(T/N: This is actually chapter 994 in the raw, it's missing from the website I use. I've checked other sites but they're all paywalled and don't allow specific chapters to be unlocked. Considering this is chapter 994, I'll have to spend ~$200 to unlock up to here.)
However, not all managed to escape the control of the Kindness God King.
For instance, Poseidon.
Originally, Poseidon had intended to charge at Ye Tianhun and the others. But at the last moment, he stopped in his tracks, his expression shifting as he struggled painfully for a while before regaining composure.
Poseidon panted heavily, his face reflecting a sense of having narrowly escaped death.
"Damn it, that old hag can actually forcibly manipulate my thoughts. No way, I can't stay in this cursed god realm any longer; I need to get out of here!"
As Poseidon grumbled, he attempted to fly towards the boundary of the god realm but remained cautious, looking around in all directions to locate the traces of the Kindness and Evil God Kings, hoping they wouldn't discover his attempt to flee.
But with just one glance, Poseidon was terrified out of his wits.
Unbeknownst to him, the Kindness God King had already appeared behind him, wearing a warm smile.
"Oh my, isn't it little Poseidon? Who would have thought that you, a late bloomer, would surpass all the 1st Class gods in cultivation.
However, intending to flee during such an important moment concerning the honor of the god realm is not very obedient."
Though the Kindness God King's tone was soothing, Poseidon felt as if he had fallen into an icy abyss.
Poseidon considered making excuses about returning to the battle to see if he could save his life. However, the Kindness God King acted more decisively than he anticipated.
Suddenly, Poseidon felt a sharp pain in his chest. He hadn't seen any movement from the Kindness God King, yet his divine heart had been extracted.
But such a fatal wound, as severe as it was, couldn't end the life of a 1st Class god.
Moreover, the extraction of his heart wasn't the most serious injury Poseidon suffered. He realized that both his divine body and soul had been torn apart. Now, even the slightest touch from anyone would shatter him like broken porcelain, beyond repair.
At this moment, a look of pleading appeared in Poseidon's eyes. He had spent thousands of years cultivating to reach his current level, and he still had countless good times ahead to enjoy. He didn't want to die!
However, the Kindness God King, the instigator of this situation, remained calm and gently stroked her palm, completely erasing Poseidon, then said angrily,
"Retreating on the battlefield is not what a kind god should do. Moreover, you've lost your divine position, making you utterly worthless!"
In his final moments, as his divine soul was about to disperse entirely, Poseidon couldn't understand why he, a 1st Class god, had become worthless without his divine position.
After dealing with the deserter, the Kindness God King turned her gaze toward the black sphere at the center of the god realm.
That was Ye Tianhun's divine domain.
"What a wonderful technique. Death laws shouldn't include spatial abilities, yet these enemies are unprecedentedly powerful," praised the Kindness God King.
Soon, a look of helplessness appeared in the Kindness God King's eyes. With a compassionate demeanor, she clasped her hands together once more.
"Poor little ones. Myself and Evil loosened the restrictions to allow you juniors to cultivate and serve as backup measures for the god realm. Yet, due to the disparity in strength, you haven't achieved anything.
If that's the case, I hope you won't blame me for being ruthless. Let your final contribution be for the glory of the god realm.
To sacrifice oneself for the home that has nurtured you for so many years is truly a tragic beauty of kindness.
Though it's regrettable, brave warriors of the god realm, please devote everything you have."
As the Kindness God King finished speaking, the ominous divine domain suddenly erupted with cracks resembling those of breaking eggshells.
The scene returned to Ye Tianhun's Death Domain.
Due to the absolute suppression of cultivation and laws, even the remaining seven elemental gods plus the Asura God, all 1st Class gods, could only barely survive within Ye Tianhun's domain. But the lower-level priests and third- and 2nd Class gods began to die in large numbers.
Because Ye Tianhun's domain isolated the internal and external space, even the powerful 1st Class gods regained some self-awareness amidst the despair of their dire situation.
At this moment, the Water God shouted fearfully to the Space God,
"Boss, save us! Hurry up and open a spatial passage! Stop dawdling, or we're dead!"
