Chapter 426: Beast Tide?
At this moment, the human Angel God, the Blue Silver Emperor who controls life, and the Star Dou Great Forest's Beast God, Di Tian, had actually reached the same plan.
This was almost unimaginable in the past on the Douluo Continent.
But Tang San had forced them to the same table.
Tang Chuan slowly raised the Sea God Trident, the tip of the trident gently touching the ground, causing blue-gold ripples to spread out and resonate with the Lake of Life.
Countless Blue Silver Emperor vines grew from the lakeside, spreading along the earth's veins toward the periphery of the Star Dou Great Forest.
Meanwhile, Di Tian raised his head, his golden dragon pupils releasing dragon might.
A low dragon roar spread throughout the entire Star Dou Great Forest.
The Soul Beasts on the periphery immediately became restless, but this time, the beast tide was not an uncontrolled riot, but an orderly mobilization under Di Tian's will.
Qian Renxue raised her right hand, a golden Angel command token condensing in her palm, and a vast Spiritual Power swept out. "Spirit Empire, listen up. Mobilize the elite Soul Master Legion to the periphery of the Star Dou Great Forest."
"Pass the order to the cities along the line: all civilians are to retreat into the main cities, and towns and villages are to be closed. At the same time, release the message to the outside world—the Star Dou Great Forest has launched a beast tide, and the Angel God is personally engaging the Beast God Di Tian."
The next second, the golden command token flew through the air.
Tang Chuan closed his eyes and released alert messages through the Blue Silver Emperor to the Heaven Dou, Star Luo, and Spirit Empire. Soon, all three forces began to move.
Border villages and towns evacuated.
Major cities activated their defenses.
Soul Master Legions mobilized.
On the periphery of the Star Dou Great Forest, the roars of beasts gradually converged into a tide.
A fake war began to be pushed to the forefront by all three parties.
...
One day later.
On the periphery of the Star Dou Great Forest.
The earth shook.
Countless Soul Beasts surged out from the forest, their roars shaking the sky. Flying Soul Beasts circled in the sky, while giant apes, magic tigers, scaled beasts, and giant pythons advanced in groups on the ground.
Looking from afar, it seemed as if a real beast tide was about to crush the human border.
The Spirit Empire's elite Soul Master Legion was arrayed on the outer plains.
Golden Angel flags flew high. In the direction of the cities, a large number of commoners had already evacuated. On the empty border line, only Soul Masters and Soul Beasts remained in confrontation.
The next moment, golden light descended from the sky.
Qian Renxue hovered in mid-air, her six wings spread, the Angelic Sacred Sword in hand.
And deep within the Star Dou Great Forest, a black dragon shadow soared into the sky. Di Tian transformed into his Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King true form, his massive dragon body blotting out the sky, and terrifying dragon might swept across the world.
Two Divine Rank auras collided with a boom.
Boom—!
Golden Holy Light and black dragon might exploded in the sky.
The world changed color.
Countless forces watching from the shadows were shaken to their core by this fluctuation.
Immediately after, Qian Renxue slashed down with her sword.
Di Tian met it with a claw.
The golden sword light and the black dragon claw shadow collided, and a terrifying shockwave swept across the plains.
The Spirit Empire's Soul Master Legion "panicked" and retreated.
The Soul Beasts of the Star Dou Great Forest also suffered "heavy casualties," falling in large numbers. Of course, most of this was just a fake appearance created after the Ten Thousand Demon King's vine decoys and Bi Ji suppressed their auras.
Xiong Jun deliberately let out a painful roar in the distance, his dark gold figure flying backward into the depths of the forest, smashing through large ancient trees.
The flames spewed by Chi Wang dissipated in mid-air, as if severely damaged by the Angel Holy Light.
Zi Ji's dragon shadow also flashed and retreated, deliberately revealing an unstable aura.
Tang Chuan appeared on the edge of the battlefield once.
He used the Sea God Trident to block the aftermath of the clash between Di Tian and Qian Renxue, then "his face turned pale," and he was knocked back a hundred feet, his figure quickly disappearing into the light of the Blue Silver Emperor.
Everything looked real.
A war between humans and Soul Beasts.
A clash between the Angel God and the Beast God.
Tang Chuan's intervention failed, both sides were heavily injured, and the news quickly spread across the continent.
It also reached the bone altar in the Rakshasa Space.
Tang San slowly opened his eyes.
In the Mirror of Resentful Souls, the "tragic war" on the periphery of Star Dou was being reflected.
He saw that Qian Renxue's divine force was greatly depleted.
