The National Soul Master Tournament, the Ferocious Beasts All Arrive

Although he had Whale Rubber to improve his physical condition, along with the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and spring water from the Lake of Life as his three trump cards,

Di Tian was clearly trying to push his first ring past the ten-thousand-year threshold. Was that possible?

At his side, Zi JI stared intently at Di Tian in the spring pool. She was worried too.

But unlike Bi Ji, Zi JI clenched both fists, a trace of confidence in her eyes, and shouted in her heart, Master, you can do it!

Time flew. In just half an hour, Di Tian's First Soul Ring finally condensed. It was as black as ink—a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring.

Yet Di Tian still wasn't finished. He rested for just over three days, then continued absorbing part of the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone.

With the tremendous power of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and two Dragon Cores as well, he truly had too many fallback options. As he continued to strengthen himself, a second Soul Ring began to condense.

This time, it even surpassed twenty thousand years!

Another Soul Ring of intense black floated out.

Once again, Bi Ji and Zi JI were left stunned. During the days Di Tian spent condensing his Soul Rings, they had stayed by his side, repeatedly gathering their Soul Power and watching him intently. If anything happened to him, they would immediately step in and help him bear the backlash from a Soul Ring he couldn't absorb.

Fortunately, Di Tian succeeded. His two wives, Zi JI and Bi Ji, were overjoyed and immediately threw themselves into his arms.

The three children soaked in the spring pool and chatted.

As fellow Ferocious Beasts, Zi JI and Bi Ji had come to understand their husband's strength over the past few days...

As Di Tian absorbed his Soul Rings, Black Dragon Mountain also underwent a tremendous change that year.

Under Di Tian's guidance, Tuo Ba Yun appointed Tuo Ba Tian as the young sect master.

Thanks to his previous close ties with the Lower Four Sects, as well as his own unparalleled talent,

Tuo Ba Tian had a much easier time becoming young sect master. Even so, a few blind fools inevitably questioned his strength.

What right did he have to become young sect master?!

When the sect was first founded on Black Dragon Mountain, it had sought to recruit Soul Masters and small sects from across the land.

It had once proposed that the sect master be chosen according to ability.

With that rule in place, everyone wanted to compete for the position of young sect master, because no one dared challenge the sect master's position.

Tuo Ba Yun was far too powerful. He was someone who, even as a Super Douluo, had been able to fight a Limit Douluo to the death. Who dared question the sect master?

But the young sect master was another matter. Tuo Ba Tian had stumbled upon water from the Lake of Life and resolved the hidden danger in the Martial Soul of Si Kong Ao, one of the Lower Four Sects.

That was an achievement, and no one would find fault with him for it. But it wasn't enough to make him young sect master.

To become young sect master, both character and strength were indispensable. Tuo Ba Tian did not lack character, but as for strength, the other disciples his age had yet to see it.

And so, from that day on, Tuo Ba Tian fought one Black Dragon Sect disciple after another.

Their ages ranged from seven to sixteen.

Born on Black Dragon Mountain, with Whale Rubber, Soul Bones, and the Heaven and Earth Essence of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, the Soul Masters who cultivated there were, without exception, at much higher levels than those outside.

Even the weakest had the strength of a level thirty-eight Soul Elder.

Some had even entered the Soul King realm above level fifty.

Yet when Di Tian faced them, he defeated them with only a slight ripple of Soul Power and the manifestation of his Martial Soul.

After more than two days of fierce fighting, the crowd still hadn't even seen Tuo Ba Tian's Soul Ring Configuration.

Tuo Ba Tian fought with extreme ferocity: if he could end a fight in one second, he would never drag it out to five, unconditionally crushing the self-esteem of everyone present.

After those battles, no one questioned the young sect master's strength again.

A few days later, the second year's Soul Master Tournament arrived as scheduled.

The Soul Master Tournament had a clear age restriction: any Soul Master under eighteen could participate.

And so, the Ferocious Beasts all joined this National Soul Master Tournament as well.

Ferocious Beasts from every direction and every place all intended to go.

On the night before departure, Di Tian slipped into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well once more to condense his third Soul Ring.

Yes, he had leveled up again.

With the power of two great Dragon Cores and various Soul Bones, leveling up was far, far too easy for Di Tian.

If he didn't hold himself back, he could even break through to the Soul King level within a year.

But Di Tian saw no need.

That would be too conspicuous, easily drawing the attention of major powers and causing other trouble.

Time flew. In just a few hours, Di Tian finished condensing his third Soul Ring. This time, the ring was even darker.

A fifty-thousand-year third Soul Ring.

The next day, Bi Ji and Zi JI waited for Di Tian early in the morning. Together with the Lower Four Sects, the seven of them left Black Dragon Mountain for the site of the National Soul Master Tournament.

The Heaven Dou Imperial Family.

Meanwhile, Skywater Academy in the Far North also began to move.

The Human Race teams led by the other three great Ferocious Beasts, along with the Ferocious Beasts themselves, all set out.

Their figures began to enter the continent's field of vision.

Peerless Douluo followed behind each of these teams.

Spirit Hall also sent out its seven brightest stars of the year.

Code name: Red Radiance.

Most members of the team were Battle Soul Ancestors approaching level 50, and everyone's Martial Soul was of top quality.

Fire Phoenix, Ice Crystal Jade Lotus, Mighty Giant Bear, Azure Luan Jade Flute, Red-armored Unicorn Rhino, and so on...

They worked together seamlessly, having trained together for three years.

Last year, Skywater Academy had crushed them. This year, they were coming back, and under that woman Bibi Dong's devilish training, everyone's strength had risen several notches.

As they set out again, their expressions were grim, because they were the losers.

Until they washed away Spirit Hall's humiliation, every one of them remained on edge at all times.

None of them would ever forget last year's crushing defeat.

They had not merely lost the championship last year; it was also the first time in nearly a century that Spirit Hall had failed to win consecutive championships.

With such an insult having befallen the seven of them, none could forgive the others.

At this time, two of the Upper Three Sects, the Clear Sky Sect and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon, also headed for the Heaven Dou Imperial Family.

The timeline was now approaching the point when the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon had been destroyed in the original work, but after the tremendous changes in Spirit Hall, there was no longer any possibility of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon being destroyed.

Because the entire continent was targeting the Black Dragon Sect.

They were too powerful. With the enormous quantities of Whale Rubber they had possessed early on, no one knew how much they had stockpiled. Everyone feared the Black Dragon Sect would grow so dominant that it would swallow them up!

The National Soul Master Tournament was merely a cover.

Besides this means of seizing Whale Rubber, the various powers were also targeting the Black Dragon Sect and its subordinate forces from the outside.

But these actions had yet to produce results, because each sect harbored its own ulterior motives, and none was truly sincere about cooperating.

The pressure on the Black Dragon Sect was negligible.

Among these groups, one member of an imperial family could no longer sit still.

It was none other than Dai Ling Shuo, the ninth emperor of the Star Luo Empire.

Using the National Soul Master Tournament as a pretext, he too was heading toward the Heaven Dou Imperial Family.

His purpose was to speak with the current emperor, Xue Ling, about the Black Dragon Sect.

The Black Dragon Sect was located in the heart of Sunset Forest, right between the Two Great Empires, yet it was not subject to their control or direction.

Allowing such an unstable power to continue developing while the authority of the Two Great Empires was continually challenged was an extremely humiliating matter for the imperial families.

Or rather, tempted by Whale Rubber, the imperial families wanted a piece of the action too.