"Hm? What's going on?"
"Could the review scenes still not be over?"
"That doesn't seem right. Usually, after the three ultimate techniques have been introduced and the greatest battle shown, aren't the rewards handed out right away?"
Countless Soul Masters across the continent cried out in confusion, hurriedly widening their eyes and staring at the sky again.
Deep in the Evil Demon Forest, the Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign saw a faint rainbow glow appear on the Sky Screen.
Its enormous body suddenly shuddered violently.
An unprecedented, ominous sense of crisis swept over it in an instant.
"No... It can't be..."
The Evil Emperor's voice trembled. Blood vessels rapidly spread across the whites of his enormous eye.
"Damn Sky Screen! Don't you dare..."
But the Sky Screen would not change its course just because of his will.
A deep, melodious dragon's roar, as though it had crossed over from the ancient past, exploded in everyone's minds.
The scene on the Sky Screen changed once more.
It showed another forest, just as dim and damp.
The sky had been blanketed with dark clouds, heavy with death.
But in the very next moment,
a dazzling nine-colored light, like an peerless blade, tore through the thick black clouds without the slightest regard for anything in its way.
Holy, exalted, boundless.
Endless Nine-Colored Radiance spilled across the ground, illuminating the gloomy Evil Demon Forest as if a divine miracle had descended.
Then,
under everyone's gaze, a majestic figure with a flawless, nine-colored body slowly swam out of the void.
It was a dragon.
A Rainbow Divine Dragon whose beauty defied description.
Its scales, brilliant as a rainbow, reflected a dreamlike sheen beneath the nine-colored light.
Wind, thunder, water, fire, earth, light, darkness, space, and time.
Nine entirely different elements of heaven and earth obediently circled its body, forming enormous, sacred rings of elemental stars.
The Rainbow Divine Dragon stood silently in the void without moving a muscle, yet the overwhelming might radiating from it made the surrounding space groan as if it could barely endure the pressure.
The instant they saw this Rainbow Divine Dragon,
everyone's minds involuntarily recalled the scene of Di Tian fighting the Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign.
But when they compared the two,
they immediately realized that Di Tian and the Evil Emperor, whom they had once regarded as godlike, seemed so utterly immature before this Rainbow Divine Dragon.
It was like a child who had only just learned to walk facing a grown deity.
The absolute gap in their levels of power was beyond words.
Since the Rainbow Dragon was not the Sky Screen's main subject, Long Yun's true appearance did not appear in the scene. Only the vast, divine figure of the Rainbow Divine Dragon could be seen.
Even so, it was enough to send shock waves of unprecedented magnitude through the entire Douluo Continent.
After remaining silent for three full breaths, the comments on the Sky Screen erupted.
"Oh my god! What... What kind of Soul Beast is that?!"
"Since when has there been a divine dragon with nine colors on Douluo Continent?"
"That aura... It feels countless times more terrifying than Beast God Di Tian's!"
"Impossible! Absolutely impossible! Di Tian is already the god of Soul Beasts. How could there be a Dragon Clan stronger than him?"
"That pressure—it's just like a god descending upon the world!"
Countless Soul Masters screamed wildly before their screens. In that moment, the Rainbow Divine Dragon's sudden appearance shattered their entire worldview.
Inside the Star Dou Great Forest,
the instant Di Tian recognized the Nine-Colored Divine Dragon, it was as if he'd been struck by lightning. His legs went weak, and he nearly dropped straight to his knees.
"R-Rainbow Dragon?!"
Di Tian's voice rose to a strained, shrill pitch. His dragon eyes were wide with shock and disbelief.
"This is impossible! Absolutely impossible!"
"The ancient texts say the Rainbow Dragon Clan has a noble, rare bloodline, but its strength has always leaned toward gentleness and support. It has never excelled at offense."
"But why does this being on the Sky Screen make me feel as if one dragon could hold the pass against ten thousand, an invincible god of war standing against the world?!"
Just as Di Tian was racking his brains for an answer,
deep beneath the Lake of Life,
Gu Yuena sprang to her feet.
Her long silver hair danced in the wind despite there being no breeze. Her usually calm, noble face now brimmed with utter shock and delight.
"It's her... It has to be her!"
"This sacred, nine-colored dragon power, this supreme pressure that towers above all things..."
Gu Yuena clasped her slender hands before her. Her body trembled faintly with overwhelming excitement.
"It's absolutely impossible for an ordinary member of the Rainbow Dragon Clan to possess such heaven-defying battle prowess."
"The only explanation..."
"She must be connected to the Divine Queen—to my Queen—in a way of the utmost importance!"
Gu Yuena's voice boomed through the minds of the Ferocious Beasts, carried directly by her spiritual power.
Hearing their Sovereign react like this, Di Tian and the other Ferocious Beasts were even more baffled.
"Why is our Sovereign reacting so strongly?"
"The Queen?"
A flash of insight came to Di Tian. He suddenly recalled an ancient, mysterious legend from the history of the Dragon Clan.
The Dragon God had once unified the Divine Realm, and by his side, besides the Nine Dragon Kings, stood a Divine Queen of peerless strength and exalted status.
According to legend, the Divine Queen's true form was the progenitor of the Rainbow Dragon Clan!
"Our Sovereign is one of the Dragon God's split avatars..."
"Could this terrifying Rainbow Divine Dragon on the Sky Screen actually be the child of our Sovereign and the Dragon God? Or could she be the reincarnation and resurrection of the Divine Queen from back then?"
The thought of this earth-shattering secret made Di Tian's scalp prickle. He sucked in a sharp breath and didn't dare think any further.
Meanwhile,
the entire Sun Moon Empire had fallen into stunned silence.
Because
on the Sky Screen, their invincible Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign—the one who had just gravely wounded Di Tian—
was forced down from the sky above the Evil Demon Forest by a wisp of Nine-Colored Dragon Might radiating from the Rainbow Divine Dragon the moment it appeared.
In the scene,
the Nine-Colored Divine Dragon merely cast a cool, indifferent glance at the Evil Emperor.
Then it casually swung one of its claws.
The nine Elemental Laws of heaven and earth instantly converged, forming a colossal nine-colored palm that blotted out the sky.
The dozens of thick tentacles the Evil Emperor had always prided himself on were as fragile beneath that palm as weeds by the roadside.
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