Douluo: Emerald Poison Emperor

If it weren't for the fact that the Douluo Plane remained intact and showed no signs of divine power, after hearing the name "The Sword of Judgment Across the Three Realms," Di Tian would have wanted to immediately rush back and fight to the death alongside the Silver Dragon King.

As soon as he tore through space and arrived, he saw the High Priest of the Angel God, wielding a divine weapon, charging toward him in a fury. Before Di Tian could even figure out what was going on, the Angelic Holy Sword had already left several wounds on him.

If it weren't for the fact that Di Tian's parents were the Dark Dragon King and the Light Dragon King, and his attribute—despite being ultimate darkness—was never suppressed by light, the holy aura of just those two strikes would have left him suffering in agony for hundreds of years.

Di Tian possessed a host of self-created skills, such as Ten Thousand Dragon Flame and Black Dragon's Apocalypse, all immensely powerful. But against the enraged High Priest of the Angel God, especially the Angelic Holy Sword, Di Tian had no choice but to grit his teeth and respond with his signature Dragon God's Claw. His other self-created soul skills were of no use at all.

As the fight went on, Di Tian finally learned that the damned Myriad King, driven by who-knows-what motives, had tricked that fool Bear Lord into ambushing a group of soul masters.

Ambushes were one thing—after all, Di Tian had always looked down on the soul masters who entered the Star Dou Forest to hunt for soul rings. But it turned out that Myriad King and Bear Lord had pursued and attacked soul masters from the Spirit Hall. Not just any Spirit Hall soul masters, but high-ranking individuals from the Worship Hall itself! And there was even a peculiar soul master accompanying them.

The Sword of Judgment Across the Three Realms was unleashed by that young human soul master, destroying Myriad King completely—body and soul—with a single strike.

Who on earth was that person? Was he the current inheritor of the Angel God, or perhaps some other semi-divine being disguised in human skin? Regardless, Di Tian himself couldn't guarantee that he could kill the notoriously resilient Myriad King in just one blow.

Before Di Tian could even prepare, the furious Qian Daoliu launched a frontal assault, and the Spirit Hall's worshippers led their soul masters in a direct invasion of the Star Dou Forest. Along the way, they slaughtered countless soul beast tribes, leaving a trail of blood behind.

If Di Tian had truly been planning a beast tide, the Star Dou Forest wouldn't have suffered as much damage. But the problem was, Di Tian had no idea what was going on, let alone any plans for a beast tide. He was on a date with Bi Ji when the furious Spirit Hall stormed in because of the damned Myriad King.

From the birth of the new auspicious beast to now, five thousand years of accumulation in the Star Dou Forest were destroyed in less than a day by Spirit Hall.

Even though Bi Ji immediately brought her Emerald Swan clan to stabilize the battlefield with their healing abilities, a large number of top-tier ten-thousand-year soul beasts were still killed by Titled Douluos and Soul Douluos. Even hundred-thousand-year soul beasts suffered casualties. If the battle escalated further, even fierce beasts would be in danger.

Di Tian understood that Spirit Hall was the strongest human faction, but not the only one.

After the Angel God ascended to godhood, two other first-tier gods—the Rakshasa God and the Sea God—also appeared among humans.

And Di Tian had sharp eyes. He could see that the inheritor of the Rakshasa God was among the Spirit Hall soul masters. Judging by the divine aura emanating from her, she had likely reached the level of the seventh trial and was preparing for the eighth. She might even be able to wield a divine weapon or directly summon the Rakshasa God to act through her on the Douluo Continent.

If the inheritors of the three gods joined forces, the Star Dou Forest would be wiped out.

Even if the Sea God's inheritor didn't intervene, just the Rakshasa God's inheritor wielding the Rakshasa Scythe alongside the Angel God's High Priest would spell disaster for Di Tian.

Although his heart bled as he watched the soul beasts he had nurtured die one by one on the battlefield, Di Tian still tried to explain to Qian Daoliu, hoping to make the Spirit Hall soul masters leave.

If the fighting continued and escalated, it would require his Lord to intervene. But if his Lord revealed her power in front of the inheritors of the gods, the Divine Realm would undoubtedly become aware of it—unless the gods above were dead.

Di Tian wanted to fight Qian Daoliu to the death, but for the sake of the soul beast race and his Lord's millennial plan, he chose to endure the humiliation.

