Azure Sky Thunder Dragon and Titan Exotic Beast? Da Ming and Er Ming Face Their Tribulations!

"Um, Yang-"

Xiao Wu sidled up to Ji Yang with a "fawning" expression, looking as though she wanted to say something but couldn't quite get it out.

"What? Here to hurry me along again?"

Seeing straight through Xiao Wu's intentions, Ji Yang rolled his eyes at her.

Ever since she had reached the Soul King realm as promised, Xiao Wu had brought up leaving the Star Dou Great Forest together to explore the outside world every few days.

The main reason was that, after enjoying the endlessly entertaining human world, Xiao Wu found life in the dull Star Dou Great Forest a little stifling.

In truth, Ji Yang himself also found staying in the Star Dou Great Forest all the time rather boring.

At least, it was far more boring than living in Nuoding City.

If not for his patience, and the pleasure and joy that breakthroughs in his cultivation brought him...

Along with the assorted daily necessities and food Ye Lingling brought whenever she came to visit them in the Star Dou Great Forest, soothing his restlessness, he probably would have wanted to make a run for it too.

"Hehe-"

Seeing that Ji Yang had already seen through her little scheme, Xiao Wu felt no embarrassment and simply giggled.

After all, this wasn't the first time Ji Yang had seen through her thoughts. What was there to be embarrassed about?

"Let's just go out and have a look, okay? Please!"

After giggling, Xiao Wu hugged Ji Yang's right hand against her chest, swaying it back and forth and rubbing against it.

This wasn't some honey trap, but an instinctive display of affection toward Ji Yang.

And this wasn't the first time, either.

It did, however, leave Ji Yang suffering a little.

Although their bodies had already entered adolescence, whenever he thought of their current ages, Ji Yang really didn't dare make a reckless move!

He genuinely feared this book would disappear!

Thus, every time, he could only painfully suppress the restlessness in his heart.

"Let's wait a little longer. Judging by the timing, Da Ming and Er Ming should be about to become ferocious beasts and begin their tribulations. What if we leave, they fail their tribulations, and there's no one to save them?"

Ji Yang tried to soothe her.

His words weren't an excuse, either. They were the truth.

Over these three years-or rather, the last two of them-the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape had been swallowing pills like mad, and their cultivation ages had soared.

By now, they were already extremely close to two hundred thousand years of cultivation.

On top of that, they had fortunately found soul beasts with bloodlines of the same origin. After asking Ji Yang to refine the corresponding Soul Blood Pills, they had successfully advanced their bloodlines another step, making it even easier to enter the ranks of two-hundred-thousand-year ferocious beasts.

By a rough calculation, these next few days really were when they would prepare to undergo their tribulations and become ferocious beasts.

"Then let's wait a little longer!"

Hearing this, Xiao Wu immediately understood the importance of the matter and stopped wheedling and making a fuss.

With the safety of Da Ming and Er Ming, her two dearly beloved younger brothers, at stake, how could going out to play be more important?

If she threw a tantrum and secretly left with Ji Yang, only for something to actually happen to Da Ming and Er Ming in the meantime, she would probably drown in regret and self-reproach.

Besides, once Da Ming and Er Ming finished their tribulations, would she still need to worry about being unable to leave the Star Dou Great Forest to have fun?

By then, Da Ming and Er Ming would leave with them and enjoy themselves in the human world.

Seeing that Xiao Wu had stopped acting petulant, Ji Yang let out a small breath of relief.

Before he could say anything else, a disturbance nearby immediately caught their attention.

"Rumble-"

"Boom-"

It was a series of explosive thunderclaps, accompanied by flickering lightning.

"Thunder!?"

"Tribulation lightning!?"

"Da Ming and Er Ming are starting their breakthroughs and tribulations!?"

At the sight, Ji Yang and Xiao Wu spoke in unison.

Xiao Wu, in particular, grew a little nervous.

