Starting with a Heavenly Tribulation

Today, the Star Dou Great Forest was very noisy. A patch of dark clouds covered the sky, and the pitch-black clouds exuded a severe sense of oppression. Spirit beasts seemed to sense unease from these clouds and rushed away from the position under them one after another. Ye Qing thought the same, but soon he found that no matter what, he could not walk out of this dark cloud. "This cloud seems to be following me." "Yes, according to the system's judgment, this belongs to the tribulation cloud of this world, so of course it will follow the host." "I knew it, how could an ordinary cloud follow a person?" "...Wait!" "Tribulation Cloud?!" "Yes." "So someone is about to undergo a tribulation soon, and the person undergoing the tribulation is me?" "Yes, because after the system's assimilation, this world has already counted you as a member of the spirit beasts. As for your age, it is seven hundred thousand years in physical terms, so having a heavenly tribulation is very normal." "Is that so, a normal phenomenon... normal my foot!" Looking at the increasingly dense dark clouds, Ye Qing roared. "Have you ever seen someone get struck by lightning right after time-traveling? Letting me cultivate for a few years or have a master would be fine too, but going straight into a heavenly tribulation—do you want me to time-travel a second time?! How do I dodge it?!" "It is unavoidable. Please calm down; wrath plays no role whatsoever. Moreover, please rest assured, the current system will not let you time-travel a second time—at most, you will just fail the tribulation, and..." "Stop with the 'and'! What happens if I fail?" "According to the world rules of Douluo Continent, host, you will die. Death in every sense." "I-***** you and your asterisks, system!" Just as Self-Discipline No. 3 was explaining these matters, the heavenly tribulation in the dark clouds had already finished gathering. Streaks of lightning as thick as water buckets intertwined in the sky, and then struck down at Ye Qing one after another. With the landing of the heavenly lightning, the land near Ye Qing shattered to pieces. One scorched trace after another was exposed on the surface of the ground, and not far away were a few scorched corpses—these were innocent spirit beasts that did not manage to escape the range of the heavenly tribulation. Yet Ye Qing, who was in the exact center of the landing point of the heavenly tribulation, remained completely unharmed. The fur on his body was still snow-white and bright, even more glossy than before, and this heavenly tribulation seemed to have just given him a bath. "Eh, I seem to be fine. This heavenly tribulation doesn't seem to have much power." "Your body comes from another world and has long since experienced the heavenly tribulation God knows how many times. This thing called a heavenly tribulation is the power of the will of heaven and earth, and the will of heaven and earth in this world is far too inferior compared to that world. "Moreover, your identity seemed to have been mistaken by the will of heaven and earth for a rabbit. This heavenly tribulation is the lowest-tier in terms of power, so of course you are fine." "Besides, the reason you are at seven hundred thousand years is not because your demon body is not strong enough, but because of the suppression by the rules of this world." After all, this body was once the demon body of a great demon. Demons had long been intolerable to heaven and earth, and every step of cultivation was an act of defying the heavens. This Heaven-Swallowing Hou was a mutated beast to begin with, so the heavenly tribulation it experienced was even stronger and more terrifying. The low-grade heavenly tribulation of the Douluo world really looked like nothing in front of this tempered demon physique. "Then why didn't you say so earlier, leaving me terrified for half a day?" "First, the host did not ask a question. Second, you did not give this system time to explain this matter. This system believes that a self-disciplined person must have good emotional control, so the host's future tasks will have an emotion-cultivation function added." "As you like, as you like. Next time, just get straight to the point. If I had known the heavenly tribulation was this safe, would I have lost my composure?" Ye Qing said indifferently, but his attitude seemed to incur the dissatisfaction of the heavenly tribulation. "Little brother, I am a heavenly tribulation! The other spirit beasts ran away like scared rats, flying as fast as they could. You being like this makes me lose a lot of face, and it won't be easy to report back on this." Seeming to think this, the single color in the sky began to grow complex, and the lightning became even thicker. Several bolts of lightning intertwined and struck down once again like giant pythons. This time, Ye Qing actually felt something. The