Chapter 250: Di Tian: “gah! My Father Killed My Aunt?!”
“This one, this one, and this one too.”
“One of each of these, thank you.”
The Water Dragon King led the Core Area’s fierce beasts to eat in a restaurant in Star Luo City.
This restaurant was not luxurious, just a fairly ordinary one.
These fierce beasts, who were usually lively and ferocious, were all sitting obediently in their seats at this moment, not daring to move.
Even the Ten Thousand Demon King, who was always scheming and full of mischief in the past, now had clear cyan-green eyes like a fresh-out-of-school college student, his entire tree filled with a fawning aura.
The name the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm gave him was spot on; it was worthy of being that terrifying bug that had tangled with these fierce beasts for ten thousand years in the Lake of Life.
This silence lasted until the food was served. Chi Wang saw the dishes on the table, mouth agape, tongue out, panting hot air, while Di Tian silently watched Chi Wang with his gaze.
Chi Wang immediately felt like thorns were pricking his back, straightened his body at once, retracted his tongue, eyes firm as if wanting to join the party.
The Water Dragon King’s eyes carried a smile as she looked at these fierce beasts and said:
“Eat up.”
“Don’t mind the simple dishes.”
With the big shot giving the word, Xiong Jun and the others finally dared to use their chopsticks. Normally, Xiong Jun didn’t like using chopsticks; he preferred stabbing food with his Dark Gold Terrorclaw.
But in front of the genuine Nine Great Dragon Kings, Xiong Jun had learned humility.
Di Tian finally couldn’t hold back anymore at this point, looked toward his aunt, and said somewhat anxiously:
“Aunt.”
“Since you’re still on the Douluo Continent, why haven’t you come to the Star Dou Great Forest to find me?”
“I’ve always missed you all.”
The Water Dragon King gently shook her head and said regretfully:
“Di Tian, feel my state carefully.”
Because the Water Dragon King was an elder Di Tian respected, he had never dared to probe her with spiritual power.
In the Dragon God Realm, such behavior could be called blaspheming a Dragon King. Even as the child of the Light Dragon King and Dark Dragon King, he would face severe punishment.
With the Water Dragon King’s permission, Di Tian lowered his head and said:
“Forgive my offense, Aunt.”
He slightly extended his spiritual power, sensed her state, understood everything, sighed, and said:
“I see.”
“It’s a soul spirit.”
“Aunt, you didn’t survive that Great Calamity either.”
“But how could this be?! Doesn’t the Lord love you the most?”
“Could the Lord truly have gone mad without reason?!”
Di Tian’s gaze was full of confusion; he couldn’t imagine the Dragon God laying a deadly hand on the Water Dragon King.
The Water Dragon King blinked her deep blue eyes, her gaze gentle as water, never carrying a trace of blame.
“The Lord didn’t lay a hand on me.”
“I lived until the final moment.”
“I, Light, Darkness, and the other five God Kings finally succeeded in pinning the Lord onto the Divine Star altar.”
“At that time, the Lord’s once sacred and majestic nine-colored body was dim and lifeless, covered in fatal wounds.”
“His aura had also fallen to the level of an ordinary God King.”
Di Tian couldn’t help but interject and ask:
“Then why did you fall, Aunt?”
“Was it the Lord’s bloodline automatically protecting its master?”
The Water Dragon King wasn’t sure whether to tell him. Though it was the Light Dragon King who killed her, she wouldn’t blame that sin on Di Tian.
In truth, after later forming the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with the Fire Dragon King on the Douluo Continent, she had roughly understood why Light and Darkness chose to do that, but understanding it didn’t mean she accepted it.
At the time, those two simply thought the Dragon God’s death was inevitable. For the God Realm to continue, they had to kill the Dragon God.
But the Dragon Kings were ultimately the Dragon God’s children and couldn’t just watch the Dragon God be slain. The Light Dragon King finally chose the most direct and stupid method: kill all the Dragon Kings first, then let the Asura God and others act.
When the Fire Dragon King’s divine soul heard that, her entire dragon was furious; she hadn’t expected the Light Dragon King to be that stupid.
The one method that could collapse the God Realm was actually found by that fool Light Dragon King.
She even suspected if the Light Dragon King was a spy sent from another God Realm. Bad guys rack their brains, but fools stumble upon it by accident.
A mere subordinate actually schemed for his lord; even the Lord himself would never let the other Dragon Kings perish with him just because he was dying.
The situation at the time was eight God Kings: humans, Dragon Clan, and other Beast Clan.
They assisted each other, theoretically able to barely stabilize the God Realm’s state. Though shrunken, the foundation remained.
Given time, it wasn’t impossible to recover to peak condition.
The Light Dragon King had a flash of inspiration, shattering the God Realm completely, nearly wiping out all Beast Clan deities.
Knowing it would end like this, the Fire Dragon King thought it would have been better to risk her life back then to take out the Light Dragon King in one go.
