I Just Reincarnated, and a Heavenly Tribulation Hit! Evolution: A 200,000-Year Poison Dragon! (Please Collect!)

Sunset Forest's core area.

Scorched earth stretched in every direction.

The air was thick with the pungent smell of sulfur and the stench of charred flesh.

The towering ancient trees that had once stood lush and green were now reduced to a few smoldering stumps.

In the center of the enormous crater, a massive body lay curled up in silence, so huge it was suffocating to behold.

"Cough... cough, cough..."

Yu Nan felt as if his soul had been tossed into a washing machine and spun around hundreds of times, then shoved into a tattered burlap sack.

A searing pain shot through every nerve ending, making Yu Nan want to curse.

But he quickly realized that he was still alive!

"Heavens, are you messing with me?

I just transmigrated, and you're already hitting me with a sucker punch?"

Yu Nan grumbled inwardly.

He had only just transmigrated into the body of this nineteen-hundred-thousand-year-old Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor, who had been asleep for a century.

He hadn't even had time to adjust to this powerful beastly body, let alone stretch.

Then the 200,000-year lightning tribulation came crashing down.

It had been a truly catastrophic trial, one he'd barely survived.

But luckily, Yu Nan wasn't destined to die!

As his awareness gradually cleared,

Yu Nan was delighted to discover that although his body felt as if it were about to fall apart,

the bloodline within him was undergoing a drastic transformation.

The cold, sinister aura that belonged to a snake was fading, replaced by a majestic, overbearing presence as brilliant as the blazing sun.

Yu Nan struggled to open his heavy eyelids.

What came into view was no longer the emerald-green scales he'd had before, but layer upon layer of indestructible dragon scales, woven in purple and gold!

A pair of imposing dragon horns had sprouted from his once-bare head.

Five powerful claws had grown beneath his belly as well.

"Did I... turn into a dragon?!"

Yu Nan was overjoyed, and his earlier complaints vanished in an instant.

This wasn't some lesser dragon species with a trace of diluted dragon blood. This was a genuine True Dragon!

Not only had he survived a heavenly tribulation that should have killed him,

he'd used the opportunity to fully awaken the ancient bloodline hidden within him, rising from a Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor to evolve into the legendary venom-aspected True Dragon!

"Having survived a great calamity, I'm bound to enjoy great fortune!

The ancients didn't lie!"

Yu Nan felt the dragon power within him—though faint, it was of the highest quality—and his heart swelled with ambition.

Given time to recover, with this True Dragon body, even the Ferocious Beasts in the depths of Star Dou Forest...

Well, even the weakest of them, the Scarlet King—

He'd dare take him on!

But just as Yu Nan was about to circulate his Soul Power and repair his dragon body,

an extremely familiar fluctuation of Soul Power suddenly entered his perception.

There were two human auras.

One strong, one weak.

The stronger aura was cold and overbearing, with a strong stench of venom. Its Soul Power was as deep as an abyss.

The weaker aura was still immature, but came from the same source as the stronger one.

Most importantly, both auras carried a scent Yu Nan knew all too well—

Deadly poison!

"Human Soul Masters?

And poison-aspected Titled Douluo?"

Was it Dugu Bo?

Yu Nan's heart lurched, and a powerful sense of unease welled up within him.

Under normal circumstances, or even if they'd come just a little later,

once he'd caught his breath,

with the might of a True Dragon, he could have swatted ordinary Soul Masters into a pulp with one claw. Even a Titled Douluo wouldn't have stood a chance.

He would have crushed them with ease.

But they'd come now!

Right after he'd survived the heavenly tribulation, with his scales shattered and his Soul Power exhausted,

when he could barely move a finger!

"Damn it!

Could my luck get any worse?"

Yu Nan groaned inwardly, his joy at evolving instantly wiped away.

Through the drifting smoke, Yu Nan could make out two figures, one old and one young, cautiously making their way toward the center of the crater.

They were Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan.

Dugu Bo's face was wary and greedy.

Clearly, the commotion from the heavenly tribulation and Yu Nan's final scream had drawn him here, hoping to scavenge some spoils!

"Out of the frying pan and into the wolf's den..."

As the figures drew closer, Yu Nan's body, with barely a sliver of health left, trembled slightly in the scorched earth.

Run?

His body was charred black and immobile. He'd be dead the moment he hit the ground.

Fight?

He had only a single drop of health left.

Even against Dugu Bo, the "Titled Douluo floor tile," it would be no different from throwing his life away!

Had he really transmigrated into a True Dragon only to be killed and have his bones taken?

Dugu Bo was already a Titled Douluo.

But that didn't mean he wouldn't want a 200,000-year Soul Bone!

Dugu Bo's expression was tense.

His emerald eyes gleamed with greed.

Dugu Bo kept one hand firmly in front of Dugu Yan, shielding her, while Soul Power surged around him and raised a barrier of green poisonous mist.

It kept the lingering force of the lightning at bay.

"Grandpa, what... what level of Soul Beast was undergoing its tribulation?

That pressure... I felt like it was even more terrifying than facing the head of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan."

Dugu Yan's pretty face was deathly pale, and her voice trembled.

"This definitely wasn't an ordinary Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast."

Dugu Bo stared fixedly at the crater's smoke-shrouded center. His Adam's apple bobbed with difficulty before he said gravely:

"According to the ancient texts passed down by our family, only Ferocious Beasts with cultivation of over 100,000 years draw down heavenly lightning for a cleansing every 100,000 years.

The commotion just now blocked out the sun with thunderclouds and even silenced every beast in Sunset Forest...

That Soul Beast must have been undergoing a 200,000-year tribulation!"

Dugu Bo didn't know why a Ferocious Beast with 200,000 years of cultivation had suddenly appeared in Sunset Forest.

But now was no time to wonder.

Two hundred thousand years!

Dugu Yan sucked in a sharp breath and covered her mouth.

Dugu Bo's heart was in even greater turmoil.

If this Ferocious Beast had been at full strength, then even if it had only just survived the tribulation and was still breathing,

he wouldn't have dared approach it, not even if he had ten times the courage.

He would have tucked his tail between his legs and fled as far as he could.

After all, a 200,000-year Ferocious Beast was a terrifying existence comparable to a human Limit Douluo at level 98 or even 99!

Killing him, a "Titled Douluo floor tile," would be no harder than crushing an ant.

"But..."

Green light flickered in Dugu Bo's eyes.

His mind kept replaying the scene from before the lightning tribulation dissipated—

that final, piercing scream, filled with despair.

"Fortune favors the bold!"

Dugu Bo thought to himself.

The voice had sounded extremely weak. It was clearly a sign that the creature had failed its tribulation, or else was gravely wounded and on the verge of death!

If he could hunt down this peerless Ferocious Beast while it was dying...

He wouldn't be able to absorb its 200,000-year Soul Ring.

But the Soul Bone it was bound to drop would be absolutely priceless!