Million Year Soul Beast Di Tian!

Chapter 16: Million Year Soul Beast—Di Tian!

Because from beginning to end, no sinful god had ever been able to withstand the final Earth Fire Wind Water Four Extremes Four Tribulations, the specifications of divine punishment had never been altered.

Not to mention five days of the Earth Fire Wind Water Four Extremes Four Tribulations—even a single day was more than the current Di Tian might be able to endure.

He had already fallen out of his Dragon God Body state. His Golden Eyed Black Dragon King Body was inherently a notch weaker than the Seven-Colored Dragon God Body, and it would be difficult to stimulate his bloodline into evolving again anytime soon.

What was more, he was injured.

As he watched the Four Extremes Four Tribulations surge in from every direction, changing the color of heaven and earth, Di Tian took out a stone. This was his final preparation.

"I hope this works."

After murmuring those words, earth, fire, wind, and water rotated in turn, blanketing the sky and swallowing Di Tian's enormous black dragon body.

Earth, fire, wind, and water condensed into Tribulation Marks, constantly eroding his life and destroying his body.

His life force plummeted at a visible rate. When it neared freezing point, the Tribulation Marks would ease.

Then, just as Di Tian reached the brink of death, when his life force was like a guttering candle in the wind that could be snuffed out at any moment, an exuberant burst of life force erupted and replenished it to a high point.

At the same time, as if they possessed awareness, the Earth Fire Wind Water Four Extremes Four Tribulations intensified the divine punishment...

...And so the cycle repeated, over and over. Di Tian intended to use this method to forcibly endure this tribulation that should have meant certain death.

What he relied on was the Gold of Life that had just restored his vitality—the accumulation of life from hundreds of millions of years across the entire plane. It was immensely useful even to the Half-Step God King Silver Dragon King.

Although, ten thousand years ago, the Gold of Life in the Lake of Life had had a piece bitten off by that Golden Hawksbill to forge the Blade of Life, that had only been a tiny portion, far less than the piece Di Tian had brought out.

As the Earth Fire Wind Water Four Extremes Four Tribulations cycled again and again, more than half of the Gold of Life Di Tian had brought was consumed.

Still, he had ultimately endured the final stage of the Million Year Heavenly Tribulation.

Five days passed. Earth, fire, wind, and water lowered their banners and silenced their drums, each retreating to the four cardinal extremes and vanishing into the boundless horizon without leaving behind a trace.

Di Tian, who remained where he was, had been reborn after the tribulation. The continent's sole Million Year Soul Beast had been born!

Life force surged mightily, and his aura shot into the heavens. His handsome, middle-aged face began to grow younger, a sign that his lifespan had been greatly extended.

The pressure erupting from his body was several times stronger than before. His Golden Eyed Black Dragon Body rapidly grew from one hundred zhang to three hundred zhang, reaching a massive thousand meters in length, its strength surpassing even that of an ordinary Godly Physique.

His Spiritual Power also began to sublimate. Within his black-gold Sea of Spirit, there was now a trace of crystalline radiance, and his entire spiritual world was changing as well.

Streams of white air floated in the center of the Sea of Spirit, causing both his Sea of Spirit and spiritual world to expand a hundredfold at a rapid pace.

Those streams of white air gathered and wove themselves into a miniature Di Tian. This was the sign of Spiritual Power transforming into divine consciousness and breaking through to the Divine Origin Realm.

Only his Soul Power had not undergone a qualitative transformation into divine power. It had merely increased in quantity, but it was still incomparably vast and dense.

Because even after passing the Million Year Heavenly Tribulation, he was still a soul beast rather than a divine beast, restricted to a realm beneath gods.

Yet the actual combat power of one million years of cultivation had already surpassed that of ordinary Divine Officials.

If he stimulated his bloodline and evolved from the Golden Eyed Black Dragon Body into the Dragon God Body in an instant, his combat power could even approach the realm of a Third Class God.

