Di Tian Questions His Heart (I)

"What's strange? What do you mean, 'we'll see'?"

Xiong Jun scratched his head, looking in the direction Scarlet King had vanished, his face full of confusion.

"I think Scarlet King was talking about me."

Di Tian's calm voice came from behind him.

Xiong Jun froze on the spot.

He slowly turned around. When he fully saw Di Tian's expressionless face, the last shred of hope in his heart died.

He finally understood why Scarlet King had run away.

What a damn dog!

Xiong Jun cursed inwardly.

He wished he could curse Scarlet King's ancestors for eighteen generations.

Di Tian had shown up, and Scarlet King hadn't even warned him!

"Xiong Jun."

Di Tian stood with his hands behind his back, his golden dragon eyes fixed on Xiong Jun.

"It has been a long time since we sparred. I wonder whether you have improved at all."

He slowly spoke the words that made Xiong Jun's heart tremble.

Xiong Jun's expression instantly turned ugly, and he hurriedly waved his hands.

"No, Di Tian, you misheard. I didn't just—"

He frantically tried to explain, but before he could finish, Di Tian cut him off.

"Enough nonsense!"

"Dragon God Claw!"

"Bang!!"

"Aah!!!"

With a dull thud, Xiong Jun flew backward like a kite with a broken string, crashing into the distant forest.

Bi Ji stood to the side, watching the scene. She shook her head helplessly, yet a faint smile still lingered on her lips.

She understood Di Tian too well.

To outsiders, it looked as though the Beast God was teaching an overconfident subordinate a lesson.

But she knew Di Tian was merely using the opportunity to vent the embarrassment brought on by that scene in the Sky Screen.

As for Xiong Jun...

Bi Ji glanced in the direction Xiong Jun had been sent flying, sympathy flickering in her eyes.

After taking that hit, he should behave himself for a while.

In the forest, Xiong Jun staggered to his feet. Di Tian had held back with that Dragon God Claw, so he had suffered only superficial injuries.

Forget it.

Xiong Jun glanced toward Lake of Life, silently turned around, and limped away into the distance.

A wise bear did not fight a dragon.

Once he was strong enough, he would definitely pin Di Tian beneath him...

And fight.

[Within the Sky Screen, Di Tian stood dazedly staring up at the sun.

Before he realized it, the sun had begun to split into overlapping images before his eyes.

Halos spread outward layer by layer, growing larger and brighter until his entire field of vision was engulfed in blinding white light.

Hm?!

What was happening?!

Di Tian instinctively narrowed his eyes and raised a hand before them.

Yet the white light still pierced through everything and swallowed his consciousness.

When Di Tian opened his eyes again, his surroundings were no longer the boundless yellow sands.

In their place stood a forest of towering ancient trees, shrouded in mist, like a realm of immortals.

Di Tian frowned, feeling that this place was strangely familiar.

He looked around. Every tree and every stone within his sight gave him an indescribable sense of familiarity.

This was...

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

A steady, powerful sound came from the right, shattering the forest's silence.

Di Tian immediately became alert and sharply turned to look right.

In the clearing that had originally been empty, a black dragon had appeared.

That black dragon was far smaller than he was, and an immature air permeated its entire body.

Yet it was repeating the same motion again and again. Its dragon claw extended, Soul Power flowed around the claw tips, and then it launched an attack.

Di Tian could not have been more familiar with the soul skill that black dragon was using.

It was precisely the Dragon God Claw.

Di Tian's eyes abruptly widened, his pupils contracting violently.

"This is... me, when I had only ten thousand years of cultivation?!"

He stared fixedly at the black dragon as sealed memories were abruptly awakened in his mind.

He remembered.

This place was the Dragon Clan Secret Realm where he had trained in his youth.

At that time, his strength had just broken through the ten-thousand-year mark, and the Dragon God had bestowed upon him the divine skill Dragon God Claw.

To master that divine skill as soon as possible, he had immersed himself in the secret realm day and night, practicing over and over without rest.

But before Di Tian could step forward to inspect it, the surrounding environment changed once more.

The ground beneath his feet vanished in an instant, and he found himself high in the mist-shrouded sky.

Di Tian instinctively lowered his head and looked down.

With his eyesight, he could still see the forest below and the "himself" within it practicing the Dragon God Claw.

That younger version of him remained utterly unaware, continuing to swing his claws again and again.

But now, something surprised him.

He clearly had not controlled his body to fly, yet he stood firmly in the air without showing the slightest sign of falling.

What a strange occurrence.

A trace of confusion flashed through Di Tian's dragon eyes.

Still, he had recently experienced far too many bizarre things that defied common sense.

First, he had been swallowed by the Dragon Vein, then trapped in that strange desert.

Being forced into the air was nothing by comparison.

He quickly accepted it and even had the presence of mind to observe his surroundings.

"Hahahaha!"

A deep, vigorous laugh came from above.

Di Tian followed the sound and saw three figures appear before him.

His eyes instantly widened, his pupils trembling.

"Father, Mother... Uncle Taotie!"

Those three figures were far too familiar to him.

The one on the left was broad and imposing, radiating an aura of light. He was Di Tian's father, the Light Dragon King.

The black giant dragon beside his father was his mother.

The Dark Dragon King, former chief of the Black Dragon Clan.

The one on the right was even larger than his father, radiating a primordial, savage aura.

He was his father's old friend—his uncle, Taotie!

Di Tian instinctively opened his mouth, wanting to call out to them.

"Father! Mother! Uncle Taotie!"

But the three showed no reaction whatsoever. They continued chatting and laughing in the sky as though he did not exist at all.

They couldn't see me?

After trying for a while and receiving no response, Di Tian understood.

At that moment, the people before him spoke.

Taotie patted Di Tian's father on the shoulder, his voice carrying a hint of admiration.

"So this is your son? He started practicing as soon as he obtained the Dragon God Claw. No wonder he earned Lord Dragon God's favor."

Di Tian's father said with a smile.

"I never expected Lord Dragon God to permit my son to cultivate the Dragon God Claw ahead of time."

Di Tian's mother beside him added.

"We had originally planned to teach it to him after he succeeded as chief of the Black Dragon Clan, but Lord Dragon God bestowed it upon him directly."

Taotie laughed heartily beside them.

"What Lord Dragon God personally bestows is entirely different from something inherited. This is an enormous honor!"

Di Tian's father smiled and was about to say something.

But before Di Tian could hear clearly, the surrounding scene changed again.

Mountains, flowing waters, cliffs.

On a cliff somewhere in the Star Dou Great Forest, a figure dressed in black stood with his hands behind his back, gazing up at the sky.

That was Di Tian himself.

This point in time was...

Di Tian was shocked as he recognized the scene.

In the sky, a silver meteor streaked across the heavens, trailing a long tail of flame as it fell toward the ground.

It dyed the entire sky silver.

The meteor landed in the valley before him with a deafening boom.

The "him" on the cliff looked astonished, a flicker of shock passing through his golden dragon eyes. He clearly had not expected something to fall from the sky.

Yet he did not hesitate in the slightest. With a leap, he shot toward the valley.

Standing high in the sky, Di Tian watched everything, indescribably complicated emotions surging within him.

The next moment, in the valley, an enormous silver dragon and a relatively petite black dragon faced one another.

The silver dragon's eyes were filled with exhaustion and vigilance, yet she still carried an untouchable pride.

Watching the two dragons in the valley from above, Di Tian thought to himself:

This was when I first met The Sovereign.]