At least that way, the outcome wouldn’t have been even worse.
The Water Dragon King had let it go. In her view, what happened had happened; it was all in the past. She and the other were just remnant souls now—obsessing over it meant nothing.
Seeing the Water Dragon King silent for so long, Di Tian vaguely sensed the answer might be beyond his expectations.
“Aunt, please tell me.”
“I want to know the truth.”
Looking at Di Tian’s firm gaze, the Water Dragon King finally said softly:
“The Light Dragon King killed me.”
“If I guessed right, Light and Darkness should have annihilated together.”
Di Tian’s pupils shrank, ears buzzing, mind blank, unable to fathom what he had just heard.
Chi Wang, who was feasting on the gossip nearby, suddenly felt a stomachache and hurriedly said to Di Tian:
“First Brother!”
“Um, Your Excellency Water Dragon King.”
“I think I ate something bad; the Star Luo Imperial Family is so inauthentic!”
“I’ll go to the toilet first.”
Chi Wang slipped away oiling his soles. Was this a topic a three hundred thousand year dog like him could listen to? Better to scram respectfully.
The Ten Thousand Demon King’s pupils quaked too, and he hurriedly said:
“First Brother!”
“My subordinate just told me, the Blue Silver King in the neighboring Blue Silver Forest has given birth!”
“I’ll go offer condolences. You know me; I’ve always had a crush on her.”
Xiong Jun looked around, scratched his cheek with his claw, then said in a gruff voice:
“First Brother, my tooth suddenly hurts. Probably drank too much cola; going to see the vet.”
“I’m out first.”
Xiong Jun’s burly frame stood up, clutching his right cheek, pretending as he left.
Zi Ji and Bi Ji gently bowed slightly to Di Tian and the Water Dragon King, then left.
After a good while, Di Tian finally recovered from his shock, staring blankly at the Water Dragon King, murmuring:
“Why would Father do this?”
“I…”
Di Tian felt endless pain, slumping in his chair. He hadn’t expected his father to kill his aunt with his own hands.
The Water Dragon King gently soothed Di Tian’s inner unease and grief with spiritual power, her voice still gentle as water.
“Because in his view, the Dragon Kings had to die before the Lord. Only by stepping over our bodies could outsiders act against the Lord.”
Di Tian suddenly looked up and said:
“But even so, Father couldn’t kill you!”
“Dragon Kings cannot kill each other; that’s a rule set by the Dragon God!”
“Father is the Dragon King in charge of law enforcement; how could he not know?!”
“Father ultimately committed a great sin!”
Di Tian was smart. Through the Space Dragon King and Water Dragon King’s accounts, he had figured out the tragedy of the Dragon God War.
All the puzzle pieces were now in his hands; that history surfaced in Di Tian’s mind.
The Dragon God, influenced by the rules, fell into madness, the God Realm collapsed, and the Dragon Kings’ deaths were the beginning of it all.
His father killing the Water Dragon King, then annihilating with his mother, was the true catalyst of the Dragon God War.
With all Nine Great Dragon Kings dead, no one with enough prestige remained to explain everything clearly to the Dragon Clan.
The Asura God and others were speechless, like mud in the crotch—not shit but still shit. The two races finally erupted into war, and the God Realm fully collapsed.
Later, humanity won, nearly wiping out all Beast Clan deities. Before the Asura God slew the Dragon God, the Dragon God personally shackled the Beast Clan, forbidding them from becoming gods.
Di Tian now had only one last question: why did the Dragon God shackle the Beast Clan, and what was the purpose?
He was about to speak when the Water Dragon King seemed to guess his thoughts, shook her head, and said:
“You should have pieced together the entire process of that tragedy by now.”
“I won’t say more.”
“As for that question in your heart, I don’t know either.”
“What the Lord was thinking in the final period, perhaps only the original Asura, Kindness, and Evil know.”
“Alright, little Di Tian, let the past stay in the past.”
“Look, the Beast Clan is thriving now. I believe humanity and the Beast Clan can return to the friendly prosperity of the Dragon God Realm era.”
“I heard him say you’re the Beast God now.”
“What a majestic title.”
“The burden of the Beast Clan is on your shoulders now.”
“Keep it up.”
The Water Dragon King ruffled Di Tian’s dog head vigorously; Di Tian helplessly endured the action like comforting a child.
Suddenly, his spiritual power stirred. With a glance out the window from the corner of his eye, he spotted Chi Wang, the Ten Thousand Demon King, and Xiong Jun—the three schemers—using the Magic Net to record a video.
“Awesome!”
“First Brother showing that expression.”
“This time, even death would be worth the ticket price!”
Chi Wang had the face of a bloodthirsty spectator.
Soon they suddenly noticed Di Tian’s figure vanish from the Magic Net Light Screen, a thick darkness appearing behind them.
“Heh, stomachache, Blue Silver King giving birth, toothache.”
“You handled your business pretty quickly, huh?”
“Looks like you’re all tired of living.”
