The Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff Devours the Seventy Thousand Year Crocodile Dragon and Faces Its Hundred Thousand Year Heavenly Tribulation

Twenty minutes later.

Wisps of smoke rose beside the pool.

At the same time, a burnt smell drifted over.

"Damn, hot, hot!"

"Even if it's a little burnt, at least I finally get to eat something hot!"

"Crack, crack, crack!"

"Smack!"

The poor Crocodile Dragon had every bone in its body broken.

It had also endured flesh being sliced from its body, much like death by a thousand cuts.

It finally breathed its last...

"Buzz!"

The next moment, a blackish-purple Soul Ring slowly emerged from the crocodile's corpse.

This was a Soul Ring from a seventy-thousand-year offensive Soul Beast.

Whether in terms of condensed Soul Power or the richness of its vitality and blood, it far surpassed other Soul Beasts of the same rank.

Seeing this.

The Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff licked his lips.

He was no longer the reckless fool he had once been. Faced with a scene like this, he remained calm and composed.

"Fine, then let me see what your Soul Ring tastes like!"

"Ahwooo!"

It was like eating chocolate cake.

The Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff opened his huge mouth and bit down on it from the front!

In one bite, he swallowed a third of the Soul Ring!

"Mmm!"

"Delicious. Why does it even taste a little like coffee?"

"Looks like Soul Rings from different Soul Beasts all have different flavors!"

"Once I've grown stronger, I'll go find that little dragoness and taste some real dragon meat..."

As he absorbed it.

The familiar system notification sounded again.

[Ding! Congratulations, Host, for killing a seventy-thousand-year Crocodile Dragon! You have successfully devoured its Soul Ring!]

[Your cultivation age has now risen to one hundred thousand years. You have also fully optimized and integrated the other party's Soul Beast genes.]

[Combined with the Dragon Blood obtained earlier, you have gained the Fur Hardening skill, which can...]

Just as the system notifications rang out in rapid succession.

Another alarm suddenly appeared!

[Ding! Host, please prepare yourself!]

[Because your cultivation has directly broken through one hundred thousand years, you will face a Soul Beast's first Heavenly Tribulation!]

[Please put down everything in your hands and face it with your full strength!]

What was this?

A Heavenly Tribulation?

If not for the system's reminder, the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff would have completely forgotten this rule.

It was a certain restriction imposed on Soul Beasts.

For every hundred thousand years of cultivation they gained, they would encounter a Heavenly Tribulation, much like cultivators ascending to immortality.

Moreover, the power of each Heavenly Tribulation would steadily increase.

Back then, the Soft Bone Rabbit Xiao Wu had only been qualified to take human form after enduring her hundred-thousand-year Heavenly Tribulation, eventually becoming a god step by step alongside Tang San.

"Damn, I ate too fiercely just now!"

"If I'd known, I would've eaten a few less pieces of meat!"

Honestly, although the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff was powerful.

He still felt an instinctive tension when facing a Heavenly Tribulation!

However, the Heavenly Tribulation would not wait for him to get ready.

The sky above had just been bright blue.

Yet in the blink of an eye, it became covered in dark clouds.

"Rumble!"

"Crack, crack, crack!"

At the moment the weather changed so abruptly.

Large numbers of low-level Soul Beasts fled in all directions through the surrounding forest.

The sky was covered with all kinds of birds.

It looked like the end of the world!

"Hey, hey, hey, at least give me a buffer period!"

"System, do you have a lightning rod or some other item? At least give me a system shop!"

He remembered that the novels he had read before seemed to have descriptions of similar items.

Yet this system of his gave no response at all.

Wasn't it just making the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff use his own flesh to withstand it head-on?

"Rumble!"

The dark clouds in the sky grew thicker and thicker.

The outskirts of the originally bright Star Dou Great Forest.

Now seemed as if they had entered nightfall.

Countless bolts of purple lightning roamed through the clouds.

Every flash.

Made one's heart tremble.

"Roar!"

The Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff raised his head and looked at the sky.

For the first time, he felt the malice of heaven and earth.

