Di Tian

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Di Tian (帝天)
Alias(es)	Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King; Dark Divine Dragon; King of Soul Beasts 67 69
Species/Race	Black Dragon; descendant of the Nine Dragon Kings 67
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Black Dragon Clan; Soul Beasts of the Star Dou Great Forest; Gu Yuena’s followers 67 83
Occupation/Role	Patriarch of the Black Dragon Clan; ruler of the Star Dou Great Forest’s Soul Beasts; formerly captain of the Dragon God’s personal guards 67 68 69
Residence	Lake of Life, Star Dou Great Forest 69
Cultivation	1.69 million years after receiving his Heavenly Dao reward 74
Ranking	Third on the Supreme Powerhouse Ranking 67 73
Status	Alive; possesses God Rank power on Douluo Continent through a Special Godhood 74 82 83
First Appearance	Chapter 2 2

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Ancient divine dragon	68 69	Historical state revealed by the Heavenly Screen. Controlled darkness and served as the Dragon God’s guard captain; his exact ancient realm is not specified.
890,000-year Soul Beast	67 69	Cultivated anew over countless years after the ancient era. Remained at this bottleneck while seeking a path to godhood.
Yin-Yang Complementary Soul Core; qualified for godhood	71	Revealed to have fully merged Soul Power, mental power, and bloodline power. Qualification alone could not overcome the Divine Realm’s prohibition on Soul Beast ascension.
1.69-million-year Soul Beast	74	Absorbed the cultivation reward for third place. Heavenly Dao golden light dissolved the forming Million-Year Tribulation before lightning could strike.
God Rank power through Special Godhood	74	Fused with a complete godhood recognized by the Heavenly Dao rather than the Douluo Divine Realm. Functions only within Douluo Continent and leaves other paths to godhood open.

• Cultivation figure discrepancy: The reward is announced as 80,000 years, but the absorption scene explicitly raises Di Tian from 890,000 to 1.69 million years. Both figures appear in the provided text 73 74.

Background / History

During the Dragon God’s era, Di Tian was a darkness-controlling divine dragon and one of the Dragon God’s strongest generals. As captain of the personal guards, he fought beside the Dragon God and also defended the Dragon Clan’s territory alone. The Heavenly Screen depicts him guarding his master with a black spear 68 69.

After the Dragon Clan’s decline, Di Tian cultivated anew to 890,000 years and ruled the Soul Beasts surrounding the Lake of Life. His power remained largely unknown to human institutions: neither Spirit Hall’s experts nor Sea God Island’s records recognized his identity when the Heavenly Screen exposed him 67 68 69.

His authority had previously been challenged by Bear Lord, a 470,000-year Darkgold Dreadclaw Bear. Di Tian received its space-tearing claw attack head-on, then subdued it through darkness power, a tail strike, and a dragon claw. He criticized Bear Lord for relying on brute strength rather than mastering its claws 69.

Di Tian also defeated the Evil Emperor after it crossed the sea in pursuit of the million-year Sky Dream Ice Silkworm. Although Di Tian dominated their confrontation, the Evil Emperor’s Light of Time and Space shattered his chest scales and drew blood 13.

Appearance

Di Tian’s dragon form is immense, with wings capable of obscuring the moonlight and golden eyes overlooking the forest. He can also return to human form, as shown when he takes up the Black-Patterned Dragon Halberd 67 74.

• Scales: Black throughout his dragon body; his ancient form is described with a dark-golden sheen 67 68.
• Eyes: Golden, with slit or vertical pupils 13 73 74.
• Horns: A pair of dark-gold dragon horns 67.
• Forehead: A vertical eye at its center 67.
• Wings: Broad black dragon wings that extend across the sky in his true form 67 74.

Personality

Di Tian is composed and confident in combat, often allowing opponents to demonstrate their strongest attacks before answering decisively. He rejects the Evil Emperor’s offer of spiritual origin and a shared Soul Beast kingdom, defeats it, and deliberately allows it to leave rather than killing it 70 71.

Despite his ancient accomplishments, he avoids boasting. When questioned about his service to the Dragon God, he dismisses it as distant history and identifies himself with his present responsibility as the Star Dou Great Forest’s King of Soul Beasts 69.

His pursuit of godhood is uncompromising. The future tribulation briefly unsettles him when its outcome is withheld, but he refuses to accept laws that deny Soul Beasts ascension. His loyalty is equally firm: he considers Gu Yuena’s recovery the Soul Beast race’s remaining hope and declares threats against her to be threats against the entire race 73 89.

Abilities & Skills

Dragon God’s Claw

A God-Level Soul Skill personally bestowed by the Dragon God, manifested with nine-colored radiance 70 71.

• Tears apart spiritual force and collapses the Evil Emperor’s mental domain in a single strike 70 71.
• Fractures space and suppresses the Evil Emperor’s spiritual origin 70.
• The Heavenly Screen states that enemies without a god’s protection suffer destruction of both body and soul when struck 71.
• In the displayed future, destroys the first bolt of the Million-Year Heavenly Tribulation; subsequent lightning still severely injures Di Tian 73.

Darkness Control

Di Tian’s defining attribute, retained from his ancient identity as the Dark Divine Dragon 68 69.

• Uses darkness power alongside physical attacks to overwhelm Bear Lord 69.
• His darkness responds directly to the Black-Patterned Dragon Halberd, whose power flows into his arm when he grasps it 73 74.

Dragon Physique and Bloodline

His strength derives from both accumulated cultivation and his exceptionally pure ancient dragon bloodline 67 68.

