Golden Dragon King: Heh heh heh, of course I came to eat you. The Soul Beasts are all gone, so what are you still living for?
After hearing the Golden Dragon King's words, Di Tian had no choice but to take this seriously.
Just how exalted an existence was the Golden Dragon King?
Since even he held Lin Ming in such high regard, there had to be a reason.
It seemed Lin Ming truly possessed something they needed.
Di Tian therefore looked at Lin Ming solemnly. "May I ask your name?"
"My name is Lin Ming."
"My Lord Lin Ming, since my lord the Golden Dragon King has given his command, I will naturally honor you as my lord.
But how exactly do you and my lord the Golden Dragon King intend to resurrect every member of our Soul Beast Clan?
What heaven-defying object do you possess, my lord Lin Ming?"
Hearing Di Tian's questions, Lin Ming stopped keeping things under wraps.
The Golden Dragon King had been blathering on for so long. It was time he said a few words himself.
He immediately summoned his Martial Soul. "This is my Martial Soul, the Reincarnation Tower."
Black and white currents slowly revolved around the Reincarnation Tower, while its body emitted a faint netherworld aura, the power of life and death intertwining.
Even Di Tian felt as though his soul was about to be drawn out after taking just one look.
And Lin Ming could only maintain its manifestation for a brief moment before immediately withdrawing it.
In just that short time it had been summoned, Lin Ming's face had already turned pale.
After all, he had only just awakened his Martial Soul, and had too little soul power.
However, using the Reincarnation Tower did not require summoning it. A silent command in his mind would suffice.
"As its name suggests, my Reincarnation Tower can help humans and Soul Beasts reincarnate.
I can control it at will. I can transfer a dead person's soul into another living person, or into a living Soul Beast.
The same goes for the souls of Soul Beasts. It only requires consuming enough energy."
"Exactly."
The Golden Dragon King immediately cut in. "Although the Spirit Pagoda slaughtered countless Soul Beasts to the last, at least they preserved their souls and made them all into Soul Spirits.
Their souls have all been preserved intact, and they can all reincarnate through this brat's Reincarnation Tower.
When the time comes, we'll reincarnate all these souls into corresponding animals. Pig Soul Beasts will go into pigs, dog Soul Beasts into dogs, and dragon Soul Beasts into creatures like crocodiles and rhinoceroses.
Once their reincarnation succeeds, I'll exert my power and plant Soul Beast seeds inside them again. As their souls gradually merge and their cultivation keeps growing stronger, they'll be able to strengthen their bloodlines continuously, ultimately becoming true Soul Beasts and achieving resurrection in the truest sense."
At the Golden Dragon King's words, even Di Tian's breathing stopped. "That's possible?
Does such a heaven-defying tower truly exist in this world?
Manipulating life and death-isn't that the power of a god?"
Di Tian's instinctive reaction was disbelief, but these words had come from my lord the Golden Dragon King himself. Did his lord have any reason to deceive him?
Then it seemed the Soul Beast Clan truly had hope.
Following the Golden Dragon King's reasoning, all the Soul Spirits made from slaughtered Soul Beasts could be resurrected as Soul Beasts. That meant every Soul Spirit stored by the Spirit Pagoda was a Soul Beast in reserve.
The Spirit Pagoda had a Heavenly Spirit Tower and the Eighteen Heavenly Pillars, as well as Branch Pagodas in cities across the continent.
Across the entire Douluo Continent, together with the Star Luo Continent and Heaven Dou Continent, there were nearly a thousand cities on the three continents, with several thousand Spirit Pagodas altogether.
Excluding the low-grade artificial Soul Spirits, the Spirit Pagoda's reserves of Soul Spirits numbered at least ten million.
If all these Soul Spirits could be resurrected, the Star Dou Great Forest would return to its peak.
"My Lord, then let's go to the Spirit Pagoda and seize the Soul Spirits right now, and hurry up and resurrect the dead Soul Beasts."