hair on the surface of his body began to curl, and a tingling sensation spread across his skin. "Good grief, this heavenly tribulation actually has emotions!" Feeling the dissatisfaction of the will of heaven and earth from the changes in the lightning, Ye Qing stopped bantering with the system and prepared to honestly weather this wave of heavenly tribulation. At this moment, however, the always-dull system actually underwent an emotional change. "Oh no! This heavenly tribulation missed! Host, go and block it quickly... It's too late... We're going to take a huge loss this time." "What's wrong?" "Look over there." The system pointed out the direction for Ye Qing in his mind. He saw that the ball of light from which he had originally crawled out had taken a hit from the heavenly tribulation. Many parts of the previously stable ball of light had turned into fine, fragmented energy dispersing into the surroundings. After all, a heavenly tribulation was not human; it locked onto the surrounding area of the person (beast) involved. Ye Qing's nest at the time naturally suffered collateral damage. "What is that? A ball of light?" "That is an energy cluster... The energy generated back then in the God Realm by that lizard, plus the energy left behind after those so-called gods fell, would naturally have dissipated. "But I used the innate talent of this body of yours to gather them together. That is a large power bank for you, enough for you to use for the greater half of your lifetime, equivalent to tens of thousands of years of cultivation... And just like that, thirty percent of it is gone." "What are you doing? Don't go over." Seeing that Ye Qing wanted to go over upon hearing this, the system hurriedly stopped him. "I'm going to salvage my property! Tens of thousands of years of cultivation—just how much energy is that? Besides, didn't you just tell me to go block it?" "That was just now. Things are already like this; if you go over, you will only lose even more. Leave it to fate." Time passed bit by bit. With Ye Qing no longer provoking the heavenly tribulation, this tribulation hastily came to an end. Without caring about anything else, Ye Qing hurried to check on his power bank. In the end, the ball of light survived this heavenly tribulation at the cost of half of it dissipating. However, the energy of this ball of light was generated by the fall of numerous divine beasts and gods in the God War. In that battle, the Dragon God fell and split into two, and four elemental gods among the first-class gods perished. Countless other gods and their subordinates fell as well. It took several hundred years in the God Realm—meaning tens of thousands of years in the mortal world—to recover its vitality. Therefore, even with only half remaining, the energy cluster condensed by the system through the Heaven-Swallowing Hou was still a massive amount. By the same token, the energy Ye Qing lost was also an immeasurable figure. However, according to later archaeological research, the Star Dou Forest once had a brilliant period lasting ten thousand years. The spirit beasts of that ten-thousand-year period were exceptionally strong, and even ordinary plants grew extraordinarily lush, a reason that remained unknown to this day. "My heart hurts... I'm going to comfort myself in my dreams." "No. As the master of Self-Discipline No. 3, your rest time for today is still less than—" "But today is the first day! And I'm undergoing a heavenly tribulation on my very first day!" "All things are difficult at the start; giving up on the first day simply won't do, host. Besides, host, have you ever heard a saying in your past life?" "What?" "Have you ever seen Los Angeles at 4:00 AM?" "I've heard it. Wait, you mean...?" "Yes indeed, host. Now I must ask you another question, and in the future you can also say to others: Have you ever seen the Star Dou Great Forest at 4:00 AM?" At this moment, Ye Qing seemed to see the system flashing a demonic smile. "What do you plan to do...?" "Naturally, I'm going to have you go find those lost energies and bring them back. There's still time to retrieve a portion of them. Here, take this container; it can also be used as a Storage Ring." Something like a bracelet appeared out of thin air on Ye Qing's left arm, turning into patterns that melted into Ye Qing's body. "Why didn't you collect the energy earlier?" Faced with Ye Qing's question, the system dully replied with two words: "Forgot." "I..." In the end, Ye Qing resignedly embarked on the path of energy collection.

There is a backlog of chapters, so you can bookmark with peace of mind. This is a Douluo fanfiction. Spirit beasts from Douluo II will make a few appearances, but nothing else is involved. The protagonist is reborn as a spirit beast, will take human form, and will participate in the plot, but he is not Tang San's babysitter, nor Spirit Hall's babysitter.