Di Tian, I'm Here to Make a Deal

Douluo Continent, Star Dou Great Forest, core region!

The Lake of Life, which should have brimmed with boundless life energy, was now nearing depletion.

The Star Dou Great Forest lay silent and lifeless, without even the faintest trace of vitality to be sensed.

Only at its very heart did four terrifying auras emanate!

At the forefront stood a figure in black robes. He appeared to be in his forties, handsome and resolute, with a lock of golden hair hanging beside his cheek from his forehead.

He stood there, gazing out over the entire Star Dou Great Forest, his eyes filled with endless emotion.

"It's time to say goodbye to this place. I've lived here for over a hundred thousand years. At last, it's time to leave."

Di Tian sighed from the bottom of his heart.

Yet the burly man beside him, whose aura was equally powerful, showed no reluctance to part with the place.

"The Soul Beast clan is nearly extinct. How can this still be called the Star Dou Great Forest? We should follow our lord's orders and go to the human world. We must repay blood with blood and tooth for tooth!"

After hearing him, the effeminate man in green beside him unexpectedly voiced his agreement. "Bear Lord has a point. You know I rarely agree with anything he says!"

Scarlet King, the Three-Headed Scarlet Demon Mastiff and the weakest in cultivation among the four, slowly spoke up.

"Our lord has already gone ahead to the human world with Bi Ji and the others. Bi Ji and the others are meticulous; they've been paving the way for half a year already. It's about time we went too."

Half a year ago, their lord had awakened. Upon learning of the Soul Beast clan's plight, she had immediately ordered them to repay eye for eye and tooth for tooth, to completely destroy humanity.

But to destroy them, they first had to understand them.

Their lord had already taken human form and gone to the human world with Bi Ji, Zi Ji, and the others.

They did not need to take human form, nor could they. But with their strength, if they wished to conceal their identities, no powerhouse would be able to see through them.

Half a year had passed. Bi Ji and the others must have already established a foundation in the human world.

"Yes, the time is about right. We remained here mainly to leave Shrek and the Spirit Pagoda with a false impression. Half a year has passed now, and Bi Ji and the others should have built a foundation in the human world. There's no need for us to waste any more time here."

"Hahahahaha! We can finally begin! With our lord's rule, wiping out the entire human race will be no problem at all!"

Bear Lord was hot-tempered, as befitted a Darkgolden Terrorclaw Bear.

At the mention of their lord, Di Tian could not help but smile knowingly. "Don't worry. Now that our lord has awakened, our Soul Beast clan will rise to prosperity once more!"

"Prosperity? Hehehehehe, she's already taken human form. Where exactly will she bring you Soul Beasts prosperity from?"

The moment Di Tian finished speaking, a magnetic voice suddenly rang across the deathly silent Lake of Life, causing Di Tian's expression to change drastically!

"Who's there?"

His spiritual senses immediately locked onto the source of the voice. To his surprise, he found a mechanical snake buried in the ground. Furious, Di Tian exerted a powerful suction force from his hand, and the mechanical snake was swiftly drawn into his grasp.

His aura erupted in full at that moment. The terrifying pressure even sent the several Beast Kings flying, with Scarlet King suffering the worst due to his lowest cultivation.

"Who are you? How did you do this?"

Di Tian stared fixedly at the mechanical snake glowing red. At the same time, he used his vast spiritual power to lock onto it, trying to locate its master—the person speaking to him from the other end.

He intended to kill them on the spot.

From that one sentence alone, Di Tian had realized that this mechanical snake had been here for at least half a year.

It had seen through every one of their plans.

He was now somewhat worried about his lord and the others' safety.

Yet no matter how he probed with his spiritual power, there was no response at all!

To Di Tian's horror, there was not the slightest Soul Power fluctuation from the mechanical snake.

This was not a Soul Tool, nor was it something like a Soul Tool mecha. It did not use Soul Power to transmit sound at all.

This left Di Tian utterly shaken.

What exactly was this thing?

And what kind of being was on the other end?

After falling silent for a moment, the mechanical snake quickly spoke again.

"Don't worry, Beast God Di Tian. I'm here to make a deal. For now, I'm merely greeting you. Soon, I'll come to you and discuss it face-to-face. That is my sincerity."

"A coward who hides his head and shows his tail dares speak of sincerity? State your name, and I'll leave you an intact corpse."

"I knew you would say that. That's why I had no choice but to greet you this way beforehand, so you could prepare yourself mentally before I dared come make a deal with you."

At that moment, beneath the outermost region of the Star Dou Great Forest, a six-year-old boy wore an earpiece and held a remote control, using it to operate a completely handmade mechanical snake from afar.

Through a simple electrical communication device, he conversed remotely with Di Tian.

"Beast God Di Tian, let's continue our earlier topic. The Soul Beast clan is almost extinct. The only ones still alive are Soul Beasts raised by the Spirit Pagoda. Don't you think it's laughable, for you as the Beast God, to have let things come to this?"

"What did you say? Say that again."

"I said you're laughable. The entire Soul Beast clan has died off until only a few Soul Beasts like you remain, yet you still stubbornly cling to that so-called lord of yours. If you had even a shred of backbone, you could use your demigod body to self-destruct at the Spirit Pagoda headquarters and blow the place to pieces. Would they still dare act so arrogantly then?"

With the Beast God's cultivation nearing a million years and his accumulation of over a hundred thousand years, although the suppression of the rules might prevent his own combat strength from allowing him to face so many top experts of Douluo Continent wielding battle armor at once, self-destruction was another matter.

His foundation was not something people who had cultivated for merely decades or centuries could compare with.

The force of the explosion would certainly be no weaker than the bomb that destroyed Shrek Academy—perhaps several times stronger.

Forget destroying the Spirit Pagoda; even nearby Shrek would suffer considerable collateral damage.

"Self-destruct?"

Upon hearing those two words, Di Tian was suddenly dazed!

How could he possibly not have considered it before?

But he still had another mission.

Thus, he could only watch helplessly as humans gradually devoured the Soul Beast clan, unable to do anything about it.

He had done everything else he could.

He had gone to the human world and slaughtered ordinary people indiscriminately, but apart from adding to his fearsome reputation, it had been meaningless.

The Spirit Pagoda did not care how many ordinary people died. Their customers had never been such people, and the Spirit Pagoda headquarters stood near Shrek Academy.

The moment he approached, Shrek's powerhouses would detect him.

Unless he embraced death and self-destructed as this mysterious person suggested, he had no way to inflict any substantial damage on the Spirit Pagoda.

"Who exactly are you? If you are human, why would you suggest that I self-destruct and destroy the Spirit Pagoda?"

"Heh, naturally, I'm someone who bears a grudge against the Spirit Pagoda. What I intend to do is also for the sake of the Spirit Pagoda's complete destruction."

"Beast God, are you interested in making a deal with me? I can help you..."

"No need!" A savage smile appeared at the corner of Beast God Di Tian's mouth. He suddenly crushed the mechanical snake in his hand, then transformed into a streak of light and shot toward Lin Chen's location. "Rat hiding in the shadows, I've found you."