Spirit Beasts cursing one another was an extremely rare sight. Even rarer was the scene of a hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beast using human language to curse out another Spirit Beast no less formidable than itself.
he Dragon Turtle poszsessed a relatively mild temperament and had many options available to it, so it remained composed.
But the Sacred Magical Devil Ape did not have much time left, so it had no choice but to push the Dragon Turtle. In the end, he pushed the Dragon Turtle so hard that it wanted to tear everything apart with him.
In the end, as the Forest Sage, the Sacred Magical Devil Ape could not convince the Dragon Turtle, who had already become a hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beast.
And the Dragon Turtle, as a hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beast, could not fully suppress the Sacred Magical Devil Ape either. Nor could it completely abandon the place where it had grown up, along with the feelings in its heart.
It could not just ignore all the Spirit Beasts it knew, then hide away in some corner and wait to transform.
When the Dragon Turtle exposed the Holy Sacred Magical Dev Ape's secrets, the old monkey was not angry.
But when it started talking about the old monkey's eldest son and his bloodline, the Sacred Magical Devil Ape was genuinely baring its teeth in anger.
If not for the human experts standing nearby, these two powerful Spirit Beasts might have started fighting each other right away.
"Dark Titan bloodline, Sacred Magical Devil Ape, Dragon Turtle…"
Chen Ming looked over the three Spirit Beasts and clicked his tongue in wonder.
These three Spirit Beasts either had the talent to reach one hundred thousand years, the battle strength of a hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beast, or were simply a real hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beast.
If they were in the Star Dou Great Forest, all three of them would have a very high chance of becoming true hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beasts.
But in this poor and remote place, not only was the natural energy not rich enough and the resources not plentiful enough, more importantly, they could not enjoy the blessing brought by the Auspicious Beast.
As a result, these powerful Spirit Beasts were scheming against each other for their own interests and even wanted to fight one another.
The human Spirit Masters looked at these three powerful Spirit Beasts with greedy eyes, wanting to turn them into Spirit Rings and Spirit Bones.
But because of their strength, and because of the Heavenly Tribulation, the human side really did not dare to make a move.
If they attacked the old Sacred Magical Devil Ape, they might not be able to kill him.
If they attacked the Dragon Turtle, the gain would not be worth much, and even if they won, it could bring down the Heavenly Tribulation and take everyone with it.
Then the most absurd situation appeared.
After carefully calculating everything, the humans realized that the best strategy was actually...
To leave.
Then wait several hundred years.
Wait until the two Spirit Beasts either became too weak to fight because of their own problems or simply died.
Only then would humans return and reclaim the area.
It was almost ridiculous.
Humans, with their short lives, had actually found an advantage in lifespan when facing long-lived Spirit Beasts.
Even if they waited a few hundred years, the Dragon Turtle would eventually disappear because of its own problems, while the Sacred Magical Devil Ape's strength would greatly decline.
For humans, waiting several hundred years might actually be the most worthwhile option.
Of course, that did not mean they were willing to give up so easily.
After all, each of those three Spirit Beasts could provide an extremely valuable Spirit Ring and Spirit Bone — treasures that many Spirit Masters would never even dare dream of obtaining in their entire lives.
If not for the Dragon Turtle carrying its hundred-thousand-year Heavenly Tribulation and being capable of dragging everyone down with it at any moment, Dugu Bo would have already wanted to call out the hidden experts and keep all three Spirit Beasts here.
But in the end, the human side still did not dare continue fighting.
As the sky slowly brightened, the Sacred Magical Devil Ape also became restless.
It patted the son beneath it as dark power began surging through the black giant ape's body. Its entire figure seemed ready to transform into a streak of black light and flee.
Dugu Bo moved to stop them, only to discover that he could not hold back the Sacred Magical Devil Ape and its son in such a short time.
As for the Dragon Turtle that remained behind, it merely glanced at the human Spirit Masters before slowly flying away at an unhurried pace.
The Sacred Magical Devil Ape escaped.
No one dared stop the Dragon Turtle.
In this battle, aside from the human side losing some low-level Spirit Masters and the Spirit Beast side leaving behind many corpses of thousand-year and ten-thousand-year Spirit Beasts, the top-tier fighters on both sides were actually left completely unharmed.
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After returning to camp, Qian Renxue, disguised as Crown Prince Xue Qinghe of the Heaven Dou Empire, gathered everyone for a meeting.
"Right now, both Beast Kings have their own plans. The Sacred Magical Devil Ape does not have much time left. The Dragon Turtle wants to avoid the tribulation by transforming into a human. Our current strategy should be more conservative. We should use time to wear these two Spirit Beasts down. Once only that black ape with Titan bloodline is left, humans can develop this place again."
"That's right. Compared to this land, that hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beast is the more valuable treasure." Shui Longjing agreed.
"We can send people to follow that Dragon Turtle. If it tries to undergo the Heavenly Tribulation, we can watch it die. If it wants to transform into a human, we can send people to kill it directly and obtain a precious hundred-thousand-year Spirit Bone."
"Such a treasure can make sure every generation of the Heaven Dou Empire has a Titled Douluo loyal to the imperial family. That is far better than a mere piece of land."
"Yes, yes. A hundred-thousand-year Spirit Bone is worth far more than a piece of land."
