NOVEL WEB Chapter 225: Crisis Approaches — Beast God Di Tian
Although Ye Yu had brought Ah Yin with him, he did not keep her by his side. Instead, he placed her into the Blue Silver Domain.
While Ah Yin was indeed a 100,000-year soul beast from the Star Dou Great Forest, as a plant-type soul beast, she had been immobile before taking human form.
As such, when it came to the powerful ten-thousand-year soul beasts residing in the inner region of the forest, Ah Yin likely didn't know much.
The reason Ye Yu brought her along was mainly because he first wanted to bring Xiao Wu deep into the inner region of the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt high-level soul beasts, and use the External Spirit Bone – Demon Willow Fluff to devour them.
Then, he could quickly raise Xiao Wu's cultivation to Rank 80.
Afterward, they would go to the Blue Silver Forest, and have the Blue Silver King or Ah Yin assist in awakening Xiao Wu's Blue Silver Emperor bloodline, allowing her to self-generate her eighth Spirit Ring.
While awakening the Blue Silver Emperor bloodline could allow her to produce a spontaneous Spirit Ring, Ye Yu remembered that this process required a massive amount of Blue Silver Grass to donate their power.
Even though his Blue Silver Domain cultivated an abundance of rare Blue Silver Grass, some with decades or even over a hundred years of cultivation...
Ye Yu's physical strength far surpassed that of many Titled Douluo who had fused with beast-type Martial Souls.
He felt that once the eighth Spirit Ring was awakened, its age—even if not a million years—would likely exceed 500,000 years.
That being the case, it was far safer to go where the Blue Silver Grass was densest to awaken the Blue Silver Emperor bloodline.
Holding Xiao Wu in his arms, Ye Yu activated his Soul Core Field, simultaneously triggering the second Spirit Ability of his Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone: Flight.
He also activated his second and third sets of Demon Willow Fluff meridians, launching his self-created Spirit Abilities: Thunder Magnetic Body and Thunderburst Step.
Using the electromagnetic propulsion created by both techniques, he shot through the sky like a bolt of lightning.
In less than half a day, Ye Yu carried Xiao Wu from the Heaven Dou Imperial City to the Star Dou Great Forest, diving straight into its core region.
"Head in this direction," Xiao Wu said, pointing the way. "I remember there's a valley over there, home to a Golden Armored Thunder Dragon with over 80,000 years of cultivation."
For her beloved San-ge, Xiao Wu pushed aside her guilt and pain to guide Ye Yu.
Soon, they arrived.
Before them was a valley nestled among mountain peaks, its vegetation sparse. The ground at the summit was strewn with exposed silvery-gray mineral ores, radiating a strong magnetic field.
Thunderclouds hung perpetually over the valley, lightning constantly streaking down from above.
The environment resembled that of the valley where Ye Yu and his grandfather Dugu Bo once discovered the Thunder Hell Vine.
The valley was rich in magnetite ore, and with tall surrounding peaks, it easily drew storm clouds, attracting bolts of lightning.
Such conditions were ideal for the Thunder Hell Vine to thrive.
Likewise, it was a favorable environment for a Golden Armored Thunder Dragon, a true dragon with a metallic attribute.
As a metal-element dragon, this beast not only hunted prey but also devoured metallic ore to strengthen the armor-like scales on its body.
It also delighted in being bathed in lightning.
Before long, Ye Yu spotted a cave on a raised platform built into a valley wall.
Half of the dragon's body remained inside the cave, but even the portion exposed outside stretched over ten meters long.
Its body was covered in golden scales like plated armor, arcs of golden lightning danced across its form. Its wings were folded against its back, its neck long, and its head exuded an awe-inspiring and domineering aura.
Not far from the beast lay the fresh corpse of an elephant-type soul beast, partially devoured and still bloodied.
"There it is."
Ye Yu gently set Xiao Wu down in a safe part of the valley far from the creature's lair, then burst into the sky in a streak of lightning, heading straight for the dragon's cave.
Upon reaching the cave's edge, Ye Yu summoned his Blue Silver Jade Tree Martial Soul.
Around him rose seven Spirit Rings: two purple, four black, one red.
First Spirit Ability: Undying Rooting
Second Spirit Ability: Starlight Absorption
Third Spirit Ability: Tribulation Ascension
Sixth Spirit Ability: Parasitic Devour
Since this was just an 80,000-year beast, Ye Yu didn't activate his Seventh Spirit Ability – Martial Soul True Body, relying instead on his first six Spirit Abilities.
At the same time, he activated the Blue Silver Domain.
Even without activating his Martial Soul True Body, the Blue Silver Jade Tree was already more than three meters in diameter and over sixty meters tall—entirely formed of blue crystal.
Under Ye Yu's control, the Martial Soul rapidly grew.
Thick branches and roots split and multiplied, transforming into giant serpents of crystal-blue light that twisted through the air like dragons, enveloping the dragon in a sweeping assault.
Even though the Golden Armored Thunder Dragon awakened and tried to resist, it was futile.
Its physical attacks and Spirit Abilities were ineffective against Ye Yu's Blue Silver Jade Tree Martial Soul.
Very quickly, its massive body was entangled and bound like a dumpling, unable to break free.
In the end, the beast was crushed—its bones shattered and its internal organs ruptured by the tree's massive blue crystal tendrils.
After killing the dragon, Ye Yu used the External Spirit Bone – Demon Willow Fluff to parasitize its corpse and devour it completely.
Under Xiao Wu's continued guidance, Ye Yu went on to kill a 70,000-year Dark Prison Flame Dragon, an 80,000-year Storm Thunder Dragon, and an 80,000-year Holy Light Platinum Dragon.
Meanwhile, deep beneath the Star Dou Great Forest's core region…
In a cavern ten thousand meters underground, the Beast God – Di Tian, current Dragon Clan Leader, stirred.
As the most powerful dragon on the Douluo Continent, Di Tian could sense the deaths of nearby true dragons and top-tier sub-dragon soul beasts with pure bloodlines.
The purer the bloodline, the stronger the resonance.
Recently, he had felt several powerful soul beasts—descendants of true dragons—perish in rapid succession.
One might be coincidence. But three or four in a row?
That was too much.
Ever since the Dragon God lost the battle for the God Realm's sovereignty, the gods had slaughtered the dragons of Douluo Star, nearly wiping out their royal and imperial bloodlines. True dragons were now exceedingly rare.
And now someone was hunting the last remaining true dragons and top sub-dragon species?
Di Tian could no longer remain idle.
While the other fierce beasts and 100,000-year soul beasts were still cultivating in the cavern, absorbing the god-like spiritual mist released by Skydream Ice Worm, Di Tian rose and silently exited the chamber.
Activating his Dragon God's Claw, he tore space open and stepped through it.
In the next instant, he appeared above the Star Dou Great Forest—at the location where the Holy Light Platinum Dragon had recently perished.
There, Di Tian immediately picked up the lingering scent of Ye Yu, who had only just left.
His expression darkened with fury and killing intent.
"Damn human… courting death!"