Looking at the ten spirit rings behind Yun Ming, Yingfeng Douluo swallowed, the corner of his eye twitching.
He was just joking. How had this man actually broken through to the divine level?
Was he a prophet of doom?
Divine Brush Douluo also could not help looking at Di Tian.
Was he really confident?
He had never felt such pressure from any expert.
"He is not a true deity."
Compared to most of the shocked people, Di Tian's expression remained calm. "He is only in a temporary state forcibly elevated. Extremely unstable, with a huge cost. It will not last long."
"However, Yun Ming is indeed a genius of his generation. I sense the aura of a divine seat on him, though incomplete."
"A divine seat?" Chen Xinjie raised an eyebrow.
So Yun Ming had indeed gotten ahead of him.
Seeing Di Tian still composed, and Chen Xinjie also unruffled, everyone felt somewhat reassured.
And in an unnoticed moment, a flicker of complexity passed through Di Tian's eyes.
The divine realm. How close, yet how far. It truly stirred one's emotions.
Ten thousand years of bitter cultivation. That step seemed only a hair's breadth away, yet like an insurmountable chasm. His cultivation had not truly advanced for a long time. He could only continuously accumulate his foundation, because he knew the consequences of advancing further.
(Soul Land III mentioned that Di Tian dared not advance further, but had been suppressing his cultivation to prevent his age from increasing.)
If he advanced further, even with his foundation, he could not suppress it. He would have to directly face the terrifying tribulation combining the godhood tribulation and the spirit beast heavenly tribulation. And the outcome would be death.
How absurd. When fighting enemies, he first had to worry about suppressing his own cultivation and life force, least his age increased to nine hundred thousand years and faced the great tribulation.
This feeling of being bound hand and foot was torture for any expert.
Therefore, watching Yun Ming's brief divine radiance, bought with the cost of burning everything, Di Tian's heart felt a hint of envy, and also a deep, indescribable emotion and unwillingness.
Unwillingness that spirit beasts could not become gods.
Huo Yuhao's gaze had unknowingly fallen on Di Tian.
He could probably understand what the other party was feeling at this moment.
After all, when he had prepared to "bury" himself ten thousand years ago, had he truly been without unwillingness?
Probably not.
Just as Di Tian suppressed his emotions and prepared to step forward, a calm telepathic message, accompanied by a sudden cool sensation in his palm, sounded in his consciousness.
The telepathic message came from Gu Yuena. What fell into his palm was a strange crystal.
"Di Tian, take this. Merge it into your battle armor and break through. Enjoy the divine level battle."
"In this battle."
Gu Yuena's gaze seemed to pierce through space, briefly meeting Di Tian's.
"Make it a glorious victory."
Di Tian's emotions had fooled others, but could never fool her.
Seeing the concern in Gu Yuena's eyes, Di Tian's heart warmed. The loyalty of ten thousand years of following and the trust and expectation Gu Yuena now gave intertwined, igniting a blazing fire in his once calm dragon eyes.
"Thank you, Your Majesty."
Di Tian clenched the "Dragon God's Heart" tightly, laughed heartily, and without hesitation, step by step walked through the void toward Yun Ming.
At the same time, a set of pitch black Four Word Battle Armor instantly covered his entire body.
Each armor plate seemed forged from the deepest night sky. Dark gold dragon patterns flowed across its surface, ancient and vigorous, containing the dragon race's majesty and power. The edges of the armor plates were sharp as dragon fangs. Brilliant gems were embedded at the joints, emitting vast energy fluctuations.
The battle armor as a whole was full of power, making Di Tian's already towering and robust figure appear even more majestic, like a warrior from ancient myths.
What was most striking was behind him, dragon wings formed from countless dense dragon scales and dark energy, like tangible shadows.
When the dragon wings flapped, they did not stir up strong winds, but caused slight ripples in the surrounding space. Even space itself trembled under its pressure.
Four Word Battle Armor, Dark Radiance Dragon King.
After the battle armor appeared, Di Tian's surging dragon power rushed into the Dragon God's Heart like a breached dam. The crystal instantly turned into a wisp of seven colored light, silently merging into the core of the Four Word Battle Armor on his chest.
Di Tian could feel that after merging with the Dragon God's Heart, the battle armor underwent an astonishing change. Its connection with him grew tighter. His perception and control of the surrounding energy and laws were elevated to another level, even touching a higher level of power.
