"What the hell? Why do I feel like my head is itchy?"
Within the Star Dou Great Forest, the Silver Dragon King, lying prone in the deepest part of the Lake of Life, raised her head. She only felt as though something was constantly rubbing against her head, yet no matter what, she could not explain exactly what was going on.
If it were her neck that felt itchy, perhaps she would suspect that she had encountered some life-threatening danger. But what was the meaning of her head feeling itchy?
Could she be the kind of dragon who wore hats? Or was someone trying to steal her position?
The Silver Dragon King fell silent, unable to understand where this feeling of hers had come from. But out of caution, the Silver Dragon King still called Di Tian over, asking whether anything major had happened recently in the Star Dou Great Forest.
"My Lord, the only thing that could be considered a major event in the Star Dou Great Forest recently is that a transformed hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beast was hunted and killed."
The Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King Di Tian transformed into human form and half-knelt on the ground, telling the Silver Dragon King what he believed to be the biggest recent matter.
"A transformed Spirit Beast? Hmph. Di Tian, how could you allow such a thing to happen?"
After hearing this, the Silver Dragon King was somewhat angry. "How could you allow a hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beast to transform, and after transforming, even let it remain in the Star Dou Great Forest?"
"Spirit Beasts unwilling to attempt to challenge the heavenly tribulation are all traitors to the Spirit Beast race. As long as a Spirit Beast transforms, it will eventually stand on humanity's side and become our enemy."
"Their bloodline, and even their Spirit Rings and Spirit Bones, will become resources for humans. In the end, after hundreds or even thousands of years, they will in turn stand against us and kill even more Spirit Beasts."
"All hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beasts unwilling to stand on our side and prepare for the future counterattack against the Divine Realm have no need to remain alive. All hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beasts willing to transform into humans are traitors on our side."
"If you see a hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beast dare to transform, kill it directly. Do you understand, Di Tian?"
The Silver Dragon King wore an expression of hating iron for not becoming steel as she reprimanded Di Tian.
"Yes…" Di Tian lowered his head. On the surface, he obeyed, but in his heart, he sighed again and again.
For those hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beasts that did not have the ability to break through the heavenly tribulation, something like counterattacking the Divine Realm was simply an empty dream.
If Spirit Beasts above a hundred thousand years could only walk one path to the end because they had already lost the chance to transform into humans,
then these Spirit Beasts that had just reached a hundred thousand years but lacked the ability to overcome the hundred-thousand-year heavenly tribulation were the group of Spirit Beasts whose wills were the least firm.
Because for them, they truly could not see any road ahead.
Not only could they not break through the lightning tribulation, even if they did break through it, their condition was not guaranteed. Furthermore, they still could not become gods, and could only drag out an ignoble existence while continuing to wait for the next lightning tribulation. Everything looked hopeless.
Ferocious beasts had no other way. If they did not transform at a hundred thousand years, then they would never again have the chance to transform, and could only turn around and endure it head-on. But for those Spirit Beasts that had a choice, since retreating was death and advancing was also death, they might as well transform and gamble.
After all, for hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beasts, humanity had already produced several gods "not long ago." Compared to passively waiting for a lightning tribulation, wasn't this a far better opportunity?
In fact, it was only because the Auspicious Beast had reappeared five thousand years ago that the probability of hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beasts successfully breaking through their lightning tribulations had doubled. Otherwise, in reality, far more Spirit Beasts would have attempted transformation than just one or two.
In truth, if ferocious beasts also had the chance to transform into humans before undergoing lightning tribulation, live a second life, and avoid the lightning tribulation, then Di Tian estimated that almost half of the ferocious beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest would immediately start thinking about how they should extricate themselves and flee.
Di Tian had great faith in his Lord. He felt that as long as his Lord recovered, everything would become better. But Di Tian also admitted that because the Silver Dragon King had slept for far too long, she had indeed become somewhat disconnected from the Spirit Beasts of the Star Dou Great Forest.
