Watching Di Tian's increasingly hesitant expression, Chen Ping knew he had probably guessed right.
There was only one fundamental reason Di Tian had unleashed the beast tide: he feared that, at humanity's current pace of Soul Tool development, they might well gain the ability to destroy the Star Dou Forest completely before the Silver Dragon King awoke.
Di Tian did not care whether the Three Great Empires and Shrek or the Sun Moon Empire's Holy Spirit Cult won this war between humans. In his eyes, both sides had the potential to acquire the means to destroy the world of soul beasts completely within the next few thousand years.
And what of the Silver Dragon King? She needed at least another ten thousand years to recover from her injuries. Did the Star Dou Forest still have ten thousand years to give her?
It was precisely because of this that Di Tian had unleashed the beast tide regardless of the consequences. After increasingly novel Soul Tools slaughtered the Star Dou Forest's soul beasts without giving them any power to resist, he had grown ever more frenzied, even resorting to the Dragon God Claw to kill Xuan Zi, Du Busi, and Chen Ping himself.
Killing every human on the entire Douluo Star would attract the Divine Realm's attention no matter what, but what if he merely destroyed the entire human world's technological framework and beat humanity back into the Stone Age?
What if, after breaking through Shrek City, he immediately chose to crush all the Sun Moon Empire's top fighting forces as well, forcibly destroying the progress of Soul Tool development in the human world?
Perhaps only then could the Star Dou Forest win ten thousand years for the Silver Dragon King?
Even if the price might well be the deaths of every