Burying the Dragons in Dragon Valley, Di Tian Faces His Tribulation

Zi JI stood there, listening quietly, unable to come back to her senses for a long time.

Even after Di Tian had finished telling her everything, she remained lost in her own grief...

Only after Di Tian reminded her did the two begin burying the dragons' remains.

At the sight, Bi Ji, who stood nearby, had long since dissolved into tears. After bringing her emotions under control, she hurried over to help.

All three were powerful Ferocious Beasts, so they laid the remains to rest very quickly.

With dragon blood in their veins, Di Tian believed that he and Zi JI would surely earn the recognition of the dragon souls.

He needed only to obtain the Dragon God's Tears and the Mountain Dragon King Torso Bone here to completely suppress Xiong Jun, and perhaps even suppress the Snow Empress.

That was right. Di Tian already had a plan: first conquer Xiong Jun, then have the Snow Empress follow him into the human world as well.

He would spread the descendants of Ferocious Beasts across the Douluo Continent.

There could be no mistakes in the revival of Soul Beasts.

Time flew, and two months passed.

Di Tian and Zi JI had finished burying the dragons.

In the original Dragon King story, Tang Wulin had taken a thousand days to accomplish this. As dragons, even without using Soul Power, they possessed exceptionally gifted physiques, so they were naturally much faster.

During this time, Zi JI also earned the recognition of many dragon souls. Some dragon souls occasionally turned of their own accord into specks of starlight energy that attached themselves directly to her.

These were the final lingering traces of the dragon souls' sacrifice.

Zi JI, the Hell Demon Dragon clan leader who was usually calm and decisive, fierce and ruthless in battle, had spent these days in floods of tears.

She gained countless opportunities and earned the recognition of her ancestors.

She also learned of the tragic past of the dragon ancestors.

I finally understand why Master insists on gathering the Soul Beast Clan. Even the mighty dragons were crushed to such a state beneath the power of the gods.

If we don't join forces, how can Soul Beasts gain a sliver of hope for survival?

Perhaps even if Master didn't do this, the Silver Dragon King would... She was filled with emotion.

Just then, a high, resonant dragon cry suddenly rang out across Dragon Valley in this small plane.

Roar!

The dragon cry was mournful and heroic.

Immediately afterward, tens of thousands of dragons cried out in grief at once, seemingly answering the dragon that led them!

Di Tian laid the last dragon bone to rest and looked up.

It's finally here!

He stood there quietly, waiting for the blessings of the dragon ancestors.

He shed no tears. Di Tian believed tears were a very useless thing.

He merely said silently, Ancestors, please grant me strength. I will surely see our dragon clan rise again, and I will give Soul Beasts the right to return to the Divine Realm!

When Di Tian finished speaking,

the countless dragon souls that had just cried out in grief seemed to have heard his call.

Energy gathered continuously, finally forming the Dragon God's Tears.

It shone with nine-colored light, suspended a hundred meters in the air.

At the same time, a rumbling sounded.

The tranquil, deathly still ground stirred, and a dragon bone a hundred meters long and dozens of meters wide slowly emerged, as if growing out of the earth.

Di Tian knew that this was the Million-Year Soul Bone gifted to him by the Mountain Dragon King, the Mountain Dragon King Torso Bone!

Without hesitation, Di Tian first rose into the air and took the Dragon God's Tears. He quietly soothed it, then put it away.

Facing the Soul Bone on the ground, he bowed and said, "Uncle Mountain, rest in peace. I will surely revive the dragon clan."

Hearing Di Tian's words, the dragon bone seemed to come alive. It trembled and hummed softly, as though responding to him.

Only after a full half day did the Soul Bone settle down.

Seeing this, Di Tian turned and said, "Bi Ji, take Zi JI back to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. After helping her through her heavenly tribulation, teach her the method of condensing Soul Cores. I'll return once I've absorbed the Soul Bone."

"All right, husband. Come back as soon as you can."

Bi Ji nodded gently, some tears still undried on her face.

She took Zi JI and left.

Di Tian began absorbing the Mountain Dragon King's enormous torso bone.

As one of the former Nine Great Dragon Kings, even after his death, the Mountain Dragon King's torso bone contained a vast amount of energy.

Time passed, and Di Tian spent another full two months absorbing it.

Had Di Tian not possessed the Eclipse Purple Moon Dual Soul Cores of Yin-Yang Complementarity, it would have taken at least half a year.

On that day, two months later, Di Tian slowly opened his golden eyes.

