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In today's Spirit Master world, powerful experts were numerous.
There was the Scholar Master, who founded the Academy and pioneered the academic world, possessing unfathomable strength.
It was rumored that during the Continental Advanced Spirit Master Elite Tournament eight years ago, the sixteen-year-old Scholar Master already possessed the cultivation of a Spirit Emperor, and his combat strength was close to that of a Super Douluo.
Super Douluo was the classification for Titled Douluo published by the Scholar Master within the academic world. Only Titled Douluo above rank ninety-five were considered Super Douluo, while rank ninety-nine was the Limit Douluo. Given that there were only a handful of them in the current era, calling them Peerless Douluo was perfectly appropriate.
Eight years ago, the Scholar Master, who had only been cultivating for ten years, already possessed a Spirit Emperor cultivation. Now, eight years later, what about his current state?
A Spirit Douluo?
Or had he truly achieved the realm of a Titled Douluo?
Ordinary Spirit Masters truly did not dare to imagine it.
Previously, the record for the youngest person to achieve the Titled Douluo realm in the Spirit Master world belonged to the Clear Sky Douluo, who achieved it at forty-four years old--and that was before the Scholar Master exploded with his true power and killed him during the tournament.
If the Scholar Master really possessed the realm of a Titled Douluo now, it would completely overturn the records of the entire Spirit Master world. Perhaps no one would be able to break this record for the next ten thousand years.
Furthermore, if he already possessed the combat power of a Titled Douluo--close to a Super Douluo--at the Spirit Emperor level, then what would happen if his spirit power cultivated all the way to the Titled Douluo level?
Wouldn't he be close to a Limit Douluo?
Even though the Scholar Master's popularization of knowledge in the academic world taught them that every single rank among Super Douluo represented a massive chasm, they still couldn't help but fantasize.
Of course, aside from the Scholar Master, there were many other peerless powerhouses on the continent today.
There was the High Priest of the Consecration Hall. It was rumored that he had already achieved the Limit Douluo realm decades ago, and no one knew what his current strength was.
There was also the High Priestess of Sea God Island, who likewise possessed the Limit Douluo realm. Immensely powerful, she was the spokesperson of a god. While it couldn't be said that she suppressed the soul beast race entirely, her deterrent effect on them was absolutely sufficient. In the past, perhaps the High Priestess of Sea God Island wouldn't have posed much of a threat to the soul beasts on land, but now that the academic world connected the entire Douluo Planet, if one side faced disaster, could the Spirit Masters from other regions just sit back and watch?
At the very least, it was enough to make the soul beasts wary.
This was the power of deterrence.
Aside from them, it was rumored that the current Pope was also a Limit Douluo.
This was precisely why the Spirit Masters of the Spirit Hall did not despair, even though they knew how terrifying the soul beast tide was.
Because compared to any previous era, the Spirit Master world was vastly more powerful.
All thanks to the Scholar Master.
The capital of the Spirit Empire was set near the southern outer region of the Star Dou Great Forest. This location connected the directions of the two great empires on the continent, making it an excellent position for the Spirit Empire to invade them both.
Unfortunately, the emergence of Great Beasts from the soul beast race caused the Spirit Empire to suffer a massive impact instead. The empire's capital was simply too close to the Star Dou Great Forest.
Bibi Dong personally sat in command of the defensive line established between the Spirit Empire's capital and the core area of the Star Dou Great Forest.
On the southern side of the Star Dou Great Forest, the Spirit Empire had established its defensive line directly at the junction of the mixed zone and the outer zone.
This place was already an area where thousand-year soul beasts commonly roamed, and further inside was the mixed layer where ten-thousand-year soul beasts appeared.
To be able to establish a defensive line in such a location demonstrated the Spirit Empire's determination and confidence.
As for the soul beasts that used to occupy this part of the outer zone?
They had already been captured and penned up by the Spirit Hall to form the largest Spirit Hunting Forest in history, which was also the first Spirit Hunting Forest directly subordinate to the Spirit Empire.
In the past, the two great empires had also established Spirit Hunting Forests, but the ownership actually belonged to the empires themselves and had little to do with the Spirit Hall. Although several Spirit Hunting Forests had fallen under the control of the Spirit Empire over the years of war, this was the first one directly subordinate to the empire and newly established by the Spirit Empire itself.
