Following Xu Yuan's guidance, Little Jia quickly approached the Mountain Dragon King's skeleton. Suppressing the trembling in his bloodline, he touched the dragon bones.
A deep dragon roar echoed within his consciousness.
An overwhelming surge of bloodline power surged forth, resonating with Little Jia's Ironscale Dragon bloodline.
The Ironscale Dragon belonged to a true dragon bloodline from another plane but was still part of the dragon race and exceptionally compatible with the Mountain Dragon King's bloodline.
In fact, it could be considered a perfect substitute for one of the Mountain Dragon King's branch bloodlines.
If a soul master possessed an Ironscale Dragon martial soul, they could directly evolve it into a Mountain Dragon King martial soul after obtaining a Mountain Dragon King soul spirit and bloodline.
Unlike Long Yue, whose martial soul, while compatible with the Mountain Dragon King's, wasn't as perfectly aligned as the Ironscale Dragon's. Moreover, Long Yue's martial soul bloodline was incomplete and required various trials.
After two stages of evolution, an Ironscale Dragon martial soul could fully control the Mountain Dragon King martial soul.
Of course, Long Yue's method of self-transformation through trials might result in greater strength and better alignment with his own body.
It could be said that after reaching the rank of Title Douluo, Long Yue wouldn't be hindered by the bottleneck of becoming a Super Douluo. Accumulating soul power to reach Level 98 wouldn't be an issue.
An Ironscale Dragon martial soul evolving into a Mountain Dragon King martial soul would require the intermediary step of a soul spirit, but Little Jia didn't need that. By directly accepting the bloodline inheritance, he could evolve.
The dragon roar continued to echo in Little Jia's mind, and he couldn't help but release a mighty roar.
"ROAR!"
To prove his worth, Little Jia unleashed his bloodline power to its fullest extent. His surging blood energy erupted skyward, resembling a ferocious beast coiled with an oppressive weight.
Not only that, but Little Jia also began burning his bloodline power.
By directly burning all of his bloodline energy, he resisted the oppressive force of the Mountain Dragon King's bloodline.
When the two forces reached equilibrium, the dragon bones finally acknowledged Little Jia. A trace of bloodline essence seeped out from the bones, merging into Little Jia's body and replenishing the bloodline energy he had just burned.
Little Jia roared in pain as intense agony coursed through his massive dragon body.
The transformation of his bloodline triggered a complete metamorphosis of his body.
Every muscle, every cell, even the internal structures of tissues and the arrangement of organs were altered under the influence of the bloodline.
This was why only true dragons could directly accept such a bloodline inheritance.
Even Long Yeyue couldn't fully integrate this Mountain Dragon King bloodline power.
At most, Long Yeyue could preserve this bloodline power, allowing it to gradually strengthen her own bloodline over time—similar to how when she obtained the dragon pearl left behind by a god-level Holy Light Dragon from ten thousand years ago, she could only slowly absorb its power.
Leaving Little Jia to inherit the Mountain Dragon King's legacy, Xu Yuan began exploring the Dragon Graveyard.
Though he had explored before, Xu Yuan and Tang Wulin's previous goal was clear—they focused solely on the inner valley. Their exploration of the Dragon Graveyard itself was minimal, likely less than twenty percent.
This time, bypassing the inner valley and finding the Mountain Dragon King's skeleton increased their exploration to about thirty percent.
This increase represented only the expansion of explored areas, not the progress of studying or analyzing every dragon bone in those regions.
"Xu Yuan."
The nine Dragon Kings finally spoke up as Xu Yuan continued circling the Dragon Graveyard.
From their tone, Xu Yuan could sense that the nine Dragon Kings were very serious.
"Nine seniors, what is the matter?"
Before Xu Yuan, nine dragon souls appeared, each taking on human form.
The current state of these dragon souls was stable, closely resembling soul entities. They were now capable of long-term existence.
Even if they left Xu Yuan's dreamscape, they likely wouldn't dissipate.
"Though the soul entity plan you proposed is excellent, soul entities are ultimately not true life forms."
Representing the nine Dragon Kings, the Mountain Dragon King voiced their thoughts.
"Therefore, we hope you can help the dragon race produce true descendants rather than preserving many dragons in soul entity form."
Xu Yuan looked puzzled.
"Didn't we discuss this in detail earlier? Soul entities should also be able to regain physical bodies and become true life forms."
The Mountain Dragon King shook his head.
"In truth, we all know the likelihood of that is very low. Reviving someone through a soul entity is the work of gods—not divine beings, but deities."
Compared to divine beings and gods, the nine Dragon Kings understood this distinction far better than Xu Yuan. In fact, all nine of them were once gods themselves.
With the power of a divine position, a powerful god could even establish simple rules. Reviving someone through their soul was effortless.
As long as the enforcers of the god realm permitted it, it could be done.
However, merely ascending to the level of a divine being and beginning to master the laws of heaven and earth wouldn't suffice.
Now that the god realm had vanished, the nine Dragon Kings had no confidence in truly reviving.
Their plan was to transform the numerous dragon souls in the Dragon Valley into soul entities, preserving their bloodlines. Then, upon finding a place to recuperate, they could slowly nurture their bloodlines and gradually cultivate new dragon offspring. But those wouldn't be the same dragons as before.
"So, what do the nine seniors mean?" Xu Yuan asked calmly.
The Mountain Dragon King took a deep breath and revealed shocking news that even startled Xu Yuan.
"In truth, there are still unborn dragons sealed within dragon eggs in the Dragon Valley, serving as the continuation of the dragon race."
Hearing this, Xu Yuan's eyes widened, and a sharp glint appeared in his gaze.
He looked at the Mountain Dragon King and the other eight Dragon Kings, his expression growing solemn.
"Are the nine seniors joking? After what happened in the Dragon Valley, would those gods allow the dragon race to leave behind purebred dragons?"
"I know. During your earlier attempt to seize the Dragon God's soul, you must have seen something. Yes, the massacre of the Dragon Valley's dragons was carried out by the gods of the human god realm—specifically, the Asura God. Through endless slaughter, he nurtured his divine position to unprecedented strength." The Light Dragon King explained.
"The Asura God is arrogant. After piling up his killing intent to its peak, he personally slew the Dragon God. However, our lingering divine consciousness saw that the Asura God himself encountered problems. Too much slaughter caused his power to corrupt, birthing an evil essence, which he split off. Though that battle raised the Asura God's power to a new limit, his overall strength plummeted severely. That separated portion of his power, though at the level of a first-tier god, was actually close to a quasi-God King."
Listening to the nine Dragon Kings recount the evolution of the Asura God, Xu Yuan couldn't help but look astonished.
If that was the case, wasn't the evil essence split off by the Asura God the origin of the Rakshasa God?
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