"Auspicious Beast... this..."
Di Tian wore a dark expression as he looked at the three figures not far ahead. He could clearly sense it—the green-haired human girl was indeed the Auspicious Beast.
So, she really had reincarnated as a human? For a soul beast with only ten thousand years of cultivation, this wasn't impossible. Moreover, when such a beast reached the end of its life, it could return to its soul beast form. This was a privilege granted to those blessed with auspicious fortune—one chance in their lifetime to experience what it meant to be human.
Knowing this, Di Tian's expression wasn't dark because the Auspicious Beast had become human. Rather, it was because of the two people standing beside her. One was a weak and insignificant human, not worth noting. But the other...
Di Tian's expression turned grave. He found himself unable to see through the icy blue figure, who stood like a spirit of ice and snow.
He was the Beast God, Di Tian. As the last living Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King, his golden eyes could see through anything in the world. It wasn't an exaggeration to say that not even Limit Douluos could escape his sight. Which meant—this ice-blue figure might actually be on par with him... or worse—
That second possibility was one Di Tian didn't even dare to imagine. How could anyone be stronger than him? Unless it was the one still slumbering beneath the Lake of Life.
"Auspicious Beast."
Di Tian's deep voice rumbled like thunder in Huo Yuhao's ears.
The Auspicious Beast looked up at the fearsome figure in the sky. Her eyes were full of emotion as she stepped forward and said,
"Di Tian, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have left without saying anything."
Di Tian looked at the small green figure and, for once, a rare gentleness appeared in his eyes.
"It's alright, child. We were at fault as well... for keeping you confined for too long. We respect your decision."
He sighed and shook his head.
"It's good enough that you came back."
Then he glanced at the two figures behind her. His expression darkened again.
"But... who are they?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Di Tian deliberately released a fearsome wave of draconic might, aimed directly at Huo Yuhao and the Snow Empress.
Even the Auspicious Beast felt a chill down her spine. But when she turned to look at Huo Yuhao and the Snow Empress, she wasn't surprised to see that neither of them flinched. Their faces remained calm, as though nothing had happened.
The Auspicious Beast turned back, saw Di Tian's skeptical and probing gaze, and made up her mind.
"Di Tian, I came back this time because I found hope. Hope for the Star Dou Forest—and for all soul beasts."
Di Tian frowned.
"Hope for soul beasts? Auspicious Beast, you—"
"Di Tian, do you not recognize this Empress?"
Before Di Tian could question further, the Snow Empress's cold and crisp voice rang out.
Being interrupted immediately annoyed Di Tian. No one had ever dared to speak to him like that.
Wait.
He stared at the Snow Empress, who looked like an angel carved from snow and ice. Then, in the next moment, his pupils shrank, and he said in disbelief,
"You... you're the Snow Empress!?"
"Hmph. That's right."
The Snow Empress appearing here alongside the Auspicious Beast and a human was already unbelievable. But what shook him even more was that he couldn't sense her cultivation at all. This wasn't the Extreme North. Even if she had cultivated for seven hundred thousand years, how could she possibly compare to him, the eight-hundred-thousand-year-old Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King?
He looked again at the small figure of the Auspicious Beast, who was nervously biting her lip, and his mind quickly drew its own conclusions.
The Snow Empress hadn't been brought here by the Auspicious Beast—it was the other way around. The Snow Empress had brought her here, with the intent to steal her destiny and take her back to the Extreme North. And the so-called "hope for soul beasts" was nothing more than a lie to deceive him, crafted by the Snow Empress and repeated by the Auspicious Beast.
It was no wonder Di Tian would think this way. Between the Auspicious Beast's anxious behavior and the Snow Empress's sudden appearance, everything fit. And as the Beast God, one who stood at the pinnacle of the Douluo Continent, he had his own pride and paranoia. The fact that he couldn't see through the Snow Empress's strength, and her calmness in facing him, only made him feel more threatened.
So, after a brief moment of thought, Di Tian made what he believed to be the right choice.
He raised one arm and pointed slightly toward the Snow Empress.
At his fingertip, a ball of pitch-black energy suddenly formed and shot forth at the speed of light. This was the near-ultimate power of darkness from the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King. In the past, a Rank 98 human Titled Douluo had been completely annihilated by this attack, vanishing from the world without a trace.
"Freeze."
The Snow Empress raised her hand and waved it gently. At the moment her voice fell, the black sphere stopped in midair and was instantly frozen, turning into blue ice crystals that shattered and disappeared into the wind.
Her ice power, nearing absolute zero, could freeze anything in the world.
For the first time, Di Tian felt genuine shock. His vortex of pure darkness had been... frozen?
But the Snow Empress didn't give him time to be amazed.
Why should she let him make the first move?
After catching his dark vortex, she raised her hand again without hesitation. In a flash, tens of thousands of tiny ice arrows appeared behind her and shot toward Di Tian at lightning speed.
Di Tian was stunned. That many ice arrows, conjured in just an instant?
But there was no time to think. The hail of arrows couldn't be dodged. He first tried to use his purest soul power to block them with spiritual force, but it was completely ineffective. He had no choice but to form hundreds of dark vortices in the air to intercept the attack.
But there were too many. Tens of thousands of arrows, each impossibly fast. Even with all his might, he could only block a portion.
In the end, he had to draw upon his true strength—the power of the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King's bloodline—to reinforce his body and endure the attack with brute force.
"So cold—"
That was Di Tian's first thought when the ice arrows struck his body.
This was, without question, the coldest thing he had ever encountered. How could anything be so cold?
Wherever the arrows hit, there wasn't even pain—only an endless, penetrating cold.
His dragon body, strengthened by his flowing dragon blood, wasn't pierced by the arrows. But the sheer number of them, combined with their terrifying cold, caused his entire body to lock up. He couldn't move at all.
(End of Chapter)
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