master ten thousand years ago had wind and fire attributes, while the Evil Spirit Bone Dragon that Zhao Xuanzhen was facing, which controlled wind and water, would only be more difficult to deal with in a stormy night. That was almost a domain-like environmental enhancement!

Mu Ye watched Zhao Xuanzhen and the Evil Spirit Bone Dragon from afar. After forty-nine days of high-frequency fighting, he had seen the True Self's three major soul skills, Tai Chi Fist, and Territory Dao Art over and over again. He knew Zhao Xuanzhen's limits too well.

Describing the gap between the man and the dragon with numbers, the Evil Spirit Bone Dragon's combat power value was three times that of Zhao Xuanzhen. The two were crushing, and except for the second awakening of the martial soul, Zhao Xuanzhen had no way out!

"Roar——"

The Evil Spirit Bone Dragon opened its giant mouth and grinned. Human soul skills could not shake it. After being reborn after thousands of years, it wanted to enjoy the pleasure of hunting life to the fullest!

The giant dragon flapped its bone wings and circled in the air. The sharp sound of bone friction filled the sky, and the dragon body cast a craggy shadow. The Evil Spirit Bone Dragon longed to see the fear on the human's face, just like a hunter appreciating the struggle of prey before launching a fatal blow.

Zhao Xuanzhen disappointed the Evil Spirit Bone Dragon. He had no self-awareness of being prey at all, standing still like a majestic mountain, looking straight at the giant dragon. Deep in his dark blue pupils, a hint of gold was faintly visible.

The air pressure seemed to be a bit heavier. The Evil Spirit Bone Dragon understood that it was definitely not an illusion. That was what was happening. Dark blue and golden radiance intertwined, and deep killing intent emerged in the human's majestic eyes.

The Evil Spirit Bone Dragon had a dangerous premonition and decided not to continue playing the hunter game. The dragon tail descended from the sky like a long whip. The speed and force of the Divine Dragon Tail were so fast that it even threw out phantoms in the storm!

The next instant, the three black ten-thousand-year soul rings under Zhao Xuanzhen's feet flickered, and a brilliant golden light lit up. Mysterious gold patterns were outlined on his exposed skin, looking like liquid gold flowing under his skin.

A golden light shadow rose from the ground, slender and handsome, looking exactly like Zhao Xuanzhen himself. His pupils turned into two whirlpools of molten gold, and the air waves rolled out, his hair flying like burning fire, his heartbeat roaring, crushing the rain curtain.

"Golden-grade second awakening!"

Looking at the dazzling golden light shadow reflected in his eyes, Mu Ye's blood surged. Hard work pays off. On the last day of the forty-ninth day, the True Self second awakening!

The second awakening is divided into four levels: Black Iron, Bronze, Silver, and Gold.

After the Benti Martial Soul performs the second awakening, the martial soul instantly undergoes a qualitative leap, like a ten-thousand-year soul beast breaking through its limits and becoming a fierce beast that traverses the world.

Most Benti Martial Souls are only Black Iron-grade second awakenings, and Bronze-grade is already considered excellent.

Silver-grade is the mainstay, only appearing in important body parts. Performing a Silver-grade second awakening increases the Benti Soul Master's combat power by one rank!

The Benti Sect previously believed that the strongest innate second awakening was the Silver-grade, and the Gold-grade was achieved by successive Benti Sect Masters through practicing the Secret of the Benti and a third awakening, with their overall ability even increasing to three times their own!

Mu Ye had guessed that the True Self might be able to break through the inherent cognition of his predecessors and achieve an innate Gold-grade second awakening, but Zhao Xuanzhen's long silence for forty-eight days made him dare not fantasize, silently praying that as long as he awakened, it would be fine!

Witnessing the innate Gold-grade second awakening at this moment, Mu Ye was so excited that he almost danced!

On the Death Canyon battlefield, Zhao Xuanzhen clenched his right fist, and the Tai Chi Yang Hand blasted out with extreme rigidity and ferocity. The golden-grade second awakening light shadow moved in synchronization, and the majestic aura of ruling the world permeated. The Evil Spirit Bone Dragon's Divine Dragon Tail stopped abruptly, and the whole dragon spun and flew out a hundred meters, breaking large swaths of strange trees!

A thunderclap exploded at the right time, the thunder roared between heaven and earth, and the lightning dyed the sky a scorching white.

The second battle between man and dragon began.

The Evil Spirit Bone Dragon shook its chaotic head, and its soul fire soared. Zhao Xuanzhen had completely angered this undead king.

Sinister wind and dark water, the two attributes that the Evil Spirit Bone Dragon was most proud of, rioted. The gale blew, the air became irritable, and broken leaves and mud were rolled into the black water tornado, turning into a giant mouth that swallowed the world. The whole world could hear the dragon's roar!

His clothes rustled, and Zhao Xuanzhen's pair of golden pupils were full of cold solemnity. The earth vein brown patterns turned over, and the rock wall was several times thicker than before, easily blocking the wind blades. The gravel hit the roaring evil water, exploding into scorching red light spots.

The True Self Gold-grade second awakening is an all-around enhancement, smoothing out the huge gap between Zhao Xuanzhen and the Evil Spirit Bone Dragon. The man and the dragon stood on the same level!

