Lan Fozu Successfully Takes Human Form

"Mom, stop, stop! It's too much—I really can't eat anymore."

After consuming more than half of the Tidal Divine Marrow, Lan Fozu was finally so full that she repeatedly begged for mercy.

Seeing that her daughter had absorbed nearly enough, the Demon Empress put away the remaining small piece of Tidal Divine Marrow.

In order to gather strength for revenge, the Demon Empress had found quite a few heavenly treasures over the past ten thousand years.

Some had been devoured and refined by the Demon Empress on the spot, while others had been kept for emergencies.

The incomparably precious Tidal Divine Marrow was the greatest treasure the Demon Empress had acquired over those ten thousand years.

Should she suffer severe injuries, even if her body were blown apart and she hovered on the brink of death, she could recover with the Tidal Divine Marrow and use the opportunity to attempt another breakthrough.

Yet now, she had taken it out merely to rapidly raise her daughter's cultivation from ninety thousand years to one hundred thousand years, allowing her to take human form and cultivate anew.

This greatly diminished the value of the Tidal Divine Marrow. It was even being used for the wrong purpose—an utter waste of a heavenly treasure.

But in the Demon Empress's eyes, the trade was worth it.

After all, she was about to sacrifice herself to Su Ming and would have no use for such precious Tidal Divine Marrow.

Having her daughter take human form, enter the human world, and remain by Su Ming's side was the most important matter at present.

With that fellow Su Ming watching over her innocent, kindhearted daughter, the Demon Empress could finally feel somewhat relieved.

"Daughter, steady your mind and quickly refine the Tidal Divine Marrow's power. At the same time, prepare yourself to face the coming Hundred-Thousand-Year Heavenly Tribulation."

"Don't be afraid when the time comes. With Mom by your side, I'll absolutely see you safely through the Hundred-Thousand-Year Heavenly Tribulation."

As she spoke, the Demon Empress began using her own power to help her daughter accelerate the refinement of the Tidal Divine Marrow she had consumed.

Relying on her innate devouring talent and the Demon Empress's assistance, Lan Fozu successfully refined all the Tidal Divine Marrow she had eaten in just one week.

Her cultivation naturally surged to one hundred thousand years as well.

At the same time, the laws of the Douluo Plane seemed to sense something.

At the point where sea and sky met, the originally azure heavens suddenly darkened.

Rolling black clouds pressed downward, their terrifying might directly blanketing a hundred-mile radius of sea.

At that moment, the creatures throughout the entire sea region, driven by instinct in the face of such pressure, frantically fled toward other waters.

They feared that if they were even a moment too late, they would be caught in the disaster.

Those Sea Soul Beasts whose cultivation had surpassed ten thousand years and who possessed great intelligence also fled the area.

Yet among them, some were envious, some wary, and some terrified beyond measure.

Unlike the dim-witted ten-year, hundred-year, and thousand-year Soul Beasts, they knew what this disturbance meant.

A heavenly tribulation—the threshold that had to be crossed to break through to one hundred thousand years.

Cross it, and one would become a powerful hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast.

Fail to cross it, and one could only die beneath the heavenly tribulation.

"Daughter, don't panic. Think of the methods Mom just taught you."

The Demon Empress did not leave. She stood beside Lan Fozu, guarding her.

Although doing so would cause the heavenly tribulation to mark her as well,

for the sake of letting her daughter safely survive the tribulation and successfully take human form, any amount of injury was worth it.

"Mom..." Lan Fozu's eyes grew misty.

But in the next instant, her gaze became incomparably resolute.

Although Lan Fozu did not understand why her mother was so anxious to have her rapidly reach one hundred thousand years of cultivation and then take human form,

she knew that her mother loved her and was acting for her sake. That was enough.

Having already come this far, she, Lan Fozu, absolutely could not disappoint her mother.

Boom!

Boom!!

Boom!!!

In the blink of an eye, two days passed, and the dark clouds covering the hundred-mile sea region gradually dispersed.

Heaven and earth returned to calm once more.

Under the Demon Empress's protection, Lan Fozu successfully passed the tribulation and chose to take human form and cultivate anew.

In truth, for Soul Beasts with exceptional talent and powerful bloodlines, the one-hundred-thousand-year heavenly tribulation was actually quite easy to overcome.

What truly gave them headaches, and what could truly lead to death and the dissipation of one's soul, was the Ferocious Beast Heavenly Tribulation that came every hundred thousand years.

Its power and scale were far beyond anything a newly attained one-hundred-thousand-year heavenly tribulation could compare to.

The main reason Lan Fozu's tribulation lasted a full two days this time was the Demon Empress's presence.

Otherwise, it would have basically ended in a single day.

But there was no helping it—how could the Demon Empress not worry about her daughter?

After all, her daughter had made no preparations at all. She had directly charged toward one hundred thousand years of cultivation in one go, then immediately faced the tribulation.

"Mom."

A girl of around six years old stood barefoot upon the sea's surface, dressed in a deep-blue short outfit as delicate as deep-sea shark silk.

Her sky-blue hair drifted in the wind.

Droplets that occasionally fell from her hair tips rippled across the sea with a dark-blue glow.

The girl's skin was fair, carrying the soft luster of mother-of-pearl, while her sky-blue eyes were as clear as the ocean.

Seeing this, the Demon Empress, who had also taken human form, drew Lan Fozu into her embrace and softly murmured, "Daughter."

Mom... she really has changed. Lan Fozu was deeply moved.

For some reason, after her mother returned, her temperament had undergone a tremendous change.

She was no longer as crazed as before. She had become so gentle, so considerate toward her, as though everything had returned to the past.

After a brief moment of tenderness, the Demon Empress finally brought up Su Ming, their plan of cooperation, and the arrangements she had made for her daughter Lan Fozu.

With utmost seriousness, the Demon Empress said, "After Mom sacrifices herself to Su Ming, you will follow that child Su Ming and go live among humans."

"Mom will leave a treasure on you. With that treasure, even a human Title Douluo will not be able to see through your true form."

"Then, you'll be perfectly safe at Su Ming's side, and you'll also receive Su Ming's care..."

Only now learning the truth, Lan Fozu asked in great confusion, "Mom, do you really trust a human that much?"

"What if he deceives us? What then?"

"Or what if, after your sacrifice is complete, that Su Ming reveals his true colors and sets his sights on me as well?"

Although Lan Fozu was kind and gentle by nature and held a great fondness for humans,

she had even, during the Dragon King era, chosen to actively destroy the Blood River God-Slaying Formation her mother had established in order to protect humanity.

But that did not mean Lan Fozu was a naive fool.

At a time concerning both her life and her mother's, of course Lan Fozu would be so cautious and serious.