Before him stood a herd of hulking beasts, all lowering their heads to eat.
They were two or three hundred meters long, their bodies covered in thick, earth-yellow scales. Bony spines like mountains rose from their backs, and every breath they took sent gusts from their nostrils strong enough to grind the rocks on the ground into powder.
Fifth-tier magical beasts: Void Earth-Armored Dragons!
They were livestock raised by the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, kept specifically for the clan's younger generation to practice on or to serve as food.
Though they were only domesticated animals, every one of them radiated an aura comparable to a Limit Douluo from Douluo Continent.
The leader, a dragon dozing nearby, gave off an even more terrifying aura.
"Th-these are sub-dragons?"
Di Tian trembled all over, his legs going weak. "Those are clearly earth dragons with ultimate defense!"
"On Douluo Continent, Soul Beasts of this level would absolutely dominate a region. They could even stand as equals with me!"
"But why are they wearing collars here? And why are they eating grass?"
However, before Di Tian could recover from his shock,
a guard from the Ancient Dragon Clan who was watching over the livestock pen came over. He casually tossed Di Tian a huge iron shovel taller than he was and said with open disdain, "Hey, new black lizard."
"What are you looking at? Those are the meat dragons we raise on Ancient Dragon Island. We're slaughtering two tonight to give the young clan leader an extra meal."
"Your job is to clean all the dragon dung in this area."
"Remember, if you slack off or get any dirt on the meat dragons' scales, I'll chop you into pieces and feed you to them!"
"Sh-shovel dung?"
Di Tian looked at the enormous iron shovel, then at the meat dragons dozens of times his size. An unprecedented sense of humiliation surged straight to his head!
He was the Beast God!
The ruler of Star Dou Forest!
And they wanted him to shovel shit for a herd of meat pigs?!
"No! A true man would rather die than be humiliated!"
Di Tian's eyes turned bloodshot. He let out a furious, anguished roar as the remnants of his Dragon God Bloodline burned wildly within him. "I am the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King! I am the pride of the dragon race!"
"I will never shovel shit!!"
But as soon as his roar died away, the Void Earth-Armored Dragon eating beside him seemed to have been disturbed. It turned its head in annoyance and coldly glanced at the tiny bug.
Then it lifted a gigantic dragon claw that could blot out the sky and casually kicked backward, as if shooing away a fly.
BOOM!!!
There was no flashy skill—only raw physical strength.
The kick shattered the air, producing a terrifying ring of sonic boom clouds!
"Pfft!!"
Di Tian didn't even have a chance to react. He was kicked away like a cannonball and slammed straight into a mound of dragon dung as tall as a hill!
Douluo Continent, Star Dou Forest, Core Circle.
This scene dealt a devastating blow to the Soul Beast Clan.
Beside Lake of Life.
"Di Tian—"
Gu Yuena watched the light screen as the Beast God was kicked away by a mere farm animal and then had to struggle for survival in a dung heap. Her beautiful body shook violently before she collapsed limply onto the grass.
"That was Di Tian."
Gu Yuena's voice rang out. Two clear tears slid down her silver hair and fell into Lake of Life, sending ripples across its surface. "He was the guardian who kept watch over me as I awakened, the Black Dragon King who inherited the Dragon God's Dragon King Claw."
"On Douluo Continent, one command from him makes ten thousand beasts submit. Even human Limit Douluos have to show him respect."
"But now—"
Gu Yuena pointed at the light screen, her finger trembling uncontrollably. "In the eyes of those Ancient Void Dragons, he's not even as good as those meat pigs that do nothing but eat grass."
"Those creatures called Void Earth-Armored Dragons are clearly stupid. They're nothing but food, yet one casual kick from them can leave our Beast God half-dead."
"What does our so-called cultivation of hundreds of thousands of years even amount to?"
"Is it a joke?"
"Lord Dragon God, if you were still here and saw your people suffer such humiliation in another world, how would you feel?"
Behind Gu Yuena, the Ferocious Beasts who usually threw their weight around in Star Dou Forest all looked as if their souls had been sucked out of them.
The Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, who had always refused to accept Di Tian and dreamed of usurping his place, was now lying on the ground with his huge head buried deep in the dirt, trembling like a sieve.
"Th-this is terrifying—"
Xiong Jun's voice was choked with tears. So deep was his instinctive fear that he didn't even have the courage to look at the light screen. "Big Brother Di Tian's defense is stronger than mine, and he was still taken out with one kick."
