Dragon God Egg

"And."

"Senior."

"Today's Shrek Academy is already very different from how it was ten thousand years ago. The life core of the Douluo Demi-God Realm, the Eternal Sky Tree, has taken root in the academy. Shrek is now the best cultivation site in the entire Demi-God Realm."

"Aside from running, which still follows the original ancient method, the living environment, cultivation treasures, educational resources, and so on are all top-tier."

Di Tian was not moved in the slightest.

Yi Zichen made it sound nice.

And what he said was indeed true.

Shrek protected its students.

Its cultivation resources and cultivation environment were indeed very good now.

It even assigned wives.

All of that was true.

But Di Tian also knew Shrek's purpose.

There were no benefits in the world without reason; fate's gifts had long since had their prices secretly marked.

They simply wanted to bring him under the signboard of "Shrek's Ten-Thousand-Year Glory."

Having dealt with Shrek for more than twenty thousand years, and knowing the history of Shrek's rise and fall extremely well, Di Tian understood Shrek's underlying nature all too clearly.

It was like some damned highly infectious virus, wanting to stamp the Shrek label on everything it took a fancy to.

Its treatment of soul beasts was even more special.

The kind where they were not treated as people.

In history, when those soul beasts who transformed into humans were introduced, the opening description was usually what kind of soul beast they were, not what kind of human they were.

Xiao Wu had been human for who knew how many tens of thousands of years.

Yet when people thought of Xiao Wu, their first thought was still her true identity: a hundred-thousand-year Soft Bone Rabbit Emperor.

As for the other soul beasts who transformed into humans, there was even less need to mention them.

Just these things alone.

Di Tian could actually tolerate them.

Wasn't it just a sugar-coated shell?

To deal with a sugar-coated shell, of course you ate the sugar coating and spat out the shell.

Over the tens of thousands of years of Shrek's existence, it had nurtured no small number of evil soul masters.

There had long been precedents of evil soul masters who ate Shrek's sugar coating and spat out the shells.

But for Di Tian.

The most, most important thing was successfully passing the divine tribulation after transforming and recultivating.

To ensure that no humans from the Douluo Federation deliberately caused trouble, he would definitely have to run to another Demi-God Realm to undergo the tribulation to become a god.

Shrek had too many powerful experts and was located on Douluo Home Planet, making it rather inconvenient to run away.

It was also the Tang family's old nest.

That made it even more inconvenient for him to do anything to the Dragon God Egg.

"Zichen."

"There's no need for me to go to Shrek after transforming."

The moment Di Tian said this, Yi Zichen's brows immediately knitted tightly.

"Senior."

"Haven't you always hoped to return to Douluo Home Planet? You even made a request to the federation before to return to the home planet to undergo your tribulation to become a god."

"After transforming."

"Within Douluo Home Planet, could you possibly have a better place to go?"

Di Tian smiled faintly.

He gave a reasonable, comprehensive reason that Yi Zichen could not refuse.

"Haven't Shrek and the federation always wanted to establish a 'Federal Central Academy Elf Branch' on Elf Planet? The federation would provide the resources, Shrek would provide the teachers, and both sides would jointly oversee it."

"Last time, you proposed it."

"I said I would consider it."

"Now, I agree."

"The Elf Queen has no objection either. On this matter, she once stated clearly that my wishes would be the main deciding factor."

"The Elf Branch is perfect as my destination after transforming. It's close to the Soul Beast Clan, and the federation won't have any objections either."

"Otherwise, if I returned to the home planet and entered Shrek, the federation would probably be very unhappy."

Yi Zichen's brows quickly smoothed out.

Ever since Shrek had established the "Federal Central Academy Senluo Branch" on Senluo Planet, where Da Ming and Er Ming held authority, it had always wanted to build another on Elf Planet to expand its influence.

Although the federation funded it, Shrek teachers were the ones who taught there.

Many students who graduated from the branch recognized Shrek more than they recognized the federation.

Even if they had never studied at Shrek's main academy, these graduates still publicly claimed to be Shrek people.

Unfortunately.

