Douluo Continent: From Rusty Spear to Emperor-Slaying Spear

Chapter 183 Entering Dragon Valley, Blood Birds That Blot Out the Sky

At this moment, the Sea God and the Asura God, who resided above the divine realm, were somewhat panicked upon witnessing this scene.

"Shura, I, the Sea God, only intended to guide him step by step to obtain the immortal herbs I prepared for him, but I never expected that he would be swept into the spacetime turbulence."

Poseidon, the sea goddess, pondered for a moment, then frowned and looked at the god of asura beside her.

"Shura, how could a spacetime turbulence appear on Douluo Continent? Even if that child's soul skill is incredibly fast, it's impossible for it to cause a spacetime turbulence. What exactly is going on?"

As the God of Law Enforcement in the God Realm, Shura has the responsibility to safeguard the stability of the lower realms. The sudden appearance of this spacetime turbulence, especially since it appeared directly on Douluo Star, would be incomprehensible even to a god.

At this moment, Shura was manipulating the time-space wheel, calculating all possible factors that could affect Douluo Star, but he found no hidden time-space turbulence. Soon, his expression changed drastically, and he came to a conclusion.

"The child was accidentally drawn into the Dragon Tomb, the place where the Dragon God fell long ago."

"What? That place is ten thousand times more dangerous than Douluo Star. The promising talents we painstakingly selected are likely to die there."

It's important to understand that the Dragon Tomb is a separate space parallel to the Douluo Continent world, formed by the dissipated energy after the fall of many Dragon Kings.

The soul beasts inside were all affected by the dissipated energy, becoming powerful soul beasts that were either sub-dragons or even true dragons. Moreover, this space was not subject to the supervision of the God Realm, and even a God King as powerful as him, who could destroy stars with a single move, could not enter it.

The Asura God couldn't sense Ji Wuming through the Killing God Domain, and he sighed deeply.

"Sigh! If that kid really dies in there, we'll have to choose someone else to inherit the divine position. I think that twin-spirit soul master with the Clear Sky Hammer is quite good."

The God of Asura had long foreseen that Tang San would inevitably go to the City of Slaughter in the future. At that time, as long as Tang San could pass through the Hell Road, he could barely become the new successor of the God of Asura.

The sea god, however, has many more options. Currently, his Sea God Island is home to three candidates for High Priest. If it weren't for Ji Wuming, any one of them would be qualified to inherit his position as the sea god, Poseidon.

However, with more people, Poseidon became more picky. The Soul Master with the mutated nine-star Begonia Martial Soul was only a support-type Soul Master, so he was eliminated first.

Secondly, there's the Soul Master with a dragon-type martial soul. Neither his martial soul attribute nor his dragon bloodline makes him suitable for the position of Sea God.

In the end, only the Soul Master with the ultimate martial soul, the Ice Phoenix, remained. She was quite suitable to inherit the Sea God's position. All that was needed was to raise her Red-level first test by one level, which would then be the Sea God's Ninth Test.

"Shura, I think I'll wait a little longer and see. What if that kid comes out alive?"

Although Poseidon was pessimistic about Ji Wuming's survival, he was still willing to wait, since no one had appeared in Douluo Continent in tens of thousands of years who was extremely suitable for his godhood.

"Alright, but I must remind you, one day in the God Realm is one year on Douluo Star. Don't wait until those children are old and faded, with gray hair, before you make your selection, or it will be too late."

"I know, you don't need to remind me."

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Meanwhile, Ji Wuming awoke on a plain with sparse trees and abundant low shrubs. He rubbed his aching neck and slowly stood up.

"Where did that black hole take me? Is it the Starry Sky Forest? Or a separate space carved out from the ocean floor?"

A bewildered Ji Wuming flew aimlessly towards the sunset. Soon after, his initial curiosity turned to frustration, then to despair. He shouted loudly...

"What kind of hellhole is this? I can't even fly out of this plain."

However, as if Ji Wuming's words had resonated, several roars resembling dragon's roars echoed from an unknown distance ahead, before sunset. They rose and fell, eventually merging into one, their roars seemingly capable of piercing the entire plain.

Following this dragon roar, similar roars also came from the other three directions.

"Boom boom boom—"

The ground was shaking. Ji Wuming turned his head and saw a cloud of dust rising behind him, engulfing all the low bushes.

He used his immense mental power to probe behind them and discovered a vast number of soul beasts in the dust, all of which were sub-dragon soul beasts with strong dragon bloodlines, and almost all of them had cultivation levels of over ten thousand years.

As they drew closer, Ji Wuming grew afraid.

"Why are these soul beasts fleeing in such a panic? What are they afraid of?"

As Ji Wuming soared into the sky, preparing to escape the beast tide, a sound resembling an infant's wail, mixed with slight hiccups, suddenly emanated from high above, echoing across the entire plain—a truly terrifying sound.

He quickly used his mental energy to probe the sky. Ji Wuming's expression gradually changed from shock to fear. Like the fleeing soul beasts, he mingled in the swirling dust, not daring to make any rash moves.

Only after the owner of that voice had landed steadily for a distance did its full form become completely apparent.

A gigantic, ferocious bird, resembling a Gu eagle, appeared above Ji Wuming. It possessed ten-meter-long, blood-red wings, a sharp, downward-curving beak, enormous, incredibly sharp claws, and feathers as sharp as blades.

Its red bird eyes, in particular, seem to see through everything in the world, making it extremely terrifying.

"Run, run wildly, my flesh and blood."

The bird suddenly spoke human language, and its words had the power to pierce through anything, making the fleeing soul beasts below even more nervous. As the multi-headed soul beast ran, its eyes continued to bleed, and it collapsed and died from exhaustion. It was then trampled into a pile of mud by the soul beasts behind it.

Meanwhile, the giant bird above gradually adjusted its posture and slowly descended, like a hunter herding sheep, always under absolute control.

Suddenly, its giant wings continued to flap, and with a loud cry, its sharp, iron-like feathers shot out rapidly towards the fleeing soul beast below.

Each feather pierced the body of a fleeing soul beast with pinpoint accuracy, as if tearing through the air. Those that missed a vital spot collapsed to the ground, powerless to run again, while those that were hit died with their eyes wide open in disbelief.

Meanwhile, Ji Wuming, who was mixed in with the soul beasts, frequently used his two 10-year-old soul skills, Teleportation and Void, to skillfully dodge the giant bird's attacks.

The giant bird was very satisfied with this. With a flap of its massive wings, a giant tornado swept away all the corpses and blood-stained items. Wherever the tornado passed, nothing grew, leaving only a deep chasm in the soil across the entire plain.

After an unknown amount of time, as darkness fell, the giant tornado gradually disappeared, and tens of thousands of corpses and blood fell from the sky. Ji Wuming, who was mixed in with them, was dizzy from the shock, but still landed steadily on the ground.

(End of this chapter)