"Di Tian, do you realize that disaster is already looming over you all?"
Gazing at the strongest ferocious beast sovereign of the Star Dou Great Forest—the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King, Di Tian—the Snow Empress did not immediately speak of enlisting Di Tian and the other ferocious beasts to avenge her. Instead, she dropped a bombshell.
Hearing this, Di Tian froze briefly, then his face instantly darkened.
Disaster looming?
Ridiculous. With his invincible strength in this world, how could disaster possibly befall him?
Surely it couldn't be that the gods of the Divine Realm, with nothing better to do, had decided to exterminate their entire soul beast race?
If not for the fact that the Snow Empress was no ordinary soul beast, Di Tian would have already taught her a harsh lesson for such words.
"How do you mean?"
Di Tian folded his arms across his chest and asked.
He knew the Snow Empress, as the supreme sovereign of the Extreme North, would not speak without reason. Since she had come personally to the Star Dou Forest and said this much, something must have happened that he himself was unaware of.
"In the past, even if humans had the strength, they would never set their sights upon us.
After all, no Spirit Master could withstand a spirit ring of over two hundred thousand years. To target us would be nothing but loss without gain.
But things are different now. The human Spirit Master world has birthed a heaven-defying twin martial spirit wielder.
I saw with my own eyes—his second martial spirit already bears a hundred-thousand-year first and second ring, and three-hundred-thousand-year third, fourth, and fifth rings. If he is not eradicated, we ferocious beasts are doomed!"
The Snow Empress' tone was grave.
"Three three-hundred-thousand-year rings?!"
Di Tian's eyes flew wide, disbelief etched across his face.
A mere hundred-thousand-year beast was beneath his notice. Unless one survived the tribulation and reached two hundred thousand years or more, he did not even consider them true kin.
But ferocious beasts were different. They were the backbone of his race's revival. To fall to tribulation was one thing, but to be slaughtered by humans—unforgivable.
And not just one, but three three-hundred-thousand-year ferocious beasts slain?
Yet almost immediately, Di Tian reconsidered. This had to be the Snow Empress trying to frighten him.
After all, only the Star Dou Forest and the Extreme North harbored ferocious beasts. Since those of the Star Dou Forest still lived, those three slain beasts must have all come from the Extreme North.
Impossible. Absolutely impossible.
Though centuries ago the Ice Silkworm War had left the Star Dou Forest with fewer hundred-thousand-year beasts than the Extreme North, in terms of ferocious beast numbers, the Extreme North could not compare to the Star Dou Forest.
Di Tian refused to believe that, aside from the Snow Empress before him, the Extreme North held three other three-hundred-thousand-year ferocious beasts—and that all of them had been slain by humans.
"I don't know exactly where those ferocious beast spirit rings came from. But I am absolutely not exaggerating.
Just days ago, that human came to my Extreme North, and with a Martial Spirit Fusion Skill combined with a mental secret art, abducted the Ice Empress.
When I went to avenge her, seeking him in the human world, I was met with many powerful experts of his faction. I could not succeed."
At the mention of the Ice Empress, sorrow flickered unmistakably in the Snow Empress' eyes.
"Ice Empress?"
Hearing this, Di Tian's brows furrowed.
Of course he knew of the Ice Jade Scorpion Emperor of the Extreme North. He had never imagined she would fall into human hands.
"What do you intend? That we join forces with the ferocious beasts of the Star Dou Forest, and together strike into the human world to eliminate him?"
Di Tian's voice was deep.
The Snow Empress nodded. "Exactly. He not only bears twin martial spirits, but also wields a Martial Spirit Fusion Skill. His second martial spirit still lacks several rings. If we do not strike early, he will become a disaster for us ferocious beasts in the future."
The Snow Empress had no fear of Di Tian refusing. She knew well that he held no goodwill toward humans who hunted spirit beasts.
If it were some other human powerhouse, Di Tian might hesitate.
But one who not only had the power to hunt ferocious beasts, but whose martial spirit ring slots remained unfilled—possessing every motive to hunt more—surely Di Tian would not sit idle.
After a moment's thought, Di Tian asked, "There are many factions in the human world. This Spirit Master you speak of—what is his strength exactly? And which faction does he hail from?"
As expected, Di Tian could not remain unmoved. Even if not for other ferocious beasts, he had to think of Bi Ji and Zi Ji!
But if the man came from Spirit Hall, then matters would truly be troublesome.
For Di Tian knew well that this generation's Grand Priest of Spirit Hall, Qian Daoliu, possessed formidable power, standing among the peak of the world.
If the battlefield were in the Star Dou Forest, Di Tian was confident of defeating Qian Daoliu. But if it came to assaulting Spirit City, he would hardly be a match for one who could channel the Angel God's power.
"When he abducted the Ice Empress in the Extreme North, he had not yet advanced to Nine Rings Title Douluo. But his Martial Spirit Fusion Skill was nearly my equal.
Now he has stepped into nine rings, likely already surpassing me somewhat.
As for faction—neither especially strong nor weak. A new power called the Elemental Sacred Academy.
Were it not for his first martial spirit being Food-type, capable of producing spirit foods of wondrous effect, I alone could defeat every expert of that academy apart from him."
The Snow Empress concealed nothing, laying all she knew before Di Tian.
"What? You're telling me that when he abducted the Ice Empress, he was only an eight-ring Spirit Douluo?!"
Di Tian's eyes bulged. Never had he imagined that at the time of abducting the Ice Empress, the man had only been at the Spirit Douluo level.
An eight-ring Spirit Douluo with twin martial spirits… who could already bear three three-hundred-thousand-year ferocious beast rings? Were she trying to fool him?
"Indeed. And between his brows I saw a golden-red sword mark, faintly exuding divine might. He must be the inheritor of a god's position in the Divine Realm."
The Snow Empress nodded, revealing also that Mu Yang was a God-Seat inheritor.
In her eyes, Di Tian, who styled himself king of soul beasts, would certainly be hostile to the gods. Adding that layer of identity could only deepen his killing intent.
"A God-Seat inheritor?"
At this, Di Tian's brows knit tight, his expression dark and wavering.
What the Snow Empress did not know was that her words were like a basin of ice water poured over Di Tian's head. The seething killing intent in his heart was instantly quenched.
The opponent was actually a God-Seat inheritor? This was troublesome.
What Di Tian feared most was not for his own life, but for the safety of his lord, the Silver Dragon King.
He knew clearly that to revive the soul beast race, their greatest enemy was not the Spirit Masters of the human world, but the gods of the Divine Realm.
Should the gods intervene, if they had no power to oppose them, then no matter how favorable the situation, it would all be overturned.
The fate of the soul beast race rested upon the lord Silver Dragon King, now recuperating in the spatial depths beneath the Lake of Life. Nothing could be allowed to go wrong.