As an eighth rank Saint Craftsman, Di Tian quickly understood. This was the battle armor that could allow a Near Divine to manifest divine level combat power, similar to the legendary Four Word Battle Armor made from Divine Alloy.
However, the battle armor only amplified his spirit power output to a level comparable to divine power. His spiritual power and physique were unaffected.
But that was enough.
After all, now the only difference between him and Yun Ming was spirit power versus divine power.
Di Tian's figure, with a single step, already hovered directly opposite Yun Ming. The Sky Piercing Spear's forbidden domain, which could even affect Limit Douluo, had no effect on him.
As the two faced each other, their auras began to collide.
Two entirely different yet equally touch the realm of "god" vast auras collided and intertwined fiercely above Shrek City, rendering the entire sky bizarre and chaotic, with laws in disarray.
Below, whether Federation experts or the remnants of Shrek, all were horrified, their minds shook.
Another true god.
Did the Spirit Transmission Tower also have such foundations?
"How did His Excellency Di Tian do it? Does the Spirit Transmission Tower have a way to become a true god?"
Ferocious confused Wolf Douluo Dong Zi'an, after his initial shock, looked excitedly at the Bear Lord.
"Huh?"
Bear Lord was bewildered.
If their Spirit Transmission Tower had such methods, would they have waited until now to use them?
But he did not say that.
Ferocious Wolf Douluo was also a legend in the Federation. His martial soul, the Green-faced Wolf, was only an ordinary martial soul. The hardship of step growing by step to Limit Douluo could be imagined.
And for a figure like this, the Spirit Transmission Tower had naturally provided considerable support along the way. So this man was the Limit Douluo in the military with the best relationship with the Spirit Transmission Tower. As a Spirit Transmission Tower branch tower master, Bear Lord naturally had to maintain a good relationship.
"It should be the effect of some divine weapon, enhancing the Four Word Battle Armor, causing its essence to change and become a divine weapon that can temporarily break the Boundary between Mortal and God."
As a fellow eighth rank Saint Craftsman, Bear Lord observed for a moment and answered.
As for that divine weapon, he had sensed the aura of the Dragon God's Heart. It must have been done by His Majesty.
Able to give the Dragon God's Heart to Di Tian right under the noses of all the Limit Douluo without being noticed, His Majesty had clearly recovered well.
Bear Lord's answer resolved everyone's doubts and also gave some people new ideas.
That was right. If they themselves could not become gods, why not find a way to evolve their battle armor?
The Federation also had divine weapons.
"When did you come up with this method?"
Besides him, Huo Yuhao also looked at Gu Yuena with some surprise, sending a telepathic message.
Gu Yuena blinked and smiled slightly. "Have we not basically already researched the Divine Alloy? I observed and hypothesized that to achieve Heaven Forging with the Divine Alloy, it would probably require experiencing a true divine tribulation. At that moment, I understood that Four Word Battle Armor made from Divine Alloy could allow the wearer to rival a true god because the raw material was already at the divine level. After Heaven Forging, its essence was too terrifying. If you wanted an ordinary Four Word Battle Armor to rival it, what it would need was not soul master spirit power nurturing, but divine power."
Huo Yuhao's expression shifted slightly.
This was the path to Five-Word Battle Armor.
Although the names Five-Word Battle Armor and Six-Word Battle Armor were quite abstract, it had to be said that the increase of battle armor requiring divine power to nurture was indeed impressive.
"And divine power. Di Tian did not have it. But the Dragon God's Heart could replace it."
Gu Yuena looked at Di Tian in the sky, her smile growing. "Moreover, Di Tian's body and battle armor are, aside from me, the most compatible with the Dragon God's Heart right now. It is not difficult to make the Dragon God's Heart function."
"However, Di Tian could not make the Dragon God's Heart fully function. What he wanted was to temporarily elevate his battle armor through the Dragon God's Heart to a higher level to fight Yun Ming."
A battle armor that, after merging with part of the Dragon God's Heart's power, had an effect equivalent to Five-Word Battle Armor?
Huo Yuhao thought of Lan Xuanyu merging the Seven-Colored Divine Dragon Armor, a divine weapon, with Four Word Battle Armor to create Six-Word Battle Armor, and smiled.
