Smack!
A vein bulged on Di Tian's temple as he slapped Xiong Jun on the back of the head.
"You old pervert!"
"There are children here!"
"Act normal!"
But Xiong Jun looked utterly wronged.
"No!"
"Boss."
"I did research."
"Young humans love watching this stuff. Every time they do, they can't help giving off mating pheromones."
Smack.
This time, Di Tian's slap did not land on Xiong Jun's bear head, but on his own face.
His large hand covered his face.
Seeing that Di Tian was ignoring him, Xiong Jun turned to the only "child" present.
The Tiger King, Lan Hudie.
A little girl with a cat-ear hairstyle.
Di Tian's adopted daughter, the next generation's Beast God.
A top-tier soul beast bloodline cultivated by Di Tian using the finest heavenly treasure, the Son of Heaven Fruit. Like Di Tian himself, she was a Tiger King capable of perfectly controlling the mutually repelling elements of light and darkness.
She had cultivated for a thousand years and attained ten thousand years of cultivation.
Xiong Jun gave her a meaningful look.
As if saying: Go on!
You're his daughter. He won't hit you.
At the same time, quite a few Ferocious Beasts cast expectant looks toward Lan Hudie.
They hoped she could tell whether Di Tian had truly been affected by the "unspeakable, unseeable, unimaginable terror of soul beasts taking human form."
And whether there was any way to solve it.
Seeing all her uncles and aunties acting as though they faced a great enemy, the little Tiger King, Lan Hudie, was infected by their tension and felt immense pressure.
In a daze, she seemed to see a "person" on her father Di Tian.
Her elder sister, whom she had never met.
The Imperial Auspicious Beast, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion—Wang Qiu'er!
Wang Qiu'er seemed like a drifting ghost, her long hair covering her face as she strangled her father Di Tian from behind.
Though Lan Hudie had a child's temperament, she had lived for over a thousand years and had truly seen much of the world.
She made her move too.
A tiny gecko in her left hand and a pufferfish in her right.
She began circling Di Tian.
As she spun, her body tilted high on the left and low on the right, then low on the left and high on the right... hopping in a repeating cycle like a spirit medium performing a ritual.
She chanted an equally discordant, ear-splitting incantation.
"Demons and monsters, go away! Demons and monsters, go away..."
Di Tian: "..."
For some reason, he felt terribly stifled inside.
Looking at Lan Hudie now, he had the uncanny feeling of watching his daughter turn into some ghostfire girl.
Why were all the daughters he raised so... unique?
Such an adorable daughter—how had she turned into this mess?
He immediately interrupted her casting.
He stuffed a mint candy into Lan Hudie's mouth.
"Mmff~" Lan Hudie was left with nothing but muffled whimpers.
Just then.
Di Tian suddenly felt a chill all over his body.
A madman sharpened his blade at night; the Imperial Star wavered as Mars rose high.
The madwoman was Zi JI.
The expression on her face as she looked at Di Tian was one of terror, a neurotic anxiety pushed to its limit.
She muttered dazedly:
"I feel like I heard an echo from the future—one day, Di Tian suddenly comes back and tells us, 'I'm no longer the Soul Beast King!'"
"I feel like I saw a phantom of the future—Di Tian has several beautiful human women in his arms, while Bi Ji and I are tied up beside him, biting handkerchiefs and watching with tears streaming down our faces."
"I feel like I touched ripples from the past—the Blue Silver Emperor Ah Yin, the Soft Bone Rabbit Emperor Xiao Wu, the Imperial Auspicious Beast Three-Eyed Golden Lion Wang Qiu'er, our lord the Silver Dragon King... all gathered splendidly within Di Tian's body."
"..."
Eight burly guardians, four great beauties.
The Eight Immortals crossed the sea, each displaying their own powers.
Di Tian now had one head and two aching brains.
It was not that he had failed to anticipate resistance. He just had not expected it to be this intense!
The beasts before him cut down trees; the beasts behind them suffered under the blazing sun.
