Chapter 47 Devouring the Bone Fragments of a Half-Saint, Di Tian's Ultimate Evolution: The Void Devouring Demon Dragon!
Gu Li felt a chill in his heart, and a sense of despair welled up within him.
Without their defensive positions, the three eight-star Dou Zong were doomed to die when facing a one-star Dou Zun puppet!
"Roar!"
The puppet gave them no chance to breathe, its spear, imbued with devastating spatial power, slammed down towards Gu Li's head!
"It's over..."
Gu Li closed his eyes.
At this critical moment!
"Netherworld Shadow Clone, Void Backstab!!"
A ghostly figure emerged from the shadow of the puppet without warning!
It was Di Tian!
He didn't run away!
He blended perfectly into the surrounding shadows and circled around to the puppet's back!
"Die!"
Di Tian roared, gripping the sixth-tier magic core greatsword tightly with both hands, pouring all the Dou Qi in his body, as well as the energy converted from the garbage he had just stolen, into the tip of the blade!
Pfft!
Precise! Ruthless!
This strike, precise and accurate, pierced directly into the soul node at the spine of the puppet's back.
"Awooo!!!"
The puppet let out a shrill scream, and its originally solidified body instantly collapsed, turning into countless specks of soul light that dissipated into nothingness.
Clang!
A soul core the size of a fist, radiating a dazzling silver light, fell to the ground instantly.
Gu Li, Gu Meng, and Gu Ling stared blankly at Di Tian, who was standing where the puppet had disappeared, panting heavily.
"You, you killed it in a second?"
Gu Meng stammered as he asked.
"Luck, it really was luck."
Di Tian wiped the cold sweat from his brow, sheathed his broadsword on his back, and revealed his signature honest and simple smile:
"I just happened to see a light flashing on its back, and I figured it was a weak point, so I attacked it."
"I didn't expect this thing to be so brittle."
Gu Li gave Di Tian a deep look.
Brittle?
Those are puppets!
Its defensive capabilities are comparable to those of gold and iron!
Being able to pierce through a weak point with a single strike is not just luck, but also a testament to top-notch combat awareness and stealth ability!
"Alright, little emperor."
Gu Li stepped forward, picked up the soul core from the ground, thought for a moment, and then threw it directly to Di Tian:
"You've done a great job this time."
"This soul core is yours."
"Although there are a lot of impurities inside, it's still enough to exchange for a few sixth-grade pills."
A soul core?! It's mine now?!
Di Tian held the soul core, his hands trembling.
In the Douluo Continent, this thing would be a one-million-year spirit-type soul ring!!
"Thank you so much, Brother Li! Brother Li is so righteous!!"
Di Tian was so moved he almost cried.
The place was full of impurities, but in his eyes it was a divine object that was pure beyond compare!
...
After the tomb-guarding golems were cleared, the stone gate finally opened.
An intense, almost overwhelming stench of blood and the aroma of medicine wafted over!
In the center of the stone chamber, a drop of dark golden blood floated.
Although the drop of blood was only the size of a fingernail, it seemed as if an ancient dragon was coiled within it, and the pressure it emitted made the four people kneel down instantly!
Half-Saint's Essence Blood!
"We've struck it rich! We've really struck it rich this time!!"
Gu Li's voice trembled with excitement:
"It really is the essence blood of a half-saint! And it contains the essence blood of the Ancient Void Dragon Royal Family!!"
"With it, all four of us have hope of purifying our bloodline!!"
However, just as the four were about to step forward to collect the treasure...
"Hehehe..."
A cold, greedy laugh suddenly came from the shadowy corner of the stone chamber:
"I never expected that a few lowly patrolmen could get this far."
"You've really saved me a lot of effort."
Buzz!
Space distorted, and three figures dressed in black robes with the character "soul" embroidered on their chests slowly emerged.
The leader, with a sinister and terrifying aura, was none other than a three-star Dou Zun!
Protector of the Soul Palace!
"Hijacked it?!"
Gu Li's face turned deathly pale instantly.
In this dog-eat-dog world, the thing adventurers fear most isn't monsters, but murder and robbery!
