Chapter 46 Tomb Raider Di Tian, the Half-Saint Dragon's Lair!
Meanwhile, in the Battle Through the Heavens world.
East Dragon Island, outer patrol camp.
"Snap! Snap!"
Then came a tooth-grinding chewing sound.
Clad in purple-gold void dragon armor, the imposing Di Tian was squatting in a corner of the stable, holding a fruit the size of a watermelon that radiated a crimson flame glow, which he was munching on with grease dripping from his mouth.
That's the Crimson Dragon Fruit, a high-grade feed used by the Taixu Ancient Dragon Clan to feed the elders' mounts.
But in Di Tian's eyes, this was an unparalleled divine medicine!
"Belch!"
After swallowing a fruit, Di Tian let out a burp, and surprisingly, he spat out a wisp of purple dragon breath mixed with spatial rifts.
Boom!
His internal energy surged again, breaking through the thin barrier!
Feeling the surging power within him, Di Tian casually wiped the fruit stains from the corner of his mouth, his purple vertical pupils flashing with a wild light.
"This life is like that of a god!"
"Back in the Star Dou Great Forest, I would sleep for tens of thousands of years just to absorb a little bit of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth!"
"Here, I can sneak two grains of feed while feeding the horses each day and break through three levels in a row!"
The current Di Tian has undergone a complete transformation.
His Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King form has completely evolved into the Purple-Gold Void Flood Dragon.
Although it is not yet a pure-blooded ancient dragon, it already possesses some Void authority.
His dragon claws were even sharper, capable of easily tearing through space;
His scales are incredibly hard; even if he were to withstand a divine technique from the Douluo Continent, it would only produce a few sparks.
More importantly, he learned how to get by.
"Hey, little emperor, are you stealing feed again?"
Just then, a mocking voice came from behind.
A young man with a pair of gray dragon horns and a somewhat roguish look walked over.
He put his arm around Di Tian's shoulder and spoke in a familiar tone:
"If the steward sees this, he'll deduct half a month's worth of Dragon Blood Pills from your allowance."
This young man was named Gu Li, a low-ranking patrol guard on East Dragon Island, and also a good older brother whom Di Tian had gotten to know recently.
"Hehe, Brother Li is joking."
Di Tian immediately put on a fawning smile and skillfully pulled a flask of wine from his pocket.
This is the Fire Cloud Burnt wine that he traded for at the market using his old dragon scales.
"I'm just hungry."
"Come on, Brother Li, try this. It was just replaced yesterday, and it's really potent!"
Gu Li took the wine jug, took a big gulp, and smacked his lips in satisfaction.
"You're a smart kid."
"Although you come from that remote and impoverished place called Douluo Continent, your insight is much better than those hotheads in the clan."
The two squatted by the stable, drinking and boasting.
After a few rounds of drinks, Gu Li suddenly lowered his voice and whispered mysteriously in Di Tian's ear:
"Hey, little emperor, don't say I don't take care of you."
"I recently got some inside information. Interested in pulling off a big heist?"
Let's pull off a big heist?
Di Tian's eyes lit up instantly, his purple vertical pupils shrinking to pinpoints:
"Brother Li, what do you say? Should we steal the spiritual herbs from North Island, or hunt down the Void Thunder Beasts?"
"Just say the word, and my flesh and blood will be your shield!"
"Go away, go away! Stealing elixirs is beneath you. It's beneath you."
Gu Li rolled his eyes at him, then his expression turned solemn, and he pointed in a direction deep in the void:
"It's a dragon's tomb."
"Two days ago, the void turbulence rioted, and an ancient cave hidden in a spatial rift appeared."
"According to reliable sources, that is the place where an ancient, wandering Void Dragon of the Demise level was put to its death!"
A Demise level?!
Di Tian was startled, and almost dropped the wine pot in his hand.
The tomb of an ancient dragon of Demise level?
How many good things must be inside?
"Brother Li, do small fry like us even have the right to go into a tomb of this caliber?"
Di Tian swallowed hard, feeling somewhat guilty.
"If it were a complete Demise level tomb, it wouldn't be our turn; the elders would have cleared the area long ago."
Gu Li chuckled, a glint of greed flashing in his eyes:
"But this tomb was badly damaged due to the void storm, and it was divided into several areas."
"We can't go to the core area, but the elders don't care about those outer broken spaces, which is perfect for us patrolmen!"
"Just think about it, that's the tomb of a Demise level!"
"Even finding a broken piece of Saint-level dragon bone, or a drop of dried Saint-level essence blood..."
"Our breakthrough is a sure thing! We might even have a chance to reach the Dou Sheng realm in the future!"
Dou Sheng!
The words seemed to possess a magical power, instantly igniting a wildfire within Di Tian's heart.
Although he is not considered weak in the Dou Qi Continent, he is still a gatekeeper in the Taixu Ancient Dragon Clan.
