The Filthy Rich

[Previously, you beat the Shrek Seven Devils black and blue, then settled into doing nothing while you waited for them to ascend to godhood.]

[Di Tian was still wandering aimlessly westward, with no idea what he had come out to do.]

[Then, as Di Tian passed Heaven Dou City, he sensed your daughter Su Yiner's aura. His eyes suddenly lit up with understanding.]

["As expected of my liege. There must be a deeper meaning to the task my liege gave me." After spinning an elaborate explanation in his head, Di Tian descended upon Dugu Manor.]

[He did not brazenly reveal his true form in human society. Instead, he took human form and walked among them.]

["Child of Nature, you're a Soul Beast. No, a human. No, that's not right either." Di Tian was baffled when he saw your daughter. Su Yiner carried a powerful Soul Beast aura and an equally powerful human aura, along with a third, even more unusual one.]

[While Di Tian was still trying to figure out what your daughter was, you received a message from your clone as you worked in distant Mingdu. Furious, you raced back at fifty times the speed of sound.]

[Di Tian had no idea disaster was about to strike. After observing Su Yiner for a while, he turned his gaze to Ah Yin, Dugu Yan, and Qian Renxue. To him, the three of them were little different from ants.]

["Bad guy! What do you want?" Su Yiner stepped in front of Di Tian. She was not afraid of him. With a foundation talent of 370%, she was already a level 96 Super Douluo at seventeen. With the help of Immortal Herbs, she could have cultivated even faster.]

[As an SSR gold-card character who inherited the fortune of Soul Beasts, humans, and Douluo Star alike, Su Yiner's talent was not far behind the protagonist's.]

["Child of Nature, I am Beast God Di Tian. I have come to take you away from here. Rest assured, I have no interest in these humans. If it troubles you, I can bring them along as well." Di Tian spoke with great respect. In this era before the Auspicious Beast existed, Su Yiner was both the Child of Nature and a child of fortune. She outclassed the Auspicious Beast in every respect.]

[While Su Yiner weighed whether to believe him, you dropped from the sky and punched Di Tian into the ground. Then you hauled him away from Heaven Dou City to fight him somewhere farther off.]

[Your blow caught Di Tian completely off guard. Though his offensive power had reached the divine level, his body was still bound by mortal limits.]

[In your hands, he was little different from a house cat. He could put up a brief struggle, but you could subdue him at will.]

[After a short flurry of blows, you had beaten Di Tian half to death. Then you demanded, "Why won't you talk? Why won't you talk?"]

[Di Tian had no fight left in him. He had tried to resist, but once he actually fought back, you had beaten him even harder.]

["Human, if you want to know something, ask me! How the hell am I supposed to tell you when you haven't asked?" Di Tian was miserable enough to want to die.]

[You froze, then realized you had not actually asked Di Tian a question. You promptly blamed him anyway. "If I don't ask, can't you tell me yourself? You're just asking for a beating!" You were getting worked up, probably because you had spent the past few years bottling everything up and were now taking it all out on Di Tian.]

[After a less-than-friendly exchange, you learned that Di Tian had come to take your daughter away. You also learned that she was the Child of Nature.]

[At first, you found it hard to believe. But then you remembered when Su Yiner had first awakened her Martial Soul and forced her own mother to her knees. Perhaps she really was the Child of Nature.]

[You hesitated for a long time. In the end, you decided that forging a connection with the Soul Beasts might not be a bad idea, so you left the choice to Su Yiner.]

[You carried the half-dead Di Tian back to Dugu Manor and explained the situation to Su Yiner. After listening, she hesitated, then asked, "Do you have money? Resources would work too."]

[Di Tian did not understand the question, but he nodded and pulled several hundred Ferocious Beast Soul Bones from his personal treasury. The place he pulled them from was rather unsightly: his rear end.]

[Hundred-thousand-year Soul Bones were extraordinarily rare. Yet as Dugu Yan, Ah Yin, Su Yiner, Qian Renxue, and you stared at the Soul Bones Di Tian had pulled from between his buttocks, none of you felt the slightest urge to absorb them.]

[Seeing your strange expressions, Di Tian had to explain that he had placed the entrance to his treasury beneath his backside for safety. It looked as though he was pulling things out of his rear, but he was actually retrieving them from another space, much like a Space Soul Tool.]

[You all understood the distinction. Still, knowing the treasury's entrance was directly beneath his backside left you physically repulsed by the Soul Bones.]

[Seeing this, Di Tian rummaged through the four-dimensional space at his rear and pulled out a pile of herbs. To your astonishment, quite a few were Immortal Herbs. The stock fell short of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well's, but more than fifty stalks was still a lot.]

[Then, before your stunned eyes, Di Tian pulled out even more unusual Soul Bones from his rear: over a hundred External Soul Bones of varying ages and quality. Even the worst among them was something people would fight to obtain.]

[Di Tian was not done. From the storage space behind his rear, he produced some Divine-Grade Metal—the material needed to forge divine artifacts.]

[Even at a glance, there was no denying it: Di Tian was absurdly rich.]

[Di Tian wiggled his backside, closed the four-dimensional space, and straightened up. "This is all I brought with me. There's more at my lair. Child of Nature, if you join the Soul Beast faction, it's all yours."]

[Su Yiner stared at the treasures on the ground, her head spinning. She did not live quite like a royal princess, but she had enjoyed something close to a noble young lady's life. Even so, faced with Di Tian's lavish offer, the world suddenly felt unreal.]

[When Su Yiner remained silent, Di Tian feared she would refuse. Steeling himself, he pulled a Divine Artifact Embryo from his robes. It was not a true divine artifact yet, but with enough nurturing, it would certainly become one.]

[Your jaw hung open at Di Tian's display. You had known the Soul Beasts ought to be wealthy during the Douluo I era, but you had never imagined they were this wealthy.]

[In the end, you decided that you and Ah Yin would accompany Su Yiner to the Lake of Life and squeeze them for more. You had forgotten earlier, but now you remembered that the lake held Gold of Life. You thought it might extend your lifespan.]

[After Di Tian confirmed that you and Ah Yin were the Child of Nature's biological parents, he sensed both your auras. He reached one conclusion: you were on the same side.]