At that moment, Tang San's divine sense finally locked onto Di Tian's exact location, successfully summoning over the super divine weapon—his self-proclaimed trump card to change the tide of battle.
Just moments ago, he was calm and composed, speaking of a shared bright future.
But now, Tang San had completely transformed.
He threw aside everything he just said like nonsense in the wind.
Conditions? What conditions?!
A lowly beast whose godhood hadn't even fully formed yet—how dare it try to negotiate terms with him, a dignified God King?!
Di Tian had chosen the path of death!
Tang San swung the Sea God Trident with the heavy force of faith it carried from the Sea God's divine inheritance. The weight of belief surged violently as he smashed it toward Di Tian.
"Hah!"
Di Tian roared. Behind him, the nascent Beast God divine position, though not yet fully formed, still radiated divine brilliance that shrouded him in power.
With divine force erupting, he wielded the Dragon-Slaying Blade in his left hand and the Black Dragon Sword in his right, striking upward to meet the attack.
Clang!
A metallic clang echoed loudly. The Black Dragon Sword was chipped, while the Dragon-Slaying Blade remained intact—but the left arm holding it trembled violently. Di Tian was clearly at a disadvantage.
Even the incomplete Beast God divine seat behind him quaked violently, faith energy leaking out—power that had yet to fully condense into a true godhood.
Though both the Beast God and Sea God positions were considered first-rank divine seats, the incomplete nature of the Beast God position left it lacking.
Despite having the upper hand, Tang San remained composed—not arrogant. He escalated his assault with words, aiming to mentally crush Di Tian.
"Di Tian, do you think you can withstand more than a few strikes with your divine weapon? How many divine weapons do you even have? How long can that incomplete Beast God position of yours last?"
"Heh…"
"If you submit—let me plant eighteen sealing restrictions inside your dragon body, and pledge eternal obedience to me—I might spare your life."
"In fact, once the God Realm returns, I may even allow you to mate with the divine dragons of the Divine Beast Forest and continue your dragon bloodline. What do you say?"
His words dripped with venomous insult, and his attacks were equally merciless.
The Sea God Trident danced wildly, its illusions numbering in the thousands, targeting Di Tian like a million spears—each one lethal.
Faced with both psychological and physical assault, Di Tian showed no emotional response. He offered no verbal retort—only action.
In response to the barrage of Sea God Tridents, space itself fractured. An equal number of divine weapons emerged in opposition, bursting with divine light.
Swords, spears, sabers, halberds—all types of divine weapons clashed with the incoming Sea God Tridents in a massive melee.
The tight defense held, preventing the enemy from gaining even a sliver of advantage.
Seeing his attack fail, Tang San swiftly recalled the Sea God Trident. He immediately changed tactics, avoiding the defensive formation and aiming straight for Di Tian's core.
This time, he brought to bear the full might of the super divine weapon—no ordinary divine artifacts could stand in its way.
Weapon after weapon surged from spatial portals to intercept the Sea God Trident, each glowing with divine force.
But it was all in vain.
The Sea God Trident's unstoppable edge carved through the interference, driving straight toward Di Tian's body.
Standing his ground, Di Tian's golden dragon eyes sharpened. He took one step forward, and his hands glowed with a dazzling nine-colored light.
Dragon God Claws!
His hands formed a yin-yang stance, generating a defensive rhythm that resonated with the very laws of heaven and earth.
He was actually going to catch a super divine weapon barehanded.
And he succeeded!
With the yin-yang defense and the Dragon God Claws, Di Tian caught the Sea God Trident with his bare hands.
Drip... drip...
Bright red blood flowed from between his palms.
Though it was liquid, each droplet hit the ground like a hammer, piercing deep into the earth.
The sight of Di Tian catching the Sea God Trident barehanded left Tang San in stunned disbelief.
How was this even possible?!
Even with his own strength, Di Tian shouldn't have been able to pull that off—not with just an incomplete Beast God position. That alone couldn't have allowed him to withstand such a blow.
The secret lay within—his Dragon God core, emitting blinding nine-colored light.
Even more bizarre, Di Tian's body—though it should have had two hearts and thus four heart chambers—had only three.
One chamber of the Dragon God core and one from his own heart had fused into a single, three-chambered heart.
A super divine-level three-chambered heart.
With this heart's support, Di Tian's body was akin to a living super divine artifact—thus making the impossible, possible.
His formidable regeneration soon healed the injuries sustained from catching the Sea God Trident.
But just as the healing completed, Tang San's next wave of attacks crashed down like a hurricane, relentlessly pressing Di Tian back.
Tang San had discovered the weakness—Di Tian's incomplete Beast God divine seat.
Though they had exchanged only a few blows, each one had been full force.
And already, the Beast God seat was beginning to falter, barely hanging on.
Its inner strength couldn't compare to the long-established, fully-formed Sea God seat.
Should the Beast God divine seat collapse, Di Tian's realm would fall. Even with a body as tough as a super divine weapon, he would be nothing more than dragon meat on a chopping block—doomed to die.
Meanwhile, while Tang San was cornering Di Tian toward death, something significant was also unfolding within the Blood River God-Slaying Formation.
"Whew~"
With no one disturbing her, the Demon Empress steadily advanced her breakthrough to godhood.
She had tried condensing a divine seat through the Blood River Formation, or aiming for a third-rank godhood.
But every attempt had failed.
The formation, despite the Abyssal Sacred Monarch's praise, wasn't perfect—it merely shielded the plane from external detection. A real divine breakthrough still required her own effort.
Now that she had succeeded, she found herself… a bit aimless.
Before the battle, Di Tian had told her: if he encountered trouble forming his divine seat, she was not to interfere.
She hadn't liked that at the time—it made sense before her breakthrough, but even afterward? That felt like a bit of an insult.
If she couldn't be the main attacker or supporter, could she at least play backup?
But now that she had touched the battlefield's core through the formation—
Her scalp tingled, hair stood on end, and pure dread filled her being.
She immediately understood: this was not a place she could meddle in.
Forget supporting—just passing through that battlefield without dying would already be a miracle.
With time and energy to spare, she turned her attention to something else—and realized something bizarre:
All her subordinates had disappeared.
This should've been impossible.
Sure, the ordinary evil soul masters might've left, but the Ghost Emperor and Nether Emperor? They were supposed to be waiting for her to finish her breakthrough so they could use the Blood River altar themselves.
Why would they leave?
Confused, she traced their presence through the formation.
And what she saw—
Shocked her beyond belief.
(End of Chapter)