"People from the Soul Palace?!"
Di Tian's pupils contracted sharply as he looked at the iconic black robe.
He suddenly remembered the scene he had seen in the sky where the Asura God was captured.
"These guys are lunatics who would even dare to capture a god!"
"Damn it, we've really bitten off more than we can chew this time!"
However, just when he was in despair, Di Tian touched the soul core he had just obtained in his arms and glanced at the drop of half-saint blood that was floating.
A ferocity originating from the Beast God burned wildly in his eyes!
"Trying to steal my opportunity?"
"Even if it's the Soul Palace, I'll knock out two of your teeth!!"
Di Tian quietly gave Gu Li a hand gesture.
"I'll fight you to the death!!"
Di Tian roared, his purple-gold dragon scales stood on end, and the void Dou Qi within his body burned wildly!
He tried to detonate the soul core in his hand, even if it meant death, he wanted to blast a bloody path through!
However, reality is often much colder than ideals.
The black-robed Soul Palace protector merely glanced at him contemptuously, without even raising a hand, but his lips moved slightly, uttering a single word:
"Certainly."
Buzz!
An indescribably terrifying spatial force instantly froze the entire stone chamber!
Di Tian remained in that charging posture, holding a large sword and with a ferocious expression, like an insect trapped in amber, unable to move!
I can't even blink!
Even the Dou Qi within his body stopped flowing!
"This...this is the spatial confinement of a Dou Zun powerhouse?!"
A storm raged in Di Tian's heart, a despair that originated from the depths of his soul.
His hundreds of thousands of years of combat experience, which he was so proud of, and his newly evolved Void Dragon body, were meaningless at this moment!
"Ants are just ants."
The Soul Palace Protector slowly floated to Di Tian's side, extended his withered fingers, and gently flicked the sixth-tier magic core greatsword that Di Tian cherished.
"Bite!"
A crisp sound.
The divine weapon that Di Tian had bought with all his savings shattered into pieces, turning into a pile of scrap metal.
"You think you can hurt me with this piece of junk?"
The Protector chuckled and slowly placed his palm over the crown of Di Tian's head:
"But your body is quite interesting, a mutated dragon bloodline?"
"Perfect timing. I'll pull out your dragon tendons, skin you, and make you a pair of gloves."
"No..."
Seeing this, Di Tian could only let out a silent wail in his heart.
He's just starting a new life!
He just got his job!
Am I going to die here?
For a moment, Gu Li, Gu Meng, and Gu Ling were also trapped in place, their eyes filled with despair.
Just as the Soul Palace protector's hand was about to crush Di Tian's head...
"Snort."
An aged hum, seemingly containing the ultimate truth of heaven and earth, rang out in the stone chamber without warning.
The sound wasn't loud, but it was like a heavy hammer that slammed into the hearts of the three Soul Palace protectors!
"Puff!!!"
The three Dou Zun protectors, who were just moments before so arrogant, suddenly coughed up a mouthful of black blood, and most of the black mist on their bodies was shaken away!
"Who?! Who's playing tricks?!"
The leading protector looked around in terror, his voice trembling.
Immediately afterwards, the void above the stone chamber was suddenly torn apart as if by a rag.
An elderly man with white hair and beard, dressed in a purple-gold robe, walked out of the void rift with his hands behind his back, as if he were taking a stroll in his own backyard.
He didn't even glance at the Soul Palace protectors, but only looked down at the four imprisoned individuals, including Di Tian, and frowned slightly.
"A few brats, instead of patrolling properly, they come to a place like this to die?"
The moment they saw the old man, Gu Li and the other two burst into ecstatic joy. If they hadn't been unable to move their mouths, they would have shouted out loud!
That's Elder Candlelight, the Punishment Elder of East Dragon Island!
"An elder of the Taixu Ancient Dragon Clan?!"
The protector of the Soul Palace was terrified when he saw the dragon emblem on the old man's robe:
"Misunderstanding! Senior! This is a misunderstanding! We didn't know this was noble territory..."
"Misunderstanding?"