"If it were me, that dumb bear, I bet those meat dragons would turn me into minced meat just by sneezing, right?"
"I don't want to go to that world. I just want to stay in Star Dou Forest and raid beehives for honey. Boohoo..."
The Three-Headed Red Demon Mastiff had even wet itself. Its three heads looked at one another, their eyes filled with terror. "Those are fifth-tier magical beasts? They're only fifth-tier?"
"How does that world even rank things? Fifth-tier beasts can crush our Beast God?"
"Then with our cultivation of over two hundred thousand years, would we not even count as first-tier magical beasts there? Would we not even qualify to be ants?"
The Emerald Swan covered her mouth, unable to stop her tears from falling. "That's so cruel. Making someone as proud as Di Tian shovel dung must be even more painful than killing him."
They had once believed that as long as they cultivated for a hundred thousand years, they could take human form and become gods.
But now, that higher-dimensional world was telling them:
Stop dreaming.
In the face of absolute racial dominance, even after cultivating for a million years, you're still just a slightly bigger bug.
Battle Through the Heavens Plane, Ancient Dragon Island.
Di Tian crawled out of the enormous pile of excrement.
He had wanted to vomit, go mad, and kill himself.
But the moment his skin touched the yellowish-white muck, still warm with heat, a stream of warmth seeped into his body through his pores!
It was pure earth-element energy!
In an instant, the bones he'd broken in the kick began to heal!
"This—"
Di Tian froze.
He scooped up a handful of dragon dung and sensed the energy within it. The expression on his filthy face turned indescribable.
"This energy is as concentrated as the water in Lake of Life?"
"No! It's even purer than the lake water!"
"If I cultivated here, even just by breathing in this smell—"
"My cultivation could absolutely break through a million years. I might even reshape my dragon body and evolve into a higher-grade dragon!"
For a moment, the humiliation in Di Tian's heart was overwhelmed by a thought that said, this actually smells pretty good.
He had been stuck at a bottleneck on Douluo Continent for hundreds of thousands of years.
And here, all he had to do was shovel some shit to break through?
"Phew—"
Di Tian took a deep breath. The stench mixed with sulfur now smelled like strength to him.
He silently picked up the enormous iron shovel, his gaze turning resolute.
"Shovel!"
"To get stronger, I'll shovel this shit!"
"If I can just take a shovel-load back, my Lord's injuries can be healed!"
And so, before the countless eyes watching from across Douluo Continent,
the once lofty Beast God began shoveling shit with all his might, almost reverently.
Meanwhile, Tagor Desert, the Snake-Person Tribe's royal palace!
It was a magnificent palace built atop an oasis, luxurious and filled with exotic charm.
Deep within the palace, steam billowed from a vast bathing pool paved with exquisite warm jade.
All sorts of rare flower petals floated across the surface, releasing an intoxicating fragrance.
"Splash—"
Queen Medusa's flawless body was immersed in the water. Her purple snake tail lazily slapped the surface, sending ripples through the pool.
She closed her eyes slightly, enjoying a rare moment of leisure.
Beside the pool, a beautiful woman in a tattered red robe knelt on the ground in humiliation, bound tightly with rainbow-colored chains. Her hands were forced to rest on the pool's water inlet.
It was none other than Bo Saixi, the Grand Worship of Sea God Island!
"The water's gone cold."
Queen Medusa didn't even raise an eyelid. Her languid voice carried an unquestionable command. "Heat it up. Then filter the impurities out of the water again."
"You—"
Bo Saixi gritted her teeth, her eyes full of humiliation.
She was a level-99 Limit Douluo, the representative of the sea!
In the past, she had used Sea God's Light only to purify evil. When had she ever used it to filter someone else's bathwater?!
"What? You don't want to?"
Queen Medusa's beautiful eyes flew open, a cold glint flashing within them. "I've heard that Soul Masters in your world have very hard bones."
"I wonder whether your bones are harder, or my Snake Curse Seal."
As soon as she finished speaking, the rainbow-colored collar around Bo Saixi's neck suddenly tightened!
"Ah!!"
In an instant, a piercing agony surged through her entire body. The poison burned directly at her soul!
Bo Saixi convulsed in pain. Her noble, beautiful face twisted as sweat poured down like rain.
"I—I'll do it! I'll do it!"
Bo Saixi broke down. In the face of absolute power, so-called dignity was worth less than nothing.