"Don't worry. Da Ming's and Er Ming's bloodlines have already evolved. Even if the results weren't quite what we'd 'hoped for,' they're more than enough for them to pass their tribulations easily and complete their advancement!"

Ji Yang reassured her.

Indeed, the evolution of the Sky Azure Bull Python's and Titan Giant Ape's bloodlines hadn't quite gone as hoped.

At the very least, they hadn't evolved into an Azure Divine Dragon and a Tai Tan Divine Beast respectively, as Ji Yang had originally envisioned.

Perhaps it was because they lacked the immortal spiritual energy of the Divine Realm, leaving the evolved Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape with a little less "divinity."

But truthfully, the impact of that was hardly significant.

Although the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape hadn't evolved into an Azure Divine Dragon and a Tai Tan Divine Beast, they had successfully evolved into an Azure Sky Thunder Dragon and a Titan Exotic Beast.

Their bloodlines had successfully taken another step toward the Azure Dragon and Elder Titan, strengthening further and gaining the corresponding elemental abilities.

For instance, Da Ming, who had evolved into an Azure Sky Thunder Dragon, had gained a tremendous boost to his lightning attribute and mastered the might of the Azure Dragon's Divine Punishment Heavenly Thunder.

Meanwhile, Er Ming, who had evolved into a Titan Exotic Beast, had gained lightning-attribute abilities in addition to his existing attributes.

This was thanks to the soul beasts with bloodlines of the same origin used as ingredients for the Soul Blood Pills they had absorbed. Those soul beasts also each possessed powerful lightning-related bloodlines, allowing the two of them to improve and gain the corresponding elemental abilities.

With their evolved bloodlines and bodies, surviving the two-hundred-thousand-year heavenly tribulation was hardly difficult to begin with.

Now that they also commanded the power of lightning, there was even less reason to fear it.

For precisely that reason, Ji Yang truly didn't think there was anything to worry about.

If something unexpected really did happen, he could just let his Bagua Alchemy Furnace Martial Soul serve as their safety net!

"Mm!"

Hearing Ji Yang's reassurance, Xiao Wu immediately relaxed.

Just then, the tribulation clouds overhead finally finished gathering, ready to descend upon Da Ming and Er Ming, who stood prepared below.

Just as Ji Yang was confident, Da Ming and Er Ming had no fear of this two-hundred-thousand-year heavenly tribulation either.

Even if the two-hundred-thousand-year heavenly tribulation escalated into a three-hundred-thousand-year one, they still had some confidence that they could survive it.

With that confidence, Da Ming and Er Ming each unleashed their full strength against the tribulation lightning descending simultaneously from above, beginning their tribulations.

The tribulation lightning consisted of nine rounds in total, each stronger than the last.

The first few rounds were a mere appetizer to them, and they easily shattered them.

They gathered their strength, ready to face the remaining rounds of tribulation lightning.

Meanwhile, as Da Ming and Er Ming underwent their tribulations, the ferocious beasts led by Di Tian in the absolute forbidden zone deep within the Lake of Life also sensed something and noticed the disturbance outside.

"This is... a heavenly tribulation, and two descending at the same time!? Aside from us, there are actually two more soul beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest capable of cultivating to such a level!"

It had to be said that Di Tian was quite astonished.

Especially when his spiritual power spread around the Lake of Life and he discovered which two soul beasts were currently undergoing their ferocious beast tribulations.

To his amazement, he found that the two hundred-thousand-year soul beasts they had forcibly ordered to guard the Lake of Life, who had barely been worthy of their notice, had accumulated enough cultivation in such a short time to advance into two-hundred-thousand-year ferocious beasts?

This was nothing short of a miracle!

Had they discovered a "power bank" similar to the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, or some other fortuitous opportunity?

Otherwise, the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape couldn't possibly have accumulated enough cultivation in such a short time.

Let alone undergone a further evolution of their bloodlines as well.