Di Tian nearly laughed himself to death: a foolish rabbit actually chose human form! Xue Ye nearly coughed up blood in fury
The Titan Giant Ape crashed to his knees beneath the terrifying pressure, his bones cracking explosively and blood seeping from the corner of his mouth.
The Sky Azure Bull Python was likewise forced back to the lake bottom, unable to move.
Space tore open, black flames rose, and Beast God Di Tian stepped out into the air, his golden eyes looking down coldly.
An enormous phantom of a Golden-Eyed Black Dragon manifested behind him.
The two beasts trembled all over. The Sky Azure Bull Python said in a shaking voice:
"M-my lord... I... I did not know Lord Black Dragon was coming... this lowly beast... deserves death!"
Di Tian snorted coldly:
"Panicking and stirring up such an upheaval in the earth's veins-what sort of conduct is this?!
The Sky Screen just revealed that an army from another world has already reached Sea God Island's borders. In three days at most, Xuanwu Continent will collide head-on with Douluo Continent!
Our lord issued a decree long ago:
A great calamity approaches, and heaven and earth are in turmoil. The entire Star Dou Great Forest is under lockdown!
Our lord strictly commanded:
Every being within Star Dou Great Forest with over a hundred thousand years of cultivation must immediately conceal their presence and retreat to the Lake of Life's Core Circle, without taking even half a step outside without permission!
Anyone who dares to trigger phenomena in heaven and earth without authorization on the eve of the two continents' collision, attracting prying eyes from outside, will be killed without exception!"
Di Tian stepped forward, his killing intent razor-sharp:
"Our lord's decree still rings in your ears.
Let me ask you two...
What exactly were you two rushing off to do in such a blazing hurry just now?!
Do you truly think my dragon claws cannot tear through your flesh and hide?!"
The Sky Azure Bull Python explained in terror:
"M-my lord!
This lowly beast... this lowly beast never intended to defy our lord's decree!"
"Then are you courting death?"
"I would not dare!
This lowly beast would never dare!
My lord...
Just now...
Just now, our former companion, Sister Xiao Wu, who took human form...
A Hundred-Thousand-Year Soft Bone Rabbit, released a signal asking for aid and announcing her return at the edge of the inner region!
Back then, to seek a breakthrough, Sister Xiao Wu chose to shed her beast body and take human form, entering the human world alone.
Now the outside world is in chaos. Spirit Hall is pursuing her relentlessly, and that Xuanwu Empire is slaughtering people along the coast.
She just sent us a signal from her origin, and we feared she had fallen victim to powerful humans in the inner region.
In our momentary anxiety, we... we wanted to rush out of the Core Circle, bring her back, and look after her properly!
Please judge fairly, my lord!
We brothers had no intention whatsoever of defying our lord's decree. We were merely overcome by our eagerness to protect our sister!
Please forgive us, my lord!"
The Titan Giant Ape also begged for mercy:
"M-my lord, Er Ming knows he was wrong!
But Sister Xiao Wu truly is our family. Please show mercy, my lord!"
Di Tian's expression turned mocking:
"A Hundred-Thousand-Year Soft Bone Rabbit who took human form to cultivate anew?
An utterly witless fool.
She was a perfectly fine Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, naturally endowed with a long lifespan and a powerful beast body.
Yet she insisted on envying those lowly humans who live no more than a hundred years, even going so far as to disperse the Soul Beast true body she had painstakingly cultivated for ten thousand years.
She entrusted her life to the illusory human path to godhood!
From the moment she chose human form, in the eyes of the Soul Beast Clan, she had already become nothing more than a walking Soul Ring and Soul Bone!
In the eyes of those greedy human Soul Masters, she is merely a trophy they can harvest at any time!
You two have guarded the Lake of Life for ten thousand years, yet for a mere Soft Bone Rabbit who abandoned her dignity as a Soul Beast and bound herself by taking human form,
you would defy our lord's lockdown decree and risk leaving the core territory without permission?"
Xiao Wu had only reached the hundred-thousand-year mark. If she continued cultivating, before she encountered the two-hundred-thousand-year Heavenly Tribulation,
she would still have tens of thousands, perhaps even a hundred thousand years.
