Chapter 226: Battle Against Di Tian — Fire the Cannon!!
As soon as Di Tian caught the scent of Ye Yu's aura, a pair of massive black dragon wings unfurled from his back. With a thunderous flap, he soared into the sky, rapidly following the trail toward Ye Yu.
Ye Yu, at this moment, was unaware.
After slaying the Holy Light Platinum Dragon, and under Xiao Wu's guidance, Ye Yu had set his sights on his next target — an 80,000-year-old Platinum Rift Sky Dragon, with gold and spatial attributes.
Upon arriving at the habitat of the Platinum Rift Sky Dragon, Ye Yu summoned his Blue Silver Jade Tree Martial Soul and unleashed his Spirit Abilities. Just as he subdued the dragon and was about to strike the killing blow—
A deafening draconic roar erupted from behind, accompanied by a terrifying wave of Soul Power and the forceful lash of a dragon tail that tore through the air.
Startled, Ye Yu turned toward the source of the sound.
What greeted his eyes was a black dragon, easily over a thousand meters long, its body clad in obsidian-like scales. Wings stretched wide, nearly blotting out the sky. Its menacing head was adorned with a pair of vertical, dark-golden pupils — a terrifying, domineering aura radiating from it.
A dragon like a mountain.
Ye Yu froze for a second.
That's… Di Tian?!
He had never met him before, but the black-scaled body, the dark-gold pupils, and the sheer size — this could only be the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King, Di Tian!
Although Ye Yu had only known of the events of Soul Land II, III, and IV through various forums and scattered information from his past life...
He remembered one thing very clearly: the Deep Sea Demon Whale King in Soul Land I was said to be only a few hundred meters long.
Granted, Soul Land is a fantasy world. Whales may not be the largest creatures here.
But the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King wasn't an ordinary whale — it had a cultivation of 990,000 years in the original story. Even then, it was only a few hundred meters long.
And yet, Di Tian was over a kilometer in length?
Is that reasonable?
Or was it that… dragons were simply above all?
Perhaps, in this "real" Douluo World — where all four Soul Land timelines and storylines were fused together — conflicting lore and design had caused bugs. And here, those bugs were "patched" by default.
Take Di Tian's size, for example. (Author's note: In Soul Land IV, Di Tian is said to be over 3,000 meters long.)
By that logic, even the Deep Sea Demon Whale King's body would no longer be just a few hundred meters. After all, on Ye Yu's former planet, Earth, even a regular blue whale could grow to over 30 meters. For the apex whale-type beast of a fantasy world to be just a few hundred meters long? That's underwhelming.
With a body that size, how could Sea God Poseidon call it the "beast that devours the oceans"?
It wouldn't even qualify.
For a moment, Ye Yu's thoughts swirled with speculation, even as he stared at Di Tian's colossal form.
But he quickly snapped back to reality.
Without hesitation, he abandoned the Platinum Rift Sky Dragon he'd already subdued. In a flash, he soared into the sky, transforming into a bolt of thunder, and darted toward Xiao Wu.
At the same time, controlling his Blue Silver Jade Tree Martial Soul, Ye Yu activated his Seventh Spirit Ability: Blue Silver Jade Tree True Body!
A dazzling blue-silver light surged forth. The Blue Silver Jade Tree Martial Soul — previously over three meters in diameter — began to expand rapidly.
In mere moments, it transformed into a towering tree over thirty meters in diameter and a thousand meters high!
And that was just the beginning.
Under the amplification of six life force–enhancing and growth–accelerating Spirit Abilities, the Blue Silver Jade Tree True Body continued to grow at a terrifying rate.
From the thick canopy — which looked like it held up an entire starry sky — massive blue-silver branches, each over ten meters thick, burst forth and intertwined midair, merging into enormous Blue Silver Wood Dragons, each with a diameter of over a hundred meters.
The lifelike dragon heads roared fiercely as they surged skyward, a vast, sweeping tide of dragons charging directly toward the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King, Di Tian!
