The relentless attacks had already left Di Tian somewhat unable to care for himself.
Although he blocked Yang Fan's ruler next, his chest was solidly hit by another punch.
This punch was no small matter!
The tenfold power of the external soul bone combined with the multiple hidden forces of the Earth-tier Dou Technique Octane Blast acting on Di Tian's body instantly caused the internal organs of this eight-hundred-thousand-year Beast King to churn violently.
Di Tian's expression had completely changed.
It was no longer the initial gravity, but complete panic.
Once upon a time...
He had believed himself to be the strongest on the Douluo Continent, with no person or soul beast capable of standing above him.
"If not for your poison, you would have died by this seat's hand long ago."
The black patterns on Di Tian's face had now become even more pronounced—this was the effect of the multiple hidden forces of Octane Blast acting on Di Tian's body.
It made this Beast King's dark attribute become even more restless within his body.
"Hmph—"
Yang Fan didn't deny that they had drugged this Beast King, nor did he deny that dirty tricks were really useful sometimes.
It's the Douluo Continent!
Who dared claim to be open and aboveboard? Those who didn't know some dirty tricks would have died somewhere unknown long ago.
Roar—
A dragon roar resounded through the Soul Beast Forest, shooting straight into the clouds.
Di Tian's human body disappeared, replaced by a black flying dragon over three hundred meters long.
Di Tian could sit on the throne of Beast King with certain trump cards and strength.
In an instant!
Black light erupted from the massive dragon body.
Although the light was black, it was as dazzling as the sun.
Under the cover of this powerful black light, the massive dragon head became incomparably ferocious, and faintly visible between the flashes appeared an even larger dragon-shaped phantom.
This was Di Tian's trump card—Black Dragon Apocalypse!
This skill could temporarily grant Di Tian partial divine power of the Dragon God.
Under the blessing of this skill, Di Tian, whose strength had been weakened, returned to his peak.
"Dragon God Claw!"
Di Tian's fierce claws suddenly flickered with thunder light, and the claw blades contained a radiance that seemed capable of cutting through everything in the world.
This was a true divine technique!
It was the Dragon God's skill, and only the patriarch of the Black Dragon Clan was qualified to receive personal transmission from the Dragon God.
Facing the might of this claw, Yang Fan once again burned his soul.
He knew that burning his soul twice in half a year was an extremely dangerous thing, but he currently had no choice.
Life and death, victory and defeat!
The current situation was that only one of him and Di Tian would live to see tomorrow's sun.
A weakened soul was always better than losing one's life.
"You brat."
"I think you've gone mad."
Yao Lao arrived at the most critical moment.
Needless to say, this situation showed that Yao Lao had already dealt with the other fierce beasts.
"Attack together!"
Yao Lao had already experienced Di Tian's Dragon God Claw during their first exchange.
Although their exchange at that time was exploratory, it was enough to let him feel the terrifying power of this skill.
Honestly speaking…
Di Tian's all-out strike was truly something Yang Fan currently couldn't block with his strength.
"Get him!"
No unnecessary nonsense.
Brothers who fight tigers together, father and son who go to battle together.
With the advantage in numbers, why babble with a soul beast?
Yao Lao used fire, Yang Fan used his ruler!
The master and disciple combined their strength in one strike, sending Di Tian flying back thousands of meters. Before Di Tian could react, he received successive bombardments from the master and disciple.
Yao Lao's joining instantly broke the balance of battle. In less than two minutes, Di Tian was completely unable to withstand it.
"Despicable!"
"You think you can succeed this way?"
"In your dreams!"
As he spoke, Di Tian transformed back into his human body, and black dragon breath continuously poured into his body.
Yao Lao's aged eyes suddenly widened, as if seeing something extremely terrifying about to happen next.
"Not good!"
"He's going to self-destruct."
Whether on the Douluo Continent or the Dou Po Continent, there were situations where soul beasts self-destructed at critical moments.
There were even situations on the Dou Qi Continent where Dou Shi self-destructed to perish together with their opponents.
Soul beast self-destruction meant being torn into pieces!
Not to mention soul bones, even soul rings would be blown to pieces.
One could say that in this situation, soul masters couldn't find anything useful on the self-destructed soul beast.
This wasn't the worst part!
The worst part was the terrifying power produced after soul beast self-destruction.
Especially for a super powerhouse like Di Tian at the half-god level with Dragon God bloodline.