If he can break through to the Dou Sheng level, he can become a full-fledged Dragon Guard!
He can then become a true Dragon Guard!
They might even be able to own their own territory!
"Brother Li! I'll do it!"
Di Tian suddenly stood up, his purple-gold dragon scales clanging crisply.
"Isn't it just an adventure? Although my strength is weak, my eyes are particularly sensitive to spatial fluctuations!"
"I can scout ahead! I can clear the mines!"
"Just give me a sip of soup when Brother Li eats meat!"
"Hahaha! Great!"
Gu Li patted Di Tian heavily on the shoulder:
I love your fierce spirit!
"Go back and get ready, and bring your gear."
"We will meet at the Void Thunder Pool at midnight tonight."
"Two other brothers are joining us this time. The four of us will form a tomb raiding team and make a killing in that Demise level's tomb!"
...
On the other side, in the Star Dou Great Forest of Douluo Continent.
"Plop..."
Looking at Di Tian on the screen, whose face was flushed with excitement at the prospect of digging up a grave, Bear Lord swallowed hard.
"The tomb of a Demise level..."
"Can you break through by picking up a bone?"
"Can you reach the Dou Sheng realm just by picking up a drop of blood?"
Bear Lord turned to look at Gu Yuena beside him, his tone carrying an undisguised longing:
"My lord."
"We've been guarding that Dragon God's ruins for so many years, but it seems we haven't gained anything from it..."
"Look at how some people can just go out and dig up a grave and suddenly have a Demise level opportunity."
Gu Yuena was completely numb at this point.
Looking at Di Tian's thriving success, she felt no anger whatsoever, only a deep sense of envy.
"Yes..."
Gu Yuena gave a bitter smile, looking at the broken dragon god scale in her hand.
She used to cherish it like a treasure.
Now it looks like a broken tile.
"Lord Dragon God, it's not that we are disloyal."
"The treatment there is just too good."
"Even a fool like Di Tian would dig up a Demise level's grave..."
"If I were to go..."
Involuntarily, Gu Yuena's mind conjured up images of herself using her spatial talent to wreak havoc and seize treasures in that Demise level's tomb.
It smells so good.
...
Above the sky, the scene shifts.
The Void Thunder Pool, midnight.
Di Tian, carrying a sixth-tier magic core greatsword obtained in exchange for deep-sea silver, followed behind Gu Li and joined up with the other two ancient dragon warriors.
The four-person team, like ghosts, slipped into the raging void currents.
Di Tian walked at the front, his pair of purple-gold vertical pupils emitting an eerie light as he constantly scanned the surrounding spatial rifts.
"Brother Li! At the three o'clock position on the left! There are traces of spatial folding! That's the entrance!"
"Brother Li! Watch your step! That's Void Thunder Beast dung, it's poisonous!"
"Brother Li! I smell it! There's a seventh-tier Dragon Blood Grass hidden in that floating meteorite ahead!"
Di Tian performed with exceptional professionalism, he was practically a born Void Guide!
At this moment, he was no longer the Beast God of Douluo Continent.
Instead, it is the first Gold Medal Tomb Raider of the East Dragon Island Branch of the Taixu Ancient Dragon Clan: Di Tian!
Watching his figure move with ease amidst the chaotic void, all the soul beasts of the Douluo Continent shed tears of envy.
This is hardly an adventure.
This is clearly picking up money!
In the depths of the chaotic void within the broken plane, outside the shattered tomb of a Demise level.
All around was a deathly silver expanse, with countless void storms, each powerful enough to easily tear apart a Dou Zun expert, weaving around them like fish.
"Be careful not to step on the void moss."
Gu Li, who was walking at the front, casually waved a spatial barrier to block a gust of wind, then turned around and whispered:
"Although this moss is inconspicuous, once you get on it, it will suck out your Dou Qi like a maggot clinging to your bone. Even a Dou Zun would not dare to provoke it easily."
Upon hearing this, Di Tian, who was following behind, was so frightened that he quickly withdrew his paw, which had just reached out to pick off a piece of moss for study.
"Goodness, it can even drain a Dou Zun dry from a moss?"
"This place is too brutal!"
Di Tian swallowed hard, his purple-gold vertical pupils activated to their maximum, staring intently at every fluctuation in the surrounding space.
The four-person team was walking on a suspended path paved with broken meteorites.
Besides captain Gu Li, the other two team members are Gu Meng, who is burly and responsible for absorbing damage, and Gu Ling, who is agile and responsible for flanking cover.
Di Tian, as the only transfer student from another world, was placed in the middle of the group.
He was responsible for using his mutated Void Eye to explore the way.
"Stop!"
Suddenly, Di Tian let out a low shout, and the dragon tail behind him tightly wrapped around a protruding rock, forcibly stopping his movement.
"What's wrong? Why are you so jumpy?" Gu Meng muttered somewhat discontentedly, his heavy hammer itching to strike.
