Heaven Dou City grew livelier by the day, but Gu Yuena had recently been making few appearances in the city.
She often left the city alone and walked into the endless mountain forests.
After fusing with the Dragon God's Divine Position, she had gained a subtle connection with every living thing between heaven and earth.
As she walked through the mountains, she could hear the messages carried by the wind and sense the breathing of the soul beasts deep beneath the earth. Because of this, she sensed an abnormality more and more strongly.
The soul beasts on this continent had suffered far too much.
Gu Yuena stood atop a mountain peak, gazing at the boundless sea of trees below.
Her perception spread outward, reaching across hundreds of miles.
Deep in the rainforest, a soul beast that had cultivated for ninety thousand years was undergoing its tribulation.
The hundred-thousand-year limit was approaching. If it failed to overcome this tribulation, it would turn to dust with the passage of time. The heavenly tribulation was as thick as a giant tree, its lightning purple-black and violently destructive.
The soul beast fought with all its strength to resist, but in the end, it still failed. Its massive body crashed to the ground amid the lightning, its life force extinguished.
Things like this happened every day.
Cultivating was already a hundred times more difficult for soul beasts than for humans, and they had to endure endless years to accumulate their cultivation.
Yet even after cultivating for ninety thousand or a hundred thousand years, the heavenly tribulation awaiting them remained nearly impossible to overcome.
Not to mention transforming into human form or ascending to godhood. For soul beasts, those were almost unreachable legends. Soul beasts could not become gods.
This had been an iron law on