Douluo Continent: Tonight, a Fairy Tale Descends

A rich aura of nine colors and auspiciousness is slowly but irresistibly spreading outwards.

The aura originated from the dark green boulder in the very center of the Lake of Life, like dandelion seeds scattered by the wind, passing through the dense forest branches and leaves, crossing streams and hills, and seeping little by little into every inch of the Starry Sky Forest.

At first, the air near the core area became more humid than usual, and the ancient trees growing by the lake stretched their branches and leaves a little faster than usual.

Then came the soul beasts on the outskirts of the core area. Those soul beasts that lived on the edge of the core area and rarely approached the Lake of Life began to unconsciously move closer to that direction.

They couldn't explain why, but they felt something was drawing them in that direction, like a campfire suddenly lit on a winter night, making them instinctively want to get closer for warmth.

Further outwards, the auspicious aura began to reach the soul beasts living on the outer edges of the Star Dou Great Forest. A ten-thousand-year-old soul beast stood at the edge of its territory, tilting its head slightly towards the core area, as if sensing some extremely distant yet incredibly clear aura.

A thousand-year-old soul beast stopped by the stream, looking down at the nine-colored halo reflected on the water, which was gradually spreading. It was as if something had gently touched the softest corner of its soul.

The auspicious aura continued to spread outwards, exceeding the core area of ​​the Star Dou Great Forest, and was slowly advancing deeper into the forest.

The soul beasts that had been sleeping throughout the forest briefly awoke from their long hibernation, and after confirming the source of the aura, they quietly closed their eyes again.

The nine-colored deer lay quietly on the dark green boulder, its nine-colored radiance more solid than ever before, with tiny, starlight-like glimmers even appearing at the edges.

She closed her eyes slightly, letting the auspicious energy that was spreading outward flow freely, as if she were doing something perfectly natural.

When Lin Wan summoned her to this world, she was merely an auspicious beast venturing into the path of soul beasts, her strength ranking among the top in the Star Dou Great Forest.

But ever since Xisu lifted the restriction that prevented soul beasts from becoming gods, the power within her that had been suppressed for an unknown period of time began to flow outward in an extremely natural way.

Her essence is different from the soul beasts of this world. She is a being born of auspiciousness and harmony with all things in the world. From the moment of her birth, she carries the oldest blessing of the entire world.

After arriving in this world, if it weren't for the rule that soul beasts cannot become gods, she wouldn't need to rely on long periods of cultivation to accumulate power like other soul beasts. She only needed to let the power of the world flow into her body.

Now that the restrictions have been lifted, she is becoming part of the rules of this world.

The world itself is waiting for her.

The power of auspiciousness and divine status have never appeared in the Douluo Continent before. This is a position that has been vacant for far too long, so long that the very rules of the world itself are welcoming her arrival with an almost thirsty eagerness.

The auspicious energy spreading outward from the Lake of Life is visibly changing the face of the Starry Sky Forest.

In those areas that had been disturbed for so long by war and the fluctuations of soul power, the air is becoming clear again.

In areas where Soul Masters frequently hunted, the number of Soul Beasts began to slowly recover.

In the forest clearings destroyed by the fighting, vegetation is regrowing at a rate far exceeding normal.

The Nine-Colored Deer didn't deliberately do these things; she simply lay there quietly, letting the power within her flow naturally.

Those changes were merely a byproduct of her very existence, proof that she was forging a deeper connection with the world.

In the underwater space at the bottom of the Lake of Life, Gu Yuena stood in the center of the water shrouded in a dark blue light, her gaze piercing through the layers of water curtains and landing on the nine-colored halo that was slowly expanding outward.

A faint silver halo surrounded her, her long silver hair floated gently in the water, and her purple eyes churned with extremely complex emotions.

She sensed the auspicious aura spreading outwards, and also sensed the impact it brought.

She could sense that the Star Dou Great Forest itself was tilting towards the Nine-Colored Deer. The soul beasts living in this forest were growing closer to the Nine-Colored Deer in a subtle way, while her control over this forest was being quietly weakened in the process.

Gu Yuena knew that the Nine-Colored Deer had extraordinary talent, but she did not expect its strength to improve so quickly.

She originally thought that even with the blessing of auspiciousness, the Nine-Colored Deer would need a long time to reach that level.

But now it seems that after the restriction that prevents soul beasts from becoming gods was lifted, the power of the Nine-Colored Deer surged out like a flood bursting its banks, rising at a speed she had never seen before.