The power produced by self-destruction could turn the Soul Beast Forest within ten thousand meters into a dead land in the blink of an eye.
"Get him!"
Di Tian abandoning his thoughts of becoming a god and choosing to self-destruct at this time showed that he already had no chance.
This old fellow choosing self-destruction definitely had the confidence to perish together with them. At this time, even if they could survive by fleeing, they might not remain whole.
Yao Lao and Yang Fan's thoughts were both very firm!
Rather than living like waste in the future, it was better to charge forward courageously for a beautiful future.
Yao Lao accelerated with full power...
Watching Di Tian's body constantly expanding under the black dragon breath, he finally appeared above Di Tian's head at the critical moment.
A 'Rotating Origin Dou Fire Fist' stopped Di Tian's crazy behavior, and Yang Fan, arriving right after, delivered a series of thuds to Di Tian's chest.
Several punches down brought up even this old fellow's overnight meal.
At this moment…
Yao Lao used powerful soul power to invade Di Tian's nerves, making this Beast King no longer have any thoughts of crazy actions.
"Quick!"
"Don't damage his body."
Yang Fan understood with one punch to Di Tian's head. Eight hidden forces acted down, instantly shattering Di Tian's brain stem nerves.
Huff—
Huff—
Huff—
Hot, moist breath continuously exhaled from Di Tian's mouth, but at this moment he no longer had the strength to open his eyes.
"Master!"
"Is Di Tian's corpse...?"
Yang Fan had had a guess in his heart since just now. Before he finished off Di Tian, Yao Lao had said not to damage Di Tian's body.
Yao Lao didn't have a corpse fetish!
Saying this at such a critical moment definitely wasn't without reason.
"You guessed right."
"Di Tian's corpse might really be useful to us one day."
One of the conditions for reconstructing a body was a Dou Zong-level physique.
Although Di Tian's strength hadn't reached the Dou Zong level, soul beast bodies were ultimately stronger than humans.
To take a step back…
This was already the strongest physique he could find on the Douluo Continent.
Perhaps he could find a better one in the future, but in the current situation, if he missed this village, there would be no such shop.
"Master, rest assured!"
"When there's a chance, I'll definitely find you a better body."
Yao Lao laughed!
Regardless of whether there would be such an opportunity in the future, Yang Fan's promise had already moved this old man's internal organs.
...
Half an hour later...
Di Tian's aura completely disappeared, and along with it appeared a soul ring with eight strange golden patterns.
The soul ring wasn't the red color of ordinary hundred-thousand-year rings, but rather a dazzling black-gold.
It emitted bright luster!
Just one look let Yang Fan know how different this soul ring was.
An eight-hundred-thousand-year top-tier fierce beast soul ring!
Although it couldn't compare to the near-million-year big fish, he thought the quality of this soul ring was definitely above that big fish's.
"Be careful!"
"This soul ring isn't as simple as it looks."
Yang Fan nodded!
Even if Yao Lao hadn't said it, he should have thought of it.
Di Tian was first drugged by them, then beaten up by their master-disciple duo, and at the last moment wanted to self-destruct but f*cking failed.
He was the Beast King after all!
Rather than saying he was beaten to death by them, it was more accurate to say he died aggrieved.
Under such circumstances, Yang Fan couldn't even imagine how great the resentment in Di Tian's soul ring was.
"Master, I have Heavenly Flames."
When he absorbed the Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear's external soul bone yesterday, he discovered that Heavenly Flames tempering could effectively kill the soul resentment produced after soul beasts died.
"Master believes in you."
As Yang Fan's strength grew, Yao Lao discovered that there was less and less he could teach Yang Fan.
Especially at the cultivation level, Yang Fan had already graduated long ago. What he could rely on next was mostly himself.
Yang Fan sat cross-legged, using a special hand gesture to draw the soul ring to above his head.
In an instant…
Immensely vast energy poured in from the top of his head, and the soul ring also continuously contracted under his guidance, finally landing on the outermost ring of his soul ring configuration.
...
Time passed minute by minute.
Yang Fan spent a full month absorbing Di Tian's soul ring this time.
When he woke again…
The ruin he was sitting on had already grown vegetation as tall as a person, and his body seemed to have merged with the entire Soul Beast Forest.
Huff—
Yang Fan exhaled a mouthful of turbid air.
Just a slight movement of his body could hear the crackling sounds of bones.
