From the Soul Motion Machine onwards, the Mechanized Douluo

Chapter 586 We left behind firewood to ignite the flame of civilization for future generations.

"You're saying this thing is a million-year-old soul beast???"

In the Ice and Fire Immortal Valley of Douluo Continent, a place that seemed like a fairyland, Lan Yuan used his soul power to hold the Heavenly Dream Giant Fat Worm with ten golden rings on its body, looking at Chen Hong with an incredulous expression. The latter simply shrugged and said helplessly, "Strictly speaking, you could say it's a million-year-old soul beast, and there's nothing wrong with that."

Tianmeng Ice Silkworm, held tightly in Lan Yuan's hand, trembled with fear. Its eyes were brimming with tears as it stared at Chen Hong with a pitiful look, as if it had suffered some kind of humiliation.

"..." Lan Yuan looked at the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm trembling in his hands, like a broken and delicate flower, and suddenly fell silent.

Chen Hong had told him, with a puzzled look, that he had discovered a million-year-old soul beast and wanted to bring it to him. However, at the time, Lan Yuan was extremely unwilling to believe it. Only after reaching this point did he understand just how terrifying the tribulation at the million-year level truly was, and how difficult it was for a soul beast to break through to that level! Nine out of ten chances of survival? No! A hundred chances of survival!

While Chen Hong and Ye Lingling were using the million-year lightning tribulation to refine their bodies and souls, the Deep Sea Demon Whale King also tried to withstand it head-on. However, just one million-year lightning tribulation almost killed the Deep Sea Demon Whale King! At the same time, the Deep Sea Demon Whale King realized a cruel fact: behind the million-year heavenly lightning sat a god-king!

The million-year tribulation of a soul beast will alarm the God King of the God Realm! The God King will personally handle the funeral arrangements for the soul beast! If Chen Hong and Ye Lingling hadn't been by his side, the Deep Sea Demon Whale King Lan Yuan would have been directly blasted to death when he received the first purple-gold destructive divine lightning!

Even the Deep Sea Demon Whale King heard a faint sigh coming from above the Heavenly Tribulation, as if it regretted not being able to kill the Deep Sea Demon Whale King with a single blow.

What are Chen Hong and Ye Lingling's backgrounds? And what are yours, Deep Sea Demon Whale King? The God of Destruction was willing to help Ye Lingling transform into a divine body, but what are you doing here, Deep Sea Demon Whale King? Are you looking for death?

So Lan Yuan understands just how terrifying a million-year lightning tribulation is, and now you're telling him that there's a million-year soul beast in the Douluo Realm?!

And it's the very bug right in front of you?!

"You...you...I'm warning you! Put me down right now! Show me some respect, I'm the first million-year soul beast in Douluo Continent!" Although he was trembling with fear from Lan Yuan's aura, Tianmeng Ice Silkworm was still somewhat unconvinced by Lan Yuan's humiliation. He wanted to defend his golden nameplate as a 'million-year soul beast'.

"." Lan Yuan didn't speak. He just stared intently at the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm in his hand with a solemn expression. This damned million-year soul beast, he could beat a hundred of it with one hand!

Seemingly sensing the terrifying pressure emanating from Lan Yuan, and feeling a little frightened under his angry gaze, Tianmeng Ice Silkworm could only whine and sob, "Waaaaah, brother, I'm not a million-year-old soul beast, waaaaah! Don't be angry, waaaaah! But I'm a million-year-old waste, not a million-year-old soul beast... waaaaah!"

"What the hell is this million-year-old soul beast? Anyone can be it if they want. Waaaaah, I only have a few days left to live, waaaaah, I can't even sleep too soundly, waaaaah!"

Tianmeng Ice Silkworm cried loudly, and its aggrieved appearance didn't seem fake at all. Furthermore, it had a clear understanding of its own situation: not a million-year-old soul beast, but a million-year-old waste.

"Why does this damn thing still have such a strong aura of tribulation lightning on its body?! Even stronger than mine?!" Lan Yuan, who could remain stuck at the 999999-year level without moving an inch, finally calmed his nameless rage and noticed the anomaly on the million-year-old waste, Tianmeng Ice Silkworm: it still possessed the aura of tribulation lightning! Tianmeng Ice Silkworm hadn't even undergone its million-year tribulation yet?!

How...how is this possible?!

Everyone else clearly goes through the tribulation first, and then breaks through to a higher realm after successfully overcoming it! How come in your case, you broke through to a higher realm first, and then went through the tribulation?! You've been trying to break through for so long, why hasn't the tribulation come down yet?!

What? Could it be that the God-King, who controls the destructive lightning of millions of years, got stuck in traffic on his way to work?!

"Waaaaah! Brother is going to die! Waaaaah!" Upon hearing this, Tianmeng Ice Silkworm cried even more bitterly. Originally, he was supposed to live for several thousand years, but now, he only has a few dozen or a hundred years left to live!

Lan Yuan possesses precise control over his cultivation level. Neither the Douluo Realm nor the God Realm has been able to help him break through the 'one-year' cultivation barrier. When the Sea God became a god, Lan Yuan had the same cultivation level. Now, the Sea God has been a god for two thousand years, but Lan Yuan's cultivation level remains the same. Other soul beasts cannot achieve such control over their cultivation level; their cultivation level automatically increases, gradually leading them to the executioner's block.

But the Deep Sea Demon Whale King is like a giant whale in a glass bottle; the guillotine at the bottle's opening can't reach him at all.

Lan Yuan has already exploited the world's bug; he has figured out the endless lifespan of soul beasts. He is able to outlive newcomers like the Evil Eye Tyrant and the Snow Empress at the special level of 999999 years.

The God Realm has always wanted to lure this giant whale out of the glass bottle and behead it, but the whale can't get out and won't leave. Now it's blocking the way and refusing to go out. As for the minor tribulations that soul beasts undergo every few hundred or thousand years, those tribulations are under the jurisdiction of the Douluo Realm, not the God Realm. And the minor tribulations of the Douluo Realm are nothing more than a tickle to the giant whale.

"Indeed, I originally just wanted to see if the Heavenly Embryo Pattern would affect the Million-Year Heavenly Tribulation, and I was even prepared to create a new body for the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm. But in the end, the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm is temporarily alive in a strange way." Chen Hong looked at the crying Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm with some helplessness, but when he saw the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm with its 'blackened forehead', he couldn't help but smile.

Chen Hong himself did not expect that the things left behind by the Soul Pattern Civilization of the previous era could still play a certain role in the terrifying realm of millions of years!

To this, Chen Hong could only comment: Terrifying!

As a civilization with soul patterns that are highly bound to soul beasts, their research into the rules of heaven and earth is simply beyond imagination!

Chen Hong even suspected that the Soul Pattern Civilization might be related to the Dragon Clan, or that the Soul Pattern Civilization inherited some knowledge from the Dragon Clan, thus creating a civilization that transcended its time in that chaotic era of gods and demons fighting each other!

The Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm before him was like a fingerprint left by a civilization from a previous era that had traversed tens of thousands of years. When Chen Hong pressed his finger on it, he felt that his thoughts had transcended time and space, and he had a spiritual resonance with the sages of another era!

"Although we believe in the wisdom of future generations, we still leave you a gift." In a daze, Chen Hong seemed to hear an old and kind voice coming from another time and space.

"We left behind firewood to ignite the flame of civilization for future generations."

(End of this chapter)