Becoming a Fierce Beast

Xu Jiujiu kept her oath. Less than ten days after returning, she delivered the Spirit-Devouring Fierce Blade to the place where they had met before.

Jiang Heng had his clansmen bring it back.

With his current strength, he could not yet cleanse the curse within it, but using it as a carving knife posed no problem at all. It could not affect him in the slightest.

Once his strength improved further, he could simply devour the curse within.

For the next period of time, Jiang Heng rapidly refined the Golden Hawksbill Turtle's vital energy and power.

It had to be said that the Taotie Bloodline was truly heaven-defying.

In less than half a year, he successfully refined and devoured that power, raising his cultivation to two hundred thousand years.

"It's time to trigger the Heavenly Tribulation!"

Jiang Heng looked at the many clansmen around him. Aside from Jiang Cai, another Golden Earth Dragon had now broken through to one hundred thousand years and become a Golden Earth Dragon King.

However, his foundation was far inferior to Jiang Cai's. Unless he encountered some great fortune within the next century, it would be difficult for him to survive the Heavenly Tribulation that would inevitably descend a hundred years later.

As for Jiang Cai, after all these years of guidance, her strength was enough to deal with a Soul Beast's hundred-thousand-year Heavenly Tribulation.

Once he broke through to two hundred thousand years, Jiang Cai could protect the clan, allowing him to leave without worry.

No matter what, these fellows had honored him as their king for many years. Whatever he asked of them, they carried it out with all their hearts. He still had to leave them some measure of security.

Soon after, Jiang Cai was the first to trigger the hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast Heavenly Tribulation.

Though the process was brutal, she successfully survived the tribulation.

"King, thank you for your help. Without you, I could never have reached my current realm."

After becoming a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, Jiang Cai became even more loyal to Jiang Heng.

"You should return to the Underground Palace first. Continue everything according to the previous plan. It is also time for me to challenge the Fierce Beast Tribulation."

After giving his orders, Jiang Heng began guiding the Heavenly Tribulation, facing the two-hundred-thousand-year Fierce Beast Tribulation head-on.

The next instant, heaven and earth changed. Thunderclouds churned as endless destructive aura spread between heaven and earth, as if it sought to crush everything everyone possessed into dust.

"How much sin have Soul Beasts committed, to face a Heavenly Tribulation with every breakthrough?"

Seeing this, Jiang Heng, as a Soul Beast himself, could not help but sigh.

If he had been human, he would only have said that it was wonderful. But now that he was a Soul Beast, he could not help feeling that fate was unfair.

In other worlds, whether humans or mountain spirits and wild monsters, as long as they embarked on the path of cultivation, their road was destined to be filled with hardships, and they all had to face the tests of the Great Dao.

No matter how rugged the road, all living beings beneath the Heavenly Dao would ultimately have a sliver of hope for survival.

Yet on the Douluo Continent, Soul Beasts did not even have a sliver of hope to glimpse the Great Dao.

How unfair!

"Fuck this Heavenly Tribulation! Fuck these Deities!"

"I want to see whether you can truly control everything!"

With an enraged roar and a dragon's cry, Jiang Heng did not evade the Heavenly Tribulation. Instead, he shot into the sky and faced the heavenly lightning directly.

"BOOM!"

The next moment, heavenly lightning descended and smashed heavily into his body, ravaging everything within him and destroying his flesh and physique.

While using his powerful body to withstand it, Jiang Heng also took out the Spirit-Devouring Fierce Blade and used the heavenly lightning's power to cleanse the curse within it.

Indeed, cleansing this curse was no simple matter. Yet all powers in this world restrained one another. Aside from sacred light power, heavenly lightning also possessed the ability to destroy all evil.

Bolts of heavenly lightning fell one after another. Wounds began appearing across Jiang Heng's body, his scales shattered, and cracks spread through his flesh and physique, but he did not care in the least.

At this moment, he was doing something insane.

Not only did he want to use the Heavenly Tribulation's power to cleanse the Spirit-Devouring Fierce Blade, he also wanted to fuse it into his Spirit Sea.

More importantly, the reason he was being so reckless and confronting the Heavenly Tribulation head-on was because he wanted to devour a trace of its power—to use Taotie's devouring power to swallow a strand of Heavenly Tribulation.

As long as he succeeded, the road ahead would become much smoother.

"A Soul Beast is undergoing the Fierce Beast Tribulation!"

At the center of the Lake of Life, Di Tian sensed the aura of a powerful Heavenly Tribulation, and his interest was instantly piqued.

He did not care much about an ordinary hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast Heavenly Tribulation, but a Fierce Beast Heavenly Tribulation was entirely different.

One more Fierce Beast meant one more source of strength for Soul Beasts.

