The entire continent fell silent once more.
[Eight hundred and ninety thousand years!]
[Its cultivation is actually a hundred thousand years higher than the Evil Emperor's!]
[The Beast God of the Star Dou Great Forest!]
[The foremost of the Ten Great Ferocious Beasts!]
[No wonder it could stop the Evil Emperor!]
[We always thought the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape were the forest's emperors. So the true Beast God had been hiding in the core region all along!]
Inside the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace.
Xue Ye stared at the words on the Sky Screen without speaking for a long time.
The Star Dou Great Forest spanned the two great empires of Heaven Dou and Star Luo.
Soul Masters from both countries entered it every year to hunt Soul Beasts.
Yet for hundreds of years, no one had known that an eight-hundred-and-ninety-thousand-year-old black-eyed golden dragon king also lived deep within the forest.
Dai Tianfeng's expression changed as well.
"Eight hundred and ninety thousand years."
"If a Soul Beast like that walked out of the Star Dou Great Forest, what could the two empires use to stop it?"
The imperial household's retainers could not answer.
Even a Peerless Douluo could change the course of a war.
An eight-hundred-and-ninety-thousand-year-old black-eyed golden dragon king was already powerful enough to destroy an empire outright.
Within the Sky Screen.
Di Tian spread his dragon wings.
Black-and-gold radiance erupted from his draconic body.
The surrounding evil eye phantoms shattered simultaneously.
Countless cracks appeared in the mental illusion.
The Evil Emperor's true body shuddered slightly.
Di Tian's dragon claw had already torn through the illusion and descended toward the enormous eye.
Golden Divine Runes interwove between his five talons.
A power that stood above Soul Beast bloodlines emerged with them.
[Di Tian's Ultimate Technique, Dragon God Claw.]
[Calls upon the Dragon God's Gifted Power.]
[Possesses the ability to tear space apart, suppress bloodlines, and break through Spiritual Domains.]
The Dragon God Claw descended.
The spiritual power surrounding the Evil Emperor was forcibly torn apart.
The enormous eye retreated.
Several tentacles were severed by golden light, and black liquid rained down over the forest.
The Soul Masters of the Sun Moon Empire fell completely silent.
For the first time, they had seen the Evil Emperor injured in a head-on clash.
The Evil Emperor steadied himself.
"The Dragon God's power."
"Di Tian, so this is your trump card."
A speck of silver-gray light slowly lit up within his pitch-black pupil.
The instant that speck of light appeared, the surrounding space began to distort.
Broken trees stood upright again.
Splashing lake water flowed backward.
Even the golden radiance on Di Tian's dragon claw briefly slowed.
At the sight of that speck of silver-gray light, Gu Yuena's purple eyes narrowed slightly.
"The power of time and space."
Di Tian watched the scene on the Sky Screen.
Even now, he still remembered the threat that strike had posed.
All of the Evil Emperor's tentacles spread out at once.
His entire seven hundred and eighty thousand years of Spiritual Origin poured into his pupil.
The silver-gray light expanded from a single point into a thin line.
Golden words appeared.
[The Evil Emperor's strongest ultimate technique, Light of Time and Space.]
[Burns Spiritual Origin to interfere with time and space.]
[Anyone struck by the Light of Time and Space will suffer simultaneous deterioration of their body, spirit, and life origin.]
[Even a Peerless Douluo will be reduced to withered bones in an extremely short time.]
The Light of Time and Space streaked across the sky.
Space collapsed layer after layer along its path.
The moment trees touched the silver-gray light, they cycled continuously through growth, withering, and decay.
The light grazed a mountain peak.
Its hard rock rapidly weathered away.
A few breaths later, the entire peak turned to drifting ash.
Across the continent, countless Soul Masters watched with their scalps tingling.
[What kind of power is this?]
[An entire mountain disappeared just like that!]
[Even a Peerless Douluo would turn to withered bones if struck?]
[The Evil Emperor has actually mastered time and space!]
[He truly deserves eighth place!]
Di Tian did not retreat.
Every golden Divine Rune on the Dragon God Claw lit up.
His black dragon wings spread to their fullest extent.
His immense draconic body charged head-on into the Light of Time and Space.
Gold and silver-gray collided above the Lake of Life.
The surrounding scene shattered instantly.
The mountain forests were flattened by the shock waves.
Lake water surged a thousand meters into the sky.
A spatial rift cut through the forest's core region.
