Douluo Planet.
Facing a spiritual attack from a Peak Super God level powerhouse, Di Tian, who was not even God Level, had no way to evade it.
Struck in the brow by the Mental Flying Dagger, he fell straight toward Tiandou Planet's surface like a rocket booster that had run out of fuel.
His powerful dragon body scraped against the atmosphere, scattering dazzling sparks.
However.
He did not die instantly.
If a Peak Super God level powerhouse's divine power attack had struck him, there would have been no question—he would definitely have perished.
But this was a spiritual attack.
And Di Tian possessed an innate immunity to spiritual power.
Unlike the spiritual immunity innate to ordinary dragons, his spiritual immunity had undergone a God Level enhancement.
Back then, his Divine Dragon body had degenerated into a soul beast body, and his divine consciousness had transformed into spiritual consciousness, equivalent to an alternative form of rebuilding his cultivation.
But that did not mean nothing had remained.
That God Level enhancement, when his divine consciousness transformed into spiritual consciousness, had strengthened his spiritual immunity innate ability.
As long as there was no qualitative gap in spiritual power, his spiritual immunity could basically negate all spiritual attacks.
Twenty thousand years ago, even the spiritual attack Huo Yuhao had unleashed by using spiritual power to stir the fate power of the entire Douluo Plane had failed to affect him in the slightest.
And at this very moment.
Although the Tianlong Seat's spiritual attack had a qualitative advantage over Di Tian's, Di Tian had accumulated profound reserves. His spiritual consciousness had long since evolved to the level of half-step divine consciousness.
The instant before the Mental Flying Dagger struck his brow.
Bearing the pressure of death, Di Tian took that final half-step at the critical moment.
Once again crossing the chasm between mortal and god.
Spiritual consciousness transformed into divine consciousness.
The moment divine consciousness took shape in his sea of spirit, Di Tian abruptly felt an even stronger suppression from somewhere beyond perception. It was the suppression of the curse that beast races could not become gods.
Even though his spiritual reserves were sufficient to support his continued evolution toward True God level, or even Super God level spiritual power.
He was still tightly restricted by that suppression.
However.
It was enough!
The emergence of divine consciousness erased the qualitative gap in spiritual power between him and the Tianlong Seat.
Spiritual immunity activated!
Wave after tangible yet invisible wave rippled out from Di Tian's sea of spirit. The Mental Flying Dagger lodged in his brow was like a ship swaying atop stormy waves.
Before long.
The flying dagger vanished, and the spiritual power that had pierced into Di Tian's sea of spirit no longer possessed any lethality.
Only a curled-up mass of Super God level spiritual power remained.
But the crisis had not been completely resolved.
Even without its offensive power, it was still the spiritual power of a Peak Super God level powerhouse.
Moreover, it was spiritual power incompatible with Di Tian's.
If it remained there, who knew what trouble it might cause.
Di Tian had to erase it as quickly as possible.
But!
His divine consciousness could indeed erase that mass of spiritual power, but his physical body could not withstand it.
Di Tian's divine consciousness, possessing spiritual immunity, versus the Tianlong Seat's Peak Super God level spiritual power.
The force produced by their collision could physically tear apart space itself!
This was no longer purely spiritual damage!
Just as Di Tian hesitated slightly, an unforeseen change occurred.
The incompatible Super God level spiritual power began expanding infinitely in a suicidal manner. Each time it approached Di Tian's divine consciousness, a portion of its Super God level spiritual power was depleted.
Likewise, those collisions produced physical damage.
"Hiss—"
Even Di Tian's dragon body, which had reached God Level strength, began cracking inch by inch. Dense spiderweb-like fissures appeared across the surface of his enormous body.
"Looks like I can't keep it."
Faced with such peril, Di Tian could only take out an item.
A Life Evergreen Vine bag.
It had been woven from the roots of the Life Evergreen Vine.
Ordinary people only remembered that life-type heavenly treasures could prolong life, yet forgot that such treasures were formed through roots continuously absorbing energy, transforming it, and nourishing them.
Having nourished countless life-type heavenly treasures, those roots would only be of even higher quality.
Able to ensure that a weakened living creature would not die for at least thirty thousand years, these Life Evergreen Vine roots were worthy of being ranked among divine-grade heavenly treasures.
He took the Dragon-Eating Beast, the Golden Behemoth King Cub, from within the Life Evergreen Vine roots and refined the Life Evergreen Vine in an instant.
A warm current flowed through his limbs and bones.
Di Tian gained the characteristics of the Life Evergreen Vine roots, absorbing external energy, transforming it, and nourishing himself.
Thanks to this characteristic.
The speed at which Di Tian's physical body cracked was greatly slowed. It would not collapse so quickly, allowing him to completely erase Tianlong's Super God level spiritual power.
At the same time.
With an earth-shaking boom.
Di Tian's enormous Golden-Eyed Black Dragon body crashed into the ground, smashing out a massive meteor-like crater.
He landed beside the Federation Academy of Sciences Tiandou Planet Branch.
Amid the chaos of swirling dust and flying metal fragments, one researcher after another cautiously approached Di Tian.
Their expressions shifted unpredictably.
From their initial displeasure at being disturbed, to curiosity upon seeing the colossal creature, and finally to excitement and exhilaration at the sight of the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon body.
A young researcher saw the dense wounds covering the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon's body and the dragon blood flowing from them.
He voiced everyone's thoughts:
"He... seems to be dead."
"Do we have a new experimental specimen?"
Di Tian was naturally not dead.
He had heard what they said outside as well.
But he had no mind to care.
On his side.
One wave had barely subsided before another rose.
He had just finished erasing the Super God level spiritual power Tianlong had left behind, and his physical body had not yet completely collapsed.
Before he could even rejoice.
At the very end of the Super God level spiritual power's erasure, a wisp of Tianlong's ethereal will emerged.
Fortunately, it was not much trouble.
Possession-type abilities relied on will, and Tianlong's will was no exception.
Tianlong's will had one and only one target for possession: Di Tian.
Could he succeed?
There was not the slightest possibility.
The instant Tianlong's will touched Di Tian, it immediately dissipated into smoke, leaving not a trace behind.
Compared to Di Tian's long experiences accumulated over endless years, the Tianlong Seat's mere few thousand years of life were no more than a drop in the ocean.
In terms of willpower alone.
Di Tian had lived for so many years, suffered so many defeats, trusted so many people wrongly... yet even now, he had not gone mad. He still persevered tirelessly and diligently.
Still restoring the old mountains and rivers, setting out once more.
Compared to him, Tianlong's will.
Calling it a firefly beside the bright moon, or a nag beside a qilin, would be flattering it.
"Hoo—"
After calming the final aftershocks brought by a Peak Super God level powerhouse's strike, the heavily wounded Di Tian exhaled a heavy breath of dragon breath.
Then he opened his golden dragon eyes and looked down at the researchers around him discussing how to study him.
His voice was cold:
"I am Di Tian."
"The king of the Soul Beast Clan."
"Tell the Federation War God Temple that I have matters concerning the Federation's survival to report."
"Miss the deadline, and don't blame me."
Deep within his cold gaze burned a bloodthirsty fury for revenge.
Tianlong would not let him have an easy time.
Neither would he let Tianlong have an easy time.
That bullshit plan to swallow the entire Douluo Demi-God Realm through Dragon Source Crystals!
From today onward, that plan was bankrupt!
He said so!
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