It was also the largest Spirit Hunting Forest in the history of the Douluo Continent.
A Spirit Hunting Forest where thousand-year soul beasts roamed, and in massive quantities!
Such a Spirit Hunting Forest had been forcibly carved right out of the outer layer of the Star Dou Great Forest.
This action naturally enraged the Great Beasts that had emerged, but this was a decision made by the Spirit Hall only after their initial negotiations with the Great Beasts of the core area.
Evidently, the negotiations had broken down, and the Spirit Hall had resorted to these strong-arm tactics.
Bibi Dong sat in command of the front line, her gaze fixed on the depths of the Star Dou Great Forest.
"Beast God Di Tian..."
Even holding the position of Pope of the Spirit Hall, Bibi Dong had failed to find any descriptions of Di Tian in the historical records. She only knew that there was a king among the Great Beasts who could command the entire soul beast race, launch soul beast tides, and sever the history of Spirit Masters.
She had only obtained this name from the information provided during her trials for the Rakshasa God.
It was also because of this that she learned the Great Beast they had negotiated with that day, the Scarlet King, could not even be considered a true king among the Great Beasts.
The true king of the Great Beast race was actually bestowed with the title of a god, calling himself the Beast God Di Tian.
"Hmm?"
Bibi Dong frowned and looked behind her.
A figure was walking over at a leisurely pace.
With each step spanning hundreds of meters, he rapidly approached the defensive line.
Focusing her gaze, Bibi Dong recognized the newcomer's identity.
"The Scholar Master vanished from the continent for four years. To think that upon your reemergence, you have already broken through to become a Spirit Douluo."
Though Bibi Dong said this, her gaze toward Su Wen remained entirely calm.
Indeed, Su Wen cultivating to rank eighty seemed perfectly normal to her.
The last time he had exposed his spirit power rank, Su Wen was already close to rank seventy. After so many years, he had only cultivated to rank eighty, which was actually quite unusual.
After all, he was the Scholar Master.
Even Bibi Dong felt that Su Wen might cultivate to the Titled Douluo realm by the age of twenty-four.
She hadn't expected him to only be a Spirit Douluo.
"No, no, no, I am merely a Spirit Sage. I have yet to obtain my eighth spirit ring," Su Wen replied modestly.
Bibi Dong let out a cold snort.
So that was it.
No wonder he only gave off the aura of a Spirit Douluo.
It turned out he hadn't obtained his spirit ring yet and was temporarily stuck.
She wondered if his spirit power would directly jump to rank ninety after he obtained his eighth spirit ring.
Bibi Dong felt that this was highly probable.
"Your Holiness, I haven't kept up much with external affairs over the past few years. I don't know how many Great Beasts have emerged by now."
Hearing the way Su Wen phrased his question, Bibi Dong felt curious as well.
"The Scholar Master seems to know quite a lot about the Great Beasts."
"Among the Great Beasts, there is the strongest one, the Beast God Di Tian. He can be considered the strongest below the divine level. Of course, whether that is precisely the case, I cannot be entirely certain."
Su Wen only knew from the original novels he read in his past life that no matter which part of the story it was, Di Tian served as the benchmark for approaching the divine level.
He also knew that there was a Deep Sea Whale King in the ocean who was close to a million years old, possessing a higher cultivation age than Di Tian, but it was hard to say who was superior in terms of actual strength.
"Does the Scholar Master have any detailed information regarding this Di Tian?" Bibi Dong inquired.
Observing Bibi Dong's expression, Su Wen knew that Di Tian had probably not shown himself yet.
The so-called emergence of the Great Beasts was likely just a few of the lower-ranked ones among the Top Ten Great Beasts taking time out from sacrificing and refining the massive ice silkworm to come out and intimidate the Spirit Master world.
"Di Tian, the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King, is a pure member of the Dragon Clan. He is a true dragon of the same caliber as the Radiant Sacred Dragon, and his cultivation exceeds eight hundred thousand years!"
With just a single sentence, Bibi Dong could not help but gasp sharply in shock.