The six God Kings of the God Realm began scrutinizing Tang San with their gazes.
To be honest, they were still not entirely convinced of Tang San's control over the Great God Circle.
The plan to merge the seven divine realms into the Great God Circle was proposed by them. The Douluo God Realm had only joined later after learning of the situation. However, due to the sheer scale of the Douluo God Realm, Tang San seized the opportunity to claim managerial authority over the Great God Circle.
Following that, the Douluo God Realm and the other six divine realms engaged in a fierce contest.
In the end, the Douluo God Realm emerged victorious, but the power Tang San used left everyone puzzled.
The six God Kings all felt that Tang San wasn't using his own strength.
After all, Tang San was only the Sea God, and even with Xiao Wu's assistance as the Sheath of Asura, their combined power shouldn't have matched the level of strength he displayed.
Of course, if things had progressed normally, it wouldn't have mattered—sometimes, skill simply falls short.
But now, the power of the Douluo God Realm was waning, and it was even affecting the entire Great God Circle.
At this moment, they began to consider whether they should renegotiate the issue of managerial authority.
After all, the contribution of the Douluo God Realm to the Great God Circle no longer seemed overwhelming enough to justify its dominance.
If the premise of the original contest no longer existed, did the results of the contest still need to be upheld?
Of course, the six God Kings were merely contemplating this; they hadn't taken any concrete actions yet.
They were well aware that the power Tang San had displayed at the time far exceeded their current levels.
If that power wasn't a fleeting phenomenon but something Tang San could consistently wield, then bringing up the initial conditions of the contest would seem laughable in light of the results.
Ultimately, it was Changgong Wei of the Light God Realm who stepped forward to question Tang San.
"Tang San, we formed the Great God Circle to harness the energy generated from the collision of the seven divine realms to propel the Great God Circle out of the black hole. It's still uncertain whether this energy will be enough for us to escape. But now, the rapid weakening of the Douluo God Realm may very well cause our entire plan to fail!"
Tang San's expression darkened.
He was fully aware of this.
In fact, the current weakening of the Douluo God Realm was also part of the energy calculations for the Great God Circle.
As the Douluo God Realm declined, the overall momentum of the Great God Circle escaping the black hole was simultaneously decreasing.
The key issue was that Tang San didn't know how far the Douluo God Realm would weaken.
If it was just a temporary decline due to losing support from planes like Douluo, it wouldn't be too bad. But if it was an endless weakening at the foundation level, that would spell disaster.
Changgong Wei's questioning brought Tang San's concerns into the open.
"Rest assured. Although the Douluo God Realm is based on planes like Douluo, it is an independent system. It's just that there was too much energy from subordinate planes that hadn't been fully assimilated."
As Tang San spoke, he felt his heart bleeding.
Because most of what the Douluo God Realm had lost were the foundations he had painstakingly gathered from various planes.
Before the temporal and spatial turbulence arrived, the Douluo God Realm had accumulated a vast reservoir of resources—resources that could have been used to expand the God Realm. However, Tang San had foreseen the crisis and rejected the God of Destruction's proposal, leaving those resources untouched.
In reality, if another crisis were to arise, it would have been more reasonable to consume those resources beforehand to strengthen the God Realm and better prepare for the threat.
The reason Tang San rejected the God of Destruction's proposal was that he intended to use those resources primarily for his allies during the crisis.
When the Great God Circle was formed, the first generation of Shrek's Seven Monsters had already benefited from it, but the energy was still insufficient. Now, with this energy dissipating, it would be difficult to fill the gaps in their divine positions.
Moreover, much of this foundational energy was prepared for Tang San himself.
He had long realized the incompleteness of the Asura God position and was trying to repair it. Even if he couldn't fully restore it, he aimed to at least glimpse the true nature of the Asura God position and transfer the corresponding power to the Sea God position, creating an alternative fusion to achieve a monumental leap for the Sea God position.
But before any of these plans could begin, they were already on the verge of collapse.
Tang San harbored even greater resentment toward Xu Yuan, the root cause of all his troubles.
Xu Yuan had killed his son, and now he was cutting off his path. Between the two, it was a matter of life and death.
"Xu Yuan, once I get out, I will crush your bones and scatter your ashes!"
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Xu Yuan was unaware of what was happening within the Great God Circle. At this moment, he had already begun reaping the fruits of his labor after assisting everyone in condensing their divine positions.
While helping others, they were also helping him.
The formation of laws within a newly created God Realm was extremely rapid, and the divine authorities condensed by the many gods provided the best explanation for the application of these laws.
The cosmic will targeting him?
No problem.
My Heavenly Origin God Realm has nothing to do with the universe anymore.
