In the Netherworld Blood Sea, Ancestor Minghe lost control of his bladder as he stared at Houtu, who had become a Sage.
Because this had been the path he intended to take!
"Why? I was clearly the first to create the Netherworld~"
"I was also the first to open up reincarnation~"
"I was the one who wanted to take this path to Sagehood, too~"
"Why! Why was Houtu the one who became a Sage in the end!"
"What right does the Witch Clan have to attain Sagehood!"
Ancestor Minghe was utterly unreconciled. Back then, after he saw Nüwa create humanity and gain tremendous merit.
The Three Pure Ones and the two Daoists had all founded their own sects and likewise gained merit.
He, too, had created the Asura Clan and established the Asura Sect.
He had wanted to seek merit and become a Sage.
But the Asuras were too steeped in slaughter. Rather than gaining more merit, he had instead had more karma descend upon him.
Although this karma was unlike the punitive karma inflicted on the Dragon Clan, and was instead bestowed upon him by the Heavenly Dao.
Uh~ but in reality, it was more like the Heavenly Dao had nowhere to put its excess karma and had dumped it all on him like garbage.
With this karma, he had surged to peak Quasi-Saint, joining the highest echelon of the Primordial World.
But the problem was, that was as far as he could go. The Heavenly Dao could never allow a second Luohou to emerge in the Primordial World.
Fortunately, thanks to the Netherworld Blood Sea, even a Sage could not kill him completely.
Standing here, he was invincible against anyone below a Sage.
Yet Houtu had simply seized his home. Having a Sage standing over his head was bad enough, but she had even found him a master.
She had placed his Asura Path among the Six Paths.
Ancestor Minghe was furious!
He was maddened with jealousy!
"Xu You! Just who are you!"
As for who Xu You actually was.
Zhu Jiuyin looked at Houtu with a strange expression, thinking, Could it be him?
Meanwhile, on the Douluo Continent.
Di Tian had been rather lifeless lately.
Having lost his lord, he no longer knew what meaning there was in staying alive.
Although he kept comforting himself that his lord was the Dragon God, and his lord would surely cultivate her way back.
Cultivate back to the very pinnacle.
But watching another dragon subdue his lord with his own eyes.
At that moment, Di Tian had been somewhat dazed.
He had died twice in total.
The first time was when he personally witnessed the Dragon God's death. The second was this time, when the Dragon God was subdued.
What did it mean for the sky to fall? This was what it meant.
Now he had personally witnessed two Super Divine Artifacts fall into the hands of that dragon named Xu You, who had even become some Lord of Reincarnation.
Di Tian felt even more despair. Could his lord really turn things around now?
Surely she would not remain subdued by that dragon for the rest of her life.
Anything but that!
"Di Tian, look! I seem to have cultivated the Ancestral Dragon Scripture."
Just then, Zi JI, who had been staying by his side all along, suddenly spoke.
Di Tian: ???
Di Tian turned to look. To his astonishment, Zi JI, who had originally possessed only 290,000 years of cultivation, had now broken through to 300,000 years in one leap.
How was that possible?
Zi JI had only just reached 290,000 years. How could it be so fast?
"Wait!"
Di Tian's expression changed instantly.
For Soul Beasts like them, Heavenly Tribulations existed.
Every 100,000 years was a life-and-death hurdle. The slightest carelessness would mean dying beneath a Heavenly Tribulation.
So the truth was that many Soul Beasts did not refrain from increasing their strength because they did not want to, but because they faced Heavenly Tribulations.
If they could not withstand one, death was their only outcome.
As a result, many Soul Beasts not only avoided constantly increasing their strength, but instead suppressed it.
And Zi JI, the Hell Demon Dragon King, was a pureblood true dragon, so naturally, she could not possibly be stopped dead at the 300,000-year Heavenly Tribulation hurdle.
But she still needed to accumulate strength and deepen her foundation.