"What's the rush?"
The Golden Dragon King interrupted him, then looked at him solemnly. "The plan is indeed perfect, but it's still missing a very important link."
It was as though a bucket of cold water had been poured over Di Tian. He immediately looked at the Golden Dragon King in confusion. "My Lord, what link is still missing?"
"Me.
I blew up fighting the Divine Realm, leaving behind only a remnant soul and a drop of essence blood.
After modifying this inferior Martial Soul into a vessel I could attach myself to, the origin essence blood within me was only at three percent. But I'm still seven percent short of being able to modify the genes of animals that have successfully reincarnated.
I need at least ten percent of my origin essence blood to possess that authority.
Otherwise, with my current insufficient power, it's difficult to perform bloodline modification."
"Then could my lord the Silver Dragon King do it?"
"She's turned into a human. What the hell could she do?
Besides, even if she could, I wouldn't tell her. Who knows whether that idiot would leak the secret to humans or inadvertently let the information slip?
In short, that idiot is that, what was it-brat, what did you call her?"
"World-shaking wisdom!"
"Ah, right, she has world-shaking wisdom. You summed it up perfectly. So we absolutely cannot tell her. We can only handle this ourselves.
Di Tian, if you dare tell that stupid thing, you're finished."
"Rest assured, My Lord. Your subordinate will never say a word.
But how will you make up that missing seven percent of your bloodline, My Lord?"
Di Tian had a feeling that this might be why the Golden Dragon King had come to find him.
Otherwise, the Golden Dragon King could have acted entirely on his own. After all, in the Golden Dragon King's plan, he and Lin Ming alone were enough. There seemed to be no need for Di Tian.
So Di Tian waited patiently for the Golden Dragon King to say it himself.
With the Golden Dragon King's impatient temperament, he would probably say it very soon.
Sure enough, an evil gleam shone in the Golden Dragon King's eyes as he stared at Di Tian's body and revealed a sinister grin:
"Beast God Di Tian, your chance to sacrifice yourself for me and the Soul Beast Clan has arrived.
Now the entire Soul Beast Clan has gone extinct, and the Dragon Clan is dead as well. The only pure-blooded dragons left are that idiot the Silver Dragon King, you, and the Hell Demon Dragon Zi JI.
Unfortunately, that woman is currently beside that idiot the Silver Dragon King, so I can't touch her. I could only come to you."
"My Lord, what do you mean?"
"Heh heh heh!
To let me eat you, of course."
The Golden Dragon King could not help licking his lips, looking thoroughly evil,
"As long as I eat a pure-blooded dragon like you, my three percent of origin essence blood will be replenished instantly, reaching at least somewhere above ten percent.
When the time comes, with my bloodline restored, won't resurrecting the Soul Beasts and accomplishing our great revival be as easy as reaching out and grabbing it?"
"My Lord, you came to the Star Dou Great Forest just to devour me?"
Di Tian's eyes widened.
After hearing the Golden Dragon King's words, the Myriad Demon King, Xiong Jun, and the Scarlet King also revealed a trace of wariness in their eyes.
No wonder my lord the Silver Dragon King often told them that the Golden Dragon King was an amalgamation of the Dragon God's negative energy, an innately evil existence.
Seeing him today, he truly lived up to his reputation. He actually wanted to devour Di Tian the moment they met.
They all turned their gazes toward Beast God Di Tian, wanting to see whether he would agree to such an explosive demand from the Golden Dragon King.
Although Di Tian was loyal, surely he was not so blindly loyal that he would willingly give up his life for the Golden Dragon King?
Xiong Jun, the Myriad Demon King, and the Scarlet King all thought Di Tian would probably refuse.
But after hearing the Golden Dragon King's words, Di Tian instead began to ponder:
"My Lord, is this truly the only path available?
Can only my bloodline increase the concentration of your origin essence?"
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