Sacrifice! Emerald Swan!

"Kid! Say that again!" The hot-tempered Bear Lord seized Lin Ya by the collar.

Yet Lin Ya remained unmoved. He understood that this was his chance to survive.

"Godhood. As long as I become a god, my soul beast spirits can be successfully revived and may even become divine officials, gaining eternal life!"

What Lin Ya spoke of was precisely Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm's god-creation plan ten thousand years later.

Once soul beasts reached one hundred thousand years of cultivation, they had to endure a heavenly tribulation every additional hundred thousand years.

However, aside from a rare few exceptional ones, very few soul beasts could withstand the two-hundred-thousand-year heavenly tribulation.

Even the one-hundred-and-ten-thousand-year tribulation was something few soul beasts could survive. Otherwise, so many would not have transformed into humans in an attempt to become gods in human form.

"You brat really are playing me! What do you think becoming a god is? Child's play?!"

Bear Lord flew into a rage. He knew all too well how difficult becoming a god was.

How many astonishing geniuses had Douluo Continent produced? Yet how many had become gods? Hardly any.

The reason Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm had been able to persuade so many soul beasts in later generations was largely because the Shrek Seven Monsters had become gods, giving countless soul beasts hope.

After all, ten thousand years was like merely ten years to a soul beast with a lifespan of one hundred thousand years.

The Seven Monsters, plus Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue—nine gods in ten years! Those were incredibly high odds.

The Emerald Swan stopped Bear Lord. "Bear Lord, have you forgotten his talent?"

"Twin martial souls? At most, that guarantees he can reach Rank 95." Bear Lord remained unmoved.

Rank 95 would only take a few Sky-Tearing Claws in front of him.

"You seem to have overlooked his age." Myriad Demon King suddenly spoke from the side. "Kid, how old are you?"

"Not yet nine," Lin Ya answered honestly.

"Nine years old, Rank 22." Myriad Demon King nodded. "What was the record for becoming a Titled Douluo among humans again?"

"Forty-four." After thinking for a moment, Lin Ya gave the age at which Tang Hao had become a Titled Douluo.

Though that seemed to be only the public record. While the original story had not mentioned it, Bibi Dong had definitely become a Titled Douluo before forty, since Qian Renxue was only thirteen now, and Bibi Dong must have been under thirty when she gave birth to Qian Renxue!

Myriad Demon King nodded. "With your talent, how long would it take you to become a Titled Douluo?"

"Thirty years. I'm confident." Lin Ya did not dare brag too much.

"Thirty years? Becoming a Titled Douluo? Heh, what an ignorant brat." Bear Lord sneered disdainfully.

"I mean thirty years to become a god," Lin Ya said calmly.

"What?!" All four people present stared at Lin Ya in disbelief.

Become a god at thirty! Did he even know what he was saying?!

Naturally, Lin Ya was not talking nonsense. He was merely stating the safest of all his plans:

"I am confident I can become a Titled Douluo before thirty. At that time, I will go to Sea God Island and accept the Sea God's inheritance! And I am completely certain that I can inherit the Sea God's Nine Trials!"

"The Sea God's inheritance?" The Emerald Swan fell into thought.

They were all soul beasts who had lived for who knew how many years, so naturally they understood what divine inheritances were.

A Titled Douluo at thirty, along with twin martial souls—perhaps he truly had a chance to inherit the Sea God's divine position.

Lin Ya truly was confident. With his talent, going directly to Sea God Island would guarantee at least the top-tier Eight Trials. Once he had the Vast Sea Universe Cover, the Sea God's Nine Trials would be a certainty.

He had long since memorized the content of the Sea God's Nine Trials. Aside from hunting the Deep Sea Demon Whale King, which would be somewhat difficult, all the others were guaranteed passes for him.

In fact, becoming the Sea God was the lowest-ranking option among all his plans.

As Lin Ya spoke, the three great fierce beasts fell into contemplation. But at that moment, a voice rose from the lake water beneath Lin Ya's feet:

"Kid! Your plan is great! Truly great! It's exactly what I wanted to hear! How about you wait a little longer? Once these guys have sucked my body dry, my soul will sacrifice itself to you! Then you can take me with you to godhood! All right?!"

"Heavenly Dream! Shut up!" Bear Lord stomped his huge foot, making the entire Lake of Life tremble.

Yet the voice from beneath the lake remained undeterred:

"Why should I shut up?! I didn't provoke you or offend you, yet you captured me and started absorbing my million years of cultivation! Fine, I'm unlucky, I accept that—but you have to leave me a way out! Whoever I want to sacrifice myself to is my choice! That's my freedom! You can't stop me!"

At this point, how could Lin Ya not know that the voice beneath the lake belonged to the million-year soul beast, Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm?

And after hearing Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm's words, the expressions of the great fierce beasts became somewhat awkward.

Do not think soul beasts were particularly united. Competition among soul beasts was even more naked and brutal.

Big fish ate little fish, and little fish ate shrimp. That was an eternal law.

The Emerald Swan, Bi Ji, was kind enough, wasn't she? Yet when it came to absorbing Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm's cultivation, she had been more enthusiastic than anyone. It had been said during the second era that the Emerald Swan's actual age was only one hundred thousand years, yet she possessed five hundred and eighty thousand years of cultivation!

Where had that cultivation come from? Did the wind blow it over?

"Perhaps... we really can let him try." Bi Ji suddenly said.

They definitely would not give up Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm, but after draining all of its cultivation, they truly could not control where its soul went.

In fact, before becoming Huo Yuhao's first soul ring, Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm had once sacrificed itself to a Rank 90 Titled Douluo. The immense energy had directly burst that person apart, and the sacrifice had failed.

Thinking of this, Lin Ya suddenly realized:

"Something's not right. Didn't Yu Xiaogang say that as long as a soul beast willingly sacrificed itself, even a rank ten soul master could absorb a hundred-thousand-year soul beast's soul ring? Then why couldn't a level ninety Titled Douluo absorb the soul ring of the million-year Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm?!"

Sure enough, Yu Xiaogang really was unreliable.

Hearing Bi Ji say this, Myriad Demon King and Bear Lord nodded as well. "It's your business. You decide for yourself."

"Alright." Bi Ji nodded, then looked back at Lin Ya with a gentle expression. "Actually, I called you here to sacrifice myself to you."

"Sacrifice yourself to me?" Lin Ya froze.

Holy shit, one of the Ten Great Ferocious Beasts—the Emerald Swan—wants to sacrifice herself to me! Doesn't that mean I've hit the jackpot?!

Seeing Lin Ya's expression, Bi Ji realized that he had likely misunderstood something and spoke again.

"Not me, but one of my kin."

At that, Bi Ji sighed.

She raised her head and looked toward the center of the Lake of Life. There, an emerald-green swan lay quietly upon the water's surface, barely clinging to life.

The Ten Great Ferocious Beasts had clans too. For instance, Xuan Zi had once said that, when he was young, he had seen a hundred-thousand-year Darkgold Terrorclaw Bear split the sky with a single claw.

Given Xuan Zi's age, the one he had seen certainly could not have been Bear Lord. In other words, within this Star Dou Great Forest, aside from the Bear Lord before them, there was at least one more ninety-thousand-year Darkgold Terrorclaw Bear!

So, it was only natural that Bi Ji, the Emerald Swan, had members of her own kind.

However, Lin Ya noticed that this member of her clan... did not seem to be in good condition.