Spirit Ascension Platform.
A virtual world formed from fragments of the Divine Realm and technology exclusive to the Spirit Pagoda.
Venue Six.
Within the intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform range.
Zi Ji and Bai Lingshuang remained outside; they could not enter.
Only Di Tian and Bi Ji entered in consciousness form and met the Yin-Yang Chaos Bird, which was likewise in consciousness form.
"You've worked hard."
"My King." The Yin-Yang Chaos Bird looked somewhat ashamed. "I failed to accomplish the task completely."
"Maintaining the yin-yang balance of Venue Six consumed too much of my power. Even against a Gold-Patterned Time Blue Demon Bird with a thousand years of cultivation, I was at a disadvantage and could never capture it."
"It's fine." Naturally, Di Tian would not blame him.
A Blue Demon Bird capable of combining to produce a Phoenix bloodline at the level of a God King was naturally no ordinary beast.
A hundred-thousand-year Silver-Patterned Spatial Blue Demon Bird had been able to fight Lan Xuanyu, who possessed five rings and wielded the super-divine artifact Heavenly Saint Splitting Abyss Halberd, on even terms.
The Yin-Yang Chaos Bird, meanwhile, had faced a thousand-year Gold-Patterned Time Blue Demon Bird after expending a great deal of power to maintain the yin-yang balance in Venue Six. It was perfectly normal that he had failed to take it down.
"Bi Ji."
He merely called her name and had not yet continued.
But Bi Ji already understood perfectly. Her Emerald Swan Martial Soul Possession activated, and the immense bloodline power belonging to the Phoenix lineage erupted.
Her bloodline power moved with the wind.
All birds spread their wings and flew toward the phoenix.
For a time, not only the flying soul beasts in Venue Six, but even those outside Venue Six, all flew toward Bi Ji.
"Is this... selecting a soul spirit for Senior Bi Ji?"
Outside, Bai Lingshuang and Zi Ji had been observing all along.
Bai Lingshuang had seen similar scenes before.
Some prodigies with powerful bloodlines would also release their bloodline power in the Spirit Ascension Platform, thereby attracting soul beasts compatible with their bloodlines.
Although the soul beasts within the Spirit Ascension Platform were essentially a form of energy and could not serve as soul spirits, they could reveal which soul beasts were compatible with one's bloodline.
That way, suitable soul spirits could be selected from the Spirit Pagoda's soul spirit treasury.
But...
"Isn't Senior Bi Ji a soul beast in human form? Does she need to add soul spirits too?"
Bai Lingshuang looked toward Zi Ji as if seeking confirmation.
Without blinking or shifting her gaze from the screen displaying Di Tian, Zi Ji answered without looking away.
"She isn't looking for soul spirits compatible with her bloodline. This concerns the operation of the Spirit Ascension Platform."
"Di Tian said—"
"Whatever you can understand will be deducted from the remaining fee for using the Spirit Ascension Platform."
Bai Lingshuang was utterly baffled by that.
The Spirit Pagoda did indeed have such a policy.
New technology in exchange for resources.
But what was there about operating the Spirit Ascension Platform that she, as the Spirit Pagoda's Vice Tower Master, would not understand?
Even if Di Tian had stayed in the Spirit Pagoda for seven thousand years, all he had known was ancient soul spirit technology. How could it possibly compare to modern soul spirit technology?
What?
Could Di Tian turn the virtual energy data inside the Spirit Ascension Platform into living soul spirits?
Don't make this young lady laugh.
If he could achieve soul spirit technology that even the Spirit Pagoda had yet to realize, she would eat the Spirit Ascension Platform.
Watching Di Tian and Bi Ji on the screen, she spoke blandly.
"Let's wait and see."
"If there truly is some new technology, what would it matter if we waived the fee?"
Yet inwardly, she was filled with disdain.
At the same time.
Spirit Ascension Platform.
Within Venue Six, Di Tian's golden eyes swept across every soul beast flying over.
Nor did he care about Bai Lingshuang spying from outside.
Not only was it impossible to use the Spirit Ascension Platform without going through the Spirit Pagoda, but the key to converting virtual energy data into soul spirits did not lie in any technology at all—it lay in the fragments of the Divine Realm containing immortal spiritual energy.
An exclusive product of the God Realm.
A non-renewable resource of the Douluo Demi-God Realm.
It existed only within the Spirit Pagoda's Spirit Ascension Platform. Even if the Spirit Pagoda exhausted all its reserves, it could not convert many soul spirits.
The Spirit Ascension Platform had endured for nearly twenty thousand years.
It was a genuine golden goose. Unless the Spirit Pagoda had rocks in its head, it would never drain the Spirit Ascension Platform's origin to convert soul spirits.
Even if the Douluo Demi-God Realm were ultimately promoted into a God Realm, it would never permit the Spirit Pagoda to chip away a pile of fragments from the God Realm's origin.
