Douluo Dalu (Soul Land): Villain Life Simulator

The Three-Eyed Golden Lion didn't respond, warily eyeing Su Cheng.

"Forget it. I'll just show you directly."

As he spoke, Su Cheng extended his palm, and a drop of blood appeared above his fingertip.

The drop of blood was pure and flawless, with no aura leaking from it, but it still made the Three-Eyed Golden Lion's spirit tremble. Instinctively, it craned its neck forward.

It wasn't just the lion—on the side, even Di Tian widened his eyes, barely able to restrain himself.

Su Cheng had very little of the Dragon God's blood left. Besides using it to improve himself in the future, he had to reserve some for other uses, so he could only offer this minuscule amount.

But that was more than enough.

When both Di Tian and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion saw the drop of Dragon God's blood in his hand, an intense desire flickered in their eyes.

However, compared to the more composed Di Tian, the golden-furred sacred beast was clearly less restrained. Its claws twitched, as if ready to pounce at any moment.

Seeing this, Su Cheng smiled and asked, "There's Dragon God blood running through your veins too, isn't there?"

"Yes."

"Do you want a complete, pure Dragon God's bloodline?"

"I do."

The Three-Eyed Golden Lion gulped, not hiding its desire.

"If you want it, all you need to do is come with me this time and pay a small price. I can give you this strand of pure Dragon God's blood. With your current cultivation, even a tiny amount will benefit you greatly."

"What price?"

"Give me some of the power from your eye."

"..."

Upon hearing Su Cheng's request, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion hesitated.

It glanced at the drop of blood between Su Cheng's fingers, then turned to look at Di Tian.

Di Tian met its gaze, moved his lips, but ultimately said nothing, signaling for the lion to make its own decision.

The balance between the Dragon God's bloodline and the beast's attribute power clearly surpassed his knowledge.

The Three-Eyed Golden Lion hesitated, shaking its lion-dragon-like golden head in frustration. "You're so greedy! Coming with you isn't enough—you want the power in my eye too?"

Su Cheng was amused by its words. "You really say anything that comes to mind. Who's the greedy one here? I'm only asking for a bit of your power, and it's not even a high price. Do you really think your little bit of fate power is some kind of priceless treasure? This is pure Dragon God's blood we're talking about. Even the Silver Dragon King is desperate for it. Do you think she'd care about your powers?"

Di Tian glanced at Su Cheng with a strange expression. Clearly, he couldn't imagine the scene where the Silver Dragon King would "desperately" desire something.

"So, what's your decision?" Su Cheng twirled his fingers, causing the lion's gaze to follow the movement. "This is a one-time opportunity. Your bloodline does have traces of the Dragon God, but it's vastly different from the Silver Dragon King's. It's likely you inherited the other half of the Dragon God's divided essence. I might even be able to offer you some guidance."

"...Alright, I agree."

The Three-Eyed Golden Lion gritted its teeth, as if making an extremely difficult decision.

To the sacred beast, sharing its attributes was a significant matter. But the allure of Dragon God's blood was simply too strong for dragon-blooded soul beasts like it. No one could refuse such temptation.

Moreover, it was still young. Despite its fierce temperament, its willpower wasn't particularly strong.

"Good. Here you go." Su Cheng flicked his finger, tossing the drop of Dragon God's blood over, giving the reward in advance.

This gesture surprised the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, but it quickly opened its mouth and swallowed it.

A flash of gold passed through Su Cheng's eyes as he activated his True Sight, carefully observing the entire process of the lion merging with the Dragon God's blood.

As expected, unlike Su Yue's full attribute traits, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion's bloodline excelled in physical strength.

As the pure blood integrated into its body, golden energy patterns appeared on the surface of its densely packed muscles and bones. Golden light surged through its meridians, and a golden silhouette manifested indistinctly behind it.

A few breaths later, Su Cheng suddenly extended his finger and pressed it against the lion's forehead.

In the next moment, true energy formed a net, layer upon layer, covering the lion, causing the golden light on its body to fade away.

The lion opened its eyes, somewhat bewildered, and looked at Su Cheng in confusion, not understanding why he had interrupted the process.

