What Is This Place?! (Patrick Star)

["Could it be... that the entire forest had been flattened?"

He clenched his fist, feeling the power flowing through his body, and secretly let out a breath of relief.

His strength was still there.

Having lived for eight hundred thousand years and fought countless life-and-death battles, the thing that had always reassured him most was his own strength.

As long as he still had strength, even if he was trapped in this absurd desert, he was confident he could break out.

Speaking of strength, he immediately recalled the sensation before he had fallen unconscious, as though an invisible giant hand had gripped him and left him completely unable to move.

He had never experienced such helplessness before.

Wariness flashed through Di Tian's eyes.

"Could that have been the power of the Dragon Vein?"

He took a deep breath and suppressed the lingering fear in his heart. His golden dragon eyes began to survey his surroundings.

No matter where this was, and no matter what the human called Wu Wei was plotting.

The most urgent task was to find out where he was and leave this desert.

Di Tian turned toward one direction.

The next instant, his body abruptly expanded, transforming into a colossal black dragon that blotted out the sky.

With a beat of his wings, he kicked up sand that filled the heavens and shot away in one direction.

First, he had to return to the Star Dou Great Forest.

As for that Wu Wei, he had better become a god before I caught him, otherwise...

Di Tian did not continue that thought, but his eyes were filled with killing intent.]

The image on the Sky Screen continuously shifted along with Di Tian.

[Desert, desert, and still desert.

Di Tian flew over one sand dune after another, yet the scenery around him did not change in the slightest.

There was nothing but sand.

Time passed bit by bit.

Di Tian's brow furrowed tighter and tighter.

He changed direction and flew another way.

Still desert.

He changed directions again.

It was still desert.

No matter which way he flew, no matter how fast he flew, the scenery around him remained exactly the same.

The shapes of those dunes seemed identical, and there was nothing that could serve as a landmark.

Di Tian looked up at the sun hanging high in the sky, and the confusion in his eyes deepened.

What was going on?

Was there such a vast desert on the continent?

His footsteps might not have covered the entire Douluo Planet, but they had at least covered all of Douluo Continent. Yet he had never seen such a boundless desert.

He had visited the Star Dou Great Forest, the Ice Sea, the Far North... but those places were completely different from this one.

Even stranger was the sun here.

Di Tian stared at that sun, his pupils contracting slightly.

This sun... why had it not changed at all?

Though there were no landmarks, his own senses were exceptionally sharp, and he knew he had been flying for quite some time.

After so long, the sun's position should have noticeably changed.

Yet it still hung directly overhead, utterly motionless.

Di Tian gritted his teeth, a vicious glint flashing through his dragon eyes.

He abruptly turned and continued flying in another direction.

He refused to believe this desert had no end.

Some more time passed.

The scenery around him remained unchanged.

Sand dunes, sand dunes, and still sand dunes.

That sun still hung directly overhead, showing no sign of moving.

Di Tian's patience was finally exhausted.

"Roar!!!"

An earth-shaking dragon roar erupted from the depths of Di Tian's throat, venting the rage in his heart.

He suddenly halted in midair and swiped a dragon claw. A terrifying wave of energy blasted toward the yellow sand below.

"Boom!!!"

With a thunderous explosion, sand soared into the sky, and a massive crater appeared in the ground.

Dust and sand filled the air, blotting out the sun.

But once the dust settled, the crater was filled by the surrounding loose sand within a few breaths. Everything returned to normal, as though nothing had happened.

Di Tian's expression darkened further.

He opened his dragon maw, and terrifying energy rapidly condensed within it, forming a dazzling ball of light that he hurled toward the ground.

"Rumble!!"

An even fiercer explosion erupted across the desert. Shockwaves spread in every direction, raising waves of sand dozens of meters high.

The dunes were flattened, only for new dunes to form.

Massive craters were blasted open, only for the loose sand to fill them again.

Di Tian's breathing became hurried.

He continuously unleashed soul skills, wave after wave of terrifying energy blasting in all directions and turning the desert upside down.

Every attack was enough to leave a Limit Douluo badly battered.

Yet even after the Soul Power in his body was nearly depleted, nothing around him had changed.

Di Tian finally stopped.

He panted heavily as his body reverted from a giant dragon to human form.

His Soul Power had been completely drained. He no longer had the strength to remain airborne, and he fell from the sky, crashing heavily into the yellow sand.

Di Tian lay sprawled on the sand, gasping for breath.

Without Soul Power shielding him, the scorching sun beat directly upon him. The heat sent sweat streaming down his cheeks.

He wiped the sweat from his face, raised his head, and looked around.

Hoping to find something other than sand.

But there was still nothing.

Di Tian stretched out both hands and slammed them into the ground, throwing back his head in a long howl.

"What is this place?!"

"What is this place!!!" (Patrick Star)]

Outside the Sky Screen, in the Core Area of the Star Dou Great Forest.

Bi Ji looked up at the unhinged, collapsing figure on the Sky Screen, then secretly glanced at Di Tian beside her.

Di Tian stood there with his hands behind his back and a blank expression, but his right eyelid twitched slightly. He was clearly doing his utmost to maintain his dignified bearing.

The contrast made Bi Ji laugh softly without realizing it.

Di Tian raised an eyebrow.

He closed his eyes and slowly turned around, presenting his back to Bi Ji with an expression of utter unwillingness to look.

If any ordinary soul beast or human had dared mock him like this, he would have shown them the majesty of the Beast God.

The Beast God was not merely a title.

But the one laughing was Bi Ji.

Among all the soul beasts of the Star Dou Great Forest, she was probably the only one who dared do this to his face.

A little farther away, Xiong Jun, Scarlet King, and the Star Dou Great Forest's imperial Auspicious Beast, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, were gathered together.

Xiong Jun watched the disheveled Di Tian on the Sky Screen, and the corners of his mouth unconsciously split into a grin.

"Ha ha, I never thought he would have a day like this, huh?"

Xiong Jun lowered his voice as he spoke to Scarlet King beside him, his tone filled with undisguised gloating.

He had always coveted Di Tian's position as Beast God and had challenged Di Tian many times.

However, because the gap in their cultivation was too great, every attempt had ended in crushing defeat.

Moreover, those so-called "challenges" were merely Xiong Jun's one-sided notion of a "challenge."

One had over four hundred thousand years of cultivation, while the other had over eight hundred thousand.

The enormous gap in strength made Di Tian feel that this was nothing more than a somewhat mischievous subordinate making a fuss.

Scarlet King had just opened his mouth to respond when he caught sight of a black figure silently approaching from the corner of his eye.

Only then did he realize that they had become so engrossed in watching the Sky Screen that they had completely forgotten they were still beside the Lake of Life.

And Di Tian had somehow already arrived behind Xiong Jun.

Scarlet King's smile instantly froze on his face.

Watching the increasingly dangerous look in Di Tian's eyes, his eyes darted about as he came up with an idea in desperation.

"Xiong Jun, I have no idea what you are talking about."

Scarlet King said with a solemn expression.

"I'm taking the Auspicious Beast to eat now. You can handle this yourself!"

Before his words had even faded, Scarlet King grabbed the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and ran into the distant forest as though fleeing for his life.