Phoenix God Continent Is Ten Thousand Years Ahead of the Sun Moon Empire, and the Emperor Auspicious Beast Wants a Drink from Snow King!

Power to destroy the world!

Those four words crashed like four mountains onto the hearts of everyone on Douluo Continent and Sun Moon Continent!

How was that still a weapon?

It was an Executioner's Blade hanging over everyone's head!

And the one holding that Executioner's Blade was a power they had never even heard of.

Phoenix God Continent. The Spirit Hall Empire!

[Kong Deming: There is one more thing this old man would like to say, though I'm not sure whether I should.]

[Xu Yutian: Please, Elder Kong. Speak freely.]

[Kong Deming: By my estimate, a power capable of mass-producing Level-Twelve Fixed Soul Cannon Shells has Soul Guidance Technology at least... ten thousand years ahead of our Sun Moon Empire!]

Ten thousand years!

Ten thousand years ago, the Sun Moon Empire hadn't even conceived of Soul Engineers!

In other words, before the mysterious Phoenix God Continent of today,

the Sun Moon Empire, which claimed to be the best in the world at making Soul Tools, was no different from a primitive tribe that had only just learned to make fire by rubbing sticks together!

To the Sun Moon Empire, Phoenix God Continent was practically a world from the legendary future!

At almost the same moment, the same thought sprang uncontrollably into the minds of Xu Yutian, Kong Deming, Jing Hongchen, and the others.

If we could get our hands on Phoenix God Continent's Soul Guidance Technology...

Even if it were only a scale or a claw...

Wouldn't conquering Douluo Continent be just around the corner?

In the palace of the Star Luo Empire,

Xu Jiawei's thoughts were strikingly similar to theirs.

With Phoenix God Continent's Soul Tools so far ahead, the Star Luo Empire only had to spare no expense.

Even scraps they used to prop up a table leg

would be enough to crush the Sun Moon Empire as though they were fighting on an entirely different plane!

Yet while the people of both continents made their calculations in secret,

another group of living beings on Douluo Continent was watching the sky screen.

Soul Beasts!

In the heart of the Star Dou Great Forest,

on the shore of the Lake of Life,

a black-robed man stood with his hands behind his back, his golden eyes reflecting the enormous Sky Screen above.

He merely stood there, and not a single Soul Beast within a thousand li dared make a sound.

Beast God Di Tian!

Several figures with equally terrifying auras stood behind him.

The gentle woman in green was Bi Ji, the Emerald Swan!

The sinister-faced middle-aged man in blue robes was the Myriad Demon King, the Demon-Eyed Devil Tree!

The hulking man over three meters tall, with muscles bulging like stone, was Xiong Jun, king of the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bears!

And the Three-Headed Scarlet Demon Mastiff, with three heads, six pairs of eyes, and scarlet flames burning around him, was the Scarlet King!

Besides these Ferocious Beasts,

dozens of Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts that had already gained sentience gathered around the Lake of Life.

The moment the Sky Screen appeared, Di Tian had summoned every high-level fighter in the heart of the Star Dou Great Forest to this place.

They had also seen the human Soul Masters' discussion of Soul Tools.

But level nine, level ten, Fixed Soul Cannon Shells—none of them understood a word of it.

There was only one thing they could grasp.

The so-called Phoenix God Continent held enough power to destroy the entire world!

Xiong Jun scratched his head and spoke in a booming voice.

"Di Tian, what are those humans jabbering about?"

"What kind of cannon shell could work better than my Dark Gold Dreadclaw?"

Di Tian did not answer him. His golden eyes remained fixed on the second line of the Phoenix God Continent News Section on the Sky Screen.

[In the Heavenly Phoenix Forest, the 790,000-year Ferocious Beast Golden-Winged Great Roc successfully survived a heavenly tribulation and advanced to 800,000 years of cultivation!]

Golden-Winged Great Roc...

Di Tian slowly furrowed his brow.

"Golden-Winged Great Roc, Peacock Wisdom King, Blue Demon Bird..."

"Weren't these Soul Beasts with True Phoenix bloodlines exterminated by His Majesty the Dragon God a hundred thousand years ago?"

"Why would a Golden-Winged Great Roc appear on the so-called Phoenix God Continent?"

The Myriad Demon King's expression shifted at those words.

"Di Tian, you mean..."

"Phoenix God..."

Di Tian slowly turned those two words over in his mind. A complicated look flickered deep in his golden eyes.

That name brought to mind rumors long sealed within his bloodline memories.

Rumors of the being who had once fought the Dragon God for dominion over the Divine Realm.

If that being is truly still alive...

Di Tian shook his head, suppressing the thoughts surging through him.

No!

My Lord is still slumbering beneath the Lake of Life, at a critical point in her recovery. I absolutely cannot disturb her!

Everything must wait until My Lord wakes. Only then can we decide what to do!

"Hmph! So what if it has eight hundred thousand years of cultivation?"

Xiong Jun curled his lip in disdain and thumped his massive paws against his chest.

"Let that Golden-Winged Great Roc come to the Star Dou Great Forest. One Sky-Rending Claw from me, and it'll be roast chicken all the same!"

"Save it."

Bi Ji rolled her eyes at him helplessly.

"It can fly!"

"So can I... I can jump really high!"

The Myriad Demon King's eyes flashed, and he spoke.

"Di Tian, this might not be a bad thing for the Soul Beast Clan."

"Oh?"

"Phoenix God Continent is home to Soul Beasts, including mighty beings like that 790,000-year Golden-Winged Great Roc."

"And you possess the Dragon God Claw, bestowed upon you by Lord Dragon God himself. You are the leader of all Soul Beasts in this world!"

"If you issued a summons to the Soul Beasts of Phoenix God Continent, you might persuade its Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, even its Ferocious Beasts, to migrate here to the Star Dou Great Forest with their entire clans!"

"By then, the strength of the Star Dou Great Forest would surely reach another level!"

The more the Myriad Demon King spoke, the more excited he became. He failed to notice the strange look spreading across Di Tian's face.

Issue a summons... to the Soul Beasts of Phoenix God Continent?

Di Tian did not know why, but the instant the idea arose, he felt an ominous premonition.

Just then,

a new message popped up on the Douluo Continent Chat Interface.

[Three-Eyed Golden Lion: Um... I wanted to ask something!

What's that "Snow King" you're talking about?

And is "Orange Smash" a drink? Does it taste good?]

The message left the factions in the middle of their heated discussion momentarily stunned.

Snow King?

Orange Smash?

What kind of nonsense was that?

Who cared about a drink?

The Chat Interface paused for only an instant before a fresh flood of messages buried the question.

No one paid any attention to the question that had come out of nowhere.

Beside the Lake of Life,

Di Tian looked back at the Emperor Auspicious Beast, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, who lay on a large slab of bluestone gazing eagerly at the Sky Screen. He shook his head gently.

The Three-Eyed Golden Lion blinked a few times, trying to charm her way out of it.

When Di Tian ignored her, she swished her tail in displeasure and closed her eyes, pretending to rest.

But inside her head, a little drama was playing out.

Hmph! Nobody's paying attention to me!

Then I'll go find that Snow King myself and try Orange Smash and every other drink!

Yet no one knew

that before long, this seemingly ignored message from the Three-Eyed Golden Lion would stir up a storm sweeping across all of Douluo Continent!