15)Power of Luck

Erym was also a bit surprised in his mind; Wūgūi's behavior reminded him of a certain golden turtle from a novel in his old world.

"Hmph, you insult me behind my back, turtle," Shényú's voice sounded in everyone's mind, and the next second he fell beside Wūgūi, with an ant lying beneath his claws.

Erym and Dugu Bo recognized the ant; it was a fifteen-ton emperor ant, only in its infant state.

Dugu Bo noticed the small details of this ant, having seen the Emperor Ants of the Duo Star Forest, while Erym could sense the purity of its lineage and the strength contained in the ant's body through his heightened senses and the support of the Insect Board.

Both wanted to ask how he found this rare specimen, but Wūgūi and Shényú began to argue among themselves.

"Come and I will insult you just the same, stupid bird, if you hadn't bothered me I would have woken up after reaching 10,000 years of power," Wūgūi looked at the bird in front of him and stretched his long neck to bring it closer to his face.

Shényú snorted and threw the ant in his claws aside, then faced the golden turtle. "If I hadn't found you, some other predator would have hunted you to break the 10,000-year barrier or even the 100,000-year one, you should thank and worship me as your savior." Although he had awakened his full spirituality and gained the wisdom of his predecessors, his aggressive temperament remained within him, not for nothing would he become a savage destroyer with the curse of the gods.

"The only thing I have to thank you for is bringing me to meet his holiness, and even then my gratitude falls on him, not you," Wūgūi finished speaking and stomped with force, filling the ground with a golden glow and releasing the pressure of a spiritual beast, reaching one similar to a 40,000-year-old beast.

Shényú saw the actions of the turtle and spread his wings, releasing his spiritual beast aura that matched the quality of Wūgūi's.

Dugu Bo saw this and frowned, then snorted and released the pressure of a Titled Douluo to suppress both beasts. "Stop making noise, we don't need to attract other beasts," with Dugu Bo's pressure on them, both beasts calmed down while looking at the human with resentful eyes.

Both beasts distanced themselves and looked towards Erym with respect, and then Shényú spoke first. "Your holiness, I found this infant emperor ant a few weeks ago, it seems it was brought here by a third party, I found it and hid it in a place where no one would find it and I was going to eat it to break my 5,000-year power barrier." The bird's honesty surprised everyone, no one expected him to dare to capture an infant emperor ant to eat it at a future date.

Dugu Bo wondered who brought this infant here, as this type of ant is more common in the star forest, although he would know later when it gained spirituality by becoming Erym's ring.

Erym could guess who brought this infant, only the 90,000-year-old emperors in the star forest could protect this infant, either with the goal of giving it a less dangerous environment and more opportunity to reach 100,000 years, or to let it grow and then eat it to help them break the 100,000-year barrier.

"Well done. This type of ant is the most suitable for the Insect Board, its pure attribute is the best among the thousand-year beasts," Erym became more sensitive to the attributes of all around him as he absorbed more rings and the deeper possession of Arceus by releasing his martial soul.

Shényú showed a happy expression and then looked at Wūgūi with 'look, he favors me' eyes, the latter saw the gaze of his fellow beast and felt annoyed inside, although his annoyance was short-lived when an idea came to his mind.

"Your holiness, I can help you complete the evolution of the spiritual ring before its full integration," Wūgūi's words caught everyone's attention.

They knew that this Infant Emperor Ant was on the verge of a thousand years and only lacked the last step to reach 10,000 years of power.

"How will you do that?" Erym asked curiously, he didn't know much about the evolution requirements of each spiritual beast, apart from needing energy and resources, reaching 99,999 years of power was relatively simple, the difficult part came after the 100,000 years when the spiritual beast needs to undergo the celestial tribulation to go beyond.

"I will use the power of luck, just as my ring grew a few hundred years, I can help the 9,999-year ring to reach 10,000 years using the power of luck," with his recent evolution he became more aware of the power of luck, it was no problem to use the current accumulated luck power to bring a spiritual ring to 10,000 years, although he would have to slowly accumulate luck power again for future uses.

The words of the golden turtle surprised those present, and the Dugu family was even more amazed and marveled at the illusory power of luck.

Erym knew that the power of luck was capable of such a thing, as he knew that the power of destiny and karma also existed, the chosen ones carry the luck and destiny of the world or a species on them, clear examples are Tang San, Huo Yuhao, Tang Wulin, etc.

Killing a chosen one is always problematic or brings catastrophes or unpredictable changes, for example, if he wanted to prevent the birth of Tang San he would have to annihilate the entire Haotian sect and Ah Yin, even so, he could still reincarnate here since the Shura God is behind the scenes manipulating things.