So, in the end, Di Hong chose to solidify his own arrogant will because he didn't want to become like the 'Di Hong' of the future!
Yun Ming let out a sigh; it really was like the process of growing up, killing one's former self to achieve a new self.
Di Hong didn't say anything more; the feeling of killing and devouring oneself was truly quite bizarre.
The two Ao Tian, seeing this result, exchanged a glance, feeling fortunate in their hearts that their counterpart wasn't some hot-headed fool, otherwise wouldn't they have had to experience the feeling of killing themselves too?!
Only Tian Ling, lacking any sense of boundaries, asked a question that made Di Hong very unhappy.
"Say, old Di! You were so brave in the past, how did you end up like this now?"
Everyone: "."
The originally somewhat sorrowful atmosphere at the scene was smashed to pieces.
Di Hong was extremely annoyed; what did he mean by 'ended up like this'? What was he like! And was this dead bird trying to pick a fight! Di Hong said coldly.
"Dead bird, don't call me old Di, or I'll finish you off!"
Tian Ling replied with a straight face.
"Alright, old Di! Got it, old Di!"
Di Hong: "(╬▔皿▔)凸"
He couldn't take it anymore; it was a do-or-die situation today.
Perhaps because both Tian Ling and Di Hong were avian fierce beasts, they had always been at odds, always liking to bicker with each other, and now that old friends had reunited, they naturally had to show it.
Seeing that the two were about to fight after only a few words, Yun Ming quickly stepped in to interrupt.
"Alright, that's enough!"
Tian Ling withdrew his sarcasm and replied with true seriousness.
"Yes, Master."
Seeing Tian Ling act like this, Di Hong was once again furious and turned his head away, refusing to speak.
The two Ao Tian felt a bit disappointed that they didn't end up fighting. Possessing turtle bloodlines, they were actually quite interested in watching birds tear each other apart.
Yun Ming shifted the topic back to Di Hong.
"Di Hong, do you have any bad feelings right now?"
Devouring oneself from a different time and space was a brand new development, and they didn't know if this would cause any unknown consequences.
After carefully sensing his own changes, Di Hong replied.
"After feeling that the digestion is complete, apart from a significant increase in my origin, I haven't discovered anything else for now."
Yun Ming pondered for a moment and said.
"Be careful in the future; when it comes to time and space, one cannot be careless!"
With all matters settled, Yun Ming began his breakthrough. As a circle of red-gold soul rings formed on his body, his soul power bottleneck, which had reached its limit, began to fluctuate once again.
Crack—
Yun Ming only felt a crisp sound in his ears; the bottleneck shattered, and his soul power, which had already reached its limit, grew once more.
Ninety-nine, ninety-one, ninety-two. Level ninety-three.
In a few moments, Yun Ming successfully broke through his realm, ultimately settling his cultivation at the peak of level ninety-three.
After Di Hong helped Yun Ming finish his breakthrough, he returned to the Atlas Divine Spear to enter seclusion and 'cultivate', and the other three Soul Spirits also took their leave one after another.
Orange-gold, black, black, white-gold, orange-gold, black-gold, orange-gold, orange-gold, red-gold; all nine soul rings were fully displayed. Aside from the two black ones that were slightly out of place, the other seven soul rings were, to be honest, not normal in the slightest. If other Soul Masters were to see all of Yun Ming's soul rings, it would surely overturn their worldview of Soul Masters.
Yun Ming opened his eyes, felt the familiar, majestic power within his body, and sighed in his heart.
Eighteen years since his rebirth, he had once again ascended to the realm of a Title Douluo. The Heaven-Reaching Douluo had finally returned!
After putting away the right arm bone left behind by Di Hong, Yun Ming prepared to return.
Looking at the endless Blue Waves around him, Yun Ming didn't know exactly where he was, but it didn't matter; he just needed to release his spiritual fluctuations to find out.
A point of golden light lit up between Yun Ming's brows, and circles of spiritual fluctuations, with the Desolate Island as the center, rapidly spread toward the distance. Wherever the spiritual fluctuations passed, rough information such as birds in the sky, fish in the sea, and sparse, desolate islands appeared before his eyes.
A vast amount of information flashed rapidly before Yun Ming's eyes. He identified them one by one; he found powerful and rare sea soul beasts and exotic species living on certain special desolate islands, but he found no signs of human activity.
Although Yun Ming hadn't probed very far, it was still over a hundred kilometers, and not finding a single trace of people meant he had drifted quite far off course! Clearing the messy thoughts from his mind, Yun Ming continued to probe.
Two hundred miles. Three hundred miles. Four hundred miles.
As the scope of his spiritual territory continued to grow, larger and more complex streams of information entered Yun Ming's mind, putting increasing pressure on him. Furthermore, his Spiritual Power was being consumed in large quantities during this expansion process.
At this moment, the golden light between Yun Ming's brows had been replaced by a dazzling Purple Gold Moon shadow; this was a sign that his Spirit Soul Core was erupting at full power. He had found many things: uninhabited islands, various deep-sea soul beasts, and even two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, but there were simply no people. Regarding this result, Yun Ming secretly guessed that he had likely landed in the middle of the ocean.
When the detection range approached a radius of five hundred and seventy miles, Yun Ming was nearing his limit when he finally discovered some useful information.
To the northeast of Yun Ming, an Azure Armor Phantom Dream Crab appeared. The crab roe of this creature was decent, but the meat was exceptionally succulent and rich in nutrients. It was named for the dreamlike feeling it gave one after a single bite, and for the crystalline azure armor covering its body. It was a rare delicacy among soul beast ingredients, loved by both soul beasts and Soul Masters, and it was also a common ingredient he used in his past life. It usually inhabited the continental slope, four thousand meters under the sea.
Compared to the sea soul beasts he had sensed earlier, the appearance of this Azure Armor Phantom Dream Crab indicated that the depth of the seabed in this direction was decreasing, which meant this direction was the closest to land!
Having made his judgment, a silver light array appeared around Yun Ming, and after a few breaths, he directly crossed the Void to the location he had sensed.
The Azure Armor Phantom Dream Crab was currently floating on the surface of the sea, bathing in the Sunlight. It was too popular; the daily life of being craved under the sea was simply not a life for a crab to live. Forced by necessity, it could only come up to avoid the pursuit of the gluttons in the sea, and incidentally, take a long-overdue sunbath. However, it hadn't been up for long before a shadow suddenly appeared above its head, blocking the Sunlight. Before it could react, it was lifted into the high sky by an inexplicable force, and then it saw a four-legged creature with green-glowing eyes looking it over. And then, it entered a world of darkness.
Yun Ming looked at the large crab before him, carefully examining its features before nodding. Not bad, it was a male crab of decent size and should have plenty of meat; he would take it. This creature was not something humans of this era could catch, so in this lifetime, he had never tasted one! He was truly a bit tempted.
Having settled his meal, Yun Ming released his Spiritual Power to continue scouting in this direction. The subsequent results were exactly as he had anticipated: the species of Sea Soul Beast were becoming increasingly similar to those found on the continent.
Upon obtaining these results, he performed three more long-distance Teleportation jumps. Finally, a blurry black shadow that seemed to have no end appeared before his eyes.
Yun Ming smiled slightly.
"Found it, the continent!"
He gauged the distance, gathered his Soul Power, and the Teleportation Technique light array reappeared; a few breaths later, he arrived directly at the coastline. However, what he saw next left Yun Ming a bit bewildered, because he discovered that this did not seem to be the Douluo Continent, so where exactly was this?
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