The existence of Fierce Beasts was the Dragon God's tool for positioning time.
The Dragon God did not have Su Ming's Trinity method, nor did he even know of the River of Time's existence. He only had a vague comprehension of time and a relatively clear concept of the past and future.
He knew that tampering with history was feasible.
Even peeking into the future was not impossible.
And in this situation where both the past and future could be changed by powerhouses at the God King level or above, factors that did not change with history were of utmost importance.
Through the Dragon God's research, the heavenly tribulation was a power that could span time.
Not that the tribulation itself crossed the past and future, but that the tribulation inherently possessed this ability.
A tribulation from the past wouldn't strike the future for no reason.
A tribulation from the future wouldn't strike the present.
The so-called time-crossing property of the heavenly tribulation meant that as the universe developed, the tribulations that should have occurred would not disappear without a trace.
"The tribulations that Fierce Beasts should have experienced are already established history. If history is tampered with and affects a Fierce Beast crossing its tribulation, that tribulation will not simply vanish from history."
This was the Law of Heavenly Tribulation Conservation.
A tribulation from the past would not be transferred elsewhere in history but would be transferred to the present.
For example, if a Fierce Beast had crossed a tribulation a thousand years ago, and tampered history caused that Fierce Beast to die early, the history of it crossing the tribulation would disappear along with it. The entire world would correct itself according to the tampered history.
During this correction process, the tribulation would not be visited upon someone else within that thousand-year history.
It would not affect others in history because one Fierce Beast failed to cross its tribulation.
However, that tribulation still had to descend.
The world would evolve again, beginning to repay it from the present moment onward.
That is to say, someone's or some Fierce Beast's past would change, triggering the tribulation at this present moment to make up for the past tribulation, or else an unnatural act would occur in the future, drawing down the tribulation.
The Dragon God carefully sensed, confirming that the Fierce Beasts had not changed and their age had not fluctuated. He tentatively confirmed that this tampering of history had not involved an increase or decrease in tribulations.
"No!"
The Dragon God quickly negated his own judgment just made.
His voice contained not so much anger as surprise.
"The tribulations just haven't decreased."
The tribulations had increased.
Having been awakened this time and checking his own situation, the Dragon God suddenly realized that the sense of crisis in his heart had lessened somewhat.
This meant that in the past history, an additional Fierce Beast tribulation had occurred.
First, this was a good thing – it lightened his load. The tribulation debt he had deferred to some unknown point in the future was now smaller.
Second, this was also a bad thing – because he hadn't noticed any change among the Fierce Beasts. There was an additional Fierce Beast that had crossed a tribulation, yet the specific number and cultivation of the Fierce Beasts remained unchanged.
"Is it Asura? His targeting of the Spirit Beast clan has resulted in such meticulous tampering."
He had nurtured a Fierce Beast and then killed it within history.
For what purpose?
The Dragon God fell into deep contemplation.
However, while he contemplated, fluctuations from the outside world also demanded his attention.
"Someone... has transcended?"
After murmuring this, the Dragon God suddenly snapped to attention.
"Someone has transcended!"
He abruptly looked towards Douluo Star, his perception was crazy spreading.
Where Su Ming was located, there were many Spirit Beasts, and Di Tian was also there. The Dragon God quickly used the power of bloodline to perceive this location.
"It's him?"
The Dragon God said in surprise, "How could he suddenly transcend?"
Could it be...
This time's tampering of history wasn't done by the Asura God, but by this Su Ming?
And just as the Dragon God was observing Su Ming, Su Ming also felt a spy. He looked at Di Tian, as if somehow locking eyes with the Dragon God.
Su Ming's eyes narrowed slightly.
His perspective entered the River of Time view. Looking at where Dragon Valley was located, he found the highly active nine-colored light.
Returning to the normal perspective, Su Ming said to Di Tian, "Let's meet when you have time."
Di Tian was slightly startled, but the next moment, as if compelled, he nodded.
Seeing this, Su Ming didn't continue to discuss the specifics of the meeting with the Dragon God.
He was out in the open. When they met depended on the Dragon God himself.
Reincarnation Realm.
Su Ming entered the Reincarnation Realm. Feeling that it was relatively unchanged, he breathed a slight sigh of relief.
"Elder has still attained the God of Reincarnation. The Reincarnation Realm is also still here. The changes are still acceptable."
While feeling relieved, he also sought out Electrolux.
Electrolux, who had been in seclusion, had already emerged.
He felt that a large amount of deviation had appeared in his memories.
It took him a full two and a half hours to finally come to terms with this transition in his memories.
At the same time, his expression gradually grew heavy.
"Elder."
At that moment, Su Ming's voice came through.
Electrolux appeared and met with Su Ming.
"Someone tampered with my memories," Electrolux said.
Hearing this, Su Ming asked, "From our encounter to the present – has anything changed?"
Hearing this, Elder frowned.
After thinking carefully for a long time, he shook his head.
"There shouldn't be any changes."
After saying this, he hesitated and added, "No, there are some changes. Many of my thoughts have changed. Your experiences weren't affected, only my attitude and thoughts towards you have become smoother."
"Elder, which parts of your memories have changed?"
Electrolux looked at Su Ming, pondering.
Su Ming had appeared immediately when his own memories had problems and was seriously asking these questions.
Could it be that this wasn't a change targeting only him?
"Your memories are also problematic?"
Su Ming shook his head.
"My memories have no problems at all, because all of this happened because of me."
Su Ming didn't know how to explain the timeline issue to Electrolux. He simply pushed the problem onto himself.
"I need to understand the changes I've made now."
Hearing this, Electrolux nodded and explained his own changes to Su Ming.
"In my early cultivation, I gained a crucial Spirit Furnace. But later, I was missing the Soul-Soothing Spirit Furnace to suppress my spiritual power breakthrough the million mark. I have no specific impression of how I resolved these problems. I don't even know the specific reasons for these changes."
Hearing Electrolux's account, Su Ming frowned slightly.
So, even someone as profound as Elder only felt the memory dissonance caused by historical changes, and couldn't perceive all the changes?
In Su Ming's view, Electrolux's current symptom was memory dissonance.
He hadn't even realized that it wasn't a problem with his memories, but that the past had changed.
Just as Su Ming was pondering, a dull thunder sounded in the sky.
A dragon roar manifested in Su Ming's mind.
"Su Ming, I am the Dragon God."
Su Ming's gaze flickered. He released his Spirit Rings. Di Rui's sixth Spirit Ring flashed directly.
A dragon faint-type bloodline aura permeated, then condensed into the projection of a middle-aged man.
"Dragon God?" Su Ming said in surprise.
This guy could actually materialize a projection through the Auspicious Beast's Spirit Ring?
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