For the sake of secrecy, most Spirit Beasts actually did not know of Di Tian's existence. Only Spirit Beasts at the hundred-thousand-year level or close to it knew that Di Tian existed, and only ferocious beasts or those approaching that level were qualified to know of the Silver Dragon King.
And for the sake of concealment, even Di Tian rarely acted. As for the Silver Dragon King, she almost never interfered in the affairs of the Spirit Beast race.
Other than once bestowing a small amount of power as a blessing to a Dragon Clan genius tens of thousands of years ago, the Silver Dragon King had never helped any Spirit Beast attempt to overcome its current heavenly tribulation.
With layer after layer of this stacked together, in truth, the Spirit Beast race had long since stopped being a so-called race. Instead, it had become a loose, makeshift troupe.
Under such circumstances, toward hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beasts that transformed into humans, Di Tian also turned a blind eye. As long as the other party did not endanger the foundation of the Spirit Beast race, Di Tian would simply treat them as having been struck dead by lightning tribulation ahead of time.
"Forget it, Di Tian. I will spare you this once. Has there been any major change on the human side recently? Has some new human appeared who is attempting to gather faith and become a god again?"
"My Lord… for the time being, I have not heard of any powerful human capable of attempting to become a god appearing among humanity. It is only that humanity's cultivation methods seem to have made some breakthrough, and recently, the number of humans coming to our Star Dou Great Forest to hunt Spirit Beasts has gradually increased."
Information about humans within the Star Dou Great Forest was extremely blocked off to begin with. In this era, Di Tian and the Silver Dragon King still looked down on humans, and they did not have the habit of actively collecting information about humanity.
As a result, after thinking for a long time, Di Tian could only speak of one uncertain piece of news.
"Star Dou Great Forest, huh? How humiliating. The final dwelling place of my race was actually forcefully given a name by humans."
The Silver Dragon King's gaze flickered. Her instincts were telling her that perhaps what she was feeling was related to this change.
Perhaps, among humans, there had appeared either a threat to the dragon clan's continued existence, or an opportunity for the dragon clan to become great again.
"Perhaps… I need to extend my eyes into the human world."
After pondering for a long time, the Silver Dragon King nodded. Her dragon claw reached into the void and pulled out a small piece of Life Gold.
The Silver Dragon King fused her own scales with the Life Gold, then separated out a trace of energy and soul. It was only because her injuries were still too severe, and many techniques could not be used, that the Life Gold ultimately only condensed into something similar to a human shape.
At this moment, the Silver Dragon King blinked, as though thinking of something. Then she grabbed half of something resembling a human severed limb from between the gaps of her own scales.
That was not a human body, but a section of ginseng.
This ginseng was a Ten-thousand-year Ninth-grade Ginseng King. Moreover, it was not a simple Ten-thousand-year Ninth-grade Ginseng King, but a Ginseng King of ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine years, infinitely close to a hundred thousand years.
A Ten-thousand-year Ninth-grade Ginseng King was no ordinary thing. Once this thing, as a Spirit Beast, grew to a hundred thousand years, there were only two outcomes. Either it transformed into a human, or it was kicked out of the plane by the plane consciousness of the Douluo world and entered the endless void. It did not have the normal Spirit Beast path of undergoing lightning tribulation.
In the eyes of many uninformed existences, this was ascending through shattering the void.
In the recent tens of thousands of years, this was the only Ten-thousand-year Ninth-grade Ginseng King in the Star Dou Great Forest. Di Tian had spent tremendous effort to suppress this thing when it was infinitely close to a hundred thousand years. The Silver Dragon King had only eaten half of it, while carefully preserving the vitality of the remaining half with her power.
After integrating this half stalk of a Ginseng King as a material into the human-shaped embryo, the originally blurred embryo already possessed a shape close to a human, merely still lacking a strand of essential spirituality.
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