Watching Su Ming grow weaker, Electrolux frowned in thought. In the end, he chose to trust Su Ming for the time being.
He tossed the Three-Eyed Golden Lion's embryo to Di Tian, then summoned the Gate of the Dead.
"Spirit Furnaces are creations of heaven and earth. I can't just bred one on command. I can only take the Water of Time back to the Holy Demon Continent and see if a corresponding Spirit Furnace can be bred there."
As he spoke, he had already left Douluo Continent.
Before leaving, his final words echoed in Su Ming's ear.
"I can't transport all this Water of Time back at once. I'll need you to summon me out again."
However, as Electrolux closed the Gate of the Dead and opened it on the Holy Demon Continent, Su Ming's spiritual body could no longer hold on.
He sealed himself, leaving only a single wisp of thought.
Ten years later.
A wave of fluctuation swept across the River of Time. This wisp of thought was finally touched. Su Ming's spiritual body emerged, as if in a final burst of energy – a very full spiritual body.
He revealed a satisfied smile, then dissipated, leaving this node.
At the same time.
[Douluo 2]
Su Ming's eyes suddenly opened.
He entered the River of Time perspective and looked at the surging waves upstream.
The change that had occurred seven thousand five hundred years ago was descending upon the River of Time.
Like back then, when the Douluo 1 Su Ming had performed his first Super Refinement, devouring the Universe's Will while refining the River of Time's water, and relied on the loophole in the false history to avoid the Universe's Will's tribulation while also completing a tampering of history.
At that time, the River of Time had violently surged. The history from the Douluo 1 era to the Douluo 2 era had been affected as a result.
The history that had truly occurred had become blurry.
Fortunately, it was only a change at a single node, and its impact on the structure of Douluo 2 was minimal.
But because of that change, much of Douluo 2's current history was now vague and indeterminate.
Tang San still existed.
But given Tang San's personality and his behavior of monopolizing Douluo Continent, he too could not retain the specific history from ten thousand years ago.
All history from ten thousand years ago had become blurry, even contradictory.
This time, Su Ming had made another change.
Only this time, Su Ming did not refine the River of Time's water. He had given the river water from the node seven thousand five hundred years ago to Electrolux.
Electrolux had digested it.
He must have successfully used the portion of Water of Time he transported back to the Holy Demon Continent to conceive a Time Spirit Furnace.
"I wonder what changes will occur to Douluo Star's history this time. Will the pattern of Douluo Star be affected? And also..."
"Will Elder change?"
These thoughts flashed through Su Ming's mind, but he didn't dwell on them.
"I can look into those later. My task now is to capture fate!"
Su Ming concentrated his mind, discarding all distractions. His eyes blazed as he stared at the upstream of the River of Time.
This time, he was stirring fate again, attempting to capture it.
Last time, he had failed because he didn't know where the power of fate would emerge from.
This time, by stirring fate, he made its power lock onto the upstream.
Su Ming, ten thousand years ago, had made a promise ten thousand years prior, and fulfilled it seven thousand five hundred years ago, nurturing the Auspicious Beast of the Star Dou Great Forest.
Afterwards, that Auspicious Beast returned to the current Su Ming, becoming his Spirit Soul.
This changed the Auspicious Beast's original fate while also completing a docking of fate.
Furthermore, Su Ming had introduced Electrolux, deeply binding his fate of appearing on Douluo Star.
And using Electrolux's hand to nurture the Auspicious Beast embryo further bound the fates of the three together.
Su Ming believed that with this triple binding, both ends of fate were firmly in his grasp.
This time, he would definitely be able to capture the fluctuation of fate!
And as Su Ming focused all his attention on the upstream of the River of Time, a golden thread within the surging waves was caught by his eye.
"Found you!"
Su Ming stared intently at the golden thread hidden beneath the river's raging currents.
He locked onto the target.
Then, he struck!
He directly reached out, sinking his hand into the river, and firmly grasped that wisp of golden power.
Just as he expected some violent backlash or backlash from his act of capturing fate, the River of Time had no reaction whatsoever.
He held that golden thread firmly, pulling it out of the river.
A stream of memories flashed through Su Ming's mind.
He looked down at the golden thread in his hand, as if through it he could see everything he had done.
He saw himself making a promise ten thousand years ago, fulfilling it seven thousand five hundred years ago, changing history, and facing fate.
"This is fate? It's a bit different from what I imagined?"
Su Ming looked around at the River of Time in confusion, feeling neither its backlash nor any resistance from the golden thread in his hand.
He waved the thread of fate in his hand, trying to get it to unleash some power.
Was fate this docile once caught?
Getting no response, Su Ming could only try to exit the River of Time perspective.
Returning to this perspective and seeing the golden thread still in his hand, Su Ming breathed a sigh of relief.
He exited the perspective again.
Su Ming returned to Douluo Star and then began to examine the changes caused by his latest act of tampering with history.
Dragon Valley.
A dragon roar echoed from the core of the Dragon Tomb.
"It's changed again. History has changed again!"
The Dragon God's voice rang out.
His voice betrayed undisguised anger.
Because this time, even before examining the history, he could already feel that this historical fluctuation involved him.
To be precise, it involved the Spirit Beast clan.
"Asura, it really is you. You have some nerve!"
While the Dragon God roared in fury, he also mobilized the power he had left in the world to investigate the specifics of this change.
For him, information was crucial.
He had to find out what history had been tampered with this time.
"The God of Time's divine seat is being watched by that Sea God. I can't use it to view history. I'll have to start from Douluo Star."
"The Spirit Beast clan has been affected. Examining the history of Spirit Beasts will be much more difficult."
The Dragon God knew that compared to the orderly human world, the changes within the Spirit Beast clan were very chaotic.
If something major happened in the history of the Spirit Beast clan, it could be investigated. But if only a Spirit Beast below the Fierce Beast level was affected, even for the Dragon God, it would be very difficult.
The Dragon God first reviewed the current Fierce Beasts on Douluo Star. Sure enough, he found no obvious changes.
"There are many changes among hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beasts, but they're useless."
The Dragon God's irritated voice echoed from deep within the Dragon Tomb.
What use were hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beasts?
In this conflict involving transcendence and tampering with history, hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beasts explained nothing.
The only possible benchmarks were the Fierce Beasts.
They had all experienced the heavenly tribulation!
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