The God Realm.
The Shura God breathed a sigh of relief.
"Thank goodness. Even though I lost Tang Chen, the biggest pawn, I've at least eliminated the variable."
With him guiding things from behind the scenes, everything could still return to its proper place.
Dragon Valley.
"As expected of Shura, decisive in slaughter. He directly used his strongest trump card. Although he lost Tang Chen, this is just an illusory history. With Su Ming dead, this illusory history will shatter, and Tang Chen will be as good as unconsumed."
The Dragon God chuckled, waiting for history to return to its original timeline.
This was history.
Since the one who tampered with history had been erased, everything would revert to its original course.
However, after waiting for a long time, the Dragon God was stunned.
"Su Ming isn't dead?"
"So, this is what death feels like."
Su Ming currently had the full ability to reform his body.
Moreover, he could even still perceive everything outside.
Because he had stored Spirit Power in the Douluo Continent in advance, Su Ming hadn't truly died. But now, his consciousness had nowhere to anchor itself, so it drifted into the River of Time.
He saw this fragment of illusory history born from himself.
"Two holes..."
One radiated boundless killing intent, while the other shimmered with nine-colored light.
Su Ming fell silent.
"Shura God and Dragon God?"
What did this mean?
He began to examine the illusory history that had separated from the long river because of him for the first time.
This fragment of history had no past and no expansion across the same spacetime; it only contained the Douluo Continent.
"So strictly speaking, this illusory history I separated hasn't yet extended to the God Realm. For some reason, the Shura God and Dragon God were copied from the real history into this illusory one."
Was killing one Tang San really worth all this?
Su Ming frowned.
No matter how much the Shura God favored him, there had to be a limit.
It couldn't be that just because he wanted to kill Tang San, the Shura God could jump out from the real history and run into this illusory one, right?
If that were the case, what was the point?
What was the meaning of his Trinity then?
"There must be some detail I'm unaware of."
Perhaps his understanding of the relationship between Tang San and the Shura God had been wrong from the very beginning.
"Tang San is extremely important to the Shura God. So important that it's not just about the Shura God being able to pass on his Godhood and leave the God Realm."
Could they be the same person?
But what would be the point of that?
Splitting off a consciousness, starting over not as a god, then inheriting the Godhood – what use was that?
Furthermore, after Tang San became a god, he basically never touched the Shura Godhood again, focusing solely on managing the Sea Godhood, harvesting Sea God faith, and frantically elevating the Sea Godhood, as if he wanted to shed the title of Shura God and use Sea God as his moniker.
Tang Long and Tang Hu were executed on the spot.
Zhu Jiuyang, his face filled with killing intent and clad in the Battle Armor Su Ming had given him, immediately engaged in a great battle with all the experts related to the Clear Sky Clan stationed in Heaven Refinement City.
"No one leaves today."
With the Battle Armor enveloping him, Zhu Jiuyang was like a blazing sun crossing the sky. Even Dugu Bo felt suppressed.
"This Battle Armor is really something. No good, I need a set for myself too."
Dugu Bo cursed under his breath.
He had previously only focused on obtaining Spirit-Refined Nether Iron to solve his poison cultivation issue and hadn't realized the Battle Armor was this amazing.
Upon learning of Su Ming's death and that the attacker was Tang Chen, Dugu Bo had also flown into a rage when Zhu Jiuyang did.
But he quickly sobered up.
The fact that Su Ming had asked him to deliver the Battle Armor in the first place was suspicious; he might have foreseen this.
Coupled with him having witnessed A Yin's death and resurrection, and Su Ming having obtained A Yin's Spirit Ring...
"He will definitely be resurrected, right?"
"He must be resurrected."
The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan's representative stationed in Heaven Refinement City was Chen Xin. He was also puzzled as to why Zhu Jiuyang had suddenly gone mad.
Only after Zhu Jiuyang had restrained all personnel connected to the Clear Sky Clan did he begin to inquire about the reason.
Upon learning that Su Ming was dead, Chen Xin was stunned.
"How dare the Clear Sky Clan?"
Tang Chen... he was still alive?
But even with Tang Chen around, wasn't the Clear Sky Clan being too bold?
