"This is really leaving no way out!"
Quan Yi turned his head to look at the Xuan Iron Little Dragon, this world extremely unwelcome to its birth.
This isn't a hundred-thousand-year soul beast undergoing tribulation, but rather, a small piece of Xuan Iron facing a lightning tribulation; if it weren't for Quan Yi, the first lightning strike would have been enough to obliterate its body and soul.
Since that's the case, no matter what, he must complete this forging.
The fourth lightning strike is brewing, Quan Yi's brain working at lightning speed.
"According to this trend, after the fourth lightning strike, my entire body will transform into Five-Colored Golden Liquid."
To guide the out-of-control Five-Colored Golden Liquid, Quan Yi must retain a certain portion of his complete Martial Soul.
If he exceeds the limit, most of Quan Yi's body will completely collapse.
That is to say, the Dark Gold Yang Dragon Claw possesses the characteristics of changing freely, combining both hardness and softness; only then can it support Quan Yi in accommodating energy exceeding the limits of ordinary beast and weapon Martial Souls.
Furthermore, with Quan Yi integrating his body and soul entirely into it, his control over the Martial Soul has become even stronger.
But precisely because of this, once a certain limit is exceeded, the extent of damage when the Martial Soul collapses will also be greater.
Of course, Quan Yi isn't without methods to avoid this situation.
The simplest way to deal with it is to use his super-strong attack and defense soul skills to offset the damage of the lightning tribulation.
With his attack power, even if he can't incinerate all the tribulation clouds like Huo Wu, piercing through two Five-Colored Lightning strikes is still no problem.
However, Quan Yi wouldn't do that; he's not someone who enjoys being abused, enduring the lightning tribulation with his 'physical body' in such a bitter way is all to become stronger.
"Since that's the case, let me use this opportunity to properly test my limits!"
The world-destroying lightning tribulation, in Quan Yi's eyes, is just a 'tool' to test his limits.
During the brief interval before the fourth lightning tribulation descends, Quan Yi begins to make truly meaningful preparations.
Red Dragon Horn, activate!
'Forbidden Fire'.
The pair of dragon horns in front of the dragon's head begins to erupt with a mysterious bright light interwoven with dark gold and vermillion.
The Dark Gold Yang Dragon's dragon horns, unlike the crystalline vermillion color of the Red Dragon Horn, are in the form of dark gold fire patterns; the superposition of the external soul bone and Martial Soul fusion elevates Quan Yi's 'Forbidden Fire' skill to another level.
More importantly, besides its power, this skill has also undergone changes in another aspect compared to before.
The gold and red energy within the Five-Colored Golden Liquid inside the Dark Gold Yang Dragon is rapidly extracted from the complex colors and rushes towards the direction of the dragon horns.
This time, Quan Yi didn't aim the suction at the outside world, but concentrated it internally.
"Sizzle!"
Under the super-strong suction, the two-colored lightning, like vines, climb upwards along the body.
The two dragon horns, like black holes, frantically absorb the two types of energy.
One is used to store fire element, and the other is used to store gold element.
This is the change of the Red Dragon Horn, the extreme absorption of the gold element.
As Quan Yi's attributes changed to gold and fire, although his other soul skills and soul bones didn't undergo much change, only the external soul bone evolved along with Quan Yi.
Under the infusion of a large amount of gold element soul power, the entire external soul bone, including the Red Dragon Horn, evolved with gold attributes.
'Forbidden Gold'.
This is the specific manifestation of the change.
Within the Five-Colored Golden Liquid, the gold and red colors are dimming at a rapid pace, and even in the part close to the dragon horns, some of it directly cools down, and Quan Yi's consciousness begins to take over again.
The cooled part is mainly the part engraved with the gold and fire element imprints; after cooling, Little Gold and Little Red will devour these extreme imprints, strengthening the origin of the Dark Gold Yang Dragon.
And in the Five-Colored Golden Liquid, after removing the lightning tribulation energy of the two elements, the overall absorption difficulty suddenly decreases sharply.
The most troublesome part of the elemental lightning tribulation lies in the fusion of various elements; the characteristics of each element can multiply the power, rather than simply adding up.
For example, even Quan Yi, who is immune to fire, will still indirectly suffer damage from the fire attribute under the interaction of the opposing ice and fire elements.
But now, Quan Yi extracts two elements from it, just like removing two numbers from five consecutive multiplied numbers.
In just a few breaths, the dragon horns bloom with dazzling lightning, and the size of the Dark Gold Yang Dragon is also increasing at a speed visible to the naked eye.
As one increases, the other decreases.
The increase in volume and the further reduction of the internal elemental golden liquid reduce the uncontrollable elements inside Quan Yi to one-tenth of the whole.
Moreover, because the absorption difficulty is reduced, and the strength of the body is enhanced, Quan Yi's digestion speed has increased dozens of times.
However, the lightning tribulation didn't give Quan Yi enough time to completely digest it; Quan Yi glanced at the sky and immediately stopped activating the Red Dragon Horn.
"Boom!"
The fourth lightning tribulation, with even greater power, unsurprisingly crashed down on Quan Yi's hard surface.
"Ah!"
If the previous feeling was a combination of pain and numbness, the pain had reached its limit, and the body could no longer trick the brain with numbness.
Huo Wu heard Quan Yi's wail, and her state of mind fluctuated violently, making her want to rush down immediately.
However, she knew that doing so would hinder Quan Yi; she understood Quan Yi's plan, but this act of seemingly carving flesh and blood would inevitably endure severe pain.
Thinking of this, she couldn't help but worry.
"Now that things have come to this, you must persevere!"
Huo Wu sincerely prayed for Quan Yi in her heart.
The refining speed of the fourth lightning tribulation on the Dark Gold Yang Dragon became faster, and Quan Yi's slightest relaxation would cause the golden liquid on the surface to fall off.
Moreover, what's worse is that, in this situation, Quan Yi's brain began to gradually blur, and his attention was also drastically decreasing.
In just an instant, Quan Yi made a judgment, decisively giving up on comprehending the laws of heaven and earth.
He concentrated the remaining energy on rotating the outer layer and maintaining the output to the Xuan Iron Little Dragon.
The concentration of the five-colored lightning suddenly rose, and the melting speed became faster.
The out-of-control part quickly increased from one-tenth to half.
Like a viscous liquid, the lightning plasma covering the whole body lingered for a long time.
Although the interval between lightning strikes didn't change much, the time Quan Yi needed to endure the damage became longer.
However, this can't be blamed on others; Quan Yi himself made this choice.
The painful time seemed extremely long, but the tenacious Quan Yi still persevered.
"The conversion rate has reached nine-tenths, which is higher than expected.
Fortunately, I used the Red Dragon Horn in advance."
Quan Yi, whose brain was extremely exhausted, quickly checked the condition of his body.
Nine-tenths of his body had lost control, and his mental state was on the verge of collapse.
"I didn't expect to be forced to use this move."
Quan Yi sighed inwardly, and then, a deep golden-emerald light suddenly erupted from the entire surface of the dragon's body.
"Golden Turtle Sheds Its Shell!"
At the same time, the two dragon horns erupted with energy fluctuations, and the golden-emerald brilliance became even more conspicuous.