Yet she insisted on taking human form to gamble on that almost impossible chance of attaining godhood?
The Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape inwardly poured out their grievances.
Our lord?
We do not even know who this lord you keep talking about is!
If you did not want us to leave, you should have come out and said so beforehand!
Just as we were about to leave, you came straight out and crushed us with your draconic might.
Who could withstand that?!
Di Tian swept his sleeve, overturning the Sky Azure Bull Python and blasting him back, then barked coldly:
"Both of you, listen carefully.
Xuanwu Continent is bearing down upon us, and the gods of the Divine Realm are shaken. This is not merely a calamity for the human world, but an upheaval unlike anything our entire Soul Beast Clan has faced in millions of years!
Within that Sky Screen was a 'Rift-Splitting Black Dragon,' suspected to be a descendant of an ancient True Dragon, and a two-hundred-thousand-year Blue Silver Emperor.
That alone shows how flourishing the Soul Beasts of Xuanwu Continent are!
Our lord is regulating their Qi within a separate space and divining heaven's secrets. The slightest mishap could leave the entire Soul Beast lineage of Douluo Continent dead without a place of burial!
I do not care whether that Soft Bone Rabbit lives or dies in the inner region, nor what powerful humans she has encountered.
From this day forth, no being at the Lake of Life with over a hundred thousand years of cultivation may set even half a step outside the Core Circle, even if heaven collapses and the earth splits apart!
If she has the ability to return to the Core Circle herself, our merciful lord will naturally allow her to eke out a living by the lake.
If she dies in the inner region, then she sought her own death and has no one else to blame!
If you dare take even half a step outside the Core Circle, I will personally rip out your dragon sinews and beast bones.
I will refine your souls completely into this Lake of Life!
Do you understand?!"
The Sky Azure Bull Python bowed his head into the mud:
"This lowly beast... will obey Lord Black Dragon's decree!
I... I will never dare take another half-step outside the Core Circle!"
The Titan Giant Ape lay trembling on the ground:
"I... I obey too!
I will never go out!"
Di Tian snorted coldly, tore open a spatial rift, and stepped away. The pressure dissipated.
Deathly silence returned to the lake.
The Titan Giant Ape rose, panting:
"B-big brother...
What kind of being was that...
He was too terrifying...
Just now, I felt as though his gaze alone was going to burst my heart..."
The Sky Azure Bull Python surfaced and sighed:
"Er Ming... say no more.
That was a true divine dragon...
Before him, we are nothing but ants he could crush at will..."
The Sky Azure Bull Python's wish was to activate the Azure Divine Dragon bloodline within him.
To become a genuine True Dragon!
But even if he became a True Dragon, he would still be nowhere near comparable to Di Tian!
"Then... then what about Sister Xiao Wu?
Are we really not going to bring her back?
What if the people from Spirit Hall catch up with her..."
The Sky Azure Bull Python sank to the lake bottom:
"Shut up!
Did you not hear what that Lord Black Dragon said?
The two continents are going to collide, and even the Divine Realm is going to intervene!
Star Dou Great Forest is no longer a place where we brothers have the final say.
Sister Xiao Wu... since you have already reached the inner region, hurry back here yourself...
Whatever you do...
Do not linger outside..."
In the Heaven Dou Empire, within the imperial palace's great hall in Heaven Dou City.
Xue Ye stared at the Sky Screen, his face deathly pale.
"Vast Sea Fortress... has fallen?"
Xue Ye's voice trembled, his face full of disbelief.
Vast Sea Fortress had fallen so easily?
Bibi Xi had taken Vast Sea Fortress with a single Soul Skill.
Was this a rank-95 Super Douluo?
"Half an hour!
The empire's foremost fortress, defended by a full thirty thousand troops, could not even hold out for half an hour?!"
Xue Ye slammed his hand against the armrest and began coughing violently, nearly coughing up blood:
"That was the Heaven Dou Empire's only barrier in the west!
With the fortress breached, the land from the West Sea to Heaven Dou City is one unbroken plain!
If the Xuanwu Empire's vanguard drives straight in, what am I supposed to stop them with?!"
Then Xue Ye looked toward Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong below the steps of the hall.