Somewhere in the Spirit Beast Forest.
A great river several hundred meters wide flowed ceaselessly.
The river ran through more than half of the Great Star Dou Forest, eventually emptying into the sea within the Star Luo Empire.
This was the largest, fastest-flowing, and most well-known river in the Great Star Dou Forest.
Soul masters on the Douluo Continent liked to call this river the Star Dou River.
At this moment...
Suddenly, there was a "splash" on the flowing river surface as a figure burst out from the water.
It was Bibi Dong!
When she landed, the soul power in her body had already completely dried her soaked clothes.
Even so, it couldn't conceal her current wretched state.
"Bastard!"
Bibi Dong gnashed her teeth in anger, her eyes suffused with dark purple light.
Blatant killing intent blazed within them!
Since she succeeded as Pope, this was the first time she had been so humiliated.
"Fierce beast!"
"I, Bibi Dong, will definitely slaughter you."
Although she had already failed this time, her desire for fierce beast soul rings had only grown stronger.
Since she couldn't kill the fierce beast now, she would go back and complete part of the Rakshasa God trials first.
Once she could better master the Rakshasa God Scythe, she didn't believe the soul beasts in the Great Star Dou Forest couldn't become her soul rings.
Pfft—
Yue Guan also climbed out of the Star Dou River at this moment. After coming up, without saying a word, he first spat out several mouthfuls of river water.
That was fucking close!
Thinking about those who had died, he felt somewhat pleased with himself.
After all, he was a veteran who had served under two Popes. In the dangerous missions he had carried out in the past, he had long developed the ability to observe everything around him.
At the critical moment, jumping into the river water was how he escaped death.
"Old Gui!"
In comparison, his decades-old brother Gui Mei hadn't been so fortunate.
He still remembered watching him die before his eyes.
"Elder Ju, now is not the time for self-pity."
"We need to leave this place!"
After the others died, Yue Guan seemed to have become Bibi Dong's right-hand man again.
However, Yue Guan, having experienced a low point, no longer had his former vigor.
...
Spirit Beast Forest, Core Region.
Yang Fan indicated that this was his first time coming so deep into the Spirit Beast Forest.
Different from other places!
The air in the core region was more damp and cold, and the plants growing here were even more lush.
Here, one couldn't find even the slightest trace of human soul masters having set foot.
"Master."
"Don't you think the Spirit Beast Forest is a bit too quiet right now?"
Yao Lao stroked his chin and nodded thoughtfully.
Indeed!
Logically speaking, the Spirit Beast Forest should be in complete chaos by now.
Could it be that the medicine he refined had expired due to the long passage of time?
Just as Yao Lao was still pondering, a resonant dragon roar shot up into the sky.
Roar—
The sound was deep and loud, resounding through virtually every corner of the Spirit Beast Forest.
In an instant...
A black giant dragon coiled above the Spirit Beast Forest.
The black dragon's body was over three hundred meters long, and its massive dragon head diameter exceeded six meters.
The hard dragon scales below the dragon head stood on end, giving it an extremely ferocious appearance.
"Di Tian?"
Yang Fan first questioned, then confirmed.
That's right!
Di Tian was originally the patriarch of the Black Dragon Clan, and who else could cause such a huge commotion in the core region?
"Master!"
"He seems to be holding it in quite painfully."
Yang Fan was a youth who had experienced two complete springs in the Spirit Beast Forest.
Although Di Tian had now switched to his beast form, he still couldn't escape Yang Fan's keen eyes.
"Impressive!"
Yao Lao still admired that Di Tian could maintain his integrity at such a time.
As expected... the king among beasts!
The bloodline of the Black Dragon Clan wasn't easily bestowed upon any female soul beast.
"Bastard!"
Di Tian, coiling above the Spirit Beast Forest, happened to discover the sneaky Yang Fan at this moment.
When enemies meet, their eyes burn with hatred!
Di Tian opened his bloody maw, and a black beam of light as thick as a water barrel shot out like lightning.
The black light made intimate contact with the ground, instantly forming a deep pit over two hundred meters in diameter.
Yang Fan looked at the devastation where he had been standing just now, his heart trembling at Di Tian's terrifying strength.
"Seeking death!"
Di Tian hadn't expected that this human soul master who had tormented him so badly would dare to make a comeback.
In his eyes...
Yang Fan was already a dead man at this moment.
Di Tian's attacks were as fast and powerful as lightning.