Di Tian immediately left the Lake of Life. He wanted to see which Soul Beast was undergoing the tribulation and whether it could succeed.

Di Tian was not the only one interested. Several other Fierce Beasts went along to watch as well.

Bi Ji, Xiong Jun, Scarlet King, and the Auspicious Beast sitting on Scarlet King's back all went to watch the spectacle.

"How could it be him?"

When Di Tian saw that the Soul Beast undergoing the tribulation was the Golden Earth Dragon King, a look of astonishment appeared on his face.

Bi Ji was also somewhat surprised.

Back then, she had helped treat this little fellow's injuries.

With his foundation, it should have been impossible for him to survive the Fierce Beast Tribulation, much less increase his cultivation by one hundred thousand years in only fifty years.

"That defense is impressive. It looks like he has a good chance of surviving the tribulation."

Xiong Jun looked at Jiang Heng, who was undergoing the tribulation, and a fiery gleam appeared in his eyes.

With defense like that, he would not lack a punching bag for fights in the future.

Scarlet King was the most silent instead. He could tell that this fellow undergoing the tribulation did not seem any weaker than him. If Jiang Heng succeeded, Scarlet King's status might drop another level.

Even though Jiang Heng was still one hundred thousand years of cultivation behind him, the strength he displayed was already not the slightest bit inferior to his own.

"This little fellow actually wants to refine and control the power of the Heavenly Tribulation? He's incredibly bold!"

"No, this power... it's Uncle Taotie's bloodline!"

The next instant, Di Tian discovered the key issue, and his eyes immediately lit up.

"No wonder so many Soul Beasts with Golden Bloodlines vanished from the Star Dou Great Forest during that time."

Di Tian quickly figured out the crux of the matter.

If he had guessed correctly, this little fellow's Taotie Bloodline had been obtained from human Soul Masters.

Compared to losing some Soul Beasts with Golden Bloodlines, gaining another two-hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast made Di Tian quite happy.

What puzzled him, however, was that even if this little fellow had devoured some Soul Beasts with Golden Bloodlines from the Star Dou Great Forest, he should not have improved so dramatically.

Under the watchful eyes of the many Fierce Beasts, Jiang Heng successfully survived the Fierce Beast Tribulation.

He officially became a Fierce Beast, and a very powerful one at that.

He was no longer a Golden Earth Dragon King, but a Golden Sacred Dragon.

He was not the Golden Sacred Dragon created by the trinity fusion skill of Yu Xiaogang, Flender, and Liu Erlong.

More accurately, the Golden Sacred Dragon formed by those three was a Radiant Sacred Dragon, whose bloodline originated from the Radiant Sacred Dragon King, one of the Nine Great Primordial Dragon Kings.

As for his Golden Sacred Dragon bloodline, its origins could be traced back to the Golden Sacred Dragon King and the Radiant Sacred Dragon King among the Nine Great Dragon Kings.

The Golden Sacred Dragon King was also known as the Golden Dragon, not the Golden Dragon King that inherited the Dragon God's power and physique.

Rather, it was a Primordial True Dragon created by the Dragon God using his own bloodline. It was the benchmark of the Dragon Clan's power system, positioned as a direct descendant of the Dragon Clan, with strength second only to the Golden Dragon King and Silver Dragon King.

Simply put, the Golden Sacred Dragon King's bloodline came from the Dragon God. It possessed not only the Golden Dragon King's bloodline, but also the Silver Dragon King's bloodline.

It was simply not as pure as theirs.

Of course, he currently only possessed a tiny trace of the Golden Sacred Dragon King's bloodline, gained by relying on Taotie's devouring ability to continuously swallow Golden Bloodlines and fuse them together.

If they were comparing bloodline purity, the Taotie Bloodline he possessed originated from the Earth Dragon King, one of the Nine Great Dragon Kings, and far surpassed that tiny trace of Golden Sacred Dragon King bloodline.

Aside from that, he also possessed a trace of the Radiant Sacred Dragon King's bloodline.

No matter what, he had finally taken the first step toward breaking free of his bloodline shackles.

His bloodline had been further purified, and wings had grown from his back... he had already stepped onto the path of Dragon Transformation.

Moreover, after successfully surviving the tribulation, he fused the Spirit-Devouring Fierce Blade into his Spirit Sea in one stroke and completely refined the Golden Hawksbill Turtle's power. Even though he had just survived the tribulation, he already possessed two hundred and thirty thousand years of cultivation.

Most importantly, he had successfully devoured and refined a trace of the Heavenly Tribulation's power, granting him thirty percent immunity to lightning attributes.

This alone was enough to support him through the three-hundred-thousand-year Fierce Beast Tribulation.

After steadying himself, Jiang Heng looked toward Di Tian and the others in the distance. He knew it was time to lay certain matters bare.