Gu Yuena's fingertips curled slightly in the water.

Her current strength is no less than that of the Nine-Colored Deer. In fact, with her years of combat experience and the blessing of the Dragon God's bloodline, she can still steadily suppress her opponent in actual combat.

However, if the Nine-Colored Deer is allowed to continue like this, it won't be long before it surpasses her. At that time, the fortune of the entire Star Dou Great Forest will completely turn towards that auspicious beast, and her already shaky position as the ruler of all soul beasts will become even more precarious.

Gu Yuena clenched her fist in her sleeve for a moment, then slowly relaxed it.

Chapter 566 God of Auspicious Omens

A strong urge surged within Gu Yuena, a desire to interrupt the Nine-Colored Deer's ascension to godhood and to make this arrogant and ignorant beast understand who the true master of this forest was.

But she ultimately suppressed that impulse.

Her injuries were not fully healed yet, and the Nine-Colored Deer's healing power was the most reliable guarantee for her current recovery. If she interrupted the Nine-Colored Deer's process of becoming a god, the Nine-Colored Deer would definitely not continue to treat her.

Gu Yuena took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the surging anger in her heart, then closed her eyes again, no longer looking at the nine-colored halo that was spreading outward.

She needed to be patient and wait; at least until her injuries healed, she couldn't afford to break ties with the Nine-Colored Deer.

On the shore of the Lake of Life, the soul beasts that don't usually gather in the core area are now quietly staying near the Nine-Colored Deer.

They didn't get too close; instead, they each found a suitable spot and watched from afar the figure shrouded in nine-colored light, as if participating in a process they couldn't fully understand but instinctively wanted to get closer to.

Xiong Jun squatted under an ancient tree, his large, bell-like eyes reflecting the nine-colored light flowing on the lake's surface.

He felt the auspicious energy permeating every corner of his body, and the energy fluctuations within him being slowly smoothed out. He remained silent for a long time.

Brigitte stood not far from him, her gentle, watery eyes reflecting the shimmering light and shadows on the lake.

Her expression was calmer than Xiong Jun's, but beneath that calmness lay an extremely subtle tremor.

Further away, the Demon King hovered above the dense forest in the southeast corner of the Lake of Life. Countless slender branches extended outward from his body, the ends of which trembled slightly, as if sensing the auspicious energy spreading outward from the core area, or as if confirming something in their own way.

He didn't speak or approach; he simply hovered there quietly, like an ancient tree transplanted to a high place, sensing the changes taking place in the forest in its own way.

In this tranquility, the Nine-Colored Deer still lay on that dark green boulder, as if the core of the entire Starry Sky Forest was gathering around her.

That auspicious aura has been spreading for quite some time.

The outer areas of the Starry Sky Forest were also gradually affected. Ordinary animals living on the edge of the forest became more active than before, and new saplings were sprouting at an unexpected speed on the edge of the forest that had been mostly cut down.

In the core area, the light and shadow flowing on the surface of the Lake of Life have transformed from a few sparse wisps of color into a nine-colored halo covering the entire lake.

The halo wasn't dazzling, but it possessed an irresistible allure, as if the entire forest was gazing in that direction.

Then the nine-colored deer stood up.

Her movements were not fast, even slow, like an ancient being that had just awakened from a long slumber adapting to its body.

When her four hooves stepped onto the dark green boulder, a very subtle ripple spread across its surface, as if the entire rock was trembling slightly with her movements.

She raised her head slightly, her clear, glassy eyes reflecting the sky above, bathed in nine-colored light.

The radiance flowing around her brightened at that moment, with nine colors—red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, purple, black, and white—blooming simultaneously on her body, illuminating everything around her as if in a dream.

She took a step.

There was no sound when that step was taken, but at that moment the entire Lake of Life was gently lifted up by something, as if an invisible force rose from the bottom of the lake, raising the entire surface of the water by a line.

As she took her second step, the nine arcs of light surrounding her began to spin faster. Each arc became more solid as it spun, as if it were being repeatedly refined, removing impurities bit by bit.

When she landed on her third step, she was standing in mid-air.

Without relying on any external force, she simply stepped from the dark green boulder into the void, her four hooves dangling in the air, and the nine-colored light surrounding her left a long trail of light behind her, like the tail of a comet.