Elder Candlelight glanced at them indifferently, his tone as flat as if he were asking what to eat for dinner:
"You came to steal from the tomb of my clan's ancestors and even tried to kill my clan's juniors?"
"The Soul Palace's reach has gone too far."
"Since you're here, you might as well stay and be used as fertilizer."
After saying that, Elder Candlelight simply made a grasping motion in the air towards the three people.
"Spatial strangulation".
Click! Click! Click!
There were no dazzling light effects or earth-shattering explosions.
The space around those three Soul Palace experts, each possessing the strength of a Dou Zun, instantly collapsed, folded, and distorted!
Puff!
It's like squashing three bedbugs.
The three people's bodies and souls were directly squeezed into a cloud of blood mist by the distorted spatial power, and finally swallowed up by the void!
Instant kill! A complete and utter defeat!
After doing all this, Elder Candlelight waved his sleeve and released Di Tian and the others from their restraints.
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh..."
Di Tian collapsed to the ground, panting heavily, his entire body already soaked in cold sweat.
That's too powerful, too terrifying!
The powerful figure who had just cornered him was crushed to death before he could even muster the thought of resistance in front of this elder!
Is this the true essence of the Taixu Ancient Dragon Clan?!
"Elder! Thank you so much for saving my life!!"
Gu Li and his two companions reacted the fastest, immediately kneeling down and kowtowing.
Di Tian also realized what was happening and hurriedly kowtowed, his head hitting the ground with loud thuds.
"Alright, stop embarrassing yourself."
Elder Candlelight waved his hand impatiently:
"I just happened to be passing by and sensed some fluctuations in the void here, so I came to take a look."
As he spoke, his gaze drifted into the depths of the stone chamber, a hint of reminiscence flashing in his eyes:
"So this is the place where the missing Half-Saint Xu Yun passed away..."
"Since you little guys discovered it, it's your good fortune."
"Let's go, come inside with me and take a look."
...
Deep within the stone chamber lies the main burial chamber.
When Di Tian followed Elder Candlelight into that enormous spatial gate, the scene before him completely robbed this former Beast God of his ability to think.
This is not a tomb chamber.
This is clearly a small, sealed-off starry sky!
In the center of this starry sky, a colossal skeleton floats.
The skeleton was tens of thousands of feet long, and its entire body was a dazzling silver-gray color.
It doesn't resemble an inanimate object; rather, it seems to be formed from countless flowing liquid spatial forces!
Each bone is engraved with natural Daoist runes, emitting a faint glow.
Even just one glance was enough to make Di Tian feel a stinging pain in his eyes, and his soul felt as if it were about to be shattered by the residual pressure on the skeleton!
Half-Saint skeleton!
"These are the remains of a half-saint level expert?"
Di Tian trembled and knelt in the void, unable to stand up at all.
He thought of the Dragon God.
In the mythology of Douluo Continent, the Dragon God transformed into all things after his death.
If the Dragon God's remains were here, they probably wouldn't even be as good as one of this skeleton's toes!
Every wisp of aura emanating from this skeleton could easily shatter the divine barrier of the Douluo Continent!
"Hmm, the storage is fairly complete."
Elder Candlelight looked at the skeleton and nodded in satisfaction.
"Senior Xu Yun cultivated the Great Void Technique during his lifetime. Although this skeleton has been around for ten thousand years, the spatial essence within it is still abundant."
"If we bring them back to our clan and put them in the Dragon Transformation Pool, it will be enough to add a few more Dou Zun powerhouses to our clan."
With that, Elder Candlelight waved his sleeve.
Rumble!
The terrifying skeleton, which was tens of thousands of feet long, began to shrink rapidly, and finally turned into a stream of light, which he put into his sleeve.
The main course was taken away.
But Di Tian's eyes were fixed on the spot where the skeleton had originally been.
There, some scattered things were still floating.
A few detached bone fragments, a patch of dried silver powder, and bone marrow residue.
There were also a few weeds growing alongside the bones, shimmering with starlight.
"I'm too lazy to carry these scraps."
