Hundred-Thousand-Year Heavenly Tribulation

The Star Dou Forest was somewhat different today. A heavy, oppressive aura permeated every corner of the forest.

Layers of tribulation clouds surged in from the horizon, gathering above the Lake of Life. Lightning serpents could faintly be seen twisting through the clouds, accompanied by deafening peals of thunder.

Directly beneath the tribulation clouds, a five-hundred-meter-long black dragon lay coiled on the ground, watching the thunder tribulation brewing in the sky.

This was Di Lintian's Hundred-Thousand-Year Heavenly Tribulation!

Every hundred thousand years, Soul Beasts had to endure a terrifying Heavenly Tribulation. If they overcame it, their strength would undergo a qualitative transformation; if they failed, they would perish completely.

Faced with the terrifying Heavenly Tribulation, Di Lintian's expression did not change in the slightest. He did not take a mere Hundred-Thousand-Year Heavenly Tribulation seriously at all.

A resounding dragon roar erupted from Di Lintian's mouth.

"My lord's Hundred-Thousand-Year Heavenly Tribulation is countless times more terrifying than mine!"

The Dark Demon Dragon Lion spoke in a low voice.

"The stronger a Soul Beast's bloodline, the stronger the Heavenly Tribulation it faces. You consumed Di Lintian's Sacred Blood, and your bloodline was elevated. The thunder tribulation you endured was already the strongest among Hundred-Thousand-Year Heavenly Tribulations."

Di Tian explained it to the Dark Demon Dragon Lion.

Bi Ji said gravely, "Lintian's thunder tribulation has already gone beyond the scope of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Heavenly Tribulation. This is a true Fierce Beast Tribulation!"

"Then can Lintian get through it?" Three-Eyed Golden Lion asked anxiously from the side, a trace of worry in her gaze as she looked at Di Lintian.

Over the past two thousand years, Three-Eyed Golden Lion had constantly clung to Di Lintian. Di Lintian had also been happy to play with her, as it gave him a little enjoyment amid the dull life of a Soul Beast.

"He can."

Di Tian had absolute confidence in Di Lintian's strength.

When Di Lintian was fifty thousand years old, he had already been strong enough to defeat Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts. Now, he was only one tribulation away from becoming a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast, and Di Tian did not doubt that he possessed Fierce Beast-level combat power.

The instant the dragon roar faded, Di Lintian's dragon body shot into the sky, taking the initiative to charge at the Heavenly Tribulation.

"Isn't Lintian being a little too... reckless?" Bi Ji had lived for so many years, yet this was the first time she had seen someone undergo a tribulation like this.

Rumble—!

The tribulation clouds seemed to sense Di Lintian's provocation as well. The first bolt of tribulation lightning crashed straight down at his head.

Di Lintian watched the lightning descend at incredible speed without making any move, allowing it to strike his body.

Electric light coursed across his pitch-black dragon scales, yet it did not harm him in the least. He shook his dragon body, scattering the remaining lightning, then smiled disdainfully. "That's all?"

The second bolt of tribulation lightning followed close behind, twice as thick as the first!

Roar—!

A dragon roar that shook heaven and earth echoed across the Star Dou Forest. Every Soul Beast in its path dropped to the ground in submission.

After the roar, Di Lintian's dragon body instantly expanded, doubling in size. He turned and charged directly toward the descending second bolt of tribulation lightning.

The instant the dragon head collided with the lightning!

A terrifying energy shockwave spread in all directions, only to be completely blocked by Di Tian, causing no damage whatsoever to the surrounding environment.

The third, fourth, fifth, and sixth bolts followed one after another, each more powerful than the last.

Six bolts of tribulation lightning had passed, yet none had caused Di Lintian even the slightest injury.

The seventh bolt did not descend immediately after the sixth dissipated. Instead, it condensed into a terrifying lightning serpent in the sky and dove toward him.

Facing the diving lightning serpent, Di Lintian sensed the terrifying thunder power within it. He no longer dared to underestimate it. Chains emerged from the void one after another, rapidly winding toward the lightning serpent.

