Watching Di Tian's increasingly hesitant expression, Chen Ping knew he had probably guessed correctly.
There was only one fundamental reason Di Tian had launched the Beast Tide: he feared that before the Silver Dragon King awakened, humanity's current rate of Soul Tool development would likely grant them the ability to utterly destroy the Star Dou Forest.
Di Tian did not care whether the victors of this war between humans would be the Three Great Empires and Shrek, or the Holy Spirit Cult of the Sun Moon Empire. In his eyes, both sides possessed the potential to gain the ability to completely destroy the Soul Beast World within the next few thousand years.
And the Silver Dragon King? Her recovery would need to continue for at least another ten thousand years. Did the Star Dou Forest have another ten thousand years to give her?
That was precisely why Di Tian had launched the Beast Tide at all costs. And after the soul beasts of the Star Dou Forest had been slaughtered with ever more bizarre Soul Tools, unable to put up any resistance, he had grown increasingly frenzied, even going so far as to use the Dragon God Claw to kill Elder Xuan, Du Busi, and Chen Ping himself.
Killing every human on Douluo Star would unquestionably draw the attention of the God Realm. But what if he merely destroyed the Human World's entire technological system and sent humanity back to the Stone Age?
What if, after breaking through Shrek City, he immediately chose to crush all of the Sun Moon Empire's cutting-edge forces as well, forcibly destroying the Human World's Soul Tool development?
Perhaps that was the only way the Star Dou Forest could buy the Silver Dragon King ten thousand years.
Even if the cost of doing so would