Chapter 272: Thunder God: Then Let's Kill All Soul Beasts and Force the Beast Gods to Appear!
"Which two possibilities?" Thunder God looked at Sea God.
Sea God said, "In the Douluo Mortal Realm, it's not just this continent. There's also the Sun-Moon Continent far across the seas. So, the first possibility is that they might know that after killing all the gods of our Divine Realm, they would inevitably face punishment from even stronger forces in the Divine Realm."
"So, they left the Douluo Continent early and collectively went to the Sun-Moon Continent."
"The second possibility is that they might have created an alternate dimension, and then set up a concealed barrier, completely hiding themselves. That way, they could avoid our search."
Thunder God's face turned grim. "The Sun-Moon Continent, huh."
"So, right now we need to divide into two groups. One team will investigate the Sun-Moon Continent, and the other will conduct another thorough and comprehensive search of the Douluo Continent."
"Thorough and comprehensive search? Damn it, how long is that going to take?! One year? Two years? Can it even be done?" Thunder God looked annoyed—clearly, he didn't want to wait that long.
He sneered, his eyes flashing with a trace of sinister killing intent. "Searching like this is too much of a waste of time. I, Thunder God, can't wait that long. Let's just kill all the soul beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest!"
"I refuse to believe they won't show themselves! I refuse to believe they'll just sit and watch their soul beast race be slaughtered by us without daring to come out and stop it!!"
Sea God heard this and decisively shook his head. He had thought of this method long ago, and although he also wanted to do it—
He, Sea God, had always existed in the world with the image of justice. Doing something like this would damage his reputation.
If no one knew, he would absolutely do it.
But now it wasn't just Sea God and Thunder God who had descended. There were over a hundred divine seats and hundreds of divine officers present. With so many eyes watching him, how could he, the so-called god of justice, openly commit such vile acts of indiscriminate slaughter?
Moreover, the Divine Realm didn't only consist of gods who hated beasts—there were many gods who actually had goodwill toward them. They would never agree to using such despicable methods of mass slaughter to force out the beast race.
And indiscriminate killing of innocent soul beasts in the mortal realm was a serious violation of Divine Realm law. They were only permitted to come down and kill beast gods—not to actively influence the development or course of the mortal realm.
This had always been the most emphasized rule of the Divine Realm: gods must not interfere with the mortal world. Arbitrary killing would count as interference.
So Thunder God's suggestion was bound to be rejected—at least at this stage.
Sure enough, as soon as Thunder God finished speaking, several secondary divine seats immediately stood up in opposition. Among them, the God of Food objected the most strongly.
"Thunder God, if you dare to do this, I, the God of Food, will return to the Divine Realm immediately and report your actions to the Divine Committee!" the God of Food warned.
"That's right. We as a couple absolutely will not allow such a thing to happen." The secondary divine seat, the Nine-Colored Goddess, also stood up at this moment.
The God of Food and the Nine-Colored Goddess were a married couple, and as soon as they stood up, many other gods echoed their objections.
"Tch." Thunder God scoffed coldly and no longer insisted on his idea. The Divine Realm's restrictions were real—he truly couldn't act recklessly in the mortal realm.
"Thunder God, let's just go with my plan for now." Sea God had long expected that Thunder God's proposal would be rejected, so he already had a plan in place:
"Thunder God, you didn't ascend from this plane to the Divine Realm. I understand the Douluo Mortal Plane far better than you."
"I will lead a team to continue a detailed and comprehensive search of the Douluo Continent and surrounding seas. You take a team to the Sun-Moon Continent. How about that?"
"Fine." Thunder God shrugged indifferently and agreed.
After all, for gods, reaching the Sun-Moon Continent wouldn't take long. The Divine Realm could connect to various lower planes and accurately descend to their approximate locations.
And so, the Divine Realm team split up: Sea God and Thunder God each led a team and set out to continue their investigations.
A thorough search would be slow. They would use all sorts of methods to conduct very precise sweeps. Under such conditions, although the process would be slower, with so many gods involved, it would take at most about a year to complete.
And one year wasn't long for gods—it was equivalent to just one day in the Divine Realm.
Besides, they didn't believe that in just one year, Ye Wen and his forces could grow much stronger.
How much stronger could they get in a year?
"Let's move!"
Thus, Sea God and Thunder God split their forces and once again began a comprehensive and careful investigation.
But the entrance to the alternate dimension created by the Bat King had been sealed with a barrier jointly erected by Xue Di, Ye Wen, Evil Tiger, and the Bat King—four God Kings. How could a group of primary gods easily detect that?
And just like that, a full year passed.
Ye Wen and the others had already been in seclusion for one year and three months.
Di Tian, Bear Lord, Zi Ji, Bi Ji, Red King, Ten Thousand Demon King, and Demon Spirit—the seven great fierce beasts—as well as the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger and Ant Emperor Yi Da, all in human form, were all approaching level 99.
In at most another year, Di Tian and the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger would be the first to reach the peak of level 99 and then inherit divine thrones!
The rest of the fierce beasts would also enter this phase within the next two years.
In other words, in just two more years, the twenty contracted beasts under Ye Wen would all inherit divine thrones and become divine beast gods!
But Ye Wen knew—the Divine Realm probably wouldn't give them that much time. They had to start thinking of other plans.
"Ye Wen, right now the Divine Realm is searching the entire continent for us. They've already been searching for over a year. They're probably getting desperate. Can we really wait for Di Tian and the others to all inherit their divine thrones?"
At this moment, Shui Bing'er and Zhu Zhuqing were standing on either side of Ye Wen.
Zhu Zhuqing also said, "Yes! If this continues, and they can't find our hiding place, they might eventually do something extreme, right?"
Ye Wen was holding Shui Bing'er's waist with his left arm and Zhu Zhuqing's shoulder with his right. With a serious expression, he nodded. "Mm. If they don't make any progress soon, I'm afraid the Divine Realm's God Kings will personally descend. Once that happens, it'll be much easier for them to find us."
"There's also the possibility that they might deliberately hurt or massacre soul beasts in the mortal realm to force us to appear."
Ye Wen had already anticipated that those human gods might do something like this. He also knew that the Divine Realm had dispatched another large batch of gods to the mortal realm to kill them.
Among them were Ye Wen's enemies—Thunder God and Sea God.
When Ye Wen first learned that Thunder God and Sea God had descended, he had been itching to rush out and kill them on the spot. But after considering the prolonged conflict with the Divine Realm to come, Ye Wen ultimately restrained himself.
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