A divine weapon merged into Four Word Battle Armor had given Lan Xuanyu Six-Word Battle Armor. Naturally, it was not difficult for the Dragon God's Heart, a super divine weapon, to elevate the battle armor's essence.
If Di Tian had not only needed to break through the Boundary between Mortal and God, he could not have fully merged the Dragon God's Heart into his battle armor. His battle armor might have been elevated to an even more terrifying level.
He had never expected to see such a sight. Life was truly full of surprises.
On the other side, Gu Yuena continued her telepathic message. "Now, Atlas is standing in the true god realm through external force, and it contains planar power, so it will not be suppressed by the plane. Since Di Tian has reached the divine level through battle armor power, using the super divine weapon merged into his battle armor to Conceal Heavenly Secrets and prevent the planar power from sending down lightning punishment, that is only fair."
Could she let others bully her own people in terms of innate conditions?
The conditions and power the Life Core had given Yun Ming, she could also give Di Tian. Who did not have a god behind them?
Huo Yuhao smiled slightly at Gu Yuena's protective nature.
On the Douluo Continent, when experts below the god level faced a true god, the problem was not just the difference in strength levels.
There was another trouble. When the attacks of those below the god level broke the limit to reach the god level, they would face planar lightning punishment. It was equivalent to both the plane and the true god were your enemies.
To tell a not so funny joke, when fighting the true god Demon Emperor, Gu Yuena's worst injury was forcibly breaking the limit to the god level and then being struck by a seven colored lightning tribulation from the Douluo plane.
Although this had to do with Gu Yuena not caring about that kind of lightning tribulation. Otherwise, with the Dragon God's Heart, would the plane dare to strike her? Just like Tang Wulin, holding the Sea God's Trident, the plane did not punish him. Not because of his relationship with Tang Hao, but because the super divine weapon helped him Conceal the breakthrough fluctuations.
But ordinary people did not have a super divine weapon.
Huo Yuhao had a clear idea of Di Tian's current strength. It was similar to Tang Wulin when he fought the Demon Emperor, and Gu Yuena at the Near Divine level with Divine Origin realm spiritual power. With the Dragon God Claw and Four Word Battle Armor, given Di Tian's over eight hundred thousand years of accumulated foundation, breaking through the limit and raising his attacks to the god level was not difficult.
But breakthrough the limit meant being struck by lightning punishment. Each breakthrough would be punished. This was also the biggest difference between a true god on the Douluo Continent and a temporary divine level existence. A temporary elevation already had great consumption. And even if one's own foundation could withstand multiple breakthroughs, with the plane's suppression and punishment, one would eventually lose even if one could win.
However, Atlas was ultimately not a true god like the Demon Emperor. His state was equally poor. In a normal fight with Di Tian, it was entirely a matter of who would collapse first.
As for now.
"Before Yun Ming fails, we can witness a true divine battle."
Chen Xinjie said seriously, his eyes showing rare gravity and anticipation.
Not only him, but Dong Zi'an, Bear Lord, and other top Federation experts were all holding their breath, focusing on the two facing off in the sky.
Among them, Divine Brush Douluo sighed regretfully and chose to lead a team of experts toward Shrek Academy.
A once in a lifetime divine battle was right before his eyes, but he had duties to fulfill and could not keep watching.
"I will handle the Shrek Academy side. But if any stubborn elements break out, I leave them to you."
Hearing this, Bear Lord and the others temporarily withdrew their attention and nodded.
Dong Zi'an frowned, thought for a moment, and also followed.
Now, the only publicly known Limit Douluo left in Shrek was Light and Dark Douluo. But she was after all an elder from the era of Heaven Favored and Hanhai Douluo. Her strength among Semi Divines was not weak. He was not reassured with Divine Brush Douluo facing her alone.
...
High above, Yun Ming and Di Tian were hundreds of meters apart. The collision of their auras had already caused that space to take on a strange "stripped" state, as if independent of reality.
This was the application of divine power. Divine power could simulate a small world, a power above. Although Di Tian was still using spirit power, with the current enhancement of his battle armor, it was no less than divine power. He could similarly do similar things.
Clearly, although the two had not yet engaged in fierce battle, their probing had long since begun.
And when it was determined that Di Tian's current strength could truly face him in battle, and that the other party would not be interfered by the plane, Yun Ming could not help laughing heartily.
