Just Reincarnated, Heavenly Tribulation Arrives! Evolve, 200,000-Year Poison Dragon! (Seeking Collection!)

Core area of the Sunset Forest.

Scorched earth stretched in every direction.

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

The towering, lush ancient trees that once stood here were now reduced to nothing more than a few smoking, withered stumps.

In the center of a massive crater, a body so gargantuan it was suffocating lay quietly curled up.

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

Yu Nan felt as if his soul had been tossed into a washing machine, spun violently for hundreds of rounds, and then stuffed into a tattered burlap sack.

Excruciating pain radiated from every nerve ending, making Yu Nan want to curse out loud.

But Yu Nan quickly realized: he was still alive!

"Heaven, are you messing with me?

I just transmigrated, and you hit me with a club right out of the gate?"

Yu Nan grumbled inwardly.

He had just transmigrated into this 190,000-year-old Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor that had been slumbering for a century.

Before he could even adapt to this formidable beast body, or even stretch his back, the 200,000-year lightning tribulation had struck.

It was a true catastrophe, a near-death experience.

But fortunately, his life was not meant to end here!

As his consciousness gradually cleared.

Yu Nan discovered with pleasant surprise that although his body felt like it was falling apart, the bloodline within him was undergoing a heaven-defying transformation.

The cold, sinister aura that originally belonged to a serpent was receding, replaced by a majesty and dominance as brilliant as the midday sun.

Yu Nan struggled to open his heavy eyelids.

What met his eyes were no longer the emerald green serpent scales from before, but layers of indestructible, interwoven purple-gold dragon scales!

On his previously bald head, a pair of imposing dragon horns had sprouted.

Beneath his belly, powerful, vigorous five-clawed limbs had emerged.

"This is... a dragon transformation?!"

Yu Nan was ecstatic, his earlier complaints vanishing in an instant.

This was no mere sub-dragon species with a thin trace of dragon blood, but a genuine, authentic True Dragon!

He had not only survived the certain-death heavenly tribulation.

He had also seized the opportunity to fully activate the ancient bloodline hidden within him, ascending in a single step from a Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor to a legendary poison-attribute True Dragon!

"Those who survive a great disaster are destined for future fortune!

The ancients did not deceive me!"

Feeling the dragon power within him—weak, yet of an incredibly high quality—Yu Nan felt a surge of heroic spirit.

As long as he was given time to recover, relying on this True Dragon body, even those few fierce beasts in the depths of the Star Dou Forest...

Well, at least the weakest among them, the Scarlet King.

He would dare to challenge him!

However, just as Yu Nan was preparing to circulate his soul power to repair his dragon body.

An extremely familiar fluctuation of soul power suddenly intruded into his sensory range.

They were the auras of two humans.

One strong, one weak.

The strong aura was cold, domineering, and carried a thick, fishy stench, with soul power as deep as an abyss.

The weak one, while immature, originated from the same source as the former.

Most crucially, both of these auras carried a scent that was incredibly familiar to Yu Nan—

Deadly poison!

"Human soul masters?

And a poison-attribute Title Douluo at that?"

Is it Dugu Bo?

Yu Nan's heart skipped a beat, and a strong sense of unease welled up within him.

If this were any other time, or even just an hour or two later.

Once he had caught his breath.

Relying on the might of a True Dragon, let alone ordinary Spirit Masters, even a Title Douluo arriving in person could be swatted into a pulp by a single claw of his.

Easily crushed.

Yet it just had to be now!

It just had to be right after he had survived the Heavenly Tribulation, with his scales shattered and his spirit power completely exhausted.

He was in a period of extreme weakness where even moving a single finger was a struggle!

"Damn it!

This luck is just too rotten!"

Yu Nan cried out in his heart, the joy of his evolution instantly vanishing into thin air.

Through the swirling dust and smoke, Yu Nan vaguely saw two figures, one old and one young, cautiously creeping toward the center of the crater.

It was none other than Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan.

Dugu Bo's face was a mask of greed and vigilance.

Clearly, they had been drawn here by the commotion of the Heavenly Tribulation and his final miserable shriek, hoping to scavenge the spoils!

"Just escaped the tiger's den, only to fall into a wolf's lair..."

Watching those figures draw closer, Yu Nan's body, which had only a sliver of health remaining, trembled slightly amidst the scorched earth.

Run?

Charred black and unable to move, he would be dead on arrival.

Fight?

His health bar was down to a single drop.

Even facing Dugu Bo, the "floor tile of Title Douluos," it was no different from courting death!

Could it be that having just transmigrated into a True Dragon, he was about to be killed for his bones?

Although Dugu Bo was already a Title Douluo.

That did not mean Dugu Bo wouldn't want a 200,000-year-old spirit bone!

Dugu Bo's expression was taut.

His emerald eyes were filled with greed.

Dugu Bo kept one hand firmly shielding Dugu Yan behind him, his spirit power surging to manifest a barrier of emerald poison mist.

He kept the residual power of the lightning at bay.

"Grandfather, what... what level of spirit beast is undergoing tribulation?

That pressure, I feel it's even more terrifying than facing the patriarch of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan."

Dugu Yan's pretty face was deathly pale, her voice trembling slightly.

"This is definitely not an ordinary ten-thousand-year spirit beast."

Dugu Bo stared fixedly at the center of the dust-filled crater, his Adam's apple bobbing with difficulty as he spoke in a low voice:

"According to the ancient records passed down in the family, only fierce beasts that have reached a cultivation of over one hundred thousand years will attract a baptism of heavenly lightning every hundred thousand years.

The commotion just now, with thunderclouds blotting out the sun and causing all beasts in the Sunset Forest to fall silent...

The cultivation of this spirit beast is likely undergoing a two-hundred-thousand-year great tribulation!"

Although Dugu Bo was also unclear.

Why a fierce beast with 200,000 years of cultivation would suddenly appear in the Sunset Forest.

But he had no time to think about that now.

Two hundred thousand years!

Dugu Yan gasped, covering her small mouth.

Dugu Bo's heart was churning with stormy waves.

If this fierce beast were in its prime, even if it had just succeeded in its tribulation and its aura still lingered.

Even if he were given ten times the courage, Dugu Bo would never dare to step within half a mile.

He would have tucked his tail and run as far as he could.

After all, a 200,000-year-old fierce beast was a terrifying existence comparable to a human 98th or even 99th-rank Limit Douluo!

Killing him, this "floor tile of Title Douluos," would be no different from crushing an ant.

"However..."

The green light in Dugu Bo's eyes flickered uncertainly.

His mind kept echoing with that final, extremely shrill, and desperate scream from before the lightning tribulation dissipated.

"Wealth and glory are found in the midst of danger!"

Dugu Bo thought to himself.

The voice sounded weak to the extreme, clearly a sign of a failed tribulation or someone on the verge of death from grave injuries!

If he could take advantage of this peerless beast's dying moments to hunt it down...

He could not absorb a two-hundred-thousand-year spirit ring.

But the spirit bone that would inevitably drop would be an absolute, priceless treasure!