When he had faced Di Tian.

Faced Scarlet King.

Faced Zi JI.

He had known there was a gap between them.

But at least those had been living enemies.

He could fight them.

He could run.

He could even launch a sneak attack.

But this was different.

This was punishment imposed by the rules of heaven and earth.

There was no room for negotiation.

"Come on!"

"I dared to bite even a three-hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast!"

"And I'm supposed to fear a few bolts of lightning?"

The Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff let out an angry roar.

His body began to change.

Beneath his originally golden fur.

A faint layer of black patterns emerged.

That was the change produced after he had absorbed Dragon Blood earlier.

And over the surface of his body.

An even more astonishing transformation appeared.

"Crack, crack, crack..."

Fine, dense scales.

Actually began slowly growing from beneath his skin.

They were precisely the bloodline power of that seventy-thousand-year Crocodile Dragon!

[Ding! Heavenly Tribulation detected.]

[The Crocodile Dragon genes within the Host have begun activating automatically.]

[Temporary skill acquired: Crocodile Dragon Armor.]

[Effect: Greatly increases physical defense and can resist lightning tribulation damage.]

The system notification sounded.

The Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff froze for a moment.

Then he looked at the changes on his body.

"Hahaha!"

"I knew it!"

"How could something I ate possibly be wasted?"

"Uncle Crocodile, you really didn't disappoint me!"

If the Crocodile Dragon knew that after its death.

Not only had its meat been turned into barbecue.

But even its scales had become tribulation-crossing equipment.

Its coffin lid probably would not be able to hold it down.

"Boom!"

At that moment.

The first bolt of heavenly lightning descended!

There was no warning at all.

A thick bolt of purple lightning.

Like an enraged giant dragon.

Struck directly toward the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff!

"Come!"

"Let me show you what crocodile hide is!"

The Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff did not dodge.

Instead, he actively charged toward it.

"Boom!!!"

The terrifying lightning instantly swallowed his body.

Within several dozen meters around him.

Every tree was reduced to charred remains.

The ground was blasted into a huge crater.

"Roar!"

A pained beastly roar rang out.

The smoke dispersed.

The Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff was still standing there.

Only part of his fur had been scorched black.

But.

He had not fallen!

"Hahaha!"

"That's it?"

"So the hundred-thousand-year Heavenly Tribulation is nothing special after all!"

However, just as he was getting smug.

He failed to notice.

That on a small hill several kilometers away, several humans dressed in black were closely watching this place.

Unlike ordinary human Soul Masters.

These people seemed to be shrouded in a black aura of death.

They were evil Soul Masters!

"What luck!"

"We just got away from the Shrek Inspection Corps, and now we've run into a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast undergoing its tribulation!"

"Looks like we brothers can get ourselves a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring, as long as we strike while that thing is weakened!"

"Hahaha, congratulations, Boss. If you can obtain a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring, you'll be able to challenge the rank of Titled Douluo, right?"

Clearly, the three evil Soul Masters had set their sights on the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff.

The reason they had not attacked yet.

It was mainly about lying in wait.

After all, once a soul beast had undergone a Heavenly Tribulation, it would definitely be at its weakest.

Striking then would yield twice the result with half the effort!

Meanwhile, Di Tian and the others had also noticed this unusual Heavenly Tribulation.

"What's going on?"

"When did the forest gain a hundred-thousand-year soul beast? How did I not know?"

"Could it be that guy from before?"

"Go inform Xiong Jun. Tell that stupid bear his enemy has been found!"

Di Tian truly lived up to his title as the Beast God.

He knew every major soul beast in the Star Dou Forest like the back of his hand.

He even knew exactly when the other party would undergo its tribulation.

And this fellow before them had obviously appeared out of nowhere.

So it was most likely that Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff!

"Roar, roar, roar!"

"What? They found that murderer!"

"Watch me, Xiong Jun, tear it to pieces!"

The next moment, the furious roar of the 470,000-year Dark-Gold Dreadclaw Bear rang out.

A massive golden body then charged toward the Heavenly Tribulation like a super tank...