The beasts before him courted death; the beasts behind them suffered the consequences.
He was truly suffering terribly.
The voices around him grew more and more outrageous, until King of Ten Thousand Monsters said, "How about... how about we put a chastity lock on Boss?"
Di Tian could not take it anymore.
He abruptly stood up.
"Stop!"
In a tone that said, I'm really done with all of you, he said:
"Bi Ji."
"You'll take human form and recultivate with me."
Keep it within the family.
That should be fine, right!!!
The air instantly fell silent. Bi Ji froze at first, then shook her head like a rattle drum.
Bi Ji was scared!
Very scared!
Extremely scared!
Even if she had to go with Zi JI, she would be willing.
But soul beasts taking human form, soul beasts taking human form... once bitten by a snake, one feared ropes for a million years.
She hesitated for a long while.
She looked at Di Tian, who was determined to take human form and recultivate.
Then she looked at the gazes of the other seven, gazes that seemed to regard her as "the village's last hope."
As though they were saying: Keeping it within the family is good, but it has to actually stay within the family.
In the end, she bit her red lip with pearly teeth and nodded.
Suddenly, a vast righteous aura surged out of Bi Ji.
I laughed as I held my blade toward the heavens; whether I stayed or left, my courage would tower like the Kunlun Mountains.
A will to live toward death burst forth in full force.
At the same time, she comforted herself. "We're keeping it within the family. Nothing will go wrong...
As she kept comforting herself, Bi Ji suddenly found half a theoretical basis for it.
Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion.
Though they had not taken human form and recultivated, they had still become soul spirits entangled with humans in an inseparable mess.
In the end, keeping it within the family was successful.
Now, Bi Ji felt much more at ease about that future.
Di Tian also wiped his forehead, though no sweat had formed there.
For him, the Soul Beast King with nine hundred and ninety thousand years of cultivation, the path of taking human form and recultivating truly was eighty-one trials.
The internal problem was settled.
There was still the external problem.
He needed to find at least two Snow Lotus-type heavenly treasures that were a hundred thousand years old. That was also why he had not initially asked Bi Ji to take human form and recultivate with him.
He only had information about one Hundred-Thousand-Year Snow Lotus-type heavenly treasure.
Otherwise, he would have asked Bi Ji to take human form and recultivate with him from the start, rather than being forced to say so after enduring the nagging of a group of Ferocious Beasts for so long.
Because.
After taking human form and recultivating, Bi Ji could obtain an enormous opportunity in this era.
When a soul master fused with a soul spirit, it could enhance their bloodline.
In the original timeline, Tang Yuge fused with the Yin-Yang Chaos Bird, and her martial soul successfully evolved from the Five Elements Qilin into the Heavenly Stem Qilin.
At the present stage.
Within the Spirit Pagoda's Spirit Ascension Platform, Immortal Spiritual Qi tainted by the aura once left behind by the Divine Realm had, through the ancient soul beasts in the projected Star Dou Forest and a chain of coincidences, given birth to a hundred-thousand-year Silver-Patterned Blue Demon Bird.
As long as it absorbed the Divine Realm fragments within the Spirit Ascension Platform, it could become a true soul spirit.
And the Phoenix God King who had fought the Dragon God back then had been born from the Silver-Patterned Blue Demon Bird and the Gold-Patterned Blue Demon Bird.
Although a female Silver-Patterned Blue Demon Bird and a male Gold-Patterned Blue Demon Bird were difficult to bring into existence at the same time due to heaven's jealousy, Di Tian had cultivated a Yin-Yang Chaos Bird capable of regulating the yin and yang of soul beasts. Only one such bird was allowed to exist in the entire soul beast world.
Everything had raised the conditions for the birth of a female Silver-Patterned Blue Demon Bird and a male Gold-Patterned Blue Demon Bird.
Bi Ji's true form, the Emerald Swan, possessed the bloodline closest to the Divine Beast Phoenix among all soul beasts.
Once she fused with the Silver-Patterned Blue Demon Bird and Gold-Patterned Blue Demon Bird, rising to the same bloodline as the Phoenix God King of old would be inevitable.