It truly was a new technology that was tasteless to keep yet a pity to discard.
But Di Tian did not care.
Trading a useless new technology for the Spirit Pagoda's non-renewable resources was more than worth it.
At this very moment.
The target Di Tian had been waiting for finally made its entrance.
A Gold-Patterned Time Blue Demon Bird with a thousand years of cultivation, evolved from an Emerald Demon Bird.
Its temperament was exceptionally savage and violent.
It possessed the formidable combat strength of a Gold-Patterned Time Blue Demon Bird while retaining the Emerald Demon Bird's instinct to feast on living creatures' brain matter.
"Clang—"
It let out a shriek resembling a phoenix's cry.
After hesitating briefly between Bi Ji and Di Tian, it dove straight toward Di Tian's brain.
Compared to Bi Ji, a phoenix with impure bloodline, Di Tian—a true dragon bearing the bloodline of two Dragon Kings—was clearly far more delicious.
Greed filled its avian eyes, as if they were saying:
Di Tian's brain matter was surely the finest delicacy in the world.
Moreover.
He was just a one-ring scrub.
Taking Di Tian's brain matter would be easy.
"Clang—"
It cried out again as its innate skill erupted.
Time Freeze!
The surrounding air immediately warped. The flying movements of the airborne soul beasts nearby seemed as though they were dropping frames, stuttering bit by bit.
Di Tian, meanwhile, remained completely still.
To the Gold-Patterned Blue Demon Bird, Di Tian had clearly been caught by the attack. His resistance was even worse than that of the surrounding soul beasts.
However.
As it neared the center of Di Tian's brow, Di Tian suddenly moved.
His motion was incredibly slight.
His brow twitched.
A longsword condensed from spiritual power shot forth from the center of his brow. Sword aura buzzed and reverberated in every direction.
"Whoosh—"
A spiritual-power weapon, its sword light shone in all directions.
The power of the spiritual-power innate skill, "Spiritual-Power Weapon," transformed from divine consciousness, was no joke.
The mere buzzing sword aura broke through the thousand-year Gold-Patterned Blue Demon Bird's defenses.
Bird feathers drifted down like snowflakes.
Even its "Clang, clang—" cries became panicked.
It hurriedly flapped its wings and fled from Di Tian.
It flew into the flock of airborne soul beasts, using them as a shield in front of itself.
When it looked at Di Tian again.
The contempt in its gaze had turned into extreme wariness.
Beyond wariness, its flickering avian eyes held a faint trace of confusion.
The other party had clearly been able to nail it dead with a single sword strike just now. Why had he held back?
Di Tian met its gaze, one brow lifting slightly.
Raising a Gold-Patterned Blue Demon Bird was no easy task. If he killed this one, who knew how long he would have to wait for another to be born?
That was why he had not nailed it to death with one sword.
He needed to capture it alive.
A target that could be captured alive was the Gold-Patterned Blue Demon Bird, hailed as the Messenger of Time.
Killing it would be easy, but capturing it alive would be incredibly difficult.
He could hardly give up restoring his strength through rebuilding just for a thousand-year Gold-Patterned Blue Demon Bird.
"Phew~" He let out a breath of stale air.
"I was going to expose myself anyway."
"I'll use you to test my blade."
Golden light flowed from his golden dragon eyes, like the trailing flames of starlight, unfurling several meters into a cape of radiance.
The Dragon King Martial Soul markings on his two dragon arms echoed each other as the Light Dragon King bloodline and darkness bloodline fused perfectly.
Self Martial Soul Fusion Skill—Twin Dragon Kings!
Di Tian took a single step, and everything changed.
Radiance scattered as a pair of dragon wings emerged, shared by the twins.
He instantly grew into the form of a young man.
The black dragon held the Black Dragon Sword, while the white dragon supported a balance scale in his palm.
The black dragon had a single right wing formed from black dragon bones, while the white dragon had a single left wing formed from golden dragon bones.
Shared thoughts, Twin Dragon Kings!
Their energy level rose exponentially.
The Gold-Patterned Blue Demon Bird in the sky was so frightened that its feathers instantly stood on end.
Its terror was written all over its face.
However, it was not the only one whose shock was beyond words.
"Slap!"
Bai Lingshuang slammed her hand onto the Spirit Ascension Platform's control console.
Her beautiful eyes were fixed tightly on the changing data displayed on it.
"A self Martial Soul Fusion Skill!"
"One hundred percent fusion compatibility!"
A Martial Soul Fusion Skill alone would naturally not be enough to excite a god-level powerhouse like her. Even a self Martial Soul Fusion Skill would not be enough to excite a god-level powerhouse.
But one hundred percent fusion compatibility was.
In the tens of thousands of years of recorded human history, there had only been two cases of Martial Soul Fusion Skills with one hundred percent fusion compatibility!
Today, Di Tian was the third!
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