A 100,000-Year-Old Bright Phoenix, Ultimate Light and Fire! Huang Yan: If Spirit Beasts Can't Become Gods, Then I'll Take Over a Body!

Sunset Forest, Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.

Suspended in midair directly above where the two springs met was a gigantic cocoon, wrapped in elemental energy of the Ultimate Light and Ultimate Fire Attributes.

"Crack—"

A cracking sound rang out.

The next instant, a dazzling golden pillar of light shot into the sky.

"Caw—!"

Accompanied by a phoenix cry, the cocoon of light exploded!

A divine bird with a wingspan of more than ten meters spread its feathers and soared straight into the heavens!

The Ultimate Light drove away the gloom around it, while the Ultimate Fire made the surrounding space ripple and distort.

The terrifying pressure of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast swept outward like a tsunami.

Every Spirit Beast within a hundred miles trembled in fear.

The terror buried deep in their blood made them all bow toward the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.

In midair, the Bright Phoenix spread its wings and circled through the sky.

Its phoenix eyes brimmed with joy!

"A hundred thousand years of cultivation... I've finally reached a hundred thousand years!"

Huang Yan's heart surged with emotion.

Looking back on the past felt like looking back on another life.

A thousand years ago, Huang Yan had crossed over to Douluo.

When his consciousness awakened, he discovered that he had become a gigantic egg, which had just happened to land where the energies of the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well converged.

(Note: When the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings fell, they happened to bring a divine beast's egg down from the Divine Realm.)

Thanks to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and its uniquely abundant spiritual energy,

Huang Yan had successfully hatched, only to discover that he belonged to the Bright Phoenix species!

The name might sound unfamiliar.

But it was actually the Martial Soul of Yan Shaozhe and Ye Xishui in Douluo II!

His bloodline was extraordinary. He possessed both Ultimate Light and Ultimate Fire—the two Ultimate Attributes!

An ordinary Spirit Beast had to endure a long, tedious hundred thousand years to reach that level of cultivation.

All the while, it also had to face countless natural predators and the suppression of the laws of nature.

But Huang Yan had managed to drastically compress those long hundred thousand years, relying on the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and his own bloodline, which stood above all others.

From being reborn as an egg to spreading his wings and taking flight, he had needed only a thousand years.

He had crossed an insurmountable gulf that countless Spirit Beasts could only dream of, and successfully reached the pinnacle of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast!

In this era,

even an ordinary Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast possessed the combat strength of a Super Douluo!

Let alone Huang Yan.

Once he had calmed down, Huang Yan fell into thought.

"I need to figure out exactly where I am on the timeline."

As he spoke, Huang Yan turned and transformed into human form!

"I can't believe it. My cultivation is only at a hundred thousand years, yet I can walk around in human form, just like a Ferocious Beast!"

Huang Yan examined himself and nodded with satisfaction.

This was a talent he had only comprehended after breaking through to a hundred thousand years of cultivation.

Huang Yan was surprised, but it also made sense to him.

After all, Xiao Bai, the Demon Soul Great White Shark who guarded the entrance to Sea God Island, could take human form.

For a dignified Bright Phoenix like him to take human form was perfectly reasonable, right?

Huang Yan immediately headed out of Sunset Forest.

Before long, he learned the current timeline from several Soul Masters who had entered Sunset Forest to hunt for Spirit Rings.

Twelve years ago, after the Clear Sky Douluo, Tang Hao, had gravely wounded Qian Xunji,

Qian Xunji had "died of his unhealed injuries."

He could draw the conclusion right away.

"That means Tang San is exactly twelve years old this year!"

Huang Yan returned to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and murmured to himself.

"Twelve years old... The Shrek Seven Devils haven't officially assembled yet. It's all only just beginning."

Huang Yan took a deep breath, and suddenly everything became clear.

He abruptly realized that this era was the best possible one for him.

It was also the only era in which he could defy fate and change his destiny!

Because Huang Yan understood better than anyone else

that if he waited too long, until Tang San had truly matured and even inherited Dual Godhood to ascend to the Divine Realm,

the good days of the entire Soul Beast Clan would be over for good!

As a transmigrator, he knew all too well where the future of Douluo Continent was headed.

In the eras of Douluo II, Douluo III, and even those much further ahead, the Spirit Beasts' situation would only grow worse.

They would be hunted down in droves by humans, their living space constantly squeezed smaller, until Star Dou Great Forest was destroyed and they were on the brink of extinction.

Eventually, they would even be forced to become humans' "Soul Spirits"...

The Spirit Beasts that had once ruled the continent would ultimately sink into ruin, generation after generation at the mercy of others, reduced to resources and appendages kept by humans!

At the thought, an unyielding chill flashed through Huang Yan's eyes.

He knew that he really only had two choices.

Either he could hide deep in the mountains, like those Ferocious Beasts in the original story, and become a cowardly turtle who wanted nothing to do with the world.

But what would happen then?

Once Tang San became a lofty God King in the future,

with Huang Yan's exceptional bloodline as a hundred-thousand-year Bright Phoenix, there was no way he could stay out of it.

By then, either the Divine Realm would forcibly issue a divine decree and brand him as a slave,

leashing him like a dog beside the Divine Realm or the Tang Family, walking him around for amusement and making him guard the door.

Or he would become an extraordinarily valuable target for those so-called children of destiny and the powerful figures of the Divine Realm.

They would hunt him down without mercy, skin him and tear out his tendons, turning him into a ten-thousand-year red Spirit Ring and an exceptional Spirit Bone to show off on someone else's body!

How could Huang Yan possibly accept such a humiliating fate?!

"So I have only one other choice."

Huang Yan clenched his fists, his knuckles cracking sharply, as golden holy fire blazed in his eyes.

"I'll risk everything in this era!"

"As long as I seize the advantage in this era, ascend to the Divine Realm, and attain the supreme godhood, then everything—including the rules and fate—can be dealt with!"

But...

After his lofty ambitions came a harsh, fatal truth that doused Huang Yan's heart like icy water.

Spirit Beasts could not become gods.

After the Dragon God War, the God Realm Committee had issued a ban, completely severing the path for the beast race to ascend to the Divine Realm.

(Note: We know this was the Dragon God's choice, but the God Realm Committee carried it out.)

No matter how powerful he became, as long as he remained in a Spirit Beast's body, he would never be able to take that final step.

Just as Huang Yan was overcome with frustration, a flash of inspiration struck his mind like lightning.

Huang Yan jolted awake, his breathing suddenly quickening.

Wait!

Although my current body is that of a hundred-thousand-year Bright Phoenix...

At my core, I'm a transmigrator!

My soul has been purely human from the very beginning!

"Even though my body is a Spirit Beast's, my soul is human!"

As he thought this, Huang Yan couldn't help growing excited.

"If that's the case, why don't I get a human body?"

Huang Yan immediately thought of someone in this era who had been possessed:

Tang Chen!

Tang Chen had been tricked by the Rakshasa God in the Capital of Killing.

Then the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King had parasitized him.

Now he was still in the Capital of Killing, "cosplaying" as the King of Killing.

It was a truly tragic fate.

Taking the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King as an example,

Huang Yan came up with a solution.

Possession!

A human soul plus a human body.

Wouldn't that make him a pure-blooded human?