The Soul Power within him had grown more concentrated. "Excellent, eight hundred thousand years of cultivation!"

He felt the changes in his body. His dragon scales had taken on a faint yellow tint, and their hardness had increased by several times. This was an ability bestowed by the Earth Dragon King.

At that moment, dark clouds suddenly filled the sky over the small plane, and thunder boomed.

"So soon?"

Looking at the lightning tribulation in the sky, Di Tian understood that this was his great tribulation as an eight-hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast.

He had intended to delay it and return to the Lake of Life in the Star Dou Great Forest to face it.

Then, even if he could not survive the lightning tribulation, he might have been able to draw the Silver Dragon King into helping him through the heavenly tribulation.

Squeeze every last bit of value out of her.

Since the heavens won't allow it, I'll do it myself.

With the Mountain Dragon King Torso Bone to aid me, why should I, Di Tian, fear this heavenly tribulation?

With his thoughts clear, Di Tian stood in the air and assumed his Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King True Body, hundreds of meters long.

His Dual Soul Cores revolved, sending pure dark energy surging into the heavens to confront the heavenly tribulation head-on.

"Since ancient times, the Soul Beast Clan has only sought to endure heavenly tribulations. Today, I shall fight one."

The hundred-meter black dragon spoke in a human voice, giving voice to the Soul Beast Clan's unwillingness to accept its fate.

The lightning in the air and the black dragon battled fiercely.

At first, only heavenly lightning like little snakes descended slowly. Such lightning posed no difficulty whatsoever for Di Tian.

With the support of his Dual Soul Cores and his recent dedicated cultivation, the initial heavenly lightning was no threat at all.

Time flew. After only two hours, the laws of heaven suddenly changed, and the heavenly lightning abruptly grew a hundredfold stronger. This was heaven suppressing Soul Beasts.

The heavenly lightning grew as thick as dragon beasts, and the rolling bolts carried various powers of annihilation.

Di Tian was very familiar with this energy, for the power of darkness came from the same source.

However, ultimate darkness contained only the means of annihilation, not the power of destruction.

A bold idea sprang into Di Tian's mind. Can I devour this power of annihilation?

He acted as soon as the thought occurred to him. Di Tian immediately activated his torso bone and, braving the immense pressure, took several bolts of tribulation lightning head-on. Then his enormous dragon head swallowed a bolt of heavenly lightning.

As it entered him, a burning, stabbing pain spread through Di Tian's body. The Soul Power of his Eclipse Purple Moon Dual Soul Cores revolved ceaselessly, like millstones grinding down the invading tribulation lightning.

This continued for half an hour before Di Tian finally managed to refine a single bolt of heavenly lightning.

"Ugh~~" Di Tian whimpered.

Fortunately, he had accomplished the feat of swallowing heavenly lightning and gained some power of annihilation, the nascent form of Destruction Divine Power.

Di Tian was delighted.

His next actions were even bolder. The Mountain Dragon King Torso Bone operated at full strength, and the Mountain Dragon King's signature skill, Mountain Dragon Domain, instantly raised a powerful protective shield.

Di Tian no longer cared about his appearance. Like a greedy snake, he kept drawing in and swallowing bolt after bolt of heavenly lightning, beginning to refine his own body.

At first, Di Tian proceeded quite casually. With the Mountain Dragon King's top-tier defense, he carried on with ease.

But then, as the final wave of heavenly lightning arrived,

Di Tian ran into a problem. The new wave of heavenly lightning far exceeded what he could devour, and he simply could not refine it.

Di Tian narrowed his eyes slightly and slowly summoned the Dragon God's Tears.

"Ancestors above, I, your descendant Di Tian, have a request. Dragon God, please aid me!"

As his voice fell, Di Tian's spiritual power resonated with the nine-colored gemstone.

The core ability of the Dragon God's Tears was cross-realm summoning. It could temporarily summon some of the dragon clan's power to help Di Tian, though the result was random.

The power of this divine artifact depended mainly on its user's spiritual power. Di Tian and the other Ferocious Beasts had recently been nourished by the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, giving them enough spiritual power to activate it once.

All seven hundred thousand years' worth of Di Tian's spiritual power was drained in a single stroke.

Roar!

The light condensed by the Nine-Colored Divine Stone grew even brighter, finally taking the form of a dragon's illusory figure.

It slowly began to solidify and grow clear!

Its entire body was a translucent, deep emerald, with jade-green dragon scales that flowed like the aurora.

Its body was indistinct and shifting, and its dragon pupils were formed from two constantly rotating emerald vortexes.