"There's no need to absorb everything at once. You've already absorbed enough. You should first get accustomed to this, and once your body adapts, you can absorb the rest later."

One drop of Dragon God's blood wasn't enough to cause a fundamental change in the Three-Eyed Golden Lion's bloodline and physique.

Its level was already high, with a dense concentration of dragon blood in its veins. It wouldn't undergo a transformation like lower-tier soul beasts would after absorbing high-quality blood.

Instead of wasting it all at once, it was better to divide the process into two stages.

Su Cheng wasn't planning on giving it any more Dragon God's blood.

"Now it's your turn."

With that, Su Cheng's gaze fell upon the lion's red glowing vertical eye on its forehead.

Recently, Su Cheng had found some records in the Spirit Hall's vast collection of texts that mentioned "sacred beasts."

According to the ancient texts, so-called "sacred beasts" were simply a title, referring to soul beasts that had received the power of fate, not a specific species.

However, the descriptions of "fate power" were vague and ambiguous, as if the scholars who recorded or researched it didn't fully understand the details.

They only knew that sacred beasts could protect soul beasts, significantly accelerating their cultivation. Furthermore, different sacred beasts had different attributes.

For instance, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion possessed multiple attributes, including Ultimate Light and Ultimate Fire.

But neither of those were its primary attribute. Its main attribute was actually its mental power.

That was what Su Cheng was after. He intended to use the sacred beast's unique mental power to stimulate his True Sight to break its seal.

On the other side, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion licked its lips, still savoring the taste, but had no intention of going back on its word. It cautiously observed Su Cheng, then hesitated before moving forward to initiate the attribute-sharing process. However, Su Cheng raised his hand to stop it.

"You don't need to come closer. Just relax your mind and let me draw out your power."

He knew the normal process for a sacred beast to share attributes.

Books described it.

For any creature recognized by a sacred beast, a connection would form between their spirits, naturally intertwining their mental energies. This would refine the attributes and might even attract the sacred beast's so-called auspicious aura, making future cultivation and adventures smoother.

However, Su Cheng had no interest in forging such a spiritual connection or allowing his soul to be influenced by the lion.

Even though his vast spiritual strength and experience meant the lion could barely affect him, he still had no desire to go through with it.

Moreover, he had no interest in "polluting" the pure soul of a beast with human thoughts.

In his view, for any intelligent creature, that was never a good thing, even if the lion could rapidly ascend on its path of cultivation as a result.

"Just focus on gathering your core strength."

After Su Cheng finished speaking, he quickly constructed a bridge using his True Power, drawing upon the mental energy of the sacred beast without intruding on the spiritual seas of either party. He then directly channeled this energy into the radiant gate floating above his Sea of Consciousness—a gate formed when he initially obtained the Eye of True Sight.

The moment the two forces connected, Su Cheng's body trembled slightly, and a vast surge rippled through his Sea of Consciousness.

The primordial energy within the radiant gate swiftly transformed into a mysterious power, both familiar and alien.

"This is..."

Su Cheng's consciousness was drawn in, and his vision changed once again. What appeared before him was entirely different from his previous view.

In front of him, the golden sacred beast's body manifested identical phantoms, one after another.

Then, one by one, these phantoms vanished, leaving only three golden qilin shadows lingering in separate scenes.

After an indeterminate amount of time, a mysterious and destructive force suddenly assaulted the Star Dou Forest behind one of the three-eyed golden qilins. A blood-red light swept across the sky, obliterating everything in its path, and the qilin's shadow disappeared with it.

Then, the second qilin was overtaken by an external spiritual force, transformed, sacrificed, and died...

Su Cheng watched these images flicker by like fleeting memories, his eyes fixed on the final remaining shadow. Even the sharp, stinging pain in his mind from his rapidly draining spiritual power seemed to go unnoticed.

Eventually, the third qilin phantom also transformed, leaving its planet behind. At that moment, a figure seemed to appear in the distant heavens...

At that instant, Su Cheng's spiritual power consumption spiked sharply.

His face went pale, the vision cut off abruptly, and his sight darkened.

Moments later, faint lines of blood trickled from his seven orifices.

