Condensing the Second Soul Core, "Eclipse and Purple Moon," and Slaying the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger

Within Sunset Forest.

At the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

Di Tian, Bi Ji, and Zi JI were still cultivating.

Only ten days remained of the three months Di Tian had set.

Bi Ji and Zi JI watched Di Tian anxiously as he sat in the center of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, clenching their fists as they worried about their husband.

Time passed there, second by second, minute by minute, and another five days went by.

On the fifty-fifth day, a boom rang out!

Another explosion erupted from Di Tian's body, signaling yet another failure.

Di Tian had lost count of how many times it had happened. It had probably been several hundred.

This second Yin-Yang Complementary Soul Core was still incredibly difficult to condense. No wonder that, in the original story, Di Tian had taken a full ten thousand years and only barely managed to condense his Second Soul Core, even with the Silver Dragon King's help.

Am I being too impatient? Di Tian's resolve wavered somewhat as he considered whether to continue condensing the Soul Core.

By his reckoning, five days remained until the time he had agreed on with his wives, enough for one more attempt at the Second Soul Core.

With that thought, he decided to try again. The Yin-Yang Complementary Soul Core simply had too many benefits. Not only would it affect his chances of successfully taking over a member of the Human Race, but it would also raise his strength by a level, making it much easier to suppress the Ferocious Beasts once he returned to the forest. At the very least, he couldn't let them affect the future...

Speaking of Ferocious Beasts, the one he worried about most was naturally Xiong Jun, that ticking time bomb. He was all brawn and no brains; who knew what sort of trouble he might stir up in the future?

Di Tian didn't care what he got up to.

But he absolutely could not let him hold up the grand plan of Soul Beasts becoming gods.

At that thought, Di Tian looked at Bi Ji, a gentle expression on his face.

He shifted his gaze again, fixing it on Zi JI, and nodded slightly to tell the two not to worry. Then he held his breath and focused once more. His Soul Power rotated, and a new vortex was born.

Time passed. His Soul Power circulated for a full day and night, and a new Soul Core appeared once more.

According to the original story, the Second Soul Core best suited to Di Tian was Purple Moon.

Di Tian no longer had any difficulty condensing this Soul Core. The problem was still the same: how to make it coexist in harmony with Eclipse.

Di Tian controlled the Soul Core as it entered his dantian.

But as soon as it began, Purple Moon and Eclipse started fighting for control of his Soul Power.

The moment Purple Moon, the Second Soul Core, entered, Eclipse began to reject it.

After nearly three months of battering his body, even Di Tian could barely hold on. He had exhausted too much; even with the energy replenished by the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, it was nowhere near enough.

He had no choice but to prepare for the worst, compressing his Soul Power at tremendous speed and doing everything he could to control the circulation of the Eclipse Soul Core...

Yet the effect remained slight. Just as Di Tian was accepting failure—

Roar!

Roar!

Two dragon cries came from the bottom of the pool. The illusory figures of the Ice and Fire Dragons emerged like Soul Spirits and attached themselves to Di Tian.

Di Tian could keenly feel the power of the two seniors—the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings!

"Seniors!" To Di Tian's surprise, the Ice-Fire Twin Dragon Kings seemed to know of his predicament. They directly drew on the little energy and dragon essence left in the spring, continuously soothing the 'Eclipse' Soul Core inside him and helping the Purple Moon Soul Core come into being.

The Ice Dragon King instantly froze Eclipse, and Red Sun also began furiously circulating Soul Power inside Di Tian, turning it into the energy needed to start itself up and taking the dominant position in his body.

Time flew. After a full three days, Di Tian slowly opened his eyes, his expression grave. He knew that the souls of the Ice-Fire Twin Dragon Kings had completely dissipated, having used their Soul Spirits to lay the foundation for his Second Soul Core.

The moment Di Tian opened his eyes, Bi Ji and Zi JI had already descended into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, their faces full of worry.

"Husband, did you succeed this time?"

Bi Ji asked tentatively, because she could see both joy and worry on Di Tian's face.

