Fierce Beasts Escape the Heavenly Tribulation

After breaking free from Gu Yuena's suffocating embrace, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion gasped wildly. She shot Gu Yuena an annoyed look and complained, "Sister Na'er, were you trying to strangle me to death?"

Gu Yuena wished she could dig out a castle with her toes. She was utterly embarrassed and did not dare look at Ao Zhan.

Ao Zhan smiled and shook his head. "Alright, stop fooling around. I'll first help you obtain Alien Energy, and then you'll be responsible for spreading Alien Energy among the Soul Beasts."

Hearing that they could escape that damned fate, everyone focused intently, including the still-embarrassed Gu Yuena.

Ao Zhan took out the materials again and set up a formation. It was somewhat different from the one he had used for Golden Crocodile and the others.

As he worked, he explained, "The difference between the Soul Beast Clan and human soul masters is that you do not have martial souls. So, you cannot achieve the same effect as humans through an Alien Energy awakening or the cleansing of a martial soul. But that does not mean there is no solution. Your bloodline power will do."

"After Soul Beasts take human form, they can possess martial souls, and those martial souls are their original bodies from when they were Soul Beasts. This is, in truth, the power of bloodlines. Therefore, all that is needed is to cleanse your bloodlines with Alien Energy."

Of course, it was easy to say but difficult to do.

The crucial point was how much the awakening formation needed to be altered. When setting up a formation, even one extra line or one missing line in its patterns could cause failure.

Moreover, the Soul Beast Clan craved Alien Energy even more than humans did, because they faced the fatal threat of the Soul Beast Heavenly Tribulation—especially Soul Beasts like Yuan Lie, who stood only one step away from his tribulation.

This meant that once they possessed Alien Energy, the Soul Power within their bodies also had to be completely replaced by Alien Energy.

This created a greater workload for Ao Zhan, so he put more effort into the formation for Soul Beasts. The formation for humans was weaker; after obtaining Alien Energy, they would still need to keep cultivating until they reached God Level before it could replace their Soul Power.

Of course, that did not mean Soul Beasts were stronger than humans.

After all, human conviction was far stronger than that of Soul Beasts. Furthermore, the Alien Energy within Soul Beasts contained only about as much energy as their former Soul Power. It could not be any greater.

It was precisely because he had to devise these two formations, especially the second one, that Ao Zhan had spent an entire month on them.

Once Ao Zhan had set up the formation, he said to Di Tian and the others, "Who wants to go first? Of course, you can all do it together."

"Can I try?" Gu Yuena asked at that moment.

Strictly speaking, Gu Yuena was not a Soul Beast.

As mentioned before, heaven and earth judged whether a nonhuman creature was a Soul Beast by whether it possessed Soul Power. Gu Yuena possessed divine power, not Soul Power, so she naturally did not count as a Soul Beast.

Ao Zhan raised an eyebrow. "Of course. Whether you possess Soul Power or divine power, it can be cleansed into Alien Energy."

Although Gu Yuena was not technically a Soul Beast because she used divine power rather than Soul Power, Ao Zhan's formation was not designed exclusively for Soul Beasts. Any creature with bloodline power could use it.

It was merely that among nonhuman creatures, only the Soul Beast Clan possessed its own intelligence and convictions.

"Then I'll go first." Gu Yuena moved gracefully into the formation.

Ao Zhan told her to calm her mind, then injected Alien Energy into the formation.

Boom!!!

The formation activated. Countless patterns and runes lit up as motes of light formed from Alien Energy poured into Gu Yuena's body.

Roar!!!

The phantom of the Silver Dragon King's true form appeared behind her and roared toward the sky. A powerful storm, carrying terrifying pressure, swept in every direction.

It had to be said that cleansing Gu Yuena's bloodline power truly required an enormous amount of Alien Energy—more than what Qian Xunji, Golden Crocodile, and the other seven had needed. After all, her strength was simply not something Qian Xunji, Golden Crocodile, and the rest could compare to.

Fortunately, Ao Zhan did not lack Alien Energy at all. He even found the cleansing process too slow and injected an even more outrageous amount of Alien Energy.

If the Alien Energy injected before had been a small stream, then what poured in now was a mighty river surging without end.

This time, it was completed in no time.

Gu Yuena quietly sensed the strange energy that had appeared within her body and completely replaced all her Soul Power.

"So this is Alien Energy?" she asked as she looked at the energy in her hands.

"That's right," Ao Zhan said. "From now on, focus on cultivating Alien Energy. Its potential is far greater than any divine power."

In the Super Beast Armed World, the strong possessed Alien Energy at the level of several Black Holes. Powerful Alien Energy could even distort time, travel through space, and create wormholes.

These were things divine power could never achieve.

Ao Zhan did not believe that the divine power wielded by gods who could be trapped by a mere Black Hole could compare to Alien Energy measured in Black Holes.

Those gods probably could not be so weak that they could not even break down a wall, but asking them to create Black Holes with their bare hands was absolutely impossible.

After awakening Gu Yuena's Alien Energy, Ao Zhan said to Di Tian and the others, "Come over together."

Di Tian and the others did not stand on ceremony. They all transformed into human form and walked in.

However, Yuan Lie and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion did not enter.

Yuan Lie's reason was simple: his body was too large.

Although he was only one step away from becoming a Fierce Beast, he was still not one in the end. He did not possess the ability Fierce Beasts had to freely switch into human form.

As for the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, she simply did not want to squeeze in with Di Tian and the others.

Although her body was tiny compared to Yuan Lie's, she still took up quite a bit of space when standing together with Di Tian and the others.

Once Di Tian and the others had taken their positions, Ao Zhan began injecting Alien Energy into the formation again. The formation erupted with dazzling light as countless motes formed from Alien Energy flooded into Di Tian and the others' bodies.

When the cleansing ended, Di Tian sensed the strange energy within his body. His grin nearly reached his ears, and overflowing with joy, he could not help but burst into wild laughter. "Hahaha!"

Di Tian was now seven hundred and eighty thousand years old, and the Eight-Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Heavenly Tribulation was about to descend.

Although he had indeed survived it in the original story, overcoming a Soul Beast Heavenly Tribulation of that level required an enormous price.

For the current Di Tian, even with a divine skill like the Dragon God Claw, he did not have much confidence in surviving the Eight-Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Heavenly Tribulation.

But now things were different. He no longer needed to worry about that damned Soul Beast Heavenly Tribulation striking down upon him!

However, Di Tian quickly calmed himself and led the Fierce Beasts in cupping their hands toward Ao Zhan. "Many thanks to Lord Dragon Venerable for granting us new life!"

"It's nothing. Since you all have Alien Energy now, the spread of Alien Energy among the Soul Beasts will be up to you in the future. I already demonstrated the specific method just now. You can reproduce this formation and spread it throughout the entire Star Dou Forest," Ao Zhan said to these Star Dou Overlords.

As the overlords of the Star Dou Forest, the Fierce Beasts held absolute status, and Di Tian's orders were even more absolute. Having them spread Alien Energy would definitely yield twice the result with half the effort, and it would certainly be faster than on Spirit Hall's side.

Moreover, if Ao Zhan remembered correctly, Ten Thousand Demon King's roots seemed to spread throughout the entire Star Dou Forest. With his help, it would not take long for every Soul Beast in the Star Dou Forest to possess Alien Energy.