"Hiss…"

Su Cheng drew in a cold breath.

Only now did he realize that his vast Sea of Consciousness had nearly dried up completely.

"So this is the so-called 'Traceless Demon Eye'? Its effect is terrifying…"

The consumption of this ability was astronomical. Even with his strength and foundation, he couldn't sustain it for long.

Moreover, at critical moments, the consumption multiplied tenfold.

Of course, the ability's power justified the heavy price—it could even reveal the potential future fates of a creature as high-level as the sacred beast. However, it seemed that this use of the ability had limited significance for him.

"No," Su Cheng shook his head, forcibly clearing his chaotic mind. "I must have been using it wrong."

"Hey, are… are you alright?" The three-eyed golden qilin trembled as it spoke, its eyes filled with both concern and fear. It cautiously edged closer.

Just moments ago, the faint glimmer in Su Cheng's eyes seemed to carry a force that could pull out its very soul.

When it had been under his gaze, it felt as if its body and consciousness no longer belonged to it, and it could only observe itself from a third-person perspective.

Beside the qilin, Di Tian also furrowed his brows as he looked at Su Cheng.

Though he remained ever vigilant of Su Cheng, he also deeply cared about this ally.

A human with such potential and power, who had never shown malice towards the soul beast race, would not be easily overlooked by someone as shrewd as Di Tian.

Upon hearing the qilin's concern, Su Cheng merely shook his head.

He didn't have time to respond. Instead, he fully focused on sensing the changes in his new organ, while working hard to replenish his utterly depleted spiritual power.

At the same time, Ah Yin was continuously providing him with energy, significantly speeding up his recovery from the severe damage caused by his spiritual injury.

Su Cheng calmed his mind and looked at the enormous, incomplete rune suspended above his Sea of Consciousness.

The radiant gate, which had once been the core of the True Vision Eye, had now transformed under the stimulation of the three-eyed golden Lion's mental energy into a thread of the Law of Fate.

This was a Law of Fate, not merely the power of fate.

Now, at last, Su Cheng had reached a degree of understanding about "fate," or more precisely, the meaning of fate represented by his "Traceless Demon Eye."

Fate itself could not be controlled by any being.

It was the natural outcome of the world's interactions with countless living beings, influenced by countless factors. In a sense, any high-level being could guide or even control the fate of lesser creatures.

This was due to the difference in power and the disparity in their understanding of the world's rules.

The reason the Traceless Demon Eye had just shown him the three most likely outcomes of the three-eyed golden Lion's future wasn't that it had truly seen through fate; its core lay in "information."

All the useful and useless information, whether he had noticed it or not, whether he had consciously ignored it, had been gathered and processed.

In fact, the most crucial elements were often those seemingly irrelevant and useless pieces of information.

The Law of Fate contained within the Traceless Demon Eye essentially enhanced Su Cheng's ability to observe and deduce.

It was like having a supercomputer. Powered by his deep reserves of True Power and spiritual energy, it operated by capturing every detail and environmental change, analyzing all the potential influencing factors, and deducing the most probable outcome.

This, in essence, was one of the world's fundamental laws.

Deducing the future was just one of the highest applications of the Traceless Demon Eye; there were other abilities as well.

In the short time he had, Su Cheng had already realized that he could use the Traceless Demon Eye to build a bridge, allowing him to invade the mental worlds of others.

He also now understood what the full activation of the Traceless Demon Eye required and the true nature of the so-called power of fate within the three-eyed golden Lion.

It wasn't the power of fate from Douluo Star.

It was the karmic backlash of the soul beast race's destiny.

As a wise race, soul beasts had been harshly suppressed for countless years, which had periodically given rise to a crucial turning point of reversal—a "moment of opportunity." This was why there had been several occurrences of so-called "sacred beasts" in the past.

Thus, the power of fate in the three-eyed golden qilin had nothing to do with the plane's power—it was another form of racial destiny.

In the past, it was the Silver Dragon King's own incomplete understanding that had misled Su Cheng.

The subtle connection between the three-eyed golden Lion and Douluo Star was fundamentally a reflection of this karmic backlash from its race's destiny.

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