Chu Feng: "..."
Asura God, why don't you take a look at what you just sent me?
Chu Feng was truly speechless.
Di Tian was the strongest beneath the gods, with unmatched power.
With a single Dragon God Claw, he could defeat any opponent below the god level.
To make Chu Feng subdue him and learn about the Silver Dragon King behind him—the Asura God clearly thought far too highly of a mere Titled Douluo.
This task was so difficult that even the Asura God himself couldn't complete it.
Even if he could overpower Di Tian, Di Tian was so loyal that he would never betray the Silver Dragon King.
And Chu Feng had something else to complain about.
The reward was far too meager.
For a task this difficult, it wouldn't be unreasonable to raise all his Spirit Rings to the Hundred-Thousand-Year level!
Chu Feng's gaze grew slightly more profound.
The Asura God Trial seemed casually assigned, as if the Asura God had acted on a whim.
But it was also revealing something to Chu Feng.
The Asura God had been watching him all along!
He knew exactly what was happening around Chu Feng.
Chu Feng couldn't help feeling a chill as he thought it through.
So the reason the Sky Azure Bull Python's Spirit Ring had been so large was that the Asura God had intervened.
And just moments ago, at the last second, Chu Feng's absorption of the Spirit Ring had suddenly sped up for no apparent reason.
The Asura God had probably intervened in that, too.
And this time, Chu Feng had guessed correctly.
The Asura God really had been watching him the entire time, secretly protecting him throughout.
After all, he'd finally found such an outstanding successor!
His previous successor had met with disaster during the Seventh Trial of the Nine Trials of Asura because the Asura God had failed to pay enough attention to him. The Rakshasa God had manipulated events, letting the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King take advantage of the situation and turn the successor into its puppet.
Now that the Asura God had finally found another outstanding successor, he would never let him suffer the same fate.
So when he bestowed the Asura inheritance upon Chu Feng, he left a trace of Asura Divine Sense on him.
This Asura Divine Sense allowed him to keep track of Chu Feng's movements and condition in real time.
If anything unexpected happened to Chu Feng, or if he was in danger, the Asura God could secretly intervene through the divine sense.
He hadn't expected that, before he even needed to act, Chu Feng would give him such a delightful surprise.
As a Quasi-Title Douluo, Chu Feng had actually killed the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Sky Azure Bull Python with a single spear thrust.
What he hadn't expected was that an even greater surprise would follow.
Chu Feng had unexpectedly drawn out a big fish.
Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King Di Tian had once been the Dragon God's chief guard. During the war in the Divine Realm, he had vanished along with the Silver Dragon King, the other half of the Dragon God's avatar.
As the Dragon God's chief guard, Di Tian was bound to know where the Silver Dragon King was.
Perhaps he could find the Silver Dragon King's whereabouts through him.
That would finally eliminate the threat left behind by the Dragon God.
The Douluo God Realm was already well balanced. Evil and Goodness stood together, as did Destruction and Life, while he, an old bachelor, maintained absolute neutrality. There was no need for a Supreme Dragon God.
The emergence of a Supreme Dragon God would bring no benefit. It would only upset the balance.
And after enjoying the supreme authority of a God King, the Asura God now had no desire to see the Dragon God revived.
The Dragon God was better left buried in the past forever.
As Chu Feng marveled at the difficulty of this Asura God Trial, the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King emerged from the lake and appeared atop Lake of Life.
Di Tian had already shed his dragon form and transformed into a human.
He stood calmly on the water, facing Chu Feng and Qian Renxue.
"Whoosh!"
With a whoosh, several dark figures shot up from the lake and lined up neatly on either side of Di Tian.
Two women stood beside Di Tian.
One wore green, the other purple. In human form, they were both strikingly beautiful.
They had completely different styles: one was serene, while the other had a fiery figure.
Not only were their figures different, but their personalities were opposites, too.
One was as passionate as fire, the other as gentle as flowing water.
On their sides stood the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear King, the Scarlet King, the Ten Thousand Demon King, and the Demon Spirit.
They arranged themselves above the lake in a formation like geese flying south.
Di Tian stood at the front.
He drew in the dangerous energy around him, and his aura became calm.
From a distance, he looked like an ordinary middle-aged man.
Di Tian had deliberately suppressed his aura, and Xiong Jun and the others followed suit, hiding their own auras until they seemed entirely harmless. They stood calmly beside him on Lake of Life.
But how could ordinary people with no dangerous aura stand suspended above the lake?
"Human, what did you just see?" Di Tian stared at Chu Feng and Qian Renxue, who were in their Etherealization states. Knowing he couldn't do anything to them, he changed tack and demanded an answer.
At the same time, he searched for a way to counter Etherealization.
Di Tian racked his brain, but couldn't come up with a single way to deal with it.
Etherealization was simply absurdly powerful, completely impossible to counter.
As long as it had no restrictions, it made its user invincible in defense.
Even the most troublesome mental attacks were useless against them.
Di Tian thought it over carefully.
Could the Sky-Rending Claw, which wielded spatial power, pass through space, strike at the essence of things, and injure Chu Feng while he was ethereal?
But he quickly dismissed the idea.
Etherealization was not as simple as dodging, nor was it a spatial evasion technique. It didn't matter if he wielded spatial power—even time-based power couldn't hurt his opponent.
Once someone became ethereal, every attack would pass harmlessly through them.
There was nothing he could do to them, so Di Tian wasn't in a hurry to attack.
Besides, he had come here for the Gold of Life in the first place, to warn them that it wasn't something they could covet.
The Gold of Life was the root of Lake of Life.
Without it, Lake of Life would lose its reason to exist.
"Human, the Gold of Life is the root of Lake of Life. All the life energy in the lake comes from the Gold of Life.
And we cultivate here in seclusion. We won't allow anyone to do anything that would damage Lake of Life."
"So, human, you'd better forget about it!"
After a pause, Di Tian realized his words weren't convincing at all.
They sounded weak, as if he hadn't eaten. His opponent would surely let them go in one ear and out the other.
His voice immediately turned cold.
"Your skill lets you evade all damage through its mysteries, so for now, we can't do anything to you.
But don't celebrate too soon.
If you really try to take the Gold of Life from the lake, we'll hunt you down to the ends of the earth!"
"Boss, why waste so much time talking to him? Just strike and kill him!"
Xiong Jun, the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, was a natural hothead. There was no way he'd bother talking so much to Chu Feng.
He had never faced Chu Feng's Etherealization and didn't understand how mysterious the skill was.
To him, Etherealization was simply a technique for evading attacks through space.
Since it was a spatial evasion technique, they could just use spatial methods to counter it!
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