In the blink of an eye, the massive black dragon head swooped down, opening its abyss-like maw to directly devour Yang Fan.
At this moment, Yao Lao appeared before him, hands pushing up the upper jaw, feet stomping down on the lower jaw, preventing the black dragon from closing its mouth this time.
But the powerful impact also sent Yao Lao and Yang Fan flying over a thousand meters away.
Where they passed, a gully several dozen meters deep appeared.
Such a huge commotion also attracted the other several fierce beasts of the core region.
There were males and females, plants and animals!
"You deal with Di Tian; Master will go take care of these guys first."
Yang Fan had wanted to say they should switch, but after a moment's thought, he understood Yao Lao's intention.
Yao Lao had said yesterday that the aphrodisiac was just a small interlude; the real killer move was the poison that could cause Di Tian's dark attribute to go into turmoil.
This poison could put the cultivator into a weakened state for a long time after the turmoil.
"Master believes in you."
Yao Lao's aged palm flipped outward, and in an instant, a pill appeared in Yang Fan's hand.
"Luo E Pill?!"
This round was stable!
Yang Fan had just been worried whether he could withstand Di Tian's attacks, but this Luo E Pill that could boost his strength gave him a great confidence boost.
"This seat will kill you first!"
Yang Fan cursed Di Tian for not playing by the rules.
When fighting with Yao Lao, he could stand there motionless for several minutes.
Switching to him, not even giving time to take medicine?
But fortunately, he was no longer the small weakling from before. Just as he dodged one of Di Tian's attacks, Yang Fan flicked the Luo E Pill into his mouth.
The pill entered his throat...
Warm energy instantly exploded in his oral cavity, then spread throughout his limbs and bones.
Yang Fan couldn't help but sigh in admiration at Yao Lao's power at this moment!
The Luo E Pill he had refined before only boosted him to the strength of a Seven-Star Dou Huang, while the one Yao Lao refined brought him to just one step away from peak Dou Huang.
The same Luo E Pill, yet the gap between them was simply visible to the naked eye.
Of course!
There was another important reason for this.
The four hundred ninety thousand year palm bone he absorbed had an effect on the Dou Qi energy mass within his body, and this effect not only allowed him to successfully advance to Dou Huang, but also advanced two stars in a row.
"Come fight!"
Approaching peak Dou Huang...
With such strength, he was now completely unafraid of Di Tian.
"You think this seat can't kill you now?"
Although Di Tian's words were arrogant, his heart had already begun to surge with waves.
He was very surprised!
Surprised that a human soul master could achieve such a surge in strength in such a short time.
Even more surprised by Yang Fan's strength after the surge.
Although he didn't want to admit it, at this moment, the aura fluctuations emanating from this human soul master were not inferior to his by much.
He had lived in the Great Star Dou Forest for hundreds of thousands of years, and countless powerful soul masters had died by his hands; this was the first time he had seen such a strange one.
At this moment... a hint of gravity appeared in Di Tian's heart!
Roar—
The effect of the medicine instantly broke through this contemplation in his heart.
He just wanted to violate someone now!
A Heavy Xuan Ruler instantly broke the current stalemate, and flame waves surged forth under Yang Fan's control, affecting only a range of twenty meters.
At this moment...
A black longsword also appeared in Di Tian's hand, and he swept it forward in a horizontal slash.
The black crescent slash on the sword body flashed like lightning.
The collision of black and red in the sky pressed against each other. Although the attacks of the two looked very inconspicuous, when they truly merged together, they had already caused the sky of the Spirit Beast Forest to change color.
Flame Splitting Tsunami... trained to great completion, splitting mountains and scorching the earth!
Yang Fan thought that he should now be considered to have reached the great completion stage described for this Earth-tier Dou Technique.
"You're not a soul master?"
Di Tian generally didn't like nonsense, but now he had too many doubts in his heart.
It was hard to imagine that besides the cultivation of soul masters and soul beasts on the Douluo Continent, there existed another cultivation system.
Could this cultivation system ultimately lead to godhood?
With this question in mind, Di Tian condensed a circular black vortex between his hands.
Spatial power?!
When Yang Fan saw this black vortex, he felt extremely unhappy in his heart.
Because Di Tian could do it, but he couldn't!
This was perhaps the most obvious gap between the two of them.
The Black Dragon Sword fell into the spatial vortex and disappeared, yet in the next breath, it made Yang Fan's spine feel cold.
Not good!
Although his reaction was fast enough, he was still grazed by the Black Dragon Sword, leaving a sword wound on his left shoulder.