Elder Candlelight glanced at the trash and casually remarked:
"You four can split it up; consider it a reward for discovering this place."
"Thank you for the reward, Elder!!!"
Gu Li and his two companions rushed forward like madmen!
Di Tian was not to be outdone. At this moment, he no longer felt any fear; his eyes were filled only with greed!
He lunged at the patch of dried silver powder.
That's the bone marrow residue of a half-saint level expert!
Di Tian carefully collected the powder in a jade bottle, not letting even a single speck of dust escape.
He could feel that the energy contained in this powder was ten times more terrifying than the bath he had taken in the Dragon Transformation Pool before!
"Just consume this bottle of powder..."
"At that time, I will be able to tear through space just like Elder Candlelight!"
Di Tian held the jade bottle, trembling with emotion, tears streaming down his face.
"I'm so happy..."
"Being a dog in the Taixu Ancient Dragon Clan is so wonderful!"
"In the Douluo Continent, even a God King would fight tooth and nail for this kind of trash, right?"
"And here, it's just dust that the elders don't want!"
At this moment, all the viewers of Douluo Continent were watching the Beast God Di Tian, who was weeping and expressing his gratitude for half a bottle of ashes.
Their worldview has finally collapsed completely.
God? To them, he's just an ant.
A treasure? In their eyes, it's trash.
Dignity? In the face of power, it's a luxury only the survivors are entitled to talk about.
...
Meanwhile, in the Battle Through the Heavens world.
On East Dragon Island, in the outer patrol camp, in Di Tian's private stable.
In the stillness of the night, only the occasional rumble of thunder could be heard from the distant Void Thunder Pool.
Di Tian sat cross-legged on the pile of hay, his hands trembling as he held the jade bottle.
The bottle contained a small amount of silvery-gray powder swept out of the tomb of the half-saint.
Di Tian took a deep breath, no longer hesitated, and tilted his head back to pour all the powder into his mouth!
Boom!!!
The moment the powder entered his mouth, it wasn't as delicious as he had imagined; instead, it felt like a piece of shattered glass from space!
"Ugh!!"
Suddenly, Di Tian's eyes widened, and he let out a suppressed scream.
It hurts! It hurts so much!
The moment the powder came into contact with the saliva, it transformed into countless tiny silver spatial storms, slicing wildly down his esophagus!
His internal organs were instantly pulverized into a pulp, and then rapidly reassembled under the immense energy!
Click! Click!
The newly grown purple-gold dragon scales on Di Tian's body began to tremble violently, and then they all exploded!
Blood was everywhere, and flesh was mangled beyond recognition.
However, he did not die. In that devastating pain, a domineering bloodline power from the ancient Void Dragon Royal Family began to forcibly transform this humble black dragon body!
"Aaaaaah, transform!!"
Di Tian rolled around on the ground frantically. He could feel his bones being shattered and then injected with some kind of liquid metal.
His meridians are being widened, transforming into spatial meridians capable of containing the power of the void!
Three hours later.
As the first rays of dawn pierced through the mist of the Void Thunder Pool and fell upon the stables.
The blood-soaked figure rolling on the ground has disappeared.
Instead, there was a man sitting cross-legged, suspended in mid-air, surrounded by eerie silver-black flames.
Di Tian.
His appearance has changed dramatically.
His originally rugged face became eerily handsome, and his skin took on a cold, pale white color, as if it were carved from the hardest void crystal.
His once purplish-gold hair had now turned pure silver, with eerie black flames burning at the ends, moving without wind, as if each strand could cut through space.
The most terrifying thing is his eyes.
The original golden eyes completely disappeared, replaced by a pair of demonic eyes with no whites, as black as ink, and two silver cross cracks in the center of the pupils!
That is the Demonic Eye of the Void; a single glance seems to reveal the collapse of space and the annihilation of all things!
"Call..."
Di Tian slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air.
That breath transformed into a visible spatial blade, slicing a dark gash in the air in front of it that took a long time to heal.
"Next, let's look at my true form..."
With a thought, Di Tian suddenly rushed out of the stable and arrived in a wide-open space outside the camp.
[end of the chapter]