He saw Di Tian's dragon body stained with blood.
He saw Xiong Jun, Chi Wang, Zi Ji, and other Ferocious beasts retreating one after another.
He also saw Tang Chuan disappear briefly after being knocked back.
The ghostly fire in Tang San's eyes lit up bit by bit.
"They're fighting..."
"They're actually fighting."
He laughed lowly.
"Tang Chuan, you want to unite with Di Tian and Qian Renxue to kill me."
"What a pity."
"How could humans and Soul Beasts ever truly trust each other?"
"Qian Renxue wants to unify the continent, and Di Tian wants to guard the Star Dou Great Forest."
"You are caught in the middle, and sooner or later, you will be torn to pieces."
Tang San stood up.
The scar left by the Dragon God Claw on his chest still ached.
But his eyes were excited as never before.
"An opportunity."
"This is the best opportunity."
"If I can appear while the three parties are both heavily injured, devour Di Tian, devour Xiong Jun, devour Bi Ji, and then devour the souls on the battlefield..."
"The Rakshasa Ninth Trial will surely be completed!"
He raised the Rakshasa Demonic Scythe.
Behind him, seventeen Undead Titled Douluo raised their heads in unison.
On the periphery of the Star Dou Great Forest.
The sky was not yet bright, and dark clouds pressed down extremely low.
At the end of the earth, dense swarms of Soul Beasts surged out from the depths of the forest like a black tide, continuously pushing outward along the mountains, valleys, and dense forests.
At the very front were hundred-year and thousand-year Soul Beasts.
They were massive, and when they ran, the earth rumbled.
Behind them were ten-thousand-year Soul Beasts.
Nether Wolves, Mountain-Splitting Tigers, Iron-Armored Rhinos, Scarlet Flame Demon Lions, Green Wood Giant Pythons, Earth Dragon Beasts...
Countless Soul Beasts roared as they rushed out of the forest, their blood-red beast eyes flickering in the darkness, looking like a truly out-of-control beast tide.
Above the sky, flying Soul Beasts blotted out the sun.
Giant eagles, wind luan, thunder falcons, and black-feathered vultures swept past in groups, their flapping wings whipping up fierce winds that blew the trees below until they swayed wildly.
Looking from afar, the entire Star Dou Great Forest seemed to have suddenly come alive.
And it had come alive with fury.
Deep in the forest, Di Tian's dragon might dominated the world.
Once that pressure belonging to the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King emerged, all the Soul Beasts seemed to hear the highest command, no longer running in chaos, but advancing toward the human defense line in accordance with some invisible order.
At the edge of the Star Dou Great Forest, the Spirit Empire's army had long been arrayed.
Golden Angel flags fluttered in the wind.
The heavy armor legion erected steel shields at the very front, the Soul Master Legion was divided into left and right, and the experts from the Priest Hall hovered in mid-air.
Golden Crocodile Douluo stood in front of the formation, looking at the tide of Soul Beasts ahead with a solemn expression.
Azure Luan Douluo, Lion Douluo, Light Feather Douluo, Thousand Jun Douluo, Demon Subduing Douluo, and others lined up in order. They all knew this was a setup.
But when truly facing a beast tide of this scale, they still couldn't help but feel their hearts tremble.
It was too massive.
Even if these Soul Beasts wouldn't really charge into human cities, and even if many of the casualties were fake appearances arranged in advance, when tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of Soul Beasts roared and advanced simultaneously, the sense of oppression was still enough to make any Soul Master tremble with fear.
Golden Crocodile Douluo said in a low voice: "No wonder generations of Soul Masters have been wary of the Star Dou Great Forest. If these Soul Beasts really charged into human cities regardless of anything, an ordinary Empire simply couldn't stop them."
As soon as he finished speaking, a low dragon roar resounded through the world from deep in the distant forest.
Boom—!
A black dragon shadow soared into the sky, and Di Tian revealed his true form.
The massive Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King blotted out half the sky, its pitch-black dragon scales gleaming with cold, hard luster, and its golden dragon pupils were like two suns hanging in the dark night.
Dragon wings spread, and a storm swept through.
Countless Soul Beasts roared low in unison, as if worshipping their king.
On the other side, Xiong Jun's massive dark gold body walked out from the forest.
Every step it took made the earth shake.
Its Dark Gold Terrorclaw gleamed with cold light that seemed to tear space, and it deliberately exposed the "injuries" remaining on its body.
The few fake scars on its chest, burned by the Angel Holy Light, were hideous and terrifying, looking as if it had already experienced a tragic war.