"Bi Ji."
"Contact the Douluo Federation."
"The Soul Beast King will no longer undergo a Godhood Tribulation. He will take the path of becoming human and recultivating."
"A homesick wanderer wishes to return home for a visit. He will not stay long, only travel and sightsee."
"If they don't trust me, I can send an avatar."
"Human records of Ferocious Beasts taking human form are not detailed. I believe they will be interested."
"If that still isn't enough, offer them a Son of Heaven Fruit."
"They will definitely agree."
A Son of Heaven Fruit ripened once every thousand years. The births of the Tiger King Lan Hudie and the Yin-Yang Chaos Bird were both deeply connected to the Son of Heaven Fruit.
Elder Shu, the God Level powerhouse of Shrek's Life School, had openly expressed his interest.
And in Di Tian's view.
These costs were nothing at all.
In another ten thousand years, an era of great opportunities would erupt.
Yet treasures concealed their own brilliance, making them difficult for humans to discover.
That would make things easier for him.
The Extreme North, where the Hundred-Thousand-Year Snow Lotus was born, was only one of his objectives. More importantly, he needed to obtain that egg.
The egg produced by Tang Wulin and Gu Yuena.
The Second Generation Dragon God egg—Lan Xuanyu.
Its bloodline might not be usable.
A whole group of Super God level powerhouses in the Dragon-Horse Twin Stars' Demi-God Realm had been unable to do anything about his bloodline.
But.
Even if the bloodline could not be used, the little Dragon God still possessed a Super Divine Artifact, the Heavenly Saint Splitting Abyss Halberd.
Gu Yuena had deliberately not bound it to an owner so her beloved son could use it.
An ownerless Super Divine Artifact.
That artifact alone would make this venture wildly profitable.
And there was the Life Evergreen Vine pouch containing the Golden Behemoth King, as well as the Tears of the Dragon God, the wills of various dragons that had failed to fetch a price at auction.
The next day.
Douluo Home Planet.
Two God Level powerhouses from Shrek Academy, the two vice masters of the Sea God Pavilion.
Elder Shu and Wang Tianyu.
The two stood guard by the edge of a spatial wormhole. Wang Tianyu asked in confusion:
"I really don't understand."
"Why does Shrek have to strongly support Di Tian's true body coming to the home planet?"
Elder Shu replied with a smile:
"Of course, because Di Tian plans to take human form and enter the human world to recultivate."
"Since the dawn of human civilization, which soul beast that took human form has not fallen into human hands?"
"Shrek naturally has to throw out an olive branch of full support, assistance, and recruitment."
"Get this Soul Beast King into Shrek Academy. With our academy's educational ability, we can turn him into a Shrek person in minutes. From then on, Di Tian will become the most dazzling golden signboard of Shrek's 'Ten Thousand Years of Glory'!"
"I'll devote my life to the 'Ten Thousand Year Glory of Shrek.'"
Elder Shu looked exceptionally excited, so agitated that he even trembled slightly.
Wang Tianyu cast Elder Shu a sidelong glance.
How devious. No wonder he was capable of tricking his own academy students out of their treasures despite being a dignified God Level expert.
And it wasn't even the first time.
He edged a little farther away from Elder Shu.
Wang Tianyu naturally supported Elder Shu in taking Di Tian in under the plaque of the Ten Thousand Year Glory of Shrek and training him into a Shrek member. After all, it would benefit Shrek.
His distancing himself from Elder Shu was purely because Elder Shu had conned him when he was young.
Moreover.
Wang Tianyu had his own mission.
—To fight Di Tian, who had come in his true form.
To see whether Di Tian had lied—to see whether he had really suppressed his Godhood Tribulation.
Just then.
Ripples spread through the spatial wormhole.
Lightning snakes danced across Wang Tianyu's body, and his eyes blazed with fighting spirit.
At the same time, a Thunder Fist Seal condensed in his hand.
He greeted him:
"There are friends coming from afar..."
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