"Elder Shui is right. The hundred-thousand-year Spirit Bone is the real treasure. Also, once the Sacred Magical Devil Ape dies, that black monkey with Titan bloodline can also become a Spirit Ring for a powerful Spirit Master."
"That Dragon Turtle said it earlier. The black monkey has Titan bloodline and even devoured a legendary Titan Giant Ape. I can't even imagine how valuable that bloodline is, or how good its Spirit Ring would be."
The people around them all strongly agreed with Xue Qinghe, or rather Qian Renxue, and Shui Longjing's ideas.
But Chen Ming and Dugu Bo said nothing.
"Brother Chen, what do you think?"
"Spirit Beasts can't be trusted. The Dragon Turtle can live both on land and in water. We can block the land, but can we block the sea?"
"If it escapes through underground water channels to another place, can we still find it? And even if you can find it, who would dare fight a powerful hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beast in the water, or even in the sea? Who has the courage and the ability?"
"Also, it only has a high chance of transforming into a human, and a high chance of failing the tribulation. That doesn't mean it has absolutely no chance of surviving the tribulation."
"Wait, Lord Chen. Isn't a hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beast already the highest existence among Spirit Beasts? In the legends, aren't hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beasts all killed by heavenly lightning? How could there be a hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beast that doesn't get struck to death?" A Spirit Saint asked in confusion. His question was also what everyone else wanted to ask.
In this era, knowledge was heavily sealed away, and high-age Spirit Beasts mostly hid themselves and never appeared.
Hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beasts were already legends.
As for beings above hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beasts, even if such legends existed, no one would believe them.
Even if fierce beasts existed, humans would only count them as hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beasts.
As for their exact cultivation…
Who could possibly know?
If the person saying this had not been Chen Ming, the number one theorist everyone knew, and the man who had pushed forward cultivation across the whole world, someone would have already questioned him.
Why did he dare say a hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beast might survive the lightning tribulation?
Had he never gone to school or read a book?
"It is said that out of every ten hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beasts, one lucky one can survive the tribulation and continue growing into an even stronger Spirit Beast."
"If it can grow to two hundred thousand years and survive the second lightning tribulation, that kind of Spirit Beast is called a fierce beast."
"But that is a legend among legends. Almost no one alive has ever seen such a being. Facing a creature of that power, even a Titled Douluo would, in most cases, have no choice but to flee for their life."
As the surrounding Spirit Masters listened to Chen Ming's explanation, their heads kept nodding. The whole group was a little excited.
Clearly, this was the first time in their lives they had heard about fierce beasts. To them, this was a great secret that could be written in their notes and passed down for generations.
Of course, no one present dared say they could ever see a terrifying existence like a fierce beast.
They dared even less to say they could see one and come back alive.
But Spirit Masters liked writing down all kinds of things.
Who knew? Maybe their descendants, or someone else in the future, might run into a similar situation.
Chen Ming had already said it. Even powerful beings like Titled Douluo would most likely be in great danger before a fierce beast.
And they had now learned information about fierce beasts.
Rounding it up, didn't that mean they were almost on the same level as Titled Douluo?
Maybe even stronger?
"And that Sacred Magical Devil Ape is also a problem. It has ninety-five-thousand-year cultivation. It's only damaged at its origin. What happens if its origin recovers?"
"Also, the Sacred Magical Devil Ape itself is very powerful. If it dies, that black monkey, its child, will also grow stronger."
"That black monkey has Titan bloodline, and it ate a Titan Giant Ape. Its talent is not weak. With cultivation of a little over fifty thousand years, not even sixty thousand, it can already show strength equal to an eighty-thousand-year Spirit Beast, or even stronger."
"It is already a mixed-blood child of the Sacred Magical Devil Ape and another ape-type Spirit Beast. If it eats its father's corpse too, reaching eighty thousand years, or even the higher level of ninety thousand years, is not impossible."
"At that time, there will be another Spirit Beast with hundred-thousand-year battle strength."
"Th-this… is that possible? Don't ten-thousand-year Spirit Beasts all possess intelligence comparable to humans? This kind of behavior—devouring one's father's corpse…" One Spirit Master spoke hesitantly.
"First of all, human thinking and Spirit Beast thinking are not the same. Their view of the world is different from ours."
"What we see as against common sense, or against morals, may be very normal to Spirit Beasts."
"And let me give you an example. Suppose you had a ten-thousand-year or even hundred-thousand-year Spirit Bone in your body. Would you stop your descendants from opening your corpse and taking the Spirit Bone, just because you were worried your body would be damaged after death?"
"Impossible, absolutely impossible."
The Spirit Master who had hesitated before shook his head like a rattle-drum and spoke with certainty.
"Forget the fact that I'll never get such a powerful Spirit Bone in my whole life. Even if I really had one, and before I died I repeatedly told my descendants not to touch my corpse, my sons and grandsons would still open my coffin, dig up my body, and take out the Spirit Bone."
"There's no way they wouldn't do it. After all, if my own father had a Spirit Bone and said that to me, I wouldn't agree either."
"Exactly. If even a Spirit Bone can make people act like this, then what about directly raising one's cultivation? More importantly, for any living being, survival is the most important thing. Can you really guarantee that a Spirit Beast would not increase its own strength when it needs that strength to survive?"