Silver Dragon King Gu Yuena

Although Di Tian usually doted on her, she knew this was not the time to be willful. The human expert before them was far too powerful for her to provoke.

"Let's go." Di Tian cast a deep glance at Lu Jingming behind Jing Liu, then turned and led the Imperial Beast and Scarlet King toward the depths of the Star Dou Great Forest.

The Imperial Beast could not help looking back at Lu Jingming as well. There was no resentment over having her prey stolen; instead, her eyes were filled with curiosity—curiosity about humans and yearning for the unknown world beyond.

"We should leave too. This is not a place to linger," Jing Liu suddenly said.

Lu Jingming froze for a moment before immediately realizing what she meant. His expression changed slightly, and he quickly nodded.

He swiftly placed the frozen Sacred Flame Sky Tiger into a Soul Tool capable of storing living creatures.

Even Di Tian had been unable to do anything to Jing Liu. The person who could make Jing Liu feel that this was not a place to linger was clearly neither Di Tian nor those fierce beasts. That could only be the slumbering Silver Dragon King, Gu Yuena.

"She woke up?" Lu Jingming felt a headache coming on. Encountering the Imperial Beast was one thing, and drawing out Di Tian had still been within his expectations, but the awakening of the Silver Dragon King was completely beyond his expectations and outside all his plans and calculations.

"Mm, it should be her." Jing Liu nodded.

Lu Jingming had also told her about the information concerning this world, and the existence of the Silver Dragon King was clearly of vital importance.

Just now, she had distinctly felt a gaze fall upon them. It gave even her, whose strength had yet to fully recover, a powerful sense of danger. It felt much like when she had faced Shuhu, the Envoy of Abundance.

Although the Silver Dragon King, even at her peak, was nowhere near Shuhu's level, Jing Liu was likewise not at her peak right now. If they fought, it would be dangerous.

Although there was little chance that Gu Yuena would attack them, having such a powerful being watching them from the shadows was still deeply unsettling. It was better to leave first.

"Bi Ji, Rui is in your care." Di Tian returned with Scarlet King and the Imperial Beast to the most central region of the Star Dou Great Forest.

This place was suffused with dense energy, and the surrounding flowers, grass, and trees all shimmered with strange light.

Di Tian nodded at a gentle green-haired woman approaching them and spoke.

Bi Ji smiled faintly and gently nodded. She was also aware of what had happened earlier.

She tenderly soothed the Imperial Beast and slowly led her away.

"Go cultivate. That big bug won't hold on for many more years," Di Tian said in a calm, low voice as he looked at Scarlet King.

"Yes!" Scarlet King's face immediately lit up with delight, and he was so excited that he nearly jumped up.

Not only had he escaped punishment for failing in his task this time, but he could continue absorbing the Life Force of that lucky big bug.

That big bug was a Million-Year Soul Beast, with an incomparably vast Life Origin. The steadily growing number of Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest over the years, as well as the stable increase in the fierce beasts' strength, were all thanks to it.

Unfortunately, despite possessing a terrifying million years of cultivation, that big bug's combat strength was pitifully weak. It was simply useless in a fight. Forget contending with the fierce beasts—even an ordinary Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast could easily handle it.

Otherwise, with its powerful million-year cultivation, how could it have fallen to the miserable state of becoming an "energy cash machine" for the fierce beasts of the Star Dou Great Forest?

Di Tian returned alone to the Lake of Life. He stopped at the shore, standing straight and tall, then slowly bent one knee and knelt, bowing his head respectfully. "The Master, that young man..."

His voice carried indescribably complex emotions—confusion and shock.

"Mm. It is indeed Destruction and Creation, but it is still too weak." An ethereal voice drifted from the depths of the void, carrying an otherworldly quality as it clearly reached Di Tian's ears.

Di Tian's body shuddered violently, and a flash of horror crossed his eyes.

The power of Destruction and Creation was something even the Dragon God had struggled to control perfectly, yet it had appeared within a human boy?

Back then, the Dragon God had split apart because his mind could not bear the burden of simultaneously controlling these two utterly opposing forces. That had triggered a series of tragedies and become the source of all disasters.

Even in the present God Realm, the Destruction God King and the Life God King, though husband and wife, were likewise unable to have children because their powers were opposed, leaving them both deeply helpless.

Yet the power of Destruction and Creation hidden within that human boy had been strangely harmonious, as though it had been innate and had always been one whole.

This discovery left both Di Tian and the Silver Dragon King, Gu Yuena, utterly incredulous.

Even the once supreme Dragon God had been unable to accomplish this, yet an ordinary human boy had done so. How could it not stir up towering waves in their hearts?

If not for the Silver Dragon King's severe injuries preventing her from acting lightly, and Di Tian's lack of complete confidence in defeating Jing Liu, they would likely have captured Lu Jingming on the spot and attempted to uncover the secret behind this—what kind of extraordinary coincidence had allowed a human to possess such heaven-defying power?

"It should be Twin Martial Souls, but we will need to observe further to know for certain." Gu Yuena's voice sounded softly.

As the Silver Dragon King, she controlled the divine position of Creation. To become the new Dragon God, devouring the Golden Dragon King, who controlled the divine position of Destruction, was an unavoidable path.

But once she set foot upon that path, she would most likely fall into the same predicament as the Dragon God had, repeatedly tormented by two utterly opposing powers. The mere thought of that pain was enough to make one shudder.

Yet within Lu Jingming, Gu Yuena saw a glimmer of hope—the chance to control both Destruction and Creation at once.

Although becoming the new Dragon God was fraught with difficulties, and the Golden Dragon King was still sealed within the God Realm, making him utterly beyond reach in her current severely injured state—

That did not prevent her from exploring a method to control these two powers in advance.

At that thought, a dragon claw radiating a dim silver glow slowly emerged from the void.

Wherever the dragon claw passed, space shattered like a broken mirror, revealing a separate dimension filled with dense Life Aura.

Deep within that separate dimension, the faint silhouette of an elegant and magnificent silver dragon could be seen, surrounded by dazzling Life Force in a dreamlike sight.

From the tip of the silver dragon claw, a drop of silver Divine Blood slowly fell.

As the Divine Blood descended, it was like a boulder cast into a still lake, and ripples instantly spread across the Lake of Life.

The emerald lake water seemed to come alive as it swiftly enveloped the drop of Divine Blood.

In an instant, powerful Life Energy frantically gathered from the lakebed like countless rivers flowing into the sea. Within moments, a petite, delicate body gradually condensed atop the lake's surface.

Immediately afterward, a silver sphere of light carrying intense spiritual fluctuations howled out of the separate dimension and fused into that body at incredible speed, the entire process completed in one seamless motion.