To prevent soul beasts from becoming gods, the heavenly lightning consisted of a full eighty-one bolts. The first bolt alone was enough to erase a God Official, and those that followed would only grow more terrifying.
The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King was already half-dead after taking just this one bolt. How could he possibly withstand the remaining eighty?
The second, third, and fourth bolts of lightning descended.
Each bolt was more terrifying than the last. Only the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King could endure this tribulation; if Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had faced it instead, the first bolt would have erased him on the spot.
When the fifth bolt crashed down, the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, bathed in lightning, was directly obliterated.
Poseidon had been right. A soul beast's godhood tribulation was not a test, but an extermination—a tribulation of certain death.
And the person who had established this death trap was someone no soul beast could have expected—the Dragon God.
In the earliest parts of Douluo I, the conflict was between soul beasts and humans. Humans had set up this tribulation to prevent soul beasts from becoming gods, which was understandable as a conflict between races.
But the later setting was changed. The Dragon God himself went mad and killed the Nine Dragon Kings, then had the Asura God split him in two. He also laid down a rule: before the return of the new Dragon God, soul beasts were forbidden from becoming gods.
Over the following tens of thousands of years, the soul beast race completely became an inexhaustible supply of Soul Rings for humanity and headed toward extinction.
Di Tian and the other soul beasts had all become complete clowns.
Why had the Dragon God done this? Qian Xunyi could actually understand.
To the Dragon