"Good. I never expected to finally have a peak divine battle with Your Majesty Di Tian."
His gaze burned as it locked onto Di Tian, carrying the excitement of Meeting His Match, as well as a deeper, Without Regret relief.
He had thought it would end with fighting a round of Limit Douluo. He had not expected such a turn of events.
To become a true god and battle another divine level existence. How many soul masters dreamed of this yet found it out of reach? He had never expected to achieve both at the same time.
"Your Majesty Di Tian, thank you for this."
Yun Ming's laughter gradually subsided. His tone was solemn. "So that my borrowed, brief divine radiance will not be a Bright Pearl Cast into Darkness and End in Loneliness. To be able to fight you, the Beast God, on equal terms is truly the Fortune of a Lifetime for Yun."
The aura on his body suddenly became more condensed and pure.
Clearly, after confirming Di Tian's strength, Yun Ming no longer held back. He poured all his mind and power into this upcoming peak duel.
He wanted to use this divine power, bought by burning his divine seat, to collide with the Beast God, who had also briefly reached the divine realm, in a thoroughly enjoyable clash worthy of Going Down in History.
"You flatter me. To fight a true god is also something I have long awaited."
Feeling the pure fighting spirit emanating from Yun Ming, a fire that had never been seen before ignited in Di Tian's dragon eyes.
The atmosphere was both heavy and fiery to the extreme.
Finally, Atlas Douluo moved first. The Sky Piercing Spear was held loosely in his hand.
Yun Ming seemed to have merged with the Sky Piercing Spear. At the spear tip, a strange fluctuation that made the soul throb and condense. It was not just the light of divine power, but the manifestation of Divine Origin realm spiritual power.
He stepped forward. Man and spear merged, turning into a torrent of spirit, instantly crossing hundreds of meters, thrusting straight at Di Tian's brow.
This was the spiritual consciousness spear, created by Yun Ming by perfectly merging his Divine Origin realm spiritual power with his life's understanding of the spearman realm, specializing in attacking the Sea of Spirit.
Yun Ming saw Di Tian's state. But at this moment, Di Tian did not display Divine Origin realm spiritual power.
"The curse that spirit beasts cannot become gods prevents your spiritual power from evolving into divine consciousness, does it? Then let me see how you will respond to this move."
And after sensing the nature of this move, Huo Yuhao smiled and shook his head.
Before Di Tian underwent tribulation in Soul Land IV, he was still spiritual consciousness. This showed that the prohibition on spirit beasts becoming gods was a comprehensive blockade. Even elevating spiritual power to divine consciousness was not allowed. Doing so would cause Di Tian to immediately face the great tribulation. So even Snow Empress had to transform and retrain to reach the Divine Origin realm.
But as the first person to spar with Di Tian using Divine Origin realm spiritual power, Huo Yuhao knew very well that pure Divine Origin realm spiritual power attacks were useless against Di Tian.
When the spiritual consciousness spear was not far from Di Tian, divine light flickered in his eyes. A vast spiritual consciousness surged out, so powerful that even the Limit Douluo's spiritual power could not probe within. Even Yun Ming felt it.
His divine consciousness had been isolated by Di Tian's spiritual consciousness.
Was this truly a level that spiritual consciousness could reach?
"The dragon race itself has resistance to spiritual power. And my accumulation far exceeds your imagination. The peak Spiritual Domain realm of a human Near Divine is worlds apart from my spiritual power. Although my spiritual consciousness lacks the various uses of divine consciousness, it is equally impossible for an ordinary Divine Origin realm to harm me."
Di Tian punched out. A fist shadow like a black hole instantly expanded, swallowing all the divine power and spiritual power on the Sky Piercing Spear, his tone calm.
His spiritual consciousness, in terms of total volume and degree of concentration, had long surpassed the imagination of ordinary Near Divines, or even those just entering the Divine Origin realm.
It was the foundation formed over long years, under the cruel rule that spirit beasts could not become gods, forced to compress, purify, and accumulate inward. Although it could not evolve into divine consciousness with various magical uses, its own "thickness" and "strength" had reached an unimaginable level.
Yun Ming's spiritual consciousness spear was exquisite, but facing such a defense that Overcame Cunning with Strength and Overwhelmed Quality with Quantity, it was also difficult to succeed.
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