"The road ahead is blocked."
Di Tian pointed to the seemingly flat void path ahead, a fine layer of cold sweat beading on his forehead:
"My eyes saw that the space there was folded!"
"That's not a road, that's a spatial meat grinder."
"The moment you take one step, your body will be instantly teleported to three different coordinates and dismembered!"
"What?!"
Gu Li was shocked and quickly stepped forward, releasing a probing burst of Dou Qi.
Sizzle!
The moment that Dou Qi touched the spot Di Tian pointed to, it was like a piece of tofu being thrown into a high-speed spinning propeller, instantly shredded into nothingness, leaving not even a trace!
"Ouch, that was close!"
Gu Meng turned pale with fright and subconsciously touched his neck.
If Di Tian hadn't called a halt, he'd probably be head on East Dragon Island and feet on West Dragon Island by now.
"Good lad! You've got some skills!"
Gu Li patted Di Tian's shoulder heavily, his eyes revealing genuine admiration for the first time:
"You can even see through this kind of hidden spatial folding trap at a glance? Your eyes are practically made for tomb raiding!"
"Hehe, Brother Li, you flatter me. It's just luck, luck."
Di Tian smiled modestly, but inwardly he was shouting, "Luck my ass! I've been the boss of the Star Dou Great Forest for hundreds of thousands of years. I may not have any other skills, but my instinct for survival is etched into my bones!"
...
Finally, after avoiding deadly traps, the team entered the first level of the tomb.
Everywhere here are broken walls and ruins, and countless huge skeletons float on the ground.
"What bad luck, it's that outlying area again."
Gu Li kicked aside a white bone, as thick as a thigh and emitting a faint fluorescent glow, with a look of disgust on his face.
"These are the bones of the servant magical beasts that were buried with that Demise level powerhouse back then. Thousands of years have passed, and their energy has been almost completely lost. Even if you pick them up and burn them as firewood, the smoke is too much."
After saying that, Gu Li and the other two didn't even glance at each other and walked straight into the depths.
However, after they had walked a few steps away, Di Tian quietly lagged behind like a thief.
He picked up the broken bone that Gu Li had kicked away, his hands trembling.
Buzz!
Just by holding it in his hand, Di Tian felt a pure earth-attribute primordial energy, so pure it was suffocating, enter his body through his palm!
"This...this is the leg bone of a seventh-tier peak magical beast, the Earth Bear!!"
"All the energy has been dissipated? There's clearly still at least the equivalent of a 100,000-year-old soul bone left!!"
"To be used as firewood??"
Di Tian's heart was bleeding; these ancient dragons of the Void were truly wasting their talents!
If this thing were taken back to Douluo Continent, it would be a top-grade torso soul bone!
This is enough to provoke a war between the two countries!
"Take it all! Take it all!"
With quick eyes and hands, taking advantage of the fact that no one was paying attention, Di Tian frantically stuffed the trash on the ground into his storage ring.
A seventh-tier magical beast skull? I'll take it!
A shattered fragment of a high-level Xuan-rank combat technique? Take it!
A chamber pot belonging to a Demise level? Take it!
In the short corridor, which was only a few hundred meters long, Di Tian was like a country bumpkin visiting the Grand View Garden. Wherever he went, nothing grew, and he even pried up two of the floor tiles.
...
However, just as Di Tian was having a great time picking up trash.
Rumble!!
The space in front of them suddenly trembled violently, and an extremely ferocious roar came from there!
"Roar!!"
"Oh no! It's the soul of a tomb guardian beast!!"
Gu Li's exclamation rang out.
Di Tian rushed forward and saw a huge stone gate in front of him.
An ancient celestial demon puppet, completely transparent and formed from pure soul power, was blocking everyone's path, holding a broken spear!
Although this puppet has no physical form, the aura emanating from it has reached the level of a one-star Dou Zun!
"Damn it! The intelligence was wrong! How could there be a Dou Zun-level tomb guardian puppet here?!"
Gu Meng was swept away by the puppet's spear, his dragon scales on his chest shattered, and blood gushed out.
"Brother Li! This is a tough one! Let's retreat!" Gu Ling panicked as well, his speed was completely useless under the pressure of the Dou Zun level.
"Retreat? Where to retreat to? There's spatial turbulence all behind us!"
Gu Li gritted his teeth, a ruthless glint flashing in his eyes:
"Let's risk it! As long as we shatter its soul core, this puppet will be our spoils!"
"Ancient formation! Bind!!"
The three quickly took their positions, attempting to form a combined attack formation of the Taixu Ancient Dragon Clan.
But one person is missing!
"Di Tian! Where have you been?! Come and fill in for me!!" Gu Li roared.
However, when he looked back, he found that Di Tian was not standing in the defensive position, but had disappeared.
"Damn it! That otherworldly lizard got away?!"
[end of the chapter]