He succeeded!
From martial soul awakening until now, more than ten years had finally allowed him to complete the absorption of the last soul ring of his soul master career.
Strength skyrocketed!
Even more perfect than the Level 98 he had previously predicted.
Level 99 Limit Douluo!
In fact, he was now only one step away from becoming a god.
What surprised him was that this eight-hundred-thousand-year soul ring only provided him with one soul skill.
Space Guidance!
Although this skill didn't have direct attack methods, it made him feel extremely excited.
Because only those who had truly fought Di Tian could understand how terrifying the ability to control space was.
Not only that!
The absorption of the soul ring had a direct impact on the Dou Qi mass within his body, causing his other cultivation system to directly transform into Five-Star Dou Huang.
"Comfortable!"
Only at this moment did Yang Fan truly experience the pleasure of standing at the peak of Douluo.
It was simply too awesome!
"Take this."
"Pretty good luck, you got a torso soul bone."
Some said the torso soul bone provided the greatest improvement to soul masters, while others said the head soul bone provided the greatest improvement.
Either way, torso and head soul bones were both crucial to soul masters!
Getting a torso soul bone from an eight-hundred-thousand-year soul beast was simply heaven's blessing to him.
"Master."
"You took off the soul bone, then Di Tian's corpse...?"
Yao Lao smiled slightly, indicating Yang Fan didn't need to be so nervous.
"Rest assured."
"The soul bone was removed using special methods. As long as your level is high enough, it absolutely won't affect us when refining a body for me."
The pressure instantly came to Yang Fan.
Of course!
This was also a kind of motivation for him.
"Master also found two good things on Di Tian's body."
"Eggs?"
When Yang Fan saw the two spheres in Yao Lao's hand, he instantly lost his composure.
One black and one white, each the size of a chicken egg.
"Soul cores?"
Records about soul cores on the Douluo Continent were extremely few, and only Titled Douluo-level soul masters knew such a concept existed.
These were good things!
Although Yang Fan didn't yet know how much energy these two soul cores could unleash in Yao Lao's hands, looking at Yao Lao's expression showed this matter wouldn't be that simple.
"Let's head back first!"
"Master will study these two soul cores first."
On the way back…
Yang Fan had been thinking about the Hao Tian Sect matters.
He was now a Limit Douluo with the ability to settle accounts with the Hao Tian Sect.
This matter was already urgent for him!
...
Hao Tian Sect.
"Stop!"
"Don't run!"
"Son of a bitch, if I don't break your dog legs today, I won't have the surname Tang."
"..."
Tang San ran frantically ahead, while the Hao Tian Sect youngsters chased fiercely behind.
You had to admit!
Although Tang San had been beaten every day during his year at the Hao Tian Sect, he had also developed good skills under this high pressure.
Purple Extreme Demon Eye, Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track!
A series of skills released allowed him to shake off most of the pursuit.
According to past experience, the Hao Tian Sect youngsters would have given up chasing by now, but today was different.
This son of a bitch Tang San had actually stolen things from the clan while cleaning the library.
Unforgivable!
The Hao Tian Sect youngsters had been watching Tang San for over a year, but this kid usually never made mistakes.
Falling into their hands today, not beating this bastard to death would be letting down their parents.
Tang San, who was running, suddenly turned around, and the Hao Tian Hammer in his hand actually swung with afterimages.
"Son of a bitch!"
"Still have the face to use our Hao Tian Sect's secret techniques at this time."
Although Tang San was shameless, this move successfully blocked the Hao Tian Sect youngsters' pursuit.
However, the gap in strength caused the distance between both sides to close again in the blink of an eye.
"Explode!"
The four soul rings on Tang San's body instantly shattered at this moment. He, who originally only had Soul Ancestor strength, instantly reached Soul King.
At this moment!
The Hao Tian Sect youngsters pursuing Tang San experienced a momentary mental trance.
"Kill him!"
"He stole our Hao Tian Sect's Ring Explosion."
"Even if we have to chase to the ends of the earth today, slaughter this bastard for me."
Intolerable, unforgivable!
Ring Explosion was the Hao Tian Sect's greatest secret technique, and within the Hao Tian Sect, only the sect master was qualified to learn it.
Tang San stole the Ring Explosion!
This was no longer a simple matter of theft.
Tang San's behavior undoubtedly enraged the masses. In the eyes of the Hao Tian Sect, he was now a dead man.
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