"Xiong Jun!"
Ten Thousand Demon King's voice, amplified by his battle armor, rolled like thunder.
"Come on! Let's fight again!"
"This time, this king will show you true despair!"
Hearing this, Bear Lord jerked his head up.
At the sight of that dark-green four-word battle armor wrapped round the ten-thousand-year-old bark, his mouth twitched violently.
"Holy crap…"
"four-word battle armor?!"
"How did this old geezer get luckier than me?!"
Bear Lord swallowed; he might be thick, but he wasn't stupid.
He'd never worn the difference between three- and four-word sets, yet one look at the aura told him they weren't in the same league.
A moment ago it had been fifty-fifty; now it looked more like thirty-seventy.
He was the thirty, Ten Thousand Demon King the seventy.
"A-hem…"
Bear Lord coughed twice, eyes drifting as if he hadn't heard the taunt.
He'd chickened out!
This Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear, who feared neither heaven nor earth, had—for the first time in front of a Spirit Beast other than Di Tian—completely cowered.
"Hahaha!"
Red King, Demon Spirit, and the other ferocious beasts couldn't help laughing aloud.
Watching Bear Lord deflate was a rare spectacle in Star Dou Great Forest.
Ten Thousand Demon King felt fantastic.
"Hmph, you do know what's good for you."
With a cold snort he stowed the flashy armor.
After all, he wasn't the sort of tree that pressed every advantage.
They were all "colleagues"; they'd keep bumping into one another—best to leave a way out… "four-word battle armor…"
Qian Daoliu stared at the characters on the heavenly screen, the world spinning before him.
"Ten Thousand Demon King actually obtained a four-word set?!"
"That's the strongest sub-divine artifact for defense and amplification!"
Having just received his own four-word set, Holy Light Blazing Sun, Qian Daoliu knew its worth all too well.
Clad in it, even a Quasi-God could briefly erupt with near-godly might.
And Ten Thousand Demon King was a 600,000-year super-beast to begin with.
With that armor, his strength was now unimaginable.
Golden Crocodile Douluo beside him was already numb.
"Big brother, stop counting."
"The clearer the math, the deeper the despair."
"Six hundred millennia, four-word battle armor, Yin Yang Soul Core—only you, Bibi Dong, and maybe me could stand against that."
Bibi Dong sat on the Supreme Pontiff's throne, her face frighteningly dark.
She'd believed only existences on Di Tian or Snow Empress's level could earn four-word sets.
Yet now even the ninth-ranked Ten Thousand Demon King had one?
Then the beasts ranked above him surely each owned a set.
"What is the Heavenly Dao planning?"
The heavenly screen shimmered again.
[spirit beast cultivation ranking, 8th place: Emerald Swan (Jade Princess)]
[cultivation: 620,000 years]
[Location: Core Area of Star Dou Great Forest]
[Status: Chieftain of the Emerald Swan Clan]
[Evaluation: Guardian of life, possessor of a resurrection divine-skill, she is the goddess in every Spirit Beast's heart.]
[Rewards: +40,000 years cultivation, four-word battle armor Emerald Goddess, Yin Yang Soul Core, Staff of Life]
…"Boom!!!"
Beside the Lake of Life, Bi Ji's peerless figure bathed in a dazzling pillar of jade light.
620,000… 640,000… 660,000 years!
Her cultivation soared once more.
Inside her body, two soul cores began to rotate in opposite directions.
One embodied ultimate life, the other sacred purification.
Yin and yang complemented each other, endlessly regenerating.
Bi Ji's aura became unfathomable.
If before she'd felt only warm and gentle, now she resembled a true "Goddess of Life," sacred and inviolable.
"Clank!"
Countless emerald rays converged.
An exquisitely ornate full-body armor, brimming with divine beauty, sheathed her delicate form.
Its lines were graceful; every scale seemed carved from top-grade jade, exuding a soft yet resilient glow.
four-word battle armor—Emerald Goddess!
Armored, Bi Ji's bearing changed at once.
From a fragile healer she became an unshakable bastion of life.
She lifted a jade scepter topped with a colossal life-gem and swept it gently.
"Shield of Life!"
Buzz!
A paper-thin yet indestructible pale-green dome instantly covered a thousand-meter radius.
Bear Lord eyed the barrier, claws itching.
"Let's see how tough this shield is."
He poked it with the Dark Gold Emperor–armored claw.
Bang!
A thunderous crash!
An enormous recoil numbed his paw and snapped several prideful dark-gold hairs.
"Holy—?!"
Bear Lord stared as if he'd seen a ghost.
"It reflects damage!"
Bi Ji smiled. "Emerald Goddess doesn't just boost my healing."
"More importantly, it grants me powerful self-protection and counter-attacks."
"And…"
She tapped a withered ancient tree with her scepter.
"Life Deprivation!"
A green beam shot out.
In an instant!
The dead tree crumbled to ash as if eons had passed.
Bi Ji inhaled; the dissipated life-force turned into pure spirit power, even mending tiny scratches on her armor.
"Wherever there is life, I can endlessly replenish spirit power."
"Even enemies—I can drain their life to nourish myself."
Silence fell.
Once only a healer, she could now strip life with the Staff of Life.
Was she still a healing Spirit Beast?
Shouldn't life-type beasts be pure support?
How was this fair?
…The heavenly screen shifted again.
[spirit beast cultivation ranking, 7th place: Mermaid (Sea Princess)]
[cultivation: 740,000 years]
[Location: North Ice Sea]
[Status: Chieftain of the Mermaid Clan]
[Evaluation: Darling of both spirit and ocean; in the deep she is the undisputed Empress.]
[Rewards: +40,000 years cultivation, four-word battle armor Deep Blue Empress, Fragment of Water-God Heart (huge boost to water affinity), Mental Force Origin Crystal]
…"Boom!!!"
In the depths of North Ice Sea, inside the magnificent crystal palace.
Bathed in heavenly dao golden light, Sea Princess's already terrifying 740,000-year cultivation erupted once more.
740,000… 760,000… 780,000 years!
She was closing in on the 800,000-year threshold.
With the Fragment of Water-God Heart fused inside, she felt she had truly become mistress of this sea.
(End of Chapter)
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