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"It's an unparalleled opportunity that can transform you and allow you to stand at the pinnacle of the world!"
"You actually refused?!"
"I heard you clearly, and I know what I'm saying." Luo Nan curled his lip, his tone somewhat disdainful.
"I'm not particularly interested in what you're saying."
Looking at Di Tian's astonished expression, Luo Nan couldn't help but sneer, his tone laced with mockery:
"Besides, Di Tian, don't you think your behavior is ridiculous?"
"Since you know the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King's burial place is in the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well of Sunset Forest,"
"That's a tremendous opportunity for your soul beast race, especially your dragon race!"
Luo Nan crossed his arms, leisurely watching Di Tian, and continued his barrage:
"As the saying goes, 'Don't let the good stuff go to outsiders.' Such a good thing,"
"Shouldn't you arrange for your high-level soul beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest to inherit it?"
"At the very least, you could absorb it yourself."
"No matter how you look at it, this kind of good fortune shouldn't fall to an outsider like me, right?"
"You, the mighty Beast God, neglect your own soul beasts and come all this way to find a lowly soul master like me to receive your inheritance."
"Do you think I believe in nonsense like 'manna from heaven'?"
Hearing Luo Nan's barbed question, especially the phrase "minor Soul Master," Di Tian was speechless.
Minor Soul Master?
You call someone who can manipulate the separated Martial Soul True Body of twin Martial Souls with unparalleled skill, someone who can fight him, the 800,000-year-old Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King, to a minor Soul Master?!
If even you, Luo Nan, are only a minor Soul Master, then what are the other Title Douluo on Douluo Continent?
Are they just mud on the ground?!
How could you even utter those three words?!
You have no shame whatsoever!
Di Tian's lips twitched violently, as if a thousand alpacas were stampeding through his mind.
But at this moment, he couldn't care less about criticizing Luo Nan's Versailles; his heart was completely filled with shock at Luo Nan's rejection.
He had imagined Luo Nan's elation, his doubts, even his attempts to use the opportunity to negotiate with various harsh conditions.
But he hadn't expected Luo Nan to refuse so decisively and without hesitation!
This was a divine inheritance!
How could any human in this world resist such temptation?!
Looking at Luo Nan's clear and firm eyes, Di Tian knew that the other wasn't playing hard to get, but genuinely didn't want to go.
As for the question Luo Nan had just raised—why not arrange for a soul beast to inherit it?
—an indescribable bitterness and sorrow welled up in Di Tian's heart.
Was it that he didn't want to? Was it that he was selflessly trying to give the opportunity to humans?
Absolutely not!
It was because he simply couldn't do it!
Although the Ice Dragon King and the Fire Dragon King had fallen millions of years ago, their remaining primordial power was still extremely strong.
That Yin-Yang Well of Ice and Fire was a product of their leaked power.
To dive underground and receive the inheritance, one must first face the extreme ice and fire power capable of instantly freezing a 100,000-year-old soul beast into an ice sculpture or burning it to ashes.
Among the entire soul beast race, the conditions for receiving this inheritance are outrageously demanding.
First, one must possess extremely pure and high-level dragon bloodline; otherwise, it's impossible to resonate with the remnant souls of the two dragon kings, and one might even be directly rejected and killed by that power.
Second, one must possess sufficiently strong strength and a physical body to withstand the baptism and impact of the extreme ice and fire power.
Finally, and most fatally, the recipient must possess extremely high affinity for both ice and fire attributes,
or a special physique capable of perfectly balancing these two extreme powers.
Looking across the Star Dou Great Forest, and even the entire Soul Beast world of Douluo Continent, there isn't a single Soul Beast that meets these criteria! Those
qualified in terms of bloodline, like Di Tian himself, or several other ferocious beasts deep within the Star Dou Great Forest, while possessing sufficient bloodline, have attributes that are completely mismatched.
Di Tian possesses the ultimate dark attribute; if he were to forcibly absorb the ultimate ice and fire power, there would only be one outcome: his body would explode and he would die.
Those Soul Beasts whose attributes are barely related are either of imperfect bloodlines or weak strength.
They can't even approach the core area of the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, let alone dive underground to receive the inheritance.
It can be said that Soul Beasts qualified in terms of bloodline are few and far between, and Soul Beasts possessing both strength and attribute compatibility simply don't exist!
If he had a choice, how could Di Tian be willing to place the hope of the Dragon Clan's revival on a human?
How could Luo Nan be allowed to be so picky?
It's precisely because Luo Nan possesses two top-tier Dragon Clan Martial Souls—the Golden Sacred Dragon and the Dark Demon Dragon—and his strength has already reached an extremely terrifying level.
He had become the only perfect vessel in Di Tian's eyes capable of bearing the inheritance of the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings!
"Luo Nan..."
Di Tian took a deep breath, suppressing the bitterness and anxiety in his heart. His golden eyes revealed an unprecedented solemnity and pleading.
"Do you think I don't want the soul beasts to go?"
"Do you think I'm willing to hand over the Dragon Clan's supreme treasure?"
"I had no choice. The entire soul beast race had no choice. The power there is too violent, too extreme."
"Except for you, except for you, this freak who possesses twin top-tier dragon martial souls and whose strength has already reached its peak."
"In this world, there is no one else who can bear the inheritance of two Dragon Kings!"
Di Tian stared intently at Luo Nan, his tone filled with resentment:
"Do you know that what you're rejecting is not just a power, but also..."
"Stop!"
Luo Nan raised his hand without hesitation, interrupting Di Tian's grand narrative and moral blackmail.
"I don't care what hardships your soul beast race has, nor what reasons you have for not having a choice."
"I only know that I am a human. I don't want to get involved in your messy grudges with the God Realm."
"No matter how good this opportunity is, I don't care."
Luo Nan turned around, and the dark dragon wings on his back unfolded again, making a whooshing sound.
"That's the end of today's topic. Di Tian, since you haven't harmed my family, I won't fight you to the death today."
"But if you dare to bother me with these matters again, or try to threaten me with my family..."
Luo Nan slightly turned his head, glancing at Di Tian out of the corner of his eye.
"I guarantee that I will make you, and the entire Star Dou Great Forest behind you, pay an unbearable price!"
Before he finished speaking, Luo Nan's wings suddenly flapped, and he transformed into a black streak of light.
Without looking back, he sped off towards the direction of Heaven Dou City.
Only Di Tian was left standing alone on the wasteland, watching his departing figure, speechless for a long time.
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