"Xiaoyao, if you leave now, I won't force you to stay. Because I know what will happen in the battle ahead!" Ye Xishui's alluring face brimmed with affection as she spoke to Long Xiaoyao.
"Di Tian, the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King, has accumulated enough foundation to become a god ten times over. Whenever his cultivation approaches the threshold where he can no longer suppress it and would trigger the tribulation of ascension, he starts over. That makes him truly invincible beneath the gods," Mu En analyzed from beside them.
Long Xiaoyao looked doubtfully at Ye Xishui, then at Mu En, a gentleman who seemed dull when it came to matters of the heart. "I know Di Tian's bloodline ranks above the Darkness Sacred Dragon martial soul I cultivate and can suppress me! But Brother Mu En, once brothers, always brothers. You were ordered to brave danger here. I can't stand by and watch you fall into a hopeless situation!"
In a dense thicket in the southern Star Dou Great Forest, the three Peerless Douluos of the present age had gathered!
Despite such a lineup, no powerful fluctuations of soul power emanated from them.
In the western and eastern reaches of Star Dou, however, twenty-four Nine-Ring Titled Douluos each had assembled from the Holy Spirit Cult and Shrek Academy respectively.
The overlapping soul power fluctuations of so many experts unleashed pressure as vast as an ocean.
"Elder Xuan, word has it that an Evil Beings appeared in the Star Dou Great Forest and stole our human race's fortune, leaving us unable to hunt soul beasts to cultivate. Just what monstrous fiend is this Evil Beings?" In the eastern Star Dou Great Forest, after Shrek Academy and its affiliates had assembled, a middle-aged man questioned Xuan Zi.
He was the current patriarch of the Mysterious Underworld Sect.
"This Evil Beings has quite a background, for even the divine oracle did not identify it explicitly. It must be savage by nature. We must purge demons from heaven and earth, and wield our swords to slay these wicked fiends!" Xuan Zi shook his head and sighed.
Upon discovering that killing soul beasts no longer yielded soul rings, unlike Sun Moon, which immediately reassured its citizens with martial souls not to panic, Shrek Academy's Sea God Pavilion promptly declared this to be a conspiracy by a newly born Evil Beings in the Star Dou Great Forest-and announced that judgment to the entire Soul Master World.
Naturally, Shrek's Elder Xuan Zi and the other senior figures would not explain anything to affiliates such as the Mysterious Underworld Sect.
For masters had no need to explain themselves to servants.
Behind Shrek's Elders and the sect masters and elders of its affiliated soul master sects stood a total of three thousand eight hundred people. Every one of them possessed cultivation at least at the Six-Ring Soul Emperor level.
The most conspicuous among them were the members of Shrek's Inspection Corps, dressed in specially made combat outfits. Every one of them had a concentrated, well-tempered aura. Their purpose here was to [eradicate demons and defend the righteous path]!
Unlike the members of Shrek's Inspection Corps, the members of these affiliated sects had come to secure a soul ring at least ten thousand years old before the altered planar laws, which prevented soul rings from forming when soul beasts were killed, extended to Seven-Ring Soul Sages.
On the other side, the thousands of Holy Spirit Cult members gathered in the western Star Dou Great Forest shared that same mindset.
At dawn that day, as morning light spilled over the ground, purple qi swept in from the east across thirty thousand li in the eastern skies of the Star Dou Great Forest.
This celestial phenomenon had been triggered by Qiu'er reaching the time for her transformation into human form.
Humans possessed an innate body attuned to the Dao. Though at first their apparent command of the world's vital energy fell short of Elemental Spirits, and their command of blood and qi fell short of dragons, deep along the path of cultivation, a human form became necessary to avoid expending twice the effort for half the result.
Beside the Lake of Life, which resembled azure crystal, Di Tian watched Qiu'er's transformation without taking his eyes off her for even a moment.
As Qiu'er transformed, a silver dragon five thousand meters long soared from the Lake of Life into the heavens and began to circle.
After the Silver Dragon began circling, a crystal-clear, dragon-shaped vortex emitting a faint sound spread over an area three thousand eight hundred li in diameter.
At the very center of this vortex, the phantom of a brilliant golden spear with a wooden texture appeared.
The spear's brilliant golden radiance grew ever stronger, until it gradually seemed to become a sun illuminating the world.
After vast, boundless divinity, powerful enough to sweep away everything like rotten wood, was drawn out of the void into the spear, it surged within it like a shackled giant struggling to break free!
But however the divinity drawn into the spear struggled, it could no longer escape.
The instant the spear appeared, Huo Yuhao sensed it far away at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.
Having once reached the Supreme God realm, he knew that the Silver Dragon King was drawing out and devouring the Golden Dragon King's Divine Seat from the Divine Forbidden Land in the Divine Realm.
The Divine Forbidden Land, Divine Realm.
Space and time here were inverted and disordered.
The world's vital energy here was impure and violent in the extreme! Surging earth, water, wind, and fire could erupt anywhere at any moment, as though the apocalypse had descended! Such great terror would make even a Main God turn pale.
Yet amid this apocalyptic scene, a sky-blue crystal sphere hung high above, with a figure standing inside it, his hair like deep-blue ocean waves and his body towering like a mountain.
He wore blue-and-gold armor, with eight wings covered in profound runes spread behind his back, and his bearing was noble and sacred.
This man was the leader of the gods, Tang San, [Sea God and Asura God]!
When his eyes, deep as an abyss, opened, a flame-like brilliance shone in them.
He looked down, a fierce edge appearing on his face.
Drawing his attention back to this place, Tang San looked at the fractured space-time before him. From these fissures, which resembled gaping wounds, came a sound like blood flowing through veins, yet as thunderous as a tsunami. As a supreme being, when violet light kindled amid the flames in Tang San's eyes, the image of a dark-golden dragon ten thousand meters long appeared before him.
As the dragon's form appeared before Tang San, his previously closed draconic eyes suddenly opened as well, meeting Tang San's gaze.
As their gazes met, an endless sound like shattering mirrors rang through the surrounding space: the spatial elements at the midpoint between them had collapsed.
The elemental energies that composed the world roared, spreading into the universe and sweeping across thousands upon tens of thousands of li.
"Heh heh... heh heh..."
A strange laugh, as though formed from a multitude of voices, entered Tang San's ears directly.
"King of humans, do you mean our cooperation ends here?" the great dragon asked. This dragon was the Golden Dragon King.
"Now that things have come to this, what bargaining chips do you have left?" Tang San wore a faint, inscrutable smile. The Golden Dragon King could not tell what he was thinking.
"The weak and the beaten dogs are unworthy of working with me. You are already destined to be devoured by the Silver Dragon. How are you any better than a stray dog by the roadside? And you think yourself fit to stand alongside me?"
After ascending to the Divine Realm, Tang San had taken to acting as an emperor.
"King of humans, without the power of my evil thoughts, how will you cloud your political enemy, the God of Destruction's, perception of the world, of fate, and of himself?"
"If you cannot blind him, then expecting those little tricks of yours in the mortal realm to succeed is nothing but a dream!"
"Help me. Don't let the Silver Dragon strip away my Divine Seat through that Golden Dragon Spear. The benefits I can bring you in our future cooperation are beyond your imagination!"