Compared with Da Ming and Er Ming, who were close to humans, Di Tian clearly was not that close to humans.

He had always fobbed them off in the past.

And now he had agreed...

Yi Zichen narrowed his eyes.

In the end, the King of Soul Beasts still cared about the Soul Beast Clan on Elf Planet...

Mm, that was normal too.

Presumably, after transforming and recultivating, these symptoms would disappear.

"Very well."

"Senior."

"Once the Federal Central Academy Elf Branch is completed, Shrek will naturally dispatch a large number of teachers and students to take up residence."

"All educational methods will follow Shrek's teaching syllabus."

Yi Zichen agreed readily.

It was all the same, all the same.

If the mountain would not come to him, he would go to the mountain.

And he had gained, for nothing, an opportunity to open an academy on Elf Planet and strengthen Shrek's influence and foundation.

Borrowing a chicken to lay eggs.

Using the federation's resources to cultivate students who were close to Shrek.

There were plenty of benefits.

While he was in a pleasant mood, Di Tian's first destination arrived.

—The Far North!

An endless snowfield stretched before them, blanketed in white, the land all one color.

It was truly a northern landscape of snow drifting for a thousand miles.

It was also one of the very few natural regions that had not been scoured by ultra-modern traces, possessing a kind of primitive natural beauty.

Only a few scattered scientific expedition teams came and went within it.

Di Tian walked across the snow-white earth, leaving no trace in the snow.

As if casually, he asked, "It has been many years since I last returned."

"There should be no soul beasts left in the Far North, right?"

"There should be none." Yi Zichen answered subconsciously, "You know as well."

"Back then, when the soul beasts migrated to an alien planet."

"The few remaining soul beast survivors in the Far North also followed you and migrated to Elf Planet."

"Even if the federation discovered a few scattered soul beasts that had been missed, it would send them to Elf Planet at the first opportunity."

"I see." Di Tian still sounded as if he were merely chatting out of idleness.

In reality, it was to lay the groundwork for taking away the Dragon God Egg.

Of course.

On the surface, he had still come to search for a divine object that could help ferocious beasts transform and recultivate.

"Do you still remember what I said when you suggested I come to the Far North first?"

"The Far North was already one of the destinations of this trip."

"Besides a wanderer returning home and looking around."

"I came to search for a Hundred-Thousand-Year Snow Lotus."

"It can help ferocious beasts transform and recultivate."

"During this time."

"If I find any soul beasts left behind, there will be no need to trouble the federation. I will take them back along the way."

"That is only proper." Yi Zichen did not feel there was anything wrong with it.

Humanity was very interested in the method that allowed ferocious beasts to take human form.

Di Tian shared the method, and he was responsible for recording it and sharing it with the Federation.

It had already been agreed upon.

As for casually taking away any soul beasts that might have been missed, Yi Zichen did not take such a trivial matter to heart at all.

In the blink of an eye.

Di Tian released his powerful spiritual sense, which far surpassed that of an ordinary Limit Douluo, and with himself as the origin point, it instantly spread across the entire Far North.

To search for the Dragon God Egg.

And also to search for the Hundred-Thousand-Year Snow Lotus.

There was a snow lotus in the Far North that was about to cross the threshold of one hundred thousand years. A soul beast from the Far North, recently sent to Elf Planet by the Federation, had told him about it.

As they headed north, Di Tian's pace suddenly quickened at a certain moment.

Beside him, Yi Zichen sensed the change in Di Tian.

"Senior."

"Have you found the Hundred-Thousand-Year Snow Lotus?"

"Yes." Di Tian nodded.

In just a few breaths, they reached the northernmost end of the Far North.

Atop a towering glacier, he stood beside a deep fissure.

The fissure was narrow, almost buried beneath the snow.

It was even less able to accommodate a human entering it.

Di Tian reached out and probed into the void.

The next moment, a snow lotus appeared in his palm.

Pure and snow-white, its lotus petals were dazzling and profuse.

The lotus blooming upon the snowfield was like a brilliant pearl atop a high mountain, radiant and dazzling.