Witnessing the human opening a cheat to be on par with itself, the Evil Spirit Bone Dragon found it difficult to accept the cruel reality. The bone wings flapped, and the gale rolled up the monstrous water flow to attack Zhao Xuanzhen. The water flow was not the rain falling from the sky, but the viscous and foul-smelling black swamp, which corroded the earth!

"Xun character, Storm.

Kan character, Ice."

The wind and water elements rebelled, the black swamp stagnated in mid-air, frost spread, and turned into an ice crystal tide, counterattacking the master.

The Evil Spirit Bone Dragon's soul fire jumped suddenly. The soul skill that it had spent all its strength and worked hard for half a day to release was actually countered by someone in a second!?

When the values of both sides are close, the battle is about mechanisms. Even the Silver Long Wang, the ancestor of the dragon clan, would suffer. How could the Evil Spirit Bone Dragon, which only controls two attributes, be an opponent of the Bagua Qimen!

Roaring angrily, the dragon tail swept across, and the Evil Spirit Bone Dragon's terrifying brute force that shook the mountains ground the ice tide into powder. The hurricane raised by its wings uprooted the strange trees growing in the Death Canyon.

Panting like a cow, it stared at Zhao Xuanzhen. The Evil Spirit Bone Dragon was like an incompetent and furious husband, and the golden light shadow opposite was reflected in its vertical pupils.

"Zhen character, Thunder."

The thunder roared over the Death Canyon, and the branch-like lightning filled the black sky with gold and white. Under the thunder and lightning that represented the righteousness of the world, the undead creatures fled in terror, and the Evil Spirit Bone Dragon couldn't help but retreat, a hint of timidity rising in its heart for the first time.

The thunder surged, the electric snakes danced in the clouds, and a bolt of thunder suddenly struck down, condensing into a thunder spear in Zhao Xuanzhen's palm. The spear body was wrapped in the Bagua Zhen character rune, and the thunder light shone, illuminating the cold side face that looked like a stone carving.

The Evil Spirit Bone Dragon sensed the danger of extinction, its wings flapped wildly, and the sinister wind and evil water merged into a black curtain that covered the sky. Countless skeleton ghost faces lurked in it, baring their fangs and brandishing their claws as they pounced on Zhao Xuanzhen.

The Death Canyon seemed to be split in two at this moment, half rolling with the filthy black curtain summoned by the bone dragon, and the other side reflected by Zhao Xuanzhen's second awakening light shadow into a flowing golden ocean.

Zhao Xuanzhen's whole body erupted with scorching golden light, and the Bagua Qimen earth disk surged and expanded. The black curtain of sinister wind and evil water stagnated and floated between heaven and earth, with a kind of scattered beauty.

The thunder spear tip pierced everything along the way, tearing through the sinister wind, and the evil water steamed into nothingness. Finally, it accurately nailed into the bone dragon's brow, the skeleton disintegrated inch by inch, and the dragon's roar was shrill, resounding through the nine heavens.

A wisp of moonlight penetrated the clouds, shining on the brilliant golden figure, and under his feet, the pitch-black dragon bones turned into dust, disappearing into the night with the wind.

"Good! Good! Good!"

Mu Ye landed on the ground and shouted three "good"s in a row. There was no movement for forty-eight days, and he awakened the Gold-grade on the last day. The old comrade experienced this drop in heaven and earth and was truly excited.

This is the only innate Gold-grade second awakening in the ten-thousand-year history of the Benti Sect!

And the Benti Martial Soul also has a third awakening. Mu Ye couldn't imagine how powerful the True Self would be after the third awakening!

Compared to Mu Ye's surprise that there was another village after the dark, Zhao Xuanzhen was much calmer. Because he was in a weak state for the first thirty days, the extreme training did not fully stimulate the potential of the Benti Martial Soul. On the surface, it was the forty-ninth day, but in fact, it was not much different from the nineteenth day.

He knew himself best. Zhao Xuanzhen had long noticed the unusual movement of the True Self martial soul, and today's second awakening was a matter of course.

"Little Red."

"I'm here."

Mu Ye called out loudly, and a red mecha appeared, about six meters high. The dark golden patterns were exquisite and gorgeous, and the streamlined style looked like a work of art.

Red, god-grade mecha.

"Today is a good day, I'll reward you with enjoying this Sect Master's red-grade mecha!" Mu Ye chuckled and opened the mecha cockpit to invite Zhao Xuanzhen to ride together.

After both sat down, the red-grade mecha sprayed a beam of light from its back, carrying the two to Tiandingcheng.

Mu Ye turned on the automatic driving mode and said leisurely: "Your golden awakening was really difficult, it only succeeded on the forty-ninth day.

Fine, good things take time. When future generations record your brilliant life, they must also write that the contemporary Benti Sect Master Mu Ye contributed greatly to the True Self second awakening, at least sixty percent of the credit!"

Glancing at Mu Ye who was taking credit, Zhao Xuanzhen joked: "I think there's a problem. For the True Self second awakening, Senior takes thirty percent of the credit, Na'er and Gu Yue each take ten percent, and the remaining half is definitely because of my own persistence and effort."

Mu Ye was suffocated and turned to look at Zhao Xuanzhen: "Is this reasonable?"

"Very reasonable."

Zhao Xuanzhen was very certain. Yes, you can't start the game without the host!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 35 =====