(I'll be taking tomorrow, the first day of the New Year, off to pay New Year's visits. Happy New Year to all my dear readers.)
Suddenly, the roars from earlier rang out through the Star Dou Great Forest once more. But they no longer carried anger and defiance toward the heavenly laws. Instead, they carried reverence and respect for Beast God Di Tian, the king of soul beasts.
White motes of light streamed out from every corner of the Star Dou Great Forest and poured into Beast God Di Tian's body high in the sky. They were the purest power of faith.
As the sovereign of all soul beasts, Di Tian was called the Beast God. The godhood he sought was not merely that of the former patriarch of the Black Dragon Clan, but the godhood of the true Beast God!
Several piercing dragon cries suddenly rang out within the Star Dou Great Forest. They came from soul beasts with Dragon Clan bloodlines, each possessing a hundred thousand years of cultivation. Every one of them ruled unchallenged over a territory in the forest, and their fighting strength surpassed even that of Sky Azure Bull Python Da Ming.
After all, the Sky Azure Bull Python was only a giant python that had inherited a trace of Dragon Clan blood. Yet every powerful soul beast roaring now had already assumed a dragon's form, and each possessed the strength to undergo ancestral reversion and attain a true dragon bloodline.
But now, blazing blood-colored flames engulfed their bodies. Those flames burned their flesh to ash and refined its essence, converting all their strength into pure origin energy that shot toward Beast God Di Tian's enormous dragon body in the sky.
They sacrificed themselves, offering their flesh, blood, and entire cultivation to the soul beast