Ling Xiao had once encountered a Heracles Ape here and been forced to flee for his life, hiding in the Dragon Palace.
Afterward, a blue-robed woman had saved him, and he was able to return to Heavenly Peak City.
However, he also encountered a Heracles Ape this time, but it was as well-behaved as a kitten.
Ling Xiao wanted to enter seclusion, but he was worried about others disturbing him, so he made this Heracles Ape become his dharma protector.
The Dragon Palace was still Dragon Palace. It was completely vacant of any signs of life.
Ling Xiao hadn’t been as experienced before, so he had been unable to find the truth of Dragon Palace.
Only now did he discover that this so-called Dragon palace was actually the corpse of an Ancient Golden Dragon!
The entrance was the corpse’s mouth.
This corpse was truly too big, so he hadn’t been able to imagine it initially.
After walking into the Dragon Palace, he could feel that his golden dragon blood had a special connection with the corpse.
That Heracles Ape lying outside was not trying to kill him but rather protecting him.
Ling Xiao found a cultivation place in the Dragon Palace, but he didn’t dare to indiscriminately release his aura. First, he activated his Enter Soul State and scanned within a radius of dozens of miles.
There were no powerful martial artists, only a few martial artists wearing the costume of the ‘Divine Sword Sect’ hunting here.
He was the Supreme Elder of Divine Sword Sect, so seeing these people, he felt some sentimental ties.
However, this was not the time to look for relatives. After making sure that there was no one who could disturb him, he closed his eyes.
After about fifteen minutes, his Landscape Martial Soul had another change.
The glaciers began to melt, and many places became vast oceans.
However, this time, the pain Ling Xiao had been worrying about didn’t come, although the change was rapid and intense. Nevertheless, the Landscape Martial Soul was extremely unstable. It seemed like it might collapse at any time.
Ling Xiao had to spend a lot of true essence to protect it.
He was very aware of the importance of the Landscape Martial Soul. Regardless of whatever happened, he had to protect it. Eventually, the current changes would end.
Then, the day when the clouds parted, and the moon could be seen would come.
The violent changes lasted for no less than two hours before gradually stabilizing.
In the Landscape World, various terrains and climate conditions emerged from the once frozen world.
There were glaciers, oceans, and drylands.
Furthermore, there were golden snow lotuses as well as many other herbs and demonic beasts.
Ling Xiao recognized that these were the things he had placed inside the Landscape World before, but there were no other plants and animals.
The strangest thing was that the other martial souls, Black Cloud Martial Soul, Thunder Bear Martial Soul, Great Sword Martial Soul, Blood Shadow Martial Soul, and Ghost Ship Martial Soul, were forcibly pulled into the Landscape Martial Soul, becoming entities inside it.
A black cloud floated in the sky, and a thunder bear charged wildly on the ground.
A heroic spirit holding a greatsword practiced in a clearing.
A blood-red shadow lurked in the shadows.
Meanwhile, a ghost ship wandered dark seas of clouds.
Everything was harmonious.
Ling Xiao understood something suddenly.
The Landscape Martial Soul he had awakened before had belonged to other people; therefore, the degree of integration had not been high, and it could only play a supporting role.
However, the current 100% integrated Landscape Martial Soul entirely belonged to him.
His Landscape Martial Soul was a blank space and would depend on him for its development.
However, the previous nine special abilities he had acquired before hadn’t disappeared. Instead, they had become more powerful; moreover, he could use them with a thought without needing to go through the Landscape Martial Soul.
This was the benefit of the Landscape Martial Soul perfectly integrating with his soul.
The Landscape Martial Soul was him, and he was the Landscape Martial Soul!
He didn’t even need to activate Enter Soul State because he was always in it now; moreover, there was no consumption of true essence. It had become his instinct.
“Too powerful!”
Ling Xiao couldn’t help getting excited.
When he opened his eyes, he suddenly thought of something interesting.
He walked out of the Dragon Palace.
With a thought, a shadow of a vast world appeared behind him.
This was the external manifestation of his Landscape Martial Soul: it was a world in itself as well as a martial soul.
“Absorb!”
As he uttered this word, the huge golden dragon corpse actually began to fly and slowly enter the Landscape World.
However, this process made Ling Xiao feel very uncomfortable.
It was just a corpse, but it took almost ninety percent of his true essence to store it inside the Landscape Martial Soul.
Success!
The moment he succeeded, Ling Xiao almost collapsed .
However, there was excitement on his face.
The golden dragon corpse in the Landscape Martial Soul emitted a terrifying ancient aura. Now, there was no doubt that it was a golden dragon from an ancient era.
Out of curiosity, Ling Xiao poured his blood into the golden dragon’s corpse.
At that moment, he finally experienced another pain.
As if the corpse wanted to suck his blood dry, his blood crazily flowed into the corpse.
It took no less than twenty breaths before this pain resided.
Ling Xiao sighed. If he were an ordinary person, after shedding so much blood, he might have already bid farewell to this world.
However, this hard work didn’t go to waste.
Ling Xiao looked into the Landscape World and saw blood flowing inside that golden dragon’s corpse. In addition, that originally stiff corpse became glossy and soft.
He might be pleasantly surprised and amazed soon.
But outside, countless evil beasts had rushed over and laid around him, seemingly prostrating themselves to their king.
“Come back to life! Come back to life for me!”
Ling Xiao was looking forward to seeing what would happen after this immemorial behemoth returned to life. This thing had already integrated into his Landscape Martial Soul. In a certain sense, after this ancient golden dragon was revived, it would become a part of his soul.
“What’s going on?”
Ling Xiao frowned.
Although it seemed that the golden dragon had already recovered its bodily functions, it still lay there motionless without any living aura.
This disappointed Ling Xiao.
Something must have gone wrong!
He frowned, pondering what the mistake had been.
Yes!
Suddenly, he looked overjoyed.
A life was a life because, in addition to a body, it possessed a soul.
Although this golden dragon corpse still had a hint of its ancient consciousness, it couldn’t be regarded as a soul. Therefore, even if the body was recovered, it couldn’t resurrect.
Since the soul was missing, it was easy to handle!
All martial souls were formed from the soul, so they could also be turned into a soul.
At present, he had five martial souls that could be changed into the soul. If it was combined with his own soul, it should be enough to inject a soul into the ancient golden dragon.