Blood flowed down Yang Fan's arm...
Di Tian was still strong!
Just as Yang Fan thought the current situation was already very unfavorable to him, he was surprised to discover that the wound on his left shoulder was coagulating at a visible speed.
This was...?
Wildfire can't burn it all, spring breeze brings it back to life?!
Yang Fan suddenly thought of the first sixth-grade pill he had taken, the Blue Silver Soul Bone Pill.
Although the wound healed, the dark attribute contained in the Black Dragon Sword energy was something the Blue Silver Emperor couldn't resolve.
Yang Fan was now grateful that he had three strange fires of different attributes in his body; otherwise, just this half-god level dark attribute wasn't something he could resist.
"Boy!"
"Just how many soul beasts over one hundred thousand years have you killed in our Great Star Dou Forest?"
Di Tian suddenly understood why Yang Fan possessed such terrifying strength.
There weren't many hundred-thousand-year soul beasts in the Great Star Dou Forest to begin with; this kid had nearly half of them on him.
"Counting you, it should make a round number."
Yang Fan wasn't planning to give Di Tian another chance to attack him using spatial power this time.
Active offense!
Although at the same level, the physique of human soul masters was far inferior to soul beasts, at this moment, this kind of close combat was the most suitable method for Yang Fan to deal with spatial power.
"Hmph—"
Di Tian saw through Yang Fan's combat intention in the blink of an eye, but he didn't give Yang Fan such an opportunity.
Di Tian released a dragon breath...
In the blink of an eye, dozens of black vortices appeared around Yang Fan's body.
Every black vortex showed obvious aura fluctuations, constantly interfering with Yang Fan's judgment.
Although Yang Fan's soul power was already strong enough, at this moment, it was difficult for him to determine from which portal Di Tian's attack would come.
At this moment, the black vortex directly in front suddenly produced a subtle change different from the other spatial portals.
In an instant, the Black Dragon Sword magnified before his eyes.
Yang Fan dodged dangerously by leaning sideways, but before he could catch his breath, he was entangled by an energy black ball from another black vortex.
Although his powerful soul power could give him advance warning the moment an attack arrived, such responses also left him in a sufficiently wretched state.
Completely in a passive situation of being beaten!
He swore!
Once he could master spatial power, he would definitely find an enemy to torment to death as well.
A series of firelight and black shadows in the high sky!
No matter when Yang Fan fled, he seemed unable to escape Di Tian's spatial control.
Just as Di Tian was pleased that Yang Fan would become another soul under his hand, his brain stem nerves suddenly twitched.
He wanted to violate a beast!
This thought instantly spread from his mind throughout his body, causing him to lose two beats in his control of spatial power.
Boom—
Yang Fan broke through the spatial gate and punched Di Tian in the chest.
This was no ordinary punch!
The 490,000 year external soul bone of the Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear, plus the eight hidden forces of the Octane Blast.
To say this punch was the martial soul fusion skill of a Limit Douluo would be no exaggeration.
Di Tian's body instantly flew backward, already spitting dragon blood during the retreat.
"Don't get distracted!"
The victory between experts often lies in the slightest margin.
If he couldn't seize such an opportunity, he would probably half-kill Yao Lao with anger afterward.
Roar—
A resonant dragon roar came from Di Tian's mouth.
The dragon roar was resonant but angry!
Di Tian, constantly tormented by the aphrodisiac, had already shown obvious changes in his mentality at this moment.
He broke through his defenses!
Under normal circumstances, Yang Fan would have long since become a soul under his hand; how could he still let himself get injured?
At this moment, Di Tian's face was suddenly covered with obvious black strange patterns, and the dark aura on his body also began to surge obviously.
Only this surge wasn't an explosion, but rather a terrifying speed of rapid decline.
"Bastard!"
Di Tian no longer had the strong urge to violate beasts, but for him, what replaced it was an even worse situation.
"Here it comes!"
Yang Fan indicated that he had finally waited for this moment.
The weakening of the dark attribute on Di Tian's body also meant that this Beast King's strength no longer possessed the half-god level.
This... was his best opportunity to kill Di Tian.
Yang Fan didn't hesitate in the slightest, because he himself knew that if he couldn't kill Di Tian here today, then if he wanted to obtain this soul ring in the future, it definitely wouldn't be as easy as today.
He tightly gripped the Heavy Xuan Ruler with his right hand wearing the external soul bone and smashed it toward Di Tian's head.
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