"Everyone, come with me!"
"I know who took that million-year Iceworm!"
Di Tian's expression was grim as he spoke coldly. Without hesitation, he tore open space with his Dragon God Claw and stepped through.
Hearing his words, Bear Lord, Scarlet King, Myriad Demon King, and the other fierce beasts, along with a number of hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beasts, roared in fury and charged into the spatial rift after him.
At the same time, in the core region of the Star Dou Great Forest, above ground by the Lake of Life...
Ye Yu had summoned his Blue Silver Spirit Jade Tree Martial Soul, unleashing his Seventh Spirit Ability: Blue Silver Spirit Jade Tree True Form, causing the tree to grow over a kilometer tall — a sky-piercing giant.
This colossal commotion naturally alarmed the Titan Giant Ape and the Sky Azure Bull Python.
The two hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beasts immediately rushed in Ye Yu's direction.
But before they could arrive, Di Tian tore open space with his Dragon God Claw and emerged directly into the air above — appearing just a few kilometers from Ye Yu.
Hovering mid-air with a pair of black dragon wings, Di Tian fixed his gaze on Ye Yu.
In the depths of his cold, stern face, his dark-golden vertical pupils ignited with fury.
"Human, you're courting death!"
"Last time, I spared your life — and you dare return?"
"You even had the audacity to steal my million-year old Iceworm? You're dead!"
With a thunderous roar that shook the heavens, a surge of black light erupted from Di Tian's body, rapidly expanding until he transformed into his true form — a massive Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King stretching over a kilometer long.
At that moment, Bi Ji, Bear Lord, Scarlet King, and the other fierce beasts, along with many Spirit Beasts who had been in the underground cavern absorbing the Spirit Power released by the Skydream Iceworm, also emerged from the spatial rift.
"A human?! It's you!"
When they spotted Ye Yu and the Blue Silver Spirit Jade Tree True Form, the truth was clear to all.
It had been Ye Yu who snatched the Skydream Iceworm.
With enraged howls, the fierce beasts surged forward to attack.
"You dare!"
"Dark Golden Terror Claws!"
"Infernal Flame!"
"Ten Thousand Thorned Vines!"
In an instant, a barrage of powerful Spirit Abilities was unleashed.
Razor-sharp golden claw slashes that could rip through anything, towering crimson infernal flames erupting from the ground, and swarms of dark green vines bristling with eyes swept toward Ye Yu from all directions.
Even from above, Di Tian — in his Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King form — opened his massive jaws and spat a wave of purple-black dragonfire, blanketing the sky as it surged toward Ye Yu.
Yet Ye Yu remained calm.
He merely moved with a thought.
True Dragon Nine Crowns, Spirit Bone Ability — activate!
A crown adorned with dragon horns, bearing visible cracks, emerged atop Ye Yu's head, radiating dazzling multicolored light.
In the next moment, the Eighth Spirit Ring around Ye Yu lit up.
Its deep crimson color intensified to the extreme before suddenly flaring to life, golden lines appearing across its surface.
Though it didn't fully turn golden or break through to the million-year threshold...
Just as Ye Yu had expected — because the True Dragon Nine Crowns wasn't fully repaired, its Spirit Bone Ability still couldn't push a Spirit Ring past the ten-thousand-year bottleneck.
But even 999,999 years was enough!
With his Seventh Spirit Ability: Blue Silver Spirit Jade Tree True Form still active, Ye Yu simultaneously unleashed the two core abilities of his Eighth Spirit Ring:
First — Advent of a World of Flowering Trees
Then — True Thousand Hands.
It had to be said: abilities close to the million-year level consumed an outrageous amount of Spirit Power.
These two nearly-million-year Spirit Abilities nearly drained Ye Yu dry, including the compressed Mysterious Heaven Skill power circulating through the second meridian network formed by the Demon Willow Fluff.
Fortunately, Ye Yu had already planted the sub-bodies of the Blue Silver Spirit Jade Tree across the continent.
And with the Blue Silver Domain, distance was meaningless — the sub-bodies could feed back Spirit Power regardless of location.
As soon as Ye Yu's energy was depleted...
The Spirit Power stored within the countless sub-bodies surged into him all at once.
In the blink of an eye, his Spirit Power was restored to full.
