Tears of the Dragon God

Yi Zichen's voice held a trace of amazement:

"The rumors about the Snow Empress from twenty thousand years ago were actually true!"

"The Hundred-Thousand-Year Snow Lotus really can help a fierce beast deceive the heavens, take human form, and cultivate all over again!"

Di Tian put away the Hundred-Thousand-Year Snow Lotus, then said:

"Let's go."

"When I used my spiritual sense to search for the Hundred-Thousand-Year Snow Lotus just now, I found a soul beast that had been missed."

"Huh?" Yi Zichen, who had just come back to his senses, immediately felt it was quite the coincidence.

But on second thought...

Soul beasts had a strong sense for other soul beasts, so it was only natural that they would more easily find a soul beast that had been overlooked.

Especially after Di Tian's next words, the feeling of coincidence in Yi Zichen's mind vanished completely.

"To be more precise."

"It's a soul beast egg."

"It's frozen inside Far North Ice, buried extremely deep."

"In the depths of the rarely visited Far North, if humans wanted to discover it, they would have to rely on an archaeological team to slowly dig it out."

At once, Yi Zichen wore an expression that said, "Then that's not strange."

Their figures vanished from the spot.

After a few ripples of spatial fluctuation, the two of them passed over a scientific expedition team and arrived in a sunken ice valley.

Bang—

Di Tian reached out with his dragon claw and scooped.

A block of Far North Ice was dragged up from the void. Frozen within it was an egg, its surface covered in exquisite cloud patterns, very beautiful.

Yi Zichen watched the entire process.

But that was all he did—watch.

The king of soul beasts taking away an egg of the Soul Beast Clan, no matter how one looked at it, there was nothing wrong with that.

And so...

The second-generation human Dragon God was taken away by the king of soul beasts, Di Tian, right under the nose of the strongest person in the human Federation.

Di Tian suppressed the urge to investigate it immediately and put the Dragon God Egg into his space.

With his understanding of the Dragon God, and with his experience as the Dragon God's former chief guard, he could be ten thousand percent certain that the egg in his hands was none other than the second-generation Dragon God Egg.

The protagonist of the Ultimate Douluo era.

Just as Di Tian and Yi Zichen left, a scientific expedition team entered the ice valley, the two groups passing right by each other.

The ordinary members of the expedition team could not detect beings of great power. They merely carried out their scientific work as usual, conversing normally.

"Strange."

"When we came last time, we clearly detected signs of life."

"How did it disappear?"

"..."

"Oh no!"

"Don't tell me that while we went back to get the large ice-drilling machinery, someone beat us to it?"

"..."

Of course, none of this had anything to do with Di Tian anymore.

At the outskirts of the Far North.

Di Tian looked back, taking one final glance at the Far North.

Then he gazed in the direction of Star Dou Forest.

He stood there for a long time.

"After taking human form and cultivating anew, the thousand-year lifespan of humans is still far too brief."

"With such beautiful scenery, such a homeland, how could one not be reluctant to leave?"

His tone was wistful.

It could be considered a perfect display of a wanderer returning home.

Immediately afterward, Di Tian smoothly said:

"Let's go."

"We'll go take a look at Shrek City."

"I've been to Shrek City quite a few times in the past. This time, I'll go have a look as well."

"While we're at it, we can buy some cultivation resources."

"They'll be useful after taking human form and starting cultivation over."

Shrek City, where the life core, the Eternal Sky Tree, had taken root, was bound to produce a great number of cultivation resources of exceptional quality.

That was the pretext on the surface.

His real goal, however, was the two treasures that would appear in Shrek City.

The Life Evergreen Vine containing the cub of the Golden Behemoth King, and the aggregate of the wills of all dragons—Tears of the Dragon God.

The former was fine. If he could get it, he would; if not, then so be it.

But the latter, Tears of the Dragon God, was something Di Tian had to obtain.

Otherwise, he would be unable to use the super divine weapon inside the Dragon God Egg, the Heavenly Saint Splitting Abyss Halberd.