The Dragon God Claw struck the Evil Emperor's enormous eye, sending him flying.
Large patches of dragon scales on Di Tian's body also lost their luster.
A few breaths later.
The Light of Time and Space dissipated completely.
Di Tian stood in the air above the Lake of Life.
The Dragon God Claw stopped before the Evil Emperor's true body.
More than half of the Evil Emperor's tentacles had been severed.
The silver-gray light within his enormous eye had already vanished.
The outcome was decided.
[The Evil Emperor lost!]
[Di Tian won!]
[The Evil Emperor's Light of Time and Space was so terrifying, yet it still lost to the Dragon God Claw!]
[Di Tian truly deserves to be the foremost of the Ten Great Ferocious Beasts!]
[Though the Evil Emperor lost, he forced Di Tian to use the Dragon God's power!]
[There is no question that he deserves eighth place on the Powerhouse Ranking!]
The scene on the Sky Screen slowly faded.
Golden words gathered once more.
[The Evil Emperor challenged Di Tian.]
[He pitted the Light of Time and Space against the Dragon God Claw.]
[Ultimately falling slightly short, he withdrew from the Star Dou Great Forest.]
[The Evil Emperor's spiritual power reigns supreme across the continent.]
[The Light of Time and Space can threaten the life of a Peerless Douluo.]
[Eighth on the Powerhouse Ranking: the Evil Emperor.]
[Ranking evaluation complete.]
The majestic voice of the Heavenly Dao then spread across the continent.
[Reward distribution begins.]
The first beam of light fell into the Evil Demon Forest.
Golden light enveloped the Evil Emperor's true body.
The tentacles surrounding his enormous eye contracted continuously.
Deep within his pitch-black pupil, silver Divine Runes emerged one after another.
[Reward one: bloodline evolution.]
[The Evil-Eyed Tyrant Overlord bloodline evolves into the Spacetime Evil Eye Divine Emperor bloodline.]
Space around the Evil Emperor shattered continuously.
He had yet to break through to a million years of cultivation, but a God Level aura had already appeared around him.
Di Tian's expression grew grave as he watched that aura.
"A God Level bloodline."
A second beam of golden light descended from the Sky Screen.
A transparent divine crown floated above the Evil Emperor.
The divine crown had been carved from a single piece of crystal.
A silver vertical pupil was embedded in its center.
Countless spiritual Divine Runes slowly revolved around the vertical pupil.
[Reward two: divine artifact, the Crystal Divine Crown.]
[Amplifies spiritual power.]
[Stabilizes Spiritual Origin.]
[Reduces the consumption of spiritual Soul Skills.]
[Increases the power of the Light of Time and Space.]
The Crystal Divine Crown settled onto the Evil Emperor's true body.
Immense spiritual power instantly enveloped the entire Evil Demon Forest.
Every Soul Beast in the forest lowered its body at once.
Within the Sun Moon Empire, countless Soul Masters felt their Seas of Consciousness sink.
Even ten thousand miles away, they could still sense that power.
Spirit City.
The Rakshasa Demon Halberd in Bibi Dong's hand trembled slightly.
"Bloodline evolution."
"A spiritual divine artifact."
"The Evil Emperor can now truly threaten God Level powerhouses."
Inside the Worship Hall.
Qian Daoliu gazed in the direction of the Evil Demon Forest.
"The Light of Time and Space was already powerful enough to injure a Divine Body."
"The Crystal Divine Crown has compensated for its flaw of excessive consumption."
"Below God Level, no one can withstand this strike head-on anymore."
The Star Dou Great Forest.
The many Ferocious Beasts watched the Evil Emperor in silence.
Xiong Jun put away his earlier disdain.
The Myriad Demon King stared at the Crystal Divine Crown.
"If he challenged Di Tian again now, would the outcome still be the same?"
Di Tian did not answer.
Gu Yuena stood on the lake's surface, her purple eyes reflecting the Evil Emperor's evolved true body.
"Di Tian can still win."
"But killing him would be very difficult now."
Above the Evil Demon Forest.
The Evil Emperor slowly opened his eye.
Silver Divine Runes covered his pupil.
The Crystal Divine Crown hovered above its true body.
A ray of Light of Time and Space flashed through the depths of its pupil.
The distant sky split open without a sound.
The Evil Emperor felt the changes in his bloodline and Spiritual Origin.
"God Level."
"I, the emperor, am now qualified to touch that realm."
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