"ROAR!!"
Di Tian, witnessing Ye Yu's Blue Silver Jade Tree True Body, was momentarily stunned by its sheer size.
But quickly, overwhelming killing intent ignited in his heart.
A hero of the enemy... is still the enemy!
This human looked no older than a youth. Seven Spirit Rings surrounded him — a mere Spirit Sage — and yet his strength was terrifying.
What if he reached the Titled Douluo realm?
He had already slain so many of Di Tian's kin. If allowed to grow further, how many more of the Dragon Clan would fall?
With a furious roar, Di Tian opened his maw and unleashed a sea of Myriad Dragon Flames, engulfing the incoming Blue Silver Wood Dragons in a blaze of darkness.
Meanwhile, Ye Yu had reached Xiao Wu. A swift knife-hand strike knocked her unconscious. He promptly stored her within his Blue Silver Space.
With Xiao Wu safely secured, Ye Yu turned back to face Di Tian, a powerful battle intent rising within him.
Having reached the Spirit Sage realm, not even Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan or Ghost Douluo Gui Mei, both Titled Douluo, were a match for him.
Now, it was time to test his power against Di Tian, the beast who stood at the peak of the continent!
In the skies above—
The massive wave of Blue Silver Wood Dragons roared upward toward Di Tian, who in turn unleashed an ocean of Obsidian Dragon Flame.
But...
Ye Yu's Blue Silver Jade Tree Martial Soul, after undergoing Ice-Fire Body Tempering, had gained a complete immunity to fire-based attacks of the extreme attribute.
Even Di Tian's Ten Thousand Dragon Flame had no effect!
The Wood Dragons surged through the flames and coiled toward Di Tian's massive body.
Di Tian roared in rage and disbelief.
How could a plant-type Martial Soul resist even his flame?!
Realizing flame wouldn't work, Di Tian's eyes flashed coldly. He activated his divine artifact: Dragon God's Claw.
From his massive body, the colossal claw swung forward.
Space itself seemed to crack as dozens of Blue Silver Wood Dragons were instantly torn apart, shattered into fragments like falling rain.
Yet Ye Yu remained unfazed.
With fierce battle spirit, he continued controlling the Blue Silver Jade Tree True Body, driving its roots deep into the ground, drawing energy from the sun, moon, stars, soil, and surrounding life.
He parasitized nearby trees, draining their Soul Power and life force to sustain his regeneration.
From the broken trunks of shattered Wood Dragons, new ones emerged.
More branches and roots split and intertwined, birthing even more Wood Dragons — an endless swarm of blue-silver serpents coiling upward to entangle Di Tian.
At the same time, part of the Blue Silver Jade Tree's roots began forming a massive Electromagnetic Cannon Platform on the ground.
The cannon's barrel alone exceeded ten meters in diameter!
Ye Yu gripped the dual thunder-channeling handles with both hands, adjusted the aim, and locked onto Di Tian in the sky.
His eyes turned a glowing purple, shimmering with spiritual radiance.
Target: Locked.
He activated his self-created Spirit Abilities: Thunderburst Step and Myriad Dragon Flames, generating an electromagnetic field.
Drawing iron sand from the surrounding ore-rich mountain — home to the metal-attributed Platinum Rift Sky Dragon — Ye Yu condensed the materials using the heat generated by the magnetic rotation.
He forged a massive electromagnetic shell: a cylindrical missile nearly two meters thick, with a bullet-shaped cone tip.
Once cooled, the shell dropped into the cannon chamber.
Ye Yu fully activated his Soul Core.
Over half of his compressed Soul Power instantly transformed into devastating thunder energy, flooding into the cannon's core.
FIRE!!
With a roar of excitement—
BOOM!!
Liquid-like silver-blue thunder erupted from the barrel.
A vast cloud of white vapor exploded outward from the edges of the cannon.
A dark shadow shot out at a speed exceeding 3,000 meters per second, piercing the sky—hurtling straight toward Di Tian!