But it could only approach it. Within the realms of gods, every step was a stairway to heaven. Even if he used the Dragon God Claw and Dragon God Core to stimulate his bloodline into evolving into the Seven-Colored Dragon God Body, he could only raise himself to a level close to a Third Class God; he could not truly stand at that level.

With such cultivation, even if Yun Ming burned his Demigod Position, and Chen Shaojie wore the Sea God Helmet and burned the Flame of Life to gain the combat power of a god, neither would pose any threat to him.

In other words, the two of them would have to unleash their ultimate moves and go all out just to withstand his ordinary attacks.

The benefits of passing the Million Year Soul Beast Tribulation were not limited to an explosive increase in his current strength—they also elevated his potential without limit.

If Di Tian chose to undergo the divine tribulation and become a god now, then with the body of a Million Year Soul Beast and his immense accumulation over countless years, once he passed the divine tribulation, he would inevitably surpass the Second Class God level he had possessed in the God Realm in the past and enter the ranks of First Class Gods.

And he would be among the most powerful First Class Gods, possessing both the potential and foundation to become a God King.

"Huff, huff—"

At that thought, even his breathing became more hurried, and his body trembled faintly with excitement.

But after a long while, his tightly clenched Dragon Fist slowly loosened in the end.

He suppressed his thoughts and excitement about continuing onward as a Million Year Soul Beast and challenging the divine tribulation to become a god.

"Alas..."

It was not that he could not pass the divine tribulation and become a god. It was that someone would not allow him to do so.

Though the Dragon Valley Small World had been created by the Dragon God's dragon soul, it was ultimately only a small world. It could not conceal the fluctuations of a divine tribulation, nor the divine radiance of a First Class God about to emerge.

Tang Hao, the current Plane Master of the Douluo Plane, would never sit by and watch a First Class God be born—especially not a soul beast.

Even if it exposed him before the Abyssal Sage King and caused the Ten Thousand Year Plan to go down the drain, he would certainly spare no effort in preventing Di Tian from passing the tribulation and becoming a god.

Even the divine consciousness Tang San had left behind, along with its three opportunities to act, would be unleashed against him.

The hatred between soul beasts and humans, and between divine beasts and gods, ran far deeper than the conflict of interests involved in mutually devouring the Abyss Plane.

Perhaps the Abyss Plane and Demon Plane waiting outside the plane would also join in. After all, a true dragon with the Dragon God's bloodline was worth no less than a Super Divine Artifact.

What was more, he already possessed a Super Divine Artifact within his body: the Dragon God Heart. A man may be innocent, but the possession of jade makes him guilty.

Oh, and there were also Gu Yue and Na'er. Would these two fragments of the Silver Dragon King, Lord of the Soul Beasts, risk their lives to protect his Dao? Or would they resent him for taking the Dragon God's legacy and seize the chance to strike him while he was down? No one could say.

If he waited until the moment of undergoing the divine tribulation to regret it, he would be surrounded by enemies on all sides, and it would be far too late!

Therefore, he had to choose another, safer path to godhood: creating his own divine position and becoming a god.

Faith forged divinity and condensed a godly throne. Humans had tried it—how could soul beasts not have done the same?

Soul beasts had never ceased their attempts to become gods.

How could the Beast God Title Di Tian had carried through the Star Dou Great Forest for countless ages have been chosen lightly?

How could it have been a coincidence that the Evil Eye Tyrant Ruler had once been revered by the entire Sun Moon Empire as a spiritual totem?

How could Snow Empress's protection of the Far North Land for countless years, making it known as the most united gathering place of soul beasts, have been achieved on a whim?

Now, the latter two had already ascended to the God Realm in the form of soul spirits and attained immortality. Naturally, the plans for godhood they had left behind were gradually fading away.

Only Di Tian's foundation for creating a godly throne remained—the Beast God acknowledged by countless soul beast races, the nominal leader of the soul beast clan.

What he needed to do now was gather the last remnants of the soul beasts, suppress the fence-sitting Sea Soul Beasts, and create signs of the soul beast clan's great resurgence—preferably with drums pounding, firecrackers exploding, and the whole world knowing about it.