When they saw those lines of text, the human old monsters whose eyes had been gleaming with greed broke out in a fine cold sweat.
Their feverish greed was doused as thoroughly as if someone had dumped a bucket of ice water over them.
"My god..."
"Harming her would be like striking at the very lifeblood of every Soul Beast in the Star Dou Great Forest!"
"Anyone who dared target her would probably see Spirit Hall and the two great empires trampled flat by a frenzied tide of Soul Beasts the next day!"
"She... is even more untouchable than Beast God Di Tian!"
For a time, countless ill-intentioned onlookers put away their schemes. Nothing remained in their hearts but boundless awe.
The images on the Sky Screen continued.
This time, they displayed Bi Ji's terrifying healing and support abilities, which seemed nothing short of miracles.
In the image, two top-tier Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, each as massive as a mountain, were fighting over territory. Both were drenched in blood, their bones broken.
Just as they were about to perish together, a gigantic emerald-green lotus quietly bloomed in the sky.
Bi Ji stood atop the lotus and gently raised a hand.
Emerald-green light rained across the earth like a miracle.
The instant that rain touched their gravely wounded, dying bodies, their flesh began to knit and regenerate at a speed visible to the naked eye!
In just a few breaths, the two terrifying beasts that should have died rose to their feet, completely unharmed.
The murderous fury in their eyes vanished. They lay meekly on the ground and bowed their proud heads deeply to Bi Ji in the sky.
The image shifted again.
This was Beast God Di Tian undergoing a heavenly tribulation.
Black divine lightning crashed down across the sky. Di Tian's dragon body was split open, his flesh torn, his aura fading to its weakest point.
Behind him, Bi Ji pressed her palms together. Rings of emerald life energy, almost solid to the eye, surged into Di Tian's body.
It was only thanks to Bi Ji's seemingly inexhaustible life force that Di Tian could rise again and again beneath the tribulation's destructive power, ultimately earning the name of the continent's strongest Beast God!
At the sight, Soul Masters across the continent were won over by her miraculous support abilities.
Comments flooded the Sky Screen, all of them filled with heartfelt admiration.
"Now that's a true goddess of healing!"
"Compared to her, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda doesn't even come close!"
"She deserves it! Seventh on the Soul Beast Ranking—Bi Ji! I'm completely convinced!"
As the account of Emerald Swan Bi Ji's life and miracles came to an end, an even greater wave of excitement swept through the skies over Douluo Continent.
"Heavens, this is the Soul Beast ranked seventh? She's a living miracle!"
"She healed a Ferocious Beast from injuries that severe in the blink of an eye and even helped Beast God Di Tian survive his tribulation. With healing like that, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Nine Heart Begonia aren't even worthy of carrying her shoes!"
"The King of Ten Thousand Demons ranked eighth and received three hundred thousand years of cultivation, a top-grade Immortal Herb, and a bloodline evolution. How terrifying will the seventh-ranked Bi Ji's rewards be?"
"Exactly! She already has a terrifying six hundred thousand years of cultivation. Give her a few hundred thousand more, and won't she become a Million-Year Soul Beast?"
"A million years... That's a being like the gods of legend!"
As the entire continent watched, the emerald light rain on the Sky Screen suddenly drew back. In its place appeared a nine-colored divine radiance as dazzling as the blazing sun.
Within the radiance, three streaks of light bearing supreme auras slowly emerged. With them came sweeping lines of golden text across the Sky Screen.
[Seventh on the Soul Beast Ranking: Emerald Swan Bi Ji. Rewards issued:] [Reward One: Heart of the Emerald Swan Emperor (upon fusion, breaks the limits of her species' bloodline and allows her to evolve into the Emerald Swan Empress).] [Reward Two: Four hundred thousand years of special cultivation (granted by the Sky Screen; no Soul Beast heavenly tribulation required; can be absorbed perfectly).] [Reward Three: A fragment of the supreme Laws—one Life Law Fragment (upon fusion, grants control over part of the source of life and an unending wellspring of vitality).]
Boom!
The moment those three lines settled on the Sky Screen, the air across the continent seemed to freeze.
Everyone stared at the three rewards before them, their minds ringing. The shock was ten times, a hundred times greater than when the King of Ten Thousand Demons had received his rewards!
"Four hundred thousand years of cultivation? And she doesn't even need to undergo a tribulation?"
"My god, am I seeing this right? The heavenly tribulation Soul Beasts face every hundred thousand years is a nightmare for countless powerful beasts. Cultivation granted by the Sky Screen lets her skip it?"
"Bi Ji already has six hundred thousand years of cultivation. Add these four hundred thousand... She really is going to become a Million-Year Soul Beast!"
"And that Life Law Fragment—though it's only a fragment, it's part of the Laws! Isn't that power only gods can command?"
Countless reclusive human old monsters turned red-eyed with envy. Even their breathing grew rough.
Deep within the Star Dou Great Forest, beside the Lake of Life in the Core Circle, the Ferocious Beasts stared at the rewards on the Sky Screen, trembling with shock.
"Four hundred thousand years... Four hundred thousand years of cultivation, without a tribulation..."
Longing and disbelief showed on all three of Scarlet King's massive heads. His voice shook uncontrollably.
Beside him, the King of Ten Thousand Demons wore a conflicted expression. He had just evolved into the Nine Heavens Demon Eye Holy Tree through the Sky Screen's reward and thought he had closed the gap between himself and Bi Ji.
He had never expected Bi Ji's rewards to be several times richer than his.
At the front of the group, Beast God Di Tian suddenly clenched his fists.
A fierce heat and longing lit his usually unfathomable eyes.
Even someone as powerful as Di Tian, who had lived for nearly nine hundred thousand years, had stood at death's door with every heavenly tribulation. His dragon scales had been shattered, and he had nearly been destroyed in body and soul.
Yet the Sky Screen's reward could grant four hundred thousand years of cultivation without a tribulation!
To think such a heaven-defying method truly exists in this world.
Di Tian drew a deep breath and suppressed the turmoil in his heart.
He looked up at the Sky Screen, his thirst for power swelling to its peak.
If I rank higher, could the cultivation reward let me cross the chasm that has barred my path for countless years and attain an immortal Godhood?
Behind the Ferocious Beasts, Gu Yuena sat quietly on a piece of jade that gave off a soft, warm glow.
Her posture was supremely elegant, her long silver hair spilling like a waterfall over her rounded shoulders.
Her exquisitely shaped legs were crossed. In the gentle light of life, they looked especially fair and slender.
Her bare feet were untouched by dust, like the most perfect works of art in the world.
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