She had only just reached 290,000 years, yet merely learning the Ancestral Dragon Scripture had sent her straight to 300,000 years.
What kind of heaven-defying cultivation technique was this?
"Zi JI, hurry and suppress your Heavenly Tribulation."
Di Tian was anxious. With an unstable foundation, what if she could not withstand it?
Now that his lord was gone, if his lord could not return, would that not leave just the two of them as true dragons?
If anything happened to Zi JI as well, he would be the only true dragon left in the entire world.
Meanwhile, the other Soul Beasts were also affected by the presence of this Heavenly Tribulation and all looked over.
"Di Tian? What's happening to Zi JI?"
Bi Ji was somewhat alarmed. Had she not only recently broken through to 290,000 years? How was she already...
Would something go wrong?
And so a group of Soul Beasts gathered around, looking at Zi JI with deep concern.
After all, there were fewer and fewer Soul Beasts now. This was no longer the Star Dou Great Forest of old.
They could only huddle together for warmth. Every death meant one less source of fighting strength.
Faced with everyone's concern, only Zi JI looked somewhat puzzled.
"It seems~ it seems like it isn't difficult at all."
The next moment, Zi JI vanished from where she stood, and a dragon's roar shook all directions.
The next moment, an enormous dragon, black and purple from head to tail, soared into the air and leaped into the heavens.
And high above, the Heavenly Tribulation targeting a Soul Beast began to gather.
Faced with this deathly pressure, a trace of puzzlement flickered in Zi JI's calm eyes.
"Why?"
"I feel like this Heavenly Tribulation doesn't seem to pose any threat to me?"
He had survived the 100,000-year and 200,000-year Heavenly Tribulations before. Even though he was a true dragon, every tribulation had been fraught with peril.
Only this time, he felt that the so-called Heavenly Tribulation did not seem to have any effect on her.
"Have I grown stronger?"
"Or is it because of the Ancestral Dragon Scripture?"
She silently continued cultivating the Ancestral Dragon Scripture, and the next moment, her strength actually became even more solid.
Zi JI was utterly shocked.
What is going on with this Ancestral Dragon Scripture? How can it be so heaven-defying?
She could not understand it. Simply circulating the Ancestral Dragon Scripture sent her strength shooting upward level after level, like a rocket.
Leveling up through cultivation?
Could it really be this easy?
"This Ancestral Dragon Scripture is far too heaven-defying."
The Hell Demon Dragon King faced the world-destroying lightning alone, beneath the disbelieving gazes of all the Soul Beasts.
She shattered the Heavenly Tribulation with ease.
Huh?
This was not how Soul Beasts survived Heavenly Tribulations.
Weren't you supposed to tremble in fear and anxiety, suppressing your strength and further reinforcing your foundation?
Then, only once you were one hundred percent certain you could survive the Heavenly Tribulation, or could no longer hold it back, would you force yourself to face it.
Then you would exhaust every means available and barely survive the Heavenly Tribulation with a little luck, but even then, you would be covered in wounds.
Left half-dead.
For Soul Beasts, surviving a Heavenly Tribulation was not like cultivating the Dao. Cultivators would even receive rewards from the Heavenly Dao after surviving theirs.
But in the Douluo World, Heavenly Tribulations existed purely to kill Soul Beasts.
Every Soul Beast that survived a Heavenly Tribulation was struck half-dead, some even left with only a single breath.
But what was going on with Zi JI?
Di Tian's mouth fell open in shock. "This~ this~ this? Is this right? Is this still the Zi JI I know?"
Dispersing a Heavenly Tribulation with a wave of her hand.
Were you still Zi JI?
Di Tian, the Myriad Demon King, Xiong Jun, and the other top-tier Ferocious Beasts all stared dumbfounded.
The way you survived that Heavenly Tribulation felt no different from drinking water.
You didn't just undergo a fake Heavenly Tribulation, did you?