If this had happened back before the forging system had spread across the continent, before the structure of the Spirit Master world had begun to change, before Spirit Refinement had appeared, killing Su Ming then might have been manageable.
But killing Su Ming now directly offended the entire Spirit Master world.
The Clear Sky Clan had already alienated its former four subsidiary clans, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan, and the Spirit Hall. Now, probably even the two great empires would directly turn their spears against them, right?
The Spirit Hall was also likely to make a major move.
Three days later.
The Spirit Hall declared war on the Clear Sky Clan.
Unlike the last time, this time Pope Bibi Dong personally led the force and broadly invited experts from the Spirit Master world to collectively attack the Clear Sky Clan.
One month later, the Clear Sky Clan was annihilated.
Tang Chen appeared at the Clear Sky Clan at the final moment, like a frenzied monster devoid of any reason. He was severely wounded by Bibi Dong, pursued for three days and three nights, and ultimately his whereabouts became unknown.
The continent's situation underwent earth-shaking changes in just one month.
And right at this time, Su Ming quietly resurrected.
"Sister Dong is this formidable? She could chase down and kill Tang Chen?"
After reviving and secretly absorbing a tiny bit of Rakshasa faith, and sensing no killing intent around, Su Ming went out to gather intelligence.
Learning about the recent changes, he was happy to just munch on sunflower seeds and watch the show.
Of course, watching was fine, but he wouldn't let the Spirit Hall take the opportunity to swallow up the Blacksmith Association.
With the soul of the two neutral organizations – the Blacksmith Association – having fallen, and the Spirit Hall having demonstrated its unparalleled dominance in the Spirit Master world, the normal course of events would inevitably lead to the Association being annexed by the Spirit Hall.
Naturally, just nipping the cause in the bud would prevent the effect.
"I, Su Ming, have returned!"
Su Ming hand-crafted a brand new Spirit Communication Device and contacted Zhu Jiuyang.
"Teacher, I'm still here."
Zhu Jiuyang took a long time to reply.
"Who is this?"
"It's me, Su Ming. Teacher, try circulating your Spirit Power and stimulate the shoulder, abdomen, and calf areas of your Battle Armor."
"Why aren't you dead?"
After trying it, Zhu Jiuyang confirmed Su Ming's identity.
The reason this major upheaval had happened so quickly was because countless blacksmiths had sensed it, all pointing to the outcome of Su Ming's death.
But now, with the Clear Sky Clan annihilated, Su Ming suddenly popped up saying he was fine.
Zhu Jiuyang felt that he was too old for such shocks.
"Teacher, is Tang Chen dead?" Su Ming asked.
"Don't know. Bibi Dong was the one pursuing Tang Chen. There's no definitive news yet. The day before yesterday, I managed to request Qian Daoliu to take action. We'll have to wait for more specific news."
"Teacher, you can get Qian Daoliu to pursue and kill Tang Chen?"
Zhu Jiuyang fell silent and did not answer further.
Su Ming didn't press.
"Teacher, how is Senior Dugu doing?"
"He's been quite stable recently."
"Good. There's no need to hide the news of my resurrection. You can announce it normally to the Spirit Master world. I will make an appearance after some time."
"Rest assured, I'll handle it properly."
Heaven Refinement City.
Zhu Jiuyang rubbed his temples, feeling a headache coming on.
Su Ming's resurrection was good news.
But, dying and then coming back to life, and in the meantime, the entire Spirit Master world was shaken because of his death...
Now, a month later, Su Ming was resurrected. Dealing with the aftermath was anything but easy.
After finishing his communication with Zhu Jiuyang, Su Ming wasn't in a hurry to reappear before the public.
Tang Chen's ambush had left him with lingering fear.
The feeling of death was novel, but absolutely unpleasant.
"After one resurrection, my losses aren't small either. I dropped a full five levels of Spirit Power, and all my Spirit Rings need to be reactivated."
Su Ming assessed his current Spirit Ring situation and felt it seemed similar to when Tang San resurrected Xiao Wu.
"Let's see how my luck holds. I wonder how many ten-thousand-year Spirit Beasts the Star Dou Great Forest will lose this time."
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