That expression left her very confused.

Zi JI said nothing, merely waiting quietly for her master to speak.

"I've succeeded. I have the two senior Ice Dragon Kings to thank; they were the ones who helped me condense my Second Soul Core." With that, Di Tian moved both hands, and the illusory images of two Soul Cores appeared. Eclipse Purple Moon floated unsteadily, their endless Soul Power mixing with dark-attribute energy, seemingly a black hole in the universe.

Bi Ji and Zi JI were stunned.

Expressions of disbelief appeared on both their faces. They only probed lightly with their Soul Power, yet they felt a vast force.

Bi Ji felt it even more deeply. As a Soul Beast who already had her first Soul Core, she could clearly sense that these Dual Soul Cores were far more than a simple doubling of Soul Power!

My man is amazing!

"It's time we left. The next time we come here will be when we pick the Immortal Herbs." Di Tian put away his Soul Cores.

Bi Ji and Zi JI followed quietly behind Di Tian as the three headed back to the Star Dou Great Forest.

A black claw from Di Tian tore through space. Space shattered, and with a single step, he brought the two of them to the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest.

On the way.

Thinking of meeting the Ferocious Beasts, Bi Ji asked, "Husband, we've been gone for so long. Do you think Xiong Jun and the others will be suspicious of us?"

Di Tian said calmly, "It doesn't matter. This time, I intend to tell them the plan as well. It's time they planted some undercover agents among the Human Race too. The revival of us Soul Beasts needs to be put on the agenda."

Hearing this, Bi Ji's expression changed. She knew that her husband did not intend to wait for the Silver Dragon King to awaken.

The group strode toward the Lake of Life in the Star Dou Great Forest.

Suddenly, Di Tian stopped. Zi JI followed his gaze and saw a fifty-thousand-year Evil God Tiger.

She understood that Di Tian intended to kill the ten-thousand-year Evil God Tiger.

For generations, the Evil God Tiger race had cultivated by devouring others. Their existence severely affected the reproduction of the other races in the Star Dou Great Forest, making them the common enemy of the Soul Beast Realm.

Whenever one appeared, other Soul Beast leaders would take the lead in killing it.

As the Beast God, Di Tian had even less tolerance for them.

Zi JI had already gathered her dark energy as well, but Di Tian was too fast.

He had already made his move.

A black dragon claw shot out and seized the fifty-thousand-year Dark Demon Evil God Tiger.

The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger died on the spot.

Although the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger race possessed an extremely terrifying innate gift, allowing one at the fifty-thousand-year level to go toe-to-toe with an ordinary Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and even possibly kill it,

unfortunately, this one was unlucky today. It had run into Di Tian and didn't have the slightest chance.

A single dragon-claw strike from Di Tian was not something even a Ferocious Beast-level Soul Beast could necessarily withstand, unless it was a Ferocious Beast with extremely high defenses, like a Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear.

For this Soul Beast, which had yet to reach a hundred thousand years, it was an absolutely fatal blow. Di Tian had slaughtered it before it could even scream.

A black Soul Ring emerged.

Without so much as a glance at it, Di Tian reached out with his dragon claw and searched through the corpse.

He was curious whether this fellow had produced a Soul Bone.

In the original story, Tang San had killed a Man-Faced Spider Emperor and obtained the external Eight Spider Lances, gaining its devouring ability.

But when it came to devouring, this Dark Demon Evil God Tiger was hundreds of times stronger than the spider!

As for the devouring ability, Di Tian naturally had no interest in it. Like Zi JI, he possessed the ultimate dark attribute and was born with a devouring ability of his own, so why would he care for the ability of this little fifty-thousand-year tiger?

Di Tian intended to give the ability to that boy from the Human Race.

Tuo Ba Yun—he would let him develop properly and get as close as possible to becoming a Limit Douluo.

As Di Tian continued examining it with his mind, a Soul Bone really did drop: a torso bone—the Demon Evil God Devouring Heaven Bone.