As Advent of a World of Flowering Trees and True Thousand Hands activated, a blinding blue-silver radiance erupted from the ground.
In the next instant, countless massive Blue Silver Spirit Jade Trees, each over three hundred meters in diameter, burst forth in a frenzy.
In the blink of an eye, an entire forest of enormous trees sprang up, their limbs dancing wildly in the air — a wall between Ye Yu and the charging beasts.
The onslaught of Soul Skills was completely intercepted by the trees.
Simultaneously, the massive, vine-like Blue Silver Spirit Jade Trees whipped out wildly, entangling Bear Lord, Scarlet King, Myriad Demon King, and numerous other hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beasts.
Faced with these trees, not even Bear Lord, Scarlet King, or the others could defend themselves.
Bear Lord's Dark Golden Terror Claws, sharp as swords, couldn't even cut through the trees.
After all, Ye Yu's Ninth Spirit Ring had come from a hundred-thousand-year Golden Tree.
Though the Golden Tree didn't possess the extreme "Metal" attribute, its metal properties were by no means weak.
Furthermore, under the Blue Silver Spirit Jade Tree True Form, the Advent of a World of Flowering Trees summoned gigantic trees, each over three hundred meters thick — absurdly massive.
That diameter was on par with the outer walls of a royal capital!
Who could possibly endure that?
And with so many trees — dense and endless, sweeping through the sky — there was simply no way to respond.
One after another, Bear Lord, Scarlet King, Myriad Demon King, even Bi Ji, who could fly, along with other hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beasts, were all ensnared by the Blue Silver Spirit Jade Trees summoned by Advent of a World of Flowering Trees.
At the same time, in front of Ye Yu, a blinding blue-silver glow erupted, lighting up half the sky.
From within it emerged a towering figure, over three thousand meters tall, its body shimmering like crystal-blue jade, with a face resembling Ye Yu's — serene and sorrowful.
Seated in a lotus position with hands clasped in a meditative flower-holding mudra, it was the Blue Silver Thousand-Hand Buddha.
Behind it, ring after ring of arms extended outward endlessly like sunflower petals — densely packed, numbering in the thousands.
Summoned forth, the massive Buddha sat silently before Ye Yu, its vast body shielding him completely from Di Tian's tidal wave of dragonfire.
"What the hell is that?!"
Di Tian's voice cracked in fury and disbelief.
When the Blue Silver Thousand-Hand Buddha appeared — a towering, mountain-sized figure radiating calm sorrow — it shook even him.
The immense pressure it exuded was crushing.
Was this a joke?
This human — just a few years ago — was only a Spirit Sage.
And now, he had somehow reached Spirit Douluo, and even had an Eighth Ring nearing a million years in age?
He had to be some kind of divine inheritance bearer!
"Trying to run?!"
As Di Tian flared his wings and tried to retreat from the summoned Buddha, Ye Yu's eyes gleamed.
He grinned, raised his hand, and made a grasping motion toward the air.
In that instant, many of the massive Blue Silver Spirit Jade Trees — even larger than the true body summoned by his Seventh Ring — surged upward and howled toward Di Tian, rapidly entangling him.
Because Di Tian had transformed into his dragon form and descended into low-altitude flight to attack Ye Yu, he was now within range.
With the Advent of a World of Flowering Trees in full effect, dozens of massive trees whipped upward in a storm, wrapping tightly around him.
Di Tian couldn't escape — he could only roar in fury and slash at the trees with his Dragon God Claw.
Back when Ye Yu was just a Spirit Sage, Di Tian could use Dragon God Claw to easily rip apart the Blue Silver Wood Dragons created by Ye Yu's fused tree branches and roots.
But those Wood Dragons were only a hundred meters thick.
Now, Ye Yu was a Title Douluo, and the trees summoned by his Eighth Spirit Ring — nearing million-year age — were each over three hundred meters in diameter.
Even Di Tian's Dragon God Claw couldn't rip through them in a single strike.
This — this was the strength of overwhelming raw numbers and stats!
While Di Tian was caught in the vines of Advent of a World of Flowering Trees, the Blue Silver Thousand-Hand Buddha, seated before Ye Yu, began to move.
From its back, the thousand arms, arranged in concentric rings like flower petals, began to stir.