"Huh?"
"I didn't hear that wrong, did I, Di Tian?!"
The giant dragon before him was exhausted and on the verge of death.
Luo Feng could hardly believe his ears.
By rights, this black dragon should have been his enemy.
If he hadn't bombarded him with a barrage of high-level Soul Guidance Cannons, the Beast God wouldn't have been gravely wounded, much less ambushed by that old bastard from the Worldly Cult.
Yet now, with his life hanging by a thread, Di Tian had asked Luo Feng for his opinion first.
"Do you think I'm joking?"
Seeing the look on Luo Feng's face,
Di Tian sighed.
He had lived for tens of thousands of years as a Soul Beast.
He was already close to crossing the threshold into godhood.
If he died now, everything would be over.
But the Soul Spirit strategy Huo Yuhao had developed during the Peerless Tang Sect era could genuinely help the Soul Beasts around him become gods.
Among the humans present,
Tang Wulin had only just reached the Titled Douluo rank, and Di Tian had always looked down on him.
After weighing his options, the only suitable candidate was this Level 98 Super Douluo.
He had no other choice.
There were no eternal enemies in this world, only eternal benefits.
With his life on the line, how could Di Tian afford to worry about anything else?
"I'll think about it, but don't even think about pulling anything funny!"
Hearing this reasonable explanation,
Luo Feng finally understood.
Who would've thought that the biggest winner of this battle wouldn't be the Holy Spirit Cult or the Soul Beasts?
It would be me, the transmigrator who'd stumbled into this world!
[Ironclad, Vanguard Titan has received a biological data sequence requesting fusion. Execute?]
In fact, the Titan at Luo Feng's side had already sensed this strange biological connection.
It was different from when he absorbed the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear's Soul Ring.
One had been passive; the other was voluntary.
After becoming a Soul Spirit, Di Tian could still recharge BT.
He could even help it convert a second Level 12 Soul Guidance Cannon.
And this conversion wouldn't be a one-time thing.
As long as it had time to rest or replenish its energy, it could be used over and over again.
It was like installing a super battery with an endless supply of charge in the Vanguard Titan.
This was definitely a good thing!
"Fine, I agree. But I'll be in charge of the entire fusion process. No objections?"
"Fine! But I'm warning you: don't even think about controlling me! I'd rather shatter like jade and take you down with me!"
Di Tian wasn't a fool.
He knew the risks of doing this.
But with the arrow already on the string, there was no turning back!
"Great. Pleasure doing business!"
"BT, begin!"
At Luo Feng's command, the Vanguard Titan's enormous body suddenly blazed with dazzling blue light.
[Command confirmed! Soul Link and Highest-Level Authorization Contract Protocol initiating!]
Along with the system's cold, mechanical voice, the armor on the Vanguard Titan's chest unfurled layer by layer like a lotus.
Within lay the Gate of Truth Alchemy Matrix, radiating boundless mystery.
A beam of pure golden light shot from the center of the matrix, enveloping Beast God Di Tian on the ground.
"Roar!!!"
Di Tian let out a long, complicated dragon's cry, woven with humiliation and resentment, yet touched by a hint of relief.
Beneath the golden light,
his half-divine black dragon body, already on the verge of collapse from his grievous injuries, began to disintegrate piece by piece before their eyes.
It turned into a rain of drifting black-and-gold motes.
This wasn't an ordinary death. It was the highest order of soul sacrifice and Soul Spirit transformation in Douluo Continent!
"Damn human, your spiritual sea had better be vast enough.
Otherwise, my nearly million years of spiritual power will blow your head apart in an instant!"
Di Tian's soul apparition circled in the air.
Bearing the last of his pride, he plunged headfirst into the Vanguard Titan's chest core!
But the moment Di Tian's soul truly entered the Vanguard Titan, traveling along its neural links until it touched Luo Feng's soul,
the supreme Beast God who had ruled the Star Dou Great Forest for hundreds of thousands of years was utterly stunned!
He had expected to enter a cramped human spiritual sea, or perhaps some cold metal cage.
He was wrong. Incredibly wrong!
What appeared before Di Tian's soul
was a vast, boundless expanse of dark golden stars, as if it contained the truth of the entire universe!
It was the Hyper-Dimensional Mental Matrix, constructed by the system and the Gate of Truth after Luo Feng and the Vanguard Titan had fully synchronized!
Here, machinery and flesh blended perfectly, while the laws of physics and fantastical magic intertwined and reshaped themselves.
"W-what level of planar law is this?
Even Dragon God himself never mastered such profound universal truths!"
Di Tian trembled within Luo Feng's Mental Matrix. At last, he understood what he had signed up for today.
He hadn't just hitched himself to some ordinary human.
He had attached himself to a terrifying "forbidden existence," one that might even surpass the very concept of the Divine Realm!
"Quit gawking, Big Black Bug. You signed the contract, so get online and get to work!"
Luo Feng's arrogant, taunting voice thundered through the matrix.
"Release your million-year source energy! Help me smash through that final threshold!"
[Ding! Detected million-year Peerless Soul Spirit—Black-Eyed Golden Dragon King (Di Tian)—connecting to the system!]
[Biological secondary brain and Infinite Firepower Reserve core reactor installation complete!]
[Beginning energy transfer!]
"Rumble!!!"
The sky outside changed completely in an instant.
The black clouds that had dispersed after the Underworld Emperor's death gathered once more, churning wildly.
But this time, the clouds no longer glimmered with deathly energy. Instead, they crackled with Nine-Colored Thunder, the sign of ultimate destruction and ultimate holiness!
A gigantic, terrifying Soul Ring rose slowly beneath the Vanguard Titan, large enough to cover the entire core area of the Star Dou Great Forest.
It wasn't red, nor was it orange-gold.
It was a profound dark gold, with nine dazzling dragon-shaped patterns etched across its surface—a Million-Year Peerless True Ring!
At the same time, an immense torrent of pure million-year source energy, beyond all words,
rushed through the Vanguard Titan's neural conduits and flooded Luo Feng's limbs and body like the Milky Way pouring down from the heavens!
"Ah, this is incredible! Absolutely incredible!"
Seated in the pilot's chair, Luo Feng felt his bones erupt in a series of thunderous cracks.
His Soul Power had already been stuck at the peak of Level 98.
Before this million-year energy, an overwhelming force that crushed dimensions, his bottleneck was like paper.
It didn't even last half a second before it shattered!
"Crack!"
It sounded as if the laws of heaven and earth had been forcibly torn apart.
At that instant, the system notifications in Luo Feng's mind erupted in an unprecedented storm of golden pop-ups:
[Ding! Experience bar overfilled! Executing Limit Breakthrough Protocol!]
[Congratulations, Ironclad! Your Soul Power Level has successfully crossed the planar boundary!]
[Current level: 99 (Limit Douluo—Demigod Realm)!]
[Hidden achievement unlocked: First solo mecha quasi-god! All mecha attributes increased by 500%!]
[Level 12 God-Slaying Soul Guidance Cannon cooldown reset: greatly reduced!
Current status: Infinite Firepower Reserve (supported by Di Tian's Bio-Reactor)!]