"Stop yelling! I'm doing my best!"
The Space God currently had his hands clasped in front of his chest, fully channeling his spatial divine power. His face was pale with panic, clearly aware that even all seven elemental gods combined couldn't defeat Ye Tianhun.
But facing the overwhelming disparity in cultivation and Ye Wen's domain designed based on his spatial abilities, how could a mere 1st Class god like the Space God crack it from the inside?
As the battle continued, the other six elemental gods on the front lines started to sustain injuries, worsening their already critical conditions.
Undeniably, the combined ultimate skill of the seven elemental gods, "Judgment of Elements," could rival a god king. Covering the seven fundamental attributes of this universe, it could suppress the abilities of most deities.
Unfortunately, they encountered Ye Tianhun, the extreme attribute Death God. In the face of the omnipresent Death Force, their seven elements essential for world operation were useless.
But after a long period of ease, the somewhat ignorant Space God, facing a technological gap of tens of thousands of years, persisted in struggling with spatial power, trying to open a passage from Ye Tianhun's Death Domain to the outside world.
Ultimately, the six other elemental gods couldn't hold on. One by one, they were beaten by undead creatures, losing consciousness. Their divine bodies and souls began to be eroded by Ye Tianhun's Death Force, leaving no hope for survival.
Facing such a desperate situation, the Space God, leader of the seven elemental gods, finally understood the predicament they were in. Deep despair welled up in his eyes.
"Damn Kindness and Evil, you're too cruel. We used to work under you. If it weren't for your control earlier, we could have escaped!"
While resisting the attacks of the undead creatures, attempting a final struggle, the Space God roared in despair.
But the Space God was naive. Soon, something even more despair-inducing occurred.
Seeing the previously pale and desperate Space God suddenly stiffen upon sensing internal disturbances, he ceased resistance entirely, accepting his fate. Finally, he muttered,
"Damn it, I should have realized those scum—"
His words abruptly cut off, similar to the fate of many gods struggling in their final moments.
The gods who were still putting up fierce resistance now all gave up, enduring the attacks of the undead creatures head-on.
But at this moment, they seemed to feel no pain, their eyes filled with zeal, chanting in unison.
"Long live the glory of the god realm!!!"
As the chant ended, the 3rd Class gods began to collectively self-detonate, followed by the 2nd Class gods! Finally, the 1st Class gods!
In their final moments, the Space God, among the top tier of 1st Class gods beneath the God King, regained his self-awareness.
By now, he fully understood the reason behind the current scenario.
The gods of the god realm must leave behind their divine positions to depart this world—a new rule established by the five God Kings after the Dragon God era.
Of course, there were dissenters in the past, but faced with the absolute suppression of God King-level power, the gods ultimately had to accept this rule. Eventually, the core of the god realm placed constraints on all gods holding divine positions.
Subsequently, the five God Kings also imposed restrictions on their own divine positions via the god realm. In the end, the gods suppressed their grievances.
After all, whether human or god, people don't resent inequality as much as scarcity. The leaders had set the example, and the lesser gods dared not object. Did they think these God King-level beings became rulers of the god realm through virtue?
The gods back then clearly understood that if anyone dared oppose in such situations, these God King leaders wouldn't hesitate to strip them of their divine positions and find new successors.
Since then, the god realm had remained peaceful, and the ancient discontent was subconsciously forgotten by the gods.
However, during the recent god war, the Space God keenly noticed that complete control of the god realm core had fallen into the hands of the Kindness God King, which explained the rapid restoration of the god realm earlier.
Initially, the Space God was pleased because the backbone of the god realm had returned. Even if the enemy was strong, they would surely perish against two Supreme God Kings.
But as the battle progressed, the Space God gradually realized something was amiss.
And in this final moment of forced self-detonation, the Space God connected all the clues from the past and present. From the very beginning, the Kindness God King had been playing both sides.
This god realm had always been in her grasp. Perhaps some God Kings in the god realm council genuinely had restrictions imposed on them.
But damn it, the Kindness God King absolutely did not!
