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..."Is this the 'God-Slaying' that Mortals are so proud of?"
Xuan Ming looked at the orb of light in his hand, his gaze indifferent. "It can't even break through my palm, yet you dare claim it is Heaven-Defying?"
Then, he flipped his palm over.
The orb of light was instantly annihilated, turning into nothingness.
"Truly... the ignorant are fearless."
Tang Ya stopped her work and watched this scene, her eyes filled with complex emotions.
She remembered those arrogant high-level officials of the Federation back then, and how they thought they were invincible when they held 'Heavens Punishment' in their hands.
Looking back now, they were nothing more than a group of frogs at the bottom of a well, waving toothpicks at a giant dragon in the sky, believing they possessed a Divine Artifact for dragon-slaying.
"The gap between the divine and the Mortal has never been about the amount of energy."
Xuan Ming turned around, looking at Tang Ya and everyone present.
"It is about the control over Laws."
"Tang Ya, remember this."
"What you want to build is not a more powerful firecracker."
"But a vessel that can... carry the Laws."
...In the God Realm, time flowed on.
For a god, twenty years was just a slightly longer period of secluded meditation, but for the Douluo Star in the Lower Realm, it was another ten-thousand-year cycle of vast changes.
Just as Xuan Ming had predicted, the 'Soul Spirit System' left behind by Huo Yuhao—a seed once seen as the harmonious coexistence of man and nature—eventually bore twisted fruit over the long years.
The Spirit Pagoda, an organization that once symbolized peace and hope, had now become the Federation's largest Spirit Beast trafficking agency.
The greed of human Spirit Masters was like a bottomless pit. They were no longer satisfied with finding dying or willing Spirit Beasts, but began to set their sights on young beasts with powerful Bloodlines who were still in their growth phase.
Forced contracts, Bloodline extraction, Soul enslavement... what was originally an equal 'partner' relationship had turned into a blatant master-slave contract.
The Soul Beast Clan certainly wouldn't sit idly by. Deep within the Star Dou Great Forest, a new generation of Vicious Beast overlords let out roars of fury.
The conflict between humans and Spirit Beasts gradually evolved from sporadic friction into a full-scale confrontation sweeping the entire continent.
Over on the Spirit Star, the new generation of the Dragon Clan was even more eager to act, wanting to cross the planes multiple times to return to Douluo Star and avenge their kin.
Had Di Tian not stopped them firmly, this conflict would have likely escalated into an extermination war between two planets and two races... God Realm, Great God Circle Frontline Command.
Huo Yuhao stood before a star map, looking at that azure Douluo Star, the light in his eyes complex and difficult to discern.
At this time, he had long since shed his youthful greenness. Wearing a set of deep blue divine armor, with seven divine rings symbolizing the Peak of a First-level God floating behind him, his entire body radiated heart-palpitating Law fluctuations.
Over these ten thousand years, he had fought on the front lines of the God Realm, conquering north and south, and opening up dozens of new planes.
In a few more years, as long as he broke through that final barrier, he would be a new God King.
But now, looking at the home planet that birthed and raised him, and seeing the system he built with his own hands turn into this state, his heart grew cold.
"Is this... human nature?"
Huo Yuhao clenched his fists tightly. "I gave them the best system, gave them the brightest future. In the end, they turned it into the greatest evil."
"Greed, selfishness, short-sightedness..."
"Is this why Senior Xuan Ming was unwilling to get involved back then?"
Beside him, the young man transformed from the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm patted his shoulder and sighed.
"Yuhao, don't look anymore."
"Some things are rotten at the core. You can save them for a moment, but not for a lifetime."
"The current Douluo Star's Soul Beast Clan is not weak; they have enough strength to resist and fight for their own living space. This is their war, and it's the survival of the fittest for this era."
"As long as there is no genocide, Lord Dragon God will not intervene, so why should you bother yourself with it?"
Huo Yuhao remained silent for a long time before finally loosening his fists.
"Yeah."
He turned around, no longer looking at the planet that had utterly disappointed him, and cast his gaze toward the depths of the vast, boundless Universe.
"I'm tired."
"There is nothing left in that place worth my lingering."
"Let's go, Brother Tianmeng. I heard the God of Destruction's side discovered a suspected super-ancient plane with Supreme God ruins and is gathering people to explore it."
"Instead of staying here getting angry at those good-for-nothing fools, I'd rather... go see the true 'heavens beyond heavens'."
...God Realm Core.
Xuan Ming and Bibi Dong stood side by side, watching Huo Yuhao's resolute departing figure, both of their expressions very calm.
"It seems this kid has finally realized."
Bibi Dong gave a light laugh. "He's let go of his obsession with his homeland and that vanity of wanting to be a savior. This time, he is truly going to step into the God King realm."
"It's a good thing."
Xuan Ming said indifferently, "A god should have the perspective of a god. If he is always bound by the rise and fall of a single planet, he'll only ever be a high-level nanny in his Life."
"As for Douluo Star..."
Xuan Ming's gaze swept over that war-torn continent, his eyes showing no ripples of emotion.
"Let them be."
"As long as they don't touch the God Realm's bottom line, don't commit massacres, and don't start extermination wars, let them toss and turn themselves."
"Life always finds a way out."
"Whether humans destroy Spirit Beasts, Spirit Beasts push back against humans, or both sides reach a new balance in blood and fire."
"Those are... their own choices."
...Just then, a golden figure rushed in impetuously.
"Xuan Ming!"
Qian Renxue waved a blueprint in her hand with an excited expression. "Look, look! That girl Xiao Ya has made a huge breakthrough!"
"What huge breakthrough?" Xuan Ming raised an eyebrow.
"A god king-class mecha! A real god king-class mecha!"
Qian Renxue slapped the blueprint onto the table, her eyes glowing. "She completely reforged that dark blood demon! She used a full hundred pieces of primal divine iron, replaced the core with the Destruction God Core borrowed from Xiao Wu, and even engraved part of my Angelic Judgment Law!"
"According to her, once this thing is activated, it can unleash a strike that surpasses a God King for a short time!"
"The girl gave it a new name, called the angel of the end!"
"A strike that surpasses a God King?"
Hearing this description, even the usually calm Bibi Dong couldn't help but be moved.
"Is it for real? That girl can build something like that?"
"Of course it's true!"
Qian Renxue said triumphantly, "I just went to test it myself and was almost blown away by a single shot from that thing!"
Hearing this, a playful smile curled at the corner of Xuan Ming's mouth.
"Interesting."
He stood up and stretched.
"Let's go take a look."
"Since there's nothing left to see in the Mortal Realm, let's go see what kind of ultimate weapon our own little Genius has cooked up for the God Realm."
"If it really is that powerful..."
Xuan Ming looked out at the endless Void Realm. "Then our great god circle plan can perhaps... take a bigger step forward."