The sky slowly brightened at that moment. Starting directly above the Lake of Life, an extremely thin nine-colored halo spread out in all directions like ink dripping into clear water.

The halo wasn't intense, but it possessed an undeniable presence, as if someone had lightly applied a thin layer of oil paint to the sky.

The nine-colored deer hovered in mid-air, looking up at the sky that was being bathed in the radiance surrounding her.

She could feel the resonance from the world itself slowly rising within her. The rules and patterns that she had only vaguely sensed before were now becoming clear, like the skeleton of the entire world slowly unfolding before her.

She exhaled softly, and the breath transformed into a shower of tiny, nine-colored specks of light in the air, like stardust scattered by the wind.

At that moment, the entire Star Dou Great Forest suddenly fell silent.

The wind stopped. The leaves ceased rustling, and the sound of the stream seemed to be gently silenced by something.

The soul beasts that had been whispering to each other stopped all movement and looked up at the sky that was being bathed in nine-colored light.

The light began to climb higher, stretching upwards from above the Lake of Life, passing through the clouds above the Starry Forest, through the tree canopies and mist that originally obscured the sky, until it reached the highest point of the heavens.

The Nine-Colored Deer stood in the center of that light, the nine arcs of light surrounding her had become extremely bright, like nine ignited rainbows encircling her.

The arcs of light spun faster and faster, until the scenery around her began to blur, and all that could be seen was an outline enveloped in nine-colored light.

Then the ball of light suddenly exploded.

Without a sound or a shockwave, only an extremely pure light spread out in all directions from above the Lake of Life.

The light was like a nine-colored flower that suddenly bloomed in the void, dyeing the entire sky with the same warm halo.

The nine-colored deer slowly unfurled in the center of that light, its four hooves slightly bent, as if it were stepping on some invisible plane.

Her size didn't increase, but her presence completely changed at that moment. She was still the same, but when she stood there, it was as if the whole world was slowly rotating around her as the axis.

The spreading nine-colored rays of light began to condense in mid-air. The red light clusters were like the rising sun, the orange halos were like the tree crowns swaying in the wind in an autumn forest, the yellow radiance was like waves rolling in a wheat field under the sun, the green halos were like the moment when new buds break through the soil in spring, and the cyan halos were like the light refracted by a mountain stream under the sun.

Each color reveals its purest and most essential form during the process of condensation. Those lights are no longer just simple colors; they begin to possess something deeper, as if each color is being infused with its own rules and meaning.

Then, all the colored orbs of light slowly merged in mid-air, transforming into a huge halo woven from nine colors, which hovered behind the Nine-Colored Deer, slowly rotating and making her figure appear as if she were something beyond mortal comprehension.

The moment the halo took shape, all the trees in the Star Dou Great Forest drooped their branches slightly at the same instant.

The ancient giant trees growing in the core area express a kind of respect in their own way, an invisible resonance, as if the entire forest is acknowledging the existence of the emerging rule in its own way.

The nine-colored deer gently raised its head and let out a clear and melodious cry.

The deer's cry was not loud, but after it was uttered, it quickly blended into the rhythm of the entire world and spread to more distant places.

Beyond the Starry Sky Forest, in that more distant place touched by auspicious energy, starting from several nearby cities, more and more people noticed the light spreading across the horizon.

Some people saw the strange color on the horizon and thought it was some rare celestial phenomenon. They stopped to look for a moment and then continued on their way with their heads down.

Some people stopped and looked up at the slowly flowing nine-colored halo, feeling that there was something hidden in the light, but they couldn't quite put their finger on what it was.

Further afield, travelers on their journeys also paused, looking up at the sky, which was bathed in a warm hue by the light emanating from afar.

The light came silently, yet it brought a profound sense of peace that penetrated the soul, allowing those who were exhausted by the war to briefly forget the heavy burden on their shoulders.

At this moment, the edge of the sky over the entire Douluo Continent was tinged with an extremely thin layer of nine-colored light.

Above the Lake of Life, the Nine-Colored Deer still hovered in front of the enormous nine-colored halo, its radiance slowly receding.

The halo slowly rotated behind her, its nine-colored light flowing around the edges like ripples on water, constantly spreading and closing.

She has become the goddess of good fortune for this continent.

Meanwhile, outside the Star Dou Great Forest, the various forces that were closely monitoring this ancient forest also detected the birth of that divine aura almost at the same time.

Wuhun City, Hall of Offerings.

Qian Daoliu suddenly opened his eyes.