At this moment, the Space God's eyes brimmed with regret as he said,
"Bitch! Your schemes run deep!
Kindness!? What bullshit kindness!
You damned bitch! I, Urades, the Space God, curse you to die in eternal torment without a resting place!
Ahhhh!!!"
Finally, accompanied by Urades' curse and scream, the strongest 1st Class god except for the Sea God also shone with his final brilliance within Ye Tianhun's Death Domain.
The divine position, besides being a vessel for gods to comprehend laws and a key to unlock spatial realms, was essentially composed of highly concentrated faith energy.
Therefore, it could also serve as a hidden reserve energy source for gods. If they weren't afraid of damaging their comprehension of laws, they could burn their divine positions during desperate times to gain stronger divine power boosts.
However, in this peaceful and remote universe, the god realm hadn't faced enemies powerful enough to warrant burning divine positions for countless years.
Moreover, mutual slaughter was forbidden in the god realm, so its gods had unconsciously forgotten this usage of divine positions.
But the calculating Kindness God King, who never considered these lesser gods as her own from the start, remembered it all along.
Holding a 1st Class divine position, the maximum force one could unleash was equivalent to a 1st Class god.
Of course, if paired with a super divine artifact, that would be another matter.
But if one detonated the divine position as a bomb, while low-tier divine positions might be uncertain, a 1st Class god's divine position could briefly unleash power comparable to a full-force attack by a God King.
And it would be an indiscriminate, all-out attack on everyone!
However, since the Kindness God King's method was applied to the divine positions, she had pulled the corpses of the Seven Deadly Sins gods into the divine domain.
Thus, Ye Tianhun wasn't facing the self-detonation of merely eight 1st Class gods: the seven elemental gods plus the Asura God. Instead, it was the combined self-detonation of at least fifteen 1st Class gods, including the Seven Deadly Sins, seven elemental gods, and the Asura God!
Besides that, there were hundreds of 2nd Class gods and thousands of 3rd Class gods detonating simultaneously!
Ye Tianhun's divine domain appeared to have infinite internal space but was actually finite. Thus, Ye Tianhun couldn't rely on spatial teleportation to evade these suicidal attacks.
Realizing the danger, Ye Tianhun tried to dispel the divine domain, but the gods' self-detonations came prematurely.
Within this confined space, he faced the ferocious, all-out self-detonation attacks of nearly twenty God King-level beings.
As expected, Ye Tianhun's divine domain shattered!
But compared to the backlash of the skill, the attack Ye Tianhun faced now was trivial.
Outside—
The Evil God King appeared to be fighting a two-on-one battle with Huo Yu'er.
However, the Kindness God King, who had been lurking on the periphery, had already focused her attention here. Both sides were formidable opponents and naturally wouldn't casually reveal their trump cards. They were continuously probing each other's weaknesses.
Thus, the battle was restrained at this moment.
But with the shattering of Ye Tianhun's divine domain, this restrained balance was broken.
Under the explosive energy of the gods' self-detonation, nothing remained of the gods of the god realm.
And Ye Tianhun, thanks to his top-tier divine armor, barely survived the terrifying explosion.
But as a price, his divine armor was shattered beyond recognition, starting to break apart and fall in the air. Ye Tianhun himself had become a lump of charcoal. His arms were gradually carbonizing and dissipating, and his legs were long gone, leaving him looking like he was about to turn into a human stump.
Bibi Dong, who had appeared aloof and queen-like just moments ago, instantly lost emotional control. Her entire being exuded an overwhelming and terrifying killing intent, and she screamed hysterically!
"Hun'er!!!"
Amidst extreme joy and sorrow, whether human or god, vulnerabilities would surface.
And the heartless Evil God King obviously wouldn't miss this opportunity. His eyes gleamed fiercely as he charged forward, wielding the Scales of Judgment.
Huo Yu'er frowned slightly. Though she didn't have much affection for Ye Tianhun, as long as he was Ye Wen's child, she felt a tinge of displeasure.
But being more composed, she immediately blocked the Evil God King's attack to protect Bibi Dong and rescue Ye Tianhun.
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