Chi Wang's three heads spewed flames simultaneously, and hellfire turned into a sea of fire behind it.
Zi Ji transformed into a Hell magic dragon, her purple-black dragon wings spread, and her dragon might was cold and noble.
The Ten Thousand Demon King took root in the earth, and countless vines emerged from underground, forming an ocean of plants that blotted out the sky.
Bi Ji stood at the back, her emerald wings spreading slowly, and emerald-green light of life flowed around her.
She did not take the initiative to attack, but kept casting light of healing, making the entire beast tide look like it had an inexhaustible ability to recover.
Within the Spirit Empire's army, countless Soul Masters were pale.
Even though they knew Qian Renxue was in the sky, they were still shaken by the pressure of these Ferocious beasts.
Just as the beast tide approached within three miles, the sky suddenly lit up.
A golden beam of light fell from the clouds.
Qian Renxue slowly descended, her six wings spread, her Angel God outfit covering her whole body, the Angelic Sacred Sword hanging in her palm, and golden divine radiance illuminating the entire battlefield.
As soon as she appeared, the morale of the Spirit Empire's Soul Master Legion, which had been wavering, instantly stabilized.
"Your Majesty the Angel God!"
"Your Majesty the Angel God!"
Sounds like mountains chanting and seas roaring erupted from the human army formation.
Qian Renxue hovered in mid-air, her golden eyes looking toward Di Tian.
She knew that this battle was performed for Tang San to see.
But since they wanted to deceive Tang San, it couldn't be too obviously fake.
Di Tian also understood this point, so the next moment, without any superfluous words, his massive black dragon body soared directly into the sky and pounced toward Qian Renxue.
"Angel God."
"You dare to lead the human army to approach the Star Dou Great Forest; today, I will let you know that the Star Dou Great Forest is not a place that the Spirit Empire can covet!"
The dragon roar shook the sky.
A black dragon claw reached out, and the dragon might covered the sky.
Qian Renxue's golden eyes turned slightly cold, and she held the Angelic Sacred Sword high.
"Di Tian."
"If Soul Beasts dare to launch a beast tide, I, this God, will use the Angel Holy Light to suppress you all!"
The golden sacred sword slashed down.
The black dragon claw met it.
Boom—!
This collision made the world seem to lose its voice in an instant.
Immediately after, a terrifying shockwave spread in all directions with the two of them as the center.
The clouds were torn apart.
The earth was cracked.
Large swaths of ancient trees on the periphery of the forest were snapped in half, the shield wall in front of the Spirit Empire's army formation retreated several feet in unison, and many Soul Masters felt their chests stifled by the shock, almost vomiting blood.
The Soul Beast side also let out roars in succession, and a large number of low-level Soul Beasts were blown away by the shockwave.
Of course, most of these Soul Beasts had already been under the protection of Bi Ji's light of life and had not really died.
But from the outside, the scene looked extremely tragic.
After the strike, Di Tian's dragon wings swept across, and a black tornado tore through the sky.
Qian Renxue's six wings shook, and the golden Holy Light turned into thousands of feather blades, falling all over the sky.
The black dragon storm and the angel feather blades collided in mid-air, the explosions connected into one, and the entire sky was torn apart by the golden and black lights.
At the same time, the ground battlefield also erupted completely.
Xiong Jun roared, and its massive body rushed out violently.
"Human worshipers, who dares to block this Lord?!"
It waved its two claws, and the dark gold claw light swept across a hundred feet.
Golden Crocodile Douluo's expression sank, and his Golden Crocodile King Martial Soul True Body was released instantly.
A massive phantom of the Golden Crocodile King rose from behind him and collided head-on with Xiong Jun.
Boom!
Two power-type experts clashed head-on.
The Golden Crocodile King's giant tail whipped out, and Xiong Jun's Dark Gold Terrorclaw tore down.
A deep pit exploded directly on the ground.
Golden Crocodile Douluo was knocked back three steps, blood surging in his chest, and he was secretly shocked in his heart; even though he knew Xiong Jun wasn't really trying to kill him, he could still feel the opponent's extremely terrifying physical strength.
Xiong Jun grinned and sneered: "Old man, is that all the strength you have?"
Golden Crocodile Douluo snorted coldly: "A Ferocious beast is a Ferocious beast after all, only having brute force."
After saying that, his ninth Soul Ring suddenly lit up.
Golden Soul Power condensed into a huge Crocodile King giant mouth and bit toward Xiong Jun.
