In response to the Dragon God's rhetorical question, Su Ming directly shook his head.
He truly hadn't done anything else this time.
The Dragon God stared at Su Ming, his frown deepening.
This was impossible.
The Dragon God had clearly sensed that the tribulation debt on his body had decreased somewhat. That meant an extra tribulation had descended in history.
Moreover, it was definitely a Fierce Beast tribulation.
Su Ming noticed the Dragon God's gaze and caught that hint of suspicion. He couldn't help but frown.
"Are you suspecting me of lying?"
Nonsense.
There had clearly been an extra Fierce Beast tribulation in the past. The current Fierce Beasts hadn't increased or decreased. How could the tampering of history not involve a Fierce Beast?
Could it be that this Su Ming knew the importance of the content of historical tampering and chose to conceal the true changes?
The Dragon God felt his thinking was no problem.
Because if Su Ming had only nurtured the Auspicious Beast in the past, it had little to do with him.
Especially since the process was completed with Electrolux's help.
What did that have to do with Su Ming?
Why had Su Ming transcended?
Although the current Auspicious Beast had become Su Ming's Spirit Ring, tampering history being related to oneself wasn't enough to transcend.
The essence of transcendence was still using the power of time to fool the Universe's Will.
After careful thought, the Dragon God felt that simply nurturing the Auspicious Beast indeed couldn't allow Su Ming to evade the Universe's Will's observation.
He must have done something else.
Of course, thinking this in his mind, on the surface the Dragon God withdrew all doubts.
"It's not that I doubt you. Are you sure you didn't do anything else? Could it have caused some kind of butterfly effect?"
Hearing this, Su Ming's gaze flickered.
What did the Dragon God know?
Of course, he hadn't told the Dragon God the whole truth, but what he had concealed was his Trinity.
Seven thousand five hundred years ago, he truly had only nurtured the Auspicious Beast.
Although, after digesting the principles of transcendence the Dragon God had explained, Su Ming himself knew his actions didn't conform to those principles, he also knew that he simply didn't conform to the principles the Dragon God had described.
He said to himself: "I have the Trinity. I can directly observe the River of Time and trigger changes in fate, thereby catching fate."
Su Ming guessed that what the Dragon God called 'fooling the Universe's Will and transcending' was essentially taking control of one's own fate.
He had been puzzled before about why there was no backlash after seizing fate.
Now it seemed that this was simply the nature of fate itself.
Those capable of capturing fate had already passed time's test.
Those incapable couldn't perceive it at all, so there was no need for resistance.
The key to seizing one's own fate was finding one's own fate.
The Dragon God and other Supreme God Kings, by manipulating the Universe's Will, indirectly took control of their own fate. Su Ming was different. He observed directly through the River of Time perspective and then captured it.
Therefore, his transcendence was different from that of normal Supreme God Kings.
But Su Ming couldn't explain this to the Dragon God.
After organizing his words, he said, "Senior, why do you say that?"
Seeing Su Ming's innocent expression, the Dragon God pondered and then revealed another secret to him.
"Tribulations will not decrease. They can only be transferred from the past to the present or even the future."
To Su Ming, this statement held little value.
So what?
He had already verified this point.
However, seeing Su Ming's nonchalant expression, the Dragon God was speechless.
This was a result he had only obtained after countless experiments.
A tribulation, by its very mechanism, meant certain death – it existed to kill its target.
The difficulty of studying the conservation of tribulations across time could be imagined.
Yet, Su Ming was indifferent to this piece of intelligence he was sharing?
The Dragon God said, "Because of the conservation of tribulations, if you can find a way to prevent the tribulation from locking onto you, you can use the tribulation debt you owe to confirm whether your history has been changed."
Hearing this, Su Ming's gaze instantly condensed and turned serious.
Seeing this, the Dragon God thought to himself: just as expected.
He had revealed this not because he didn't know how to conceal himself, but because he felt concealment was pointless.
Su Ming had experienced a tribulation – he had drawn one through forging and had miraculously survived it.
Therefore, Su Ming could must be associated with Fierce Beast tribulations.
So, Su Ming could also guess that Fierce Beast tribulations were related to the Universe's Will.
Taking it a step further, deducing a connection to the Dragon God wouldn't be difficult.
The Dragon God didn't know how much intelligence Su Ming had on him, so he assumed Su Ming was aware of all his generally known intelligence within the universe.
Su Ming, on the other hand, was thinking many things at this moment.
He had indeed guessed the relationship between Fierce Beast tribulations and the Dragon God.
Because he himself had the means to transfer tribulations, he guessed the Dragon God could also transfer them. He just didn't know through what special ability the Dragon God had portioned out the transferred tribulations across time for all Fierce Beasts to bear.
That was something Su Ming couldn't do.
"So, that's why he asked me about nurturing Fierce Beasts. Because in the past, there should have been a Fierce Beast that appeared?"
Only now did Su Ming finally sync with the Dragon God and understand why he had asked about nurturing Fierce Beasts.
"I truly didn't nurture any Fierce Beasts." Su Ming frowned slightly.
However, his tone wasn't very certain.
The Dragon God noticed Su Ming's hesitant tone, his gaze burning.
"Are there some details you've overlooked?"
Su Ming thought for a moment, then said, "Senior, are you sure that it was specifically because of my tampering of history this time that a Fierce Beast appeared and disappeared in the past?"
Hearing Su Ming's rhetorical question, the Dragon God was momentarily stunned.
"It seems..."
The Dragon God also hesitated.
He had sensed the fluctuations of two historical tamperings. One wasn't very intense and didn't involve the Spirit Beast clan, so he hadn't paid much attention to it.
"You've tampered with history more than once?"
Su Ming decisively shook his head.
"I only tampered with it this once. But if I remember correctly, history was tampered with once not long ago."
Hearing Su Ming mention the node of the previous historical tampering, the Dragon God said in surprise, "You could sense historical fluctuations even back then?"
Without having transcended, how could one detect historical fluctuations?
"If history is vague, anyone with a mind can discover it with investigation," Su Ming said calmly.
The so-called previous tampering of history was naturally the Douluo 1 Su Ming's first Super Refinement, where he had used a loophole to evade the universal tribulation while also refining the River of Time's water, overlapping the false history at that node with real history.
"You mean, in that tampering, someone nurtured a Fierce Beast and then killed it?" the Dragon God said.
Su Ming nodded.
"If my perception is correct, history changed seven thousand five hundred years ago. Di Tian and the others have memories of a person who doesn't exist in history at all."
As soon as Su Ming said this, the Dragon God's expression drastically changed.
He stared intently at Su Ming.
He wanted to ask Su Ming exactly how he had tampered with history.
You didn't just follow the flow of time to tamper it?
It sounds like you time-traveled to the past to tamper with it?
However, the Dragon God didn't ask. He knew he wouldn't get an answer. The other party certainly wouldn't tell him such things.
"You mean, during that tampering of history by the person Di Tian remembers who doesn't exist in history, some Spirit Beasts were promoted to Fierce Beasts?"
"Something like that," Su Ming said.
He felt absolutely no guilt about passing the buck to his Douluo 1 main body.
So what?
Even that self of his wouldn't have a problem with it.
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