The previous master of the Heavenly Saint Splitting Abyss Halberd, the first-rank god who had invaded the Douluo Plane ten thousand years ago, the Abyssal Sage King, had not completely perished.

A wisp of his remnant soul had always been lodged within the Heavenly Saint Splitting Abyss Halberd.

A first-rank god truly deserved to be called a first-rank god.

In the original timeline, even with only a wisp of his remnant soul left, the Abyssal Sage King could still influence a powerhouse undergoing a godhood tribulation.

He could even possess a god-level powerhouse.

Di Tian did not dare be careless.

Without "Tears of the Dragon God, the aggregate of the wills of all dragons" on him, he would absolutely never touch the Heavenly Saint Splitting Abyss Halberd lightly.

Shrek City.

Commercial district.

Di Tian was quite confident he could find "Tears of the Dragon God." It was a dragon race object to begin with, not to mention he had seen it in Tang Wulin's hands ten thousand years ago.

Finding the thing would be a piece of cake.

In the original timeline, Tears of the Dragon God would not appear at the Shrek auction until more than a decade later.

In truth, Tears of the Dragon God had long since entered the world.

Tang Wulin, Gu Yuena, and the Dragon God Egg had all been buried deep in the north, and the Dragon God Egg was actually the last of the three to emerge.

By the time the scientific expedition team dug out the Dragon God Egg, Tang Wulin's unclothed body had already drifted across the sea from the Far North to the southernmost end of the continent, reaching the clan grounds of the Sacred Angel Le Clan in the continent's South Sea.

Tears of the Dragon God had long since separated from Tang Wulin.

Whether Di Tian followed his dragon instincts or the plot of the original timeline, both pointed to one place.

—Shrek Academy!

In Shrek's commercial district, Di Tian bought quite a few heavenly treasures.

Most of them were Shrek specialties that could be used after taking human form and starting cultivation over.

Until he reached an accessories shop.

Di Tian selected a few beautiful accessories. Among them was a teardrop-shaped nine-colored gemstone.

The instant Di Tian's finger touched Tears of the Dragon God, he saw phantoms of the past within the nine-colored gemstone.

As the aggregate of the wills of all dragons, Tears of the Dragon God linked with Di Tian's will, recreating the mournful final curtain of the Dragon God long ago.

Within the phantoms of the past, Di Tian was doing everything in his power to protect a nest of true dragon eggs while lifting his head to look at the sky.

He saw a scene that plunged every divine dragon into despair.

The Asura God used the super divine weapon Asura Sword to cleave out a blood-red blade of light that connected heaven and earth.

It split the supreme God King, the Dragon God, into two, turning him into the Golden Dragon King and the Silver Dragon King.

The Golden Dragon King turned back and fought a bloody battle against the human God Kings.

The Silver Dragon King, meanwhile, called upon the remaining divine dragons and divine beasts to flee with all their might.

Before Di Tian could continue watching those phantoms of the past, a puzzled voice came from behind him.

"Huh?"

"Senior likes these things too..."

Yi Zichen naturally could not see anything from Tears of the Dragon God. He was merely puzzled as to why Di Tian was buying beautiful accessories.

Di Tian replied without batting an eye, "I'm buying them for my daughter."

"She likes them."

Yi Zichen looked Di Tian over a few more times, his gaze seeming to say, The king of soul beasts, who never married in his life, actually has a fatherly side.

"What are you staring at?"

"Isn't it strange?"

"You think everyone's like you, all alone for ten thousand years?"

That one sentence struck Yi Zichen rigid.

"Senior." His face filled with frosty sorrow.

"You can hit a man, but not in the face. You can expose someone, but not their sore spots."

"You're not just rubbing salt in my wound. You even added two pounds of cumin."

"Speaking of which."

"Senior."

"I've been asking you for ten thousand years."

"Are Senior Tang Wulin and Senior Gu Yuena alive or not? Are they together or not?"

"How would I know?" Di Tian spread his hands. "But as for the long romance marathon between you and Ling Dapao, I could give you a few pointers."

He had to go find Tang Wulin later and have Tang Wulin do something for him.

He absolutely could not let Yi Zichen follow.

He had to send him away first.