Xiong Jun crossed its claws, and the power of the Dark Gold Terrorclaw exploded.
"Dark Gold Heaven Splitter!"
The two forces collided with a boom.
Large areas of the surrounding ground collapsed, and nearby Soul Beasts and Soul Masters retreated.
Looking from afar, one could see a golden giant crocodile phantom and a dark gold giant bear colliding frantically; every clash was like mountains colliding, shaking the earth continuously.
On the other side, Chi Wang rushed directly toward the flank of the Soul Master Legion.
Three heads spewed scarlet hellfire simultaneously, and the flames swept over like three giant dragons.
Lion Douluo roared, his golden lion Martial Soul True Body appeared, and a massive lion shadow stepped out into the air.
"Beast, stop being rampant!"
Lion Douluo slapped out with a claw, and the golden lion claw collided head-on with Chi Wang's hellfire.
Firelight exploded, and heat waves rolled.
A large number of Spirit Empire Soul Masters were forced back by the impact and released defensive spirit abilities one after another.
Chi Wang's three heads roared simultaneously: "Humans, get out of the Star Dou Great Forest!"
Lion Douluo also did not back down: "Evil beast, today I will use you to sacrifice the flag!"
Both sides went back and forth, flames and golden light burst continuously, and half of the battlefield was shrouded in scorching high temperature.
Azure Luan Douluo faced off against Zi Ji.
One Azure Luan spread its wings, and wind-attribute Soul Power swept across the world.
One Hell magic dragon crossed the sky, and purple-black dragon flames devoured the void.
Azure Luan Douluo's speed was extremely fast, turning into streaks of green afterimages in the sky, constantly sweeping past Zi Ji, and wind blades slashed down like rain.
Zi Ji spread her dragon wings, and the Hell magic dragon breath swept across the sky.
The green storm and the purple-black dragon flames intertwined, tearing the sky into a chaotic battlefield.
Light Feather Douluo stood further away, his ice crystal longbow fully drawn, and arrows shot out one after another.
Each arrow carried extreme chill, flying toward the Ten Thousand Demon King who was controlling the vines.
The Ten Thousand Demon King sneered, and countless vines surged out from the ground, forming layer after layer of green barriers.
The ice arrows shot into the sea of vines, instantly freezing a large area of vines.
But the next moment, more vines broke through the ice, rushing toward Light Feather Douluo like green giant pythons.
"Fifth, be careful!"
Thousand Jun Douluo and Demon Subduing Douluo attacked simultaneously.
Two long staves smashed down through the air, forcefully smashing the incoming vines to pieces.
The Ten Thousand Demon King's figure was hidden deep in the sea of vines, his voice cold: "Humans, can you finish cutting them?"
As his voice fell, the whole earth began to roll.
Tens of thousands of vines drilled out from underground, wrapping toward the Spirit Empire's Soul Master Legion.
This scene was extremely spectacular.
The earth seemed to have turned into a green ocean, countless vines rising and falling like waves, and wherever they passed, rocks cracked and shield walls deformed.
Several experts from the Priest Hall attacked simultaneously, only then barely blocking the sea of vines outside the main formation.
Just at this moment, Bi Ji finally moved.
She did not charge, but hovered behind the beast tide.
Her emerald wings spread, and circles of emerald-green light rings spread from her, falling on the Soul Beasts knocked down by the Soul Masters.
Those "heavily injured" Soul Beasts quickly recovered their mobility in the brilliance.
Some ten-thousand-year Soul Beasts that were originally weak in aura also stood up again under the emerald-green light.
A cry of surprise suddenly sounded in the Spirit Empire's Soul Master Legion.
"That is the Emerald Swan!"
"She is healing the Soul Beasts!"
"If we fight like this, we will never finish killing the Soul Beasts!"
Qian Renxue hovered high in mid-air, and her eyes naturally fell on Bi Ji.
She deliberately made her eyes cold, then forced Di Tian back with a sword, raised her left hand, condensed the Angel Holy Light into a golden judgment spear, and threw it toward Bi Ji's direction.
"Kill the healer first."
The golden spear pierced through the sky.
Bi Ji looked up, her expression changing slightly, but she did not retreat.
She knew this was part of the setup, but this strike couldn't be received too fake.
She closed her wings, and the light of life condensed into an emerald barrier.
Boom!
The angel spear slammed onto the barrier, Bi Ji's figure slid back hundreds of feet, the emerald barrier showed large cracks, and the surrounding Soul Beasts let out terrified roars.
(End of chapter)
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