Meanwhile, on another part of the battlefield, Chen Ming unleashed his domain, slaughtering ten thousand-year soul beasts and healing the Angel Legion. The Angel Legion, having activated their martial soul avatars, quickly gained total control of the battlefield, slaughtering ten thousand-year soul beasts as if they were chopping vegetables.

Ten-thousand-year soul beasts were intelligent. While Di Tian, as the Beast God, could command them to fight for the Star Dou Forest, they weren't willing to stay and die when the battle became a one-sided massacre. Without leaders or even a clear understanding of why the battle had erupted, many ten-thousand-year soul beasts began to flee. Those capable of burrowing underground didn't hesitate to dig their way out, and their retreat caused a chain reaction. Even soul beasts who didn't want to run were trampled to death by the stampede, and those hesitating were dragged along by the fleeing masses, causing the mid-tier battlefield to collapse instantly.

The Angel Legion's commander and deputy commander exchanged a brief look. The deputy commander led the weaker and injured soul masters to assist the lower-tier fighters, while the commander rallied the main combat force to advance alongside Chen Ming.

The Angel Legion wasn't entirely composed of angel martial souls but rather of flying-type soul masters. However, about 20% of them did possess angel martial souls, such as Light Angels, Fire Angels, and Wind Angels—two-winged angels possessing some characteristics of six-winged angels. There were also rare four-winged angels like Healing Angels and Holy Angels, who, while not inheritors of the full power of six-winged angels, had unique abilities.

These angel martial soul users were now following Chen Ming, advancing deeper into the battlefield.

The top-tier martial soul soul sages of the Angel Legion, who had activated their martial soul avatars, weren't mere cannon fodder. Even a single one of them could last three to five moves against an ordinary Titled Douluo. When grouped, their power was amplified by their shared martial soul traits, making them formidable as long as they didn't face a Titled Douluo above level 95.

With the Angel Legion's intervention, mid-tier Titled Douluos who were around level 91 or 92, were quickly freed from other battles, allowing them to join the slaughter of high-level soul beasts. Countless high-quality soul beasts fell, and dark black or black-with-red soul rings rose into the air.

If it weren't for the Emerald Swans gritting their teeth and focusing all their healing efforts on saving the hundred-thousand-year soul beasts, not even one of those creatures would have survived this wave of attacks.

Even the Titled Douluos, hardened as they were, couldn't hide the bloodlust in their eyes. Chen Ming even saw one newly advanced Titled Douluo pounding the ground in frustration in front of a hundred-thousand-year soul ring perfectly suited to his martial soul, his eyes red as if he'd unlocked the Sharingan.

If the situation weren't so chaotic and there weren't so many eyes watching, even the staunchest supporters of Spirit Hall among the Titled Douluos might have been tempted to snatch a hundred-thousand-year soul bone and flee.

The sight of so many hundred-thousand-year soul beasts drove even the high-ranking Titled Douluos, led by Third Worshiper Azure Luan Douluo, into a frenzy. These were people who had never obtained a hundred-thousand-year soul ring. Now, the sight of so many of these beasts stirred their desire to kill.

"When I broke through to Titled Douluo, all these beasts played dead. I scoured the Star Dou Forest inside and out and couldn't find a single hundred-thousand-year soul beast. Now, decades later, when I've given up on ever obtaining a hundred-thousand-year soul ring or bone, you all suddenly appear in droves in front of me?"

Even if they couldn't absorb the soul rings, they were determined to turn these beasts into soul bones to take back with them!

As the chaos spread to the top-tier battlefield, Di Tian and Qian Daoliu finally stopped their stalemate. Seeing that Qian Daoliu had no intention of negotiating, Di Tian prepared to reveal his trump card.

The black-robed figure transformed into a massive black dragon. Two powerful bloodlines within Di Tian's body were forcibly yet meticulously activated, unleashing the dormant power within him. His enormous dragon form expanded several times over in an instant, and his aura now faintly surpassed that of Qian Daoliu, who wielded a semi-divine weapon. The massive dragon's eyes burned with killing intent and resolve.

Whether it was the Angel Legion outside, the Titled Douluos battling the hundred-thousand-year soul beasts, or even Bibi Dong—who had been relentlessly pursuing Bear Lord to turn the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear into her second martial soul ring—everyone felt a looming threat of death emanating from Di Tian in this state.

Even Bibi Dong stopped her frenzied attacks and prepared to summon the broken Rakshasa Scythe from within her spiritual sea.