The lightning serpent possessed no intelligence and only knew how to strike straight at Di Lintian. The chains easily bound it, and in the next moment, a massive dragon tail lashed against its body.

A sizzling sound, mixed with the smell of something burning, came from his dragon tail. Di Lintian raised it and saw wisps of white smoke rising from it.

"If that had hit me, wouldn't I have turned into a roasted dragon?"

Even Di Lintian's dragon body trembled in fright. His gaze grew even more solemn as he faced the tribulation lightning still brewing above, and he focused with utmost concentration.

The eighth bolt of tribulation lightning condensed into a lightning tiger!

Huge lightning wings spread behind it, sharp fangs bared. It let out a tiger's roar and pounced toward Di Lintian.

The eight elements of darkness, light, annihilation, space, water, fire, earth, and wind gathered in Di Lintian's mouth. He slowly opened it, and in an instant, an eight-colored dragon breath burst forth.

The lightning tiger shattered the void beneath its four paws. Its lightning wings beat behind it as it charged head-on into the dragon breath, carrying the might to destroy everything.

At the instant of collision, there was no earth-shaking boom as imagined. There was only silence; before any sound could emerge, it had already been annihilated by the ultimate annihilation element.

The collision continued. The lightning tiger's body gradually dimmed, little by little, and it was slowly pushed back in the direction from which the dragon breath had come.

Only one unwilling tiger roar remained between heaven and earth.

"The last one."

The terrifying energy condensed by the final bolt of tribulation lightning surpassed the combined power of all the previous bolts.

Di Lintian did not sit still and wait for death. The dragon scales around his body became increasingly translucent, while a faint black mist spread out to envelop his dragon body. A pitch-black magic orb also formed before him and gradually grew larger.

A moment later, the final Heavenly Tribulation took shape. It was a transparent lightning dragon somewhat similar to Di Lintian!

The lightning dragon was extremely faint. Di Lintian felt that even a casual gust of wind could blow it apart. The true final bolt of tribulation lightning was not the lightning dragon itself, but the breath poised to erupt from its mouth.

The instant the Phantom Thunder Dragon opened its mouth, it was as if the world had been muted. The churning tribulation clouds stopped, and even the Blue Silver Grass bent by the wind froze at an angle in midair.

An unprecedentedly terrifying dragon breath burst forth, carrying the intent to slaughter Di Lintian.

Di Lintian's eyes narrowed. The magic orb before him had also condensed to its maximum size, and it crashed toward the Thunder Dragon Breath.

The instant the two collided, the magic orb did not last even a second before exploding into the pitch-black Storm of Final Annihilation.

The Thunder Dragon Breath transformed into something like an electric serpent, coiling around the storm and drilling its tip into the storm's center. Crackling sounds rang out as arcs of electricity flashed around the storm.

The Storm of Final Annihilation was being eroded by the Thunder Dragon Breath, but it was also weakening the Thunder Dragon Breath's energy.

"Now!"

Di Lintian had been watching the state of both attacks the entire time. The instant the Storm of Final Annihilation enveloped the Thunder Dragon Breath, he controlled the eight elements to continuously merge and expand.

Boom—!

A multicolored mushroom cloud rose into the sky as the Storm of Final Annihilation completed its ultimate explosion.

The explosion's aftershock spread outward and struck the Phantom Thunder Dragon floating beneath the tribulation clouds, causing it to completely dissipate.

After enduring Di Lintian's Dragon King Annihilation, the Thunder Dragon Breath had dimmed, yet it showed no sign of dissipating. It turned once more and shot straight toward him.

With the Thunder Dragon Breath so close, Di Lintian had no time left. He could only rely on his powerful physical body to withstand it head-on.

Fortunately, he had not been completely unprepared. His translucent dragon scales and the black mist around him were both measures he had prepared to resist the tribulation lightning.

Seeing this, Three-Eyed Golden Lion quickly covered her eyes with her two little paws, too afraid to look directly.

Di Tian and Bi Ji both wore confident smiles. With their cultivation, they could naturally tell that the remaining power of this dragon breath was not enough to kill Di Lintian.