Xu Yuan's Will Realm enveloped the entire Heavenly Origin God Realm, completely isolating its divine authorities from the universe, giving it an almost transcendent quality beyond the cosmos.
He could feel that the distortion from the cosmic will had intensified.
The more it intensified, the more it confirmed that his response was correct.
Time passed, and in the blink of an eye, a month had gone by—equivalent to thirty years in the universe.
From the initial stage where only beings above the god level could sense the golden God Realm through universal laws, to now, even cultivators who had reached the seventh tier and begun exploring the forces of heaven and earth could perceive the radiant presence of the God Realm, like a blazing sun.
The God Realm had successfully taken root in the void dimension and no longer sought to return to the material dimension.
A force born from nothingness began to permeate the God Realm.
"This is Chaos energy!"
Many gods were delighted, feeling a tremendous pull from the chaos energy.
However, they had been informed before the creation of the God Realm that this energy did not belong to them.
Not just ordinary second- and third-class gods, but even the first-class gods and God Kings suppressed their inner desires and looked toward the highest point, where a seated silhouette hovered.
Xu Yuan opened his eyes and gazed at the immense amount of Chaos Energy. Even though he had anticipated it, he was still astonished.
The feedback from creating the God Realm was truly staggering.
The chaos energy filled the entire God Realm, nearly submerging it, transforming the realm into an ocean of chaos.
Even if the gods resisted absorbing the chaos energy, it had already quietly infected their divine positions, strengthening them and seeping into every corner of the God Realm, making it even more powerful.
Seeing this, Xu Yuan wasn't about to let the chaos energy go to waste.
He took out the Book of Will and began rapidly devouring the chaos energy.
At this moment, the God Realm was saturated with chaos energy, resembling an ocean of chaos. Within this ocean, the book transformed into a vortex, greedily swallowing the chaos energy. Inside the Book of Will, a virtual world rapidly evolved.
"This time, I will create sentient beings."
Soul and body—two paths.
These were the cultivation paths Xu Yuan had set for the sentient beings within his Will Realm, so the beings he created were composed of these two elements from the start.
First was the sea of spirit. Since the Will Realm inherently existed in a state of chaos, and souls originated from chaos, the sea of spirit could theoretically be infinitely vast, connecting to boundless chaos.
This was also the lifeline Xu Yuan left for the beings in his Will Realm.
It wasn't that becoming a lifeform in his Will Realm meant eternal confinement. On the contrary, Xu Yuan provided ample space for them. If they possessed sufficient talent and opportunities, they could reach limitless heights.
Beyond the sea of spirit lay the physical body.
Xu Yuan himself cultivated blood essence, but his approach was too broad, and his physical body offered minimal assistance to his cultivation of blood essence. When creating the physical forms of life, he made improvements to address this.
"The body should correspond to miniature worlds. Each of the 360 natural acupoints in the human body can serve as a node for opening void spaces, allowing each acupoint to form a small void space."
This concept was incredibly difficult. Xu Yuan hadn't encountered such lifeforms in any plane.
Strictly speaking, possessing such characteristics would make them naturally gifted with spatial attributes.
But in chaos, anything was possible.
After all, everything started from nothingness. What was referred to as opening void spaces was essentially evolving a void space.
The so-called acupoint spaces were merely an upper limit; how far they could develop depended entirely on the cultivator themselves.
"As for how to expand the cultivation system, that's none of my concern."
In chaos, anything could exist through will. Therefore, with sufficient insight, one theoretically mastered the corresponding power. What effects spiritual energy and primal energy could achieve depended entirely on the cultivator's personal comprehension.
Having clarified these points, Xu Yuan directed his consciousness into the Will Realm and observed the birth of life.
He increased the flow of time within the Will Realm to infinity.
In the briefest moments outside, centuries had passed within. After countless such moments, the Will Realm evolved from the initial nurturing of life to the rise of myriad races, from the barbaric age to the era of cultivation, and finally to a golden age of prosperity.
Dazed, Xu Yuan turned around, feeling somewhat unsatisfied.
"The chaos energy still wasn't enough."
He glanced at the scene within the Heavenly Origin God Realm and noticed that the chaos energy that had once permeated everywhere had vanished, leaving behind a sense of desolation.
After some thought, Xu Yuan manipulated the Heavenly Origin God Realm to absorb energy from the universe.
Perhaps because he had recently isolated the Heavenly Origin God Realm with his Will Realm, severing its ties with the universe, the universe itself desperately sought to reconnect with the Heavenly Origin God Realm. As a result, the absorption of energy from the universe proceeded smoothly.
Xu Yuan even felt that the cosmic will was pushing stellar energy to integrate into the Heavenly Origin God Realm.
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