• Severs the Evil Emperor’s tentacles and shatters its condensed spiritual spear with his claws 13.
• Receives Bear Lord’s Darkgold Dreadclaw head-on before subduing it 69.
• Withstands the Evil Eye World-Destroying Light with only minor effects 71.
• Is not immune to specialized attacks: Light of Time and Space breaks his scales, while future tribulation lightning pierces his wings 13 73.

Yin-Yang Complementary Soul Core

A core arrangement that integrates Di Tian’s Soul Power, mental power, and bloodline power. The future display depicts two cores—one yin and one yang—revolving within him 71 72.

• Establishes his qualifications to become a god before receiving his ranking rewards 71.
• Continues operating during his cultivation increase beyond one million years 74.
• Cannot independently bypass the Divine Realm’s laws forbidding Soul Beasts from becoming gods 72.

Special Godhood

A complete godhood granted as his third-place reward, allowing immediate use of God Rank power without submission to the Douluo Divine Realm 74.

Property	Effect
Recognition	Authorized by the Heavenly Dao; outside the Douluo Divine Realm’s jurisdiction 74.
Effective territory	Functions within Douluo Continent 74.
Territorial limit	Temporarily ceases functioning when Di Tian leaves the continent 74.
Future cultivation	Does not prevent him from condensing his own godhood or inheriting another 74.

Dragon Aura Perception

• Detects the ancient flame-and-frost Dragon Clan auras emerging from Sunset Forest 87.
• Confirms their exceptionally high bloodline purity when discussing them with Gu Yuena 89.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Black-Patterned Dragon Halberd — Divine artifact awarded for third place. Bears fine dragon patterns, dark-gold blades, and a coiling black-dragon phantom. Its darkness attribute complements Di Tian’s own power, and its appearance cracks the surrounding space 73 74.
• Black spear — Weapon shown beside Di Tian during his ancient service as the Dragon God’s guard captain; no name or grade is provided 68 69.

Relationships

• Gu Yuena — Sovereign and superior. Di Tian kneels upon her awakening, obeys her investigative orders, and pledges the Soul Beast race’s protection of her. He initially expects her to rank first and later supports the potential restoration of the Dragon Clan 2 89 93 96.
• Dragon God — Former master. Di Tian served as his guard captain and received Dragon God’s Claw directly from him; witnessing his ancient majesty renews Di Tian’s reverence 68 71 87.
• Bear Lord / Xiong Jun — Subordinate and former challenger. Di Tian defeated and lectured him; Bear Lord subsequently expresses shame over the challenge and strong faith in Di Tian’s power 69 73.
• Myriad Demon King, Scarlet King, and Bi Ji — Fellow leaders of the forest’s Soul Beast community who acknowledge Di Tian’s authority and discuss the ranking with him 67 68 83.
• Evil Emperor — Rival defeated in past confrontations. Its temporal attack once injured Di Tian, but its mental domain falls to Dragon God’s Claw 13 70 71.
• Qian Daochen — Exceptional human whose sword intent earns Di Tian’s caution. Even after obtaining God Rank power, Di Tian considers him the only human qualified to rank above him 67 83.
• Tang Chen — Prospective challenger. After witnessing Dragon God’s Claw, Tang Chen plans to test Di Tian once he has recovered and refined his own rewards; no duel is shown 71.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Heavenly Screen Revelations

• Recognizes early that a ranking of Douluo Continent’s living beings need not exclude Soul Beasts 2.
• Becomes publicly visible during the Evil Emperor’s ranking review, exposing a powerful black dragon absent from human records 13.
• Investigates Bear Lord’s defeat by Qian Daochen and receives Gu Yuena’s order to identify the swordsman 42.
• Places third, rather than the second position expected by the forest’s beasts. His review reveals his bloodline, ancient military service, and godhood qualifications 67 68 69 71.

Revealed Future and Million-Year Tribulation

The Heavenly Screen presents a future rather than a completed event in the current timeline 72 73.

• Di Tian survives into an era tens of thousands of years later, when Douluo and Sun Moon Continents have collided 72.
• The Divine Realm’s altered laws continue suppressing his ascension despite his fused powers and Soul Cores 72.
• He enters the Million-Year Heavenly Tribulation despite its stated odds of nine chances of death to one of survival 72.
• The broadcast freezes during his clash with the final lightning strike, leaving the result unseen. Its assessment nevertheless states that, without becoming a god, he can battle gods 72 73.

Third-Place Rewards

• Receives additional cultivation, the Black-Patterned Dragon Halberd, and Special Godhood 73 74.
• Crosses the million-year threshold while the Heavenly Dao suppresses his tribulation 74.
• His new power prompts Heaven Dou to prohibit unauthorized entry into the forest’s core and Star Luo to recall imperial teams and forbid large-scale noble hunts 74.

Dragon Clan Restoration

• Experiences increased Soul Power circulation and bloodline activation when Gu Yuena experiments with an incomplete imitation of Universe Tracing 92.
• Reacts hopefully to the Dragon Transformation Pool, though the provided context does not show him entering it or undergoing bloodline purification 93.
• Leaves to investigate the Dragon King aura from Sunset Forest on Gu Yuena’s orders. He remains away tracking the Dragon Kings during the later anticipation of first place 96 109.

Notable Quotes

“No matter what happened in the past, I am now only the King of Soul Beasts of the Star Dou Great Forest.” 69

“Today, whether the Divine Realm’s laws allow it or not. I will take this step.”
— Di Tian in the future tribulation shown by the Heavenly Screen 73