Trembling, she circulated the Soul Power she had left. Her Sea God Martial Soul barely condensed into a sphere of pure blue light, which she then sent into the bathing pool.
"Sea God, purify—"
With tears streaming down her face, Bo Saixi humbly used a sacred Soul Skill that had once protected Sea God Island on a pool of bathwater.
Hum!
As the blue light entered the pool, the water temperature immediately stabilized. The water turned crystal clear, even giving off a faint ocean scent.
"Now that's more like it."
Queen Medusa stretched languidly, letting out a soft moan that made the blood race through one's veins. Then she casually grabbed a handful of red powder from a jade dish nearby and sprinkled it into the water.
"This is the dregs from a Soul Nourishing Pill, a Fifth-grade Pill, along with the blood essence of a few third-tier magical beasts. Mixing them together for a bath is good for the skin."
Pill dregs? Blood essence?
Bo Saixi froze.
As the red powder dissolved in the water, an enormous energy fluctuation, so powerful it nearly suffocated her, touched her hands through the water!
Sizzle, sizzle!
The energy rushed through her pores and frantically burrowed into her body!
"Th-this is—"
Bo Saixi's pupils contracted sharply.
She could feel the level-99 bottleneck she'd been stuck at for sixty whole years actually loosen under the energy washing through this bathwater!
"Just pill dregs and bathwater contain energy purer than the divine-given Soul Ring from Lord Sea God?"
"How is that possible?!"
Bo Saixi's worldview shattered completely, reformed, and then shattered all over again.
She looked at the pool of reddish water and couldn't help swallowing.
"If—if I could drink a mouthful of this bathwater—"
"Could I break through level 100? Could I become a god?"
Bo Saixi herself was startled by the thought.
But her body's instincts told the truth. Kneeling beside the pool, she heated Queen Medusa's bathwater through her tears while secretly circulating her Soul Power, greedily absorbing every trace of energy wafting from the water.
So what if she had to live like a faucet?
As long as she could become a god, even bathwater smelled wonderful!
Douluo Continent, Sea God Island.
"Thud! Thud!"
The Seven Holy Pillar Guardians of the Sea God fell to their knees one after another.
Sea Dragon Douluo clutched his hair and let out a despairing wail. "Grand Worship, what are you doing?!"
"You're actually secretly absorbing her bathwater, and why do you look like you're enjoying it so much?!"
"You've disgraced Lord Sea God!!"
And at Spirit Hall,
Qian Daoliu had been watching the light screen and weeping bitterly, but now he suddenly stopped crying.
He stared blankly at Bo Saixi. His grief turned to confusion, then to deep jealousy.
"Energy. That's god-level energy."
"Though Xixi's working as a faucet, her aura is getting stronger!"
"Even bathwater can help someone become a god—"
"I want to go scrub that queen's back too!"
The scene shifted.
Battle Through the Heavens Plane, Ancient Dragon Island, Dragon Dung Cleaning Area.
Compared with Bo Saixi's humiliation, Di Tian's situation was, to put it bluntly, a lot stinkier.
Inside the enormous dung pit, Di Tian swung the giant iron shovel, dozens of meters long, like a diligent old farmer, furiously shoveling the Void Earth-Armored Dragons' piles of dung, each as big as a hill.
"Heave-ho! Heave-ho!"
Di Tian was hard at work, his whole body smeared with yellowish-white filth, but he didn't care in the slightest. A strange, excited smile even hung on his face.
He had uncovered a shocking secret!
"There's a tremendous fortune hidden in this shit!"
Di Tian shoveled away, unable to resist taking a deep breath.
The pungent stench in his nostrils was now more intoxicating than the fresh air around the Lake of Life.
"Every time I shovel, the poisonous fumes released temper my Black Dragon body!"
"My dragon scales are hardening! My bloodline is growing purer!"
"Heiqing didn't lie to me! This really is a fortuitous opportunity!"
Suddenly, Di Tian's shovel struck a golden-yellow lump that hadn't been fully digested.
It was an undigested fourth-grade spirit herb: Earth Core Body-Tempering Grass!
"Gulp."
Di Tian stared at the herb fragment coated in unspeakable filth, his Adam's apple bobbing violently.
On Douluo Continent, he was the proud Beast God, and drank only the purest dew.
But here—
"Forget it! For my lord, for the sake of becoming stronger!"
"I'll eat this shit!"
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