Douluo: Emerald Poison Emperor

Chen Ming had no idea that his actions had caught the attention of the Divine Realm's God King. He simply observed that the remnants within the crystal were indeed fragments of a divine artifact, but they were extremely incompatible with him.

After examining the crystal, Chen Ming turned his gaze to the massive ivory tusk. He placed his finger on the bloodstain on the tusk. As he activated his spiritual vision, he saw a blood-red figure standing tall, wielding a sword.

The dark red figure was enormous but not particularly muscular. It wore blood-red armor engraved with faint, mysterious runes. In its hand was a crimson longsword that seemed to dominate the entire world.

Countless divine beasts charged at the blood-red figure, but it wielded its sword, cutting down the beasts one after another. A massive divine elephant, enraged, launched an attack at the figure, its massive tusks glowing with golden light as they thrust toward the dark red figure.

The dark red figure struck down one of the tusks with its sword, and the crimson sword aura vaporized the broken portion entirely. However, the remaining tusk pierced into the red figure's body.

Even though the divine elephant had unleashed all its strength, the remaining tusk, after piercing through the figure's armor, lost most of its power. It left only a minor wound on the dark red figure.

The figure remained silent as it swung its sword once more. The crimson blade sliced the divine elephant in two, and its terrifying divine power shattered the elephant's body into countless pieces. The broken tusk, stained with the red figure's blood, fell from the Divine Realm like a meteor, crashing into the depths of Douluo Continent.

"Is this a scene from when the God of Asura fought a divine beast?"

Although Chen Ming realized that the blood on the massive tusk belonged to the God of Asura, one of the Five God Kings, he still didn't develop much interest in the tusk.

The tusk was far from intact. It had been damaged by a super divine artifact in the Divine Realm, and over time, most of the divine properties in the God King's blood had already faded.

Chen Ming's evaluation of the tusk was that it was useful but not particularly valuable. It wasn't exactly worthless, but it wasn't as precious as it appeared.

If he wanted to study the God of Asura, Chen Ming could always take a look outside Slaughter City, where the Deathgod Domain had a direct connection to the God of Asura.

With none of the three divine items proving useful to him, Chen Ming turned his attention to a peculiar metal that coiled around a stone pillar like vines.

When Chen Ming placed his hand on the metal, it immediately reacted. It emitted a special force, attempting to extract life force and soul power from Chen Ming's body.

Sensing this unique property, Chen Ming's eyes lit up. He relaxed his defenses slightly, deliberately feeding the metal a portion of his life force and soul power. However, he also added a trace of his soul energy into the mix.

As the metal absorbed some of his soul power and life force, Chen Ming began to feel a faint connection forming between himself and the metal.

Although he still didn't know the name of this metal, Chen Ming could sense its special characteristics.

The metal had the unique properties of devouring and assimilation. It could grow by absorbing external soul power and life force, adapting to its environment, and developing different attributes accordingly.

Not only was the metal highly malleable, but it also possessed the ability to assimilate other materials. Under the right conditions, it could absorb other substances and acquire some of their associated abilities.

Though its current strength wasn't particularly impressive, Chen Ming could tell that as long as he infused enough soul power and life force into it, the metal would continue to improve over time.

This metal was less a mere material and more like a unique metallic lifeform. If it hadn't been excavated from the ground, it might have eventually evolved into a powerful soul beast on par with divine beasts.

The small amount of metal before him didn't appear remarkable—it was just a few golden threads coiled around the stone pillar. However, Chen Ming estimated that these metallic threads had likely taken millions of years to reach their current state. He cut several wounds into his palm and, under the gaze of onlookers, pressed his hand against the metal. Using his spiritual energy, life force, and soul power, he actively sought to infect the metal with his essence.

As the originally golden metal gradually took on a faint crimson hue, Chen Ming gained control over the metal coiled around the stone pillar.

With a thought, the metal began to contract, visibly shifting from the pillar to Chen Ming's arm. Finally, it transformed into a wrist guard with faint traces of gold and crimson on his right wrist.

"Uncle Ning, this is the first one I've chosen," Chen Ming said, greeting Ning Fengzhi before moving on to continue his selection.

Deep Sea Silver? Pass. There's plenty on Sea God Island—if I need it, I can just gather some there.

Ten Thousand Year Black Ice Iron? Pass. While this material is rare on the continent, there's likely quite a bit of it underground in the Extreme North. With my current mastery of Ultimate Ice, I could mine it there in the future.

Still, Chen Ming recalled that although it wasn't as valuable as Ice Extreme Divine Crystal, it was a byproduct of Ten Thousand Year Black Ice Essence, a top-tier treasure.

He was curious how the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan managed to acquire it. If he had the chance in the future, he wanted to study Ten Thousand Year Black Ice Essence himself.

Crimson Sun Gold? Pass.

 Tri-Metal Iron? Pass.

 Dragon Sun Gold? Pass.

After much searching, Chen Ming finally found a suitable metal in the treasure trove of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan.

It was called Colorless Spirit Crystal, a highly unique metal. While its strength wasn't particularly outstanding, it had a miraculous property—it could store large amounts of soul power of different attributes and slowly convert them into attribute-less soul power.

As a converter, the Colorless Spirit Crystal was exceptionally suitable. Moreover, Chen Ming planned to see if he could feed the crystal to the special metal now adorning his wrist, allowing it to acquire the crystal's ability to convert soul power.

In later eras, this type of metal was used in certain specialized ninth-level soul tools.

Chen Ming vaguely remembered reading somewhere that the prototype ninth-level humanoid soul tool created by the Illustrious Virtue Hall used a material with similar properties.

His current attributes were no longer what they had been—pure poison. Although his ice and fire attributes were powerful, he lacked advanced ice and fire soul skills. His Ultimate Ice and Ultimate Fire were still in their early stages of mastery.

If he could create a device that converted all soul power into attribute-less soul power before reusing it, he could adapt his attributes to counter specific opponents.

With his fourth soul skill, Heaven and Earth Reversal, the Colorless Spirit Crystal might achieve even greater effects.

For instance, he could absorb the pure soul power of an enemy's attack and convert it into attribute-less soul power to use against them.