Tiandou Lan Family—Lan Mengqin

Yu Muchen vanished from before Di Tian in an instant, unable to wait any longer to hunt down Tianlong Seat, a peak Super God level powerhouse.

As for those accompanying Di Tian to the Tiandou Lan Family, they had become the dean of the Federation Academy of Science Tiandou Branch and a War God from the War God Temple whose cultivation had reached God Level.

Beidou City.

Tiandou Lan Family.

It was located atop the highest peak on the entire Tiandou Star Continent, blanketed in snow year-round and carrying much the same feel as the Far North of the Douluo Home Planet.

Outside Lan Mansion.

A man had been waiting there early.

Upon seeing the visitors, he jogged over at once.

"Beast God."

"Dean."

"..."

"Your presence honors this humble residence."

The Tiandou Dean looked at him, his voice carrying a trace of surprise.

"Ruo Ye."

"Why are you here?"

"Where's Clan Head Lan Bing?"

"Don't tell me you staged a coup after becoming a live-in son-in-law?"

It was clear from the way they spoke that they knew each other.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have spoken so casually.

Ruo Ye twitched the corner of his mouth.

"I'm an ordinary man without even Innate Soul Power. How could I possibly usurp the position of a Title Douluo?"

"You may dare to imagine it, but I wouldn't dare do it."

Then, he turned to Di Tian and apologized.

"Beast God."

"Clan Head Lan Bing, my wife, has just given birth."

"She isn't in a position to come out and receive guests."

"Please forgive her discourtesy."

"I'll take you to see her now."

Ruo Ye had long since received notice from the Federation authorities, so he didn't dare delay.

After Di Tian gave his assent.

The group quickly entered Lan Mansion and soon met Lan Bing, who held a baby girl in her arms.

Hmm.

Di Tian couldn't help sighing at how small the world was.

Lan Bing and Ruo Ye's daughter—wasn't she Lan Mengqin, one of the Shrek Seven Devils from the original timeline?

Her martial souls matched as well.

Twin Martial Souls: the Heavenly Snow Woman martial soul inherited from her mother, Lan Bing, and the Jade Phoenix Zither martial soul inherited from her father, Ruo Ye, who possessed no Innate Soul Power.

With that.

He could roughly guess the condition the Lan Family would set for exchanging the Hundred-Thousand-Year Snow Lotus.

Sure enough.

Lan Bing's next words perfectly matched Di Tian's guess.

As she took out a Hundred-Thousand-Year Snow Lotus, she said,

"I'm getting old."

"This Hundred-Thousand-Year Snow Lotus was prepared for my daughter."

"I hoped she could use it to resolve the flaw in the Heavenly Snow Woman Bloodline. Even if it can't resolve it, a Hundred-Thousand-Year heavenly treasure compatible with her attributes can still give my daughter tremendous talent and ensure her early cultivation speed won't be inferior to cultivating on the home planet."

"If you wish to trade for this Hundred-Thousand-Year Snow Lotus, I want you to resolve the flaw in my clan's Heavenly Snow Woman Bloodline."

The Tiandou Dean's expression changed upon hearing that.

Many powers on Tiandou Planet knew of the flaw in the Lan Family's Heavenly Snow Woman Bloodline.

Its outward symptoms were far too obvious. The flaw would emerge after the age of forty, and no clan member had ever lived beyond fifty.

"That's far too difficult."

"To cure it, a God Level powerhouse would need to release all their life force and completely elevate the Heavenly Snow Woman Bloodline."

"The price would practically amount to sacrificing a God Level powerhouse!"

"As for other methods?"

"A drop of life essence from the Eternal Sky Tree would work as well."

"But Clan Head Lan Bing, you know that's something Shrek would never put up for trade."

Just as he was about to discuss changing the condition.

Di Tian suddenly spoke.

"No problem."

"I can help you resolve the flaw in the Heavenly Snow Woman Bloodline."

"Tiandou Dean."

"Once Yu Muchen returns, tell him that I have no additional demands for the moment."

"Just record the military merits for providing intelligence in the military merit ledger. They may come in handy when I take human form and cultivate anew in the future."

"Good, good." The Tiandou Dean nodded heavily and agreed repeatedly.

It couldn't have been better that Di Tian was willing to take this on.

Turning intelligence into military merits was then a matter between the Federation and Di Tian.

A minor dean like him wouldn't have to take the blame.

Lan Bing, meanwhile, looked at Di Tian with suspicion filling her sky-blue eyes.

He wasn't God Level either.

Could it be... that Di Tian could obtain a drop of life essence from the Eternal Sky Tree?

"Don't let your imagination run wild." As if seeing through Lan Bing's thoughts, Di Tian shook his head.

"I'm not God Level yet, nor do I possess any life essence from the Eternal Sky Tree."

"Besides."

"Whether it's all the life essence of a God Level powerhouse or a drop of life essence from the Eternal Sky Tree, both are measures that treat the symptoms rather than the root cause."

"They can cure one person, but not an entire clan."

"I can sense divinity within your clan's bloodline. In other words, your family has produced God Level powerhouses since the evolution of the Douluo Plane."

"However."

"Those God Level powerhouses could only cure themselves and had no way to nourish the entire clan in return."

In the original timeline.

The hundreds of thousands of years of life energy Bi Ji had accumulated could only save Lan Mengqin. Even after her martial soul bloodline evolved, it couldn't nourish the entire family.

Her mother Lan Bing's bloodline remained Heaven-Deficient.

The life essence of the Eternal Sky Tree in the Little Dragon God's possession had indeed only saved Lan Bing herself.

Lan Bing's mouth fell open as she listened.

"Everything Beast God said is correct," she said in surprise.

"Although our family has never attempted to use all the life essence of a God Level powerhouse or a drop of life essence from the Eternal Sky Tree to treat the Heaven-Deficient Bloodline, every God Level ancestor in our family has arrived at the same conclusion."

"Both methods would probably only treat the symptoms, not the root cause."

At this point, the look in her eyes as she gazed at Di Tian gradually became excited.

"Since Senior could see through it at a glance, you must have a way to treat the root cause."

"I implore Senior to enlighten us."

"If our family can escape the suffering of the Heaven-Deficient Bloodline, Beast God will be the most honored guest of our clan for generations to come."

When he responded again.

Di Tian's voice carried a hint of reminiscence.

"The Heavenly Snow Woman is a natural spirit, born of heaven and earth."

"Before twenty thousand years ago, they had only ever appeared among soul beasts."

"Unless the previous Heavenly Snow Woman ascended to godhood, only one Heavenly Snow Woman would be born across the entire plane."

"After Snow Empress became a soul spirit."

"The Heavenly Snow Woman Bloodline appeared among humans. A human girl named Su Tong—I remember she even pursued Huo Yuhao."

"Later."

"After Su Tong graduated from Shrek, she joined the Spirit Pagoda. I often went in and out of the Spirit Pagoda at the time, observing the bloodline changes among Su Tong's descendants."

"I observed them for roughly seven thousand years."

"Until the battle over establishing Star Dou Fortress, when the human rulers of the Spirit Pagoda gathered all the continent's ultimate powerhouses to besiege me."

"I lost that battle."

"My observations of the changes in the human Heavenly Snow Woman Bloodline came to an abrupt end as well."

"Until today, when I saw your branch once more."

"I was able to roughly confirm the nature of this bloodline change."

"Su Tong should be the ancestor of your lineage, shouldn't she?"

After Lan Bing nodded in confirmation, Di Tian gave his judgment: