Bi Ji: Let's Have a Child

At that moment.

Di Tian's expression suddenly turned resolute.

A future path of "turning the old body into a new bud and finding life in a dead end" slowly took shape within him.

He turned back at the same moment.

Only to see two clear trails of tears running down Bi Ji's cheeks.

"Didn't they say... humans and soul beasts could live together in peace?"

"Why did they refuse our request to return to our homeland to undergo the divine tribulation?"

"Why?"

"Why do those humans still look at us like monkeys in a zoo?"

"..."

She was grieving for Di Tian, and also for the Soul Beast Clan.

Di Tian did not let the pressure show on the surface.

He raised a hand to Bi Ji's face and gently wiped the tear tracks from her cheeks with his thumb.

He smiled and comforted her softly:

"Bi Ji."

"Don't cry."

"I won't undergo the tribulation."

"I have a vague sense that attempting the divine tribulation in the body of a soul beast was always certain death."

The moment he said this, Bi Ji's expression froze.

"You won't undergo the tribulation?"

Only then did she react.

"Certain death."

Bi Ji did not doubt him.

As a ferocious beast with more than six hundred thousand years of cultivation, she knew very well how strongly the laws of heaven and earth suppressed soul beasts from becoming gods.

She knew even more clearly.

Given Di Tian's yearning to step onto the divine path again, if he said he would not undergo the divine tribulation, then the divine tribulation truly had to be certain death.

She pressed her red lips together and did not try to persuade Di Tian again.

She only threw herself into Di Tian's arms without hesitation.

Her breath was as fragrant as orchids.

"Di Tian."

"How much longer can you suppress your divine tribulation at most?"

Feeling the warm, jade-like softness in his arms, with waves of fragrance drifting into his nose.

Di Tian paused, but still wrapped his arms around her slender waist.

"If I suppress it with all my strength, I have a little more than ten years at most before the divine tribulation inevitably descends."

"A little more than ten years." The beauty in his arms murmured softly, "Though brief, it is enough."

"Let's leave behind a child."

"All right?"

That left Di Tian completely at a loss.

It was not until Bi Ji's next sentence that he finally understood the reason.

"As the last trace of us left in this world."

The moment she said this, the will to die began to emerge.

Once Di Tian fell, she was destined to fail her next ferocious beast heavenly tribulation.

Rather than cling to life for a few more years, it would be better to walk the road of rebirth in the underworld hand in hand with Di Tian.

Di Tian knew Bi Ji had misunderstood.

He was only not undergoing the divine tribulation. It was not as if he wanted to die.

He immediately shook his head.

"No."

But before he could explain in detail.

Bi Ji spoke first again:

"Then... then I'll call Zi Ji over too."

Zi Ji was the same as her.

If Di Tian fell, she would never live on alone.

Together in life, together in death.

Di Tian: "..."

He was rather speechless right now.

He had been working without a moment's pause to perfect the future path in his mind—"turn the old body into a new bud, find life in a dead end"—and was just preparing to challenge fate with "my fate is mine, not the heavens'."

So why were they always trying to drag him into a warm bed of romance?

He immediately cut in.

"Bi Ji, you've misunderstood."

"I only said I wouldn't undergo the godhood tribulation in the body of a soul beast. I never said I'd given up in despair."

Bi Ji was no fool, and she immediately understood Di Tian's plan.

"You're planning to transform and cultivate all over again?!"

Di Tian nodded.

His tone carried one part helplessness, two parts resolve, and seven parts desperate will to survive, like a brave man winning when paths met in a narrow lane.

If not for the curse that "soul beasts cannot become gods," he would definitely have chosen to risk it with his soul beast body.

But reality had no ifs.

That was the curse of the supreme God King.

He could only choose to transform and cultivate again.

Transforming and cultivating again was indeed a path that could succeed.

In the original timeline, Dong Qianqiu, who had transformed into a human from a hundred-thousand-year-old Demonic Great White Shark, successfully passed her tribulation and became a god.

"Once I transform and cultivate again."

"The Federation's wariness toward me will also fade by more than half."

"If I successfully pass the tribulation in the body of a soul beast, not only can I leap straight to the limit that the Douluo Demi-God Realm can bear through my accumulated foundation—a second-class deity, a True God level existence—I may even inherit the long lifespan of a soul beast."

"The former is still fine. It isn't as if the Federation has no True God level powerhouses, and it even has existences half a step beyond True God level."

"But the latter is something they would find hard to accept."

"Although I'm not certain whether becoming a god in the body of a soul beast would actually allow me to inherit a soul beast's long lifespan, the Federation, and even the entire human race, could never tolerate the birth of a long-lived True God level soul beast king."

"Even if there were only the tiniest possibility, they still couldn't tolerate it."

"But once I transform and cultivate again."

"Even if I cultivate back to True God level, I'll have at most a thousand years of life."

"In order to maintain the public façade of peaceful coexistence between humans and soul beasts, the various factions of the Douluo Federation would be very happy to watch me die naturally of old age."

"To take a step back... would they make a move against me after I transform?"

"There is a possibility."

"However."

"If the True God level powerhouses among humans want to kill me, whether it's the current me or the me after transformation, it would be as easy as turning over a hand."

"In these nearly ten thousand years, humanity hasn't restricted the growth of my cultivation. They were only wary of the explosive surge that might come after I passed the godhood tribulation."

"After I transform and cultivate again, humanity likewise won't be wary of me before I undergo the godhood tribulation."

"Of course, there is still a possibility that when I undergo the godhood tribulation, they'll obstruct my divine path."

"So."

"There's no way I'll obediently stay in the Douluo Demi-God Realm to undergo the godhood tribulation."

"As everyone knows."

"After a soul beast transforms, it must cultivate together with humans in order to raise its cultivation."

"Academy study has been popular for tens of thousands of years, and in the interstellar era, the trial grounds for students have become the universe."

"For example, the lower plane Dragon Source Planet; or the Demi-God Realm's Sin Planet; and also..."

"Accidents where students, during cosmic trials, accidentally end up in other Demi-God Realms or lower planes happen from time to time."

"After transforming, the chance of escaping the Douluo Demi-God Realm and slipping away like a cicada shedding its shell is more than just a little higher than before transformation."

"In addition."

"Humans don't know my true background."

"They only know that as a soul beast, I have accumulated enough to become a god ten times over. They don't know about the years when I was once a divine dragon, the chief guard of the Dragon God."

"After degenerating from a divine dragon body into the body of a true dragon soul beast, many of my former abilities became unusable. In a sense, they're an alternative kind of sealed foundation."

"As long as the environment allows it, cultivating back to a first-class deity, Super God level, is only a matter of time."

After hearing this.

Joy lit up Bi Ji's face, then turned into wild elation.

But immediately after, worry clouded her features again.

Transforming into human form and cultivating anew—especially Di Tian transforming into human form and cultivating anew—would absolutely be a road full of hardships and thorns.

First, there was the issue of transformation itself.

Only hundred-thousand-year soul beasts could transform into humans.

Not a single savage beast had ever succeeded in transforming.

The Snow Empress could only be counted as half a case. She had been sealed by the God-Sealing Platform while her transformation was still underway, and in the end, she had directly become a soul spirit.

Their Lord, the Silver Dragon King Gu Yuena, counted even less. She was a divine dragon, not a soul beast.

"I know what you're worried about," Di Tian said in a low voice. "The method the Snow Empress used to transform as a savage beast is viable."

"Back then, she used a hundred-thousand-year snow lotus as a catalyst. In truth, she really could have succeeded in transforming."

"Snow-lotus-type heavenly treasures find it very difficult to awaken intelligence, but they possess pure essence of heaven and earth. The Snow Empress merged herself into a hundred-thousand-year snow lotus, deceived the heavens, and successfully transformed."

"The divine immortal herb Yearning Heartbroken Red should work as well, but it only grows in the Icefire Yin Yang Well. The Tang Sect would never trade it to us."

The worry on Bi Ji's face did not ease.

The king of soul beasts transforming into human form and cultivating anew would face eighty-one trials.

And each trial would be harder than the last.

"Sigh~"

"What I'm most worried about is, is..."

"Ah!" Bi Ji hesitated and stumbled over her words, but in the end, she still said it.

"What I'm most worried about is that after a soul beast transforms and enters human society, they'll encounter a great terror that cannot be looked upon directly, cannot be named, and cannot be spoken of!"

Her voice was filled with no ordinary amount of worry.

"No!"

"There's no way we can keep something as big as transforming and cultivating anew a secret. I have to let Zi Ji, Bear Lord, and the others know."

Faced with the hardest of the eighty-one trials in transforming and cultivating anew, even Di Tian found it difficult to stop Bi Ji from calling in friends and companions to pool their wisdom.

Not long after.

Bi Ji, Zi Ji, the Myriad Demon King, Bear Lord, the Scarlet King, the Demon Spirit, the Elf Queen, and Tiger King Blue Butterfly.

The Eight Great Guardians, the Four Great Beauties.

They sat cross-legged in eight trigrams positions as if warding off evil, looking at Di Tian in the center from the eight directions of east, west, south, north, northeast, southeast, northwest, and southwest.

Together, they performed a vivid, silent BGM.

Their eyes stared like bronze bells~

Shooting out lightning-like shrewdness~

It even painted a background board like "The Emperor's New Clothes"—confess and you'll be treated leniently, resist and you'll be dealt with harshly!

It could not be seen or touched, yet everyone felt that this background board existed.

Bear Lord was the first to make a move.

He took out a photo collection of a bear-type soul beast, "Cuihua."

He said, "Boss."

"Which one looks better?"

As he asked, Bear Lord took out a comparison item.

He unlocked the smart soul-guide communicator in his hand, tapped open a matrix secondary software library, swiped left a few more times, then tapped open an inconspicuous icon.

Finally, an advertisement interface that needed mosaic censoring before it could be played popped up.