Chapter 31

Fortunately, everything was progressing smoothly. After Qin Feng's divine dragon soul rolled in the air for a while, it gradually stabilized.

"Just one more step to success!"

Qin Feng gritted his teeth, enduring the intense pain in his body.

"Condense, now!"

"Roar!"

A high-pitched dragon roar echoed, and the dragon soul instantly solidified. However, just as the blood soul had successfully formed, suddenly—

A black light suddenly shot out from within Qin Feng's body, heading straight for his blood soul.

At that moment, Qin Feng felt a moment of dizziness, as if he saw a large purple-gray tree, bizarrely spreading its branches, enveloping him.

The moment the black light emerged, the powerful force supporting the blood soul's formation was instantly drained.

Qin Feng's divine dragon soul seemed to fear the black light, quickly dodging within his body, while the black light relentlessly pursued it, successfully cornering the newly awakened blood soul.

Of course, all of this was happening inside Qin Feng's body.

Outside, the blood soul remained the eight-clawed divine dragon soul, but it now rolled abnormally.

This change immediately caused confusion among everyone present.

Inside, the eight-clawed divine dragon soul, cornered, was now entangled by the fine threads of the black light, continuously draining its energy, gradually weakening.

However, this newly awakened eight-clawed divine dragon soul, though clearly no match for the black light, still had its pride and dignity as a divine soul. The divine soul, unlike a celestial soul, has a spirit and possesses extraordinary wisdom!

A divine soul will not easily fall, as it has a spirit and understands the art of adaptability!

Qin Feng was unaware of this, as he hadn't had time to communicate with his divine soul.

The divine soul also had no time to communicate with Qin Feng, as it was fully engaged in battling the black light. It knew the enemy was extremely powerful, and even Qin Feng couldn't help it.

Seeing its energy gradually disappearing, the divine soul's dragon eyes flashed with a determined and fierce look. It opened its mouth wide and bit into the black light, swallowing it whole, attempting to counter-attack.

The black light, in pain, accelerated its consumption of the eight-clawed divine dragon soul, while the eight-clawed divine dragon soul, not willing to give up, increased its biting and swallowing intensity.

This primitive battle continued inside Qin Feng's body.

Overall, the black light still had the upper hand. As the eight-clawed divine dragon soul lost more and more of its strength, the blood soul could no longer maintain its eight-clawed form, falling back to five claws, and then its quality further decreased. Outside, the large dragon soul shadow, after rolling several times, began to shrink, deform, and its quality gradually declined. In the stunned gazes of the crowd, it fell from divine quality to celestial quality, then from celestial quality to terrestrial quality, and soon after, from terrestrial quality to mystic quality... More bizarrely, as its quality declined, the color of the dragon soul changed from green to black. By the time it fell to yellow quality, it had completely transformed into a pure black giant dragon...

The entire crowd of tens of thousands fell silent, all staring in shock at this scene. Qin Dingtian's mouth gaped open in astonishment.

This situation had never occurred in the history of the Qin family!

Qin Feng's divine dragon soul had clearly successfully formed, so why did it fall in quality?

Even if there was insufficient energy, causing the divine soul to become unstable, it would at most fall to celestial quality. But Qin Feng's soul fell several levels and showed no signs of stopping!

Indeed, the quality of Qin Feng's blood soul continued to decline. After falling to yellow quality, it paused for a moment before falling again to celestial quality, then from dragon soul to chi soul, a significant drop. After reaching chi soul, it continued to fall... celestial, terrestrial, mystic, yellow, then to jiao soul, and again celestial, terrestrial, mystic, yellow...

Everyone was completely stunned...

Even at jiao soul, it should be over...

At this point, the crowd had developed some resistance to the bizarre scene.

But the next moment, something even more astonishing happened. Qin Feng's blood soul fell again from jiao soul! Below jiao soul was snake soul, and it continued to fall... celestial, terrestrial, mystic, yellow, and finally, it became a small black snake, as thin as a chopstick, a dead soul snake!

Other people's blood souls, when they formed, soared in the air, majestic and powerful. But Qin Feng's blood soul, though it had soared and been powerful, ended up on the ground, belly up, a dead snake soul!

Stunned, dumbfounded, and speechless!

Everyone in the crowd stared at Qin Feng and his dead snake soul with eyes wide open in shock.

Qin Feng also opened his eyes, and when his gaze fell on his blood soul, his face was filled with bitterness.

He never thought he would still be defeated by his strange illness.

He felt disappointed, but Qin Feng knew he couldn't show it on his face. In the past, he was a waste, so even if he became a waste again, it wouldn't affect his resilient character.

Struggling with his weakened body, he stood up from the ancestral blood pool and bowed to City Lord Qin Dingtian and the other city's strong figures. This bow was to thank everyone for their blood contribution to his soul.

Although he ultimately failed, Qin Feng was still grateful.

This bow couldn't repay the great favor, but it was all Qin Feng could do at the moment.

Qin Feng's body, already drained of blood energy, was extremely weak. After forcing himself to bow, he fainted.

Fortunately, Qin Feng's grandfather, Qin Tianzheng, quickly caught him.

"Good grandson, it's okay! Even if you didn't succeed, you are still my good grandson!"

After the crowd reacted, strange looks were cast at him. Most of the looks were filled with anger and schadenfreude.

Those who were angry were upset because their blood sacrifices had yielded no results. They resented Qin Feng's lack of effort and thus disliked him.

Those who were schadenfreude were represented by Qin Shaohong and other clan disciples.

"Hmph, dreaming of becoming a phoenix? A common chicken will always be a common bird, never a golden phoenix, ha ha!" Qin Shaohong's handsome face was twisted with pleasure, as if Qin Feng's failure had brought back everything he had lost today.

What a relief!

Qin Dingtian's expression was complex. Just a moment ago, he had seen a divine soul, a divine dragon soul, something that had only appeared once in the Qin family's ten thousand years in the Qingxuan East Domain. It had just reappeared before his eyes!

But, where is the divine soul? Where did it go?

Where did it go? Just disappeared?

Did the divine soul just fall?

Just a moment ago, Qin Dingtian was so excited that his heart almost leaped out of his chest, but now he felt like he had fallen from the sky to the bottom of a valley. This feeling was truly maddening, and more so, regretful.

The divine dragon soul had indeed disappeared right before his eyes, and even Qin Dingtian believed that Qin Feng was completely ruined.

Because he had seen with his own eyes that Qin Feng's divine dragon soul had fallen all the way to a snake soul, and even if it was just a snake soul, there was still a faint hope of continuing cultivation. However, Qin Dingtian clearly felt no life force from Qin Feng's blood soul, only the aura of death.

That's right, it was a dead soul snake!

But, there was one thing that made Qin Dingtian a bit puzzled.

Because he had never encountered such a situation, not even heard of it!

Below a yellow quality snake soul, there had never been a dead soul in history, either a yellow quality snake soul or no soul at all. How could a dead snake soul appear out of nowhere?

Moreover, the most critical point was that this snake soul was incredibly solid, like a real dead snake!

It should be known that the Qin family's blood soul, even after forming, was only semi-solid and could never become a physical entity.

But Qin Feng's blood soul was a physical entity!

Although it was dead...

"Unbelievable!"

Today, too many miracles had occurred with Qin Feng.

So many that it numbed people, but everything was too bizarre, so bizarre that even this old monster who had lived for hundreds of years couldn't explain it.

Looking at the unconscious Qin Feng, Qin Dingtian's eyes flickered, not knowing what he was thinking.

Finally, Qin Dingtian spoke, "Qin Tianzheng, leave Qin Feng here. I'm going to the Ancient Clan Realm tomorrow anyway, so I'll take him along and have the Ancient Clan's Great Elder take a look to see what's going on."

Strange, truly strange...